AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 
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Stop the menses. Comfrey, Tormentil, 
Bistort, &c. 
Provoke sweat. Carolina Thistle, China, 
Sarsaparilla, &c. 
Resist poison. Angelica, Garlick, long 
Birthwort, Smallage, Doronicum, Costus, 
Zedoary, Cyprus, Gentian, Carolina This- 
tle. Bistort, Tormentil, Swallow-wort, 
Viper’s Bugloss, Elicampane, &c. 
Help burnings. Asphodel, Jacinth, white 
Lilies, &c. 
Ease pains. Waterflag, Eringo, Orris, 
Restharrow, &c. 
Purge choler. Asarabacca, 
Rhapontick, Fern, &c. 
Relieve melancholy. Hellebore, white and 
black, Polipodium. 
Purge flegm and watery humours. Squills, 
Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Mecoacan, 
wild Cucumbers, Sowbread, male Asphodel, 
Briony white and black, Elder, Spurge 
great and small. 
I quoted some of these properties to teach 
you the way how to find the rest, which the 
explanation of these terms will give you 
ample instructions in: I quoted not all be- 
cause I would fain have you studious: be 
diligent gentle reader. 
How to use your bodies in, and after tak- 
ing purges, you shall be taught by and by. 
Rhubarb, 
Barks mentioned by the College are these. 
College.] Hazel Nuts, Oranges, Bar- 
berries, Birch-tree, Caper roots, Cassia 
Lignea, Chestnuts, Cinnamon, Citron Pills, 
Dwarf-Elder, Spurge roots, Alder, Ash, 
Pomegranates, Guajacum, Walnut tree, 
green Walnuts, Laurel, Bay, Lemon, Mace, 
P omegranates, Mandrake roots, Mezereon, 
Mulberry tree roots, Sloe tree roots, Pine- 
nuts, Filstick-nuts, Poplar tree, Oak, El- 
der, Sassafras, Cork, Tamerisk, Lime tree, 
Frankincense, Elm, Capt: Winter’s Cinna- 
mon. 
Ealeveer, Of these, Captain | Winter's arberry~ 
7 ry spice, | tain Winter’s Cinnamo 
or half a dram taken in the morning in any 
convenient liquor, is an excellent remedy 
for the scurvy; the powder of it being 
snuffed up in the nose, cleanses the head of 
rheum gallantly. 
The bark of the black Alder tree purges 
choler and flegm if you make a decoction 
with it. Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, 
Hops, Endive and Succory roots: Parsly 
and Smallage roots, or you may bruise a 
handful of each of them, and put them in 
a gallon of ale, and let them work together: 
put the simples into a boulter-bag, and a 
draught, (half a pint, more or less, accord- 
ing to the age of him that drinks it,) being 
drunk every morning, helps the dropsy, 
jaundice, evil disposition of the body; also 
helps the rickets, strengthens the liver and 
spleen; makes the digestion good, troubles 
not the stomach at all, causes appetite, and 
helps such as are scabby and itchy. 
The rest of the barks that are worth the 
noting, and the virtues of them, are to be 
found in the former part of the book.. _ 
Barks are hot in the first degree. Gua- 
jacum, Tamarisk, Oranges, Lemons, Cit- 
rons. 
In the second. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, 
Captain Winter’s Cinnamon, Frankincense, 
Capers. 
In the third. Mace. 
Cold in the first. Oak, Pomegranates. 
In the third. Mandrakes. 
Appropriated to parts of the body. 
Heat the head. Captain Winter’s Cinna- _ 
mon. oe 
The heart. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, — 
Citron Pills, Walnuts, Lemon pills, Mace. _ 
The stomach. Orange pills, Cassia Lig- _ 
nea, Cinnamon, Citron pills, Lemon BE = 
Mace, Sassafras. : 
The lungs. Cassia Lignes, 
Walnuts. 
The liver, 
