The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
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a kind of Spikes at the Top of the Branches. 
The whole Plant is covered in the Summer 
Months with a kind of Balfam, which is gluti- 
nous to the Touch, and of a very fragrant Smell: 
This is fo inflamable, that if a Candle be brought 
near any Part of the Plant, it takes Fire and 
goes off in a Flafh alf over the Plant. This does 
itno harm, and may be repeated after three or _ 
four Days, a new Quantity of the Balfam being 
produced in that Time. The Roots of this Plant 
are the only Part ufed, and they are kept dry by the 
Druggifts. They are commended in Fevers, and 
in nervous and hyfteric Cafes, but their Virtues 
are not great. I have found an Infufion of the 
Tops of the Plant, a very pleafant and excellent 
Medicine in the Gravel; it works powerfully by 
Urine, and gives eafe in thofe Cholicky Pains 
which frequently attend upon that Diforder, —__ 
“""SHarp-POINTED Dock. 
LAPATHUM FOLIO ACUTO. 
A Common Plant, like the ordinary Dock but 
* foinewhat handfomer, and diftinguifhed by — 
the Figure of its Leaves, which are fharp-point 
not obtufe as in that, and are alfo fomewhat nar- — 
rower and longer. The Plant grows three Foot 
high. The Stalks are erect, green, round, ftri- 
ated and branched. The Leaves are of a fine mn : 
