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Jabour, provoke venery, and make the body \ name you please, is a desperate purge, hurt- 

 lean. | ful to the body by reason of its heat, windi- 



Piony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or the i ness, corroding, or gnawing, and violence 

 disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the j of working. I would advise my countrymen 

 fits of the mother, and other such like in- ! to let it alone ; it will gnaw their bodies as 

 firmities of the womb, stop the menses, and \ fast as doctors gnaw their purses, 

 nelp convulsions. Opopanax, is of a heating, molifying : 



Broom seed, potently provoke urine, 5 digesting quality, 

 break the stone. Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for frac- 



Citron seeds, strengthen the heart, cheer 1 tures of the skull, as also in wounds, and 

 the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poison, therefore is put in plaisters for that end. 



See Arcens his Liniment. 



Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum 



TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS J^ a g anth ' and Gum D rag on, helps coughs, 



} hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs. 



Laudanum^ is of a heating, mollifying j Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard 

 nature, it opens the mouth of the veins, \ swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hard- 

 stays the hair from falling off, helps pains | ness of the sinews. 



in the ears, and hardness of the womb. It j Galbanum. Hot and dry, discussing ; 

 is used only outwardly in plaisters. j applied to the womb, it hastens both birth 



Assafcetida. Is commonly used to allay I and after-birth, applied to the navel it stays 

 the fits of the mother by smelling to \i;\ the strangling of the womb, commonly 

 they say, inwardly taken, it provokes lust, < called the fits of the mother, helps pains in 

 and expels wind. \ the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being 



Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good per- j applied to it, and the smell of it helps the 



vertigo or dizincss in the head. 



Myrh, heats and dries, opens and softens 



fume. 



Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceed- i 

 ingly. | the womb, provokes the birth and after- 



Aloes, purges choler and flegm, and with \ birth ; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs 

 such deliberation that it is often given to land hoarseness, pains in the sides, kills worms, 

 withstand the violence of other purges, it \ and helps a stinking breath, helps the wast- 

 preserves the senses and betters the appre- \ ing of the gums, fastens the teeth: outwardly 

 hension, it strengthens the liver, and helps j it helps wounds, and fills up ulcers with 

 the yellow-jaundice. Yet is naught for such ] flesh. You may take half a dram at a 

 as are troubled with the hemorrhoids, or? time. 



haye agues. I do not like it taken raw. j Mastich, strengthens the stomach exceed- 

 Sec Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it : ingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it 

 washed with the juice of roses. 1 fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums, 



Manna, is temperately hot, of a mighty | being chewed in the mouth, 

 dilative quality, windy, cleanses choler'. Frankinsense, and Olibanum, heat and 



gently, also it cleanses the throat and 

 stomach. A child may take an ounce of it 

 at a lime melted in milk, and the dross 

 strained out, it is good for them when they 

 are scabby. 



bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stop bleed- 

 ing, but is extremely bad for mad people. 



Turpentine, Purges, cleanses the reins, 

 helps the running of them. 



Styrax Calamitis, helps coughs, and dis- 



Scamoni/, or Diagridium, call it by which i tillations upon the lungs, hoarseness, want 



