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already been fettled within. That he had 

 been advifed to boil the alder bark, and to 

 wafli the wound often with the water : that 

 he followed this advice, and had foon got 

 his leg healed, though it had been ver}^ 

 dangerous at firft. ' ^ 



The Phytolacca decandra was called Poke 

 by the Englijh, The Swedes had no parti- 

 cular name for it, but made ufe of the £»- 

 glifi, with fome little variation into Paok, 

 When the juice of its berries is put upon 

 paper or the like, it ftrikes it with a high 

 purple colour, which is as fine as as any ift- 

 the world, and it is pity that no method is 

 as yet found out, of making this colour laft 

 on woollen and linen cloth, for it fades 

 very foon. Mr. Bartram mentioned, that 

 having hit his foot againft a ftone, he had 

 got a violent pain in it ; he then bethought 

 himfelf to put a leaf of the Phytolacca oqv 

 his foot, by which he loft the pain in al 

 fhort time, and got his foot well foon after.' 

 The berries are eaten by the birds about 

 this time. The Englijh and feveral Swedes 

 make ufe of the leaves in fpring, when 

 they are juft come out, and are yet tender 

 and foft, and eat them partly as green cale, 

 and partly in the manner we eat fpinnage. 

 Sometimes they likewife prepare them in 

 the firft of thefe ways, when the ftalks are 

 already grown a little longer, breaking off 



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