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Sa w-w o r t ( Serratula ) is good for fuch as 
are inwardly or outwardly bruifed, or have fome 
Blood Veflels broken by Falls, Blows, &c. It 
flays Bleeding, cafes Pain and Sorenefs thereby, if 
either its green Leaves be boiled, or their Powder 
taken in white Wine. A Decoflion of its Leaves 
and Roots in Wine, drank, wonderfully eafes' 
Gripes in the Bowels. It fpeedily cures frelh 
Wounds, and cleanfes and heals old ones, or 
filthy Sores, if the Decodtion is both drank and 
wafhed with. Its Decodlion drank, walked with, 
and a Plaitler of the Root and Herb applied, is 
good in Ruptures. A Lotion of its Decodlion in 
Wine is good in fwell’d painful Piles, after Leeches 
have been applied. 
27 6 . 
Saxifrage ( Saxifraga ) warms and dries 
very powerfully, is diuretic and opening *, it is 
chiefly ufed to wafte and expel Stone, Sand, and 
Gravel ; and to thin the Mucilage that gathers in 
the Kidnies and Bladder. It is given for Terms 
obftrudled, and ufed outwardly in diuretic Baths; 
A nitrous Spirit from the fix’d Salt of the Plant is 
commended. The Roots are infufed or boiled in 
white Wine for the above Ules. It is faid to haf- 
ten the Menfes , and to cut and diflolve thick 
Phlegm in the Lungs. The Root contains much 
Salt and Oil, which caufe its Heat in the Mouth. 
Boyle commends Mountain Saxifrage, infufed in 
Small Beer, to drink fome Time for the Kings-evil. 
He fays it cures without any fenfible Evacuation, 
by walking the Humour, eafing the Pain, dif- 
cufling the Swelling, and drying up the Ulcers. 
Then ifnrmfl: be very cleanfing, and gently promote 
Perfpiration and Urine •, the whole Plant affords an 
ufeful W 7 ater. The firft Saxifrage, here meant* 
