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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



ler and melancholy : wonderfully helps 

 melancholy and madness coming of it; 

 opens stoppings of the bo \vels ; helps such 

 as have the dropsy and are troubled with 

 the stoppings of the spleen, rickets and 

 hypochondriac melancholy : for such dis- 

 eases you may make up your physic with 

 whey. Outwardly it cleanses the skin of 

 sucli deformities as come through choler or 

 melancholy, as scabs, itch, morphew, lepro- 

 sies, &c. 



Honey is of a gallant cleansing qua.ity, 

 exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in 

 what part of the body soever; it opens the 

 veins, cleanses the reins and bladder. > I 

 know no vices belonging to it, but only it 

 is . x>n converted into choler. 



Wax, softens, heats, and meanly fills 

 sores with flesh, it suffers not the milk to 

 curdle in women's breasts ; inwardly it is 

 given (ten grains at a time) against bloody- 

 fluxes. 



Raw-silk, heats and dries, cheers the 

 heart, drives away sadness, comforts all the 

 spirits, both natural, vital and animal 



BELONGING TO THE SEA. 



Sperma Cati, is well applied outwardly to 

 eating ulcers, the marks which the small 

 pox leaves behind them; it clears the sight, 

 provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles the 

 stomach and belly, helps bruises, and 

 stretching of the nerves, and tnerefore is 

 good for women newly delivered. 



Amber-grease, heats and dries, strengthens 

 the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the 

 infirmity of them corne of cold, resists pes- 

 tilence. 



Sea-sand, a man that hath the dropsy, 

 being set up to the middle in it, it draws 

 out all the water. 



Red Coral, is cold, dry and binding, 

 stops the immoderate flowing of the menses, 

 bloody-fluxes, the running of the reins, and 



I the Fluor Albus, helps such as spit blood, 

 , it is an approved remedy for the falling 

 sickness. Also if ten grains of red Coral 

 be given to a child in a little breast-milk so 

 soon as it is born, before it take any other 

 food, it will never have the falling-sickness, 

 nor convulsions. The common dose is 

 from ten grains to thirty. 



Pearls, are a wonderful strengthener to 

 Ithe heart, encrease milk in nurses, and 

 ; amend it being naught, they restore such 

 \ as are in consumptions ; both they and the 

 I red Coral preserve the body in health, and 

 resist fevers. The dose is ten grains or 

 i fewer ; more, I suppose, because it is dear, 

 : than because it would do harm. 



Amber, (viz. yellow Amber) heats and 

 I dries, therefore prevails against moist dis- 

 | eases of the head ; it helps violent coughs, 

 } helps consumption of the lungs, spitting of 

 | blood, the Fluor Albus ; it stops bleeding 

 | at the nose, helps difficulty of urine : You 

 j may take ten or twenty grains at a time. 



The Froth of the Sea, it is hot and dry, 

 I helps scabs, itch, and leprosy, scald heads, 

 !&c. it cleanses the skin, helps difficulty of 

 | urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed 

 | with it, the head being washed with it, it 

 | helps baldness, and^trimly decks the head 

 j with hair. 

 j 



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METALS, MINERALS, AND 

 STONES. 



GOLD is temperate in quality, it won- 

 derfully strengthens the heart and vital 

 spirits, which one perceiving, very wittily 

 inserted these verses : 



For Gold is cordial ; and that's the reason, 

 Your raking Misers live so long a season. 



However, this is certain, in cordials, it 

 resists melancholy, faintings, ^woonings, 

 fevers, failing-sickness, and all such likj 

 infirmities, incident either to the vital or 

 animal spirit. 



