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negar,to incorporate 'em. Make Pills weighing fourteen 

 drams each, to be dried on the bottom of a hair- 

 Sieve, and kept as long as you will. In the an- 

 cient Competition, the Liver of Antimony was 

 left out. But I chofe to add it, becaufe it ren- 

 ders the Pills more agreeable to the Stomach, and 

 more proper and fafe in Fevers •, and by promoting 

 the infenfible Tranfpiration, quickens the flow 

 operation of the Ajpt-fetida. This method of mix- 

 ing all the pouders together, is much preferable 

 to the former way of diflblving the Ajfa-fcetidx 

 in Vinegar, and evaporating the Solution to the 

 thicknefs of Honey, and then adding the pouders ^ 

 for by this means the Volatile Salt of the AJfa-fatida 

 is retain'd, which in the other way would evapo- 

 rate with the fleams of the Vinegar \ and the un- 

 fupportable flench and (harp fmell that ufually 

 caufes violent Head-aches, is corrected. . Some 

 would perfuade us, that the Volatile Salt of the 

 A]fa-fcetida, is lodg'd in an Oily vifcous Subflance, 

 tincapable of evaporating with the Vinegar *, but 

 I am not of their Opinion. Indeed, if thereddifh 

 pure Ajfa-foetida, without any mixture of Earth of 

 Wood, cannot be had ; 'twill then be not only 

 allowable, but neceffary to diflblve the impure 

 Gum in Vinegar, and evaporate the ftrain'd Solu- 

 tion to the thicknefs of Honey, and make Pills 

 of that with the other pouders ; becaufe thole 

 Impurities would weaken their Vertues. Buc 

 at the fame time they are certainly inferiour to 

 thofe prepar'd the other way. Ajfa-fcetida, the 

 chief Ingredient of thefe Pills, is a Gum that 

 grows in the Indies on a Bufh, with fmall leaves 

 refembling Rue ; and that in flony and dry places, 

 It appears about the end of Summer, and is ga- 

 £her'd in Autumn. Notwithstanding its ftencb, 

 the Indians \]& it in their Sawces, and anoint their 



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