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the rofin which is molten with the fun:in fummer, and remaineth dry, and sited be 
made into powder,. which fome cali refiza arida, or dry rofin, 
_ The fecond kind, is called in Latin refina arida ; that which {weateth out of the pine 
tree is called re/ina pined, andthat which cometh out of the picch-tree refina eid 
‘The third: kind-is:called refina ftrodilina. 
~ -GoveRNMENT, AND Virtues. All the rofins are folar, and of an hot and dry 
temperature, and of afcouring and cleanfing nature. _Rofin doth cleanfe and heal 
freth wounds, and therefore is a principal ingredient in all ointments and plafters that 
ferve for that purpofe. It foftneth hard fwellings, and is comfortable to bruifed: parts — 
- or members, being.applied, or laid to, with oils, ointments, or plafters, spnchei 
ated to that ufe. 
aE ts Ol PA, FoQdhs: fat Bcd F AR. 
Kinps anp Names. THERE are two forts of pitch : the one moitt, called te 
‘Tiquid pitch, the other is hard’and dry: they do both run out of the pine and pitch 
tree, and out of certain other trees, as the cedar, turpentine, ‘and Jarch, trees, by 
burning of the wood and timber of thém. Pitch is called in Latin pix, in French pox, 
Gn Dutch peck. Phe liquid pitch is called in Latin pix Aquida, in Brabant tet? and in 
‘Enelith var. The dry’ pitch is-called in Latin ge arida, an nau 5 3 in 1 Englih 
fhip-pitch or ftoné-pitch; in Dutch freen-peck. © 
_¥GovERNMENT AND Virtues. The pitch and tar are both folar, hot ‘and dry i in 
the fecond degree, and of fubtile parts, but the ftone-pitch i is the drieft ; 3 the liquid 
“pitch or tar is the hotter and of more fubtile parts. Liquid pitch, taken with honey, 
doth-cleanfe the bréa(t, and is good to be licked in byt thole that. are troubled with 
' fhortnefs of breath, whofe infide is clogged with corrupt mattter, It mollifieth and 
bringeth to perfection all hard fwellings, and is good to Gnoint the neck againft the 
{Guinancy or fwelling of the throat: it is 200d to be pur into mollifying plafters, ano- 
dynes to take away pains, and maturatives, or ‘ripening, medicines: ‘being applied 
-with barley-meal, it foftneth the hardnefs of the matrix and fundament ; Tiquid pitch 
— fulpbur vivum,or quick brimftone, ‘repreffeth fretting ulcefs, foul fcabs 
and 3 and, if fome falt be put thereto, “it is good’ to be laid upon the wounds 
ocesbtigied ‘by the bite or fting of any pet ied or Aa It euteth ipa rifts and  cloven 
chaps that happen to the hands, feet, ‘ee. © heen 
-.. The ftone-pitch, being pounded ¥« y for ar: ath the fine powder of safle, 
~ healeth hollow alcers and ‘fttulas, ‘filling them up with fieth : ‘the Stone: pireb i is not : 
