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Salmon V Herbal 
and Diuritick, it opens the obftruUions of the Uri- 
nary PaiTages, provokes Urine, and expels Sand. 
Gravel, and gritty Scones, Dofe from j. dram to 
aj. drams, in white Wine. 
XVI. The Oily Tincture. It has the Virtues of. 
the former taken inwardly, from vj. drops to xviij. 
in white Port Wine-, but it is belt to be given in 
a cold habit of Body : it opens obltruftions of the 
Womb, and provokes the Terms. 
XVII. The Cataplafm. The Herb Cut, Bruifed, 
and Boil’d to a Cataplafm with Oatmeal , difculfes 
outward cold Tumors, and gives eafe in the Gout. 
XVIII. The Ointment. It is good to cool Inhu- 
mations, and eafe Pains and Aches proceeding from 
a hot Caufe: and is good to anoint on the Legs, to 
dilcufs Hydropical Tumors. 
XIX. The Bal [am. It is a good Vulnerary, abates 
Inhumations in Wounds and Ulcers, cleanfes them 
of their filth, makes them eafie, and in a little time 
after heals them. 
XX. The Correction By reafon this Herb isfom- 
thing Flatulent, or apt to ftir up Wind, it ought to 
be Corrected in its various preparations, as Juice 
Clarified . , E (fence, Deco ft ion, and Syrup, with Ani- 
feeds. Car r away s. Cloves, Eennell Seeds, Ginger, 
Liquorice , Pepper, Zedoary, &c. 
III. The pefeription. I he Greater broad Leav’d 
Arrow-head, or Water Archer* as feme call it, has 
a thick Bully Root with many fibres or Strings, from 
whence comes forth fever al thick fquare and juicy 
Stalks, with great broad green Leaves on the tops of 
! 7 l dl Y l -r a ! tbe , hoU ° m t into two long and poin- 
the 
CHAP. XXX. 
Of A R R o W - H E A D. 
'jfrron/cte<i3.: 
I. T""' UE Naaer.lt is called in Greek , rW,* : In 
A Latin, Sagitta, Sagittaria , Sagittalis \ And 
in Eng/ifh Arrow-head. 
II. T be Kinds. It is threefold, ru,dm uiy* .- 
Magoptflana, PJjfanaMagoms, BarbaSylvana Cefal- 
fini , Sagittaria major latifolia , the greater broad 
Leav’d Arrow-head. 2, n mm Sagittaria Mi- 
nor latifolia , the leffer broad Leaved Arrowhead. 
3 - Sagittaria AuguJUfo/ia, narrow Leav’d Arrow- 
head. 
(»/«, muiueu ai we Bottoms into two long and pi 
ted parts, Jo that the whole form or Jkape oj nm 
Leaf, is not much unlike the forked He'adoJ a Broad 
Arrow, or one of the points of an Anchor, five that 
the two points at the bottom are lotigcr-, which parts 
Grow but alittle abovethe Waters wherein they Grow 
whether deeper or Jhallower: from among luefe for- 
mer Stalks, rife up other thick, round, Jpungy Stalks 
two or three feet long , and higher than the Leaves 
bearing divert rows of flowers at the Joynts, one a- 
bove another, and for the mojl part three in a row 
each of which iscompofed of three large white Leave's 
with federal reddijh Threads in the miift, after 
which comew, their places , round rough Burrs, which 
are green when they are ripe, much like to thofc of 
Sparganium, or the Burr Reed in which Burrs are 
contained the Seed. 
IV. The hfer Broad Leav'd fort has alfo a thick 
and bufhy or ftnngy Root like the former, with broad 
Leaves ft ending upon large Loot Stalks near two Feet 
or more high , in jhape like the forme)-, but every way 
leffer-, among which rifes up a fit and thick Stalk , 
fomething higher than the Leaves, having at the top 
many pretty white Flowers, declining to a light Car- 
nation, but yet lefs than the former, made alfo of 
, three fnall Leaves, and in the middle of which are 
feveral Reddijh Threads -, which being pafl, there 
comes fever al Knobs or Burrs greater than the former 
in which in like manner are contained the Seed. ’ 
V. The Narrow Leav'd Arrow-head has a fmall 
and thready Root, from whence rifes up a tender foot 
Stalk about Eighteen Inches high, at the top of which 
are Leaves Jhaped like the former, except in their 
length and narrownefs, not being above half the 
breadth of the others , yet of their full length-, and 
the two lower forked ones, are almofi as long as the 
fore right Leaf ; the flowers and Burrs are alfo 
leffer. 
VI. The Places. They grow fometitnes altoge- 
ther, fometimes apart in Watery Ditches, and Band- 
ing Waters, in moll places throughout this King- 
dom, particularly in the Ditches near the Walls of 
Oxford ; by Chelmsford in EJfex in the Ditch near 
St. Thomas’s Waterings not far from London ; and in 
Ibme Ditches in St. George’s-Fie/ds , and not far from 
Lambeth : The Narrow Leaved grows on the Thames 
Shore by Lambeth Bridge, over againft xKzArch- 
bifbop of Canterbury’s Palace : plentifully before the 
Earl of Peterborough’s houfe, above the Horfe-Ferry 
on Weftminfler Gde, 0V. 
VII. The Times. They Flower generally in May 
and June ; and the Burrs or Seed are ripe in the be- 
gining or middle of Auguff. 
VIII. The Vitalities. They are Cold in the foil 
Degree, and Temperate in refpedt to drynefs or 
moifture. They are alfo Alteratives , Aftringents , 
Abfterfives , Incarnatives , Glutinatives , and Trau- 
maticks or Vulneraries; and appropriated to the 
Spleen, Reins and Joynts. 
IX. The Specification. I have had great Experi- 
ence of the Virtues and Ufe of this Herb, and have 
found it to be a peculiar Wound Herb, whether in- 
wardly taken or outwardly apply’d; befides its fig- 
nature befpeaks the very fame thing. 
X. The Preparations. I have ufed it in its, 
1 . Decollion. 2. Juice. 3. Ejfence. 4. A Spiri- 
tuous TinJure. ;. A Saline f induce. 6 . An Oily 
TinSure. 7. An Ointment. 8. A Balfam. y. A Ce- 
rate or Pmplafier. 10. A Cataplafm. 11. 4 Pon- 
der of the Seed. 
The 
