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out Pain. Mixt with a third Part Verdigreafe, 
and a fifth of Centaury Root, with Honey, and 
laid on with Vinegar, it cures Swellings in Inflam- 
mations. The bruifed Root fteeped in Sack, or 
any other fweet Wine, and drank, is good for 
Convulfions, Cramps, Ruptures, Gout or Sciati- 
ca, Incontinence of Urine, or other Overflowings. 
Half a Dram of the Seed, drank in Wine, provokes 
Urine powerfully. Drank with Vinegar it is good 
for the Spleen. The purging Juices are corrected 
by Honey and Spikenard *, they kill Worms, eafe 
the Stone andGravel, cure involuntary Lofs of Seed, 
vomit and purge. A Decodtion of the Root, in 
Wine, expels Urine and Menfes , and eafes the 
Cholic. The Juice eafes the Piles. For a Swell- 
ing of the Cods, take four Drams of this powdered 
Root, Cinnamon, and Dill -feed, of each two 
"Drams, Saffron a Scruple, mixt and fpread all on 
a Scarlet Cloth, moiffen them well with white 
Wine, warm them over a Chafing-difh, and apply. 
The following Wine is faid to have been found fuc- 
cefsful in a Dropfy a thoufand Times : Take Roots 
of Flower-de-Luce, two Ounces •, of Elecampane, 
Squills, of each half an Ounce ; Barks of Elder, 
and Dwarf Elder, of each one Ounce ; Winter 
Bark, two Drams ; Senna Leaf, two Ounces ; 
Agaric, black Hellebore, of each two Drams *, 
white Wine, two Quarts j mix and infufe all for 
Ufe. 
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Parsley ( Petrofelinum ) Root and Herb are 
both ufed, they help a windy Stomach, expel 
Urine, and Menfes , free Liver and Spleen from 
Obltrudfions ; are good in Dropfy and Jaundice. 
The Seeds thin, open, and expel Urine, Birth, After- 
Birth, and dead Child * diflodge Wind, Gravel, 
and 
