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and drank often in a daj, is an approyed remedy to bring 

 down women's courses speedily, and helps to expel the 

 dead-birth and after-birth. For a woman to sit over the 

 hot fumes of the decoction of the herb made in water or 

 wine, is effectual for the same ; and in some cases, to ap- 

 ply the boiled herb warm to the privy parts. The decoc- 

 tion thereof, made with some sugar or honey put thereto, 

 is used by many with good success to help the cough and 

 stuffing of the chest, by colds ; as also to cleanse the reins 

 and bladder, and helps to expel the stone in them. The 

 powder of the herb taken in wine, with some oxymel, pur- 

 ges both choler and phlegm, and is available for those that 

 are short-winded, and are troubled with melancholy and 

 heaviness, or sadness of spirits. It is very effectual for all 



Eains in the head coming of a cold cause, the herb being 

 ruised and applied to the crown of the head : as also for 

 the vertigo, that is, a running or swimming of the head. 

 The decoction thereof drank warm, and the herb bruised, 

 with a few corns of bay-salt, and applied to the wrists 

 before the coming of the ague fits, does take them away. 



PEVEKFEW (CORN.)— PyreMntm, or Matricaria' 

 ChamomUla. 



Descrip, — ^This is an hateful weed to farmers ; but yet 

 it possess virtues that may recompense all the damage it 

 can do among the com. It sometmies grows to a foot and 

 a half high, with a pale, slender, branchy stalk : the leaves 

 are of a pale green, and they have no smell. The flowers 

 are large and white, with a high yellow disc in the middle, 

 and the leaves are cut into many parts as fine as threads. 



Plaice, — ^They are found commonly in com-field& 



Time, — They bloom in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — ^These have the virtues of 

 the flowers of camomile, but with more cordial warmth. 

 For those who have cold and weak stomachs, scarcely any 

 thins equals them. They are best taken by way of infu- 

 sionlike tea. 



FEVERFEW (SEA.)-(P^eMrMm» or Matricaria 

 Maritima,) 



Descrip, — This grows about eight inches high, upright, 

 and branchy. The stalk is thick and ruddy ; and the leaves 

 are of a dull green, thick, swelled up, hollow underneath, 

 and composed of many parts, which are again cut down to 

 the rib. The flowers are white, with a low yellowish disc. 



