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out ; or drop the Juice of Radiflhes on them ; or 
the skin’d Leaves of Houfleek laid on them ; or, 
for watery Swellings of the Feet, a Poultife of 
Herb Robert is fure. For kib’d or chilblain’ d 
Heels, foment them with a Deco£lion of Turnep 
Roots •, or anoint them with the exprefs’d Liquor 
from a Turnep fcoop’d, fill’d with Rofe Oil and 
roafted under the Embers ; or apply a frozen Tur- 
nep, or roafted Turnep Peelings applied warm, 
twice or thrice a Day; or a Loop’d Radifh Root 
fill’d with Oil of Rofes, boiled, and the liquor 
exprefs’d and ufed. 
165- 
Knap- weed ( Jacea ) being very much like Sca- 
bious, is thought to be much of the like Nature ; for, 
being of an aftringent and drying Tafte, it is good 
to ftop Fluxes both of Blood at the Mouth, Nofe, 
or other outward Parts, or from inward Wounds, 
or Breaches of Veflels, or Vomiting or Purging 
much, and checks the Diftillation of Rheum on the 
Throat,* Breaft, Lungs, and Stomach ; and is good 
for Bruifes and Falls. Its Decodtion, drank in Wine 
and applied outwardly, is good in Ruptures ; and 
fingularly good in all Kinds of Sores, Cancerous or 
Fiftulous ; dries up their Moifture and heals them. 
It does the fame to Scabs, fore Throats, and S w ellings 
of the Uvula or Jaws. * It flays the Blood, clofes 
up and heals green Wounds. 
166. Knot- 
* For an Inflammation of the Uvula ufe a Gargle of be.'.ten 
Hemp-feed, boiled in Poifet Drink ; or of the Herb Dandelion, 
boil’d in Water ; or of Tormentil Root, boil’d in Small Beer; 
or of Throat-wort Leaves, boiled and ufed as before ; Eimuller, 
Or boil four Ounces of the inner Bark of Elm-tree, in three 
Pints of Water, to a Pint and a half, flrain, and add Syrup of 
Rafp-berries, and Mulberries, of each an Ounce and a half ; 
mixt for a Gargle. For an Ulcer, boil two Handfuls of 
Speedwell 
