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IT is called in Latine Bolus Armenius, and Bolus Armenia, and that ••ecause the best comes from Armenia: in English Bolearmoniack, and Bole-armeny, or red Bole. It is cold and dry in the first degree.
The best is firme and close, without gravell or stone, heavy, and for the most part wholly of one colour. without discolouring parts, and being put to the tongue it cleaveth very fast.
It will keep good many yeares.
It is drying astringent and strengthning; therefore it is usefull in any Fluxe of the belly, in womens Fluxes, whether white or red, in Rhumes and Catarrhes, in spitting of blood, bleeding of the nose or any inward bleeding: it thickneth humours, resisteth putrefaction, and is excellent in all contagious diseases of the Pestilence, Small-pox, Measells, and against poyson and venome.
It is given in powder, or in Electuary.
It stoppeth the bleeding of the nose, or the bleeding of any wound, helpeth Ulcers of the mouth, consolidateth broken bones, and is much used in binding Pultises and astringent powders.
Take Bole Armoniack in powder an ounce, red Rosewater foure ounces, Vineger of Roses one ounce and a halfe, mixe them well to∣gether, and wet clothes therein and apply it cold into the forehead.
The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in Plantaine water, or such like.
Bole Armony washed or prepared. Ʋnguentum Ophthalmicum. Ʋnguentum rubrum siccativum, &c.