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up a little when fown among them ; It would be 

 worth while to repeat the Experiment, for fome 

 times it might; fucceed. 



. \Vc life a Gum or rather Gum Refin, for it is 

 of a mixed Nature between both, which is procured 

 from this Plant, but from what Part of it, or in 

 what Manner we are not informed ; it is whitifli, 

 of an acrid Tafte, with fome Bitternefs, and is an 

 excellent Medicine. It is fuperior to all other 

 Drugs in an Allhma, and is good to promote the 

 Menfes, and to open Obftruftions of all Kinds. 

 The bell Way of giving it is diffolved in Hyffop 

 Water. It makes a milky Solution. It is ufed 

 externally alfo in Plaifters for hard SweUings, and 

 Pains in the Joints. 



Broad Leaved Plantain. ■ 



PLANTAGO MAJOR. 



A Common Plant by our Way-fides, with broad 

 '^ fhort Leaves, and long (lender Spikes of 

 brown Seeds. The Leaves rife all from the Root, 

 for chere are none upon the Stalk. They are of 

 a fomewhat oval Figure, and irregularly indented 

 at the Edges, fometimes fcarce at all. They have 

 feveral large Ribs, but thefe do not grow fide- 

 ways from the middle one, but all run length- 

 ways, like that from the Bafe of the Leaf toward 

 the Point. The Stalks grow a Foot high, their 

 lower half is naked, and their upper Part thick izt^ 

 firft with fmall and inconfiderable Flowers, of a 

 greenilh white Colour, and afterwards with Seeds 

 which are brown and fmall. 



This is one of thofe common Plants, which have 

 fo much Virtue, that Nature feems to have made 

 them common for univerfal Benefit. The whole 

 Plant is to be ufed, and it is bell frefli. A De- 



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