83 FAMILY HERBAL. 



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The seed vessel is roundish^ and the seeds "are 

 black. They are apt to he mixed among grain, 

 and give the flour an ill taste. 



The seeds are used ; thej w^ork by urine, and 

 6pen all obstructions ; thej promote the menses, 

 and are good in the dropsy and jaundice ; the 

 best way of giving them is powdered, and put 

 iuto an electuary to be taken for a continuance 

 of time : for these medicines, 'whose virtues are 

 against chronic diseases, do not take effect at once. 

 Many have discontinued them for that reason : and 

 the world in general is, from the same cause, become 

 fond of chymical medicines, but these are safer, and 

 they are more to be depended upon ; and if the two 

 practices were fairly tried^ chymical medicines 

 would loose their credit. 



The CocuLus Indi Tree. Arbor coculos Indi' 



cos fcrens. 



A MODERATELY large tree, native of the 

 warmer parts of the world. It is ircegular in 

 its growth, and full of branches ; the leaves are 

 short, broad, and of a heart-like shape ; they 

 are thick, fleshy, small, and of a dusky green ; the 

 flowers are small, and stand in clusters ; Ihe fruits 

 follow these, they are of the bigness of a large 

 pea, roundish, but with a dent oii one side, 

 wrinkled, friable, and brown in colour, and of 

 an ill smell. 



The powder of these strewed upon children's 

 lieads that have vermin destroys them, people also 

 intoxicate fish by it. Make a pound of paste, with 

 flour and water, and add a little red led to colour 

 it, add to it two ounces of the coculus indi pow- 

 dered. See where roach and other fish rise, and 



throw in the paste in small pieces, they will take it 





