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Bark of Tameris, eases the spleen, helps 
the rickets. Use them as Ash-tree bark. 
‘Tillim. Of Line-tree. Boiled, the water 
helps burnings. 
Thuris. Of Frankinsenses. I must plead 
Ignoramus. 
Ulmi. Of Elm. Moderately hot and 
cleansing, good for wounds, burns, and 
broken bones, viz. boiled in water and the 
grieved place bathed with it. 
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WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR 
RASPINGS. 
A Gallochus, Lignum Aloes. Wood of 
Aloes; is moderately hot and dry: a good 
cordial: a rich perfume, a great strength- 
ener to the stomach. 
Aspalathus. Rose-wood. It is moderately 
hot and dry, stops looseness, provokes 
urine, and is excellent to cleanse filthy 
ulcers, 
Bresilium. Brasil. All the use I know 
of it is, to die cloth, and leather, and make 
red ink. 
Buzus. Box. Many Physicians have 
written of it, but no physical virtue of it. 
Cypressus. Cypress. The Wood laid 
amongst cloaths, secures them from moths. 
See the leaves. 
Ebenum. Ebony. It is held to clear the 
sight, being either boiled in wine, or burnt 
to ashes. 
Guajacum, Lignum vitm. Dries, attenu- 
ates, causes sweat, resists putrefaction, is 
800d for the French disease, as also for 
ulcers, scabs, and leprosy: it is used in diet 
drinks. 
Juniperus. Juniper. The smoak of the 
wood, drives away serpents; the ashes of 
it made into lie, cures itch, and scabs. 
Nephriticum. It is a light wood and 
comes from Hispaniola; being steeped in 
water, will soon turn it blue, it is hot and 
dry in the first degree, and so used as be- 
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and for obstructions of the liver and spleen. 
Rhodium. Encreases milk in nurses. 
Santalum, album, Rubrum, citrinum. — 
White, red, and yellow Sanders: They are 
all cold and dry in the second or third de- 
gree: the red stops defluxions from any 
part, and helps inflammations: the white 
and yellow (of which the yellow is best) 
cool the heat of fevers, strengthen the 
heart, and cause cheerfulness. 
Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the second 
degree, it opens obstructions or stoppings, 
it strengthens the breast exceedingly; if it 
be weakened through cold, it breaks the 
stone, stays vomiting, provokes urine, and 
is very profitable in the venereal, used in 
diet drinks. 
Tamaris. Is profitable for the rickets, 
and burnings. 
Xylobalsamum. Wood of the Balsam 
tree, it is hot and dry in the second degree, 
according to Galen. I never read any great 
virtues of it. 
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HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES. 
A Brotanum, mas, femina. Southern- 
wood, male and female. It is hot and dry 
in the third degree, resists poison, kills 
worms; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves 
cold swellings, and helps the bitings of 
venomous beasts, makes hair grow: take 
not above half a dram at a time in powder. 
Absinthium, §c. Wormwood. Its several 
sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or 
third degrees, the common Wormwood is — 
thought to be hottest, they all help weak- 
ness of the stomach, cleanse choler, kill 
worms, open stoppings, help surfeits, clear : 
| the sight, resist poison, cleanse the blood, _ 
and secure cloaths from moths. = 
Abugilissa, §c. Alkanet. The ace are 
something drying and binding, but inferior _ 
in virtue to the roots, to which I refer you. 3 
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