n l \' rb ?£ Iaces - Ir g r °ws in cold Grounds, by 
loncls and Ditch fades, as alio by running Waters- 
and fomc times you lhall find it to grow in the very 
Water it felt. 
thing againft the Kings-F.vil, and all Scrophulous 
Symptoms, as alfo againft the Cachexia, Dropfie, 
and Rickets in Children, and opens obttructions of 
the Vifcera , expelling grofs Humors by Urine. 
Dofe from j. dram to iij. drams, in. White Wine. 
XVII. The Oily Tirtfture. It cleanfes Wounds, 
helps Lamenels, ftrengthens the Sinews, and is of 
good ufe againft Palfies, Numnels , Pains and 
Aches from a Cold caufe, being anointed on the 
part afflicted. Morning and Night. Inwardly taken 
from x. drops to xii. or xv. in Wine, or Parftey, or 
/Arfmart Water. 
XVIII. The Effence. It has all the former Vir- 
tues, cleanfes the Blood, and is of good ufe to fuch 
as have {cabby and filthy Skins •, it takes away hard- 
nefs of Liver and Spleen, and prevails againft the 
Jaundice: Dofe from j. ounce to ij. Wounds and 
Ulcers being waffled therewith, it heals them. 
XIX. The Fixed Salt. It opens the obftruftions 
of the Reins and Urinary Paflagesand caufes a fepa- 
ration of the Morbifick matter of a Struma, fending 
it forth by Urine. Dofe in Arfmart Water or Wine, 
from vlif grains to xx. 
XX. ' 1 he Wine. Gefner in his Epiftles, affirms 
that a Fugil of the Fibres of the Root, boiled in 
Wine, and the Wine Drunk, gave him in an hours 
time one Stool, and afterwards ten Vomits, where- 
by he call out much Flegm ; that it works (lays he) 
like white Hellebor, hut much more eafily and fafe- 
ly, and that it did him much good. 
CHAP. V. 
Of Water AGRIMONY, the 
Female Kind. 
I. ' j ' HE Karnes. It is called in Greek, 'turn™ 
ejrv as'Jejy a-, 03 av -era , In Latinhy Fulchius 
Eupatorium Adu/terinum-jay GefaerJEupatorium Aqua- 
tic am-, by Matthiolus, EupatoriumVuIgare -, by Lobel, 
Eupatorium Cannabimtm Famina-,\sy Bauhinus,C<rawa- 
bina aqttatica folio tripartito divijo ; by Tabermonta- 
nus, Eupatonum Cannalnnum Chryfanthemum-, by Do- 
doneus, Pfeudo-hepatorium Famine ; by Sardus, Ter- 
,foh\ and by Camerarius, Eupatorium Avicenna ; 
in Eng/ijh , Female Water Agrimony, and Hemp-like 
Agrimony. 
II. The Kinds. This is the fecond Species of Wa- 
ter Agrimony ; to wit, the Female Kind, as you 
may fee, chap. 3. Sell. 2. aforegoing. 
III. The Defcription. The Root conjlfts of many 
— - c uujijii uj many 
long /lender Strings, and Is of long continuance , from 
wl>e nee Stalks groin up about two Foot high, or higher 
and are of a dark purple Color. The Branches are 
-> - j-so. K-vsvr . a. u/ uncues are 
min y > growing at di/lances nearly equal one from the 
other the one~ from one fide of the Stalk . , the other 
from the oppofite Point. The leaves are winged, and 
much Indented on the edges. The Flowers grow at 
I iltlr rtf' tiler U .. C L . T e-. . 
_ - "O'-- g/VUJ Ul 
the lops of the Branches, of a brown yellow Color, 
' black f pots, having a Subjtance within 
tn/rtrr hirer the.t e-C . T\ - 1 /Z. T f . 
fpol t . d with j .. v.vjLUflLC WIWIJI 
the tmdfl of them, like that of a Daify. If you ru t, 
them between your Fingers , they will fmell like to 
Gum Elemt, Rofw or Cedar, when they are burnt. 
The Seeds are long, and eafily flick to any Woollen 
thing. It plainly differs from our Common Agrimo- 
ny, becaufe it wants the interpofed little heaves : 
and its Flowers are much unlike. 
Hiker 
Agrimony 
</pmale. 
l/ne Times. _ It Flowers in July and Attguff - 
and tile Seed is ripe not long after the fading of 
the Flower. ° 
VI. The Qualities. It is hot and dry in the firfl 
Degree : it is opening, cleanfing, Pe£toraI,and Trau- 
matick; and by appropriation is’Hepatick” and PuI- 
momck, orPetloral; it is Sudorifick and 
" vifVr V — T‘r uuuuiuiuc and Alterative. 
Vll. lhe specification. It is faid to be a pecu- 
liar cleanfer of the Blood, and reltorer of its 
Ciaiis ; and has a lingular Property in curing of old 
Ulcers and Fillula’s. 
V III. The Preparations. The Shops prepare no- 
thing from it; but there may be made thereof i 
A Decoffton 2. A Juice. 3. A Balfam of the 
J“tee. 4. Art EJJence. ;. A Spirituous Tincture 
6 . A Saline hnUure. 7. An Oily Tmilure S 
A/hes. 
The Virtues. 
IX. The Decofion in Wine. It is Traumatick, 
and a reltorer of the Blood ; attenuates and makes 
rittn, grofs, tough, and viicous Humors; and is a 
lingular thing againft Scabs, Itch, and other Salt 
Humors, being given from ij. ounces to vi. morning 
noon, and night. J “ 
X. i he Juice. It provokes the Terms in Women; 
and taken with the Juice of Fumitory, reffifies the 
faitnefs and Ihaipnefs of the Blood: it is good a- 
gainft Scabs Itch fait and fflarp Humors, Apo- 
andnigffl" ^ rom ^ ounce t0 ij- morning, noon, 
XI. The Balfam. Take of the Juice vi. ounces , 
Turpentine nj ounces. Oil ij. ounces, BeesWax 
ounce Rojlne half an ounce, mix and make a Bal- 
Jam, by Evaporating to a Con/iflence, or till the 
watry part of the Juice is gone. It is an excellent 
thing, for the curing of Wounds, Ulcers, old tunning 
Sores and biftula s: Fills Ulcers with Fleffl, and 
brings them to a fpeedy healing ; Applied alfo in 
the 
