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388 , CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Mifuenfe, and: masy,more. The feed of this wormwood is that. which afually 
women give their children for the worms: of all wormwoods. that grow. here, this 
is the weakelt.. The. feeds of the. common. wormwood. are far more prevalent. than” i ‘a 
the feed of this. to expel worms in children, or peo ple of ripe age... Of both, fome 
are weak, fome are ftrong. - The Seri phiaa wormeed is the weakelt, and haply may 
prove to be fitteft for weakeft bodies. Let fuch as are {trong take the common 
wormfeed, forthe other will do but little good. Its due praife is this; it is sie 
therefore fitter for weak bodies. | 
: PLaces It grows familiarly i in England by the ad fide. .; ; 
. Dgscrivtion. It ftarts up.out of the earth with many.round woody ite ftalks 
from one root; its height is four feet, or three at the leat. ~The leaves arelong, 
| narrow, white, hoary, like fouthernwood, only broader and longer, in tafte rather 
fale than bitter, becaufe it grows fo near the fale water: at the joints with thelleaves, 
: toward the tops, it bears little yellow flowers. .The root lies oe and i is picts SG. 
= Common wormwood I need not defcribe. val 
Description or Roman Wormwoop. Theftalksare Geabeat and Shenscstbal oa 
the common wormwood by one foot at leaft; the leaves are more finely cut anddi- 
vided than they are, but fomething fmaller ; both leaves and ftalks are hoary ; the 
flowers of a pale yellow colour; it is altogether like the common wormwood, Ar ne 
only that it is fmaller, not fo bitter, and of a fweeter {mell. ne ; 
Prace.. It groweth upon the tops of the mountains; but is ufually waite upin 
| gardens for the ufe of the apothecaries i in London. watt oo 
as Time. | All wormwgods ufually flower in Auguft, a Celetmmnis or satel h esoe 
— Governmenr xp Virtuss, Wormwood isan herb. of Mars,.It is: hot and ; 
dry in the firft degree. viz. juft ashot as your blood, and no hotter... e.remedies 
2 _ the evils choler can infli& on the body of man by fympathy ; it helps the evils Ver | 
‘hus produces by antipathy ; and it cleanfeth the body of choler. It provokes urine, — 
helps furfeits, fwellings in the belly; ic caufeth an appetite tor meat, becaufe Mars 
ales the attractive faculty in man: the Sun never fhone upon a better herb 
e yellow jaundice than this. Take the flowers of wormwood, rofemary, | and 
3 Sa — quantity, half that quantity of faffron, boil this | in Pa 
vine, but put not in the faffron till it is almoft boiled : this is the - way 0 : 
man’s dody i in hedlth, appointed by Camerarius, in his book, intituled, x 
a cus. Befides all this, wormwood provokes the terms.’ Wormwood, a 
rooms ar under the dominion of Saturn; ; ifany have ae himfelf Ey a if 
Pi nies 
a herb of Mars, isa prefent remedy for the biting Of Pate’and mice -Molh- ae 
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