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Tablets

Some are made from boxwood inlaid with ebony,
sandalwood, ivory, or gold and silver like
damascening. Then one writes on it with silverpoint, and
next erases it with a cuttlefish bone by
rubbing them.


Letter, more legible

One cuts the largest pieces of beryl or crystal round
on one side & flat on the other, then one sets it with a little
handle and one sets down the flat side on the letter.


Stamping

If you have some bronze medal & you want to make it very
light, make a hollow of lead of it, then spread upon it a thin
plate of gold, or sheets of lead or annealed silverrecuit, & set your bronze medal on top
& strike with a wooden mallet.


Softening horn



Those who acou mount Agnus Dei & make circles from
horn for certain little boxes soften ladicte
the said circles by soaking them in hot water and next shape them
on a round or oval-shaped triblet.


Ears

When a defluxion occurs there, one needs
to be very careful not to put anything inside, and according to the
proverb, one ought only to touch the
ear & the eye with the elbow. However, it
is good to put on an affected earmusked cotton, that is
to say, kept in musk, for it comforts quite thoroughly.


Tooth ache

Some put a clove of garlic in the ear which
is on the side where the tooth is hurting, & within two or
three hoursthey feel well because of
it. Others put in the nostril which is on the side of the
ailing tooth green skin scraped from e the
small branch of
visaube, namely
the kind which is under the grey one which resembles a small
branch.

