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labour, provoke vcnery, and make the body \ name you please, is a desperate purge, hurt- 

 lean. | ful to the body by reason of its heat, windi- 

 Piony seeds, help the Ephialtcs, or the j ness, corroding, or gnawing, and violence 

 disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the j of working. I would advise my countrymen 

 fits of the mother, and other such like in-! to let it alone; it will gnaw their bodies as 

 lirmities of the womb, stop the menses, and I fast as doctors gnaw their purses, 

 help convulsions. Opopanax, is of a heating, molifying : 



Broom seed, potently provoke urine, j digesting quality. 



break the stone. Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for frac- 



Citron seeds, strengthen the heart, cheer I tures of the skull, as also in wounds, and 



the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poison, j therefore is put in plaisters for that end. 



] See Arceus his Liniment. 



Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum 

 Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, 

 5 hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs, 

 mollifying} Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard 

 the veins, j swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hard- 

 ness of the sinews. 



TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS. 



is 



of a heating, 

 the mouth of 



Laudanum, 

 nature, it opens 



stays the hair from falling off, helps pains 

 in the ears, and hardness of the womb. It 



used only outwardly in plaisters. 



is 



Galbanum. Hot and dry, discussing ; 

 applied to the womb, it hastens both birth 



Assafcetida. Is commonly used to allay | and after-birth, applied to the navel it stays 

 the fits of the mother by smelling to it ; I the strangling of the womb, commonly 

 they say, inwardly taken, it provokes lust, \ called the fits of the mother, helps pains in 

 and expels wind. j the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being 



Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good per- i applied to it, and the smell of it helps the 



vertigo or dizincss in the head. 



Myrh, heats and dries, opens and softens 

 the womb, provokes the birth and after- 

 birth ; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs 

 and hoarseness, pains in the sides, kills worms, 



fume. 



Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceed- 

 ingly. 



Aloes, purges choler and flegm, and with 

 such deliberation that it is often given to 



troubled with the hemorrhoids, or ' time, 

 agues. I do not like it taken raw. ) Mastich, strengthens the stomach exceed- 



withstand the violence of other purges, it and helps a stinking breath, helps the wast- 

 preserves the senses and betters the appre- ! ing of the gums, fastens the teeth: outwardly 

 hension, it strengthens the liver, and helps j it helps wounds, and fills up ulcers with 

 the yellow-jaundice. Yet is naught for such } flesh. You may take half a dram at a 

 as are 

 have 



Sec Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it 1 ingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it 

 washed with the juice of roses. 1 fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums, 



Manna, is temperately hot, of a mighty j being chewed in the mouth, 

 dilative quality, windy, cleanses choler | Frankinsense, and Olibanum, heat and 

 gently, also it cleanses the throat and i bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stop bleed- 

 stomach. A child may take an ounce of it ing, but is extremely bad for mad people, 

 at a time melted in milk, and the dross i Turpentine, Purges, cleanses the reins, 

 strained out, it is good for them when they 1 helps the running of them, 

 are scabby. Styrax Calamitis, helps coughs, and dis- 



Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by which tillations upon the lungs, hoarseness, want 



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