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being boiled in water and vinegar, and drunk : boiled in 

 water, and drunk, it provokes urine, helps the colic, brings 

 down women's courses ; and made up into a pessary with 

 honey, and put up into the body, draws forth the dead 

 child. It is much commended against the cough, to ex- 

 pectorate tough phlegm ; it much eases pains in the head, 

 and procures sleep ; being put into the nostrils it procures 

 sneezing, and thereby purges the head of phlegm : the 

 juice of the root applied to the piles or hemorrhoids, give 

 much ease. The decoction of the roots gargled in the 

 mouth, eases the tooth-ache, and helps a stinking breath. 

 Oil called oleum irinum, if it be rightly made of the great 

 broad flag Fleur-de-Lys, (and not of the great buloous 

 blue Fleur-de-Lys, as is used by some apothecaries) and 

 roots of the same of the flaggy kinds, is very efiectual to 

 warm and comfort all cold joints and sinews ; as also the 

 gout and sciatica ; and mollifies, dissolves and consumes 

 tumours and swellings in any part of the body, as also of 

 the matrix ; it helps the cramp, or convulsions of the 

 sinews : the head and temples anointed therewith, helps 

 the catarrh of thin rheum distilled from thence ; and 

 used upon the breast or stomach, helps to extenuate the 

 cold tough phlegm ; it helps also the pains and noises in 

 the ears, and the stench of the nostrils. The root itself, 

 either green or in powder, helps to cleanse, heal, and in- 

 carnate wounds, and to cover the naked bones with flesh 

 again, that ulcers have made bare ; and is also very good 

 to cleanse and heal up fistulas and cankers that are hard 

 to be cured. 



FLUELLEIN, LLUELLIN SPEEDWELL, OE 

 PAUL'S BETONY.— C Veronica Officincdit.) 



Descinp. — It shoots forth many long branches, partly 

 lying upon the around, and partly standing upright, set 

 with almost red leaves, yet a little pointed, and sometimes 

 more long than round, without order thereon, somewhat 

 hairy, and of an evil greenish white colour ; at the joints 

 all sdong the stalks, and with the leaves, come forth small 

 flowers, one at a place, upon a very small, short foot-stalk, 

 gaping somewhat like snap-dragons, or rather like toad- 

 flax, with the upper jaw of a yellow colour, and the lower 

 of a purplish, with a small heel or spur behind ; after 

 whicn come forth small round heads, containing small black 

 seed. The root is small and thready, dying every year, 

 and raises itself again of its own sowing. 



