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Juices, and check the irregular Incuriions 
of the Spirits into fome Nerves and Mufcles. 
Its volatile Salt and Spirit, and fudorific 
Property, make it ferviceable in Apoplexies 
and Palfies. As it provokes Sweat, actuates 
the Blood, cleanfes the Glands, and affords 
nervous Juice, it is good in Dulnefs of 
Hearing, or Deafnefs from grofs Humours, 
relaxing the Drum of the Ear, or loading 
the auditory Nerves with grofs fizy Juice, 
as it thins the Blood, fcours the Glands, and 
purges off ferous Humours ; for the fame 
Reafon it is proper for Rheums on the Eyes. 
It cleanfes, dries, and heals Inflammations, 
Tumours, or Ulcers of Nofe, Mouth, or 
Throat, becaufe it fheaths the Salts, deter- 
ges the Veffels, fweetens the Blood, and 
caufes a T)iaphoreJis> therefore it is good in 
Scurvy, Leprofy, Scales, or DandrifF. In 
Blood Spitting it thickens the thin Blood, 
fweetens the Salts, and affords Balfam to 
the Veffels. In an Afthma, or Difficulty of 
Breathing, from a Stuffing of the Lungs 
with vifcid Phlegm, or from the Sharpnefs 
of the Blood contracting, {Emulating, and 
convulfing the Veffels, it cuts, attenuates, 
and thins in the firft Cafe, and blunts, 
fheaths, 
