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let them lie all night in fteep in a pottle of white wine, and in the morning be boiled 
in a clofe earthen veffel until a third part or more be wafted, which being ftrained 
and cleared, take four ounces thereof morning and evening, firft and laft, abftain- 
ing from drink after it for three hours. This openeth obitructions of the liver and 
iplera, and expelleth the dropfy and jaundice by urine. 
PARSLEY-PIERT, or PARSLEY-BREAKSTONE. 
Descriprion. THE root, although it be fmall and thready, yet it continues 
many years, from whence arife many leaves lying along upon the ground, each 
ftanding upon a long fmall footftalk, the leaves as broad as a man’s nail, very deeply 
indented on the edges, fomewhat like a parfley leaf, but of a very dusky green co- 
four. The ftalks are very weak and flender, about three or four fingers in length, 
fet fo full of leaves that they can hardly be feen, either having no footftalk at all, 
or but very fhort. The flowers are fo {mall they can hardly be feen, and the feed is 
{carcely perceptible at all. . 
Prac. It is common through all parts of, the kingdom, and is generally to be 
met with in barren, fandy, and moitt, places. It may be found plentifully about 
Hampftead-heath, in Hyde-park, and in other places near London. 
Time. It may be found all the fummer through, from the beginning of — 
the end of Oétober. 
_ GoverNMeNT AND Virtuszs, Itsoperation is very prevalent to provoke urine 
and to break the ftone. It is a very good fallad herb, and would pickle for winter 
ufe as well as famphire. It isa very wholefome herb. A dram of the powder of it, 
taken in white wine, brings away gravel from the kidneys met and without 
are, Tt alfo helps the pliant . 
Tb PARSNIP. 
THE garden kind thereof i is fo well known (the root lccenemnindy eaten) fies 
to particularize it is totally unneceffary ; but, the es ne 
ule, the following is its 
- Description, The wild parfnip differeth little feted that of the eediit be on 
not grow fo fair or large, nor has it fo many leaves ; the root is fhorter, more woody, ; 
_ and not fo ft-to be eaten therefore the more medicinal. ee 
 Phace. Thenameof the firft fheweth the place of its growth. 
