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with Fennel Juice, helps Rednefs and Spots in the 
White of the Eyes. It is alfo good for feald 
Heads. The Juice heals green Wounds, and old 
Sores. The Herb, bruifed and laid on, loofens 
Splinters, or other Things in Wounds, and makes 
them be eafily drawn out. In the Cure of Difeafes 
attended with Malignity, Scabious yields to no 
Herb, and Fallopius would never have it neglected 
in the Cure of Carbuncles. 
278. 
Devil* s-bit ( Morfus Biaboli) is Alexiphar- 
mac and Vulnerary. Its Gargle is famed for a 
flow ripening Quinfey ; and, in Tumours of the 
Tonfils, both its Juice, and Decoftion, are good. 
It is celebrated in the Epilepfy, Plague, Pain of 
the Uterus , coagulated Blood, hidden Abfcefles, 
&V. The Root is bitter and ftyptic, yet it expels 
the Menfes. It is a Scabious, and of the more 
powerful Sort, anfweringall Purpofes that they do. 
Pained Arms, rubbed with this Juice warm, are 
much relieved ; or the Steam of boil’d Oats, one 
Fourth of an Hour to the Arms, then the warm 
Oats applied about the Arm, this do Evening 
and Morning for a Week. — Scordium. See Ger- 
mander. 
279. 
Scurvy-Grass ( Ccchlearia ) called by 
Pliny, Britannica •, but Muntingius will have that 
to be the great Water Dock. Scurvy-grafs or 
Spoon-wort is hot and biting, abounds with vola- 
tile Salt, whereby it thins tough fixed Humours, 
and makes them volatile. Its Juice, Infufion, or 
Salad, (if eatable) is good in a cold Scurvy, but is as 
injurious in the hot inflammatory Kind, It is a 
good Herb in the Hypo, and tartarous Difeafes, 
