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not endure long in our Countrey, by reafon ofthe cold, The other likewife was 
brought into Jtaly, in thefe later times from Syria, where it is only to be feen, 
and but with a few that are lovers of rarities, The laft groweth wild in the Fields, 
by che Hedges, not far from Verona, abundantly, as Pena faith, They all fhoor . 
forth in April, at which time, the Seeds or Stones are to be fet and owen for in- 
creafe, They flowre im A4ay, and their frnitis ripeim September, the Leaves 
falling off fhortly after. : -s 
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They open tlie Body, and See ege Choler, and cleanfé thé Blood, accor- 
ding to Altuarius, and Simeon Sethi, etpecially when they: are freth: yer ALatthi- 
olus following the Opinion of Avicen, denyeth that they have any purging qua- 
lityin them at all. Bur all Authours do agree, that they cool the heat and fharp- 
neife of the Blood ; and therefore hold them to be good in hor Agues, and to 
help'them that havea Cough, by bringing away tough fleeme, and are ver pro 
firab le.alfo for other Difeates of the Cheft and Lungs: as fhortneffe of breat , hot 
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~~ purpofe, ufed to cleanfe the Reins and Bladder from Gravel, in making the paffa- 
oes : they alfo ftay Vomutings, procured by fharp homoiire BaF thes 
arehard lot digeftion, nourith very little, fle through the fo- 
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