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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK I. it is taken to build with, yielding beams of considerable substance. 



"^"V"^ The shade is beautiful for walks, and the fruit not unpleasant, especially 

 the second kind; of which, with new wine and honey, they make 

 a conditum of admirable effect to corroborate the stomach ; and the fruit 

 alone is good in dysenteries and lasks. The water distilled from the 

 stalks of the flowers and leaves in B. M. and twice rectified upon fresh 

 matter, is incomparable for consumptive and tabid bodies, taking an ounce 

 daily at several times : Likewise it cures the green-sickness in virgins, 

 and is prevalent in all fluxes ; distilled warm into the ears, it abates the 

 pain ; the wood or bark contused, and applied to any green wound, heals 

 it ; and the powder thereof, drank in olive-oU, consolidates inward 

 ruptures : Lastly, the salt of the wood, taken in decoction of altheea 

 to three grains, is an incomparable remedy to break and expel gravel". 

 The Service gives the husbandman an early presage of the approaching 

 spring, by extending its adorned buds for a peculiar entertainment, and 

 dares peep out in the severest winters. 



" The fixed alkaline salt, produced from burnt vegetables, is similar in its nature and 

 effects, whether made from the ashes of the Service-tree, the Oak, the Ash, or any 

 other vegetable body. Such salts are generally supposed, by physicians, to be dissolvers 

 of the stone, and capable of preventing the attraction of the stony particles towards each 

 other, whereby the formation of gravel in the kidneys is prevented. 



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