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Tongue, Mouth, and Throat in Fevers, and for 
the Fain of the Piles, in Clyfters, and for chapped 
Nipples. If a little Vinegar be added to the 
Juice, Syrup, or Conferve, it roufes a flagged 
Appetite •, and, if fome Spices be added, it 
ftrengthens and raifes the Spirits, and helps the lan- 
guid Vifcera. To make them more loofening, ufe 
Honey inftead of Sugar, and a little Rhubarb or 
Turbith to purge Phlegm, or Scammony for Water. 
If to bind more, ufe unripe Quinces, with red 
Rofcs and Sloe Juice, with toafted Rhubarb. Their 
Juice is a wonderful Antidote againfl deadly Poi- 
fon, efpecially of white Hellebore. Their Oil 
rubbed on the Stomach, Belly, or relaxed Sinews, 
fcrengthens them much. A Deco&ion of their 
Down, in Wine, heals up Plague Sores ; or, ufed in 
a Plaifter with Wax and applied, reftores Hair to 
bald Places, or prevents its Falling off. A Poultife 
of its Pulp laid warm to a peftilential Carbuncle 
cures it *, or Radifh Root, cut and applied, draws 
out the Poifon powerfully. 
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Rag-wort or Rag-weed, St. James’s- wort. 
Stagger-wort, &c. (Jacobtea) is warm and 
bitter, it cleanfes, dries, digefts, and difcufies. 
Its Deco£lion, ufed in a Gargle, is faid to cure Sores 
and Ulcers in the Mouth, Tonfils, and Throat, 
But Sim. Pauli rejedls it for its Bitternefs, and fub- 
flitutes Throat- wort for it, with Strawberry Leaves 
and Self-heal •, or, if it be defigned to difcufs with 
Warmers, he advifes Origanum, Hyflfop, Rofe- 
mary, CiV. Fomentations and Poultifes of it are 
fit for Swellings and Impofthumations *, it cleanfes 
and heals them, Quinfy and King’s-evil. The 
Juice quickly heals green Wounds, cleanfes and 
cures old filthy Ulcers in any Part, Hops fretting 
Cankers 
