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eth the yellow jaundice, expelleth poifon, provoketh womens’ courfes, and driveth 
forth the dead child and afterbirth. Being drank with a drachm of the powder of - 
the feed, or the bark of the root of walwort, mixed with a little cinnamon for feveral 
«days together, is efteemed a fingular remedy for the dropfy ; the juice of the herb 
or the diftilled water dropped into the eyes, is a certain cure for all heat, inflamma- 
tions, and rednefs of them ; the fame put into foul ulcers, whether cankerous or 
fiftulous, with tents, or the parts wafhed or injeéted therewith, cleanfeth them 
thoroughly from the bottom, and healeth them up with fafety ; it alfo cleanfeth the 
_ fkin of the morphew, fcurf, wheals, pimples, or other fpots and blemithes, either 
ufed by it felf or with the powder of lupines. 
PEUGGE UL BR WOR THO | , 
DescriPTIoN. The ordinary fleawort rifeth up with a ftalk about two feet high, 
though fometimes higher ; full of joints and branches on every fide, quite up to the 
top ; at each of the joints grow two fmall, long, and narrow whitifh green leaves, 
which are fomewhat hairy. At the tops of the branches ftand feveral fmall, fhort, 
fealy, or chaffy heads, out of which come forth fimall whitifh yellow threads, fome- 
what like thofe of the plantane herbs, which are the bloffoms or flowers. The feed 
contained in thofe heads, is fmall and fhining, and very much refembles fleas, both 
in fize and colour, whilft it is frefh, but turns black as its age advances. The root 
isfhort, white, hard, and woody, perifhing every year, and rifing from its own feed, 
which it promifcuoufly fheds: The whole plant is rather whitith and hairy, fmelling. 
fomewhat like rofin. 
There is another fort hereof, differing not from the former i in the manner of j its 
growth, but the ftalks and branches are fomewhat greater, bending down towards 
the ground ; the leaves are rather larger, the heads a little lefs, and the feed very 
much alike. The root and leaves abide all the year, and do not perifh i in the winter 
feafon like the former. sie: 
Pract. The firft groweth only in gardens, but the fecond plentifully in fields 
and paftures near the fea. 
Time. They flower in July, o or tiereabente: : Pe ie 
Government anp Virtues. ‘Theherb is cold and dry, and of a Saturnine qua- 
Jity. The feed fried and taken, ftayeth the flux or lafk of the belly, and the corro- 
fions that proceed from hot, choleric, fharp, and malignant humours, or from Ma ie 
ftrong an operation of any medicine, as fcammony, &c. The mucilage of the feed 
made with rofe-water, and a little fugar-candy added thereto, is very peter 10 
agues and burning fevers and inflammations ; ; alfo to allay the thirft, and lenity the — 
