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eafe all pains of the body, opening the ftraight paflages, and making them flippery; 
whereby the ftone may defcend the more eafily, and without pain, out of the reins, 
kidneys, and bladder, and to eafe the torturing pains thereof ; but the roots are of 
more fpecial ufe for thofe purpofes, as well as for coughs, hoarfenefg, fhortnefs of 
breath, and wheefings, being boiled in wine or honeyed water, and drunk.~The— 
roots and feeds hereof, boiled in wine or water, are with good fuccefs ufed by them 
that have excoriations in the guts, or the bloody flux, by moderating the violence 
of fharp fretting humours, eafing the pains, and healing the forenefs; it is fuccefs- 
fully taken by them, that are troubled with ruptures, cramps, or convulGions of the 
finews ; and, when boiled in white wine, for impofthumes of the throat, commonly 
called the king’s evil, and of thofe kernels. that rife behind the ears, as well as in- 
flammations or fwellings in women’s breafts, The dried roots, boiled in-milk, and 
drunk, is very good for the chin-cough. Hippocrates ufed to give the decoétion of“ 
the roots, or the juice thereof, to drink, to thofe that were wounded and. ready to 
faint through lofs of blood, and applied the fame, mixed with honey. and rofin, to 
the wounds; as alfo the roots, boiled in wine, to thofe that had received any hurt 
by bruifes, falls, or blows ; or had any bone or member.out of joint, or any fwell- 
ing, pain, or ach, in the mufcles, finews, or arteries, The mucilage.of the roots, 
and of linfeed and fenugreek put together, is much ufed in poultices, ointments, 
and plaifters, to mollify and digeft all hard fwellings and the inflammation of them, 
and to eafe pains in any part of the: body. The feed, either green or dry, mixed 
with vinegar, cleanfeth.the skin from ascii and all other difcolourings, being 
bashed. therewith.in the fun, J 
: Opes ve TREE. 
pi demaerct anp Virtues. IT: is under the cbiices of Jupiter. The de- 
coétion either of the leaves or bark, greatly ftrengthens the liver, it is exceeding 
god to open obftruftons both ofthe liver and Spleens and eaeth pains ofthe Hides 
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| bei Sea pa origanum, baftard marjoram, and grove marjoram. 
Description. ‘Wild of field marjoram hath a root which cteepeth much under 
ground, and continue on} ‘time, fending up ‘fandry brownifh, hard, fquare, 
ftalks, with {mall dark-g -green leaves, very like thofe of {weet marjoram, but ae 
