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Salt Mixture, and Opiates, which very rarely fail. 
For Lofs of Appetite and Loathing, an Elixir of 
Mint, with its own Spirit by Infufion with a little 
Sugar, is a good Remedy. Borellus gives it as a 
Secret that if Women, reputed barren, will, as foon 
as their Menfes are over, apply a Cake made of 
wild Horfe Mint to their privy Parts, in the Form 
of a Crown, prefen tly before Coition with their 
Flusbands, and keep eafy both in Body and Mind, 
they will foon conceive. APoultife of Mint, Rue, and 
Carraway Seeds, boiled in Vinegar, diffolves coagu- 
lated Milk in the Breafls. Black or red Water Mint, 
in Tea, or its Infufion in Beer or Wine, &c. is flronger 
and more Stomachic than Spear Mint ; therefore 
preferr’d by fuch whofe Stomachs can bear it. But 
Pepper Mint Water has a far more agreeable Smell, 
and pleafanter Tafle 3 it is now in great Repute in 
private Families •, it is an excellent Dram, and up- 
braids not the Drinker •, it is hot in the Mouth, and 
warms the Stomach *, but, in two or three Minutes 
after it is drank, the Mouth feels cold, hath little 
Tafle of Mint, and feels as it were glazed over 
with Oil. Its diflill’d Water, if clear and fine, is 
fo much worfe, having its Oil feparated from it ; 
but that, which is whitifh and muddy, has the Oil 
mixt with it. It is an admirable Water againfl 
Surfeits, in Digeflion, Flatulency, Belchings, 
Loathing, Palling of the Stomach, Gripes and, 
Cholic, &c. Juice of Spear Mint, taken with 
Vinegar, flays Bleeding •, it kills Worms, even the 
round Sort, fays Diof cor ides. In a Poultife with 
Barley -meal, it diffolves Impoflhumes. The Juice 
with Mead eafes Pains in the Ears. Its Decoc- 
tion ufed for a Wafh cures Eruptions on the Skin, 
yea Ulcers on Children’s Fleads, and heals Chaps 
in the Anus. It is good againfl Poifon of venom- 
ous Creatures. 
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