yo. | CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
The dwarf-elder is more powerful than the common in opening-and purging 
choler, phlegm, and water; it helpeth the gout, piles, and the difeafes incident to 
women; it coloureth the hair black, helpeth the inflammations of the eyes, and 
pains of the ears, the biting of ferpents or mad dogs, burnings and fcaldings, the 
wind cholic, the {tone, the difficulty of urine, and the cure of old fores and fiftulous 
ulcers. Dr. Butler obferves, that the decoction of elder is a moft excellent relief 
for the dropfy. 
EG Ri Mucquehs new <0, 
Description. This plant hath long leaves, deeply cut or jagged on the edges, 
not much unlike the leaves of wild muftard; the ftalks are finall, flender, and 
pliant, and will twift and wind like the withy. Upon each of thefe ftalks grow 
many yellow flowers ; which are followed: by long lender hufks, containing feed of 
a fharp biting tafte; the root is very long and thick, with many fmall ftrings or 
threads hanging thereto, 
Piacez. It delights in ftony, untilled places, and is to be found in moft of the 
bye-paths and bank-fides in this kingdom. - 
Time, It generally flowereth in the months of June and July, though their blof- 
foms are fometimes feen later in the year. } 
Governmint anv Virtues. The feed of this plant taken with honey, ripeneth 
and caufeth the evacuation of tough and clammy phlegm; it is alfo good againft 
the thortnefs of breath, and is effectual in removing an old cough. If the feed is 
-fteeped in fair water and then dried by the fire, it is good for the gripings of the 
__ belly, and expelleth all venom and poifon.. An ointment made of the feed, confum- 
_ eth and wafteth all hard fwellings and. impofthumes behind the ears, ‘as alfo ¢ can- 
‘Aer: eee tesihnae in the breafts, genitals, &c. ot 
bier Er roa AON T FN. 
> Deine, and phinpiiel rofe. The Latins call it cynorrbodon, and the 
| .. “Another fpecis of —— is the dog-rofe, and all. other 
Time and races The fweet-bryar, iro its fraetane and pleafant fell is 
cultivated in moft gar lens and ‘Ppleafure grounds. It grows likewife wild in the 
borders of fields, an | in woods, in almoft every part of this kingdom ; but not by 
far fo plentifully a8 the dog-rofe. Tt begins to thoot forth its buds early in the 
{pring, and flourifheth and floweret during the time of all the other rofe-trees- 
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