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breath; by adding:thereto fome fweet wine, and putting alfo fome-faffr on therein, 
it is good for thofe that are hoarfe, or have loft their voices it helpeth all defeets of 
the lungs, and thofe that vomit or fpit blood. ‘Iwo drachms thereof given in the 
juiceof lemons, or of radifhes, are good for thofe that are troubled with thesftone. 
The kernels of the ftones do wonderfully eafe the pains and wringings of the belly, 
occafioned by wind or fharp humours; and make an excellent medicine for the 
ftone, when done up in the following manner: take-fifty kernels of peach-ftones, 
and one hundred of the kernels of cherry-ftoncs, a handful of elder-flowers, freth 
or dried, and three pints of mufcadel; fet them ina clofe pot into a bed of horfe- 
dung for ten days; after which diftil it in a glafs, with a gentle fire, and keep it 
- for ufe; three or four ounces of it may be drunk at atime. The milk or creamof 
thefe kernels being drawn forth with fome vervain-water, and applied to the fore- 
head and temples, procures reft and fleep to fick perfons who cannot otherwile get 
it. By rubbing the temples with the oil drawn from the kernels the fame effect is 
produced. The faid oil, put into clyfters, or anointing the lower part of the belly, 
eafeth the pain of the windy cholic, and, when dropped into the ears, relieveth f pain 
in them; the juice of the leaves hath the like virtue; and, by rubbing the forehead 
and temples, it helpeth the megrim and all other pains in the head, If the kernels 
be bruifed and boiled in vinegar, until they become thick, and applied to the head, 
it caufeth the hair to grow upon bald places, or where it is too thin. 
PPAR -.T REE. 
-PEAR-TREES are fo well known that they need no défcrictios: 
GovERNMENT AND VirtuEs. This tree belongs to Venus, as well as the apple. 
“tree, For their phyfical ufe, they are beft difcerned by their taftes. All-thefweet 
‘or lufcious forts, whether manured or wild, tend to open the belly more or lefs; 
‘thofe, on the contrary, that are four and harfh, have an aftringent quality ; the 
Teaves of ‘each poffefs the fame contrariety of properties. Thofe that are moift are, 
: degree, of a cooling nature; but the harfh or wild forts are much more fo, 
¢ frequently ufed as repelling medicines 5 if the wild fort be boiled with mufh- 
maketh Seas the lefs dangerous. The faid pears, boiled with a little 
honey, help much the oppreffion of the ftomach, as indeed all forts of them do 
more or lefs; but t he wach kinds are moft cooling and binding. They are very 
‘uleful to bind up green ee ftopping the blood and healing the wound with- 
‘out further trouble’ ¢ of inflammatior ~-naecmilamnmmeatae oy seer 
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