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in the roots, and if any parts are difregarded, thefe are the 
flowers and pods: The leaves are more particularly ufed in 
the water and garden- creiTes, fea and garden Icurvy-grafs, 
hedge-muftard, iberis or fciatica-crefles, lepidium, pepper- 
wort, cardamum, fhepherd's purfe, ^c. to which may be ad- 
ded our cabbage, cole-worts, favoys, fprouts, which are alfo of 
this tribe 5 and tho' they are of no great reputation in phyfic, 
yet for fome ages paft they are grsatly efteemed in the kitchin : 
Others of this family that arc more peculiarly eminent for the 
virtues contained in their feed are the common muftard and 
rape, the Thlapfi !Diofcorides or treacle-muftard, the eruca or 
rocket, and Sophia Chirurgorum or flix weed; the feed of 
which laft, Mr. 'Petiver was informed had fome years paft 
been ufed with very good fuccefs by feveral people in the north 
of England for the Itone and gravel. The roots which have 
gained conflderable reputation not only in diet but alfo in phy- 
iic are both garden and Spanifo radiihes (which is the large 
black rooted Ibrt) as alfo the wild or horfe radijfh, to which 
muft be added the round and long-rooted turnep : Molt of thi$ 
tribe Mr. Tetiver found tho' they are very hot like the two 
lafl, viz, the UmbeUifer<e and VenicillatdSy yet they exert 
their virtues in a much different manner; to wit, by a diuretic 
volatile fait, and are found moft effeiflual in chronic difeafes, 
as the fcurvy, dropfy, gout, jaundice and other ill habits of the 
body, where the blood is vitiated, rather in its particles than in 
its motion; carrying off its impurity by a diuretic Difcrafis.^ 
or difcharge of the noxious heterogeneous falts contained there- 
in ; and confcquently by purification difpofing it to a better 
and more fanative temperament ; feveral of thefe herbs as 
water-creffes, garden and fea-fcurvy-grafs with muflard-feed 
and garden and horfe-radifh, which are all of this tribe, are 
by moil if not all phyficians, as well ancient as moderr, al- 
lowed to be extraordinary diuretic and anti-fcorbutics. 
Medical Ohfervations in the Northern Countries ; by Dr. Phi- 
lip Lloyd. Phil. Tranf. ]Si° 2 5(J. p. 310. TranJIated from 
the Latin. 
HO T baths are ufed no where fo much as in Lithuania^ 
where, when the patient has fweated plentifully, they 
ij' ' cither cup him, or whip his back with rods, till it becomes 
pretty red : In the fame manner, when any among the Cojjocks 
is very bad, he goes to a bath, where his body is covered with 
fome particular herbs, and m order to raife a blifter they apply 
a hoi-" 
