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Pan of the Eyes. Tragus gave them in the Cholic. 
Steams and Bathes of the Flowers are- reputed proper 
in Gouty and Paralytic Diforders. Mathiolus fays, 
a Decoftion of its Tops drank daily, for thirty 
Days together, three Hours before Meat, waftes 
the Stone in the Bladder infenfibly ; Dofe five 
Ounces. He fays, it will do it more effectually, if, 
after that Time, the Sick fit feveral Times on boil’d 
Heath in a Bathe of its DecoCtion. By this Means, 
he fays, he had feen fome cured. Chtfius fays, that 
Rcndeletius effectually cured many inveterate Herpes , 
which covered the whole Face, with an Oil made 
of the Flowers. The Sects Highlanders ufe it for a 
Bed to lie on *, they lay the Roots to the Ground, 
and the Tops up, which makes it as foft as a Fea- 
' ther Bed, and reftores weary Limbs to their full Vi- 
gour •, fuch, as lie down on it weary and faint, rife 
up next Morning, light, nimble, and cjiearful. 
The Oil made of its Flowers is good for the Shin- 
gles ; a Wafh of its Decoflion, or of white Lily 
Roots, in Water or Wine, cures a red Face. 
142. 
Hellebore ( white) Helleborus albus ) only the 
Root is in Ufe ; it purges upwards and downwards 
with fuch Violence, that it is now rarely ufed, 
though it w r as the Specific of the Antients in Mad- 
nefs p we now ufe black Hellebore in its Room. 
Tragus fays, that the White infufed twenty- four 
Hours in Wine, or Oxymeal, then taken out and 
dried, may be given in Powder to half a Dram, to 
Mad or Melancholy People, Gefner fays, that a 
Syrup of the Root boil’d in Vinegar, and made up 
with Honey, is a fafe Medicine, and he often found 
its wonderful EffeCts $ e-fpecially in phlegmatic Dif- 
eafes of the Breaft and Head, as Afthma, Epilepfy, 
&c. For it loofens the Belly without any Trouble ; 
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