OTTLPBPIR'8 OOMPLm HIRBAL. SIS 



In all things ; but the ase is forbidden to those who spit 

 blood, or are imperfect in their langs. 



LETTUCE (GREAT WlLD.)^Lactu€a Virota.) 



Descriv, — This plant grows to five or six feet high. Th« 

 Btalk is thick, round, very upright, branched and of a red- 

 dish yellow, or rather brown. The leaves at the bottom 

 are very large, a foot long, and five inches broad, of a fresh 

 fine green ; those higher up the stalk are smaller, they are 

 deeply indented at the edgei ; and the innumerable little 

 flowers with which its top and branches are crowned, are 

 perfectly like those of the common Lettuce of the gardens, 

 and are of a light yellow. From whatever the plant if 

 wounded, there flows out a milky juice, which has the smell 

 of opium, and its hot bitter taste. 



Place. — It grows in our hedges, and ditch-sides. 



Time, — It has the greatest vigour in the month of April 



OovemmerU and Virtiiss. — It is under the government 

 of Mars. The smell and taste is much like opmm. A sy- 

 rup made from a strong infusion of it, is an excellent ano- 

 dyne ; it eases the most violent pains of the colic, and other 

 disorders, and gently diaposes the patient to sleep, for it 

 has none of the violent enects of other opiates. The best 

 way of giving it is, to dry the juice which runs from the 

 roots by incision ; this dissolves freely in mountain wine, 



Pone ounce be put into a gallon of wine there is produ<* 

 an excellent quieting medicine, a teaspoonf ul of which . 

 lose in a glass of water. This takes off spasms, convol- 

 «i% stays flaxes of all kinds proceeding from irritation. 



LXQHTWORT {SFiA.)—(Pneumaria Maritima.) 



Descrip. — This is an elegant plant. It is of the Lung- 

 wort species, the root is long, thick, and white, and is fur- 

 nished with many fibres. The first leaves are numerous, 

 and large, broad, and sharp-pointed, rough and of a beau- 

 tiful green colour, with numerous branches, about a vard 

 high. The flowers are of a beautiful blue, and stand all 

 over the tope of the stalks and branches ; the seed is dark. 



Place. — It grows in the |>aHture8 of Kent and Essex. 



TVum.— It flowers in July. 



Oavtmmeni and Virtues, — It is a plant of Jupiter, and 

 has considerable virtues. It is balsamic and astringent, 

 and is good against coughs. It may be used with suc- 

 cess for the whites, and the powdered root is good for re- 

 straining blof) Iv Htools, and the piles, &c. 



