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and applied like a plaister, it takes away \ Opopanax gently purges flegm 

 filthy scars, arid the deformity the small: From the prickly Cedar when it is burned 

 pox leaves behind them ; being- mixed with j comes forth that which, with us, is usually 

 oil of Roses, and dropped into the ears, it { known by the name of Tar,and is excellently 

 helps pains there; being used as a pes-!good for unction either for scabs, itch, or 

 sary, it provokes the menses, and helps I rnanginess, either in men or beasts, as alsc 

 hardness or stiffness of the womb. It is j against the leprosy, tetters, ringworms, and 

 sometimes used inwardly in such medicines scald heads. 



as ease pains and help the cough : if you | All sorts of Hozins fill up hollow ulcers, 

 mix a little of it with old white wine and j and relieve the body sore pressed with cold 

 drink it, it bolh provokes urine and stops \ griefs. 



.looseness or fluxes. { The Rozin of Pilch-tree, is that which 



Dragons blood, cools, binds, and repels. :is commonly called Burgundy pilch, and 



Acasia, and Hyposistis, do the like. \ is something hotter and sharper than the 



The juice of Maudlin, or, for want of it j former, being spread upon a cloth is ex- 



Costmary, which is the same in effect, and jcellently good for old aches coming of former 



better known to the vulgar, the juice is made! bruises or dislocations. 



thick for the better keeping of it; first: Pitch mollifies hard swellings, and brings 



clarify the juice before you boil it to its due boils and sores to suppuralion, it breaks 



thickness, which is something thicker than carbuncles, disperses aposthurnes, cleanses 



honey. j ulcers of corruption and fills them with 



It is appropriated to the liver, and the j flesh. 



quantity of a dram taken every morning, \ Bdellium heats and mollifies, and that very 

 helps the Cachexia, or evil disposition of S temperately, being mixed with any con- 

 the body proceeding from coldness of the { venient ointment or plaister, it helps kei- 

 liver: it helps the rickets and worms injnels in the neck and throat, Scrophula, or 

 children, provokes urine, and gently (with- j that disease which was called the King's 

 out purging) disburdens the body of choler { Evil. Inwardly taken in any convenient 

 and flegm; it succours the lungs, opens ob- 1 medicine, it provokes the menses, and breaks 

 structions, and resists putri faction of blood, j the stone, it helps coughs and bitings of 

 Gums are either temperate, as, Lacca, 5 venomous beasts : it helps windiness of the 

 Elemi, Tragacanth, &c. ; spleen, and pains in the sides thence coming. 



Intemperate, and so are hot in the first \ Both outwardly applied to the place and 

 degree, as Bdellium, Gum of Ivy. j inwardly taken, it helps ruptures or such as 



In the second, G'<\\\r<inum, Myrrh, Mastich, are burst, it softens the hardness of the 

 Frankincense, Olibanum, Pitch, Rozin, i womb, dries up the moisture thereof and 

 Scyrax j expels the dead child. 



In the third. Amoniacum. Bitumen Jadaicum is a certain dry pitch 



In the fourth. Euphorbiurn. which the dead sea, or lake of Sodom in India 



Gum Arabick is cold. ; casts forth at certain times, the inhabitants 



Colophonia and Styrax soften. j thereabouts pitch their ships with it. It is 



Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, San- J } of excellent use to mollify the hardness of 

 darack or Juniper Gum, and Sarcocolla { swellings and discuss them, as also against 

 bind. ( inflammations ; the smoke of it burnt is 



Gum of Cherry trees, breaks the stone. 

 Styrax provokes the menses. 



excellently good for the fits of the mother, 

 and the falling-sickness : Inwardly taken in 

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