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the body; the juice of it being tempered -with barley, 

 meal, baked, and so eaten for ordinary bread, is an ex- 

 cellent cure for the dropsy. An ointment made of the 

 root and hog's grease, is excellent good for scald heads, 

 unites the sinews when they are cut, and cleanses ulcers. 

 The root boiled in any convenient deco6lion, gives 

 speedy delivery to women in travail, and expels the af- 

 ter-birth. The root roasted, and mixed with a little hog's 

 grease, makes a gallant poultice to ripen and break 

 plague-sores. The ointment is excellent good for swel- 

 lings in the privities, and will cure burnings and scald- 

 ings without a scar, and trimly deck a blank place with 

 hair. 



Liquorice. $. (temp.) 



This growing in our fields and gardens only by cultiva- 

 " lion, we need not give a description of it. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is under the dominion of 

 Mercury. Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some 

 Maiden-hair and figs, maketh good drink for those that 

 have a dry cough or hoarseness, wheezing or shortness of 

 breath, and for all the griefs of the breasts and lungs, 

 phthisic, or consumptions caused by the distillation of 

 salt humours on them. It is also good in all pains of the 

 Tcins, the stranguary and heat of urine. The fine pow- 

 der of Liquorice blown through a quill into the eyes 

 that have a piu and web (as they eall it) or rheumatic 

 distillation in them, doth cleanse and help them; the 

 juice distilled in Rose-water, with some gum traga- 

 cauth, is a fine licking medicine for hoarseness, wheez- 

 ing, &e. 



, Liverwort. 1/. in m. (c.d.l,) 



Botanists reckon upwards of 300 species of Liverwort. 

 Descript.'] Common Liverwort growcth close., and 

 spreadeth much upon the ground iu moist and shady 

 places, Vi'ith many small green leaves, or rather stick- 

 ing tlat to one another, very unevenly cut in on the ed- 

 ges, and crumpled; from among which arise small slen- 

 der stalks an inch or two high at most, bearing small star- 



