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• Water Proof . – The following is the Chinese method for rendering cloth water-proof:

  A recipe and method for waterproofing cloth by mixing melted wax with turpentine.
• To make Oyle of Eges good to take away Scars in the Face

  A recipe for an oil of eggs made from crumbled egg yolks, wax, water, and dew.
• For the flux

  Remedy for flux, the abnormal and/or excessive discharge of liquids from the body, including blood and/or diarrhea. More specifically, "flux" may refer to dysentery. Calls for boiling red wax (presumably melting it) with milk.
• 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.
• [text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]

  Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.