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for the Overflowings of the Menfes, for bloody 
Fluxes, and all other Bleédings. Dried and 
powdered, it anfwers the fame Purpofe, and is 
alfo good againft common Purgings. The good 
Women in the North of England apply the Leaves 
to their Breafts, to make them récover their Form 
after they have “been fwelled with Milk. Hence 
it has got the Name of Ladies Mantle. oe 
The LARcH TREE. 
LARIX. 
: A Moderately tall, and in Summer a very beau-. 
* tiful Tree, but tho’ one of the refinous kind, 
and in many refpects approaching to the Nature 
of the Fir and Pine, it loofes its Hien in Win- 
| ter: It isa Native of Jia/y, and is frequent in our 
Gardens. The Trunk is rugged and the Branches — 
are covered with a rough Bark of a brownith Co- 
Jour, with a Tinge of redifh. The Leaves are an 
Inch or more in Length, extremely flender, and 
of a bluifh green Colour, and they grow in little 
Clufters, and different Parts of the Branches. 
The Flowers are inconfiderable, the Fruit is a 
Cone, but very fmall. It is not bigger than a little 
Watnut. thas re 
The young Leaves are boiled, and the Liquor 
is drank to promote Urine, but this is an idle 
Way of getting at the Virtues of the Tree. Venice 
urpentine is produced from it, and this liquid 
fin contains them all in Perfection. They cut 
the Trunk of the Tree deep in the Heat of Sum- 
-M™ér, and the Refin flows out. This works pow- 
efully by Urine, and is a noble Balfam, it is good — 
againft the Whites, and to ftop the Running that, 
often remains from a Clap after all the Virulence — 
| ae butin this Cafe it muft be given cau-. 
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