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all Coughs and Colds? again ({Quartan Agues, 
and all Difcafcs of the Brain, as Epilepfies , 
Apoplexies , Sic. it cureth the Yellow fun- 
dies: and there is no better Drink againft 
the fcvere pain of the Gravel in the Reins, 
or Stone in the Bladder ? neither is there 
any Liquor more conducing to Long Life 
than this and Cider , as the many Drinkers 
thereof can witnefs. 
The Vertues of the Liquor or Blood of °f Birch- 
the Birch-tree, have not long been difcover- wme " 
ed, we being beholding to the learned 
Fm Helmont for it; who in his Treatife 
of the Difeafc of the Stone , hath very 
much applauded its virtues againft the 
affeds of that Difeafc, calling the natural 
Liquor that flows from the wounded Bran¬ 
ches of that Tree, the meer Ballom of the 
Difcafc of the Stone. Ale brewed therewith, 
as well as the Wine that is made of it, won¬ 
derfully operates on that Difcafc. 
Alfo Birch-wine is a great opener, and 
reputed to be a poweriull Curer of the 
Ptijici 
Chocolatte is a very great Reftorative, of cho- 
comforting and cherifhing the inward parts, colattc ’ 
and reviving natural ftrength, and hatha 
wonderful effed upon Confumptive and an- 
tient people, being drank hot in a morning. 
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