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make them become ferviceable for health, being correéted and cleanfed from all 
their evil and noifome qualities. ki ; 
ep | Preparation of the Guinea Pepper. 
Take the ripe cods of any fort of the Guinea pepper, (for they are in property all 
alike,) and dry them well, firft of themfelves, and then in an oven after the breadis 
taken out: put itinto a pot or pipkin, with fome flour, that they may be quite dried, 
then cleanfe them from the flour, and their ftalks, if they have any; cut both hufks ~ 
and feeds within them very {mall, and toevery ounce of them put a pound of wheat- 
flour ; make them up together into cakes or {mall loaves, with leaven propottioned 
to the quantity you make ; bake thefe as you do bread of the fmall fize, and, when 
baked, cut it again into fmaller parts, and then bake it again, that it may be asdry 
and hard as a bifcuit, which, beaten into fine powder, and fifted, may. be kept for any 
Of the ufes hereafter mentioned, or may ferve inftead of ordinary pepper to feafon 
meat or broth ; for fauce or any other purpofe the Eaft-Indian pepper dothferve, for 
 itdoth not only give good tafte or rélith to the meat or fauce, but is found to be very 
good both to difcufs the wind and the cholic in the body: It is of fingular fervice to 
be ufed with flatulent or windy diet, and fuch as breeds moifture and crudities-; one 
fcruple of the faid powder, taken ina little broth, of veal or of a chicken, gives great 
teliefand comfort toa cold ftomach; caufing flegm and fuch vifcous humours as lie 
lowin the bottom thereof to be voided ; it helpeth digeftion, for it occafioneth an 
appetite to meat, provoketh urine, and, taken with faxifrage water, expelleth the ftone 
in the kidneysand the Aegm that breedeth them ; and taketh away dimnefs or mifti- 
nefs of the fight, being ufed in meats; taken with Pillula Aleophanginz, it helpeth - 
the dropfy; the powder, taken for three days together in the deco¢tion of penny- 
royal, expelleth the dead birth ; but, ifa piece of the cod or husk, either greerror dry, 
_ be put into the womb after delivery, it will make them barren for ever after; but the 
powder, taken for four or five days fafting, with a little feanel-feed, willeafe all pains 
of the mother., The fame alfo made up with a little powder of gentian and oil of 
bays into a peflary, with fome cotton-wool, doth briag down the coutles 5, the fame, 
mixed with alohoch or electuary for the cough, helpeth an old inveterate cough 5 
being mixed with honey and applied to the throat, it helpeth the quinfey ; and made 
up with a little pitch or turpentine, and laid upon any hard knots or kernels in any ayy 
part of the body, it will diffolve them, and not fuffer any more to grow there; and, _ 
cbeing mixed with nitre and applied, it takes away the morphew, and all freckles fjots, 
marks, and difcolourings, of the skin y applied with hens-greafe, it diffolverh all cold 
simpofthumes and carbuncles; and, mixed with fharp vinegar, it diffolves the ardnefs 
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