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fmall Quantity of Rhubarb, it is the beft of all 

 Remedies againfl Purgings. 



o. 



The Oak. 



QUERCUS. 



Noble and ftately Tree, Native of our Coun- 

 try, and no where growing to ^o great Per- 

 feflion. It is very tall, and though irregular in the 

 Difpofition of its Branches, that very Irregularity 



has its Beauty, the Trunk is very thick; the Bran- 

 ches are alfo thick, and often crooked : The Bark 

 is brown and rough : The Leaves are large, ob- 

 long, broad, and deeply cut in at the Edges, and 

 .they are of a fhining Green. The Flowers are 

 Jnconfiderable. The Fruit is the Acorn well 

 Jinown. Galls are produced upon the Oak, not 

 as Fruit, but from the Wounds made by an Infecl. 

 The Bark of the Oak is a very powerful Aftrin- 

 gent, it flops Purgings, and Overflowings of the 

 Menfes. Given in Powder, a Peco^lion of it is 

 excellent for the falling down of the Uvula, or as 

 it is called the falling of the Palate of the Mouth. 

 Whenever a very powerful Aftringent is required, 

 Dak Bark demands the Preference over every 

 jthing : If it were brought from the Eajl-Indtes^ 

 it would be held ineftimable. 



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