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places about Newcajtle upon Tyne f. This is an aii? 
nual plant. 
A woman near Salop gathered fome Dogs-mercury, and ha* 
ving boiled it, fried it with fome bacon for her own and her fa- 
mily’s fupper. After they had been about two hours in bed, one 
of the children fell very fick, and fo did the other two prefently 
after : The man and his wife took them to the fire^ where they 
vomited and purged, and, within half an hour, fell fall afleep z 
They took them to bed as they were afleep, and went to bed 
thenifelves too, and fell faflier afleep than they had ever done 
before. The man waked the next morning about three hours af- 
ter his ufual time, and went to his labour j and, by the ftrength 
of his conftitution, carried it off : But his chin was fo hot all the 
day long, that he was forced to dip it frequently in water. The 
woman rofe a while after, but was very fick, and continued fa 
for feveral days. One of their children flept four days, and then^ 
juft opening her eyes, died immediately. While ftie was afleep 
. endeavours were ufed to waken her, but in vain. The other 
two flept about 24 hours, and, upon their waking, fell a vomi-. 
ting and purging ; which was fuppofed faved their lives. 
Urtica, Nettle. The ftalks are fingle, without 
branches •, the leaves are fer rated, and grow by 
pairs j the flowers and fruit are dilpofed in long 
clufters, four of them at a joint, in the form of 
a crofs. The whole plant is full of little fpines 
\ that prick and bliflier the fkin. The fpecies are : 
I. Urtica racemifera major perenniSy R. • 
major vulgaris & media fylvejirisy P. 440. urens^ G, 
570. Common Stinging-nettle. 
2. Urtica minor ^ R. 140, G. 570. urens minor y 
C. 232. The Leflfer Stinging-nettle. 
* 3. Urtica pilulif era folio profundius Urtica majo^ 
ris in modum ferrato^ femine magno Lini, Urtica Ro^ 
manay R. 140, G. 570, P. 440. urens^ pilulas fe- 
rens^prima Diofcoridis, femine Lini^ C. 232. Com- 
mon Roman-nettle. At Great -Tar mouthy in Nor^- 
folk^ near the key ; Aldborough^ in Suffolk j and elfe- 
where on that coafl:. 
The juice of Nettles is good for all kinds of inward bleed- 
ings, haemorrhages, and fluxes. A tent dipp’d into it flops the 
bleeding of the nofe,. or of wounds. The root is accounted a 
fpecilidc 
