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160 FAMILY HERBAL. 



abler time ; for these effects cannot be produced 



at once. 



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What is called gum guaiacum, is the resin pour- 

 ed from this tree ; it is very acrid and pungent^ 

 and iw the rheumatism and many other cases is to 

 be preferred to the wood itself, 



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ILire's Ears. BupleurorilatifoUum. 



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A COMMON wild plant in some parts of 



Europe^ but kept here in gardens. It is two feet 

 or more in height. The leaves are long and broad^ 

 of 3 stiff substance, and somewhat hollowed, which 

 £;ivc5 them the appearance of a long and hollow 

 cuTj from whence they are named ; they are of a 

 whitish green colour^ and the ribs upon them are 

 high. There is a sort with narrow leaves^ but the 

 broad leaved kind is to be used in medicine. The 

 stalks are rounds upright, striated^ and toward the 

 top branched, The flowers are little and yelio\ 

 and t!]ey stand at the tops of the branches in sma 

 umbels. The root is long and thipk^ and has mi- 

 11 V fibres. 



The young;' shoots of the leaves wbicli fi-row 

 from the root^ are esteemed exceedingly in places 

 where they are native^ for the cure of fresh wounds. 

 They cut two or three of these off close to the 

 ground, and without bruising them, first closing 

 the lips of the wound, they lay them on (?ne over 

 ili^ other, making a kind of compress ; they the;i 

 bind them on with linen rags^ and never take off 

 the dressinij for three da vs. at the end of v.hich 

 tune in most cases they only find a scar : the cure 

 being perfected. This k the substance of a pomp- 



