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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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_To defend Humours._

Take _Beanes_, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise
them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make
it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the
Eyes.


_To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians
greatest secrets._

Take a peck of green _Beane_ cods, well cleaved, and without
dew or rain, and two good handfulls of _Saxifrage_, lay the same into
a Still, one row of _Bean_ cods, another of _Saxifrage_, and so Distill
another quart of water after this manner, and then Distill another
proportion of _Bean_ codds alone, and use to drink oft these two
Waters; if the Patient be most troubled with heat of the Reins,
then it is good to use the _Bean_ codd water stilled alone more often,
and the other upon comming downe of the sharp gravell or
stone.

[Illustration: Beanes]

_Unguentum Sanativum_.

Take of _Terpentine_ one pound, _Wax_ six ounces, Oyle of _Cammomile_
halfe a pint, put all these together in a pan, and put to them
a handfull of _Cammomile_, bruised, or cut very small, boyle them
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