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lour. The Root is {hick, 
long, and has many Fibres, 
and of a Saffron-colour. 
The Leaves come out in 
.March, and it flowers a- 
bout June. ■ 
The Root purges Cho- 
ler, and watery Humours. 
Take of the dricdRoot one 
Dram, of Ginger one Scru- 
ple : Thole that pie it for 
Rhubarb take a double 
quantity. The Root expels 
Gravel: Take Dppk- roots 
prepar’d and Polypody , 
each one Ounce', ; Sena ten 
Drams, RhubarbfxDrams, 
Monks-RubarbfiveDrams, 
YellcwSanders twoDrains. 
Salt of Wormwood, affd 
S.curvy-grafs , each one 
Dram ; cut and bruife 
them, and put them into 
a Glafs, wi th Snail-water 
and White-wine, each one 
Pipt and an half - p flop {he 
Glafs, and fct it. in a Cellar 
twenty four Hours : Tjakc 
fix Ounces of it, or mord. 
according as it works, e- 
very r Morning. This is 
good, for the Itch. . 
Wain SDocR, ' in Latin 
Hydro l dp at hum. The Root 
bf Water-Dock is very 
rough, and but little bio- 
ter, and pot acrid. It is 
us’d, by mi flake, for the 
other. This is tiled out- 
wardly for the Itch, as an 
aftringcnt ,5. in {pitting 
of Blood. The Root is 
more Red than other 
Docks, gnd leems to bc ;i a 
Sorrel. 
J?td-i3Docik , in Latin 
Lapathum ruhrum. The 
Leaves of Red-Dock taftc 
rough j and the red Stalks, 
acid ; the Root Bipter i fli, 
Tough , and Nauffous, 
like other Docks. The 
Seeds of t the "Docks arc a- 
ftringent,, and goqd for 
Looineffes, and Fhfofos ‘of 
Blood. ( The Leaves of 
Docks ialfo tafte add. and 
aftringent , or rough. 
They .are us’d in Baths fpr. 
the Itcii, .and ime if crude. 
And, the' Red Docks Root 
is (pike the Yellow, Root 
of other Docks ) .'of a 
Purging faculty. 
ipODher, in Latin T«/- 
cuta. This fawning Para- 
fite, apd ungrateful Gucff, 
hugs theHcrbs it hangs -up- 
on, with its long Threads,^ 
and rcddifliTwigssand fP 
clofely 
