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hay, what is more furprizing, the Tindlure pafleth quickly, 

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

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

 other of the above mentioned Cafes, the Leaves likewife of 

 {Madra-mam) the Virga aurea glutinoja have a good effed:; 

 whilft the Root of {Toufailet) Thapjiay roafted and applyed 

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

 Sciatica. Specific Remedy in the Sciatica. 



No certain Thcfc arc fome of the principal Medicines ( ^»,o 'Douwas thefe 

 inprefcrilLg^ Pcoplc Call thcm) that are made ufe of in this Country : in 

 S^Sf'-^'the prefcribing or taking of which, they obferve no uniform 

 Prad:ice 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, a6t quite the contrary, fuppofmg 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 Decodlion, they ufually 

 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- 

 nifhed with, to anfwer fuch Prefer iptions, together with their 

 great Refervednefs in converfing with them upon this Sub- 

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

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

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

 gZjf^the 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 Infection rag- 

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

 Myrrh ^ Parts, Saffron i Part, Aloes x Parts, Syrop of Myrtle 

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