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r A TheAtre «/ P&limal fifing lnfetfslgeneration, consolation, and whiteness of teeth : for difficultyof breathing, and to cause spitting, hony alone or mixed, is veryavailable.

Hony boyled with Bees, or new Cheese, stayeth a looseness,helps the Bloudy-flux and Chollick. But before hony be used" itis necessary todarifie it; Thus, take of hony and founraine wa-ter of each two pound, continually scum it as it arifeth, to theconsumption of the water, afterwards clause it with the whitesof twelve eggs.

Hony nounfheth not only because it is akinde of nourishment,but also because mixed with other things, it is a cause that theyare more easily carried through the body ; and he counsels oldmen to use it much, if they would have a care of their health,and live long without Diseases,- and he asserts it by the examplesof Antrccbut the Phisitian, and 7ties bus the Grammarian, whowere old men, and did eate Attitk^ hony and biead ; and Galmttestifieth the fame, with often eating hony boyled, se'domcraw,and yet Galen forbids long, or too much boyling, because it wiUmake it bitter*

C el fas reckons up boyled hony among such things as flop aLask, the reason is, because the acrimony by boyling is taken *-way, which is wont to move the belly, and co diminish the ver-

tue of the food.

The bodies of Bees taken newly from the Hives, and pow-dered, and drunk with Diuretick wine, powerfully cures theDropsie, and breaks the Stone, opens the fountaines of urine,And heals and helps the stoppages in the bladder.

Bees drowned in hony. and so killed, flay vomitings, and areprofitable for deafness.

Bees powdered cure the Wind-ccilick, mollifie hard ulcersin the lips,and also the Bloudy-flux.

Hpllerhis. Hony mixed with powdered Bees and so taken, is helpful forthe crudities of the flomaek, it is also good sor the stomach.

Galen in Eu* Pound Bees dead and dry in the combes, mingle them with

porifii* hony,and annoynt bald placcs ef the headland the hairs wil spring

afresh.

Erotii,c. 6- The ashes of Bees ground with ov!e jnake hair white.

Take twelve or fourteen Bce« powdered, many thing everymorning, and it helps such whose reten^ve faculty is weak, sothat they c ann ot hold their water, " Oxymel