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Salmon^ 'Herbal. Lib. I, 



lary foliages, provokes un 

 aravel, and gritty Stones. ] 



, The Oily TinSure. 



Y^Va. The Oimment. It is good to cool Infl; 



a hot Caufe.- and is good to anoint on the Legs, l 

 difcufs Hvdropical Tumors. 



XIX. 'TheBalfam. Itis a good Vulneraiy, abat( 

 Inflamarions in Wounds and Ulcers, cleanfes thei 



XX. The CorreSion By reafon this Herb is fom- 

 thing Flatulent, or apt to ftir up Wind, it ought to 



Clar^el Effence, DecoSion, and Syrup,' with Am- 

 feedi, Carraways, Oaves, Fennell Seeds, Ginger, 

 Liquorice, ?epfer, Zedoary, &c. 



CHAP. XXX. 

 0/ A R R O W - H E A a 



ing,^^^. 



threefold , n/faV* myt .■ 

 Maiopiftana, FtJtanaMagonis BarbaSylvana Cxfal- 

 ^nVsagmaria major lanfoL, the greater broad 

 UxfA Arrow-head. 2, n««wM/xes!, Itagttt ana Mi- 

 nor Imfolia, the leffer broad Leaved Arrowhead. 

 3. Sagittaria Auiuftifolia, narrow Leav'd Arrow- 



Ill. The Deicription. The Greater broad Leav^ J 

 Arrow-head, or Water Archer ZLVcTuit hi 

 a thick Bufiy Root with mwy hbresor Strings, 'from 

 Stalks with great broad green Leaves on the tlps^If 

 ted parts, fo that the whole formZr "jhape ofZ 

 Leaf, « not much unlike 'f^^ finked Head of a Broad 

 <m are longer ; ichich parts 

 ler: From among ihefej^l 



IV The leffer Broad Leaved fort has alfo a thick 



d hufhy oriringy Root like the firmer, with broad 



'avesfiandtngupoK large Foot Stalks near two Feet 



e high, in fhape like t] ' 



bearing divert rows of Flowers at the Jaynts, one a- 

 bave an(^her, and for the moji part three in a row 

 each of which isccmpofed of three large white Leavel 

 with Several reddifh Threads in the midfl, after 

 which come tnthetr placet, foundYough Burrs, which 

 are green when they are tipe, much like to thofeqf 

 Spargamum, oj- the Burr Reed; in tmich Burrs Jg 

 ^lY."The% 



or more high, in Jhape like th former, but every way 

 leffer- among which nfes up a fat and thick Stalk, 

 fmeibmg higher than the Lemes, booing atyhe top 

 many pretty white Flowers, declining to a light Car^ 

 nvtion, but yet lefs than the fanner, made alfo of 

 three /mail Leaves, and in the -middle of which are 

 ''--d Reddifh Threads; which bang pajl, there 



■ Several Kncbsor Burrs greater than the former. 



ich in like manner are contained the Seed. 



The Narrow Leaifd Airow-head hoi a fmdl 



breadyRoot, from whence rife sup a tender Foot 

 t . X.- , . _ . , , . , attletopof which 



Tadth of the others 7 yet of their full kmth; and 



■ two lower forked' ones, are ahk as Img as ibc 



fore right Leaf-., the Flowers and Burrs are alfo 



l. The Flaees. Thqr grow fometimes altQge- 



■, fometunes apart In Watery Ditches, and fliand- 



Waters, in raoft places thioughont this King- 



3, particulailv in the Ditches near the Walls of 



Oxford; by Chebiuford mMex; in the Ditch rear 



St. Thomas's Waterh^s Bo* far ftom LoKdsn ; andia 



feme rXtchcs in St. George's-Ftelds, and oct farfrcra 



Lambeth : The Nanow mved grows on the Thaarj^ 



vxc by Lambetb Bridge, over agiLil thsArch- 



(hop of Canterbury-^ Palace ; plentiiuUy before the 



irM Teterboroug}f&hm&, above the Hotfef'ara 



\WefiminllerMe,ifc. 



VU; Thi Times. They Flower generaUyin JMa» 

 id June ; and the Buns or Seed are ripe in the be- 

 gining or middle of Auguji. 



VIU. Tie Qualities. iTiey are Cold in the fiift 

 Degree, and Temperate in refpea to tornefs or 

 .„.;«,„. t;,.„ ... „ir„ (Alteratives, Aflnngents, 

 Glutinatives, andTrau- 

 md appropriated to the 



" IX. 'The Specification. I have had great Experi- 

 ence of the Virtues and Ufe of this Herb, and have 

 " und it to be a peculiar Wound Herb, whetiier in- 

 irdlyaken or outwardly apply'd; befidfTits Cg, 

 ture befpeaKs the very fame thing. 

 X. The Preparations. I have 1*9 it in its,' 

 DecoSion. 2. Juice, a. Effence. 4. A Spiri- 

 ousTinSure. %. A Saline -m^re. 6. AxOily 





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