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it both purgeth away naughty and corrupt humors^and likewife withall ftoppeth the belly. 



The fame being dried after the fame manner, doth alfo ftay theouermuch flowing of the Mo- 

 nechly SickenefTc,and ftoppeth bloud in any part of the body , efpecially that which commeth 

 thorow the bladder ; but it ihould bee giuen in a little quantitic, and mixed with fome other bin, 

 ding thing. 



CMc fas faith,Tbat Rubarb is an barmlefTe medicine>and good at all times, and for all ages and 

 likewife for children and women with childc. 3 



$ My friend M l Samffon lohnfon Fellow ofMagcLlen Colledge in Oxford aflures me, That the 

 Phyfitions of yienna in Auftriavfefcatceany other at thisday than the Rubarb of the Amiem* 

 which grcwes in H ungary not far from thence : and they prefer it before the dried Rubarb brought 

 out of Perfia and the Eaft Indies,becaufe it hath not fo ftrong a binding facultieas it,neitherdoth 

 it heatc fo rauch^only it muft be vfed in foraewhat a larger cjuantitie. t 







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THere be d iuers k ind s of Sorrell,difFering in many points,f©me of the gardcn,others wildifomc 

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Hough Viofcorideihixh not expreffed the Oxalides by that name , yet none ^r" 5J for* 

 but that they were taken and accounted as the fourth kinde oiLa^thnm : for altpoug ^ 



