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which are cootained small yellow seed, sharp and stroDg, 

 as the herb is also. The root grows down slender and 

 woody, yet abiding and springing again every year. 



Place. — It grows by way and hedge-sides, and sometimes 

 in open fields. It is common in the Isle of Ely. 



Time.— It flowers most usually about July. 



Oovemment and Virtue*. — Mars owns this herb also. It 

 is good in diseases of the chest and lungs, and hoarseness; 

 by the use of the decoction lost voice has been recovered. 

 The juice made into a syrup with honey and sugar, is ef- 

 fectual for the same purpose, and for coughs, wheezing, 

 and shortness of breath. The same is profitable for the 

 jaundice, pleurisy, pains in the back and loins, and colic, if 

 used in clysters. The seed is a remedy a^inst poison and 

 venom, and worms in children. It is good for the sciatica, 

 and in joint-aches, ulcers and cankers in the mouth, throat, 

 or behind the ears, and for hardness and swelling of the 

 testicles, or of womens' breasts^ 



MUSTARD (WB.lTE,)^Sinapii Alba.) 



Descrip. — This does not grow tall, but is branched ; its 

 branches bear leaves, which are rough, hairy, and divided. 

 The flowers are larger than other mustards, of a deep yel- 

 low colour, the seed-vessels stand from the stalks, hairy, 

 ending in a long, empty point, containing four or five 

 white seed, larger than the common, which make the seed- 

 vessel appear knotted : they are not quite so hot as the other. 



Place,. — It grows wild in several places, but is scarce. 



Time. — It flowers about July. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — It is like Black Mustard in 

 its virtues, which are considerable. The young shoots are 

 eaten with other salads, and this way it is very whole- 

 some. The seed bruised and infused in wine or ale, is of 

 service against the scurvy and dropsy, provoking urine and 

 the menses. Mustard outwardly applied is very drawing 

 and ripening: and laid on paralytic members it recalls the 

 natural heat. Poultices made with Mustard-flower, crumbs 

 of bread, and vinegar, are freouently applied to the soles 

 of the feet in fevers, and may be used to advantage in old 

 rheumatic and sciatic pains. In short, whenever a strong 

 stimulating:^ medicine is wanted to act upon the nerves, and 

 not excite heat, there ia none preferable to Mustard-seed. 



