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old, and then it is a moft excellent fe* 

 brifuge. 



You mufl give the fick party, if a man, 

 nine fpoonfuls, fwcetned with a little 

 lugar, warm, the laft thing at night, and 

 firfl: in the morning fafdng 5 if a wo- 

 man, fevcn fpoonfuls 5 if a child, five 

 fpoonfuls; if an infant, three fpoonfuls, 

 at night only ; and if the party wants 

 fleep, fweetcn it with fyrup of red pop- 

 pies. It may alfo be given to a womaa 

 in child-bed with great fafety. 



SECT. VIII. CHAP. LIX. 

 Of the mtijhroom. 



TH E mufhroom, or more properly 

 moufcheroon, from a kind of a 

 faint, difagrceable, musky fmell; by the 

 French-, champignons^ muft not be omit- 

 ted in this treatife of kitchen garden- 

 ing, havuig been of old exalted to the 

 fecond courfe of the C^farian tables ; 

 and, as Mr. Evelyn obferves, ennbbled 

 with the title of b^^^cj, a/^v, a dainty fit 

 for the gods. Thefe fungi have their 

 original, as Mr. i?^, in his Hiftorj of 

 TlmtSy lib. 2. p. 84. teUs us, from fu- 

 Y nus 



