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all hysteric complaints. It cures fits, and promotes 

 the menses, and the necessary evacuations after 

 delivery. 



There is another kind of arrach also mentioned 

 by medical writers, and called garden arrach ; it Is 

 an annual raised from seed, for the use <->f the kitchen. 

 It grows to a yard high, and the leaves are broad : 

 those which grow from the root have a little leaf 

 also on ach side of the base. They are covered 

 with a wet dust like the other kind. These leaves 

 are cooling and softening ; they are good in clysters, 

 but they are less used, and less valuable than the 

 other. 



Aron. Arun. 



A very common plant under our hedges, and 

 more vulgarly called cuckowpint, and, by the 

 children, lord and lady. The root is of the 

 bigness and shape of a walnut, brown on the 

 outside and white within, and this, as well as 

 the whole plant, is of a sharp and acrid taste. 

 This root lies deep. The leaves arc large and 

 shaped like the bearded head of an arrow, of a 

 strong green colour, and sometimes spotted. In 

 April and May rise among these thick stalks, sup- 

 porting a very singular kind of flower, the pointal 

 of which is lon^r, thick, fieshv, and of a red or 

 white colour, and the whole surrounded with a 

 green membranaceous case. Afterwards this case 

 and the pointal fall off, and there remains only 

 the stem supporting a quantity of berries, which 

 are ripe in autumn, and are then of a fine red 

 colour. 



The root is the part used. It is an excellent 

 medicine in palsies. Half one of the roots, fresh 



