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the pressing, is excellent to fatten hogs with. After 

 the nuts are beaten down, the leaves would be sweep'd 

 into heaps, and carried away, because their extreme 

 bitterness impairs the ground, and as I am assured, 

 prejudices the trees : The green husks boiled, make 

 a good colour to dye a dark yellow, without any 

 mixture ; and the distillation of its leaves with honey 

 and urine, makes hair spring on baldheads : Besides 

 its use in the famous Salernitan antidote ; if the 

 kernel a little masticated, be applied to the biting of 

 a suspected mad-dog, and when it has lain three hours, 

 be cast to poultrey, they will die if they eat of it. 

 In Italy, when a countreyman finds any pain in his 

 side, he drinks a pint of the fresh oyl of this nut, and 

 finds immediate ease : And more famous is the won- 

 derful cure, which the fungus substance separating 

 the lobs of the kernel, pulveriz'd and drank in wine, 

 in a moderate quantity, did recover the English army 

 in Ireland of a dyssentary, when no other remedy 

 could prevail : The same also in pleurisies, &c. The 

 juice of the outward rind of the nut, makes an excel- 

 lent gargle for a sore-throat : The kernel being rubb'd 

 upon any crack or chink of a leaking or crazy vessel, 

 stops it better than either clay, pitch, or wax : In 

 France they eat them blanch'd and fresh, with wine 

 and salt, having first cut them out of the shells before 

 they are hardned, with a short broad brass-knife, 

 because iron rusts, and these they call cernois^ from 

 their manner of scooping them out. Lastly, of the 

 fungus emerging from the trunk of an old tree, (and 

 indeed some others) is made touch-wood, artificially 

 prepar'd in a lixhium or lye, dried, and beaten flat, 

 and then boil'd with salt-peter, to render it apter to 

 kindle. The tree wounded in the Spring, yields a 



