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more, as the Exigency or Extremity may require. 
It provokes Urine admirably, and gives eafe in the 
Strangury and. Stone, cleanfing the Reins and Blad- 
dev Irom Gravel, Sand and tartarous Slime lodged 
in thofe Parts. It is a lingular thing alio to cure a 
Puncture oh the Nerves and Tendons, in which, be- 
ing applied, it gives prelent eafe to the Pain, af- 
1 wages the Tumor, and foon after cures the Af- 
fed. . _ . . . , 
XX. The Saline TinUure of the Seed. M txt with 
the diftilled Water aforementioned, it makes a good 
Walh tor moilt and running Ulcers and Sores, clean 
ling and drying up the Moifture, and difpoling them 
to healing. Given to two drams in a Clyfter, it 
prevails againtt che Cholick : and taken inwardly to 
one dram in White Port Wine, it opens and cleanfes 
the Urinary Palfages, Efc. 
XXI. The diftilled Oil of the Seed . It has all the 
Virtues of the Juice, Effence, Decodion, Pouder, 
Spirituous, Acid and Oily Tindures, but it is more 
powerful than any of them and may be given to 
ftrengthen the Stomach, relilt Loathing and Vomit- 
ing, caufe Appetite and a good Digeltion, expel 
Wind, eafe the Cholick and Tortions of the Bowels 
from fharp Humors, cure Convullions, Apoplexies, 
Lethargies, Palfy, Gout, Stone, Obltrudions of the 
Reins, Ureters, Bladder and Womb, Efc. Dofe 
from eight to twenty drops, being firft dropt into 
white Sugar, and then mixt with fome proper Ve- 
hicle, in which it is to be given Morning and 
Night. 
XXII. The Spirit of the Seed. It has all the Vir- 
tues of the Spirituous, Acid and Oily Tindures, but 
not all out fo powerful ^ yet it is much more grate- 
ful or plealant to the Pallate * and may be taken, 
being dulcified, either alone or mixt with fome pro- 
per Vehicle, from two drams to fix. 
XXIII. The Pot eft cites or Powers of the Seed. They 
have all the Virtues of the Chymical Oil, Juice, 
Blfence, Tindures and Spirit, but more powerful 
and fubcil, piercing admirably thro’ all Parts of the 
Body. By outward Application, being bathed upon 
the Parts affeded, they are good againlt Pains, Aches, 
Numbnefs, Pally, Lamenefs, Convullions, Spafms 
proceeding from a cold and moift Caufe : they re- 
folve Humors, dilcufs Tumors, and refill Deftuxi- 
ons upon any Part, by ftrengthning the fame. Dofe 
inwardly from one dram to three or four, in any 
proper Vehicle Morning and Night. 
XXIV. The Elixir of the Seed. This has all the 
Virtues of the diftilled Oil, Effence, Tindures, Spi- 
rit and Powers, and is more fubtil and powerful 
than any of them •, and therefore may very profita- 
bly be ufed to all thofe Intentions, both by inward 
Exhibition and outward Application. It is indeed 
an admirable Stomatick, fcarcely any better in the 
whole Republick of Medicine : and for provoking 
Luft, one of the moft powerful of Vegetables. Dole 
from one dram to two, in a proper Vehicle. 
CHAP. CCXVI. 
Of DILL Wild. 
nethurn Sy heft re majus , Great Wild Dill. 2. Ane- 
thum Sylveftre minus , Small Wild Dill. 
III. The Defer iptions. The firft, or Great Wild 
Dill, haj a Root like to the Garden kind ^ and in its 
Stalks , heaves , Flowers and Seed differs little from 
it, but in its Large nefs, being much greater in all 
its parts than the Garden kind is : and the Smell 
thereof is much the fame. 
IV. The fecond, or Small Wild Dill, hat a Root 
like to the firft or Garden kind, but f mailer than it : 
and fo likewife , as the firft of thefe was greater in 
all its parts than the Garden Dill, fo is this lejfer in 
its Stalks, Leaves , Flowers and Seed •, the Stalk 
growing not above a foot high : the heaves are fine 
and fmall on the Stalks, the Flowers yellow, and the 
Seed fmall and long, like the Garden kind, but only 
lejfer, in which the Difference chiefly lyes. 
V. The P laces. Their native Place is Sicily, and 
Lisbon in Portugal : from the fiift place they were 
fent by Columna to Bauhinus -, and from the fecond 
place they were fent by Boel to us , and are now 
nurs’d up in our Gardens. 
VI. The Times. They both flower in their native 
places in June, but with us in July •, and their Seed 
is ripe in Auguft, or fome fmall time after. 
VII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues, are the fame with thofe of the Garden 
kind , and full out as effectual •, and therefore for 
the fame you are referred to the aforegoing Chap- 
ter. 
CHAP. CCXVII. 
Of DITTANDER, 
O R, 
PEPPER-WORT. 
l/jpj 
■T 
H E Karnes. It is called in Greek, “A nQop 
in Eng lift). Wild Dill. 
II. The Kinds. It is the fecond Species of Dill: 
and of this Species there aie two forts, viz. 1. A- 
HE Names. It is called in Greek, AimAov, 
quod temJkf) id eft, maculae Ef fquammas in 
cute delent : or as fome think, dm n *<*/£«*, quod 
acrimonia urenti ulcer et : in Latin, Lepidium , ( but 
it is not the Lepidium Diofcoridis Iff Galeni, for that 
is Iberis Cardimantica, of which we have already 
treated in Chap. 168. aforegoing: i n Englifh, Dit- 
tander, or Pepper-wort. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make three forts here- 
of, viz. 1 . Lepidium vulgar e, five Piperitis , Fuch- 
fii Ef Loniceri, Tragi , Mat thiol i Ef Camerarii -, Le- 
pidium magnum Turneri , Cordi Ef Fuchfii Lepidi- 
um Plinii, according to Label Ef Dodontus -, Lepi- 
dium Pauli Ef Plinii, according to Matthiolus , Lug- 
dunenfts Ef Cofalpinus -, Raphanus Sylveftris ojfici- 
narum, according to Lobe l, and Lepidium lati foli- 
um Bauhini, The vulgar Dittander or Pepper-wort. 
2. Lepidium Monfpeliacum, Flammula Gefncri ( in 
hortis ) Herba Santfi Anthonii, Dentillaria Lobelii 
Ef Lugdunenfis •, Dentaria Rondeletii •, Molybdena 
Plinii, according to Arguilara Ef Camerarius •, 
Plumbago Clufii Ef Tabernmontani -, Glaftum Sylve- 
flre Cafalpini, French Dittander, or Scar-wort. 3. 
Lepidium A nnuum Lobelii, Ef Lugdenenfis ■, Lepi- 
dium Glaftifolium Bauhini, Annual Dittander, or 
Scar- wort. 
III. The 
