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Tillm. Of Line-tree. Boiled, the water 

 helps burnings. 



Thuris. Of Frankinsenses. I must plead 

 Ignoramus. 



Ulmi. Of Elm. Moderately hot and 

 cleansing, good for wounds, burns, and 

 broken bones, viz. boiled in water and the 

 grieved place bathed with it. 



Rhodium. En creases milk in nurses. 



Santalum, album, Rubrum,citrmum. White, 

 red, and yellow Sanders : They are all cold 

 and dry in the second or third degree : the 

 red stops defluxions from any part, and 

 helps inflammations : the white and yellow 

 (of which the yellow is best) cool the heat 

 .of fevers, strengthen the heart, and cause 

 cheerfulness. 



Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the second 



WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR 

 RASPINGS. 



} degree, it opens obstructions or stoppings, 

 lit strengthens the breast exceedingly; if it 

 ! be weakened through cold, it breaks the 

 A Gallochus, Lignum Aloes. Wood of j stone, stays vomiting, provokes urine, and 



Aloes ; is moderately hot and dry : a good | is very profitable in the venereal, used in 



cordial : a rich perfume, a great strengthener j diet drinks. 



to the stomach. Tamaris. Is profitable for the rickets, 



Aspalathus. Rose-wood. It is moderately j and burnings. 



hot and dry, stops looseness, provokes! Xylobalsamum. Wood of the Balsam 



urine, and is excellent to cleanse filthy \ tree, it is hot and dry in the second degree, 



according to Galen. I never read any great 

 virtues of it. 



HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES. 



ulcers. 



Bresilium. Brasil. All the use I know 

 of it is, to die cloth, and leather, and 

 make red ink. 



Buxus. Box. Many Physicians havej 

 written of it, but no physical virtue of it. 



Cypressus. Cypress. The Wood laid \ A Brotanum, mas, foemina. Southern - 

 amongst cloaths, secures them from moths, j wood, male and female. It is hot and dry 

 See the leaves. Jin the third degree, resists poison, kills 



Ebenum. Ebony. It is held to clear the f worms ; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves 



ij cold swellings, and helps the bitings of 



sight, neing either boiled in wine, or burnt 

 to ashes. 



venomous beasts, makes hair 



Guajacum, Lignum vitan Dries, attenu- not above half a dram at a time in powder. 



Absinthium, &>c. Wormwood. Its several 



ates, causes sweat, resists putrefaction, is 

 good for the French disease, as also for 

 ulcers, scabs, and leprosy : it is used in diet 



drinks. 



Jitiiipcnm. Juniper. 



The smoak of the 

 of 



wood, drives away serpents ; the ashes 

 it made into lie, cures itch, and scabs. 



Nephrificum. It is a light wood and 

 conies from Hispamola ; being steeped in 

 water, will soon turn it blue, it is hot and 

 dry in the first degree, and so used as be- 

 fore, is an admirable remedy for the stone, 

 and for obstructions of the liver and spleen. 



sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or 

 third degrees, the common Wormwood is 

 thought to be hottest, they all help weak- 

 ness of the stomach, cleanse choler, kill 

 worms, open stoppings, help surfeits, clear 

 the sight, resist poison, cleanse the blood, 

 and secure cloaths from moths. 



Abngilissa, 8fC. Alkanet. The leaves are 

 something drying and binding, butinferioi 

 in virtue to the roots, to which I refer 



Acetosa. Sorrel. Is moderately cold 



