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it taken at a time helps rheumatic distilla- 

 tions upon the lungs, pains in the sides ; it 

 Stops fluxes, provokes the menses, brings 



not very easy. It stops defluctions from 

 the head, if you perfume your cap with the 

 smoke of it, it helps the headache and 



away both birth and after-birth, softens the j megrim, strengthens the brain, and therefore 

 hardness of the womb ; being taken two \ the sinews. 



hours before the fit comes, it helps agues. 



Gum Tragaganth, which the vulgar call 

 Gum Dragon, being mixed with pectoral 

 Syrups, (which you shall find noted in their 



Mathiolus saith he seldom used any other : 

 medicine for the quartan ague than a dram i 



of myrrh given in Muskadel an hour before proper places) it helps coughs and hoarse- 

 ihe fit usually came ; if you make it up into \ ness, salt and sharp distillations upon the 

 pills with treacle, and take one of them : lungs, being taken with a liquorice stick, 

 every morning fasting, it is a sovereign i being dissolved in sweet wine, it helps 

 preservative against the pestilence, against! (being drank) gnawing in the bowels, sharp- 

 the poison of serpents, and other venomous j ness and freetings of the urine, which causes 

 beasts; asingularremeclyforastinkingbreathj excoriations either in the reins or bladder, 

 if it arise from putrefaction of the stomach, j being dissolved in milk and the eyes washed 

 it fastens loose teeth, and stays the shedd- i with it, it takes away weals and scabs that 

 ing off of the hair, outwardly used it breeds | grow on the eyelids, it is excellently good to 

 flesh in deep wounds, and covers the naked : be put in poultice to fodder wounds, 

 bones with flesh. i, especially if the nerves or sinews be hurt. 



Olibanum is hot in the second degree, and i Sagapen, dissolved in juice of rue and 

 dry in the first, you may take a dram of it i taken, wonderfully breaks the stone in the 

 at a time, it stops looseness and the- run- | bladder, expels the dead child and after- 



ning of the reins; it strengthens the memory 



birth, clears the sight; dissolved in wine 



exceedingly, comforts the heart, expels sad- | and drank, it helps the cough, and dis- 

 ness and melancholy, strengthens the heart, tillation upon the lungs, and the fits of the 

 helps coughs, rheums and pleurises ; your | mother; outwardly in oils or ointments, it 

 best way (in my opinion,) to take it is to mix j helps such members as are out of joint or 

 it with conserve of roses, and take it in the \ over-stretched. 



morning fasting. 



Tachamacha is seldom taken inwardly, 

 outwardly spread upon leather, and applied 



Galbanum is of the same operation, and 

 also taken from the same plant, viz. Fennel, 

 Giant. 



to the navel ; it stays the fits of the mother, Gum Arabic, thickens and cools, and cor- 

 applied to the side, it mitigates speedily, \ reels choleric sharp humours in the body, 

 and in little time quite lakes away the pain j being dissolved in the white of an egg, weJl 

 and windiness of the spleen ; the truth is, i beaten, it helps burnings, and keeps the 

 whatsoever ache or swelling proceeds of } place from blistering. 



wind or cold raw humours, I know no$ Mastich stays fluxes, being taken inwardly 

 better plaister coming from beyond sea than ? any way. Three or four small grains of 

 this gum. It strengthens the brain and 5 Mastich, swallowed at night going to bed, 



memory exceedingly, and stops all such | is a remedy for pains in the stomach : 

 defluctions thence as trouble the eyes, ears, j being beaten into powder, and mixed wilh 

 or teeth, it helps the gout and sciatica. j conserve of Roses, it strengthens the stomaclv 



Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime^ are very * stops distillations upon the lungs, stays 

 like one another both in body and opera- i vomiting, and causes a sweet breath; bring 

 tion, the former is hard to come by, the last mixed with white wine and the mouth 



