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and apt to offend a weak Stomach, and difturb the 
Belly. I have often known poor People cured of 
bilious Loofeneffes by them. The black Berries are 
better than the Red, tho’ the laft are more binding. 
28. 
Birch -T ree ( Betula ) the Juice of its Leaves, 
or their diftill’d Water, or the Juice or Sap drawn 
from a Bore of the Tree in the Spring, all thefe, be- 
ing Diuretic, are good for the Stone, if drunk fome 
Time *, and they 2re a good Gargle for fore Mouths. 
A Lee, made of the Alhes of the Tree, is faid to 
anfwer the fame Ends ; no Preparations of this Tree 
fliould be ufed by Perfons difpofed to a Diabetes. 
29. 
Bi sho ps-Weed ( Ammi ) is warming and dry- 
ing, of thin Parts, and a bitter fharp Tafte ; it di- 
gefts Humours, provokes Urine and Menfes , ex- 
pels Wind, and taken in Wine eafes the Gripes, is 
good againfl: Biting of Serpents, and Mifchiefs 
arifing from the inward Ufe of Cantharides •, mixt 
with Honey, it takes away blue and black Marks 
of the Skin •, being drank, it takes off too high a 
Colour of the Face ; its Fume with Rofin cleanfes 
the Womb. 
30 . 
Bjstort-Root ( Biftorta ) is very binding and 
ufed with Succefs where that is required, as for In- 
continence of Urine, exceffive Menfes , bleeding 
Wounds, bilious Vomiting, Spitting of Blood, 
Bloody -Flux, and other Fluxes of the Belly ; 
Rheum from the Teeth, Gums, Tonfils, and Jaws, 
if boil’d in Wine ; or half a Dram of the Powder 
given in Conferve of Rofes *, taken in the White of 
an Egg with powder’d Amber, it prevents Milcar- 
riage. The Powder is Sudorific, and prevents 
peftilential 
