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Belly, cools the Body, and cleans the In- 
tertines from Bile, and other acrid Humours, 
which caufes Gripes, Cholick, &c> When 
Milk is ufed againft a Diarrhea or Dyfen- 
tery, it is bell: boiled with fome Flint Stones, 
tranfparent Pebbles, Quarry Stone, and then 
poured off and drank j or hot Steel fre- 
quently quenched in it, or the above 
Stones ; but what is better than all is. Pow- 
der of Spunge and Cork taken in boiled 
Milk ; neither is Mallow Leaves, or Marlh- 
mallow Roots boiled in Milk, a contemp- 
tible Medicine, either in a Loofenefs, Gripes, 
or bilious Cholick. In hedtic Difpolitions, 
where Milk is ufed as a Diet, it ought not 
to be given alone, but with fome Sugar, 
Honey, Chalk, Powder of Crabs Eyes, 
Claws, or a little Salt in it. 
But altho* Milk be endued with all thofe 
and feveral other good Qualities, yet it is 
not fo amicable in all Cafes, and to every 
Conftitution, for phlegmatic Perfons reap 
no fuch Benefit from it, for their Blood hew- 
ing over-changed with Phlegm and other 
vifcous Combinations, from a Weaknefs and 
Relaxation of their Velfels, and yet a Bulkin 
nefs of Body, Milk abounding with oily 
foft 
