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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
ler and melancholy: wonderfully helps 
melancholy and madness coming of it; 
opens stoppings of the bowels; helps such 
as have the dropsy and are troubled with 
the stoppings of the spleen, rickets and 
hypochondriac melancholy: for such dis- 
eases you may make up your physie with 
whey. Outwardly it cleanses the skin of 
such deformities as come through choler or 
melancholy, as scabs, itch, morphew, lep- 
rosy, &c. 
Honey is of a gallant cleansing quality, 
exceedingly profitable in all inward ulcers 
in what part of the body soever; it opens 
the veins, cleanses the reins and bladder. I 
know no vices belonging to it, but only it 
is soon converted into choler. 
Waz, softens, heats, and meanly fills 
sores with flesh, it suffers not the milk to 
curdle in women’s breasts; inwardly it is 
given (ten grains at a time) against bloody- 
fluxes. 
Raw-silk, heats and dries, cheers the 
heart, drives away sadness, comforts all the 
spirits, both natural, vital and animal. 
BELONGING TO THE SEA. 
Sperma Ceti, is well applied outwardly 
to eating ulcers, the marks which the small 
pox leaves behind them; it clears the sight, 
provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles the 
stomach and belly, helps bruises, and 
stretching of the nerves, and therefore is 
good for women newly delivered. 
Amber-grease, heats and dries, strength- 
_ens the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the 
_ infirmity of them come of cold, resists pes- 
 tilence. 
_ Sea-sand, a man that hath the dropsy, 
"being set up to the middle in it, it draws 
out all the water. 
Red Coral, snail irr tnd noe se 
bloody-fluxes, the running of the reins, and 
the Fluor Albus, helps such as spit blood, 
it is an approved remedy for the falling 
sickness. Also if ten grains of red Coral 
be given to a child in a little breast-milk so 
soon as it is born, before it take any other 
food, it will never have the falling-sickness, 
nor convulsions. The common dose is from 
ten grains to thirty. : 
Pearls, are a wonderful strengthener to 
the heart, encrease milk in nurses, and 
amend it being naught, they restore such 
as are in consumptions; both they and the 
red Coral preserve the body in health, and 
resist fevers. The dose is ten grains or 
fewer; more, I suppose, because it is dear, 
than because it would do harm. 
Amber, (viz. yellow Amber) heats and 
dries, therefore prevails against moist dis- 
eases of the head; it helps violent coughs, 
helps consumption of the lungs, spitting of 
blood, the Fluor Albus; it stops bleeding 
at the nose, helps difficulty of urine: You 
may take ten or twenty grains at a time. 
The Froth of the Sea, it is hot and dry, 
helps scabs, itch, and leprosy, scald heads, 
&c. it cleanses the skin, helps difficulty of 
urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed 
with it, the head being washed with it, it 
helps baldness, and trimly decks the head 
with hair. 
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METALS, MINERALS, AND 
STONES. 
GOLD is temperate in quality, it won- 
derfully strengthens the heart and vital 
spirits, which one perceiving, very wittily 
inserted these verses: 
For Gold is cordial; and that’s the reason, 
Your raking Misers live so long a season- 
However, this is certain, in cordials, it 
resists melancholy, faintings, swoonings, 
fevers, falling-sickness, and all such like 
infirmiti pincident, either oe ee 
