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Electuary of its Powder, with Salt-petre and Ho- 
ney, makes the Teeth, often rubb’d with it, whiter, 
and fader. Its Oil is excefhvely hot, but, mixt 
with milder Oils, it may be made a fine Warmer 
and Strengthencr of the Nerves. — The wild Marjo- 
ram is the hotted, and pot Majoram the milded of 
the Clafs. All of them have the fame Virtues, but 
in diderent Degrees according to their Heat. Their 
Oil is ufed in Poultifes and Ointments for cold 
Swellings, Laxnefs, Weaknefs, Pains, Numbnefs, 
and Stiffnefs, &c. from Cold ; and in Bathes and 
Fomentations for the fame Intentions. 
1 88. 
Sweet Marjoram ( Majorana ) is of fubtil fmall 
Parts *, of an aromatic, lively, and quick Tade 
and Smell ; warms, dries, attenuates, and digeds. 
Taken in any Form it relieves the cold Didempers 
of the Head and Brain. The powdered Herb is a 
Sternutatory, brings away much Phlegm, and 
drengthens the Brain. The Juice of the Leaf, 
fnuffed up the Nofe, does the fame. It is good in 
Diforders of the Bread, drengthens the Stomach, 
and relieves the difordered Liver and Spleen. It is 
proper in Difeafes of the Womb and expels Wind. 
Taken in Drink, it provokes Urine and fends off 
watery Humours. If chew’d, or laid to the Tooth, 
it eafes the Tooth-ach. A Handful of it and half 
a Dram of white Hellebore boil’d in fix Ounces of 
Water to four, drain’d, and the Decodion fnuffed 
up the Nofe, from the Hollow of the Hand 
(the Mouth being full of Water J often, is an excel- 
lent Errhine in a violent, but not mild Head-ach. 
A Decodtion of the fimple Herb may be ufed the 
fame Way for a Catarrh, but drawn much higher 
up the Nofe, by having the Mouth full of Water, 
