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Tie Ufeful Family Herlal 



I 



Inches long, and the Flowers in this Cafe are 



ly blue 



d th 



the moft ordinary 



of the Plant. When it grows in- very favou 

 Places, as upon the Damp-fide of a Hill 



here there are Spring 



d 



g 



the tall 



Grafs, then its Leaves are longer, its Stalks 

 robufl and rnore upri 



red 



Thefe are 

 Plant, and 



jht, and its Flowers are 

 the feverai Appearances of this 



all one in which of them it 

 is often of a confiderablc 



h taken. The Root is ( 



Thicknefs, and fingle, but it is more ufually 



vided and fmall 

 greeable acrid T 



fii. and of a dila 



1 



I 



had pafTed 



ard 



any 



medicinal Ufe, till Dr. "TennerU brought into Ent 

 bnd the Senekka Root famous in America agamlt 



Effeas of the Bite of the Rattle 



found 



be of Service 



Pleurifie 



when it was found, that this was 

 Kind of Milkwort, not 



of 



own, 



the Roots 



, ^. y different from oUr 

 , of our own Kind, and 



, the fame Cafes, as to the 



poifonous Bites of a Serpent, they are {o uncom- 

 mon here, that we need not regard that Part o 

 the Qualities, but we find it good in the other 



Diforder, and in all Difeaft 



hich the 



ick 



fizy 



The frefh Root is beft 



has not its full Virtue except in Sp 



■when the 



_ „Jks are juft {hooting out of the Ground, for this 



Keafon it is moft proper to take it up ^^ '■^^ 

 Time, and dry it for the Service of the Year. 

 When frefh, it is bell: given in Infufion : But when 



dried 



kept in Powder 



Spear. 



