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' I7}e Ufeful Family Her hah 12 



great Reafon of writing the prefent Boole, that 

 there may be one Guide and Diredlion at leaO:, to 

 be depended upon-, and this its Author has 

 thought proper to fay at large', upon the imme- 



:cafion, rather than in a Preface •, becaufe 

 mufl have been accompanied with a need- 

 haps would not have been 



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diate 



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obferved by many, who may have recourfe to the 

 Book. 



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DENS CANINUS. 



Very pretty litt! 



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Jnon 



dG 



I Plant, 

 ■ge droop 



th two broad 



com- 



and frequent in 



Gardens. It is five or fix Inches hieh. 



our 



The 



Stalk is round, flender,' w'eak, and greenifh to- 

 wards the Top, often white at the Bottom. The 

 Leaves ftand a little Height above the Ground ; 

 They are oblong, fomewhat broad, of a beauti- 



ful 



blunt at 



dented at the 



o 



and 



the End : They inclofe the Stalk at 

 the Bafe. The Flower is larse and white, but with 



hollow, and 



of redifli 



hansfs down, and is long, 



o 



The Root is roundilh 



And has fome Fibres growing from its Be 

 is full of a ilimy Juice. 



The frefh gathered Roots are ufed, 

 dry very Ul, and generally loofe their Vi 



It 



they 



tirely 

 dren, 

 gainfl 



They 



good again fl Worm 



Chil 



g to thofe 



take a furprifmg and fpeedy Effec 

 lent Pains in the Belly, which 



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The bell Way of 



them is in the expreifed Juice ■-, or if Children 



take that, they may be boiled 



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hich they give very little Tafle 



It is 3 pow- 

 erful 



