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nay, what is more furprizing, the Tindture paiTeth quickly, 

 through the Pores, into the Blood , rendering the Urine in a 

 Nights Time of a SaiFron Colour. In green Wounds and fome 

 other of the above mentioned Cafes, the Leaves likewife of 

 (Madra-mam) the J^irga aurea gluiinofa have a good efFe6l ; 

 whilft the Root of {Toufailet) Thapjia, roafted and apply ed 

 hot to the Hips, or made up into an Ointment, is reckoned a 

 Sciatica. Spec'tfic Remedy in the Sciatica. 



No certam Thefe are fome of the principal Medicines ( |^o Douwaz thefe 

 ;4^V^S^^^g. People call them) that are made ufe of in this Country: in 

 VifchfeT^' -ύίζ, prefcribing or taking of which, they obferve no uniform 

 Pradice nor exad Proportion. For thofe which regard exter- 

 nal Cafes are fometimes applyed fo fparingly, as if it was in- 

 different, both to the Patient and Phyiician , whether or no 

 any Benefit was intended by them : whilft others, in the fame 

 Cafe, a£t quite the contrary, fuppofing the larger the Cata- 

 plafniy the fpeedier the Cure. Neither is there much more 

 Caution ufed in fuch Medicines as are given inwardly : for a 

 Handful, at Random, whether of dry or green Herbs, is the 

 common Dofe ; which, if taken in a Deco£tion, they ufualiy 

 pound firft in a Mortar, and then pour, at a Venture, half a 

 Pint, a Pint or more of boyling hot Water upon it. Com- 

 pound Medicines are very rare. The Moors indeed pretend 

 to have received feveral, by Tradition, from their Anceftors ; 

 but the few Ingredients, the Shops of their Tiheehs are fur- 

 niihed with, to anfwer fuch Prefcriptions, together with their 

 great Refervednefs in converfmg with them upon this Sub- 

 jed, appear to be ftrong Sufpicions, that They are no better 

 verfed in the Materia medica than the Arahs. The only Pre- 

 metzeroie^sfcription of this Kind that I have met with, is afcribed to a 

 ^Zfth'e famous Marahhutt of theirs. Seedy Mahomet Zeroke , who 

 ^''^"'' recommends it in this Manner. " The Lives of us all are in 

 "the Hands of God, and when it is written, we muft die. 

 " However it has pleafed God to fave many Perfons from the 

 " Plague, by taking every Morning, while the Infeftion rag- 

 " eth, one Pill or two of the following Compofition. Viz. Of 

 <c ^yrrh % Parts, Saffron i Part, Aloes χ Parts, Syr of of Myrtle 

 *^ Berries Q:_S. 



Neither 



