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The root i« thick, &nd civtrpiog ud the itarface of th« 

 earth. 



Place.— The Dwarf Elder grows wild in many placei ot 

 Eo^Und. 



Time, — Most of the Elder trees flower in June, and 

 their fruit is ripe for the most part in August. But the 

 Dwarf Elder, or Wallwort, flowers somewhat later, and 

 its fruit is not ripe until September. 



OovemmerU and Virtues, — The Dwarf Elder is also 

 under Venus, and is more powerful than the Common 

 Elder in opening and purging choler, phlegm, and water, 

 in helping the gout, piles, and women's diseases ; co' 

 lours tne nair buu:k, helps the inflammations of the eyes, 

 and pains in the ears, the bite of serpents, or mad dogs, 

 burnings and scaldiugs, the wind colic, colic and stone, 

 the difficulty of urine, the cure of old sores, and fistulous 

 ulcers. 



Of the Dwarf Elder, the bark and seeds are in most re- 

 pute, for the jaundice and dropsy ; in the same intention 

 a decoction of the root and seeds is commended, but 

 should be joined with proper correctors, they beins very 

 violent in their operation without. The expressed oil of 

 the seed is by some outwardly used to assuage the pain of 

 the gout 



The inner bark of the Common Elder decocted, operates 

 both by vomit and stool The same effect is observed but 

 in a milder degree, of the young buds, if in the spring, 

 eaten as young^ salad, and these in pottage gentlv relax 

 the bowels. The inner bark outwanily applied, is com- 

 mended in bums. 



The flowers are sudorific and anodyne ; infused in sharp 

 vinegar, with the addition of some spices, thev make a 

 more reviving liquor to smell to, and to rub the temples 

 with iu faintinga of women in labour, and after delivery, 

 than all the vouttile salts put together. 



Take of Elder flowers, half u pound, the flowers of red 

 rosea, rosemary, and lavender, each four ounces, of nut- 

 meg and cloves each two drams, of cinnamon three drams, 

 pour upon them five pints of the sharpest white wiue vine- 

 gar, let all infuse a month or six weeks, and after having 

 pressed it out well, and the Honor is settled, put it into 

 Dottles and keep it well stopf>ea for usa 



The berries are likewise sudorific, and of admirable use 

 la recent colds, and beginning feverish heats, in which 



