Part 681 of An Irish Materia Medica

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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

subsection 67

67. Butirum: i.e. butter; it is hot and wet in the first degree; it has the maturing, dissolving, and softening virtues; it has the virtue of reducing pain; the body is increased and fattened; it is powerful for wounds of the nerves; it cleans wounds. Item, if it be rubbed to

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the gums of infants, it will cause their teeth to grow; it serves well against a cold cough; it serves well against pneumonia and pleurisy, because it matures them; it readily provokes saliva, and prevents the spitting of blood.

Of calamint
of pignut
of dwarf elder
of hound's tongue
of ashes
of pyrenean valerian
of seed of the spurge laurel
of white poppy
of hart's horn
of gromwell
of garden cabbage
of celandine
of centaury
of chervil
of lead
of wall pennywort
of horehound¹⁶⁶
of cinnamon
of sulphur
of colophony
of colocynth
of comfrey

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of ox-eye daisy
of daisy
of seed of hemlock
of red coral
of melilot
of coriander
of knotgrass
of saffron
of cubebs
of seed of spurge
of gourd
of dodder.