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^aogerons as the following instance proves : — A lady, trou- 

 bled with a Bmall ulcer a little below one of her eyes, which 

 was supposed to be of a cancerous nature, applied a small 

 piece of the green leaf to it at night, and the next morning 

 the uvea of that eye was affected in so frightful a manner, 

 that the pupil would not contract in the brightest light^ while 

 the other eye retained its usual powers. The leaf being re- 

 moved, the eye was gradually restored to its original state, 

 and this effect could not be accidental, for the experiment 

 was repeated three different times, and the application was 

 always attended with the same results. 



OAK TBJ£,^^(Quercus Rohur.) 



Detcrip. — This tree grows to a vast height, spreading out 

 into innumerable and irregular branches. The leaves are 

 oblong, obtuse, deeply finulated, and of a dark green. The 

 flowers are both barren and fertile on the same tree ; the 

 former are collected into loose catkins ; the latter are seat- 

 ed in the buds, and both sorts are small and inconsiderable. 

 The seed is oval-formed, of a leather-like coat, which ap- 

 pears as if rasped at the base, and is fixed to a short cup. 



Place, — It is too common to require a particular specifi- 

 cation of the place of its growth. 



Time, — The flowers appear in April, and the acorns are 

 ripe in October and November. 



OovemrneTU and Virtue*. — Jupiter owns the tree. ITie 

 leaves and bark, and the acorn cups, bind and dry much. 

 The inner bark and the thin skin that covers the acorn, are 

 used to stay the spitting of blood, and the flux. The de- 

 coction of that bark, and the powder of the cups, stay vo- 

 miting, spitting of blood, bleeding at the moutn, or other 

 flux of blood in man or woman ; laxes also, and the invo- 

 luntary flux of natural seed. The acorn in powder taken 

 in wine, provokes urine, and resists the poison of venom- 

 ous creatures. The decoction of acorns and bark made in 

 milk, and taken, resist^ the force of poisonous herbs and 

 medicines ; as also the virulence of cantharides, t^hen the 

 bladder becomes ulcerated by taking them, and voids bloody 

 urine. The distilled water of the ouds, before they break 

 out into leaves, is good to be used either inwardly or out- 

 wardly, to assuage inflammations, and to stop all manner of 

 fluxee in man or woman. The same is singularly good in 

 peatilential and hot burning fevers; for it resists the foroe 

 of the infection* and allays heat ; it ooola the hea of the 



