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Tafte : For red Sanders is of a fanguine or dark 
red Colour, and fubauftere Tafte ; and thefe have 
a fweetifh Tafte, and their Red diluted with a Caft 
of Yellow. 
The three Species of Sanders contain an eflfen- 
tial acid Salt, a thick Oil which finks in Water, 
a fmall Portion of volatile Salt, and a large Quan- 
tity of Earth. In the yellow Sort the Oil is thin- 
ner and more copious, not fo thin in the white, 
and thicker in the red, wherein is a larger Pro- 
portion of Earth, as is fufficiently evident from 
their Tafte and Smell. 
In Regard of their Virtues Authors are divided, 
fome ranking them among cooling Medicines, 
others among fuch as are heating. Indeed from 
their Analyfis it is manifeft, that lome fine and ac- 
tive Parts are included in their Compofition : 
Wherefore C. Hoffman not unjuftly blames Phyfi- 
cians who give them with an Intention of cooling. 
They are then more truly accounted inciding, at- 
tenuating, aftringent, and ftrengthening *, thefe 
Operations being varioufly exerted according to 
the Difference of Circumftances, which we have 
before obferved in many other Medicines. The 
citrine Sanders more powerfully incides, the white 
much more weakly, and the red aftringes more 
powerfully than either. Phyficians generally afcribe 
to all three a Virtue of comforting the Heart, 
refolving Obftrudtions of the Liver, and reftoring 
or augmenting the Tone of the Bowels. 
River ius commends the Decocftion of Sanders 
as a moft efficacious Remedy, not only in a begin- 
ning Confumption, but alfo in faline Defluxions, 
particularly when the Humour is thin ; and in inve- 
terate Fluxes of Blood proceeding from its In- 
calefcence he aflerts they do Wonders. The De- 
CoCtion of Sanders is prepared as that of Guai- 
acum. 
