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fluid (being found by long experience to be both wholefome and agreeable) is fome- 

 times dilated and kept for common drink ; and is thought to cefemble whey very 

 much in that (fate. Some uie it in fauces for all forts of fifh as well as many other . 

 kinds of foods; purpofes for which it was known to be employed among the 

 native Indians^ long before any European had landed in thofe parts of the world. 

 See Peter Martyrs Decades, pag. 420. But however tin wholefome or violent the 

 rough juice may be found immediately after it is exprefTed, it is certain that the 



the 



roots are daily thrown and eat 



been lately dilcovered by an ingenious gentleman, who has practifed many years in 



hogs without prejudice : and it has 



the warm parts of America, that a little mint- water and fait of wormwood will 

 calm the molt violent fymptoms that arife on taking it ; and prevent all bad confe- 



rences, even in the human fpecies, if it be but timely adminiftered. 



The farine, as yet, impregnated with the juice, makes an excellent falve, which 



feldom fails to clean and heal the mod defpei ate fores : but where thefe. are very 



foul, or the parts too much relaxed, it is fometimes mixed with a few pounded 



tobacco-leaves j and has been often found effectual where common ointments 



have not had the lead force : it is alfo ufed by way of poultice, and is an excel- 

 lent reiolutive. 



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Foliis falmatis, h ns incerfis, radice oblongd funicuh 



valido per centrum duBo i came nived. 



The Sweet Caffada. 



This plant is very like the foregoing both in habit and appearance, and raifed and 

 cultivated in the fame manner; but the root is free from any of that deleterious 

 quality that is generally obferved in the juices of the- other fort. It is al- 

 ways planted in feparate pieces for fear of a miflake^and roafted or boiled for ufe; 



but the latter feems to be the heft method of drefiing it; for in this ftate, the out 



ward part is commonly brought almoft to a jelly, and is extremely delicate and 



agreeable. 



RICINUS 1. Fruticofus afurgens, foliis 11: ajoribus peltato-lobatis^ lobisferratis 



a cutis. 



Ricinus foliis pekatis palmatisferratis, petiolis ghnduliferis, L. Sp. PI. & 



H.C. 



pc 



Ricinus Americanui fruBu racemojb kifpido, Sec. Slo. Cat. 38. 

 Ricinus Joliis maximis, &c. Clayt. F^jo. Virg. 1 1 9. 



The Oil-Nut Tree. 



This luxuriant plant is frequent in all the fu gar- colonies, and cultivated by many 

 ople for the fake of its oil; which is commonly obtained by pounding the feeds 



ke 



tides rife to the top 



freed from the hulks, and boiling them in water until all the oily p 



ch they carefully fkim off, ft 



This is burned in the boiling-houfe lamps, by many of th 



d preferve for ufe 

 nters ; and is fome- 



fed by way of phyfic. I have often ordered it made into an oily 



the dry beliv-ach. to two, three, or fo 



d d 



know any thing that 



procures a pafLge fo certainly, or with fo much eafe. It is quite free from acrimony 

 in this ftate, and flays freely upon theflomach, even when it loaths mod other medi- 

 cines : but its mildnefs feems to be chiefly owing to the acfion of the fire; for the 



expreffed oil, as well as the mixt juices of the feeds, are far more active and 



their operations 



Tne 



the 



of the plant are looked upon as ftrong din 



ie parts of the world 



lly ufed to drefs bliiiers, of which they make 



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frequent ufe 



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