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The ripe Berries are very carefully feparated from thofeto be cured, be- 
caufe their wet and plenteous Pulp makes them unfit for Cure, whence 
thefe Berries always coming unripe dry’d into Ewrope, has been the Oc- 
cafion of Naturalitts thinking it to be frac umbilicato ficco. 
In Curing, the Dews muft carefully be avoided. 
Ic may defervedly be ’counted one of the beft Spices in common Ute, 
having a very fine Relifh of many, from thence called Ad-Spice, and 
being much milder than any of our ordinary Spices, ’tis very much 
fought after and imported into Ezrope. | , 
It yields with Water by Diitillation a delicate odoriferous Chymical 
Oyl per Veficam, finking tothe Bottom in Water, as Oyl of Cloves. 
Tis Binding, Drying, and may have the fame Effe€ts with Cloves 
and is now ufed inftead of other Spices, 
It may bea Saccedineum and good for any thing that Myrtles are. 
Every thing inthis Tree agrees with the Defcription of the Xocox- 
ttla, or Piper Tavafct, of Hernand, and Ximenes in the Spanifh Tranflationt 
of Hernan. Printed at Mexico, f. 2. only the Flower, which he defctibes to 
be fearlet and like Pomgranates with the Smell of Orange-Flowers, 
no way agree to this. 
Clujivs thinks this Heating, Binding, and Drying as the Amomum of 
Diofcortdes, which it is very hike, only fome few Marks are wanting, and 
he feems to be of Opinion, that this is thé G-ryophyllon Plinij, his De- 
{ctiption agreeing to this, fmelling, very {weet and for that Reafon 
if chaw’d, takes away a ftinking Breath. But ’tis not likely that “this 
was known to the Ancients, it not being obferv’d to grow in the Ez/, 
but Weft-Indies, ) (:% 
Parkinfon fays, thofe moré audacious thian wife, ufed it for Awomam. 
Hughes, p. 53. tells ts that ’tis good to {cent Chocolate, but caufes the 
Head-ach if too great a Proportion be ufed. 
It is ufed for Carpobalfamum, which is quite a different Fruit. Berlg 
in his Treafury of Drugs. 
John de Barrios fays, that in a fmall Quantity, it was in his Tinie oné 
of the Ingredients of Chocolate. . 
Francifews Uria brought it from Neib Spain to Redi, and fdid it was 
there commended again{ft the Epilepfy and Gutta Serena, it may (fays 
Redt) be granted to have the Properties of Juniper, Cloves, Pepper and 
Cinamon, but in thofe two Diftempers I have long tryed it omdivers 
Subjects without Succefs; neither do I believe it hurts in thofe Cafes, 
but think it does not a little help the Head and Stomach if in Time 
and Place it be moderately given. Red. Exp. Nat. p. 136. 
Grains of Turpentine Trees are found about Montpelier, they grow alfo im 
the Way between Ferufalem and Feppa, and are bafely, fold tor Carpobal- 
famum Rawolfe, p. 3. cap. 22. Ty 
It may fupply the Place of Pepper and be ufed for Carpobalfamum ot 
Carpefiam, it {trengthens the Heart and Stonrach, helps the Mother, ex- 
pels Wind, the cold Fit of Agues, opens Obftrutions, is ‘diuretick, is 
good for the Colic and Iliac Paffions, excites Venery, and cuts gro{s 
and tough Hzmours, Herz. 7 
ft is now commonly fold for Carpobalfamum by the Druggiftsand Apo- 
thecaries, which I fuppofe came from Hernandez, who fays it may be fub- 
{tituted for it, but *tis not that Fruit, neither do I think it ought to be ufed 
as its Succedaneum, being lefs adftringent, and Balfamick, but more odorife- 
rous, fo that I think in Want of the true Fruit of the Balfam-Tree, 
the belt Saccedaneum we can have for the Fruit as well as the other 
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