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is certainly one of the bed Vomits in the Work! for 
a palled Stomach loaded with Phlegm, but efpeci- 
ally v/here the Bread is opprefs’d with much thick 
tough Phlegm. This Root is highly extoll’d in the 
Stone. Bartholine fays its Juice diflolves the Stone 
taken out of the Body. It is a good Stomachic, 
and brings down the Menfes. The Juice drank, 
and laid to the Navel, kills Worms in Children. 
A Poultife of it laid to the Navel and Loins relieves 
in a Dropfy. If drank, and repeated feveral times 
before the Fit of a Quartan, it alters its Courfe. A 
Poultife of it, beaten up and applied, is good in the 
Sciatica, Gout, and other Joint Achs, and for 
Swellings of the Spleen and Liver. Some ufe the 
didilPd Water of the Root for all thefe Intentions. 
But its Juice drank exceeds ail things in a Pleurify, 
to caufe Spitting after the Pain. 
261. 
Rocket ( Emca ) gives Salad3 a fine Tade, and 
the fame it does to Sauces and Seafonings ; it is 
grateful to the Palate, excites Lud, and is faid to 
increafe Seed * the Leaves boil’d, and a little Sugar 
put to them, are thought to be good for Children’s 
Coughs. The Seed, bruifed and drank with Wine, 
kills Worms and heals the Swelling of the Spleen. 
The bruifed Leaves put on the Eye-lids clear the 
Sight. The Seed mixt with Honey and anointed 
on the Face takes off all Spots and Scurfs, but 
more effedfually if Ox Gall be mixt with it. Ma- 
thiolus fays a Poultife of the Roots, boil’d in Water, 
draws out Splinters or Bones. But Bauhinus pre- 
fers the Leaves here. Some ufe daily a Powder of 
Rocket and Cummin, to prevent an Apoplexy and 
Palfy. The Wild Rocket is hotter and more 
acrid than that of the Garden j they cut; thin. 
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