( 232 ) 
mg three Hours after ) with Cream of Tartar, it is 
an excellent Cure for the Spleen, Jaundice, and 
Dropfy. Some ufe its dillill’d Water in a Cough, 
Afthma, Difeafes of the Lungs, Melancholy, 
frightful Dreams, and Quartans, drank daily for 
fome Time. In the three laft Cafes, the Root is to 
be boil’d in Wine, and fweetened with Sugar and 
Honey. It is good for chapped Hands or Feet. 
Pliny lays a Snuff of the powdered Root waftes 
the Polypus in the Nofe. The Root, beaten fmall 
and applied, helps Diflocations. 
2 50. 
Poplar-tree. ( Populus ) An Ounce of the 
powdered Bark of the white Poplar, drank, is good 
in the Sciatica or Strangury. The warm Juice 
drop’d into the Ear eafes its Pain. The young Buds 
brnifed, with a little Ploney, are good for dim Sight. 
The black Poplar is more cooling than the white ; 
its* Leaves, bruifed with Vinegar, have been applied 
to the Gout. The Seed drank with Vinegar is good 
for the Falling Sicknefs. The Water, that drops 
from the Hollow of this Tree, takes away Warts, 
Puftules, Wheals, The early young Buds, 
bruifed in frefh Butter, and fet in the Sun, then 
Rrained, beautify Women’s Hair. Its Ointment 
cools Inflammations and Wounds, and dries up the 
Milk in Women’s Breads. 
251. 
Poppy ( Papaver ) Lea f. Juice, and Seed, are all in 
Ufe; but, not to infill on the Preparation of Opium 
here, which is imported to us, I fhall chiefly infill on 
fome of the Ufes of white Poppies : One, two, or 
three Dilhes of Tea, made of the bruifed Seed or 
Head given at Night to Children, or feverifh young 
People, compofe gently to Rell, beyond Opium, 
Laudanum, 
