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coction of the herb dry or greea be made in wine, aud 

 drank for some time together. If four ounces of the juice 

 be taken in a morning, fasting, with a dram of mithridate, 

 or Venice treacle, it will free the heart from any infection of 

 pestilence, after taking it the party should get a two hours' 

 sweat in bed ; repeat this medicine as often as necessary. 

 The green herb bruised and applied to any carbuncle or 

 plague sore, will dissolve and break it in three hours. The 

 same decoction drank, helps the pains and stitches in the 

 side. The decoction of the roots taken for forty days toge- 

 ther, or a Oram of the powder of them taken at a time in 

 whey, helps those that are troubled with running or spread- 

 ing ulcers, tetters, or ringworms. The juice or decoction 

 drank, helps also scabs and breakings out of the itch, and 

 the like. The juice made into an ointment and used, 1? 

 effectual for the same purpose. The same also heals all in- 

 ward wouuds by the drying, cleansing, and healing quality 

 therein ; and a syrup made of the juice and sugar, is very 

 effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and so is the distill- 

 ed water of the herb and flowers made in due season, espe- 

 cially to be used when the green herb is not in force to be 

 taken. The decoction of the herb and roots outwardly ap- 

 plied, helps all sorts of hard and cold swellings in any part 

 of the body, is good for shrunk sinews or veins, and heals 

 green wounds, old sores and ulcers. The juice made up 

 with the powder of borax and samphire, cleanses the skin 

 of the face and other parts of the body, not only of freck- 

 les and pimples, but also of morphew and leprosy ; the 

 head washed with the decoction, cleanses it from dan- 

 druff, scurf, sores, itch, and the like, used warm. The herb 

 bruised and applied, in a short time loosens and draws out 

 any splinter, or broken bone lying in the flesh. 



SCAMMONY OR GREAT WHITE BINDWEED.— 



(Convolvulus Sepiuiru) 



Descrip. — This is a pernicious weed for the gardener. Its 

 roots creep under the earth to a great distance ; they are 

 larger than those of couch-grass, and would be more easily 

 destroyed if they were not so brittle. The flowei-sare snowy 

 white, some of a flesh or rose-colour, with a tint of purple. 



Place. — It grows most frequently in the Isle of Wight. 



Oovernmeni and Virtues. — This is the plant which pro- 

 duces the Scaramony. It does not grow so large here as 

 abroad. The concrete juice of the root ia the Scamraony of 



