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part to boiling water, making it like the white of au egg. 

 This is excellent for sore mouths, and useful to soften and 

 moisten the mouth and throat in fevers, and other diseasea. 

 The green fruit helps all sorts of fluxes in man or woman, 

 and in choleric laxes. The crude juice is preservative 

 against the force of poison. The oil is useful to bind and 

 cool outwardly hot mixes; it strengthens the stomach and 

 belly bj anointing, and the sinews that are loosened by sharp 

 humours falling on them, and restrains immoderate sweat- 

 ings. The mucilage taken from the seeds, and boiled in 

 water, is good to cool the heat, and heal the sore breasts 

 of women. The same, with a little sugar is good to leuify 

 the harshness and soreness of the throat, and the roughness 

 of the tongue. The cotton or down boiled, and applied to 

 plague sores, heals them up; and laid as a plaster, made up 

 with wax, it brings hair to those who are bald, and keeps 

 it from falling ofi^ if it be ready to shed. 



RADISH (COMMON GARDEN. )^R(j^hanu8 Sativut.) 



This plant is so well known that it needs do description. 



Place. — It is planted in gardens. 



Time.— It flowers in May. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Mara, and is open- 

 ing, attenuating, and antiscorbutic ; it does not give much 

 nourishment, and is very windy ; it provokes urine and 

 is good for the stone and gravel. The expressed juice of 

 the root, with the addition of a little wine, ia an admirable 

 remedy for gravel. The roots eaten plentifully sweeten the 

 blood and juicea, and are good against the scurvy. 



RADISH (WILD, or RORSE.)—{Cocklearia Armoracia,) 



Descrip. — The first leaves rise before winter, a foot and 

 a half long, cut on the edges in many parts, of a dark green 

 colour, with a white rib in the middle ; after these have 

 t^en up a while, others follow, which are taller, rougher, 

 broader, and longer, whole and not divided at first, dented 

 about the edges. The root is great, white, and rough, send- 

 ing up divers heads of leaves, which may be parted for in* 

 crease, but it doth not creep in the ground, nor run above, 

 it is of a strong, sharp taste, almost like mustard. 



Pfac€. — lt is founa wild in some places, but ia chiefly 

 planted in gardens, in moist and shady places. 



Time. — It seldom flowers, but when it does, it ia in July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It ia under Mars. The juio* 



