OTTLnniR'B OOlTPLVrE HKBBAL. S4T 



.mw hurooara : it works powerfullj oo old cold griefs of the 

 head aod brain, stomach, liver, spleen, reins, and bladder. 

 It purges the brain of rheum, being snutfed up the nos- 

 trils. It comforts the braina, and helps cold pains in the 

 head, and the shaking palsy. Two or three spoonfuls, if 

 taken, help passions of the heart, swoonings, and the colic: 

 and bein^ ma<le into troches with wine, it may be reserv- 

 ed for an eye-medicine, which being aptly applied, repre«- 

 ■es obnoxious humours thereof. 



SPINACH.— ("iS/nViacia OleracM,) 



Deicrip. — This has a long whitish root, from which rise 

 •everal broad, sharj) pointed leaves, hollowed in next the 

 stalk, which is flat and succulent, rising about two feet 

 hi(;h, with the like but smaller leaves growing on it. with 

 several spikes of green herbaceous flowers, and after them 

 come large prickly seed. 



Place. — It is sown yearly in gardens. 



Virtue*. — It is more used for food than medicine, and is 

 much eaten as boiled salad, and is useful to temper the 

 heat and Kharpuens of the humours; it cools and moistens, 

 and as a diuretic renders the body soluble. 



SPLEEN-WORT.— f i4«p/tfnittm Scolopendra.) 



Called also Ceterach. 



De»crip. — This is a small plant, which consists only at 

 leaves, tnat rise from a fibrous root, about four inches in 

 length, hardly an inch broad, cut into small roundish seg- 

 meuta, which stand opposite to one another, alternately ; 

 they are of a greenish colour on the uuper side, and brown- 

 ish, and full of dusty seed uuderiieath, generally folded in- 

 ward, resembling the Scolopendra, whence it is named. 



place. — It grows on stone walls and moist shadowy placea 



Time. — It abides green all the winter. 



Oovemment and Virtue*. — Saturn owns it It is gener- 

 ally use<l against infirmities of the spleen, helps the stran- 

 gury, and wastes the stone in the bladder, and is useful 

 against the jaundice and the hiccough. 



spunk: -YJ^'ciricia Pedi* Equini FacU.) 



Called also Touchwood, 



Descrip. — This rrows to the oak, ash, and other trees, 

 rhat on old oaks is considered best, the inward part that 

 feels to the touch like buff, must be taken oat and beaten 

 a little till it crumbles between the fingers. 



