gto The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
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LACTUCA SYLVESTRIS MAJOR. 
Common Plant in our Hedges, and having 
fome Refemblance. to the .Garden Let- 
tice in its Flowers, though not in its Man- 
ner of Growth. It is fix or feven Feet high. The 
Stalk is thick, round, very upright, branched, and _ 
of a pale yeHowifh green Colour. The Leaves at . 
the Bottom are very large, a Foot long, and five — 
Inches broad, and of a pale green Colour; thofe 
igher up the Stalks are fmaller, they are deeply 
indented atthe Edges, and either thefe, the Stalk, 
er any other Part of the Plant being wounded, 
there flows out a milky Juice, which has the Smell 
ef Opium, and its hot-bitter Tafte: The Branches 
are very numerous, and the Flowers are alfo very 
— but they are fmall and of a pale Yel- 
ow. 
This is.a Plant not introduced into the common 
Practice, but very worthy of that Notice. Ihave 
_ known it ufed in private Families, with great 
_ ~Suceeis. A Syrup made from a ftrong Infufion 
an excellent Anodyne ; it eafes the moft 
iolent Pain in Cholics, and other Diforders, and 
gently difpofes the Perfon to fleep. It has the 
good Effect of a gentle Opiate, and none of the 
bad ones of that violent Medicine. 
Scr it. 
violent 
-.  EELIUM ALBUM, ~*~. 
da great many grow upon it all the Way: 
_ Thefe are of the fine Shae long narrow, ge 
es be Gretta par ae “a tf 
