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of the head and brain, as the ffiddiuesa and Bwimmings 

 therein, drowsiness or dulness, the dumb palsy, or loss of 

 speech, the lethargy, the falling-sickness, to be both drunk 

 and the temples bathed therewith. It helps the pains in 

 the gums and teeth, by rheum falling into them, not by pu- 

 trefaction, causing an evil smell from them, or stinking 

 breath. It helps a weak memory, and quickens the senses. 

 It is very comfortable to the stomach in all the cold mala- 

 dies thereof ; helps both the retention of meat, and diges- 

 tion, the decoction of the powder being taken in wine. It 

 is a remedy for the windiness in the stomach, bowels, and 

 spleen, and expels it powerfully. It helps those that are 

 liver-grown, by opening the obstructions tnereof. It helps 

 dim eyes, and procures a clear sight, the flowers thereof if 

 taken all the while it is flowering, every morning fasting, 

 with bread and salt. Both the flowers and leaves are very 



f)rofitable for the whites, if they be taken daily. The dried 

 eavee shred small, and smoked as tobacco, helps those that 

 have any cough, phthisis, or consumption, by warming and 

 drying the thin distillations which cause those diseases. Tbe 

 leaves are very much used in bathings ; and made into oint- 

 ment* or oil, are good to help cold benumbed joints, sinews, 

 or members. The chymical oil drawn from the leaves and 

 flowers, is a sovereign help for all the diseases aforesaid, to 

 touch the temples and nostrils with two or three drops for 

 all the diseases of the head and brain spoken of before ; as 

 alao to take one drop, two or three, as the case requires, for 

 the inward diseases ; yet it must be done with discretion, 

 for it is very quick and piercing, and therefore but a little 

 must be taken at a time. There is also another oil made by 

 insolation in this manner: — Take what quantity you will of 

 the flowers, and put them into a strong glass close stopped, 

 tie a fine linen cloth over the mouth, and turn the mouth 

 down into another strong glass, which being set in the sun, 

 an oil will distil down into the lower glass, to be preserved 

 as precious for divers uses, both inward and outward, as a 

 lOT«rei^ balsam to heal the diseases before mentioned, to 

 eiieMr dim sight, and take away spots, marks, and scars in 

 the skin. Hungary water is made by distilling a pure spirit 

 from the tope of this plant ; or in a coarser way, by mixing 

 a few drops of its oil in such a spirit. 



