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The fruit is used^ and it is excellent against all 

 coldnesses and crudities upon the stomach. It 

 gives appetite in these cases, and assists digestion. 

 It is also good against dizzinesses of the head^ and 

 against obstructions of the liver and spleeuj and 

 against colics. We arc apt to neglect things as 

 medicines, that we tuke with food ; but there i» 

 hardly a more powerful simple of its kind ^than 

 pepper, when given singlj, and on an empty sto- 

 mach. 



White Pepper. Pijper Album. 



THE common white pepper we meet with, is 

 made from the black, by soking it in sea water till 

 it swells, and the dark wainkled coat falls off; 

 but this though the common, is not the true white 

 pepper : there is another kind, which is natural, and 

 has no assistance from art. The white pepper plant. 



thick, and whitish stalks : they 



nt stands 



g. single leaf, vVhich is long, and narrow, sharp at 

 the end, and ribbed. The flowers fi:row on little 



stalks, hanging down from the jomts : they are 



small and yellow. The fruit is round ; at' first 



green, and when ripe white, which is gathered and 

 dried for use. 



This fruit is used. The common white pepper 

 is milder than the black ; that is, it is black pepper, 

 which has lost a part of its virtue : this possesses all 

 the qualities of the other, and yet it has not so sharp 

 a taste. 



The Long Pepper Plant. Piper longum. 



I 



AN American plant, in some degree resembling 



iht other peppers in its general growth, but not 



