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ounce of it at a time dissolved in milk, it 
will melt like sugar, neither will it be known 
from it by the taste. 
Myrrh is hot and dry in the second de- 
gree, dangerous for pregnant women, it is 
bitter,and yet held to be good for the rough- 
ness of the throat and wind-pipe; half a 
dram of it taken at a time helps rheumatic 
distillations upon the lungs, pains in the 
sides; it stops fluxes, provokes the menses, 
brings away both birth and after-birth, 
softens the hardness of the womb; being 
taken two hours before the fit comes, it helps 
agues. Mathiolus saith he seldom used any 
other medicine for the quartan ague than a 
dram of Myrrh given in Muskadel an hour 
before the fit usually came; if you make it 
up into pills with treacle, and take one of 
them every morning fasting, it is a sovereign 
preservative against the pestilence, against 
the poison of serpents, and other venomous 
beasts; a singular remedy for a stinking 
breath if it arise from putrefaction of the 
stomach, it fastens loose teeth, and stays the 
shedding off of the hair, outwardly used it 
breeds flesh in deep wounds, and covers 
the naked bones with flesh. 
Olibanum is hot in the second degree, and 
dry in the first, you may take a dram of it 
at a time, it stops looseness and ‘the run- 
ning of the reins; it strengthens the memory 
exceedingly, comforts the heart, expels sad- 
ness and melancholy, strengthens the heart, 
helps coughs, rheums and pleurises; your 
best way (in my opinion,) to take it is to 
mix it with conserve of roses, and take it in 
the morning fasting. 
Tachamacha is seldom taken inwardly, 
outwardly spread upon leather, and applied 
to the navel; it stays the fits of the mother, 
applied to the side, it mitigates speedily, 
and in little time quite takes away the pain 
and windiness of the spleen; the truth is, 
whatsoever ache or swelling proceeds of 
wind or cold raw humours, I know no 
this gum. It strengthens the brain and 
memory exceedingly, and stops all such 
defluctions thence as trouble the eyes, ears, 
or teeth, it helps the gout and sciatica. 
Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime, are very 
like one another both in body and opera- 
tion, the former is hard to come by, the last 
not very easy. It stops defluctions from the 
head, if you perfume your cap with the 
smoke of it, it helps the headache and 
megrim, strengthens the brain, and there- 
fore the sinews. 
Gum Tragaganth, which the vulgar call 
Gum Dragon, being mixed with pectoral 
Syrups, (which you shall find noted in their 
proper places) it helps coughs and hoarse- 
ness, salt and sharp distillations upon the 
lungs, being taken with a liquorice stick, 
being dissolved in sweet wine, it helps 
(being drank) gnawing in the bowels, 
sharpness and frettings of the urine, which 
causes excoriations either in the reins or 
bladder, being dissolved in milk and the 
eyes washed with it, it takes away weals 
and scabs that grow on the eyelids, it is ex- 
cellently good to be put in poultice to fod-— 
der wounds, especially if the nerves or 
sinews be hurt. 
Sagapen, dissolved in juice of rue and 
taken, wonderfully breaks the stone in the 
bladder, expels the dead child and after- 
birth, clears the sight; dissolved in wine 
and drank, it helps the cough, and distilla- 
tion upon the lungs, and the fits of the 
mother; outwardly in oils or ointments, it 
helps such members as are out of joint or 
over-stretched. 
Galbanum is of the same ones and 
also taken from the same plant, viz. Fennel, 
Giant. 
Gum Arabic, thickens and cools, and cor- — 
rects choleric sharp humours in the body, 
being dissolved in the white of an egg, well _ : 
beaten, it helps burnings, and oe? me ee 
place from blistering. a ees 
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