856 CTTLPEPEB'S COMPLBT8 HEBBAJi. 



OB.CRlS.'^SatyriunLj 



Callkd also Dog-stones, Goat-stones, Fool-stouea, Fox- 

 stones, Satirion, Cullians, &c., &c 



Descrip, — To describe all the several sorts of it would be 

 an endless piece of work. The roots are the only parts used, 

 and a description of them will be sufficient. The roots of 

 each sort are double within, some of them round, in others 

 like a hand ; these roots alter every year by course, when 

 one rises and waxes full, the other waxes lank and perish- 

 es : now, that which is full is to be used in medicines, the 

 other being either of no use at all, or else it destroys the 

 virtue of the other, cjuite undoing what the other does 



Plouie,— It grows in meadows. 



Time, — One or other may be found in flower from the 

 beginning of April to the latter end of August. 



Oovemment and Virtties. — They are hot and moist in 

 operation, under the dominion of Venus, and provoke lusl^ 

 which the dried and withered roots do restrain. They kill 

 worms in children; if bruised and applied to the place they 

 heal the king's-evil. There is another sort, called the Fe- 

 male Orchis. It is a less plant than the former, having no 

 spots on the leaves ; the spike of the flowers is less, of a 

 paiplish colour ; it grows in the same places, rather later. 

 The root has the same virtues and shape. They all pro- 

 voke venery, strengthen the genital parts, and help concep- 

 tion. Applied outwardly in the form of a cataplasm, they 

 dissolve nard tumours and swellings. Sa)ep is a prepara- 

 tion of the roots, of which there are many species, accord- 

 ing to the soil they grow in. It is one of the most valuable 

 plants growing, llie best way to use it is, to wash the new 

 root in water ; separate it from the brown skin which co- 

 vers it, by dipping it in hot water, and rubbing it with a 

 coarse linen cloth. When a sufficient number of roots have 

 been thus cleaned, they are to be spread on a tin plate, and 

 placed in an oven heated to the usual degree, where they 

 are to remain five or six minutes, in whicn time they will 

 have lost their milky whiteness, and acc^uired a transpa- 

 rency like horn without any diminution m bulk. When 

 arrived at this state, they are to be removed in order to be 

 dried and hardened in the air, which will require several 

 days to effect ; or by using a gentle heat, they may be fin- 

 ished in a few hours. This Salep contains the greatest 

 quigntity of nomiflhiueot in the smallest bulk, and will sup- 



