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Place. — Thej prosper very well in our English gardens, 

 yet are fitter for medicine than for any other profit that 

 is gotten by the fruit of them. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — ^The tree is under the domi- 

 nion of Jupiter. The milk that issues out from the leaves 

 or branches where they are broken off, being dropped 

 upon warts, takes them away. The decoction of the 

 leaves is excellent good to wash foreheads with. It clears 

 the face also of morphew, and the body of white scurf, 

 scabs, and running sores. If it be dropped into old fret- 

 ting ulcers, it cleanses out the moisture, and brings up the 

 flesh ; because you cannot have the leaves green all the 

 year, you may make an ointment of them whilst you can. 

 A decoction of the leaves being drunk inwardly, or rather 

 a syrup made of them, dissolves congealed blood caused 

 by bruises or falls, and helps the bloody flux. The ashes 

 of the wood made into an ointment with hog's grease, helps 

 kibes and chilblains. The juice being put into a hollow 

 tooth, eases pain ; as also deafness and pain and noises in 

 the ears, being dropped into them. An ointment made 

 of the juice and hogs* grease, is as excellent a remedy for 

 the biting of mad do^s, or other venomous beasts, as most 

 are ; a syrup made of the leaves, or green fruits, is excel- 

 lent for coughs, hoarseness, or shortness of breath, and all 

 diseases of the breast and lungs : it is very good for the 

 dropsy and falling-sickness. 



FIG-WORT, OB TBB,OATWOB,T.-^ Scrophularia 

 Nodosa,) 



Bescrip. — Common Great Figwort sends divers great, 

 strong, hard, square, brown stalks, three or four feet high, 

 whereon grow large, hard, and dark green leaves, two at 

 a joint, harder and larger than nettle l^ves, but not sting- 

 ing ; at the tops of the stalks stand many purple flowers 

 set in husks, which are sometimes gaping and open, some- 

 what like those of water betony ; after which come hard 

 round heads, with a small point in the middle, wherein 

 lie small brownish seed. The root is great, white, and 

 thick, with manv branches at it, growing aslope under the 

 upper crust of the ground, which abides many years, but 

 keeps not its green leaves in winter. 



Place. — It grows frequently in moist and shadowy 

 woods, and in the lower parts of the fields and meadows. 



Time. — It flowers about July, and the seed will be ripe 

 about a month after the flowers are fallen 



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