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ounce and an half of the juice of unripe lemons, drunk in wine, cleanfeth the kid- 
neys of the {tone and gravel ; and killeth worms in the body, and expelleth them. 
An antidote againft the plague, or any malignant or contagious difeafe, is thus 
prepared. Take four ounces of the-pure juice of lemons, fteep therein an angel of 
gold, or the weight thereof in leaf gold, the {pace of twenty-four hours ; then take 
outthe gold, or draw the juice clear from it, and give fome of itin a draught of 
wine, with a little of the powder of angelica root, unto any infected with the plague, 
and, if there be any hopes of recovery, it will help them. The juice of {weet lemons 
is neither fo cooling nor operative as the other. The diftilled water, drawn from 
the inner pulp or white fubftance of the lemons, cleareth the fkin and face from 
freckles and fpots, provokes urine, and expels the ftone, by being drunk ; helpeth 
the running fcab, kills lice in the head, worms in the hands or nofe, and wheals or 
pufhes inthefkin. The juice.of lemons is good for feamen, and others at fea, to 
put into their beverage, to prevent the fcurvy, to which people are much fubjected 
in long voyages; it is likewifé very properly ufed to quench thirft in warm climates. 
An excellent remedy for feab and itch: Take a lemon, and cut it through the 
middle, after putting thereon fome powder of brimftone, roaft it, either againft the 
fire, or under fome embers, as you would do a warden-pear, and therewith rub the 
parts troubled with itch or feabs. ; 
It is alfothe beft, moft fovereign, and clear, remedy to deftroy thofe pediculi in- 
guinales vulgarly called crab-lice, the parts affliéted with them being rubbed 
therewith, 
oA LINE, ow LINDEN-TREE. 
Kinps anp Names, OF the line-tree there are accounted two forts, the male, 
and the female ; and of the female alfo two forts, the greater and the fmaller. It is 
called, in Latin, tilia. 
Description. 1. Tikamas, the male line, sobed to be a great tree, with large 
{preading boughs, but not fo much as the female, nor fo flexible, but harder and 
more brittle, and of a thicker bark; the leaves are like unto elder-leaves, but 
fmaller and longer; and on évery oné, for the moft part, grow {mall bladders full. 
of worms that turn into flies, which, whemmatured, fly away. 
This tree feldom beareth either fower or fruit, yet when it doth bear, it is round 
flat hufks; many growing clofe together, each hanging on a long foot-ftalk by it- 
felf, with anotch or clefrat the head. or end thereof: The wood hereof is more 
Knoxty and yellower than that of the female. seen 
No. 16. ap a Til 
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