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Stones ; a Cuftom that I have known fatal to fome, 
and others have been reftored with great Danger 
and Difficulty ; yea I have known the laft the EffeCt 
of fwallowing Grape Stones. The Cure of both 
confifts in a long Ufe of emollient, relaxing, lubri- 
cating, and very mild Lenitives firft ; then ftronger 
Purges afterwards to bring them away. 
60. 
Chesnut-Tree ( Caftanea ) Leaves dried and 
laid to the Joints eafe their Pains andStiffnefs. They 
alio difcufs Swellings of the Tefticles from Bruifes, 
or any other outward Caufe, from their aftringent 
Quality ; they flop the Flux of the Piles, by healing 
up the Mouths of the Velfels. The unripe Fruit, 
eaten, eaufes a Loofencls, which the Root and Bark 
of the fame Tree cure. The exprefs’d Oil of the 
Nuts boil’d, either taken inwardly, or applied out- 
wardly, excites an Appetite and promotes Digef- 
tion. The fame with roafted and beaten Garlick, 
or coagulated Milk, fried and laid to the Anus pow- 
erfully quiets the Pain of the Piles. A DecoCtion of 
the Bark in Wine flops Fluxes, either of Humours, 
or Blood. The inner Rind of the Nut in red Wine 
cures Whites, Gonorrhoea , and exceflive Menfes, cor- 
recting the Sharpnefs and Thinnefs of the Blood. 
61. 
Chervil (fweet) {Char ophyllum) the common 
is of thin Parts, Diuretic, provokes the Menfes , 
waftes and expels Stone and Gravel without Pain, 
difiolves coagulated Blood, and eaufes fweet Sleep, ex- 
ternally in Clyfters, and Poultifes^ * It i^ good in the 
Cholic, and for Urine too long retained, if fried in 
Butter, with Pellitory of the Wall and Parfley, and, 
laid to the Sharebone. The Juice drank in Broth^ 
or in its own Water thrice drawn, fays Dolceus *, is a 
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