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new Milk a Pint, ftrain it gently, drink the Milk* 
and apply the Herb to the pain’d Place, it cures it. 
107. 
Fig-tree [Ficus') though originally an Exotic , 
yet is now planted in many Gardens. Dried FigS 
are ufed in Coughs, Afthma’s, and Diforders of the 
Lungs ; and in Deco£lions to Children in Small- 
Pox and Meades; and inGargleS for Inflammations 
bf the Jaws and Tonflls. Being Laxative they are 
eaten by Big-bellied Women, from four to twelve 
at a Time, in a Morning ; and they moftly open the 
Belly. They alfo eat them roafted daily, fome 
Time before their Labour, to make it eafy, and faci- 
litate the Birth. Applied in a Poultife they fofteii 
and ripen Impoflhumes and Buboes , very much ; 
but, being Loofening, they are very unfit for them 
that have too flippery Inteftines, nor are they fuited 
to bilious Conflitutions. A Decodlion of Hyflop 
and Figs, in Water, caufes eafy Spitting. Figs, 
Wheat-flour, Powder of Fenugreek, and Linfeed, 
\vith Althaea Roots, all made into a Poultife, foften, 
ripen, and break Boils, Buboes , Impoflhumes, and 
all hot Swellings behind the Ears, &c. Figs boiled iii 
Wormwood Wine, with Barley-Meal, and made 
into a Poultife, and put to the Belly, are good in 
Dropfies. The Leaves boiled with Althaea Roots; 
and beaten to a Poultife, are good in Scrbphulous 
Tumours. The Milky Juice of the Leaves and 
and Barley Meal, ufed in a Poultife, takes off the 
Difcolouring and Deformities of the Skin. This 
H 2 Juice 
warm. Juice of Plantain rubb’d on the Brea lb docs it. — For 
hard Labour, drink a Decodticn of Dili, or take a Dram of 
powdered Columbine Seed in a Giafs of white Wine : or Mug- 
wort ufed in any Form : Or a Dram of povzdered Betony Le :ves 
in white Wine ; Or give Powder or Decoflion of Mother-wort : 
Or a Drain bf powdered Gromwdl Seed in New Milk : Or 
apply 2k Poultife of Vervain, boil’d in Wine, or Water, 
