Ulmi. Of Elm. Moderately hot and cleansing, good for wounds, burns, and broken bones, viz. boiled in water and the grieved place bathed with it.
WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS, OR RASPINGS.
A Gallochus, Lignum Aloes. Wood of Aloes; is moderately hot and dry: a good cordial: a rich perfume, a great strengthener to the stomach.
Aspalathus. Rose-wood. It is moderately hot and dry, stops looseness, provokes urine, and is excellent to cleanse filthy ulcers.
Bresilium. Brasil. All the use I know of it is, to die cloth, and leather, and make red ink.
Buxus. Box. Many Physicians have written of it, but no physical virtue of it.
Cypressus. Cypress. The Wood laid amongst cloaths, secures them from moths. See the leaves.
Ebenum. Ebony. It is held to clear the sight, being either boiled in wine, or burnt to ashes.
Guajacum, Lignum vitm. Dries, attenuates, causes sweat, resists putrefaction, is good for the French disease, as also for ulcers, scabs, and leprosy: it is used in diet drinks.