( l6 5 ) 
Tongue, from a hot, fharp, and aduft Matter. 
The Flowers are the weakefl Part of the Plant j of 
them is made a Conferve and Syrup, which is not 
fo fomnific as Diacodium, but more fo than Syrup 
of Violets. A Pedilavium of the Flowers (or of 
the Leaves, when the Flowers are not to be got) 
Purflane, Camomile, and Willow Leaves, with a 
few geech Afhes and Salt, is a furprifing Somnific, 
in hot Fevers, with Watchings and Delirium j 
where Opiates and Anodynes fail, let the Steam of 
the Pedilavium reach the Bed, when the fickhave got 
into it, till they fall afieep. There is a fmall Sort 
called the Rana Morfus , or Nympho a Minima , but 
of its Virtues we know nothing ; it is never ufed, 
or wanted, being fatisfied of the good Effects of 
the other *, which makes it furprifing, that it is fo 
little known in the prefent Practice. 
176. 
Lilly {white) {Lilium album) The diftill’d 
Water of the Flowers, given in hard Labour with 
a little Saffron, expels Birth, and after Birth, two 
or three Spoonfuls of it recover from Fainting Fits. 
It is often ufed in Difeafes of the Lungs, as Cough, 
Shortnefs of Breath, A little Camphire, or 
Oil of Tartar, diffolved in it, gives the Countenance 
a fine Colour. Its Oil is made by three or four 
Days Infufion in the Sun in Oil, then {train it out, 
and pour on frefh Leaves and Flowers •, repeat it a 
third Time, then exprefs the Oil, and keep. for 
Ufe. It has furprifing Effects in Pains, and all 
cold Diforders. It loofens, foftens, and eal'es 
Pain •, is good in the Cholic, Pain, from the Stor^e, 
and Pleurify ^ but elpeciallv for contracted Sinews 
and Nerves •, in a Schirrus of the Uterus and Mm- 
fes obftrudted therefrom. The Root is much ufed 
outwardly to fbften and ripen Swellings ; and in 
M 3 Ointment 
