Dr. Vaughan and 297 



that Night j but I believe that an Extraft might be 

 prepared with the addition of Spiritus Vitrioli, which 

 might be of excellent ufe in chronicle Diftempers of 

 robuft Bodies. I was by your Hifi or ia plant arum in- 

 duced to make an Extract of Trifolium paludofum^ 

 "Which I have found an excellent Remedy in vomitUj 

 imbecillitate ventriculi, cruditatibus acidis, Scorbuto^ 

 Chloroji, and quellion not but that it is an extraordi- 

 nary umverfal deoblb uent : I have ufed feveral Pounds 

 of it this laft Year , and ihall make greater ufe of it 

 for the future. I have alio ufed it as an Inje&ion 

 (in fordid Ulcers) difTolved in Fountain Water, and 

 think it has as good mundifying effeSts, asTin&ure of 

 Myrrh and Aloes > but then you muft diflblve as much 

 of the Extraft as the Water will well contain. I 

 much wonder that the Afcyron foment ofum paluftre has 

 not been more taken notice of in Phyfick ; for I look 

 upon it to be one of .the beft Balfamick aftrin^ent 

 Plants we have, the native Irijh call it BirinTarragh^ 

 which fignifies Herba dyfent erica, and ufe it. in that 

 Diftemper with good {iiccefs, and I have ufed it boi* 

 led in Milk' with very good fuccefs, Pra'miJJis univer- 

 falibus, in Fluor c alb o. 'Tis doubtlefs an excellent 

 Vulnerary, and effectual in ail Fluxes beyond any 

 Herb I know. 



Worthy Sir , Kilkenny April z8. 1697. 



AS to Infetts I am forry I have nothing by me 

 worth communicating , I had formerly made 

 leveral Obfervations on thefe Animalcula, but being 

 forced in the late Troubles for England, I left moil: of 

 what I was worth m Limerick , which Place holding 

 out longer than any other Part of the Kingdom, 

 I there Toll moft of my Books, and what I eiteem 

 more, my Papers and Manufcripts. Atprefent I have 

 only to fay, that I am apt to think there are few Plants, 

 but if narrowly look'd into would be found to pro- 

 duce fqme kind or other of Infed, not by way of e- 



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