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head, fainting, and cold fweats^ and being hypocondriacal, 
in order to cure himfelf, he fwallowed a whole fiefh nut^ 
but M. Camelli relieved him with warm oxymel and oil, by 
which he threw up a great deal of vifcous phlegm with the 
particles of the nut : Another had taken the third part of a 
nut and was for three hours in the like, cafe with the two for- 
mer, only that befides involuntary convuliions, he felt a ting- 
ling pain and the like, efpecially in his head. There's no 
doubt but that fometimes from fuch a violent commotion in 
the animal fpirits and alteration of the humours occalioned by 
this nut, may be thrown off all heterogeneous particles with 
thofe of this dangerous medicine, whereby the humours are 
reftored to a better temperament, and dcfired health enfues. 
The common way of ufing the nut Igafur is by infufing it 
whole in hot water till it becomes bitter^ and then pouring the 
liquor off; fome prefcnbe a fmall quantity of it in powder, 
others oive one or two fmall pieces to fwallow down, fome the 
whole nut, and others wear it about their neck by way of amu- 
let: It often caufes vomiting and fometimes gives a flool; the 
Spaniards are almoft generally thrown into convulfions by it, 
but the Indians never ; it is to be taken in cafe of poifon, and 
immoderate commotions of the fpirits without regarding the 
time 3 in other accidents and diforders it is to be given the pa- 
tient m the morning falling ; but when it is defigned for a vo- 
mit it is more proper to take a dofe of a fcruple and a half an 
hour or two after meals, together with other gentle vomitives. 
A little bit of the nut, or Ibme of the filings is good againft 
the bite of the viper "Baful a kind of worm that, upon touch- 
ing a perfon, caufes a violent itching, and of other poifonous 
animals , F. de la Zarza told M. Camelli that when applied to 
the wound made by a dart or any infected weapons, it ex- 
tra6led the poifon like the lapis Cukbrinus ; others recommend 
its powder for Hopping the blood in hiemorrhagies, and in apo- 
plexies, palfies, lethargies, epilepfies, in afthma's, catarrhs 
and other defluxions ; a little bit of it put under the tongue 
provokes ipittle, and frees the head of a vifcous phlegm j its 
powder, and an infufion of it, or the oil defcribed below, ad- 
miniftred in a tertian or quartan fever is much commended; 
it is found of fcrvice in provoking urine, as alfo on a luppref- 
{lon of the JJenfcSy hard labour, and expelling the fecundines, 
a dead Fcetus and the worms ; befides it is given in cholics, in- 
digeilion, bad concoflion and crudities in the ftomach, in a 
diarrhoea, tenefmus, an obilrudion in the liver and fpleen^ an 
oil 
