296 
Salmon ’ s Herbal. 
Lib. 1. 
camenc agamlt the Plague and Spotted fever it] 
abates the Heat, and quenches the Thirft, tho’ ne- 
ver lb extream, in the moft violent malign and 
burning Fever, and that almoft upon the Spot, even 
to a Miracle : befides, it refills all forts of Poyfon, 
more elpeciully fuch as are volatile Poyfons, de- 
llroying them in their very Root and EiTence. It 
admirably comforts and ftrengthens the Stomach, 
refills Vomiting, creates an Appetite and caules a 
good Dgettion. It fupprelfes Vapors and Hylterick 
Fits in Women, refills Hypochondriack Melancholy, 
and is good tor l’uch as are inwardly bruiled by a 
ball, or any other Cafualty, dillolving the clotted 
or congealed Blood, and caufing it to be excreted. 
Dofe lo much as will make the Vehicle pleafingly 
lharp, and to be repeated three, tour, five, fix or 
more times a dav. 
XXI. The Oily TinUure. It is good againft in- 
ward Con vul lions of the Stomach and other Vifcera, 
it gives eafe in the Cholick, and other Torments ot 
the Bowels, whether given by the Mouth in any 
proper Vehicle, or exhibited Clyfterwife in Broth or 
rolfet-dr'nk. It provokes the Courfes, eafes the 
Pains of the Mo. her, breaks and difeuffes Wind in 
the Belly and Siomach, opens Obftru&ions of the 
Reins, and other Urinary Parts, cleanfes them ol 
Sand, Gravel, and other Tartarous Matter, and fo 
gives eale in rhe Stone and Strangury. Dofe from 
ten to rhirtv drops in any fit Vehicle. 
XXII. the. Saline Tmtture. Given inwardly to 
one dram or more in a proper Medium , it provokes 
Urine, opens Obftruftions of the Womb, Reinsand 
Ureters, and gives eafe in the Strangury and Stone: 
outwardly applied, it is good againft Scabs, Itch, 
Pimples, Puftles, Scurff, Morphew, Leprous Spots, 
Freckles, Lentils, Sun-burning, Tanning, Yellownefs 
of the Skin, and other the like Delcedations, the 
Parts affected being bathed therewith two or three 
times a day, or fbmetimes oftner. 
XXIII. ihe fixed Salt. It is Diuretick, Alexi- 
pharmick. Aperitive and Antifebritick : it opens 
ObftruUions of the Urinary Parts, expelling Sand, 
Gravel and Tanarous Matter: L refills Poyfon, the 
Bi tings of Seipanrs and Mad Dogs, and the Plague : 
it opens the Paflages of the Womb, cleanfing it 
from Impurities ^ and given in a proper Vehicle, a- 
bates the Heat of burning Fevers, carrying off the 
Morbifick Matter by Urine. Dofe one fcruple, or 
half a dram, in the diftilled Water aforegoing. 
grow nearer to the tops of the Branches -, and on the 
top of each Branch fiands a round Head of many 
blowers , like the former Devils-bit, faring that theje 
are only white , whereas they are cj a blewifh purple : 
and indeed this Plant differs not from the former in 
any other thing but in the Color of the blower , which 
is of a pure white , as feme other forts of the Scabi- 
oules are, and that the green Leaf is not altogether 
of fo dark a green. 
IV. The fecond , or that with the blulh-colored 
Flowers, is in Root , Stalk , Leaf Color of the Leaf 
and term of the blower , the fame with the former-, 
but in this it differs therefrom , that the blowers 
hereof are of an incarnate or blufh color, whereas in the 
Common they are of a blewifh purple, and in the 
former of a white color only. 
V. The Places. Thefe two are more hard and 
rare to be met with than the Common kind, yet they 
are both found growing Wild about Apvledore, near 
Rye in Suffex •, and in feveral other places ot this 
Kingdom. 
VI. The Times. They flower later than any of 
the Scabioufes, and commonly not until Auguft. 
VII. The Qualities , Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues, are the fame with the Common Devils- 
bit declared in the former Chapter, fo that no more 
need be faid of it here, faving, that neither ot thefe 
are in the leaft inferior to the Vulgar in any of their 
Preparations or Virtues. 
CHAP. CCXIV. 
Of DEVILS-BIT Various. 
CHAP. CCXV. 
Of DILL Garden. 
I.^p H E Karnes. It is called in Greek , 
JL ( irtpy. 7* tLva Qhv 3 tjuod cito crefcat J JWdlh. 23- 
25. Theophrafi. lib. 5. cap. 67. Plin. lib. 20. cap. 18. 
in Latin, Anethum, and Anethum hortenfe, as Ba ec- 
hinus has it : in Arabick, Zebet, and Sebet ■, and 
in Englifh , Dill . 
I.^jp HE Karnes. It is called in Latin, 
, Morfus 
_ Diabo/i verficoloratm, and Morfus Diabo/i 
diverfus : in Englifh, Various Devils-bit. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. 1. Morfus 
Diaboli flore a/bo, Devils-bit with a white Flower. 
2. Morfus Diaboli flore carneo , Devils-bit with blulh- 
colored Flowers. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft of thefe with 
the white Flowers, h.u a fhort Stump of a Root, like 
the former, from whence many thready Radicu/x 
fpring : from the Head of this Root arijes a round, 
green, fnooih Stalk, near two feet high, with long, 
narrow, fmooth, dark green Leaves, a little mot cl) t 
about the edges, but not at all divided-, which 
Kotches or Dents grow f mailer and f mailer, as they 
II. Tut 
