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and applied like a plaister, it takes away \ Opopanax gently purges flegm 

 filthy scars, and the deformity the small ? From the prickly Cedar when it is burned 

 pox leaves behind them; being- mixed with \ comes forth that which, with us, is usually 

 oil of Roses, and dropped into the ears, it! known by the name of Tar, and is excellently 

 helps pains there ; being used as a pes- \ good for unction either for scabs, itch, or 

 sary, it provokes the menses, and helps | manginess, either in men or beasts, as alsc 

 hardness, or stiffness of the womb. It is ! against the leprosy, tetters, ringworms, and 

 sometimes used inwardly in such medicines 5 scald heads. 



as ease pains and help the cough : if you \ All sorts of Rozins fill up hollow ulcers, 

 mix a little of it with old white wine and j and relieve the body sore pressed with cold 

 drink it, it both provokes urine and stops \ griefs. 



looseness or fluxes. The Rozin of Pilch-tree, is that which 



Dragons blood, cools, binds, and repels. : is commonly called Burgundy pitch, and 

 Acasia, and Hyposistis, do the like. | is something hotter and sharper than the 



The juice of Maudlin, or, for want of it \ former, being spread upon a cloth is ex- 

 Costmary, which is the same in effect, and j cellentlygood for old aches coming of former 

 better known to the vulgar, the juice is made! bruises or dislocations, 

 thick for the better keeping of it; first? Pitch mollifies hard swellings, and brings 

 clarify the juice before you boil it to its due \ boils and sores to suppuration, it breaks 

 thickness, which is something thicker than j carbuncles, disperses aposthumes, cleanses 



honey. 



It is appropriated to the liver, and the ; 



ulcers of corruption and fills them with 

 flesh. 



quantity of a dram taken every morning, * Bdellium heats and mollifies, and that very 

 helps the Cachexia, or evil disposition of; temperately, being mixed with any con- 

 the body proceeding from coldness of the { venient ointment or plaister, it helps ker- 

 liver : it helps the rickets and worms in | nels in the neck and throat, Scrophula, or 

 children, provokes urine, and gently (with- i that disease which was called the King's 

 out purging) disburdens the body of choler \ Evil. Inwardly taken in any convenient 

 and flegm; it succours the lungs, opens ob-i medicine, it provokes the menses, and breaks 

 structions, and resists putrifaction of blood. | the stone, it helps coughs and bitings of 

 Gums are either temperate, as 9 Lacca, j venomous beasts : it helps windiness of the 

 Elemi, Tragacanth, &c. } spleen, and pains in the sides thence coming. 



Intemperate, and so are hot in the first \ Both outwardly applied to the place and 

 degree, as Bdellium, Gum of Ivy. j inwardly taken, it helps ruptures or such as 



In the second, Galbanum, Myrrh, Mastich, are burst, it softens the hardness of the 

 Frankincense, Olibanum, Pitch, Rozin, j womb, dries up the moisture thereof and 

 Sty rax j expels the dead child. 



In the third. Amoniacum. Bitumen Jadaicum is a certain dry pitch 



In the/ourth. Euphorbiurn. which the dead sea, or lake of Sodom in India 



Gum Arabick is cold. i casts forth at certain times, the inhabitants 



Colophonia and Styrax soften. \ thereabouts pitch their ships with it. It is 



Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, San- 1 of excellent use to mollify the hardness of 



darack or Juniper Gum, and Sarcocolla \ swellings and discuss them, as also against 



bind. 1 inflammations ; the smoke of it burnt is 



Gum of Cherry trees, breaks the stone. 1 excellently good for the fits of the mother, 



Styrax provokes the menses. f and the falling-sickness : Inwardly taken in 



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