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is infused : which I have little opinion of, because the 

 seed, I doubt, will not draw the parts of the matter 

 which have the propriety : but it will be far the 

 more likely, if you mingle the medicine with dung ; 

 for that the seed naturally drawing the moisture of 

 the dung, may call in withal some of the propriety. 

 The fourth is, the watering of the plant oft with an 

 infusion of the medicine. This, in one respect, may 

 have more force than the rest, because the medication 

 is oft renewed ; whereas the rest are applied but at 

 one time ; and therefore the virtue may the sooner 

 vanish. But still I doubt, that the root is some 

 what too stubborn to receive those fine impressions ; 

 arxd besides, as I said before, they have a great hill 

 to go up. I judge therefore the likeliest way to be 

 the perforation of the body of the tree in several 

 places one above the other ; and the filling of the 

 holes with dung mingled with the medicine ; and the 

 watering of those lumps of dung with squirts of an 

 infusion of the medicine in dunged water, once in 

 three or four days. 



