114 FAMILY herbal: 



the plant, a yery pleasant and excellent medicine in 

 the gravel ; it works powerfully bj urine, and gives 

 ease in those colicy pains which frequently attend 



upon the disorder. 



Sharp-pointed Dock. Lopaihum folio acuta. 



A COMMON plant, like the ordinary dock, but 

 somewhat handsomer, and distinguished by the 

 figure of its leaves, which are sharp-pointed, not 

 obtuse as in that, and are also somewhat narrower 

 and longer. The plant grows three foot high. 

 The stalks arc erect, green, round, striated and 

 branched. The leaves are of a fine green, smooth^ 

 neither crumpled on the surface, nor curled at the 

 €dges, and have large ribs. The flowers are small, 

 at first greenish, then paler, and lastly, they dry and 

 become brown. The root is long, thick, and of a 

 tawny colour. 



The root is the parf. used. It is excellent a- 

 gainst the scurvy, and is one of the best things we 

 know, for what is called sweetening the blood. It 

 is best given in diet drinks and decoctions. Used 

 outwardly, it cures the itch, and other foulness of 

 the skin ; it should be beat up with lard for thi* 



purpose. 



Great Wate^r Dock. Ilydvolapathum maxhnum. 



THIS is the largest of all the dock kinds ; they 

 have a general resemblance of one another, but this 

 is most of all like to the last described, in its man- 

 ner of growth, though vastly larger. It is fre- 

 quent about waters, and is five or six feet high. 

 The stalks are round, striated, thick and very up- 

 right, branched a little and hollow. The leaves 

 are vastly large; of a pale green colour, smooth^ 



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