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Dill or A n e t ( Anethum ) the Seed digefts 
and difcufifes, ripens Swellings, increafes Milk, 
caufes Reft, leftens Venereal Inclinations, cures Vo- 
miting and Hiccup ; the tender Leaves and frefh 
Roots are Diuretic, and of great Service in the 
Stone. A Decodtion of the Seed in Oil and Wa- 
ter, drank, then a Crumb of Bread dipp’d in warm 
Water and eaten, wonderfully helps, and refrefhes, 
fuch as are languifhing in the Iliac Paflion, from 
hardened Excrements, even tho’ they have vomit- 
ed 
powdered Columbine Seed drank in white Wine fading. (In the 
Mealies, Columbine blue Flowers infufed with warm Water, 
acidulated with Spirit of Vitriol, let them Hand till cold, then 
drain it off, and fweeten them a little ; drink a Draught of it 
every Morning and Afternoon ; or give its Powder from half a 
Dram to a Dram, in Hydromel, or Fumitory Water, or De- 
co&ion, are excellent.) In the Jaundice, Decodlion of Silver- 
weed, or Wild Tanfy, in white Wine often drank ; or an In- 
fufion of diced Burdock Root, in Ale, drank freely. Morning 
and Afternoon ; or a Decodtion of Ladies Mantle, in white 
Wine or Water ; or a Decodtion of Celandine Root, drank fe- 
veral Days ; or the whole Herb and Root ufed in Deco&ion, 
Infufion, Juice, or Syrup, is excellent. The Juice of the 
Herb, from an Ounce and a half to two Ounces, drank alone, 
and a Draught of Ale taken immediately after it every Morning ; 
or mixed with the Ale and drank ; or if the cleaned diced 
Roots and Raidns be infufed in white Wine, or Cyder, cold 
for four or five Days ; then the Tindture filtered through Cap 
Paper, and drank, every Morning and Afternoon, from four to 
fix Ounces, is very effedtual ; or two Handfuls of Celandine, 
and a Handful of Juniper Berries, infufed in Rhenijh Wine, a 
Pint ; exprefs the Juice, Dofe four Ounces twice a Day. Juice 
of Succory, boiled up thick, is commended. A Decodlion of 
the whole Strawberry Plant, in white Wine, given twice a Day ; 
or the Herb boiled in Broth, and eaten ; or three Handfuls of 
the whole Plant, and four Ounces of Raifins, boiled in three 
Pints of Water, to two, for common Drink. Powder of Alh- 
tree Seed, drank, in white Wine, is commended; or fifted 
Afh-tree Allies, as many as the Urine of the Sick, made at once, 
will moiften, or wet ; make three equal Pills of it, which fet in 
a clofe Velfel in the Chimney Comer till dry. Willis, Or Juice 
of 
