3 5 <^ The tffeful Family Her ha! , 



The Birk of the Root is ufed. It works 

 Vomit and Sfool as the former, but tho' with lefs 

 Violence, yet too' rough for' itsoft Conftitutions, 

 It is sood in tlie Rheumatifm, « 



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A Very eafflmofi Plant by the Sea Side m Italy, 

 •^*" and other Parts of Eurcpe^ but ilot Native 

 of this Country. It grows a Yard high, and 

 when irt Flower, is very beautiful j the Stalk i^ 

 thick, roiind, flefliy, and green, or elfe red- 



ilTi. -The Flowers are white j they are fmall^ 

 but they have their Beauty. They Hand in a long 

 Spike down a third Part of the Stalk; the Leaves 

 are very large and Idhgj they are of a deep gre'en 

 Colour, arid grow immediately from the Root; 

 the Root is round, and of a Pound Weight, it iu 

 compofed like an Onion of many Coats, one over 

 another, andis full of an acrid ilimy Juice. Thef 

 Colour Js white or red, and they call it the white 



or red Squills 



The Root is ufed dried or infufed in Vinegar 

 or Wine, and that afterwards made into a Syrup,' 

 with Honey. Thefe three Preparations are called 

 die Wine of Squills, Vinegar of Squills, and O^l^^- 

 mel of Squills ; they are all good againd Afth^ 

 mas, and DifHculty of Breathing. The Oxymel 

 is mofl given for this Purpofe, the Vinegar caufes 

 Vomiting, and cieanfes the Stomach, the Wine of 

 Squills works by Urine^and is .good againft the 

 Jaundice and Dropfy. 



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