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Some efteem it a better Stomachic than Worm- 
wood. It provokes Urine and is good in a Stop- 
page, Heat, or Dribbling of Urine. The boil’d 
Herb is wrap’d in Lipnen and laid on black Eyes at 
Bed-Time, and tied on all Night ; next Day the 
Eyes are well. A Man, who had his Thigh grie- 
voufly bruifed by the Kick of a Horfe, was cured 
of the Pain in a few Flours, and the Blacknefs and- 
Biuenefs of the Skin quite removed, only by a 
Poultife of the Leaves cut, and beaten up with un- 
falted Butter. The Herb, clofe boiled with Rue 
and Honey, is good in a Cough, Afthma, Wheez- 
ing, and piftillation of Rheum on the Lungs. 
Hyflbp, with Oxymel, purges grofs Humours by 
Stool, and taken with Honey it kills Worms in the 
Belly. Taken with new Figs, it loofens the Belly. 
It reftores the natural Colour of the Body, when 
fpoiled by a Jaundice, or Cachexy. Taken with 
Figs and Nitre, it cures Dropfy and Spleen. A 
Gargle and Lotion of it, boiled with Figs, is good 
in a Quinfy or fore Throat. A Gargle of its De- 
codtion in Vinegar is good for the Tooth-ach. The 
Steam of its Decoclion, received by a Funnel into 
the Ears, cures their Inflammation. For the Fall- 
ing Sicknefs, Pills made of powder’d Hyifop, Hore- 
hound, and Caftor, of each a Dram ; Pseony Roots, 
forty Grains-, Alfa foetida, a Scruple ; juice of 
Hyffop, enough to make Pills for feven Dofes, to 
be taken every Night at Bed-Time. Hylfop pro- 
vokes the Menfes. I have known a fmall Quantity 
of it in Diet Drink, caufe Abortion. It breaks 
Wind, and eafes fharp Ague Fits. The green Herb, 
bruifed with a little Sugar and laid on, heals any 
green Wounds quickly. Some boil a Handful of 
Hyffop, two Ounces of Figs, and one Ounce of 
Sugar-candy in Mufcadine Wine, and drain it out, 
and drink of it every Morning and Evening, for 
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