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it taken at a time helps rheumatic distilla- 

 tions upon the lungs, pains in the sides ; it ; 

 stops tluxes, provokes the menses, brings 

 away both birth and after-birth, softens the 



not very easy. It stops defluctions from 

 the head, if you perfume your cap with the 

 smoke of it, it helps the headache and 

 megrim, strengthens the brain, and therefore 



hardness of the womb; being taken two \ the sinews. 



hou'-s before the fit comes, it helps agues.:: Gum TragagantJt, which the vulgar call 



Mathiolus saith he seldom used any other 

 medicine for the quartan ague than a dram 



Gum Dragon, being mixed with pectora.' 

 Syrups, (which you shall find noted in their 



of myrrh given in Muskadel an hour before * proper places) it helps coughs and hoarse- 

 the fit usually came : if you make it up into \ ness, salt and sharp distillations upon the 

 pills with treacle, ;md take one of them : lungs, being taken with a liquorice stick, 

 every morning fasting, it is a sovereign I being dissolved in sweet wine, it helps 

 preservative against the pestilence, against ! (being drank) gnawing in the bowels, sharp- 

 the poison of serpents, and other venomous \ ness and f reelings of the urine, which causes 

 beasts; asingularremedy forastinking breath \ excoriations either in the reins or bladder, 

 if it arise from putrefaction of the stomach, j being dissolved in milk and the eyes washed 

 it fastens loose teeth, and stays the shedd- | with it, it takes away weals and scabs that 

 ing off of the hair, outwardly used it breeds j grow on the eyelids, it is excellently good to 

 flesh in deep wounds, and covers the naked ! be put in poultice to fodder wounds, 

 bones with flesh. especially if the nerves or sinews be hurt. 



Olibam/m is hot in the second degree, and 

 dry in the first, you may take a dram of it 



Sagapen, dissolved in juice of rue and 

 taken, wonderfully breaks the stone in the 



at a lime, it stops looseness and the run- 1 bladder, expels the dead child and afler- 

 ning of the reins; it strengthens the memory i birth, clears the sight; dissolved in wine 

 exceedingly, comforts the heart, expels sad- \ and drank, it helps the cough, and dis- 

 ness and melancholy, strengthens the heart, jtillalion upon the lungs, and the fits of the 

 helps coughs, rheums and pleurises ; your j mother; outwardly in oils or ointments, it 

 best way (in my opinion,) to lake it is lo mix j helps such members as are oul of joint or 

 it with conserve of roses, and take it in the | over-slretched. 

 morning fasting. { Galbanum is of the same operation, and 



Tac.hamacha is seldom taken inwardly, also taken from the same plant, viz. Fennel, 

 outwardly spread upon leather, and applied Giant. 



to the navel ; it stays the fits of the mother, Gum Arabic, thickens and cools, and cor- 

 applied lo the side, it mitigates speedily, \ reels choleric sharp humours in the body, 

 and- in little time quite lakes away the pain j being dissolved in the white of an egg, well 

 and windincss of ihc spleen ; the truth is, j beaten, it helps burnings, and keeps the 

 whatsoever ache or swelling proceeds of j place from blistering, 

 wind or cold raw humours, I know no; Mastich slays fluxes, being laken inwardly 

 belter plaister coming from beyond sea lhan | any way. Three or four small grams o^ 

 this gum. It strengthens the brain and i Mastich, swallowed at night going to bed, 

 memory exceedingly, and stops all such j is a remedy for pains in the stomach 

 defluctions thence as trouble the eyes, ears, j being beaten inlo powder, and mixed wilh 

 or teeth, it helps the gout and sciatica. | conserve of Roses, il strengthens the stomach, 



Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime, are very j stops dislillations upon the lungs, sUiy t 

 Jike one another both in body and opera- vomiting, and causes a sweet breath; bring 

 Uon, the former is hard lo come by, the last t mixed with white wine and the moulh 



