Items

• In the Annales des Artes & [l.] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint

  A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
• An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle

  A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof.
• A Plaster to ceep [keep] a [woman] [text loss]

  A process for making a medicinal substance using a range of tree gums or resins including mastic, Elemi, Benjamin (gum benzoin), Burgundy pitch, dragonsblood, and troches (dried cakes or lozenges) of alipta muscata, as well as bole armeniac, lead oxide, quince oil, Venice turpentine, beeswax, Himalayan balsam, and lavender oil.
• A Plaster of Tachamahac Spred

  A medicinal treatment using tacamahac, a resin from the balsam poplar tree, to help with a range of ailments, including defluxion. Also aids memory.