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Drinks, or Decodtions •, or outwardly in Oint- 
ments, Lotions, or Planters. 
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Herb Tway-blade {Bifolium) is a little Aftrin- 
gent, has a clammy, fweetifh Juice ; it is often ufed 
with good Succels, to cure both new and old 
Wounds, and frelh Ruptures. Pliny fays, it turns 
the Hair of the Eye-brows black. 
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Holly-Tree ( Agrifolium ) ten or twelve of 
its Berries, eaten, are very good in the Cholic ; for 
they bring off, by Stool, thick, grofs, and phlegma- 
tic Humours. A Decodtion of the Prickles of the 
Leaves in a Poffet Drink of Ale and Milk, drank, 
cures the Cholic, when other more likely things 
were before tried in vain. Mathiolus commends a 
Fomentation of a Decodtion of the Roots, for a 
Hardnefs of the Joints, to dilfolve Swellings, and 
heal broken Bones. The Bark of this Tree affords 
an excellent Bird-lime, but fatal, if taken inwardly, 
becaufe of its Glutinoufnefs. A Dram of the pow- 
dered Leaf, drank in a Glafs of warm Liquor, is 
commended in Pains of the Back. For Gripes, 
Holly Leaves, boiled in Polfet Drink and drank ; 
or a Decodtion of Vervain Mallows drank j or Root 
of Mafter-wort in Infufion, or Decodtion. A Ser- 
vant-Maid, who by Fits for five Years had endur’d 
moft terrible Pains of the Belly, which went off each 
Time with agreatNoife, like the Report of a Piftol, 
to the frequent Surprife of Strangers, who knew not 
the Matter j for feven Days together I ordered her 
to take, each Morning, a Dram of the powdered 
Leaves in warm Drink ; on the fifth Day Ihe palled, 
by Stool, feven large Globes or Balls, each wrought 
and intorted like ravell’d Thread, Hair, or Fibres, 
exceeding 
