XViii INTRODU-G TION, 
commended to them by Dr. Baylies of Evefham, 
now of Berlin, as a remedy for this difeafe. Dr, 
Wail gave it a tryal, as well externally as inter- 
nally, but their experiments did not lead them to 
obferve any other properties in it, than thofe of a 
highly naufeating medicine and draftic purgative. 
~“Wovnns. In _ confiderable eftimation. for the 
as all kinds of biden —— adv. °45- 
— of little aaa in fuch as are 
dry. Horse, 1 an R. hift. 768. 
ocias Bisims, phyfician tohis Pruffion Majefty, 
saan’ me, when at Berlin, that -he employed it 
_ with great fuccefs in caries, and obftinate fore legs: 
~ Dyspnoea Pituitofa Sauvages i. 657.—** Boiled 
** in water, or wine, and drunken doth cut and 
‘sconfume the thicke toughneffe of grofie, and 
Bisse aia ‘and naughtie humours. a 
= as alfo t a5 abst of the ae omen and 
** milt, and of the inwarde Parts." es - Ganaape hift. 
ae ed. 1 Pp. 647. i : 
=? Whenfoever there’ is bed GF: rarefying or 
‘* extenuating of tough flegme or vifcous humours 
’ f\troubling the chet —the decoction or juice here- — 
“* of made up with fugar or honey is availeable, as 
ve Ifo. to. clenie, and purge. the body. both up 
