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them is very bitter and 
naufeous , and therefore 
caufes a Diarrhaa : The 
Leaves have a bittcrilh 
crude taftc without any 
narcotick fmell. It is Jikc 
the Turpentine Trees, by 
the greennefs , but the 
moft crude and fixt of all 
that. kind. The Wood has 
no offeulive taftc, but feems 
a littiehottifh on the Ton- 
gue ; the Leaves are not 
unlike Fir. A poor Wo" 
man at Elford. in Stafford' 
Jhirc , gather’d up the Cut- 
tings of the Bows of the 
Yew Tree in the dry Year, 
and gave them to her Cow, 
upon the eating of which 
fhe died ; but it may be 
the drynefs of the Leaves 
made them Oftenfive to 
the Stomach, or Wind- 
pipe. 
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