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agglutinating, and goad in Bloody-Fluxes. The 
Meal, out of which the Oil is exprefs’d, exceeds all 
Soap for whitening and fmoothing the Hands and 
Face. Ufeful Lindtufies are made of the Oil with 
Pectoral Syrups, for Diforders in the Breafl ; or with 
Syrup of Althaea and Diacodium for Nephritic Pains 
ki lean Perfons. Bitter Almonds are hot and dry, 
attenuating, opening, cleanfing and diuretic, good in 
Obftructions of the Liver, Spleen, Sweetbread, and 
Womb; chew’d and rub’d on the Skin they take off 
Spots, and eafe the Head-ach ; eaten before a hard 
Drinking-bout they fometimes prevent Drunkennefs. 
They are fatal to feveral Creatures, as Cats, Poul- 
try, Foxes Cubs, &c. Their Oil is good to drop 
into the Ears. They provoke Urine and Menfes y 
foften the Belly, and with Starch and Mint ftop 
Spitting of Blood ; with Water they are good for the 
Pain of the Back, and Inflammations of the Lungs ; 
with Turpentine, Honey, and Milk they are good 
in Obftructions of the Liver, Cough, or Windy 
Cholick ; Dofe the Bignefs of a Hazle-Nut. 
5 - 
Althea, Marsh-Mallows, and Mallows, 
being both of the fame Nature, I fhall include them 
in one Article, only the former is much more effi- 
cacious than the latter. Althea Roots, Flowers, 
Seeds, and Leaves, foften, loofen, difcufs, eale 
Pain, ripen Swellings, blunt and corredl fait and 
fharp Humours. The Root is ufed in Diforders of 
the Kidnies and Bladder, in an Afthma, Pleurify, 
Pains in the Bowels, iSc. And that either inwardly 
in Decodtion, Syrup, Powder, Conferve, &c. or 
outwardly in Poultifes, Clyfters, Ointments, Fomen- 
tations, Baths, lAc. The Decoftion or Syrup of the 
Leaves, but efpecially the R.oots, is moft ufeful for 
the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder, either drank, 
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