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Oven, or boiling Water, the Pipkin clofe covered ; 
in a Spitting of Blood, Nettles and Horehound may 
be added ; and, of the exprefs’d Juice of all, make 
a Syrup with Sugar. 
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1 Comfry Root ( Symphytum ) is a principal Vul- 
nerary •, it is very mucilaginous and thickening, 
its clammy Juice fheathes the Sharpnefs of the 
Humours •, its Virtue chiefly depends on this Juice* 
which is good for Spitting of Blood, and for Cure 
of Children’s and other frefli Ruptures. The Con- 
ferve, Deco&ion, or Juice of the Root is good in 
Fluxes, from fliarp Humours, or in Catarrhs and 
Defluxions of the Bread from fharp, fait, thin, hot 
Humours ; or in Confumptions therefrom. A 
Decodtion of the Flowers in red Wine drank twice 
a Day cures bloody Urine. A Poultife of the Roots 
to a prick’d Tendon, or to a Part mod fenfibly 
affedted with goutifh Pains, or to fpreading eating 
Ulcers, Gangrene, &c. gives great Eafe, and in the 
lad Cafe much Relief. It is wonderful in Difeafes 
J from Acrimony. But in the Gout Sim . Pauli gives 
a much better Poultife from Sennertus^viz. of Com- 
fry Roots three Ounces, of Althaea Roots two 
Ounces, Tops of Southern-wood a Handful, of 
St. John’s-wort two Handfuls, of Camomile 
Flowers three Handfuls, of Elder Flowers four 
Handfuls, of Fenugreek Seed two Ounces, of Lin- 
feed four Ounces •, prepare and boil all in Elder- 
water, to a Confidence* then add Ointment of 
Marfhmallows to make a Poultife, and a very good 
one. Comfry Root Bark bruifed, and applied twice 
a Day, has cured Ulcers that were deemed and 
pronounced cancerous, tho’ recent. The Root is 
mod noted for fpeedy Healing of Wounds, and 
Curing broken, or Strengthening luxated Bones. A 
thick 
