6 o . Ujb Ufeful Family HerbaL 



Stomach, and have fometimes cured Agues, as 

 many other Bitters will. The Tea made of them 



is alfo good againft the Cholick, and works by 

 Urine. 



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The Camphor-Tree. 



ARBOR CAMPHORIFERA. 



HIS is a kind of Bay-Tree of the Eajl- Indies, 

 but it grows to the Height of our talleft 

 Trees. The Bark is brown and uneven on the 

 Trunk, but it is fmooth and green on the young 

 Branches. The Leaves are like thofe of the com- 

 mon Bay-Tree, only a little longer; and they are 

 curled at the Edges. The Flowers are fmall and 

 white, and the Fruit is a Berry altogether like our 

 Bay-Berries, and of the Bignefs of. a large Pea. 

 The Wood of the Tree is white or a little reddifh, 

 and veined with black, and fmells of the Camphire. 

 The Leaves alfo, when they are bruifed, fmell of 

 Camphire; and the Fruit moiL. of all. 

 ^ The only Produd of this Tree, ufed in Medi- 

 cine, is the Refin called Camphire; and this is not 

 a natural, but a fort of Chemical Preparation. 

 They cut the Wood to Pieces, and put it into a- 

 fort of fubliming Yeirel, with an earthen Head 

 full of Straw. They make a Fire underneath 

 and the Camphire rifes in Form of a white Meal 

 and is found among the Straw. This is refined 

 afterwards, and becomes the Camphire we ufe. 



It is fudorifick and works by Urine; it alfo pro- 

 motes the Menfes, and is good in Difordcrs of the 

 Bladder. 



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