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64 77jeU/eful Family Her Ifal 



mawkiih Tafte. The Root is long. The Berries 

 are fatal. Children have often eat them, and pe- 

 rifned by it. The Leaves externally applied ari 

 cooling and foftening; they are good again ft the 

 Ringworm and Tetters, and againft hard Swel- 

 lings. They have very great Virtue in this Re- 

 fpea, but the Plant Ihould be kept out of the Way 

 of Children, or never fuffered to grow to Fruit, as 

 the Leaves only are wanted. 



The Nutmeg Tree. 



NUX MOSCHATA. 



A Tall, Spreading Tree, Native only of the 

 warm Climates: The Trunk is large, and the 

 Branches are numerous and irregular •, the Bark is of 

 a greyiHi Colour, and the Wood light and foft. 

 The Leaves are large, long, and fomewhat broad; 

 they are not unlike thofe of the Bay Tree, but 

 bigger, and are of a beautiful Green on the up- 

 per Side, and whitilh underneath. They Hand 

 irregularly, but often fo nearly oppofite, that 

 that they feem in Pairs, as we fee in tl^e Leaves ot 

 fome or our Willows. The Blollbm is of the 

 Shape and Bignef$ of that of our Cherry Tree, but 

 its Colour is yellow. The Fruit which fucceeds 

 this, is Qf the Bignefs of a fmall Peach, and not 

 like it in the general Form, when cut open there 



appears firft the fiefhy Coat which is a Fin_ 



thick, and of a rough Tafte, then the Mace fpread 



.over a woody Shell, in which is the Nutmeg. 



W^e often have the whole JFruit fmt over pre- 



ferved. 



The Nutmeg is an excellent Spice, it fl:|-ength- 

 ,ens the Stomach, and alTifts Digeftion. It will 

 flop Vomitings, and is good againft the Cholic. 

 When roafted before the Fire, and mixed with a 



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