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stomach exceedingly, and expels the wind ; indeed there 

 is scarce a better remedy for wind in any part of the 

 body, or the colick, than the chymical oil drawn from 

 the berries. Such country people as know not how to 

 draw tho chymical oil, may content themselves by eating 

 ten or a dozen of the ripe berries every morning fasting. 

 They are admirably good for a cough, shortness of 

 breath and consumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, 

 cramps, and convulsions. They give safe and speedy 

 delivery to women with child ; they strengthen the brain 

 exceedingly, help the memory, and fortify the sight by 

 strengthening the optic nerves; are eseelleut good in 

 all serfs of agues ; help the gout and sciatica, and 

 strengthen all the limbs of the body. The ashes of the 

 wood is a speedy remedy to such as have the scurvy, to 

 rub their giims with. The berries stay all fluxes, help, 

 the hasmorrhoids or piles, and kill worms in children. 

 A lee made of the ashes of the wood, and the body 

 bathed with if, cures the itch, scabs and leprosy. The 

 berries break the stone, procure appetite when it is lost, 

 and are excellent good for all palsies, and falling 

 sickness. 



Kidney^vort. ^. in it. (temp. m. 1.) 



This is also called Wall Pennyroyal, and Wall Penny- 

 wort. 



Descript,'] It hath many thick, flat, and round leaves 

 growing from the root, every one having a long footstalk, 

 fastened underneath, about the middle of it, and a little 

 unevenly weaved sometimes about the edgesj of a pale 

 green colour, and somewhat yellow on the upper side 

 like a saucer ; from among which arise one or more 

 tender, smooth, hollow stalks, half a foot high, with two- 

 or three small leaves thereon, usually not round as those 

 below, but somewhat long, and:divided at the edges ; the 

 tops are somewhat divided into long branches, bearing a 

 number of flowers, set round about a long spike one 

 above another, which are hollow like a little bell, of a 

 whitish green colour, after which come small heads, con- 

 ta^ining^^ very small brownish seed^ which falling ou the. 

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