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help the dropsy, relieve men weary with 
labour; provoke venery, and make the body 
lean. 
Piony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or the 
disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also 
the fits of the mother, and other such like 
infirmities of the womb, stop the menses, 
and help convulsions. 
Broom seed, potently provoke urine, 
break the stone. 
Citron seeds, strengthens the heart, cheer 
the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poison. 
TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS. 
Laudanum, is of a heating, mollifying 
nature, it opens the mouth of the veins, 
stays the hair from falling off, helps pains 
in the ears, and hardness of the womb. It 
is used only outwardly in plaisters. 
Assafetida. Is commonly used to allay 
the fits of the mother by smelling to it; 
they say, inwardly taken, it provokes lust, 
and expels wind. 
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good per- 
fume, 
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds ex- 
ceedingly. 
Aloes, purges choler and flegm, and with 
such deliberation that it is often given to 
withstand the violence of other purges, it 
preserves the senses and betters the appre- 
hension, it strengthens the liver, and helps 
the yellow-jaundice. Yet is naught for such 
as are troubled with the hemorrhoids, or 
have agues. I do not like it taken raw. See 
Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it washed 
with the juice of roses. 
Manna, is temperately hot, of a mighty 
dilative quality, windy, cleanses choler 
‘gently, also it cleanses the throat and 
stomach. A child may take an ounce of it 
at a time melted in milk, and the dross 
Saipiese a 
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by which 
name you please, is a desperate purge, hurt- 
ful to the body by reason of its heat, windi- 
ness, corroding, or gnawing, and violence 
of working. I would advise my countrymen 
to let it alone; it will gnaw their bodies as 
fast as doctors gnaw their purses. 
Opopanaz, is of a hesting,: molifying, 
digesting quality. 
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for frac- 
tures of the skull, as also in wounds, and 
therefore is put in plaisters for that end. 
See Arceus his Liniment. 
Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum 
Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, 
hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs. 
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard 
swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, 
hardness of the sinews. 
Galbanum. Hot and dry, discussing; ap- 
plied to the womb, it hastens both birth 
and after-birth, applied to the navel it stays 
the strangling of the womb, commonly 
called the fits of the mother, helps pains in 
the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being 
applied to it, and the smell of it helps the 
vertigo or diziness in the head. 
Myrh, heats and dries, opens and softens 
the womb, provokes the birth and after- 
birth; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs 
and hoarseness, pains in the sides, kills 
worms, and helps a stinking breath, helps 
the wasting of the gums, fastens the teeth: 
outwardly it helps wounds, and fills up 
ulcers with flesh. You may take half adram ~ 
at a time. 
Mastich, strengthens the stomach ex- 
ceedingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, 
it fastens the teeth and strengthens the . 
gums, being chewed in the mouth. outs 
Frankinsense, and Olibanum, heat and — 
bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stop bleed- ef 
ing, but is extremely bad for mad peop 
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