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The barke of the Pine tree is binding and drying,(laying the laske and provoking urine: it helpeth the Settings 
andgallings of the skin, ulcers alio that pofleile the upper parts, and burnings with tire, taken with Ceratum 
Myrtinumjas with Litharge, and skirneth them after, and mixed with Coperas, it fiayeth the fretting or cree¬ 
ping of ulcers, the fumes thereof taken underneath,caufcth a delivery of the birth, and expclleth theiecondinc : 
rheieaves are cooling and affwage inflammations, and keepe ulcers from being inflamed, a dramme of them 
taken in water or mede, that is honyed water, aregood for the heate of the Liver ; if they be boyled in vine¬ 
gar, and gargled warme in the mou.h, it he’peth the paincs in the teeth and gummes, the like doth the fliivers 
of the Torchpme boyled in vinegar and gargled. The ktrnells of the Apples are wholefotne.and much nourifhing 
while they are trcfli, and although they be lomewhat hard of digeftiun, yet they doe not offend, elpeciallyit 
they be lleeped three or fourehourc in warrre water,before the taking,to foake out their fharpenefle andoyli. 
ntfle: thole that are of h r confli utions may take them with Sugar, but thole that are cold with hony, audio 
they doe amend the putrefying humours in the llomacke and bowels, and (lit up bodily luft andcncreaie lperme, 
if they be made into an eledluary with a little pouthcr of fenisti) pemits, and home fweete wine, alio they 
much helpe an hoa fe throate, wheelings and fhorenefle of breath, and when the voyce is loft, and expeflorate 
flegme, aiidarcgcodforan old cough,and the ulcers of the lungstthey alfolenifie the uritory paffages being fret¬ 
ted with the (tone, and cauf- them to be ealily avoyded : they helpe alfo to ripen inward Impoltumes, and are 
Angular good for maciicnt bodies, to hearten them and make them grow far, being often taken they helpe the 
paflie, fhakiag, and numnefle of the members. Both Comfitmakers, and Cookes know howto makedainty 
Q nee chafes for their delight that will have them. 1 here is a water deftilled from the grecne cones or apples 
that is very effedtuail to take away the wrinc kies in the face, to abate the over fwelling breafts of Maidcs,by ba¬ 
thing them with w et cioathcs in the water laid on them, and to reftore fuch as are ravifht into better termes. 
Chap. CXV. 
Picea. The Pitch tree. 
^gy g ji 'He Pit- h tree hath formerly bcene comprehended under one kinde, yet P/;nylcemcth to reckon a fa- 
tivaindafjhejlriu the [atvua to be Sapiuus, and the fjlveftrit Picea : but weinthef'e times knew 
1 but one fort unti.l CUtfirn hath added adwarfe fort thereunto. 
j. Picea vulgaris. The ordinary Pitch tree. 
The Pitch ti ce is fo like unto the F irre tree that ic oftentimes deceiveth them that ate not skilfull 
», tkea fumiU. TbcdnaifePstchttce. 
