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Flower Water- Jifs?' Mix them together, and 
form'Tablets or Rolls to be dried as the former. 
The Liquorice Juice of Blots is prepared thus. 
Take of Gum Arabick grofly prounded ifciv. 
Sugar ifeiij. Liquorice dried, fcraped and 
bruifed ifeij. Infufe the Liquorice for twenty- 
iour Hours in ifexxx. of Water. Divide the 
{trained Liqour into three Parts, in two of 
which diffolve the Gum Arabick over a flow 
Fire, and pafs it through an Hair-Sieve *, then 
boil it with the remaining Part of the Liquor 
to the Confidence of a Plaifter, adding the 
Sugar towards the End, and ftirring it con- 
tinually to make it white. 
Artic. X. Of Hellebore. 
vel Taa^opov, vel *E WeQogocs, Gr<ecor* 
Hdleborus , ant Elleborus , aut Veratrum , Latinor . 
Hellebore was a famous Drug among the Greek 
and Latin Phyficians. They diftinguifhed two 
Sorts (viz.) the white and the black \ but what they 
have left us concerning them is fo full of Obfcuri- 
ty, that it is hard to determine the Plants from 
which they were taken. The Hiftory of Helle- 
bore in Theophraftus is extremely defective, fo that 
we can expedt but little Light in this Matter from 
him. The Defcription which Diofcorides gives of 
white Hellebore is applicable enough to ours *, but 
what he fays of black Hellebore is far from agree- 
ing with that of the Moderns. Whence we may 
conclude, that the black Hellebore of Diofcorides 
is a Stranger to us, or that, perhaps, his genuine 
Text has been corrupted. 
At this Time, however, we meet with two Kinds 
of 
