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Butcher’s-Broom, or Knee -Holly Root, 
( Rufcus , five Brufcus) is very ufeful in Stuffings and 
Obftruftions of the Vifcera , efpecially the Liver, 
Spleen, and urinary Paffiages. Hence it is good in 
the Jaundice, Dropfy, and Strangury ; the fecond 
whereof, of a deplorable Sort, has been cured in a 
Month, by daily drinking a Decobtion of this alone, 
or with Flower-de-luce, and Fennel Roots in Wine 
or Water ; it is thought as powerful as Comfry in 
healing broken Bones, or as Solomon’ s Seal. Tho* 
a Deco&ion of the Root has had fuch furprifmg 
Effe&s in Dropfies in a few Weeks, yet pro- 
per Purges were, and always fhould be given with 
it, as of Jalap Root and Ginger, or Jalap and Sy- 
rup of Buckthorn, twice a Week. Powder of the 
Root 
fills of Juice of Plantain and Nettles mix’d, drank often, or five 
or fix Ounces of Juice of Nettles fweeten’d, and drank every 
fixth Hour ; or Wheat Flour, with Plantain Juice made into a 
Pafle, and laid to the Groins : Or a Poultife of Nettles warm’d 
in a Frying-Pan, and laid hot to the Sharebone. For the 
Whites, or Fluor albus , every Morning drink fix Ounces of a 
Decodtion of Ladies Mantle, and, if needful, injedt fome of it in- 
to the Vagina . Powder or Emulfion of the Seeds of Ladies- 
Thiftle, drank, is a Specific, or ufed in a Decodtion of Dwarf 
Elder. Powder of Dropwort Root, a Dram drank in Wine 
often, or in a Decodtion of wild Carrot Seed. Leaves or 
Flowers of Clary, taken any how, or the Water of the Leaves 
diflill’d wRh Wine, or an Ointment of its Leaves made with 
frefh Butter, rubb’d on from the Navel to the Sharebone and 
a little of it put into the Vagina , and eat often the Leaves 
fry’d with Eggs. White Archangel Leaves drank in Tea are 
much commended. This is very efficacious ; Take Juice of Yar- 
row a Pound, belt Sugar a Pound and half, make a Syrup, 
clarify it with the White of an Egg, Dofe from one to two 
Ounces falling, and an Ounce at Bed- time. Rofemary Tea 
drank often in a Day. A Fumigation of Sage Leaves burnt, 
and the Smoke received into the Vagina . — For a Pain of the 
Womb, Roots of Water-Lillies boil’d in Oil of Rofes is excel- 
lent, or a Dram and half of Nettle Seed given in Wine. 
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