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lip Perfons. Oak Apples boil’d in Wine, are good 
againft all Fluxes, great Moifture and Swelling of 
the Jaws, Almonds in the Ears, &c. Their De- 
codlion is alfo good for the Whites, Excefs of the 
Menfes , and Relaxation of the Vagina, if a warm 
Stove of them is fat over. Oak Mofs is a great 
Afbringent ; a Dram of its Powder taken with a lit- 
tle Coral, in Claret, flays the Menfes and other 
Fluxes ; it is alfo good in Children’s Ruptures. 
Being drying and aflringent, it flops Bleeding, and 
heals green Wounds. It is often ufed for Difeafes 
of the Lungs, as Cough, Aflhma, and Confump- 
tion, either in Syrup or Powder *, or boiled in 
Small Beer, it has been effectual in a Jaundice. 
Powder of Cup Mofs, given in a Syrup of this, is 
reckoned a Specific in the Chin-cough. 
225. 
Onions ( Cepa ) are very Pungent and Vo- 
latile, of thick Parts, fit for them that abound with 
cold and vifcid Humours •, they procure them 
Sleep, help Concodlion, and cure acid Belchings •, 
they loofen the Belly of fome, and bind it in others : 
they carry off Obflrudtions, promote Urine, and 
infenfible Perforation. But they are very injurious 
to the Bilious, affedling their Head, Eyes, Sleep, 
and Stomach. Onions cut and fleep’d all Night in 
Spring Water, and given Children to drink in a 
Morning, kills Worms. An Onion hollowed and 
filled with Treacle, then roafled under hot Afhes, 
the outward Skin taken off, and the refl beaten up 
to a Poultife and applied, effe&ually foftens and 
opens Plague Sores, Poifonous Ulcers, and other 
Colle&ions of putrid Matter. Bruifed raw Onions, 
with a little Salt, laid on frefh Burns not bliflered, 
quickly draws out the Fire, and prevents Bliflers. 
The Head rubb’d with raw Onions Evening and 
Morning 
