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Cholic, Gripes, Bloody Flux, Gravel, and Diforders 
of the Lungs without a Fever. If other Medicines 
have been applied to the Wound before, let them 
be wafhed off with Wine before this is dropped in. 
After the Balfam is {trained off the Ingredients, 
Verjuice poured on diem makes a good Medicine 
for Strains. The internal Ufe of this Balfam may 
be fatal, if ufed in hedtical and inflammatory Dif- 
orders of the Bread:. I have not once known the 
inward Ufe of either this Balfam, or of the Balfamic 
Tindbure, or of the Balfams in Subltance, fucceed 
well in thofe Difeafes, tho’ at fird they are as tracta- 
ble as any other of the like Inflammations, if treated 
judicioufly. 
70. 
Cost mary. Ale-cost ( Cojius hortorum ) and 
fweet Maudlin ; the firfl: is good in Crudities of the 
Stomach, Belching, Vomiting, flanking Breath, 
Pain of Stomach, or Head. Its Conferve is pro- 
per in Diforders of the Head from a cold Caufe, 
and in the Stone, or in Uterine Diforders from 
Obdrudbions of the Menfes. It is alfo good in ob- 
drudted Vifcera. Its Juice or Seed applied to the 
Navel kills Worms. It is an Antidote to too great 
Dofes of Opiates ; and cures Wounds fpeediJy. A 
Balfam of this and Adders-tongue boil’d in Oil, 
then drained, and Wax and Rofin added, makes 
a noble Wound Balfam. A Stove of the dried 
Leaf through a Funnel hadens down the Menfes. 
The Juice outwardly kills Crabs, as doth Juice of 
Rue and Tobacco, or Wormwood. It thins, cuts, 
divides, and gently evacuates dialer and Flegm, 
deanfes out tough and glutinous Humours, and hin- 
ders their Putrefadlion, or Corruption ; taken in 
Whey it ftrengthens the Stomach and Liver, is good 
againft Agues, continual Pains of the Head, and 
flays 
