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dlean(eth and taketh away all {pots and freckles thereof. The wine wherein inti . 
hath been boiled, preferveth old fores and ulcers from corruption, being wathed 
therewith, and from feftering and inward rankling ; the water wherein linfeed hath id 
been boiled, doth quicken and clear the fight, by iat often dropped into the eyes, 
| Ufed i in glyfters, it affwageth’ the griping pains of the belly, as well as of the matrix 
or mother, and cureth all wounds of the fame. Whe feed mixed with honey, and 
_ taken as an electuary, cleanfeth the breaft, and helpeth the cough ;- compounded: fa 
/ with raifins, i it is good for fuch as are confumptive, or troubled with heétick fevers, 
The feed of lin taken in too great a quantity, is injurious to the ftomach; it in- 
genders wind, and hinders sasftina of meat. : 
Me Mog. FIR.~TREE 
N, amxs. THIS tree is called in Latin abies, by the Dutch, majftdoom, ecdainiel ; 
its utility in making matts for fhips, and the liquid or clear rofin that iffueth from ei, 
the bark of the young trees, is called patestce ne veneta, but'is cenoreliy » known ee. x 
us by the name of venice turpentine, © - Ls 
Description. The fir-tree is large, high, and long, and continues always green 
‘it grows much higher than the pine or pitch-tree; the ftalk is very even and ftraight, 
plain beneath and without joints, but upwards -it grows with joints and knobs; 
upon thefe joints grow the branches, bearing leaves almoft like yew, but fmaller, — 
4 fares and fharper at the ends, of a blueith green colour, the fruit is like the pine- — 
“woe, hur fimaller and narrower, not hanging down, but growing ftraight upward. Be 
= From out of the bark of the young. trees, is gathered a fair liquid rofin, clearand 
Ahining, in tafte bitter, almoft like to citron pills, or lemon pills condited, There 
alfo found upon this tree, a white rofin « or Lem, fomewhat like that which the ae 
: and pitch-trees produge.acgr ok Gee Se tee a Bee 
j kingdom, for the purpofes of building, 8c. eat 
and aioli ad It i is om the: ee of, Mars." ‘The e 
vende one andi is spe 
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: ir rofin is. hot. and dry in the fecond degree, of 8 . 
Eeleanling nature 3s this liquid taken, to the quel ¥ 
anc all choleric- humours 5 it mua-- 
adde ry provoketh. urine, expelleth the fron ss 
| re often be oad who are snalst fess with the ge fs 
ts 
ace. It grows upon the high mountains in Gane leas Soain. and Fra rance, Z ; 
A many Places. of Germany and Norway ; from whence the palit thereof i is ie 
