AND COMPLETE HERBAL. rt 
GovERNMENT AND Virtuss. Sweet-briar is under the dominion of Jupiter, and 
the dog-rofe is under the Moon. The leaves of the flowers are not fo efficacious in 
medicine as rofe leaves, which being more abundant, are always ufed in preference. 
The {pungy apples or balis which are found upon the eglantine, if pounded to a 
pafte, and mixed with honey and wood afhes, is an excellent remedy for the alopecia, 
or falling off of the hair ; and being dried and powdered, and taken in white wine, 
4s good againft the ftone and gravel, removing the ftranguary, and ftrengthening 
the kidnies. The fame boiled in a ftrong decoction of the roots, is good to heal 
the bitings of venomous beafts, or mad dogs. The red berries which fucceed the 
flowers, called hips, if made into a conferve, and eaten occafionally, gently bind the 
belly, {top defluxions of the head and ftemach, help digeftion, fharpen the appe- 
tite, and drieth up the moifture of cold rheumand phlegm upon the ftomach. The 
powder of the dried pulp is an excellent remedy for the whites ; and if mixed with 
the powder of the balls, and given in {mall quantities, is an excellent remedy for the 
cholic, and to deftroy worms. : | cteth fat 
EUPHORBIUM, or GUM-THISTLE, 
THIS plant is fo well known, and fo common in every part of this kingdom, 
that any defcription of it would be altogether fuperfluous. cae 
Prace. They grow in moft fields and meadows throughout this kingdom, and 
particularly in grounds fowed with corn. fits 
Time. They flower from the beginning of June until the end of September ; and 
the feed progreffively ripens from the end of Juneto the beginning of November. 
~ Government anv Vratvzs., This plant is under the dominion of the planet 
Mars, and partakes more of his fiery nature than any of the other chiles. It is hot 
and dry in the fourth degree, being a perfedt cauftic, and of thin parts. Anem- 
plaifter made of it, with twelve times as much oil, and a little wax, heals all achs of 
the joints, lamenefs, palfies, cramps, and fhrinkings of the finews. © Mixed with oil 
of bay and bear’s greafe, it healeth feurfs and fealds in the head, and reftoreth loft 
hait ; applied with oil to the temples, it healeth the lethargy, and by putting it 
“to the nape of the neck, it preventeth the apoplexy. Being mixed with vinegar it — 
-removeth all blemifhes of the fkin, or with other ointments, it heateth the parts that 
are cold, and healeth the {ciatica. Taken inwardly, it fretteth the intrails and fcorche 
eth the whole body, therefore mutt be beaten fmall, and tempered with fomething 
that lubrifies and allayeth its heat and fharpnefs, and then it purgeth water and > eek 
phlegm. The remedy is anteuphorbium, which is fucculent, cold, and flimy. fee 
pills of euphorbium greatly helpeth dropfies, pains in the loins, and gouts, by 
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