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outwardly applied, mixed with cocoa-nut oil, 

 draws out poisons in wounds ; and rubbed 

 upon the stomach, comforts it, and eases 

 pains arising from a cold cause.* 



The Indians, as well as the Chinese, eat 

 the root when green by way of salad, chop- 

 ping it small, and mixing it with herbs. Well 

 made ginger-bread is both agreeable and 

 wholesome, and many excellent receipts may 

 be found for making it, in the Domestic 

 Cookery, and other receipt-books, as well as 

 for making ginger-beer and ginger-wine — 

 drinks which have lately been very properly 

 introduced for the warm season of the year. 



Green ginger, preserved with sugar, is 

 proper for old persons, and those of cold 

 and phlegmatic constitutions, especially when 

 it is new ; it is also good for viscid phlegm in 

 the lungs.-f* 



Ginger is good for the stomach, thorax, 

 and the other viscera; restores lost appetite, 

 and resists the putrefaction and malignity of 

 the humours, j 



Ginger absterges and dissipates infrac- 

 tions of the stomach and lungs, by consum- 

 ing the superfluous humours, and comforts 



# Barham, p. 63. f James. % Dale; 



