C^LPEPBR^^ COMPLKT4 BERSAL. 1^3 



come by pricking tborna, with vinegar, it cleanses and 

 heals tetters. The syrup of Horehound is excellent for 

 cold rheums in the lungs of old people, and for those who 

 are asthmatical or short-winded. 



HOREHOUND {BhACK.y-( Balota Nigra.) 



Descrip. — The Black Horehound grows taller, and is 

 more branched than the white, with taller darker leaves, of 

 a keen earthy smell. The flowers are found among the 

 leaves, in two clusters on each side of the stalk, towards 

 the fore part of it, each cluster on a common foot-stalk, 

 and every flower in a wide-mouthed five-cornered large 

 calyx of a red colour, being galated and labiated, they ap- 

 pear a little above the calyx : the seeds are in the bottom, 

 small and oblong. The root is long, and spreads much. 



Place, — It grows in bye-paths and in hedges. 



Time, — It flowers in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is also under Mercury, 

 but has not as much virtue as the former. The leaves and 

 top only are used. The leaves beaten with salt, and ap- 

 plied to the wound, cures the bites of mad dogs, and the 

 juice, mixed with honey, cleanses foul ulcers. It is recom- 

 mended as a remedy against hysteric and hypochondriac 

 affections. It is an intense bitter, which bespeaks it to be 

 a stren^thener of weak stomachs ; it is endowed with the 

 properties of a balsam, and is a powerful alterative, and 

 capable of opening obstructions of any kind ; it is a pro- 

 moter of the menses ; some praise it very much as a pec- 

 toral in coughs and shortness of breath ; but it is neces- 

 mrj to observe some caution, viz, that it ought only to be 

 administered to gross phlegmatic people, and not to thin 

 plethoric persona. The powder is good to kill worma. 



nOBSE-TAlJj.'-( Equisetum,) 



Detcrip. — There are many kinds of this herb, which are 

 but knotted ruiihea, some with leaves and others without. 

 The great Horse-tail at the first has heads resembling A»- 

 parai^s, and afterwards grow to be hard, rough, hollow 

 stalks, joined at sundry places at the top, a foot high, so 

 made as if the lower parts were put into the upper, where 

 ffrow on each side a bush of small long rush -like hard 

 Mavet, each nart resembling a horse- tail At the top of the 

 rtalks come forth small catkins, like those of trees. The 

 root creeps in the ground, having joints at sundry places^ 



