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GovERNMENT anv Virtugs. The herb is under the dominion of the moon, and 
therefore.coals and moiftens like the former. The leaves and flowers of the water- 
be lillies are cold and moift, but the root and feed are cold and dry the leaves cool all 
inflammations, and both outward and inward heats of agues, and fo do the flowers, 
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WHITE LYULEEE s: 
IT being unneceffary to defcribe a plant fo common as to be met with in almoft 
every flower-garden, fuffice it to detail their 
Government anp Virtues. They are under the dominion of the moon, and, by 
a antipathy to. Mars, expel poifon ; they are exceedingly ufeful in peftilential fevers, 
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| the roots being bruifed and boiled in wine, and the decoction drunk, expelling the 
| Poifon to the exterior parts of the body; the juice of it being tempered with barley- 
is meal baked, and eaten as ordinary bread, is an excellent cure for the dropfy. An 
ointment made of the root with hogs-lard is exceedingly good for {cald heads, and _ 
Unites the finews when cut; it has alfo great virtue in cleanfing ulcers, it being of © 
2 fine fuppurating quality; the root, boiled in any convenient decoétion, gives 
fpeedy delivery to women in travail, and expels the after-birth. The root, roafted 
_. and mixed with a little hogs-lard, makes an excellent poultice to ripen and break 
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{pie free The ointment is alfo exttemely good for fwellings in the privities, 
_ and cures burns and fcalds without leaving any {car , a wt isa re a agamntt 
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~The decoétion of the white or yellow lillies, mide of the feeds, roots, or leaves, is 
a - fay in Siptne nocturnal green occahoned “he dreams. = 
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GOL pipers | ‘of the VAELEy,’ 
CALLED alfo Conval Lilly, May Lilly, and Lilly Confuney. 
| . Dascription, : The root is fmall, and creepeth far in the ground, as grafs roots 
os theleave are STany 5-20 ft which rifeth wpa talk half a foot high, with 
| orp ad, and not much unlike 2 oP aa, 
ha Pew sire grow plentifully upon Hampfend-henth, and in various other 
he kingdom. ‘ 
~ Time, They flower in. May, and the feed i 1S oe in Beparinte 2a 
Pan Viatues. “tis under the dominion of Mercury, and theres 
re, without doubt, strengthens the brain, renovates a weak memory, and makes a 
| vit ftrong ain, » The diftilled water, dropped into the eyes, helps inflamimations 
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