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0ITLPEPKR8 COKTLWn HBRBAL. 14$ 



taken an hoar or two before meals. Old people maj take 

 nuch of this medicine with advantage. Mnstard-seed has 

 the virtue of heat, diacuasing, ratifying, and drawing out 

 splinters of bones, and other things of the flesh. It is good 

 to bring down the courses, for falling-sickness or lethar^, 

 to use it both inwardly and outwardly, to rub the nostrils, 

 forehead, and temples, to warm and quicken the spirits ; 

 it purges the brain by sneezing, and draws down rheum 

 and other viscous humours, and with some honey added it 

 is good for old coughs. The decoction of the seed made in 

 wine and drank, resists poison, the malignity of mush- 

 rooms, and the bites of venomous creatures, if taken in 

 time. The seed taken either in an electuary or drink, stirs 

 op lust, and helps the spleen and pains in the sides, and 

 gna wings of the Dowels ; used as a garjzle it draws up the 

 palate of the mouth, if fallen ; and it dissolves swellings 

 about the throat, if outwardly applied. Chewed in the 

 mouth, it helps the tooth-ache. The outward application 

 upon the pained place of the sciatica, discusses the humours, 

 and eases the pain ; as also the gout and other joint-achefr 

 and is often used to ease the pains in the sides or loins, the 

 ■hoolders, or other parts of the body, upon the applying 

 thereof to raise blisters, and cures the disease by drawing 

 it to the outward parts of the body. It is also used to help 

 the falling off of the hair. The seed Druised, with honey, and 

 applied, or made up with wax, takes away marks, spots, or 

 broises, the roughness or scabbiness of the skin, as also the 

 leprosy, or lousy evii The distilled water of the herb, 

 wnen in flower, is drank to help in any of the diseases be- 

 forenamed, either inwardly, or outwardly for scabs, it^h, 

 or such like infirmities, and it cleanses the face from spots, 

 freckles, and other deformities. 



MUSTAKD (EEDQE.)—(Siiymbrium Oficinale,) 



Deserip. — This grows up with one blackish green stalk, 

 SMJ to bend, but tough, oranched into divers parts, and 

 sometimes with divers stalks, set full of branches, whereon 

 grow long, rough, or hard rugged leaves, much torn on the 

 edges in many parts, some large, and some small, of a dirty 

 green colour. The flowers are small and yellow, that grow 

 on the tops of the branches in long spikes, flowering by de- 

 grees ; so that continuing long in flower, the stalk will have 

 small round cods at the l>ottom growing upright and close 

 to the stalk, while the ton flowers yet show themselven, in 



