The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

Balsam-Copaiba.

'Tis of the Consistence and Smell of distill'd Oyl of Turpentine. The Bark be∣ing cut at Full-Moon, it di∣stils in such a quantity, that in the space of three Hours it drops six Quarts. 'Tis not only excellent for heal∣ing and cleansing Wounds, especially of the Nerves, and for curing the Biting of Serpents; but it is also very beneficial taken in∣wardly: For three or four Drops taken in an Egg, twice or thrice in a Morn∣ing, cures a Dysentery, and other Fluxes of the Belly, the Whites, and a Gonor∣rhaea. The Jews experience the Salutary Virtue of it in Circumcision; for they stop the Blood, flowing from that cruel Wound, with it, which before was deadly to many of them. This Tree is wont to be much rub'd by Animals that are bit by Serpents, or hurt by Wild Beasts; to which they run for Cure by natural In∣stinct. It grows plentifully in the Island called Maran∣how.