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Ointment to take out Corns of the Feet and Toes, 
cure Burns, and foften the Pudenda of Women in 
Labour. Gerard fays, that Barley Bread, baked 
with its Juice, and eaten for a Month, has cured 
many Dropfies. The exprefs’d Juice of the bruifed 
Root, given in Wine, and drank two or three 
Days, expels the Venom of the Plague, and throws 
it out upon the Skin in Bladders and Puftules. The 
Flowers not only digeft and eafe Pain, but, infufed 
two or three Days in Wine and diftilled, they afford 
a mod: excellent W T ater for the Hypo and Hyfte- 
rics •, Dofe from one to three Spoonfuls. The 
Roots, bruifed with Honey, confolidate cut Sinews, 
or Tendons •, wafte, and cleanfe Ulcers on the 
Head, and the Scurvy on the Face or Beard. A 
Pouitife of the Roots quickly gathers, ripens, and 
breaks any Inflammatory, or other Impofthumes, 
but efpecially if roafted Onions and Mufhrooms be 
added to it. 
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Lime or Linden-tree (Tilid) The Leaves and 
Bark dry, repel, and provoke Urine. The Mu- 
cilage of the Bark, is excellent in Burns or Wounds, 
efpecially if it is chewed and rubbed on. The 
Leaves bruifed, and fprinkled with Water, dif- 
cufs Swellings of the Feet. They are alfo a Sove- 
reign Remedy for the Thrufh, and windy Cramp, 
in Women with Child. Their exprefs’d Juice, 
mixt with Wine, and rubbed warm on the Parts, 
cures the Cramp. The Flowers contain fine Parts, 
have a pleafapt Smell, and their difiilFd Water is 
often ufed for the Falling Sicknels, Apoplexy, and 
Vertigo. Some advife it for a Palpitation, Pains of 
the Uterus , Stone, and to diffolve coagulated 
Blood. The Powder of the Berries, is much praifed 
the Bloody, or other Fluxes of the Belly ; beaten 
with 
