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drinks ; and ontwardly in cataplasms and foraentationi. 

 It is somewhat astringent, and useful in spitting of blood, 

 and is of great service against the stone. 



GK)LD£N SAMPHIRE.— ("/ntt/a Crithmifolia.) 



Deserip, — This is a perennial, and grows to a ^ard high, 

 with many branches. The leaves are three-pointed, of a 

 blue green, thick and juicy, the tlowers of a gold colour. 



Dtierip. —It grows on the margin of oar sea marshes. 



Time. — It blooms in June and July. 



Oovemmeni and Virtues. — The leaves of the flowers 

 make an excellent and agreeable antiscorbutic. An infu- 

 sion of the whole plant, sweetened with sugar, is good after 

 a drunken surfeit. It is under the dominion of Jupiter in 

 Libra. The flowers are cooling, moistening, and laxative, 

 good in affections of the breast and lungs, nelping coughs 

 and pleuritic pains. The syrup is given to children to 

 open and cool their bodies. The flowers are cooling and 

 opening, and frequently put into clysters, as well as into 

 ointments against inflammations. The seed is reckoned 

 good for the stone and gravel 



GOOSEBEKliY-BUSfl.-Y^*^ Gfrossularia), 



Deicrip.— The Gooseberry-Bush is well known to every 

 body. I need not describe it, the leaves are little and jag- 

 ged, the flowers small and green, and the berries round or 

 oval, Including several seeds in a iuicy pulp, sourish when 

 green, but when ripe of a sweet pleasant taste. 



Place, — It grows in gardens. 



Time, — It flowers early, the berries are ripe in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — These berries, which are the 

 only parts used, are cooling and astringent, creating an 

 appetite, and quenching thirst. They are under the domi- 

 nion of Venus. While they are unripe, being scalded or 

 baked, they are good to stir up a fainting or decayed appe- 

 tite, especially where the stomach is afflicted by choleric 

 homoors : they are excellent good to stay the longings of 

 women with child. The decoction of the leaves cool hot 

 swellings and inflammations, and St. Anthony's fire. The 

 ripe Gooseberries are excellent to allay the violent heat of 

 both the stomach and liver. The young leaves break the 

 •tone, and expel gravel both from the kidneys and blad- 

 der. All the evils they do to the body of man is, thoy are 

 supposed to bre«d crudities, and, by crudities, worms, 



