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with a Glafs of Wine after it. It is beft preferved 
with Sugar in form of a Syrup ; thus it is agreeable 
to the Sick that have parched, dry, chap’d Tongues, 
and Mouths, Third:, and in hot Difeafes. BraJJa- 
vola gave one or two roafted under the Embers to 
his Patients. Amatus fays, they are a mod: delici- 
ous grateful Food to the Sick. Peaches are pre- 
ferved in Brandy, but then they are too hot for 
Phyfl'C. The Leaves boiled in Milk, or bruifed 
and laid to the Navel, kill Worms in Children. 
Parkinfon fays if taken in due Time, they loofen the 
Belly. A Syrup or Conferve of the Flowers purge, 
but they often caufe Vomiting, make Children 
Sick, and aifturb the Bowels ; therefore they are 
fddom ufed now. Some eat the Flowers in Sal- 
lads. The diftill’d Water beautifies the Face. 
The Gum of the Tree is commended in a Loofe- 
nefs, for Stone and Gravel; Swellihgs of the Jaws, 
Roughnefs of the Windpipe, Spitting of Blood, 
Diforders of the Lungs, and Bloody Flux. Ma- 
thlolus commends the Kernels for the Gripes, and 
eaten to prevent Drunkennefs ; rubbed on with 
Vinegar, they prevent Falling off of the Hair. 
Their Oil induces Sleep, eafes the Megrim, and, 
either drank or given in Clyflers, it eafes the Cho- 
lic, Iliac Paffion, and Stone. A Water made of 
thirty of the bruifed Kernels, and one Hundred 
Cherry Kernels, and a Handful of Elder Flowers, 
all irtfufed ten Days in three Pints of white Wine, 
in an earthen Pot well covered, and buried in 
Horfe Dung, then diftill’d : Mathiolus calls it a 
wonderful kemedy to wafle and expel the Stope. 
Nedlarines are much of the fame Nature, 
232. 
Pear-tree (Pyrus) the Fruit of the better 
Sort i> grateful to the Stomach, and quenches 
Thjrft, 
