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foetid Gums in general are the befb Nervous Medi- 
cines, this cannot be a contemptible One. The 
Juice diffolved in Wine, or mix’d with an Egg, is 
good for a Cough, Shortnefs of Breath, or windy 
Pains of the Body. It opens the Body gently, 
expels Wind, and foftens a hard Spleen. It is good 
in hard Labour, and eafes Pains of the Bladder, 
Kidnies, and Uterus. The Juice mix’d with Wine 
and drop’d into the Ears, or hollow Tooth, eafes 
their Pain. The powdered Root cleanfes and cures 
foul Ulcers •, it draws Thorns or other Things out 
of the Flefh, and heals the Wounds, or Sores. It 
is good in healing and warming Ointments. The 
Juice is ftronger than the Root, which is Balfamic, 
Oily, of a loofe Texture, and fmells like Turpen- 
tine. Five or fix Ounces of the Decodtion of the 
Root purges gently. The Antients ufed it much 
in Pleurifies. 
104. 
Fern, Male and Female ( Filix ) a Dram of 
their powdered Root boil’d in Mead, and drank, 
kills all Sorts of Worms in the Belly *, and is the 
only grand Secret boafted of by Mountebanks in this 
Cafe *. A Decodtion of the Root in Wine drank 
fome 
* For Worms of the Belly, let Powder of Southern-wood 
Seeds, or of the dried Herb be given. Syrup of the Juice 
of white Briony Root (that has flood ’till it is clean’d, and 
only the clear ufed) from half a Dram to a Dram. Of coarfe 
Powder of Sea Coraline given in Wine or Milk. An Infufion 
of Coriander Seed in Wine drank. Give powdered Fern Leaves 
from half a Dram to three Drams in Goats Rue Water, or any 
proper Liquor : Or drink half an Ounce of Juice of Goats 
Rue. The Duft found on Dog-grafs Roots in the Spring, ga- 
thered, dried, and given ; or a Decodlion of the Roots drank ; 
or a diftill’d Water drawn from pounded common Grafs ; or 
Powder of Tops of St. John’s Wort in Broth ; and a Poultife 
of it laid to the Belly ; or Powder of Purflane Seed taken ; 
2 Conferve 
