ARMENIAN BOLE. From that part of Armenia next to Cappadocia. Both of a deep and a pale Red. Very soft, and easily rub'd to powder. Never makes any ebullition with Acids. First brought to Rome in Galen's time, when the Plague was there. In which, and other Malignant Diseases, it hath generally been esteemed of good use. Joubertus relates, as a Testimony of its Virtue, That four men preparing some Cathartick of Antimony, were all well nigh suffocated. And that upon his giving them each ℈ij of this Bole, they became very well. But the question is, Whether so soon as they were got out of the reach of the Antimonial Fumes, (from which we may be sure he took them) they would not have been well without it?