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purulent Matter. The Seed, either In white Wine 
or Emulfion, is good in the Stone, nephritic Pains, 
and Cholic. The Leaves cleanfe Ulcers, and a 
Pcultife of them roafled under the Embers, and ap- 
plied, eafes the Gout ; fome boil them in Milk, 
and lay on. The Water, Juice, Deco£lion, and 
Extract are all good in the above Cafes ; a Tea of 
it, and wild Angelica Root, drank daily with a 
little powder’d Gumguaiac, is a good Preventative 
of the Gout. The Leaves not only cleanfe Wounds, 
and obflinate tedious Ulcers, but are good in loofe 
Joints. In Gout or Gravel, the powder’d Seed 
fhould be daily drank for 40 Days. A Decodtion 
of the Root has cured feveral Quartans. The 
Leaves applied to fhrinking Sinews help them 
1 much •, their Juice taken with Honey provokes 
I Urine, and eafes the Pain of the Bladder; the 
Leaves, bruifed with the White of an Egg, take out 
Fire or Burns, eafe them quickly, and heal them 
up ; a Fomentation of their Decodtiori flays the 
Corrofion of fretting Sores or Canker ; they fhould 
be anointed after, with an Ointment of the Juice, 
Lard, Nitre, and Vinegar, boil’d up and flrain’d. 
A Conferve of the Roots is good in Confumptions* 
Fluxes, and Stone. The leffer Burdock Seeds di- 
gefl ; the Roots or Seeds bruifed, and often laid on 
hard Kernels in the Flefh, diflolve them ; the unripe 
Seeds bruifed, and fleep’d in warm Water or Wine, 
and the Hair moiflen’d therewith (having been firft 
rubb’d with a little Nitre) makes it yellow. I have 
often feen three or four Ounces of great Burdock 
Seed boil’d in Water, and flrain’d (it would be 
better in Wine) and half of the Liquor given to 
drink, the other half injedled in a Clyfler, has ref- 
cued from the Jaws of Death in flatulent pituituous 
Cholics, when the fmall Inteflines were flip’d into 
rhe Cods, and could not be put back, and the 
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