thick Poultife of the Root fpread on Leather cafes 
' Pains of the Arms, or broken, or diflocated Bones * 
it is better if FI ix- weed be added to the Poultife, and 
laid on warm ; and in a Gangrene ; for which 
Juice of Alifanders in form of an Ointment is won- 
derful ; or rotten Apples in a Poultife laid on warm ; 
or of the Juice or Herb Scordium. A Poultife of 
Comfry is alfo good in the Sciatic, and Pains of the 
Arms, tho’ attended with Privation of Motion. 
Nor has it been found ufelefs in Venereal Inability* 
The powder’d Root, diflblVed in Water to a Muci- 
lage, is far from being contemptible in Bleedings* 
Fradtures, and Luxations. This and Flowers of 
dead Nettles are good in a Diabetes. It is good in 
inward or outward Bruifes, Wounds, ulcerated 
Lungs, exceflive Menfes , or Whites, frefh Claps* 
or old Gleets. It cools the Inflammations, eafea 
the Pain, and ftays the Bleedings of the Piles. 
Comfry and Daify Leaves beaten up to a Cataplafin 
and applied to Carbuncles is good. It eafes Wo- 
men’s Breafts pain’d by too much Milk. Its Juice* 
Powder, Syrup, Decodlion, or Conferve, are ufed * 
but its diftill’d Water is a Jeft : A good Ointment ) 
may be made of it, and an excellent ftrengthening 
Plaifter *, inferior to none, by boiling the Root in 
ftrong Ale ’till it come to the Confidence of a 
Plaifter, drain, fpread on Leather, and lay on the 
Part fhaven. It is a Specific in Excoriations, or 
Ulcerations of the Kidnies, efpecially from Can- 
tharides, and to haften the Callus of broken Bones. 
74 * 
Cock’ s-fool-Grass {Gfarhen T)a5ty!oides) bruifed 
and applied ftays Bleeding prefently, from the 
Nofe, or Wounds ; but if the rough Spike be put 
up the Nofe, and rubb’d, it makes it bleed. Boil’d 
with Lard and Houlhold Bread, it heals the Bite of 
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