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280 "The Ufeful Family Herlal 



derabic : They 'grow to the Stalk. The Frnit 

 .fucceeds, which is what we call Pepper : They 

 hang upon a long Stalk, twenty or ^ony together: 

 They are green at firft, but when ripe they arc 

 red : They grow black and wrinkled in drying. 

 The largell and leaft wrinkled on the Coat, arc 

 the beil Grains. 



The Fruit is ufed, and it is excellent againft all 

 Coldneffes and Crudities upon the Stomach. It 

 gives Appetite in thefe Cafes, and affifts Digeftion. 

 It is alfo good againft DizzinefTes of the Head, 

 and againft Obftruftions of the Liver and Spleen, 

 and againft Cholics. We are apt to neeleft 



Things as Medicines, that we take with Food , 

 but there is hardly a more powerful Simple of its 

 Kind than Pepper, when given fingly, and on an 



empty Stomach. 



White Pepper. 



PIPER ALBUM. 



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npHE common White Pepper we meet with, is 



-■- made from the Black, by foking it in Sea 

 Water till it fwells, and the dark wrinkled Coat 



falls off; but this though the common, is not the 



true White Pepper : There is another Kind, 

 which \?^ natural, and has no Afliftr.nce from Art. 

 The White Pepper Plant, has round, thick, and 

 whitifh Stalks : They lie upon the Ground, and 

 have large Joints : At each Joint ftands a fingle 

 Leaf, which is long, and narrow, iharp at the 

 End, and ribbed. The Flowers grow on little 

 Stalks, hanging down from the Joints : They are 

 fmall and yellow. The Fruit is round ; at firft 

 green, and when ripe white, which is gathered 

 and dried for Ufe. 



This Fruit is ufed. The common ^\Tiite Pep- 



per is milder than the Black v that 



Pepp 



