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rera, and other inflammations, to cool thirst, and lenify 

 the dryness and roughness of the tongne and throat. U 

 helps all hoarseness of the voice, and diseases of the 

 breast and lungs, caused bj heat, or sharp salt humours, 

 and the pleursj also. The mucilage of the seed made 

 with plantain-water, whereunto the yoke of an egg or 

 two, and a little populcon are put, is a most safe and 

 sure remedy to ease the sharpness, pricking, and pains of 

 the hemorrhoids or piles, if it be laid on a cloth and 

 bound thereto. It helps all inflammations in any part of 

 the body, and the pains that come thereby, as the head- 

 ache and vapours, and all hot impostbumes, swellings, 

 and breaking out of the skin, as blains, wheals, pushes, 

 purples, and the like ; as also the joints of those that are 

 out of joint, the pains of the gout and sciatica, the burst- 

 ing of voung children, and the swellings of the navel, ap- 

 plied thereunto. The juice of the herb with a little honey 

 put into the ears, helps the running of them, and the 

 worms breeding in them : the same also mixed with hog's 

 grease, and applied to corrupt and filthy ulcers, cleanses 

 and heals them. 



FLIXWEED, OR FLUXWEm^. —( Sisymbrium 

 Sophia.) 



Deicnp, — Flixweed, or Fluxweed, has a white hard 

 woody root full of small fibres at the bottom, perishing 

 after having ripened seed ; the stalks rise to be aoout two 

 feet high, more or less, beset with many long, winged, 

 and very finely and neatly divided green leaves, prettv 

 much resembling those of the true Roman wormwood, 

 beset with very short fine hairs. The flowers grow at the 

 end of the branches, being small, yellow, and four-leaved 

 and are succeeded by very slender seed-vessels, about an 

 inch or thereabout in length, full of very small reddish 

 seed. 



Plcice, — It grows frequently in sandy ground, and 

 among rubbish. 



Time.— li flowers in June. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This herb is Saturnine, 

 Both the herb and seed of Flixweed is of excellent use ta 

 stay the flux and lax of the belly, being drunk in water 

 wherein gads of steel heated have been often quenched ; 

 and is no less effectual for the same purpose than plantain 

 and comfrey, and to restrain any other flux of blood in 



