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folves Kernels, lefiens Swellings, and dries up 
moift Sores. A Lee made of it cleanfes the Head 
from Scurf, hinders Falling off of the Hair, and 
makes it grow thick and fair. 
t85. 
White Maiden-hair, or Wall Rue, is of 
the fame Nature as the other, good in a Cough, 
Afthma, Pleurify, Jaundice, and obftructea Spleen. 
It provokes Urine, and expels Sand, Gravel, and 
Stone. The Powder, taken forty Days together, 
helps Children’s Ruptures. It is the Soldier’s Pa- 
nacea in the Scurvy. It is green all Winter, infufed 
in Beer, and drank daily, Boyle fays it difiolves 
King’s-evil Swellings. A Powder of it, and 
Couch-grafs , Maiden-hair , and a fourth Part of 
Dcg-grafs Roots mixt up into an Eledluary with 
Syrup of the five opening Roots, Dr. Bowie fays is 
an excellent Remedy for the Rickets. As is a Con- 
ferve of the tender Buds of Spleen-wort •, or of the 
Buds of Afparagus \ or three Ounces of powdered 
Ofmund-royal Roots, white Sugar an Ounce and 
an half, mixt, and two or three Drams of it given 
daily, in all the Child’s Meat ; or a Conferve of 
its Buds, or of Fern Buds *, are all moll powerful, 
and Specific Remedies in the Rickets. As is a De- 
codticn of Agrimony , drank thrice a Day, for Ulcers 
of the Kidnies •, or a Decodtion of Calamint , in white 
cr Rhev. Jh Wine •, or their common Drink *, a De- 
coction of the whole Strawberry Plant, in Water, 
ftrain’d and fweetened ; or the like Decodtion of 
Tops of St. John's-wort, drank to half a Pint a 
Day ; or half a Pint of a Decoction of Plantain , 
in Water, drank Evening and Morning for a 
Week •, are. all good for Ulcers in the Kidnies. 
For mm 5 publifh’d a whole Book on Maiden-hair in 
1644, wherein he makes it a general Remedy. 
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