2 TTje Ufeful Family Herbal, 



Acacia Tree is kept in the Shops, but we have 

 . from it two Drugs. 



I . The Acacia Juice, and 2 . The Gum Arahick. 

 The Acacia Juice or Smciis Acacia \sYik.it\Aq}jiQ- 

 rice Juice, • hard and black. They bruife the un- 

 ripe Fods and Seeds, and prefs out the Juice which 

 they evaporate to this Confiftence. The Gum 

 Arahick ouzes out of the Bark of the Trunk and 

 Branches, as the Plum-Tree and Cherry-Tree Gum 

 do with us. 



The Acacia Juice is an Aftringent but little 

 ufed. The Gum Arahick is good in Stranguries, 

 and in Coughs from a thin Iharp Rheum s it is 

 to be given in Solution an Ounce boiled in a 

 Quart of Barley-water, or in Powder in Eleduaries 

 or otherwife. 



What is called the German Acacia is the Juice 

 of unripe Sices evaporated in the fame Manner. 



Aconite. 



ANTHORA SIVE ACONITUM SALU 



TIFERUM. 



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^Yitit are many poifonous Aconites, not ufed ; 



but there is one medicinal and kept in the 

 Shops : This is called the wholefome Aconite and 

 Antithora. 



It is a fmall Plant, a Foot high, with pale^ 

 green divided Leaves and yellow Flowers. . It 

 grows erea, and the Stalk is firm, angular, and 

 hairy; the Leaves do not Hand in Pairs. The 

 Flowers are large and hooded and of a pleafant 

 Smell ; the Sced-veffels are membranaceous, and the 

 Seeds black ; the Root is tuberous, it fometimes 

 confifls of one Lump or Knob, fometimes of more. 

 It is a Native of Germany^ but we have it in Gar- 

 dens. The Root is the only Part ufed -, it is fup- 



3 po fed 



