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has near the fame Virtues of the laft Dock. Its ex- 
prefs’d Juice, or the Leaves boiled in Broth, loofeft 
the Belly. The Seed powder’d, and drank in any 
aflringent Liquor, flops exceflive Menfes^ and other 
Fluxes. 
92. 
Monks Rhubarb, or Garden Patience, is 
another Dock ; two Ounces of the powder’d Root, 
and a Scruple of Ginger, taken in a Morning, 
purge yellow Bile and watery Humours. Juice of 
the Root with Brimflone cures Outbreaks on the 
Skin. The Juice with Lupin Meal cures Freckles, 
Spots, &c. on the Body. The Juice or Powder of 
the Root, taken in Wine, expels Sand and Gravel. 
The Seed flops all Fluxes. Water or Decodtion of 
the Leaf cleanfe and clear the Skin. A Decodlion 
of the Root cures the Jaundice. The Juice, dropp’d 
into the Ears, eafes their Pain. Gargled in the 
Mouth, it cures the Tooth-ach. The Seed cures 
Pain and Loathing of the Stomach from Bile. 
93 * 
T he great Water-Dock ( Hydrolapathum) 
which grows in watery, marfhy, flagnant Places, 
or in watery Ditches. The Root (if old) is thick, 
broad, round, fpongy, and juicy ; divided below 
into feveral thickifh Parts, compafs’d with Fibres, 
black without, and, when juft dug up frefh, it is 
white within ; but in the Air quickly turns yellow ; 
and when dry it is brown. It has the fewefl and 
longeft Leaves of all the Dock Kind, being from a 
Foot and an half to two Foot long each ; and three 
or four Fingers broad •, broadefl in the Middle, and 
lharp at the Point, of a leaden blackifh Colour a- 
bove, and paler below ; with palifh green Veins, of 
a thickifh firm Subfiance, and hard to the Touch *, 
they fall in the End of Auguft, The Stalks are from 
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