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hollow, filling the place with good treacle, afterwards roafting it on ‘the aie. 
then throwing away the outward fkin, and beating the remainder well together, is 
accounted a fovereign remedy for either the plague-fore or any other putrid ulcer. 
The juice of onions is reckoned good for fcalds or burns, occafioned either by fire, 
boiling water, or'gunpowder; and, ufed with vinegar, taketh away all blemifhes, 
fpots, and marks, in the fkin ; and, dropped into the ears, eafeth the pain and noife 
thereof. If applied, beaten together with figs, they help to ripen, and caufe in 
puration in, impofthumes. 
_ Onions, if bruifed, and mixed with falt and honey, will effectually pareaait Warts, w 
caufing them to come out by the roots. 
_ Leeks participate of nearly the fame quality as onions, ehough not in fo great a 
degree, They are faid to be an antidote againft a furfeit occafioned by the eating of + 
mufhrooms, being firft baked under the embers, and then taken when doce 
cool to be eaten ; being boiled, and applied warm, sey re frepacet > 
OrR Prd! Wei EB. 
Description. COMMON orpine rifeth up with divers round brittle ftalks 
thick fet with fat and flefhy leaves, without any order, and very little dented about 
the edges, of a pale green colour; the flowers are white, or whitifh, growing in 
tufts, after which, come {mall chaff-like hufks, with feed-like duft in them. The 
‘roots are various in their thape and fize, and the plant does not grow fo Jag i in fone 
places as in others. 
It is to be found in almoft every part of this kingdom, moft commonly i in itis 
where it groweth to a larger fize than that which is is wild; 3 itis alfo to be found i in 
‘the thadowy- fides of fields and woods. _ 
Time. It flowereth about July, and: the feed i is ripe in “aan” 
Government anp Virtues. The moon owns this herb. ‘Orpine i is feldom fed 
‘in inward medicines with us, although Trague faith, from experience in Germany, 
that the diftilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the fto- = 
mach and bowels, and for ulcers in the lungs, liver, or other inward parts ; as alfo ) re 
inthe n matrix; being drunk for feveral days fucceffively, i it helpeth all thofe difeaf a 
he alfo fays it ftayeth the fharpnefs of the humours in the bloody flux, and other 
fluxes of the body, or in wounds ; the root thereof hath alfo the : fame effect it 
—ufed outwardly to cool any heat or inflammation t upon any hurt or ‘wound,’ ‘ 
. ee Pains of ‘them 5 as alfo to heal {calds o or ‘burns. The j juice thereof b 
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