The Ufeful Family HerhaL 8 9 



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grows eight or ten Feet high, the Branches are 

 (lender and weak •, the Leaves are large, oblong, 

 and broad, fomewhat like thofe of the Bay-Tree, 

 but bigger and thin. The Flowers are white, mo- 

 derately large, and like Jafmine j the Fruit is a 

 large Berry, black when it is ripe, and in it are 

 two Seeds, which are what we call Coffee ; they 

 are whitifli, and of a difagreeable Tafte when 



raw. 



Coffee helps Digeftion, and difpels Wind : And 



it works gently by Urine. The bell Way of tak- 

 ing it is as we commonly drink it, and there are 

 tonftitutions for which it is very proper. 



^EA CotEWORT OR SeA BiNDWEED. 



SOLDANELLA. 



Pretty wild Plant that we have on the Sea 

 Coafls in many Places, and that deferves to 

 be much more known than it is as a Medicine. 

 The Stalks are a Foot long, but weak and unable 

 to fupport thernfelves upright. They are round 

 and green or purplilh : The Leaves are roundilh, 

 but fhaped a little Heart fafhioned at the Bottom; 

 they ftand upon long Foot- Stalks, and are of a: 

 fliining Green, The Flowers are large and red, 

 they are of the Shape of a Bell -, the Roots are 

 white and fmall, a milky Juice flows from the 

 Plant wher> any Part of it is broken s efpecially 



from the Root. 



The whole Plant is to be gathered frefh when 

 about flowering, and boiled in Ale with fome 

 Nutmeg and a Clove or t:wo, and taken in Quan- 

 tities proportioned to the Perfon's Strength-, it is a 

 ftrong Purge, and it fometimes operates alfo by 

 Urine, but there is no harm in that. It is fittefl 

 for country People of robuft Conftitutions, but it 



Dropfies and Rheumatifm. Nay 





know 



