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ning, Cleanfing, and Opening, expels Urine, Men* 
fes , Birth, and After-birth. It is good to break 
inward Impoflhumes ; Clyfters of it are much com- 
mended in a Sciatica. Its Powder given from one 
to two Ounces, at different Times, is extoll’d in 
the Stone, and to diffolve coagulated Blood. Out- 
wardly it cleanfes all Running Ulcers f but it is 
improper for Women with Child. 
214. 
Common Mithridate Mustard (Thlafpi 
Vaccar'ue folio) is very hot, dry, and cleanfing •, it 
is uled to break inward Abfceffes, expel the Men- 
fes , and cure the Sciatica. Outwardly it cleanfes 
all creeping Ulcers, and is fometimes ufed for a 
Snuff. Being very Diuretic, it is a good Remedy 
for Dropfy and Bloody Flux, but hurtful to Wo- 
men with Child. Baftard Mithridate Muftard has 
the fame or like Virtues. 
Tower Mustard. (Turrit is) ParJdnfon 
and Lemery think that it is Cutting, Opening, Wind- 
expelling, and Sudorific ; and feems, from its 
Take, to be near allied to Muftard and Creffes , and 
probably will produce the like Effects. Tcurnefort 
and Lc'bel have increafed the Specifics, and feveral 
others have added to them .— •Myrrhis or Sweet 
Cicely, See before. 
216. 
Mushrooms (Fungi) roafted and applied in a 
Foukife, or boiled with white Lily Roots, and Lin- 
feed in Milk, are one of the bell Ripeners of Boils, 
and Abfceffes we have ; for, from the Coldnefs, 
Clamminels, and Vifcoufnefs of their Parts, they 
. reverberate the perlpiring Matter, fhut it up in the 
excretory 
