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and the Sores in Men or Women’s privy Parts. 
The Allies or Juice with Oil helps Baidnefs or 
Falling off of the Hair. The fame does a ftrong 
Decoction of Wormwood, and Vervain, or an 
Ointment of v/hite Lily Roots, made with Butter. 
Its Oil kills Head. Lice; (and fo do all other Oils J 
Its difliil’d Water is good in the Stone, Spleen, 
and Hyfferics. It is a fpecial Herb in warming 
Fomentations, Poultifes, or Ointments. The Fe- 
male Sort is moffly ufed inwardly. The Leaves 
of it and Rue, made with Butter into fmali Balls, 
and fwallowed, kill Worms. —Tarragon (Abro- 
tamm Linifolio acri & odorato) has a pleafant, hot, 
aromatic Tafte. The Leaves are heating and dry- 
ing, good for cold Stomachs, therefore eaten in 
Salads to expel Wind or Menfes y and to provoke 
Urine •, but feldom ufed inwardly * otherwife, half 
a Dram of . powdered Southern-wood and Nitre* 
drank, is wonderful in a Suppreffion of Urine. 
290. 
Sow-bread (Artanita) cuts, cleanfes, and 
opens, digefts and draws ; its Juice put on Wool, 
and applied, opens the Piles freely *, and if put 
into the Anus it moves ftrongly to Stool. Infilled 
and given Clyfter-ways, it expels tough' Phlegm. 
It is defervedly mixt with other proper Things, to 
bring down Swellings, and hard Tumours in any 
Part of the Body. The Juice mixt with Honey, 
and drop’d into the Eyes, takes off Pin, Web, 
Snuffed up the Nofe, it purges the Head, 
cures Head-ach, Megrim, &c. The Belly bath’d 
with the Juice is looferiecL The Root is weaker 
than the Juice, yet either drank, or applied out- 
wardly, it haffens the Menfes. Three Drams of 
the Root powdered, drank in Mead, cures the 
yellow Jaundice* if .the .Sick • go to Bed and fwear 
