60 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
“ Stomach, and have fometimes cured A 
many other Bitters will. The Tea made of them 
is alfo good againft the Cholick, and works by © 
Urine. 
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The CAMPHOR-TREE. _ 
ARBOR CAMPHORIFERA,. — 
THis is a kind of Bay-Tree of the Ea/t-Indit, 
but it grows to the Height of our tallelt 
Trees. The Bark is brown and uneven on th 
Trunk, but it is fmooth and green on the young 
Branches. The Leaves are like thofe of the com- ~ 
mon Bay-Tree, only a little longer; and they at 
curled at the Edges. The Flowers are {mall ant — 
white, and the Fruit is a Berry altogether like out 
Bay-Berries, and of the Bignefs of a large Pea | 
The Wood of the Tree is white or a little reddif, 
and veined with black, and fmells of the Camphiit | 
The Leaves alfo, when they are bruifed, {mell of 
-Camphire; and the Fruit moft of all. ; 
_ The only Product of this Tree, ufed in Med 
cine, is the Refin called Camphire; and this is not 
-a_natural, but a fort of Chemical Preparati 
They cvt the Wood to Pieces, and put if! 
fort of fubliming Veffel, with an earthen I 
full of Straw. They make a Fire unde 
and the Camphire rifes in Form of a white 
and is found among the Straw. This is r 
wards, and becomes the Camphire we ule. 
udorifick and works by Urine; it alfo pt 
Mes, and is good in Diforders of 
