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Walnuts are considered stomachic : their 

 oil is a good medicine for the stone and 

 gravel. The bark of the tree is a strong 

 emetic, either green, or dried and powdered. 

 The unripe fruit is used in medicine for the 

 destruction of worms, and is administered 

 in the form of an extract. I find, if the water 

 in which the outside covering of walnuts has 

 been steeped, be thrown on the ground, the 

 worms will immediately come out of the 

 earth : anglers often use this means to obtain 

 bait for fishing. 



The ancients considered that walnuts 

 chewed by a person fasting, would, if applied, 

 cure the bite of a mad dog. 



The green nuts are cordial, alexipharmic, 

 and said to be of great use in all contagious, 

 malignant distempers, and the plague itself. 



The nuts, preserved young, are an excel- 

 lent sweetmeat, and are good to be eaten in a 

 morning, in time of pestilential distempers, to 

 prevent infection. I have been favoured by 

 the following receipt for preserving young 

 walnuts, by a family who assure me that they 

 have known them succeed in obstinate cos- 

 tiveness when all other remedies have failed : 

 even a small part of one of these sweetmeats 

 will give relief. 



Take green walnuts, in the proper state 



