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after Gonorrhoeas ; but for this Purpof itis} e t : é: = 
to boil fome better Sort of Turpentine, to the 
Confiftence and give it. Bi a 
Prony. 
P HONIA. ee 
A Flower common in our Gardens, but of great 
Ufe as well as Ornament. The common 
double Piony, is not the Kind ufed in Medicine: 
_ This is called the female Piony, the fingle flowered 
_ One called the male Piony, is the right Kind. 
_ This grows two or three Feet high. The Stalk 
is round, ftriated, and branched: The Leaves are 
of adeep Green, and on each compofed of feveral 
others: The Flowers are very large, and of a deep 
Purple with a green Head in the Middle. When 
they are decayed, this Head fwells out into two | 
or more Seed Veffels, which are whitifh and hairy 
on the Outfide, and red within, and full of black 
~ Seeds. The Root is compofed of a Number of 
loncith or roundifh Lumps connetted by Fibres — 
to the main Source of the Stalk, thefe are brown 
on the Outfide, and whitifh within. 
' "The Roots are ufed,; an Infufion of them pro- 
motes the Menfes. The Powder of them dried 
is good againft hyfteric and nervous Complaints. — 
It is particularly recommended againft the falling. 
Sicknefs. : 
The PrsTACHIA TREE, 
PISTACHIA. 
Tree common in the Eaft. The Trunk is co- 
+ vered with a brown rough Bark, the Branches” 
grow irregularly, and their Bark is redifh. The 
Leaves are each compofed of feveral Pairs of fmall 
gnes; thefe are oblong, broad, and of a beautiful . 
