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Sfop the menses. Comfrey, Tormentil, j convenient liquor, is an excellent remedy 

 Bistort, &c. I for the scurvy ; the powder of it being snuf- 



Prowke sweat. Carolina Thistle, China, I led up in the nose, cleanses the hrad of 



Sarsaparilla, &c. 



Resist poison. Angelica, Garlick, long 

 Birthwort, Smallage, Doronicum, Costus, 

 Zedoary, Cyprus, Gentian, Carolina This- 



rheum gallantly. 



The bark of the black Alder tree purge? 

 choler and flegm if you make a decoction 

 with it. Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, 



tie, Bistort, Tormentil, Swallow-wort,Viper's| Hops, Endive and Succory roots : Parsly 

 Bugloss, Elicampane, &c. j and Smallage roots, or you may bruise a 



Help burnings. Asphodel, Jacinth, white j handful of each of them, and put them in 

 Lilies, &c. j a gallon of ale, and let them work togetnei : 



Ease pains. Waterflag, Eringo, Orris, put the simples into a boulter-bag, and a 

 Restharrow, &c. ; draught, (half a pint, more or Jess, accord- 



Purge choler. Asarabacca, Rhubarb, ; ing to the age of him that drinks it,) being 

 Rhapontick, Fern, &c. I drunk every morning, helps the dropsy, 



Relieve melancholy. Hellebore, white and ; jaundice, evil disposition of the body ; also 

 black, Polipodium. ! helps the rickets, strengthens the liver and 



Purge flegm and watery humours. Squills, spleen ; makes the digestion good, troubles 

 Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Mecoacan, | not the stomach at all, causes appetite, and 

 wild Cucumbers, Sowbread, male Asphodel, 5 helps such as are scabby and itchy. 

 Briony white and black, Elder, Spurge j The rest of the barks that are worth the 

 great and small. j noting, and the virtues of them, are to be 



I quoted some of these properties to \ found in the former part of the book, 

 teach you the way how to find the rest, j Barks are hot in the first degree. Guaja- 

 which the explanation of these terms will j cum, Tamarisk, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, 

 give you ample instructions in: I quoted j In the second. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, 

 not all because I would fain have you j Captain Winter's Cinnamon, Frankincense, 

 studious: be diligent gentle reader. [Capers. 



How to use your bodies in, and after* In the third. Mace. 



taking purges, you shall be taught by and by. 



Barks mentioned by the College are these. | ***** Mandrakes. 

 College.] Hazel Nuts, Oranges, Bar-] Approbated to parts of the body. 



Cold in the first. Oak, Pomegranates. 



berries, Birch-tree, Caper roots, Cassia Lignea, 

 Chestnuts, Cinnamon, Citron Pills, Dwarf- 

 Elder, Spurgeroots, Alder, Ash, Pomegranates, 

 Guajacum, Walnut tree,green Walnuts, Laurel, 



Heat the head. Captain Winter's Cinna- 



mon. 



The heart. Cinnamon, Cassia, Lignea, 

 Citron Pills, Walnuts, Lemon pills, Mace. 



Bay, Lemon, Mace, Pomegranates, Man- \ The stomach. Orange pills, Cassia Lig- 



drake roots, Mezereon, Mulberry tree roots, jnea, Cinnamon, .Citron pills, Lemon pills, 



Sloe tree roots, Pinenuts, Fistick-nuts, Poplar t Mace, Sassafras. 



tree, Oak, Elder, Sassafras, Cork, Tamerisk, \ The lungs. Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon, 



Lime tree, Frankincense, Elm, Capt. Winter's j Walnuts. 



Cinnamon. \ The liver. Barberry-tree, Bay-tree, Cap- 



Culpeper.~\ Of these, Captain Winter's j tain Winter's Cinnamon 

 Cinnamon, being taken as ordinary spice, The spleen. Caper bark, Ash tiee bark, 

 or half a dram taken in the morning in any 5 Bay tree. 



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