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The Diver fities Led. VI, 
Longue ; it hereby comes to paf, that according as the ta/table parts of 
any Plat are more or lefs penetrant, fubtle, or diffoluble, they are 
admitted into one part of the Towgue, and not another, And in the 
Throat, the outer Skin it fel, {eems to be the immediate Senfory; and 
fo, to be evidently affected with the Juyces of fome Plants, from which 
the Tongue receiveth little or no fenfible Iapreffion. 
18. §. Whenthe Taft is Permanent and Fixed in fome one Part ; 
it isafign, either that the Gu/table Parts are lef diffoluble 5 or more 
fubtle, fo asto enter the Concaves of the Fibers; and that there isan 
admixture of an Aereal Salt, or a like Sulphur 5 fome of the parts where- 
of, bein gcrooked, hang like Hooks on the Fibers of the Tongue. For 
the reception of fuch a Taff, is not to be looked upon as a wound 
made with a Lawcet, and fo the Lancet taken away 3 but withthe Lay. 
cet {ticking in the wounds until in time, ‘tis carryed off by the Cir- 
culation of the Blood; which like the Stream of a River ina F 
carries all before it, but thofe things laft, which ftick in the Mud. 
19. §. Butwhen the Taj, though Permanent, yet is Diffifive or 
Tranfitives it {eems probable, that as there isa lefs admixture of Aer 5 
fo a greater fubtlety of the Taftable Parts, whereby they are conveyed, 
through the Nervous Fibers, from one Part to another. 

lood, 

Goby APA y; 
Of the Judgment which may be made of the VIRTUES 
of Plants, from their Tatts, 
‘ 20K S by duly obferving the Lafts of Plants, we may be 
ees direéted to underftand their Caufes. So alfo the 
Va Uje and Virtues of thofe Plants or Parts of Plants 
ee in which they refide. For the proof whereof, an 
ahs Inflance might be fetched from every particular 
X43 difference of Tz# before fet down. But it may be 
S <nough, to give thefe which follow, 
2. §. And firft, we may make no ill gnefs ex 
Analogia, or where we find the fame Tas#, that there the fame Virtve 
in fome kind, and in fome degree, may refide. So Jalap, Mercury, 
and Daify, have all of them that exafperating Ta/? in the Throat be- 
fore defcribed ; and they are all three more or le Cathartick. Where- 
fore, we may believe, that other Plants which make the like Iv- 
Preffioz on the Throat, and there are many others which do, that 
they are in fome degree alike Cathartich, Thole Plants which 
are reckoned amongft the chiefeft Cephalicks, caufe rather a dy- 
rable, than a vehement Heat upon the Tongue, as Pyrethrum, Ey- 
phorbiuns, Black-Felebore, 8c. Tt feemeth therefore reafonable to 
rank with thefe, any other Plant, though not ued, which produceth 


the like durable Heat. The young Roots of Yarrow, or Millefolium, 
have 

