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For Burns and Scalds. 

 It is very good for Burns and Scalds. 



An Acharijlon, or Medicine deferving thanks. 



An Indian whofe Thumb was .fwell'd, and very much 

 inflamed, and full of pain, increafing and creeping along to 

 the wrift, with little black fpots under the Thumb againft 

 the Nail ; I Cured it with this Umbellictis veneris Root and 

 all, the Yolk of an Egg, and Wheat flower, f. Cata- 

 plafme. 



Briony of Peru, (we call it though it grown hear) or 

 rather Scammony ; fome take it for Mechoacan : The 

 green Juice is abfolutely Poyfon; yet the Root when dry 

 may fafely be given to ftrong Bodies. 1 



Red and Black Currence. See before. 



Wild Damask Rofes, Angle, but very large and fweet, 

 but ftiptick. 2 



Sweet Bern, 3 the Roots run one within another like a 



1 Convolvulus senium, L. (great bind-weed) is exceedingly like to C. Scam- 

 monia, L., the inspissated juice of which is the officinal scammony; and is com- 

 mon to Europe and North America. Gerard's bryony of Peru (p. S72-3), to which 

 Josselyn refers, is, whatever it be, not found here. Compare Cutler's remarks on 

 C. senium (Account of Veg., &c, I. c, p. 416). Mechoacan, "called . . . Indian 

 briony, or briony, or scammony of America," from the Caribbee Islands, &c, is 

 described in Hughes, Amer. Physitian (1672), p. 94; and see Wood and Bache, 

 Dispens., p. 424, note. 



- Rosa Carolina,^. (Carolina rose), probably. — See Cutler's observations, 

 /. c, p. 451. Higginson also notices "single damaske roses, verie sweete." — 

 New-Eng. Plantation, I. c, p. 119. Our Carolina rose is said to be common in 

 English shrubberies. 



3 See also Voyages, p. 72. Our author is the earliest authority that I have 

 met with for this name; and his plant, which is placed among those "proper to 



