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muft be taken for a confiderable Time; for 
thefe Effects cannot be produced at once. 
What is called Gum Guaiacum, is the Refin 
poured from this Tree; it is very acrid and pun- 
gent, and in the Rheumatifm, and many other — 
afes is to be preferred to the Wood itfelf, 
nei 
Stine 
, we me 
Fi. 
: Hares Ears, 
BUPLEURON LATIFOLIUM. 
A Common wild Plant in fome Parts of Europe, 
“= but kept here in Gardens. It is two Feet 
or more in Height. The Leaves are long and 
broad, of a itiff Subftance, and fomewhat 
hollowed, which gives them the Appearance 
of a long and hollow Ear, from whence they are ~ 
named; they are of a whitifh green Colour, and 
the Ribs upon them are high. There is a Sort 
with narrow Leaves, but the broad leaved kind is 
tobe ufedin Medicine. ‘The Stalks are round, 
upright, ftriated, and toward the Top branched. 
The Flowers are little and yellow, and they ftand 
at the Tops of the Branches in fmall Umbels. The 
Root ig long and thick, and has many Fibres. 
_ Fhe young Shoots of the Leaves which : 
from the Root, are efteemed exceedingly in pce 
where they are native, for the Cure 
Wounds. They cut two or three of thefe off 
clofe to the Ground, and without bruifing them, 
firft clofing the Lips of the Wound, they lay 
them’ on ‘one over the other, making a a of 
; Lom- 
