cttlpepeb's complsts hbbbal. 819 



&c^ it makes a very useful ingredient. It is also an enemy 

 to worms, and its chymical oil rubbed upon and about the 

 navel of children, has often had a wonderful eflfoct in 

 expelling them. It deserves the regard of surgeons, as it 

 is a very potent scourer and cleanser of old sordid stinking 

 tdcera, either used in lotions, fomentations, ointments, or 

 even the powder mixed with honey. 



SAVORY {SVrMMEK)—(ScUureia Hortensis,) 



Descrip. — This has small stringy roots, from which rise 

 a great many woody branches, eight or nine inches high, 

 a little hairy, having two long, narrow leaves at a joint, 

 narrowest next the stalk. The flowers grow next the tops 

 in small whorles, of a whitish colour, with a blush of red, 

 pleated and labiated, set in five-pointed calices, contain- 

 in*; four small dark brown seeds. 



Place. — It is sown in gardens. 



THme, — It flowers in June. The leaves and tops are used 



There is another species of Savory, which is sometimes 

 used, viz. 



SAVORY (WlKTEKy-CSatureta Montana.) 



Descrip. — This is more woody and shrubby than the fo^ 

 mer, witn leaves like hyssop, stiffer and harder, and seem- 

 ingly pierced full of holes, and ending in spinulss : the flow- 

 ers are of the colour of the former, and the seed much alike 



PloM. — This is likewise cultivated in gardens. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — They are both under Mercury, 

 being heating, drying, and carminative, expel ling wind from 

 the stomach and bowels, and are good in asthma, and other 

 affections of the breast ; they open obstructions of the 

 womb, and promote menstrual evacuations. Winter Sa- 

 vory is a ffood remedy for the colic and iliac passion; keep 

 it dry, make conserves and syrups of it for your use ; for 

 which purpose the Summer kind is the best This kind is 

 both hotter and drier than the Winter kind, and is much 

 commended for pregnant women to take inwardly, and to 

 smell often unto. It expels tough phlegm from the chest 

 and luugs ; quickens the dull spirits in tne lethargy, if the 

 juice be snuffed up the nose ; dropf)ed into the eyes it clears 

 them of thin cold humours proceeding from the brain. The 

 juice heated with oil of roses, dropped into the ears, eaaes 

 them of the noises in them, and deafness also ; outwardly 

 Applied with wheat flour, as a poultice, it eases sciatica and 

 palsied members. It eases pain from stings of wasps, boL«s^^ 



