3^£ UJeJul Family Herbal 9 1 



Obftruftions, and are excellent in the Jaundice, 

 ;iixd otl>er Complaints from Jike Caufes. 



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C O M F R E Y. 



SYMPHYTUM, 



A Common wild Plant of great Virtue, it is 

 "^^ frequent by Ditch fides ; it grows a Foot and 

 half high : The Leaves are large, long, not very 

 broad, rough to the Touch, and of a deep dif- 

 agreeable Green : The Stalks are green, thick, 

 angulated, and upright. The Flowers grow a^ 

 long the Tops of the Branches, and are white, 

 fometimes redifh, not very large, and hang, often 

 downwards. The Root is thick, black, and ir- 

 regular i when broken it is found to be white 

 within, and full of a flimy Juice. This Root is 

 the Part ufed, and it is belt frefh, but it may 

 be beat up into a Conferve, with three times its 

 Weight of Sugar. It is a Remedy for that terri- 

 ble Difeafe the Whites. It is alfo good againfl 

 fpitting of Blood, bloody Fluxes, and Purgings, 

 and for inward Bruifes, 



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The CONTRAYERVA PlANT, 



CONTRAYERVA, 



A Very lingular Plant, Native of America^ and 

 "^ not yet got into our Gardens. It confifts only 

 of Leaves rifing from the Root, upon fingle Foot- 

 Stalks, and Flowers of a fingular kind Handing alfo 

 on fingle and feparate Foot-Stalks, with no Leaves 

 upon them. The Leaves are large, oblong, very 

 broad, and deeply divided on each Side, their Co- 

 lour is a dufky Green, and the Foot-Stalks on 

 which they ftand are Imall and whitilh, and often 

 |)end under the Weight of the Leaf. The Stalks 



f^hich fuppojt the Flowers, are fhorter and weaker 



than 



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