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The Common People ufe very fimple Medicines. 
For the Megrim, they fmoak, like Tobacco, the dried 
Bark of a Pomegranate Tree reduced to a Powder, and 
mixt with four Corns of Pepper. For the common 
Head-ach, they fmell to a Nodule , compos’d of a Mix- 
ture of SaUArmoniac, Lime, and Water, tyed up together 
in a Linnen Rag. Such Dizzinefles of the Head, as pro- 
ceed from a cold thick Blood, they cure by drinking 
Wine, in which are fteep’da few Grains of Frankincenfe. 
For Deafnefs, occafioned by too great a quantity of 
cold Humours, they drop into the Kara Drop of juice 
of Lemons. When the Brain is charged and oppreffed 
with watery Humours, they fmell to black Cummin- 
feed bruifed and tyed up in a Nodule. For thelooth- 
ach, they put upon the Tooth affe&ed a Pafte made of 
Crums of Bread, and the Seed of the Stramonium, which 
ftupifies the Part affe&ed, and eafes the Pain; In an 
Hemorrhage, or Flux of Blood, they make the Perfon 
fmell to bruifed Mother-worth, or Wormwood. For a 
too great Heat of the Breaft, and fpitting of Blood, 
they cover over with Pafte a Giraumont , (which is an 
Indian Fruit like a Gourd , and taftes like a Citrull,') 
which they bake in an Oven, and drink the Water that 
comes from it. For the Cholick that proceeds either 
from Wind or Watery Humours, they give to drii k 
four Spoonfuls of Water, in which Annifeeds and a 
little Pepper have been boiled to a Confumption of half. 
They alio bruife an Onion with Ginger, and apply it. 
to that part of the Belly where there is moft Pain. 
For the Lientery, they roaft a Clove of Garlick under 
the Alhes, and when they go to Bed they hold it in 
the Mouth and fuck out the Juice of it. If they drink 
the Juice of the Leaves of Cowcomber bruifed, it 
Purges and Vomits them. They cure a Difficulty of 
Urine, by drinking a Spoonful of Oil of Olive well 
mixed together, with a like quantity of Water- For 
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