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head, and the fhaking palfy: Twoor-three {poonfuls thereof, being taken, help 
paffions’of the heart, fwoonings, and the cliolic ; being drunk with wine, it is good 
egaingt vénomous bitings} and, beingmade’ into traches. with wine; it may be re- 
ferved for ‘an eye beaches piaieg: being aptly aang —w obnoxious -hu- 
mours s thereof. o | yeitie : i 
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or 2 STORAX. TREE, onc 
Kaus. F H ERE 3 are accounted three forts of the Rorax-tree, whofe names 
thall follow with their deferiptions, i 
Description. The ufual ftorax-tree is called i in Latin fyrax arbor vulgaris, ‘This 
ftorax-tree groweth very like the quince-tree, both for form and bignefs, the leaves 
alfo are long and round, ‘and forewhat like, but far lef$: whitith underneath, and 
fiff, the flowers ftand both dt the joints with the leaves, and at the ends of the bran. 
ches, confitting of five or fix largewhitifh leaves, like thofe of che orange-tree, with 
fome threads in the middle, after which come round. berries, fet in the cups that the: 
flowers were in before, of the bignefs of hazel-nuts, pointed at the ends, and hoary: 
| all over ; each ftanding on'a long footftalk, containing within them certain kernels. 
in fmall fhells, sane yiettests a sits iaaiaas aed eye whe ciate mm — 
Brown honey. : Wi od 
2. Storax with aghisicliies, iil folio aceris. Fr rom a sprit ‘tli pesriaty with 
a crefted or as it were a jointed bark, come forth, ‘out of knots, three or five broad 
leaves, like thofe of the maple or plane. tree, ftanding on fmall blackifh long ftalks, 
and are: divided in three -¢ ‘or. rise ares fulh of =e dented about the edges, and 
pointed at the ends. RSH 36285 BRE BD a? Sg TAR ae fi fe. 
g. Red ftorax, called in Latin Sprdivabie?- This hatte ormerly” by. Wiel been 
thought to be the bark of fome kindof tree that went under the name of ftorax. 
But’Serapioand Avicen, divide ftorax into Zquida and ficea: by liquida meaning the 
pure guy flowing: from the tree, ‘and andt that /iguida which ‘we now call’ by that 
— and hed the te the faeces of the expreffed oil fig ad Teal; Pie calumnita it 
¢ red ftorax.  iattey: NRE Sore ' * 
firfk grows ia in Provence of viet th eal, Candy, 
key, e it ‘yie ee no gum; th in 1 Syria, 
Virtvts>’ Phi isa Seirphitile hese is no vipat oft i mete 
vat iffueth out of it; it is of temperature hot inthe ~ 
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