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fpleen ; it is good to remove women’s courfes, to expel the after-birth, to break . 
wind, to provoke urine, and help the f{tranguary ; and thefe things the feeds will do 
likewife. If either of them be boiled in wine, or being bruifed and taken in wine, it 
is alfo effectual againft the biting of ferpents. And now you know what alexander 
pottage is good for, that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance, but out of 
knowledge. 
AG BLACK ALOE® tee 8 
Dzscription and Names. THIS groweth up like a fmall thrub, or buth, and 
fpreads in many branches ; the wood is white, and red at the core, the bark blackifh 
with white f{pots, the inner bark yellow, the leaves fomewhat- like the common 
alder, the flowers are white, and come forth at the joints with the leaves, the berries 
are round, firft green, then red and black when they are ripe. The Latins call it 
frangula, and alnus nigra baccifera 5 in Hamphhire we ufually know it by the 
name of dogwood. sf 
Piacr. This tree or fhrub may be found plentifully i in St. John’s wood, ws 
Hornfey, and in the woods upon Hampftead heath, as alfo at a wood called the Old | 
Park at Barcomb in Suffex, near the brook’s fide. ; 
Time. It flowereth in May, and the berries are ripe in Bepeuiben 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues *. Itis a tree of Saturn. The inner bark hereof 
purgeth downwards both choler and phlegm, and the watery humours of fuch as 
have the dropfy, and ftrengtheneth the inward parts again by binding. If the bark 
hereof be boiled with agrimony, wormwood, dodder, hops, and fome fennel, with 
fmallage, endive, and fuccory roots, and a reafonable draught taken every morning: 
_ for fome time together, it is very effectual againft the jaundice, dropfy, and the. 
evil difpofition of the body; efpecially if fome fuitable purging medicine have 
been taken before to avoid the groffer excrements ; it purgeth and ftrengtheneth 
the liver and fpleen, cleanfing them from fuch evil humours and hardnefs as they 
are afflicted with. It is to be underftood, that thefe things are performed by the 
dried bark, for the frefh green bark taken inwardly, provoketh ftrong vomitings, — 
pains in the ftomach, and gripings in the belly: yet if the decoction may ftand and. 
fetrle two or three days until the yellow: reece oat black, it will not onal 
* The Gea teaves of this teeapplied ao eumourydieues them, and tabesolioteis@artions: 
Being put into traveller’s fhoes, they eafe pain, and remove wearinefs. A black colour Bie as : 
ink, is made with the bark of alder rubbed off with a rufty iron, and infuled in water for Some 
days. Some ufe it to dye, 
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