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comes very ufeful ; therefore it is better to have it 
prepared, to prevent not only Danger, but all 
Suspicion, for then, taken in fweet Wine, it kills all 
Worms in the Body, and increafes Blood, and 
Seed. It heats and dries the cold Moifture of the 
Stomach, comforts it, helps Digcltion, and re- 
prelfes Vapours arifing from it ; is good in the 
Cholic, for Stoppage of Urine, expels Wind, and 
nourifhes *, it corrects a bad Breath, and prevents 
Hurt from bad Air. It is belt in cold, or moift 
Weather, to old People, or who have grofs, flug- 
gifh Humours, but agrees not fo well with hot 
and bilious Conftitutions. The powdered Seed, 
given in Pills, is good for cold, weak, phlegmatic 
Perlons. The Juice of the Herb (and alio the 
green Herb) is laid to be as great and deadly a 
Poifon as Hemlock ; yet mixed with Wheat or 
Barley Flour and applied outwardly, it dilfolves 
Knots and Kernels ; ufed with Bread it heals run- 
ning and fretting Sores, Wheals, Carbuncles, and 
Botches riling up in the Skin or Flefh ; and either 
the Juice or green Herb applied takes away the Swel- 
lings and Inflammations of the Cods. The fame 
things are done by an Ointment made of the Juice 
with Cerufe, Litharge, Vinegar, and Oil of 
Rofes . 
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Cow-parsnip Root ( Sphondylium ) Iqftens 
and difeufles Tumours of the Uterus , Liver 
and Spleen. Surgeons mix the exprefs’d Juice of 
the Plant with emollient Ointments. Schroder 
would have it number’d with the flve Emollients, 
and its chief outward Ufe to be in Clyfters, and 
other Anodynes, in any Form, but chiefly of Poul- 
tifes. Its Seed feems to be good in Hyfteric Fits. 
Galen fays it is of a fharp and cutting Nature, good 
