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pin;* of ui ;• £,i:i which difesfeichftha mervailous fpeedy operation,toclenfe theutitories hom (limy flcgrreand 
iiones gatheted in them, or the paffages in thcnecke of the yard,as alfo to walfcar.dconfumeaway flcfhy excref- 
:eiH j in theneckeolthe bladder or yard : it alfo caufetha fwcet breath, being fometiines chewed in the mouth, 
and helpeth a cold moift braine: it heipeth the trembling of tha heart,and the wind chollicke. 
Chap. XXX. 
Cjummi Elemi. Gum Elemnt, 
His Gum being notmentioned with the former bccaufe we have not as yet attained the knowledge 
of the tree, from whence this Gum Elemni is taken; I referved for this placet for although feme 
have taken itrobetheliquourorgumthatfloweih out of the wild Ethiopian Ollive tree, yet it is 
moflcertaine it cannot be it, for ic is laid that the gum of the Ollives will not burnelike Roflin,nor 
melt with the hcate offire, as the Gum Elcmni will doe, which is a yellow ifh kinde of Gum,clecre 
and tranfparent, which being broken (heweth more white and gummy within, quickely taking i ■ e. h 
burning and melting thereat, of a little quicke fentand tabs. It is of cfpeciall ufe in all wounds and trn' 
the head and skull, to be mixed with the Balfamcs and oyntmentsufed for that purpole : it is alfo often men u 
the tooth ache, when the piines come by the defluxion of rheume into them, to lay a plaifter thereof on thetem- 
ples as they doe with Mafticke. 
Chap. XX X.I, 
Guajacum five Lignum Snnttum . Lignum Vite. 
[I He Lignum vite that groweth in fome parts of the Ind ies, is much better then in others, yet is the 
I wood of all,hard,firme.clofe and heavy, fo that it wiUfmckein water more then Ebony and not 
I fwim, of an hot fharpeandrefinous tafie, fome what burning in the throate: the blacker or 
1 brownei is better then the yellow, being in a manner all heart, the yellow being as it were but 
I the fappe: The tree groweth great with a reafonable thicke grecnifh gummy barke, fpread 
l with fundryarmes and branches both gr«t and fmall, and on them winged leaves let bycou- 
Guajacun five Ugnnm/iadnw, 
Lilnum Vite. 
Guaiato OccUitofimitis arbor- 
A Weft Indian tree like Gaajacuai, 
