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be mixed with the Rofe- Water. A Liquor is got 
from Frankincenfe per deliquium by putting the 
Powder into the boiled White of an Egg while.it 
is hot, and hanging them together in a Cellar. This 
Liquor is good to obliterate Scars and Spots of the 
Face. Moreover, the Oil which rifes from Frank- 
incenfe in Diftillation is by fome Perfons account- 
ed a very efficacious Remedy in a Confumption. 
We muft take Notice that Biofcorides looks up- 
on the immoderate Ufe of Frankincenfe to be 
dangerous, affierting that in Health it occafions Mad- 
nefs, or even Death, when drank in a large Quan- 
tity with* Wine. But Galen and the other Writers 
in Phyfick have been entirely filent upon this Qua- 
lity *, and no Inconvenience is obferved from ufing 
it in common Pra&ice. 
Take of Frankincenfe in Powder gfs. Flowers 
of Sulphur gj. candied Ginger or Conferve 
of Smallage q. f. to make a Bolus for an 
Afthma. 
Take of Frankincenfe 3]. Troches of Agarick giv. 
Make ten Pills with q. f. of the Juice of Hyf- 
fop. Let one be taken every Night at Bed- 
time in a Catarrh, or Cough proceeding from 
a Defluxion of Phlegm. 
Take Frankincenfe and Maftich a gij. Armenian 
Bolegj. red Coral prepared and calcined Hartf- 
horn, a gfs. Blood-ftone 9ij. Mix and make 
a Powder. The Dofe is gifs, in a Dyfentery. 
Artic. VII. Of Dragon’s Blood. 
Sanguis Draconis , Off. K twcctyi?, Biofc . V A ipa 
fy<zxov 1 (&>, Gracor. recent . Alachmen , Arab. This is 
a dry, friable, refinous Subftance, eafily melting' 
in the Fire, inflammable, of a dark red Colour, 
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