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fcantling of medicinal, or dietetic Virtues^ 
but the Confequences which flow from it* 
HE dried Leaf, as imported to 
contains, i. Flegm , which it had ei- 
ther retained in the roafting, or imbibed 
from the Air afterward ; for by drying a 
Dram of Green , and a Dram of Bohea , on 
different Saucers, before a clear Fire, the 
firft loft i -30th Part, the laft i-ioth Part 
in a quarter of an Hour, or twenty Minutes 5 
fo that all kinds of Bohea naturally Tiave 
more of this than the Green , becaufe its 
gathered while this Principle exceeds its due 
Proportion, viz. before the Salt, Oil y and 
Earth have been fufHciently diflfolved and 
rarefied by the fubterranean and a?real Heat* 
and fitted to rife up into the Plant, in due 
Quantity with the Flegm . As the Leaf 
grows, this watery Principle leflens, and the 
others encreafe. 2. An 0 //, which has fun- 
dry Attachments to the Leaf, which lofes 
one Part by being expofed to the open Air^ 
or put up in Paper , or any fpongy Body, 
CHAP. VI* 
Of the Principles of F E A. 
D 
therefore 
