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the roots of it and parfley, and fennel, and fmallage, in white wine, and drink the = 
decoction, adding the like quantity of grafs-roots to them: the more of the roots 
you boil, the ftronger will the decoction be; it works no ill effects, yet L-hope you ~ 
have wit enough to give the firongeft decoction to the ftrongeft bodies. 
MIG BROOM ad BROOMRAPE, 
TO {pend time in writing a defcription hereof is altogether needlefs, it being 
fo generally ufed by all the good houlewives almoft through this land to fweep 
their houfes with, and therefore very well known to all forts of people. 
_' The broomrape fpringeth up on many places from the roots of the broom, but 
more often in fields, or by hedge-fides, and on heaths. The ftalk whereof is of the 
bignefs of a finger or thumb, above two feet high, having a fhew of leaves on 
them, and many flowers at the top, of a deadith yellow colour, as alfo the ftalks 
and leaves are. 
Pace. They grow in many 
{poil all the land they grow in, 
Time. 
places of this land commonly, and as commonly — 
or decoction of the young branchesor 
rink, purgeth downwards, and draweth 
oints, whereby it helpeth the dropfy, pe 
and joints: It alfo provoketh ftrong vomits, 
and fwellings of the fpleen, cleanfeth alfo the 
the. ftone, provoketh urine abundantly, and 
e ftone in the body. The continual ufé of the es 
cure the black jaundice : The diftilled water 
the fame purpofes: It alfo helpeth furfeits, and 
= SEUSS, if three or four ounces thereof, with as much of the water 
centsury, and a little fugar put therein, be taken a little before the ft 
party be laid down to fweat in their bed. The oil or water that is 
$ of the Green fticks heated ‘in the fire, helpeth the tooth ach. 
ing branches made into an ointment of old hog’s greate and 
, ee bruifed and heated in oil or hog’s greafe, and laid 
nakg ttitches, or the fpleen, eafeth them in once or twice 
iy is the fafeft and fureft medicine to kill lice in the if 
pec’ Temedy for joint-achs and fwoln knees — 
The . 
