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all hard swellings, and cancerous ulcers; and 

 when reduced into a liniment, and applied, 

 stay the bloody flux. 



Every part of the oak is styptic, binding, 

 and useful in all kinds of fluxes and bleed- 

 ings, either inwardly or outwardly; the bark 

 is frequently used in gargarisms, for the re- 

 laxation of the uvula, and for sore mouths 

 arid throats. An extract made from the bark 

 is said by some to be equal to the Peruvian 

 bark. Chambers. 



The gall nuts of the oak, are of many 

 kinds, but they have all the same medicinal 

 virtue. I learn from Pliny that they were 

 used by the Romans to colour their hair 

 black. 



John Ellis, Esq. discovered that acorns can 

 be preserved in a state fit for vegetation for a 

 whole year, by enveloping them in bees wax : 

 other seeds may be conveyed from distant 

 countries, by the same means. 



The ancients thought, that of all trees, the 

 oak was made first; and that among men, 

 the Arcadians were born first; and that is 

 the reason why they were compared to the 

 oak. 



It seems that in ancient times, the oak 

 tree was not venerated by the Heathens only, 

 as it appears there were oak trees in the 



