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deflroy the worms either in man or beaft, and by dropping the juice into the ears; 
it will kill the worms and bring forth earwigs or other infects gotten therein. The- 
decoction of the root allayeth inflammations, eafeth the pains of the gout, the hard 
tumours or knots in the joints, the pains and fhrinkings of the finews, and the 
pains of the hips.. The fi eth j juice mixed with a little oil and butter, is an exceed 
ing good cure for burns. 
(gZJ HENBANE 
Description. THE common henbane ‘hath very large, thick, foft, woolly 
leaves, lying upon the ground, much cut or torn on the edges, of adark, ill, grey- 
ifh green colour; from among thefe rife up feveral thick and fhort ftalks, two or 
three feet high, fpread into many fmaller branches with lefs leaves thereon, bearing 
{mall yellow flowers, which fcarce appear above the hufks ; they are ufually torn 
on the one fide, ending in five round points growing one above another, of a dead 
yellowith colour, fomewhat paler toward the edges, with many purpleifh veins, and 
of a dark yellowith purple colour at the bottom of the flower, witha {mall pointle 
of the fame colour in the middle, each of them ftands in a hard clofe hufk, fome-_ 
what like thofe of afarabaca, and rather fharp at the top points, containing much 
fmall feed, very like poppy-feed but of a dufky greyifh colour. The root is larges 
white, and thick, branching forth many ways under ground, not much unlike a 
parfnip, except in colour, and is, together with the plant, of a very ftrong, co 
ble, and offenfive {mell. 
Prace. It generally groweth near pathways, and under os fides of hedges 
and old walls. 
Time. It bloffoms in July, and fritincseel annually from i its own fowing; though 
“many believe it to flower much earlier. 
_ GoveRNMENT and Virtus. It is aSaturnine plant. The leaves are good for 
dling hot inflammations in the eyes, or other parts of the body ; and being boiled 
n wine and ufed as a foment, it will affwage all manner of {wellings, either in the 
otum, womens’ breafis, or other parts of the body; alfo the gout, fciatica, and 
pains "the joints, if proceeding from a hot caufe. Being applied with vinegar 
forehead an temples, helpeth the head ach, and caufeth thofe to fleep who are 
‘by hot violent fevers. The oil of the feed is good for the deafnel$, 
noife, and worms the ears, The j juice of the herb or feed, or the oil drawn from 
the feed, will anfwer all the aforefaid purpofes, 
TmeeG &.. HY $8 0.P of — 
Desa PvtOne THERE are feveral forts of this plant, the firft of which is 2 
native of Italy, and only reared here by the curious, Two or three kinds however 
grow 
