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proper for cold, phlegmatic Conftitutions. Its dif- 
rill’d Water, Conferve, and Spirit, are all good. 
The frefh Roots diced, and hung about the Neck, 
are good in a Quinfy. The Water or Spirit, diop’d 
into green Wounds, or rotten Ulcers, though 
fpreading, and tending to a Gangrene, heals them 
up. It ihould always be in Fomentations for Mor- 
tifications. 
192. 
Meadow-sweet ( Vlmaria ) is a Sudorific, 
and Alexipharmac, good in all Kinds of Fluxes, 
Loofeneffes, Bloody Flux, Excefs of the Menfes , 
and Spitting of Blood. It refills the Plague, Pefti- 
lential. Malignant, and Contagious Difeafes. An 
Infufion of the Leaves, in Wine or Ale, gives, them 
a moil grateful Smell and Tafte like Burnet . The 
Flowers have a pleafant Smell, revive the Heart, 
put into Mead, and give it the Flavour of Malva- 
tic Wine. Sim. Pauli fays, he faw a mortal like 
Wound in the Bladder of a Maid, and another al- 
mod incurable Fradture of the Arm, cured by this 
Herb. It is therefore juftly elleemed a Vulnerary, 
and fuch as IVurtz preferred to all other Vulnerary 
Plants whatever, for fradlured Bones. It is faid to. 
alter and take away the Fits of Quartans, and to 
chear the Heart. Boil’d in Wine it relieves them 
that are troubled with the Cholic. Its Decodlion 
drank warm with a little Honey opens the Belly. 
The Infufion or Decodtion of the Root in Wine, 
drank, cures excefiive Menfes , Purging or Spitting 
of Blood, if daily drank for fome Time *, and this 
fhould always be obferved in the Ufe of all aftrin- 
gent, vulnerary, diaphoretic, and alexipharmac 
1 Ierbs, that we expedt Benefit from. Tauvry fays, * 
a Dram of the Extradl of the Root taken, and re- 
peated feveral Times, is good in malignant Fevers*, 
and 
