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Nervous Diforders. In Faintings, Palpitations, 
Weaknefs, and Pain of the Stomach. In Pefti- 
lential Fevers, either the Juice of the whole Plant 
given to three Ounces, or three Drams of the 
Powdered Root, is good, but at the fame Time let 
the Nofe be well rubb’d and bath’d with its Vine- 
gar. The Flowers drive away Worms and haften 
the Birth. They eafe Head-achs and Tooth-achs* 
they pleafantly and powerfully caufe Sweats, quench 
Thirft, and ftrengthen the Heart. They cure 
Wounds of the Head, and draw Splinters out of 
the Scull ; laid on outwardly they are moderately 
drying and warm. The diftill’d Water is a noble 
Remedy for fore Eyes. Its Decodtion drank is 
excellent in Malignant Fevers. The Flowers are a 
fine Sudorific and Diuretic. 
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Clover (Trifolium) I find not the A Alliance 
of any of this large and numerous Clafs taken into 
Phyfic, except the common purple Meadow Trefoil , 
or Field Honey- Suckle, and the white-flower' d Mea- 
dow Trefoil . Some good Women lay great Strefs 
on a Decodtion of them drank to cure Children’s 
Rafh or Purples. Some fay their Decodtion in 
Clyfters is good for the Gripes, and to expel Flegm 
from the Bowels. A Poultife of them eafes Inflam- 
mations. Their Juice drop’d into the Eyes clears 
them from Films, that begin to grow over them 
and hinder the Sight, and alfo eafes Blood- fliooting* 
Some for the Bite of Adders drink the Juice, wafih 
the Place with their Decodtion, and lay on the 
boil’d Herb in a Poultife ; for this Purpofe fome ufe 
an Ointment made of it with Hogs Lard. The 
Herb bruifed between hot Tiles and laid on the 
Sharebone, provokes Urine. A Decodtion of the 
whole Plant drank a" long Time cures the Whites ; 
