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Tilliai. Of Line-tree. Boiled, the water 

 helps burnings. 



Thuris. Of Frankinsenses. I must plead 

 Ignoramus. 



Ulmi. Of Elm. Moderately hot and 

 cleansing, good for wounds, burns, and 



broken bones, viz. boiled in water and the 



grieved place bathed with it. 



Rhodium. Encreases milk in nurses. 



Santalum, album, Ritbrum,citrinum. White, 

 red, and yellow Sanders : They are all cold 

 and dry in the second or third degree : the 

 red stops defluxions from any part, and 

 helps inflammations : the white and yellow 

 (of which the yellow is best) cool the heat 



WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR 

 RASPINGS. 



of fevers, strengthen the heart, and cause 

 ! cheerfulness. 



Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the second 

 degree, it opens obstructions or stoppings, 

 i it strengthens the breast exceedingly; if it 

 | be weakened through cold, it breaks the 

 of i stone, stays vomiting, provokes urine, and 



A Gallochus, Lignum Aloes. Wood w ^ ^ 



Aloes ; is moderately hot and dry : a good i is very profitable in the venereal, used in 

 cordial : a rich perfume, a great strengthener j diet drinks, 

 to the stomach. Tamaris. Is profitable for the rickets, 



Aspalathus. Rose-wood. It is moderately j and burnings. 



hot and dry, stops looseness, provokes I Xylobalsamum. Wood of the Balsam 

 urine, and is excellent to cleanse filthy tree, it is hot and dry in the second degree, 

 ulcers. according to Galen. I never read any great 



Bresilium. Brasil. All the use I know virtues of it. 

 of it is, to die cloth, and leather, and j 

 make red ink. 



Biu'iis. Box. Many Physicians havej 

 written of it, but no physical virtue of it. 



Cypressus. Cypress. The Wood laid \ 

 amongst cloaths, secures them from moths. ! 

 See the leaves. 



Ebenum. Ebony. It is held to clear the j 



HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES. 



A Brotanum, mas, fcemina. Southern- 

 wood, male and female. It is hot and dry 

 in the third degree, resists poison, kills 

 _ worms ; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves 



sight, being either boiled in wine, or burnt j cold swellings, and helps the bitings of 

 to ashes. | venomous beasts, makes hair grow : take 



Guajacum, Lignum vitan Dries, attenu- j not above half a dram at a time in powder, 

 ales, causes sweat, resists putrefaction, is| Absinthium, Sfc. Wormwood. Its several 

 good for the French disease, as also for j sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or 



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ulcers, scabs, and leprosy : it is used in diet i 



drinks. 



Junipenis. Juniper. 



The smoak of the 



wood, drives away serpents ; the ashes of: 

 it made into lie, cures itch, and scabs. 



Nephriticum. It is a light wood and 

 comes from Hispaniola ; being steeped in 

 water, will soon turn it blue, it is hot and 

 dry in the first degree, and so used as be- 

 fore, is an admirable remedy for the stone, 

 and for obstructions of the liver and spleen. 



third degrees, the common Wormwood is 

 thought to be hottest, they all help weak- 

 ness of the stomach, cleanse choler, kill 

 worms, open stoppings, help surfeits, clear 

 the sight, resist poison, cleanse the blood, 

 and secure cloaths from moths. 



Abiigilissa, fyc. Alkanet. The leaves are 

 something drying and binding, but inferior 

 in virtue to the roots, to which I refer 

 you. 



Acetosa. Sorrel. Is moderately cold 



