CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. 



worth their while to roll fragments of rocks 

 and huge ftones into the fea, in order to invite 

 the growth of it. 

 Its virtues in the medical way have been tnuch 

 celebrated by Dr. Rufel, in his Dijfertation 

 concerning the Ufe of Sea--juater in the Difeafes 

 cf the Glands. He found the faponaceous li- 

 quor or mucus in the veficles of this plant to 

 be an excellent refolvent, extremely ferviceable 

 in difperfmg all fcorbutic and fcrophulous 

 iwellings of the glands. He recommends 

 the patient to rub the tumor with thefe veficles 

 bruis'd in his hand, till the mucus has tho- 

 roughly penetrated the part, and afterwards to 

 wafh with fea-water. Or otherwife, to gather 

 two pounds of the tumid veficles, in the month 

 oijuly^ when they are full of mucus, and in- 

 fufe them in a quart of fea-water, in a glafs- 

 vefTel, for the fpace of fifteen days, when the 

 liquor will have acquired nearly the confidence 

 of honey. Then {train it off through a linen 

 cloth, and rub this liquor with the hand, as 

 before, three or four times a-day, upon any 

 hard or fcrophulous fwellings, wafhing the 

 parts afterwards with fea-water, and nothing 

 can be more efficacious to difperfe them. 

 Even fchirrofities, he fays, in women's breaits 

 have been difpell'd by this treatment. 



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