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Stop the menses, Comfrey, Tormentil, 

 Bistort, &c. 



Provoke sweat. Carolina Thistle, China, 

 Sarsaparilla, &c. 



Resist poison. Angelica, Garlick, long 

 Birth wort, Smallage, Doronicum, Costus, 

 Zedoary, Cyprus, Gentian, Carolina This- 

 tle, Bistort, Tormentil, Swallow- wort, Viper's 

 Bugloss, Elicampane, &c. 



Help burnings. Asphodel, Jacinth, white 

 Lilies, &c. 



Ease pains. Waterflag, Eringo, Orris, 

 Restharrow, &c. 



Purge choler. Asarabacca, Rhubarb, 

 Rhapontick, Fern, &c. 



Relieve melancholy. Hellebore, white and 

 black, Polipodium. 



Purge flegm and watery humours. Squills, 

 Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Mecoacan, 

 wild Cucumbers, Sowbread, male Asphodel, 

 Briony white and black, Elder, Spurge 

 great and small. 



I quoted some of these properties to 

 teach you the way how to find the rest, 

 which the explanation of these terms will 

 give you ample instructions in : I quoted 

 not all because I would fain have you 

 studious : be diligent gentle reader. 



How to use your bodies in, and after 

 taking purges,you shall be taught by and by. 



Barks mentioned by the College are these. 



College.] Hazel Nuts, Oranges, Bar- 

 berries, Birch-tree, Caper roots, Cassia Lignea, 

 Chestnuts, Cinnamon, Citron Pills, Dwarf- 

 Elder, Spurgeroots, Alder, Ash, Pomegranates, 

 Guajacum, Walnut tree, green Walnuts, Laurel, 

 Bay, Lemon, Mace, Pomegranates, Man- 

 drake roots, Mezereon, Mulberry tree roots, 

 Sloe tree roots, Pinenuts, Fistick-nuts, Poplar 

 tree, Oak, Elder, Sassafras, Cork, Tamerisk, 

 Lime tree, Frankincense, Elm, Capt. Winter's 

 Cinnamon. 



Culpeper.~] Of these, Captain Winter's 

 Cinnamon, being taken as ordinary spice, 

 or half a dram taken in the morning in any 



convenient liquor, is an excellent remedy 

 for the scurvy; the powder of it being snuf- 

 fed up in the nose, cleanses the head of 

 rheum gallantly. 



The bark of f.he black Alder tree purges 

 choler and flegm if you make a decoction 

 \ with it. Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, 

 i Hops, Endive and Succory roots : Parsly 

 j and Smallage roots, or you may bruise a 

 i handful of each of them, and put them in 

 : a gallon of ale, and let them work together: 

 i put the simples into a boulter-bag, and a 

 i draught, (half a pint, more or less, accord - 

 : ing to the age of him that drinks it,) being 

 {drunk every morning, helps the dropsy, 

 i jaundice, evil disposition of the body ; also 

 | helps the rickets, strengthens the liver and 

 | spleen ; makes the digestion good, troubles 

 | not the stomach at all, causes appetite, and 

 | helps such as are scabby and itchy. 



The rest of the barks that are worth the 

 | noting, and the virtues of them, are to be 

 l found in the former part of the book. 



Barks are hot in the Jirst degree. Guaja- 

 cum, Tamarisk, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons. 

 In the second. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, 

 Captain Winter's Cinnamon, Frankincense, 

 \ Capers. 



In the third. Mace. 



Cold in the Jirst. Oak, Pomegranates. 



In the third. Mandrakes. 



Appropriated to parts of the body. 

 Heat the head. Captain Winter's Cinna- 



mon. 



The heart. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, 

 Citron Pills, Walnuts, Lemon pills, Mace. 



The stomach. Orange pills, Cassia Lig- 

 nea, Cinnamon, Citron pills, Lemon pills, 

 Mace, Sassafras. 



The lungs. Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon, 

 Walnuts. 



The liver. Barberry-tree, Bay-tree, Cap- 

 tain Winter's Cinnamon 



The spleen. Caper bark, Ash tiee bark. 

 Bay tree. 



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