In Italy, when a countreyman finds any pain in his side, he drinks a pint of the fresh oyl of this nut, and finds immediate ease: And more famous is the wonderful cure, which the _fungus_ substance separating the lobs of the kernel, pulveriz'd and drank in wine, in a moderate quantity, did recover the English army in Ireland of a dyssentary, when no other remedy could prevail: The same also in pleurisies, &c.

The juice of the outward rind of the nut, makes an excellent gargle for a sore-throat: The kernel being rubb'd upon any crack or chink of a leaking or crazy vessel, stops it better than either clay, pitch, or wax: In France they eat them blanch'd and fresh, with wine and salt, having first cut them out of the shells before they are hardned, with a short broad brass-knife, because iron rusts, and these they call _cernois_, from their manner of scooping them out.

Lastly, of the _fungus_ emerging from the trunk of an old tree, (and indeed some others) is made touch-wood, artificially prepar'd in a _lixivium_ or lye, dried, and beaten flat, and then boil'd with salt-peter, to render it apter to kindle.

The tree wounded in the Spring, yields a liquor, which makes an artificial wine.
See Birch, cap.XVII.Of other species, see Mr.Ray's _Dendrolog._ Tom.
III.p.5, 6.
FOOTNOTES: {101:1} See Servius introduc'd discoursing of this and other nuts, _Macrob.

Saturn._ l.3.c.