if: 
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Salmon^ Herbal. 
not long after. The fecond comes up in March , 
flowers in May, and its Seed ripens in June. In 
Italy they eat "the young Leaves in Sallets, and call 
it Wild Chervil. The third dowers alfo in May 
and June , and its Seed ripens in the mean Seafon, 
or not long after. 
VIII The Qualities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues , are Laid to be the fame with the Gar- 
den Chervils, to which I refer you. Parkinfon fays, 
that Wild Chervil will help to difiblve any Tumor 
or Swelling, and that in any part of the Body, as 
alfo to take away the fpots and marks in the Flefh 
and Skin, proceeding from Congealed Blood, by 
bruifes or blows, in a lhort time, by applying it 
( bruifed I fuppole ) to the place. 
IX. A Cataplafm of the green Herbs and Roots. 
I once knew a Man who had been for a long time, 
even for many years, affiicfed with the Gout } fo 
that fornetimes for four, five or fix Months toge- 
ther he could neither go nor Hand, which put him 
lb much out of heart, as ta think himfelf pall all 
cure. A Beggar Woman going by, and begging at 
the Door, at fuch time as the Paroxyfm was upon 
him, and underltanding by forne Difcourfes the 
Matters illnefs, told them (be would cure him : 
fhe advifed him to apply a Pultice of green Wild 
Chervil to the parts aftti&ed, and to renew it as of- 
ten as he faw need -. ( fetching to him alfo at the 
fame time fome of the Herb, that he might know 
it : ) he did fo, following exaftly the Beggar Wo- 
mans advice, and he had in a little time eafe, and in 
lefs than a Months time a perfeH Cure. If at any 
time afterwards he found any Grumbling Pain, in 
the fame parts, or in any other, he had ftill recourfe 
to the fame remedy, and averr’d upon his faithful 
word, that he never apply’d this Cataplafm in 
vain. 
CHAP. CXXV. 
O/CHERVIL Tooth-pick. 
I. '"T“ v H E Karnes. It is called in Greek , TiyyiJiov : 
-L In Latin, Gingidium, and BiJ acuta : In Eng- 
lifh. Tooth-pick Chervil, and Strange Chervil. The 
Syrians call it Vifnaga, as Rauwo/fius faith. 
II. The Kinds. There are three principal kinds, 
i. Gingidium verum, five Syriac urn Diofeoridis, Sy 
nan Tooth-pick Chervil, called in that Language 
Vifnaga. 2. Gingidium Hifpanicum Matthioli, The 
Span fih kind. 3. Gingidium Chxrefolij, Foliis Ta- 
ber nmontani, Tooth-pick Chervil, with Chervil 
Leaves. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firfi has a Root almofi 
like a Carrot Root, not great, but long, white and 
woolly, perifhing every Tear after Seed-time, which 
is the fame Tear it is Sown, or clfe fpringing up late, 
and not /hooting up into Stalks for Seed, it will a- 
bide a Winter : from this Root it grows up with an 
upright Stalk, fomevohat rough, branching forth from 
the very ground almofi, on which are Jet Stalks of 
fine cut Leaves, fmaller than Fennel, especially thofe 
on the Stalks and Branches, for the lowefi are a lit- 
tle broader. At the tops of the Branches grow broad 
i t mbles of white Flowers, fome what purp/ifh in the 
middle, when L mbles before they flower, hang down 
their Heads, and after the Flowers are pafi, the Um- 
bles do conlraSl, or draw themfelves rounder, the 
outward parts being higher than the middle, which 
then is fo hollow, that it reprefents a Birds Kefi. 
Jbmething like to the Umbles of the Wild Carrot : 
The Flowers being pafi, there fucceeds a great plen- 
ty of very Jin all Seed. The whole Plant has a k ind 
of Reft nous Tafie and Smell. There is another fort 
alfo of Syrian Chervil, which has but a few Stalks 
of zvinged Ledves, almofi tike to Parfneps, but that 
every divided Leaf Is broad and round , but leffer * 
the Stalk is fomewhat hairy, erefted . , J 'mall, low, and 
naked of Leaves to the top, whereon grow fever al 
long Stalks with Umbles of white Flowers, and two 
or three fmall long leaves with them , whofe Smell 
and Tafie is like the former. 
ffte. *Jrue Sboty^eg (gheriul 
IV. The Spanifh Kind, has a Root long and white., 
from whence rifes up a Stalk higher than the fir ft 
Syrian kind, and is every ways greater, as to the 
whole. 
