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powerful a remedy against the dropsy, that; on, usually not round as those below, bui 

 the very lye made of the ashes of the herb j somewhat long, and divided at the edges : 

 being drank, cures the disease. It provokes | the tops are somewhat divided into long 

 the terms, helps the fits of the mother, i branches, bearing a number of flowers, set 

 strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and j round about a long spike one above another, 

 expels the wind. Indeed there is scarce a; which are hollow and like a little bell of a 

 better remedy for wind in any part of the 5 whitish green colour, after which come 

 body, or the cholic, than the chymical oil > small heads, containing very small brownish 



drawn from the berries ; such country ; 



seed, which falling on the ground, will 



people as know not how to draw the chy- 5 plentifully spring up before Winter, if it 

 mical oil, may c- ntent themselves by eating \ have moisture. The root is round and most 

 ten or a dozen of the ripe berries every \ usually smooth, greyish without, and white 

 morning fasting. They are admirably good J within, having small fibres at the head of 

 for a cough, shortness of breath, and con-Uhe root, and bottom of the stalk, 

 sumption, pains in the belly, ruptures, \ Placed] It grows very plentifully in 



cramps, and convulsions. They give safe 

 and speedy delivery to women with child, 

 they strengthen the brain exceedingly, help 



many places of this land, but especially in 

 all the west parts thereof, upon stone and 

 mud walls, upon rocks also, and in stony 



the memory, and fortify the sight by $ places upon the ground, at the bottom of 

 strengthening the optic nerves; are excel- j old trees, and sometimes on the bodies of 

 lently good in all sorts of agues ; help the 1 them that are decayed and rotten, 

 gout and sciatica, and strengthen the lirnbs j Time.'] It usually flowers in the begin 

 of the body. The ashes of the wood is aining of May, and the seed ripening quickly 

 speedy remedy to such as have the scurvy, | after, sheds itself; so that about the end e* 

 to rub their gums with. The berries stay j May, usually the stalks and leaves are 

 all fluxes, help the haemorrhoids or piles, j withered, dry, and gone until September, 

 and kill worms in children. A lye made j then the leaves spring up again, and so 

 of the ashes of the wood, and the body \ abide all winter. 



bathed with it, cures the itch, "scabs and : Government and virtues."] Venus chal- 

 leprosy. The berries break the stone, i lenges the herb under Libra. The juice 

 procure appetite when it is lost, and are ! or the distilled water being drank, is very 

 excellently good for all palsies, and falling- [effectual for all inflammations and unnatural 

 sickness. j heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot 



KIDNEYWORT, OR WALL PEN N YROYAL, j %*>, OT ^ ^^ V^ ^ ^ ^T 

 OR WALL PENNYWORT. gj? ** ""* ^'^ T K ' 



j heals pimples, bt. Anthony s nre, and other 



Descript.~] IT has many thick, flat, and ! outward heats. The said juice or water 

 round leaves growing from the root, every I helps to heal sore kidneys, torn or fretted 

 one having a long footstalk, fastened un- > by the stone, or exulcerated within ; it also 

 derneath, about the middle of it, and a > provokes urine, is available for the dropsy, 

 little unevenly weaved sometimes about the $ and helps to break the stone. Bejng used 

 edges, of a pale green colour, and some-: as a bath, or made into an ointment, it 

 what yellow on the upper side like a sau-lcools the painful piles or haemorrhoida- 

 cer ; from among which arise one or more { veins. It is no less effectual to give ease 

 tender, smooth, hollow stalks half a foot \ to the pains of the gout, the sciatica, and 

 igh, with two or three small leaves there- 1 helps the kernels or knots in the neck or 



