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and heals broken Bones. The Root boiled in 
Wine, and drank, is very good in Contufions, 
Fractures, and Ruptures. Outwardly it clears off 
Spots of the Face, makes the Skin fair, and dif- 
folves and gives Vent to clotted Blood. The Ber- 
ries vomit and purge. The Root preferred with 
Sugar, and eaten* is excellent in the Whites. 
Boil’d in ffrong Ale, it is good in the Sciatica. 
Some put it in the fixth Clafs of Antiepileptics. A 
Deco&ion of the Root in Milk, eaten feveral 
Nights for Supper, is good in the Piles. It ftays 
Vomitings and Bleedings, cures Wounds new or 
old, luxated Joints, and ftrained, or relaxed 
Nerves, or Tendons. The Root takes out Mea- 
lies, Spots, and Scars of late Wounds. The Roots 
infufed in Bean Flower, or white Lily Flower W a- 
ter, a natural Day, the ftrained off Liquor makes 
a good Wadi for Women’s Faces ; but, if the Infu- 
fion is longer, it excoriates the Skin. Agricola 
fays, the diftill’d Water applied, with Rags dip’d 
in it, diffolves coagulated Blood under the Skin, 
and takes Spots out of the Skin. The Root beaten 
up to a Poultife, or boiled tender, or powdered 
alone or it and Comfry Root, boil’d, and made 
a Poultife of-, or the Pulp of Burdock Root, in a 
Poultife, all of them take out black or blue Marks 
from Strokes or Blows. Dr. Henry Pauli's Cof- 
metic was this : Take Flowers of Lily of the Val- 
ley, Broom and Lovage, Roots of Solomon's Seal, 
Afphodeh, Briony, white Lily, of each a Handful; 
cut, and bruife all add Honey, four Ounces ; 
Khenijh Wine, two Pounds ; let all ftand in Infu- 
fion till they putrefy, then diftill by the Alembic, 
throw the diftill’d Liquor thrice back on the In- 
gredients in the Still, and draw off afrefh each 
Time ; then to the diftill’d Water, Powder of Cam- 
phire half a Dram, it makes a moft precious Face 
Water. 
