iGO FAMILY HERBAL. 



able time ; for these effects cannot be produced at 

 once. 



What is culled gum guaiacum, is the resin pour- 

 ed from this tree ; it is very acrid and pungent, 

 and in the rheumatism and many other cases is to be 

 preferred to the wood itself. 



II. 



Hare's Ears. JBupleuron latifolium. 



A common wild plant in some parts of Europe, 

 nut kept here in gardens. It is two feet or more 

 in height. The leaves arc long and broad, of 

 a stiff substance, and somewhat hollowed, which 

 gives them the appearance of a long and hollow 

 car, from whence thev are named ; they are of a 

 whitish green colour, and the rib* u on them are 

 high. There is a sort with narrow leaves, but the 

 broad leaved kind is to be used in . aicine. Tiic 

 stalks are round, upright, striated, and toward the 

 top branched. The {lowers are little and yellow, 

 and they stand at the tops of the branches in small 

 umbels. The root is long and thick, and has many 

 lib res. 



The young shoots of the leaves which grow 

 from the root, are esteemed exceedingly in places 

 where tiny are native, for the cure of fresh wounds. 

 Th v cut two or three of these off close to the 

 ground, and without bruising* them, first closing 

 the lips of the wound, (hoy lay them on one over 

 the other, making a kind of compress: thev then 

 bind them on with linen rags, and never take oil 

 the dressing for three days, at the end of which 

 time in most cases they only find a scar : the cure 

 being perfected. This is *btt vSubstance of a pomp- 



