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A theatre of politicall flying-insects : wherein especially the nature, the worth, the work, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas
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A theatre of Political Ftyhgbifetts, "iji

I^Ovoketh urine, and purgeth too muck,.

, H °ny warmcs and clearer Wounds 'and Ulcers, attenuates Galen Sediscuflcth excrescencies in any part of the body. Avlcen,

It is very effectual to produce hair in baldness, for Quotidian Galen,"fines, especially oyle of hony distilled.

Distilled water of hony makes a smooth skin, provokes urine,j*minisheth heat in Feavers, caseth the obstructions of the®°vvels, quencheth thirst.

The salt of hony of all Corrosives is least painful, and mostEnergetical, and therefore in the flesh of the yard by Chymicks,

«nd expert Chyrurgians especially commended.

* he Epicures who chiefly studied health and pleasure; did eatContinually Ambrosia., which consisted of a tenth part of Tzetses 1'nnie, as Tzetzes reports, concluding chat the daily use there-Would prevent griefs, and keep them free frcpi Dis-uses.

Hony infused warme by it self wonderfully helps, exulceratcd Galenui,tat «, especially if they cast forth ill savours, as also their singingsaQ d inflammations.

Hony, Butter, and Oyle of Roses, of each a like quantity Marcestus^tme, helps the paine of the ears; he also commends Hony, Empyricus,infants dung brayed together in the dulnefs of the sight, andfot white spots in the eyes.

, The rheume or droppings of the eyes in men or horses are Vigeriu**hereby helped, I have cured a Horse stone blinde with Honya °d Salt, and a little crock of a potjnixed, in less than three^es, ic hath eaten off a tough filme, and the Horse never com-bined after,

f. Hony wherein Bees are drowned, or Ashes of the heads of Marcellu*~ e ?s, with hony,.clear the eyes; Attics hony, with the firstE m pyriou*.bngofa young infant, and the milk of the Nurse mingled toge-her, and annoynt the eyes that are dull upon what occasion fo-lder, but first binde the party, for such is the violence of thepEdicine that he cannot otherwise patiently endure it, and the.^ e fit is fo forcible, that in the third day it wil make a deal

^.hJothing is better for infants that breed Teetl^orin the Ulcersfoe mouch tban butter and hony ; Galon prescribes only the Uais tobe rubd wich it, for it conduceth wonderfully co the

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