g08 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH. PHYSICIAN, 
of the fpleen : mixed with wnguentum dé alabaftro, and the reins of ‘the back anoirited 
therewith, it will take away the fhaking-fits of agues ; a platter made thereof, with 
the leaves of tobacco, will heal the fting or biting of any venomous beafts. 
The decoétion of the hufks themfelves, made with water, and the mouth gargled 
therewith, helpeth the tooth- ach, and preferyeth, the teeth from rottennefs'; the afhes 
of them being rubbed on the teeth, ‘will cleanfe them, and make them look. white, 
The decoétion of them in wine helpeth the hernia ventofa, or watery rupture, if ap- 
plied warm morning and evening : if put to fteep for three days together in aqua- 
Nite, it helpeth, the pally, the place affected being bathed therewith ; and, fteeped 
for, ra. day, i in wine and | two fpoonfuls drunk thereof every day fatting, it it is of sd 
fervice i in 1 rendering ftinking breath fweet. 
IZ PA PORE REE. 
YN ames. THIS treeus called'in Latin pices and pitis.- 
eat ipTion. | The, pitch ‘tree 1s::of an, indifferent: bignefs, and, tall. ftature,. ‘but 
not fo ) Sreat as the pine-tree, and always gréen, likethe pine and fir trees. The tim- 
: ber is fat, and doth yield an abundance of ‘rofin: of divers, forts. the branches, are 
hard, and parted i into other {prays, moft commonly crofs-wife, upon which.grow. {mall 
Breen, leaves, not roundabout the branches, but by.every fide, one right over-againit 
‘another, like: little feathers’; the fruit is fmaller than the fruit of the pine-tree. 
In burning: of this tree, there doth iffue out pitch, as doth alfo. out of the pine-tree. 
Peace AND Time. The pitch-tree Zrows: in many. places of Greece, aah France, 
“and Germany, and the fruit thereof is ripe in September. 
Ni ~ GovsRNMENT anp Virtues. >The leaves, bark, fruit, kernels, or alse of tis 
= tree, are almoft of the fame nature, Meet. 28 Poker tials) as the bedeavess bark, fruit, 
= id Kernels, of the pine-tree, | 
ogns..2 ce The Rofin that cometh out fb tbe Pine. or Pitch Trees. | 
af tof the pine and pitch’trees rife three forts of rofin, befides the sito and: 
he ‘one floweth out by force of the heat ofthe fun in fume, from eve weal 
@here it is brokenor cuedi%42 9°34! Vi leg dondol a Diaghasic 
other is found both upon and Bee wcen thes bark spaieclas and: pc 
nonly | in fuch parts thereof 'as are cut or any otherwife sinpsieels 
ind groweth betwixt the {cales of the fruit, nd 353 10.1499 
¢ kinds of rofin are called in Latin’ tahnas 8 F Hiehh refine} and in 
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