25lf FAMILY HERBAL. 



The root is used. It is of a brownisirrolcur, 

 rough on the surface^ and woody, but loose in its 

 texture. It is to be given in infusion. It is aa 

 excellent medicine in the gravely and in suppres* 

 lions of urine', as also in the quinzy, and in pleu- 

 risies^ and peripneu monies. It works the most 

 powerfully^ and the most suddenly/ by urine of 

 any medicine : and is so excellent in forcing awaj 

 gravd and small stones^ that some have pretended 

 it a remedy for the stone^ and said it would dissolve 

 and break it. This ih going too far ; no medicine 

 has been found that has that effect, nor can it be 

 supposed (hat any can. Great good has been 

 done by those medicines which the parliament 

 purchased of Mrs. Stephens, more than perhaps^ 

 by any other whatsoever, in this terrible complaint ; 

 but they never dissolved a large and hard stone. 

 Indeed there needs no more to bq assured of this^ 

 than to examine one of those stones ; it will not 

 be supposed^ any tliing that the bladder can bear^ 



will be able to dissolve so firm and solid a substance. 



PARSLr. Petroselinum. 



A VERY common plant in our gardens, useful 

 in the kitchen, and in medicine. It grows to two 

 feet m height. The leaves are composed of many 

 small parts : they are divided into three, and then 

 into a multitude of sub-divisious : they are of a 

 bright green, and indented. The stalks are round, 

 angolated, or deeply striated, slender, upright, 

 ».nd branched. The flowers are small and white ; 

 and they stand in large tufts at the tops of the 

 branches. The seeds are roundish and striated. 

 The root is long and white. 



The roots are the part used in medicine. A 



