254 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



lor and melancholy: wonderfully helps j the Fluor Albus, helps such as spit blood, 

 melancholy and madness coming of it; jit is an approved remedy for the falling 

 opens stoppings of the bowels ; helps such; sickness. Also if ten grains of red Coral 

 as have the dropsy and are troubled with !. be given to a child in a little breast-milk so 

 the stoppings of the spleen, rickets and ; soon as it is born, before it take any other 



hypochondriac melancholy : for such dis- 

 eases you may make up your physic with 



food, it will never have the falling-sickness, 

 nor convulsions. The common dose is 



whey. Outwardly it cleanses the skin of j from ten grains to thirty, 

 such deformities as come through choler or 5 Pearls, are a wonderful strengthener to 

 melancholy, as scabs, itch, morphew, lepro- \ the heart, encrease milk in nurses, and 

 sies, &c. j amend it being naught, they restore such 



Honey is of a gallant cleansing quality, j as are in consumptions ; both they and the 

 exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in j red Coral preserve the body in health, and 

 what part of the body soever; it opens the | resist fevers. The dose is ten grains or 

 veins, cleanses the reins and bladder. I i. fewer; more, I suppose, because it is dear, 

 know no vices belonging to it, but only it 1 than because it would do harm, 

 is soon converted into choler. Amber, (-viz. yellow Amber) heats and 



Wax, softens, heats, and meanly fills < dries, therefore prevails against moist dis- 

 sores with flesh, it, suffers not the milk to j eases of the head ; it helps violent coughs, 

 curdle in women's breasts ; inwardly it is ( helps consumption of the lungs, spitting of 

 given (ten grains at a time) against bloody- \ blood, the Fluor Albus ; it stops bleeding 

 fluxes. \ at the nose, helps difficulty of urine : You 



Raw-silk, heats and dries, cheers the \ may take ten or twenty grains at a time, 

 heart, drives away sadness, comforts all the j The Froth of the Sea, it is hot and dry, 

 spirits, both natural, vital and animal ! helps scabs, itch, and leprosy, scald heads, 



! &c. it cleanses the skin, helps difficulty of 

 ) urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed 



'rr\ T'UT? <zv \ s with it, the head being washed with it, it. 

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I helps baldness, and trimly decks the head 



Sperma Cceti, is well applied outwardly to ) with hair, 

 eating ulcers, the marks which the small 

 pox leaves behind them; it clears the sight, 5 



provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles the! METALS, MINERALS, AND 

 stomach and belly, helps bruises, and j STONES 



stretching of the nerves, and tnerefore is 5 

 good for women newly delivered. GOLD is temperate in quality, it won- 



Amber-grease, heats and dries, strengthens Iderfully strengthens the heart and vital 



the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the 

 infirmity of them corne of cold, resists pes- 



tilence. 



, a man that hath the dropsy, 

 being set up to the middle in it, it draws 

 out all the water. 



Red Coral, is cold, dry and binding, 

 stops the immoderate flowing of the menses, 



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bloody-fluxes, the running of the reins, and j animal spirit. 



spirits, which one perceiving, very wittily 

 inserted these verses : 



For Gold is cordial ; and that's the reason, 

 Your raking Misers live so long a season. 



However, this is certain, in cordials, it 

 resists melancholy, faintings, owoonings, 

 fevers, failing-sickness, and all such like 

 infirmities, incident either to the vital o;- 



