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labour, provoke venery, and make the body * name you please, is a desperate purge, hurt-lean. {ful to the body by reason of its heat, windi-
Biony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or the I ness, corroding, or gnawing, and violencedisease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the] of working. I would advise my countrymenfits of the mother, and other such like in-1 to let it alone; it will gnaw their bodies asfirmities of the womb, stop the menses, and \ fast as doctors gnaw their purses,help convulsions. j Opopanax, is of a heating, molifying,
Broom seed, potently provoke urine, \ digesting quality,break the stone. | Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for frac-
tion seeds, strengthen the heart, cheer I tures of the skull, as also in wounds, andthe vital spirit, resist pestilence and poison.; therefore is put in plaisters for that end.
, \ See Arceus his Liniment.
! -- | Tragacantkum , commonly called Gum
TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS. i Trag a " tl! > and Gum Dragon, helps coughs,
5 hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs.Laudanum , is of a heating, mollifying: Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hardnature, it opens the mouth of the veins, j swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hard-stays the hair from falling off, helps pains; ness of the sinews.
in the ears, and hardness of the womb. Iti Galbanum. Hot and dry, discussing;is used only outwardly in plaisters. j applied to the womb, it hastens both birth
Assafoetida. Is commonly used to allay; and after-birth, applied to the navel it staysthe fits of the mother by smelling to it; I the strangling of the womb, commonlythey say, inwardly taken, it provokes lust,j called the fits of the mother, helps pains inand expels wind. \ the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being
Benzoin, or Benjamin , makes a good per- \ applied to it, and the smell of, it helps thefume. / ] vertigo or diziness in the head.
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceed- j Myrh , heats and dries, opens and softensingly. | the womb, provokes the birth and after-
Aloes, purges choler and flegm, and with | birth ; inwardly taken, it helps old coughssuch deliberation that it is often given to f and hoarseness, pains in the sides, kills worms,withstand the violence of other purges, it! and helps a stinking breath, helps the wast-preserves the senses and betters the appre- ? ing of the gums, fastens the teeth: outwardlyhension, it strengthens the liver, and helps j it helps wounds, and fills up ulcers withthe yellow-jaundice. Yet is naught for such | flesh. You may take half a dram at aas are troubled with the hemorrhoids, or?time.
have agues. I do not like it taken raw. \ Mastich , strengthens the stomach exceed-See Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it ? ingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it
washed with the juice of roses.
i fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums,
Manna, is temperately hot, of a mighty \ being chewed in the mouth,dilative quality, windy, cleanses choler | Frankinsense , and Olibanum , heat and
gently, also it cleanses the throat andstomach. A child may take an ounce of itat a time melted in milk, and the drossstrained out, it is good for them when theyare scabby.
bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stop bleed-ing, but is extremely bad for mad people.
Turpentine, Purges, cleanses the reins,helps the running of them.
Styrax Calamitis, helps coughs, and dis-
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by which ] filiations upon the lungs, hoarseness, want(25,26.) St