an Ounce of Alth<ea Ointment in warm Drink and 
fwallow it, with furprizing Succefs. * 
6 . 
Alisanders ( Hippofelinum ) (falfly called Mace- 
donian Parfley) the Herb is eaten in the Spring to 
purify the Blood ; the Root dig efts Crudity, and 
vifcous Humours on a cold Stomach, and by its 
Bitternefs opens Obftrudtions of the Liver, Spleen, 
and Womb; it expels Birth and After-birth ; breaks 
Wind ; provokes Urine, and removes its Obftruc- 
tions : The like does the Seed if boil’d, or drank 
in 
* Mr. John Critfo having, with great Labour and Pains, col- 
lected a great Number of fimple Medicines for moll Difeafes, 
out of one hundred and fifty-five Phyfical Authors, I fhall here 
and there in this Work throw feveral of his Articles into Marginal 
Notes, and firfl to begin with the Stone : A DecoCtion of Agri- 
mony drank ; Winter Cherries pounded and taken in White Wine ; 
Bark of the Root of Rejlharrow ; a DecoCtion of Goofe-GraL 
Roots in White Wine ; an Infufion of Garlick and Juniper 
Berries in White Wine, drank ; or a Draught of the Infufion of 
Garlick and Ground- Ivy in White Wine, every new Moon ; or 
Juice of the Roots of Crows -Gar lick in White Wine ; or Infu- 
lion of Columbine Root in White Wine ; or a DecoCtion of Silver- 
Weed , in Wine ; or the exprefs’d Juice of four Handfuls of 
Silver Weed , and one Handful of Tops of green Rye, mixt with 
as much White Wine, then filtred, and drank, the frit three 
Mornings of every May ; and Poterius fays, fuch as do this will 
never be troubled with the Stone. A Dram of the powder’d 
Seed of Star Fhijile drank every Morning in Wine j or a Dram 
of the powder’d Seed of St. John s Wort drank daily for feven 
Days, in White Wine ; or two Ounces of Lemon Juice mixt with 
fix Ounces of Spanijb Wine, and drank ; or the powder’d Bark 
or Peel of Filberds drank in Wine ; or a Handful of the inner 
Bark of the Cherry T ree, cut and pounded, in fix Ounces of 
White Wine, the Liquor drain’d and drank ; or a Decoftion of 
Camotnile drank warm twice a Day. Or powder’d Burdock Seed 
drank in Poffet Drink, or White Wine ; or an Infufion of wild 
Carrot Seed in Table Beer for common Drink ; or wild Carrot 
Seed and Burdock Seed infufed ; or a Dram of Gromwell Seed 
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