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it gives Eafe and Relief. It attenuates, digefts and 
dilcuffes Humors. 
XX. The Oil of the Seed. It is a Specifick again!! 
Pains of the Stomach and Bowels , gives prefent 
eafe in the Cholick, as alfo in the Stone, provokes 
the Terms in Women, and has all the Virtues of 
the Spirituous and Oily Tinftures. Given ad gut. 
1 2 or 20 in a Glafs of Wine to a Woman in Travel, 
it facilitates the Delivery. It is good again!! 
Coughs, Colds, Alfhma’s, (hortnefs of Breath, dif- 
ficulty of Breathing, Wheezings, Hoarlhefs and 0- 
ther like Diftempers of the Brel! and Lungs. It 
encreafes Seed, provokes Lull, llrengthens the In- 
ftruments of Generation, reftores in Confumptions, 
breeds Milk in Nurfes, and refills Poyfon : it is al- 
fo prevalent again!! the Bitings of Vipers and other 
Serpents ; alfo the Bitings of Mad Dogs, and other 
Venomous Bealls, being inwardly taken, and out- 
wardly applied to the place. 
XXI. The Spirit uotts Water. It may be ufed as 
a Vehicle for any of the former internal Preparations, 
and has in forne meafure all their Virtues : it is a 
very good thing for Nurfes to tjke, becaufe it very 
much promotes the breeding of Milk. 
XXII. The Balfam. It is made of the Chymical 
Oil, mixt with fix times its quantity of pure Oil of 
Nutmegs by Expreffion. It is of wonderful Ufe to 
anoint the Genitals of a Man, who is grown Impo- 
tent either by Age, Accident, or a long Difufe of the 
A£l; the Oil of the Seed being in the meanSeafon 
taken inwardly. Anointed upon Parts affefled with 
Cramps and Convulfions, it generally cures them ; 
and llrengthens any Part which is much weakened, 
either by the Gout or other Accidents. Anointed 
on the Stomach and Side, it comforts them, and 
eafes the Pains of the Pleurify. 
XXIII. The XOecottiort of. the Seed in Wine. If 
Figs are added in the Boiling, it will be the more 
Pefloral, and lo be good for fuch as are fhort- 
Winded, or are otherwile troubled with an old 
Cough, Hoarfnefi or Wheezing, difficulty of Breath- 
ing, and other Difeafes of thofe Parts ; and withal 
it expels Wind from the Stomach and Bowels: and 
if it is conllantly drunk for a whole Year together, 
it obliterates the very Roots and Foundation of' the 
Gour, and by keeping of the Body loluble, and 
fweetning all the Juices, it carries off the Tartarous 
Matter which breeds that Difeafe, and that without 
either Purging or any other Medicine. But when it 
is thus generally ufed, the Decoflion mull be made 
fometimes in Water and fometimes in Wine, for 
the Stomach fake, and it mull be ufed as the Pati-' 
ents common Drink. I fay all this ftom manifold 
Experience. 
XXIV. The Cataplafm of the Seed. If it is 
bruijed and jryed with Polks of Eggs till they are 
hard , and then beaten up with a little OH of Nut- 
megs by Expreffion , or with fome of the former Bal- 
fam , and applied to the Head, (the Hair being fir!! 
ihaved off) it gives wonderful and fpeedy Relief in 
an old Head-ach, tho’ it be vehement, more efpeci- 
ally if it comes from a cold and moil! Caule ; and 
applied to the back part of the Head, it Hops the 
Rheum which falls into the Eyes, and helps fuch as 
are Blood-lhotten ; more efpecially if withal it is 
made with Wax into the Form of an Emplailer, 
and applied warm over the Eye-lids. The Cata- 
plalha made only with the Seed and Yolks of Eggs, 
and applied to a fimple Contufion, difcuffes it : but 
with the Oil of Nutmegs, being applied to the 
Scrotum , it is excellent to difcufs a windy Tumor 
of that Parr. 
CHAP. CLXXXVI. 
Of CUMIN Wild. 
Names. It is called in Greek, Kv^im 
A 7 iiJ)vcv >£) «■) etov : in Lai in, Cumin um Sy/veltre : 
in Englijb , Wild Cumin. 
II- The Kinds. Authors make three kinds here- 
of^ viz. 1. Kv/x/ycf iyeiov, Cuminum Sylveftre, Cumi- 
num primum Diofcoridis. , ( according to Matthiolus ) 
Cuminum globofum Came rani , Cuminum Capitulis 
globojis Bauhini , alfo Leporum Cubile , Stalimene , as 
it is called in the Ifle of Lemnos, Wild Cumin. ’ 2. 
CmKocvt % employ, Hypecoum and Hypopheum , Hype - 
coumverum Diofcoridis , (according to . Dodontus 
and Clufius ) Cuminum Sy/vejfe altcrum vel Si/i- 
quofum Came rani, Lugdunenfis, Tabernmontani Lf 
Lobelii Cuminum Sylvefire Corniculatum Gerardi, 
Hypecoum Legitimum Bauhini , The fecond or Horned 
Wild Cumin. 3. Cuminum Sihquofum altcrum Di- 
ofeoridis^ Lobelii , Pens, Lugdunenfis , Cuminum 5)7- 
vejtre tertium , Siliquofttm minus Tabernmonta - 
ni t Hypecoum alterum Bauhini, The fecond Horned 
or Imall Codded Wild Cumin. 
III. As for thefe two latter, tho’ Camerarius, Do- 
donatus , Lobe/ and Gerard , with fome others, do ac- 
count them as Species of Cumin, or kinds of Wild 
Cumin, yet they are fcarcely fo to be accounted, for 
that they have neither the Appearance or outward 
Refemblance of them, neither yet the Medical Qua- 
lities or Virtues anfwerable to them, but rather have 
the Qualities and Properties of Poppies : however 
becaufe Cuftom has given them the Name of Wild 
Cumin, we fubmit, and rank them in the lame Or- 
der. 
U/iib Cumin. 
IV. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Wild Cu- 
min, has a Root which is fmall and white, with fome 
Fibres adjoining to it, and quickly perifhes zoith the 
/eaji Blafls or Dezvs of cold Nights, and therefore 
M m comes 
