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French Pox. But their chief Ufe is for purifying* 
preferring, and giving a vinous Flavour to Malt 
Liquors. But whether their Ufe in Drink contri- 
butes to Breeding the Stone, has been often and 
warmly debated ; but it may be eafily anfwered, that 
Hops prodigiouily improve Malt Liquor for the 
Ufe of grols, corpulent, phlegmatic, cache&ic, and 
cacochimic Habits, or fuch as live grofly and eafily ^ 
but greatly injure it to lean, hedlic, thin, fanguine, 
or choleric Bodies, whofe Blood being already too 
fharp, their VelTels want no Stimulus, as thofe of 
the others do. Hence it is that the firft labouring 
under the Stone want inciding, llimulating Reme- 
dies, as of Horfe Radifh, Leeks, Millepedes, 
Cantharides, The laft flippery, oily Anodynes, 
as Syrup of Althsea, Oil of Sweet Almonds, Dia- 
codium, Pil. Math. &c. to relax the Paffages, lull 
the Pain, and take off a too furious, natural Sti- 
mulus, ftirr’d up for Expulfion, but ftreightens 
the Paffage and increafes Pain and other Symp- 
toms. 
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Ho rehound (. Marrubium ) (common white) its 
Syrup or Juice, mixt with Honey, is of great Ufe 
to Afthmatic and Confumptive Perfons, and fuch 
as are troubled with a Cough. The dried Herb, 
powdered, kills Worms in the Guts. It is benefi- 
cial in hard Labour, and to bring down the Terms, 
or Lochia. It is a good Stomachic, and either De- 
codlion. Tea, Syrup, Powder, Juice or Pills of it, 
are of great Service in Diforders of the Bread and 
Lungs, from much thick, cold Phlegm, and in a 
Cachexy, Green Sicknefs, &c. An Ounce of its 
Conferve taken daily for forty Days, in a Glafs cf 
its diftill’d W ater, cured a Schirrous Liver, when all 
other Medicines failed. Two Ounces of the Syrup 
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