FAMILY HERBAL, 



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tolour. The flowers are white and smalU hut they 

 grow in a large tutt at the top of the stalk. The 

 rootiswbiiCj or a little reddish; it is composed 

 of a great numher of bulbs, or, as we call them, 

 cloveSj joined together^ and covered with a comraon 

 skill, and with fibres at the bottom. The whol^ 

 plant has an extremely strong smelly and an acrid 

 and pungent taste. 



The root is to be boiled in water, and the decoc- 

 tion made into sjrup with honey ; this is excellent 

 in asthmas, hoarseness^ and coughs, and in all diffi- 

 culties of breathing. 



Gentian. Gentiana, 



ROBUST 



d 



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Germany, and kept with us in gardens. 



two feet and a 

 from the root, are 

 green colour, and 



half high, 



ong 



native of 

 grows 



thick, firm, UDri^-ht. and 



The leaves that rise 

 3, of a yellQwish 

 cncs. The stalk 



lowishl 



or ve 



At every joint there stand two leaves like the others, 

 only smaller; and towards the tops at every joint, 

 also, there stand a number of flowers : these are 



small, yeHoWj 



th 



which 



the rudiment 



np ] 

 seed 



liddl 



and 



a 



great quantity of 



th 



large, long, and often 



bout it. The 



r 



L It is of a 



brownish colour on the outside, and yellow with 

 and is of a veryb 



The root i^ used ; oi 

 the great bitter and 



gists keep it d 



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o 



f the 



: it 

 dcrn 



practice 

 oranges, 

 fusions : 



Gent 



mak 



root, and the peel of Se 



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5 strengthening the stoniacl 

 creating an appetite, these open obstruction 



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 and 



