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Poultife of Squills boil’d in Vinegar; or of Garlick, 
Figs, and Venice Treacle ; or powder’d Roots of 
Birth-wort, dry Centaury Leaves, Galbanum, and 
Vinegar *, or of Round Birth- wort Roots, CaJJia 
Ugnea , Bay Berries, and Pepper,, of each two 
L r ims ; Leaves of Wild Rue, a Dram and an half ; 
Caftor a Dram; Anifeed half a Dram ; with Ho- 
ney make an Electuary of the Powders ; Dofe from 
a Dram to two Drams, with a Glafs of Wine, and 
apply to the Part a Poultife of Goats Dung, with 
Vinegar, Pitch, Wax, and Sulphur. He likewife 
adviles cither mixt, or feparately. Powders of 
Roots of Afphodel, Round Birth-wort, Briony, 
Gentian, and Torment'd ; Dofe from one Dram to 
two in old Wine ; or Powder of Collmary Root, 
from half a Dram to a Dram, in a Glafs of Worm- 
wood Wine, or Decoction. Diof corides. 
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FIypericon or St. John’s-wort is a no- 
ble Diuretic and Vulnerary ; bod’d and drank, it is 
faid to cure Tertians and Quartans ; it Hops Blood- 
Spitting, and diffolves coagulated Elood ; expels 
Gravel, and kills Worms. A Decodtion of the 
Herb, drank forty Days, or the Seed powdered, 
cures Jaundice and Gout ; it is wed adapted to the 
Stone, and enriches the Blood with a Balfamic Qua- 
lity. A Tindture of the Flowers, drank, is a pow- 
erful Medicine, in Madnefs and Melancholy, fays 
Sala y &c. A Tincture of its Flowers, in Brandy, 
is extoil’d for killing Worms in the Belly. Gerard 
prepared two Oils from it, which fee in his Herbal. 
The firfc whereof, he lays, is a mod precious Reme- 
dy for deep Wounds, and>thefe through the Body ; 
for prick’d Sinews, or any Wound made by a poi- 
fon’d Weapon. It is a compound Oil, than which, 
he lays, the World has not a better ; no, not na- 
tural Ballam itfelf. It is made of white Wine, a 
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