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that he was fo fuccefsful in flopping Bleedings that 
attended an Epidemic Fever i n Denmark, in 165-2, 
that he was taken for a Witch or Conjurer. The 
bleeding Patient is only to hold a Piece of the Root 
under 
Noftril, flays it. Beaten Darnel Root fprinkled with flrong Vi- 
negar and applied to the Forehead in a Poultife or Coronal Su- 
ture. An Infufion, or Deco&ion of Yarrow Drink ; or put to the 
Place frefh Cinquefoil Root held in the Hand ’till it is warm ; 
Burnet is of great Service ; a Fomentation or Poultife of Plan- 
tain, with a little Vinegar or Crab-juice laid to the Temples, 
and Forehead, flops Bleeding at the Nofe. As does from two 
to five Ounces of the Juice, drank daily in a Morning, cure all 
Bleedings ; or, for Bleeding at the Nofe, hold Solomon s Seal, 
and Knot-Grafs in the Hands till they are warm, or longer if 
needful ; or their Decodtion drank, and a Poultife of them ap- 
plied outwardly cold ; or Poplar Buds gathered in May and 
thrown by ’till they mould, which Mould flops Blood pow- 
erfully. Purflane, flowly chew’d and eaten, wonderfully cures. 
Bleeding of the Palate, Gums, or Throat, in Scorbutic Habits ; 
bruis’d Primrofe Leaves are good ; or a Decodtion of Bramble- 
berry Leaves, drank, cures inward Bleedings ; or Burnet Leaves 
held in the Hands Two or three Grains of the black Excre- 
fcenceon the Top of Wheat Stalks, eaten, flops all Fluxes of 
Blood. A Dram of Spikenard Powder taken in Broth or Plantain 
Water, is a Specific. Powder of Limetree Berries fnuffed up the 
Nofe. A Decodtion of TormentilRoot, drank thrice a Day. Net- 
tles or their Juice put up the Nofe flays its Bleeding ; or bruis’d 
and laid to the Palms of the Hands and Soles of the Feet ; or 
the Root, held in the Mouth, flays Bleeding at the Nofe ; or the 
powder’d Seed put into Wounds ; or their Juice drank cures 
Bleedings. Strawberry Roots held in the Mouth flops bleeding 
at the Nofe ; or powder’d Oak Mofs put up the Nofe ; or the 
Mofs of a dead Man’s Scull held in the Hand or hung about the 
Neck ; or a dried Toad hung about the Neck ; or Powder of 
dried, or calcined Water Frogs, taken from one to two Scruples 
in Drink, two or three times. For Spitting of Blood, Sil- 
ver-weed is good, and Juice of the whole Daify, given from one 
to two Ounces, inftantly after a Difcharge ; or take leffer Daify, 
flinging Nettles, Plantain, of each three Handfuls ; bruife all 
in a Mortar, pour an Ounce of Purflane Water on them, ex- 
prefs the Juice and Drink of it thrice a Day. Powder of Biflort 
Root, in Conferve of Rofes, is good. Dwarf Ciflus ufed any how 
is a Specific in all Bleedings. Bruifed Germander infufed in 
fcabiou? 
