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thofe that are troubled with the cholic, being boiled in wine ; and, with a little honey, - 
taken warm, it openeth the belly.: but, boiled in red wineand drunk, it ftayeth the 
ftux of the belly. . Being outwardly applied, it healeth old ulcers that are cancerous 
or eaten, or hollow and fiftulous, for which it is by many much commended, as alfo 
for fores in the mouth or fecret parts. The leaves, when they are full grown,” being 
laid upon the fkin ,will in a fhort time raife blifters thereon. The water thereof hel- 
peth the heat an d inflammation of the eyes. 
(Ye auIncE-TREE, 
Description. THE ordinary quince-tree groweth often to the height and big- 
nefs of an apple-tree, but more ufually lower, and crooked, with 4 rough bark, 
and fpreading branches far abroad. The leaves are fomewhat like thofe of the apple- 
tree, but thicker, broader, and fuller of veins, and whiter on the under fide, not- 
dented at all about the edges. The flowers are large and white, fometimes dafhed 
over with a blufh. The fruit, when ripe, is yellow, and covered with a white frieze 
or cotton, thick fet on the younger, and growing lefs as they grow to be thorough 
ripe, bunched out oftentimes in fome places, fome being like an apple, and fome a 
pear, of a ftrong heady feent, not durable to keep, and is four, harfh, and of an un- 
pleafant tafte, to eat frefh ; but, being fealded, roafted, baked, or peether te: be- 
comes more pleafant. 
Paces anv Time. It thrives'and grows beft near the wterohde, pry is com- 
mon throughout Great Britain ; it flowereth not wen the leaves come forth. TG 
fruit is ripe in September or O€tober. 
Government Anp Virtues. Old Saturn owns the tree: Quinces, when ied 
| ate green, | help all forts of fluxes in man or woman, and choleric lafks, c aftings, and 
ver needeth aftri€tion, more than any way prepared by fire : yet the fyrup of 
the juice, or the conferve, is rather opening, much of the binding quality being 
tne the fire ; and, if a little vinegar be added, it ftirreth up the languifhing 
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and ftrengtheneth the ftomach ; fome {pices being added, it comforteth and 
cheereth the decayed and fainting fpirits, and helpeth the liver when opprefied fo 
that it cannot ‘the digeftion ; and correéteth choler and flegm. If you would 
have them purging, put honey to them inftead of fugar; and, if more laxative, for 
choler, rhubarb 5 for flégin, tarbith ; for watery humours, feammony : but, if more 
forcibly to bind, ufe the unripe quinces, with rofes, acacia, or hypociftis, and fome 
torrified rhubarb. © “Totake the crude juice of quinces is held a prefervative againtt 
the force of deadly poifon $'for ic hath ~~ found moft true, that the very {mell of 
a quince 
