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_ and fandy grounds about them, and the country of the Sabeans adjoining next there- 
_ unto; and from thence tranfplanted into India and Egypt: it likewife grew on the 
hills of Gilead. It is reported, that the Queen of Sheba--brought of the balfam-. 
trees to Solomon, as the richeft of her prefents, who caufed them to be planted in 
orchards, in the valley of Jericho, where they flourifhed, and were tended and 
yearly pruned, until they, together with the vineyards in that country, were de: 
ftroyed by that monfter of mankind, the favage beaftial Turk, + flowereth in the 
fpring, and the fruit is ripe in autumn. ¢ 
Government anv Virtuzs. This balfam tree is a folar plant, of tempera- 
ture hot and dry in the fecond degree, and is {weet in fmell, being of thin parts, but oa 
the liquor or opobalfamuns is of more thin parts than the plant itfelf ,; the fruit or ber- 
ries is very like it in quality, but far inferior thereunto i in the fubtilty : the liquor or 
opobalfamum i is of good ule againft all poifons or infeCtions,: both vipers, ferpents, and - 
{corpions, the peftilence and {potted fever, and other putrid, and intermiffive agues 
that ye from polkrnctions, and crude cold humours, to take a {cruple or two in 
~ “eee of the liver an Liple een, % nddig d’digel C ¢ raw humours i in them, cherifh . 
ing the vital fpirits, radical me heat in them, and is very effectu: 
on; for this openeth the ob- — | 
in cold griefs and difeafes ot head Sf ftomach, | helping the fwimmings and turn ae 
_ ings of the brain, weak memories and falling ficknefs, it cleareth the eyes of films or 
fins, and eafeth pains in the ears: it helpeth the cough, fhortnefs of breath, and, 
confumption of the lungs, warming and drying up the diftillations of theums upon | 7 
Ry , anc i all other difeafes of the ftomach proceeding of cold, or wind ; the cold or - 
tte: pe bers rs of the boweliy womb, or mother, which caufe —— or t pains, ae 
réins and kidnies, and expelleth. che ftone and gravel ee is fingular good eit he 
pele c a age 3 meer es of the finews, and green wounds, 
_ thatec ae. at all, may ¢ cy it ee : 
ally fo well known that i ai 
