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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
any way. Three or four small grains of 
Mastich, swallowed at night going to bed, 
is a remedy for pains in the stomach: 
being beaten into powder, and mixed with 
conserve of Roses, it strengthens the 
stomach, stops distillations upon the lungs, 
stays vomiting, and causes a sweet breath; 
being mixed with white wine and the mouth 
washed with it, it cleanses the gums of cor- 
ruption, and fastens loose teeth. 
Frankincense being used outwardly in the 
way of a plaister, heats and binds; being 
applied to the temples, stops the rheums 
that flow to the eyes, helps green wounds, 
and fills hollow ulcers with flesh, stops the 
bleeding of wounds, though the arteries be 
cut ; being made into an ointment with Vine- 
gar and Hog’s-grease, helps the itch, pains 
in the ears, inflammations in women’s 
breasts commonly called agues in the breast; 
beware of taking it inwardly, lest it cause 
madness. 
Turpentine is hot in the second degree, it 
heals, softens, it discusses and purges, 
cleanses the reins, provokes urine. 
Styrax Calamitis is hot and dry in the 
second degree, it heals, mollifies, and con- 
cocts ; being taken inwardly helps the cough, 
and distillations of the lungs, hoarseness 
and loss of voice, helps the hardness of the 
womb, and provokes the menses. 
Ammoniacum, hot and dry in the third 
degree, softens, draws, and heats; being 
dissolved in vinegar, strained and applied 
plaister-wise, it takes away carbuncles and | 
hardness in the flesh, it is one of the best 
remedies that I know for infirmities of the 
_ spleen, being applied to the left side; being 
made into an ointment with oil, it is good 
to anoint the limbs of such as are weary: 
a scruple of it being taken in the form of a 
_ pill loosens the belly, gives speedy delivery 
_ to women in travail, helps diseases of the 
Camphire, it is held by all authority to be 
cold and dry in the third degree, it is of 
very thin subtile parts, insomuch that being 
beaten into very fine powder it will van- 
quish away into the air, being beaten into 
powder and mixed with oil, and the temples 
anointed therewith, eases headaches pro- 
ceeding of heat, all inflammations whatso- 
ever, the back being anointed with the same, 
cools the reins, and seminal vessels, stops 
the running of the reins and Fluor Albus, 
the moderate use of Venery, the like it doth 
if it be drank inwardly with Bettony-water, 
take but a small quantity of it at a time in- 
wardly, it resist poison and bitings of ven- 
omous beasts;outwardly,applied as before, 
and the eyes anointed with it, stops hot 
rheums that flow thither. 
Opopanaz purges thick flegm from the 
most remote parts of the body, viz. the 
brain, joints, hands, and feet, the nerves 
and breast, and strengthens all those parts 
when they are weak, if the weakness pro- 
ceed of cold, as usually it doth; it helps 
weakness of the sight, old rotten coughs, 
and gouts of all sorts, dropsies, and swell- 
ings of the spleen, it helps the stranguary 
and difficulty of making urine, provokes 
the menses, and helps all cold afflictions of 
the womb; have a care you give it not to 
any pregnant women. The dose is one 
dram at most, corrected with a little Mas- 
tich, dissolved in Vinegar and outwardly 
applied helps the passions of the spleen. 
In the next place the College tells you a tale 
concerning Liquid, Juices, and Tears, 
which are to be kept for present use, 2- 
College.] Vinegar, Juice of Citrons, 
Juice of sour Grapes, Oranges, Barberries, 
Tears of a Birch-tree, Juice of Chermes, 
Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemons, Wood- 
sorrel, Oil of unripe Olives, and ripe Olives, 
both new and cold, Juice of red and Damask 
