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the Ear is fprinkled with it, mix’d with Saffron and 
Caftor, it will eafe its Pains,' when milder Ano- 
dynes will not. The powdered Seed with Con- 
ferve of Rofcs and white Poppy Seed, made into an 
Eledtuary with Syrup of Poppies, is good in a Spit- 
ting of Blood. The Smoke of the Seeds, on live 
Coals, cures chilblain’d Heels, if they are well 
fqueez’d after. The Seed is a Specific in Ulcers of 
the Urinary Paffages. The white Seed is fafer than 
the black, and the exprefs’d Juice of the Leaves, 
than what diftills from them wounded. 
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Herb-Robert ( Geranium Robert ianum ) is an ex- 
cellent Vulnerary both outwardly and inwardly ; it 
Los Fluxes of Blood, diffolves extravaftted, clot- 
ted Blood, eleanfes Wounds and Ulcers, expels 
fmall Stones and Gravel, and eafes Cholic Pains. Fo- 
mentations of its Becodtion footh Arthritic Pains. 
It is commended for curing Ruptures. Fabrit. Hil- 
da?! ufed its Decodtion with Succefs for Cancerous 
Ereafts, chapp’d Nipples and Ulcers of the privy 
Parts •, for Bruifes and Wounds. For the firft of 
thefe ufe the Becodtion and Poultife ; for the fecond 
and third, an Ointment and Poultife. For the 
Stone and Pains of the Joints, let its Decodtion be 
drank, and apply Poultifes made of the boiled Herb. 
How it came into Fuchfius’ s Head to imagine its Ufe 
unfafe, becaufe of its Coldnefs, is fhrange, when we 
fee it not only ufed in Cancers, but it is one of the 
grand Specifics in the King’s-evil ; as take of this 
Herb, white Horehound, Smallage, Agrimony, of 
each a Handful ; Dill Seed, half an Ounce ; boil all 
in* three Pints of Water to one, (train for four Dofes, 
and fqueeze forty Hog-lice into each Dofe, which 
take fweetened twice a Day, for a Month together; 
but it is better infufed in Wine. A Cataplafm of it, 
Celandine, 
