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eyes, it takes away films that grow over 
the sight. 
Labdanum is in operation, thickening, 
heating and mollifying, it opens the passage 
of the veins, and keeps the hair from falling 
off ; the use of it is usually external: being 
mixed with wine, myrrh, and oil of mirtles, 
and applied like a plaister, it takes away 
filthy scars, and the deformity the small 
pox leaves behind them; being mixed with 
oil of Roses, and dropped into the ears, it 
helps pains there; being used as a pessary, 
it provokes the menses, and helps hardness 
or stiffness of the womb. It is sometimes 
used inwardly in such medicines as ease 
pains and help the cough: if you mix a 
little of it with old white wine and drink it, 
it both provokes urine and stops looseness 
or fluxes. 
Dragons blood, cools, binds, and repels. 
Acasia, and Hyposistis, do the like. 
The juice of Maudlin, or, for want of it 
Costmary, which is the same in effect, and 
better known to the vulgar, the juice is 
made thick for the better keeping of it; first 
clarify the juice before you boil it to its due 
thickness, which is something thicker than 
honey. 
It is appropriated to the liver, and the 
quantity of a dram taken every morning, 
helps the Cachezia, or evil disposition of 
the body proceeding from coldness of the 
liver: it helps the rickets and worms in 
children, provokes urine, and gently (with- 
out purging) disburdens the body of choler 
and flegm ; it succours the lungs, opens ob- 
structions, and resists putrifaction of blood. 
Gums are either temperate, as, Lacca, 
Elemi, Tragacanth, &c. 
Intemperate, and so are hot in the first 
degree, as Bdellium, Gum of Ivy. 
: In the second, Galbanum, Myrrh, Mas- 
tich, Frankincense, Olibanum, Pitch, Rozin, 
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In the fourth. Euphorbium. 
Gum Arabick is cold. 
Colophonia and Styrax soften. 
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, San- 
darack or Juniper Gum, and Sarcocolla 
bind. 
Gum of Cherry trees, breaks the stone. 
’ Styrax provokes the menses. 
Opopanax gently purges flegm. 
From the prickly Cedar when it is burned 
comes forth that which, with us, is usually 
known by the name of Tar, and is excel- 
lently good for unction either for scabs, 
itch, or manginess, either in men or beasts, 
as also against the leprosy, tetters, ring- 
worms, and scald heads. 
All sorts of Rozins fill up hollow ulcers, 
and relieve the body sore pressed with cold 
griefs. 
The Rozin of Pitch-tree, is that which is 
commonly called Burgundy pitch, and is 
something hotter and sharper than the for- 
mer, being spread upon a cloth is excel- 
lently good for old aches coming of former 
bruises or dislocations. 
Pitch mollifies hard swellings, and brings 
boils and sores to suppuration, it breaks 
carbuncles, disperses aposthumes, cleanses 
ulcers of his sara and fills them with 
flesh. 
Bdellium heats and mollifies, and that 
very temperately, being mixed with any 
convenient ointment or plaister, it helps 
kernels in the neck and throat, Scrophula, 
or that disease which was called the King’s 
Evil. Inwardly taken in any convenient 
medicine, it provokes the menses, and ~ 
breaks the stone, it helps coughs and bitings © 
of venomous beasts: it helps windiness of 
the spleen, and pains in the sides thence 
coming. Both outwardly applied to the 
place and inwardly taken, it helps ruptures 
or such as are burst, it softens the hardness" 
of the womb, dries up the moisture thereof 
and expels the dead child. 
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