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by sxtimely travel, as alfo to comforc and ftrengthen them in the time of their | 
Labour, for itis fo Severaigne a Cordial, that there is none better (though per- 
haps there be cheaper) to fortifie the heart, and to revive the fainting Spirits, of . 
which there is great need at fuch times: norwithftanding is was chiefly deviedin 
the beginning, for the purging of Melancholy, which appeareth by that quantity of 
Lapis Lazmls, wh:ch is commonly added thereunto, and is therefore profitable for 
thofe tat are troubled with AZelancholy paffions and forrow, proceeding from no 
evident canfe, fot it precareth mirth, as mach as any Phyfical means whatfoe y ~ 
This noble and famous Compofition ts alfo daily commended, and ufedwith good _ 
fucceffe againft the trembling and foakinz of the heart, and againtt. foronnings, be 
then it will be moft neceflary that the Laps Lazuli be left out, or. at leat to be 
very well prepared before it be pntin, becaufe the fharp and venemons q ality be 
wherewith it ts endued, working upon the Heart idiot Extrails, many times 
doth more harnst then good. ic hath been alfo found to be very effectual for thehea- 
ling of green Wounds and Sinewes that arecut, ifthe powder ofthe Berriesbetem: _ 
pered with the Syrupe of Vinegar, or Vinegar it felf, and applyedthereunto. The 
manner of reducing them into powder is this; When thefe Graines or Berries are 
feafonably gathered, the people that live in thofe places where they grow, cal 
them upona Sheet or fome fuch thing, fprin! them with a little Wine or Vi- 
_ negar, which beingborn up from the groutid by the fides, or fourcorners, and 
fet in the hot Sun, will have little wormes growing inthem, asI faid before, who 
feeling the heat of the Sun begin to ftirre; and wouldcreep quite away, if there 
were not one appointed purpofely to look unto them, witha {mall Wander 
Stick, who by ftriking the fides of the Sheet, caufeth them to fall down into the 
middle againe, till they be all dead, and dryed fo fufficiently with the heat of the 
Sun, that they may be eafily done into Powder. Some ufeto put them into a Bag 
‘or Boulter, and fhake them in the Sun, and fometimesdry tlrem in an Oven, and 
‘afterwards bring them tothe Marker, and fell them tothe Merchants, who dire& 
‘them into all parts where they bave good vent forthem. The Crimfon Silk 
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