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phlegmatic, watery, grofs, and cold Habits, and to' 
Tipplers, efpecially of Malt Liquors ; it is proper 
in rainy, haizy, foggy, moift Weather, and in low, 
wet, fenny Grounds, and agairift the Infedion of 
contagious epidemic Dileafes, as Plague, peftilen- 
tial and malignant Fevers ; but thin, temperate, 
laborious Perfons, have no Benefit to exped from 
it, in a clear, hot, dry Seafon efpecially ; fuch as 
fwallow the Spittle from it have always an open 
Belly ♦, its Juice, Decodion, or Powder, rubbed 
on the Body, or any Part of it, or dropp’d into 
the Ears, kills Lice, Crabs, Worms, or any Sort 
of Vermin ; or wafh the Head or other Parts daily 
with a Lee of Hemp-feed . Allies ; or Root of 
Hound’s-tongue hung on aThread about the Neck, 
and renewed once a Week ; or Powder of Spindle- 
tree Berries fprinkled on the Parts •, or a Liniment 
of powdered Barberries and Vinegar, rubbed on 
the Parts ; or the Head walked with a Decodion 
of yellow Henbane; or a Decodion of Fleabane 
to wafh with ; but, for the Crabs, a Lee of La- 
vender Afhek to wafh , or a Decodion of Rue, 
Wormwood, Tobacco, and Salt, is enough ; or 
Snuff of Tobacco, or Spanijb Snuff rubbed on. 
Tobacco cures Scratch, Itch, or little Ulcers ; its 
Infufion, Decodion, or Syrup, vomit and purge 
violently, and are good in Apoplexy (after proper 
Bleeding,) Lethargy, Palfy, Suffocation of the 
Womb, Stomach, or Bread loaded with Phlegm, 
Stomach pall’d or relaxed, Shortnefs of Breath 
without Fever, &c. Schroder recommends its Sy- 
rup and Water in Fevers, Obftrudions of the 
Lungs, and Afthma ; the green Leaves are balfa- 
mic and vulnerary, the dried vomit and purge 
feverely ; they muff therefore be ufed with great 
Judgment and Caution ; the American is much 
ftronger than the Englijh > the Leaves, bruifed and 
applied 
