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from ali Sand, GraVcl, Slime, or Stones in them. 
Its Powder, taken with Oxymel, purges Phlegm 
and Choler mildly, and is good in Shortnefs of 
Breath, Hypo, and Lownefs of Spirits. Its De~ 
codtion or Juice and Conferee taken, and the Herb 
bruifed and laid to the Wrifts with Bay Salt, helps 
Spring Agues. It is an Antidote to Opium and 
Henbane. It is among the chief of the Uterine and 
Ant'ihyUerie Plants, * and is therefore a good 
H Nervous 
* To haften the Menfcs obdruffed, Juice or Syrup of Brook- 
lime is a Specific. Powder, or Emumon of Columbine Seeds, 
ufed thrice a Day. A Dram of Conferve of Borrage, and fix 
Grains of Nutmeg, in a Glafs of white Wine, drank daily 
failing. Deeodfion of Calamint drank, and tne Sharebone 
fomented with it. Two Drams of Conferve of Marygold 
Flowers, taken many Days together ; or the Juice, or Syrup, 
Decodfion of the Herb : Or a Decodfion of LelTer Centaury in 
white Wine, or Water, drank : Or a Decodfion of Germander 
in Wine : Or a Handful of Camomile, or its dried Flowers in 
Water, to a Pint, and (fram’d ; and drank three Ounces at a 
Time, thrice a Day : Or two or three Handfuls of Camomile 1 
boil’d, beaten up to a Ponltife, and laid to the Sharebone . 
Or Flowers of Blue-Bottle irifufed, or boifd in Wine, or Water, 
and (fram’d ; drink of it every Morning, and Afternoon : Or a 
Peffary of a Scruple of black Hellebore Root powdered, and 
put in a Silk, and ufed ; but muif not be kept in long at once. 
Or Lovage Leaves chew’d are good : Or ufe a Peffary of the . 
foft Leaves of fvveet Marjoram, Feverfew, and Mercury, beaten 
up and ufed as black Hellebore was : Or Tops of white Hore- 
hound infufed twenty-four Hours in white Wine, and drink the 
Wine thrice a Day for three Days : Or Leaves of Feverfew 
beaten and made into a Peffary : Or Mercury ufed that Way : 
Parfnip Seed, boil’d in white Wine and drank, provokes them 
wonderfully : Or the Infufion, or Decedtion of Pennyroyal in 
white Wine, often drank, and the Herb worn in the Shoes.- — - 
For a Supprefiion of the Lochia x or Child -bed Purgation . Take 
dry Orange Peel, an Ounce ; Camomile Flowers, half a Hand- 
ful ; infufe and boil them (lowly in two Pints of Ale, to a Pint 
and a half, drain, and drink hereof a Glafs warm thrice a Day. 
A Deception of Calamint drank thrice a Day, and the (brain’d 
out Herb laid in a Poultife to the Sharebone : Or a Decodfion 
Of Feverfew, with a little Camomile, or Mug-wort, drank 
warm : Or Powder of Myrrh and Saffron, drank in W ater of 
Mercury y 
