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Show t according asthetaftable parts of e, ordifloluble, they are e, and not another. And in the felf, feems to be the immediate Senfory 5 and 1 4 Plants, from which e or no fenl } is Perr } eh vt and Fixed in fome one Part ; {fs diffoluble 5 or more es of the Fibers and that there isan alt, or alike Sulphur, {ome of the parts wherer | of Taf. Lea.VIL 1 Diverfities looks on the Fibers of the Tomeue. For TaS#, is not to be looked upon as a wound 1 fo the Lavcet taken away 5 but withthe Lannd; until in time, ‘tis carryed off by the Cirwhich like the Stream of a River in a Flood, , but thofe things laft, which ftick in the Mud. ft, though Permanent, yet is Diffifive or ble, that as there isa lefs admixture ofAer; fiable Paris, whereby theyare conveyed, Fibers, from one Part to another. have the fame Taife, as the Root of Contrayerua: and maytherefore be ufed for the fame purpofe, with a probability of the like fuccefs; if not a better, becaufe they may be gotten frefher. But by drying the Root, the Taf? and Virtue, which Jie in its exhalible parts, are much loft. The Seeds ofthe lefler Cardamom, and of Zedoary Root, iffound; have both a {match of the Taf? of Camphire. They may thereforeall, fo far, reach the fame Cafe. 3. g. Again, as we may make no ill conjecture from the famenefs of Tafte in Plants offeveral Tribess, {o from the diverfityof Tafte,in thofe ofthe fame. So the Flowers ofall the Docks are evidently Ajtra : and not Sower ; except thofe of the Rha-potick, which are extream fower, even in the 5th degree. Which is no mean Signature of fome more than ordinary Virtwe in it, befides what it hath in commen with he relt of the Tribe. The Flowers of Pancy have a kind of fulfome Tuff, plainly different from that of Violets: and in fome Hypochondriacal Gajes may be more ufeful. 4. §. It likewife importeth much,to obfervethe difference of Taffe in the feveral Parts of the fame Plant. So the Barque of Saffaftas is three times as ftrong, as the Wood: and the like may be obferved in any other commonly known Tree. If therefore we could obtein the Barques ofSantalum, Lignum Rhodium, Lignum Aloes, &c. they would doubt- le, moft of them, be of much greater ufe. Andas the Taffe is fome- times ftronger; fo, much more grateful; in one Part than in another asin the Flowers or YeVow Attire in the Heads of Carduus Beneditus : Cele ACRaa Vs ich may be made of the VIRTUES of Plants, from their Tatts. byduly obferving the Tufts of Plants, we maybe directed to underftand their Canfés. So alfo the Ose and Virtues of thofe Plants or Parts of Plants in which theyrefide. Forthe proof whereof, an Infiance might be fetched from every particular difference of Tasbefore fet down. But it may be enough, to give thefe which follow, 2. §. And firft, we may make no ill guefs ex here wefind the fame Tas#, that there the fame Virtue nd in fome degree, may refide. So Falap, Mercury, e all of them that exafperating Tat in the Throat beat y are all three more orlefs Cathartick. Where» that other Plaxts which make the like Jwand there are many others which do, that like Cathartich, Thofe Plants which shiefeft Cephalicks, caufe rather a diupon the Tongue, as Pyrethrum, Enfeemeth therefore reafonable to ough not ufed, which produceth young Roots of Yarrow, or Millefolium, have which being infufed in spirit of Wine, or other convenient Liquor, make a pleafant Cordial. Nature having laped up the Virtwe in the Leavs, as ina brown Papers but inthe Flowers, as in Leaf-Gold. 5. §. Asalfo, howfar the Taffeof any Plant mayalter, either in preferving, or preparing it. So the Root of Arum, when taken frefh out of the ground, is notably Pungewt : but being throughly dryed, andefpecially kept for fome time, hath no more Taj/fe, and therefore in all likelyhood, no more Virtue, than a Lump of Starch, The like we are to judge of all other Plants, whofe Virtue lieth in their exhali- ble Parts. The stzi/latitions Oyls of many Plants, are {tronger than the Leavs or other Parts from whence they are drawn: but fome there are, which are weaker 3 as isthat of Exphorbinm, in which the Heatis neither pertinaceous, as in the Gzvit felf, nor fo great. 6. § Wemay make, moreover, a jugdment from the Nature of the Taft. Sothofe Roots which are Bitter, and not Hot, as ofCichory, and the reft of the Ivtybows kind, may be accounted Nitro-sulphureows 5 and fo, to be Abfferfive without any Heating Quality. The Marum Auftriacum, which is extream Pungent, as well as Aromatick, may be looked upon as the beft Cephalich of that Tribe. Becatfle we find, that Falup hath a {pecial property of imitating the Glandulous Parts of the Mosth, and Throat; we may gather, That it is a better Puree to all the other Glawdulous Parts, than moft other Catharttchs. Whichis alfo one reafonof its operation, for the moft part, with at leaft a tendency to vomit 5 the Stomach it {elf being Glandulous as well as the Throat, and therebyan{werably affected with it. A ftrong Infi fion of white Sarzaparilla in Water, botled up , and kept in a Cel/ar for ‘the {pace of two months, becomes extream fower5 far beyond any thing obferved in the Ta/ts of the Jee sed Infulions of divers other ee Plants |