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TEARS, LIQUORS, AND ROZINS.
LAdanum, is of a heating molifying nature, it o∣pens the mouth of the veins, staies the hair from falling off, helps pains in the ears, and hardness of the womb. It is used only outwardly in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Asa foetida, is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it, they say, inwardly ta∣ken, it provokes lust, and expels wind.
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good perfume.
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceedingly.
Aloes, purgeth choller and flegm, and with such deliberation that it is often given to withstand the violence of other purges, it preserves the sences and betters the apprehension, it strengthens the liver, and helps the yellow Jaundice. Yet it is naught for such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoids, or have agues. I do not like it taken raw. See Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it washed with juyce of roses.
Manna, is temperatly hot, of a mighty dilative quality, windy, clenseth choller gently, also it clen∣seth the throat and stomach. A child may take an ounce of it at a time melted in milk, and the dross strained out, it is good for them when they are scab∣by.
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by which name you please, is a desperate purge, hurtful to the body, by reason of its heat, windiness, corroding, or gnaw∣ing, and violence of working, I would advise my country to let it alone 'twill gnaw their bodyes as fast as Doctors gnaw their purses.
Opopanex, is of a heating, molifying, digesting quality.
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for fractures of the skul, as also in wounds, and therfore is put in plaisters for that end. See Arceus his Liniment.
Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, hoarsness, and di∣stillations upon the lungues.
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hardness of the sin∣news.
Galbanum, hot, dry, discussing; applied to the womb, it hastens both birth and afterbirth, applied to the na∣vel it staies the strangling of the womb, commonly called the fits of the mother, helps pains in the sides, and difficuty of breathing, being applied to it, and the smel of it helps the vertigo or dissiness, in the head.
Mirrh, heats, and dries, opens and softens the womb, provokes the birth and after birth; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs, and hoarsness, pains in the sides, kills worms and helps a stinking breath, helps the wastings of the gums, fastens the 〈◊〉〈◊〉; outwardly it helps wounds, and fills up ulcers with flesh. You may take half a drachm at a time.
Mastich, strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums, being chewed in the mouth.
Frankinsence and Olibanum, heat and bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stops bleediug, but is extream bad for mad people.
Turpentine purgeth, clenseth the Reins, helps the running of them.
Styrax calamitis, helps coughs and distillations up∣on the lungues, hoarsness, want of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is bad for headaches.
Amoniacum, applied to the side, helps the hardness and pains of the spleen.
Camphire, easeth pains of the head coming of heat, takes away inflamations, and cools any place it is ap∣plied to.