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eouwes, and ezpek the dead-birth ; is singularly good for 

 strangling of the mother, and other such feminine disor- 

 ders. It is effectual against the dropsy, cramps, and fall- 

 ing sickness ; the decoction in wine oeing gargled in the 

 mouth, draws down much water and phlegm from the 

 brain, purging and easing it of what oppressed it. It is of 

 a rare quality against all sorts of cold poison, to be taken 

 as there is cause ; it provokes sweat. But lest the taste of 

 the seed should be too offensive, the best way is to take 

 water distilled both from the herb and root. The juice 

 dropped into green wounds or filthy ulcers, and envenom- 

 ed wounds, does soon cleanse and heal them. The same is 

 also very good to help the gout coming of a cold cause. 



MASTIC BEBB—CTki/rmu Mastichina.) 



Calljcd also Summer Savory. 



Descrip. — This is a shrubby plant, full of round slender 

 brown stalks, a foot high or more, having small leaves at 

 a joint. The flowers grow on the tops of the stalks, in soft, 

 downy, verticillated spikes, by wnich it may be known 

 from the other plants of this kind : they are small, white, 

 and galeated. The whole plant has a pleasant smell. 



PUice. — It is a native of France, but grows in our gardena 



Time. — It flowers in June and July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is a mild but martial 

 plant. The tops when in flower, gathered and dried, are 

 good in disorders of the head and nerves, and against stop- 

 pages in the viscera, being of a warm aromatic nature. The 

 resinous concrete substance commonly known by the name 

 of gum -mastic, is the produce of the foreign tree. Thia 

 mastic is recommended in doses of from half a scruple to 

 half a dram, as a mild corroborant, and restringent medi- 

 cine in old coughs, spitting of blood, looseness, weakness 

 of the stomach, &c. 



MAYWEED {STlKKUJQ.)—(Ft/rethrumPartheniunL) 



Deterip, — It grows to a foot high, branched and spread- 

 ing ; the stalk is ruddy, and the leaves are of a deep and 

 blackish green, and of an ill smell The flower is white, 

 with a high yellow disk, pointed at top, and the divisions 

 of the leaves swell in the middle. 



Place. — This is an annual weed, found in ploughed soiL 



Time. — It flowers in May and June. 



Virtues. — The flowers have, bat in a rsiy inferior dm- 



