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in the cure of the hooping-cough iu children, when all 

 other medicines fail. The fresh roots of £lecampane 

 preserved with sugar, or made into a syrup or conserve, 

 are very effectual to warm a cold windy stomach, or the 

 pricking therein, and stitches in the sides caused by the 

 spleen ; and to help the cough, shortness of breath, and 

 wheezing in the lungs. The dried root made into powder, 

 and mixed with sugar, and taken, serves to the same pur- 

 pose ; and is also profitable for those who have their 

 urine stopped, or the stopping of women's courses, the 

 pains of the mother, and of the stone in the reins, kid- 

 neys, or bladder ; it resists poison, and stays the spread- 

 ing of the venom of serpents, as also putrid and pestilen- 

 tial fevers, and the plague itself. 



ELM-TREE.— f Ulmxis.) 



Descrip. — The Elm is one of the commonest trees we 

 have ; it has a rough thick bark, and the branches are 

 clothed with somewhat rough, crenated, green leavea 

 The fiowers are small and staminous, coming out early in 

 the spring before the leaves. The seed is round and 

 foliaceoua. 



PicLce, — It is common in the fields, and all over the 

 country. 



G&oemmerU and Virtues. — It is a cold and Saturnine 

 plant. The leaves thereof bruised and applied, hea. 

 green wounds, being bound thereon with its own bark ; 

 the leaves or the bark used with vinegar, cure scurf and 

 leprosy very effectually : the decoction of the leaves, bark, 

 or root, being bathed, heals broken bones. The water 

 that is found in the bladders on the leaves, while it is 

 Vesh, is very effectual to cleanse the skin, and make it 

 fair ; and if cloths be often wet therein, and applied to 

 the rupturetfi of children, it heals them, if they oe well 

 bound up with a truss. The said water put into a glass, 

 and set into the ground, or else in dung for twenty-five 

 days, the mouth thereof being close stopped, and the bot- 

 tom set upon a lay of oniinary salt, tnat the foeces may 

 settle ana water become clear, is a singular and sovereign 

 balm for green wounds, being used with soft tents : the 

 decoction of the bark of the root fomented, mollifies hard 

 tomonra, and the shrinking of the 8inewi» 



