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verted into a tough Mucilage. In Spirit of Wine 
tartarized, or joined with the urinous Spirit of Sal 
Ammoniack, it diflolves entirely. 
Therefore Myrrh is compounded of Refin, Tar- 
tar, and Sal Ammoniack, fo intimately combined, 
that it is fcarce poflible to feparate them from each 
other. 
Galen afcribes to Myrrh a drying and moderately 
deterfive Quality : Others allow it an extraordinary 
refolvent Virtue. Indeed it powerfully diflolves 
thick, vifcid Blood, coagulated Bile, and glutinous, 
concreted Humours. Hence it is commended, in- 
ternally, in Obftrudtions of the Womb, and Bowels. 
It promotes the Menfes y the Purgations of Child- 
Bed Women, and the Flux of the Hemorrhoids ; 
expels a dead Foetus , and the Secundine. It dif- 
cufies Infardtions of the Lungs •, and is advanta- 
geoufly prefcribed in an Afthma, Cough, or to re- 
folve Infardtions of the Lungs •, as alfo in the Jaun- 
dice, in fcorbutick Affedtions, and in Cachexies. 
It kills Worms, as well by its remarkable Bitter- 
nefs, as by diflolving and cleanfing away the vifcid 
Humour which covers the internal Coats of the 
Stomach and Inteftines, wherein the Eggs of thofe 
Animals lye concealed. It ftrengthens the Stomach* 
helps the Concodtion of Food, and difcufles Wind. 
In malignant, putrid, and peftilential Fevers, in 
the Small Pox, and Meafles, it does good by re- 
moving the Putrefadtion, by exciting a gentle Dia~ 
pborefis , and by accelerating the Eruption upon the 
Skin. Againft Ulcers, whether internal, or exter- 
nal, it is commended as a Angular Balfam, corredt- 
ing their Corruption in all Parts of the Body. For 
this Reafon it is ufed to Advantage in an Empyema , in 
Ulcers of the Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, Womb, or 
other Bowels, and likewife in Dy ferneries. It is 
given in Subftance, under the Form of a Bolus, or 
Y Pills, 
