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powerful than them all , and may be given to all 
the fame Intentions, from eight drops to fixteen or 
twenty, firft dropt into Sugar, and then mixt with 
the Vehicle you defign to give it in, whether it be 
Wine or any other fpecifick Liquor. It may be gi- 
ven twice a day, viz. Morning and Evening ; but in 
cafe of a Woman in Labor, or in any Fits, whether 
of the Mother, Colick, Convuliions, Apoplexies or 
Falling-ficknefs, it ought to be given at that mo- 
ment of time. 
XXV. Poteftates or Towers. They have all the 
Virtues of the Juice, Efface, Tinftures, Spirit and 
Oil exalted ; in which the Virtue and Efficacy of 
the Plant is fo fubtilized, as that it penetrates mo- 
mentarily into any Part they ate applied to , whe- 
ther they be inwardly given or outwardly ufed. 
Dofe is from one to two drams, and upon Extremi- 
ty to three, mixed with a Glals of Wine, or any o- 
ther fpecifick Vehicle. 
XXVI. T he Elixir. This is the Powers elixi- 
tated and brought yet to a greater degree of Effica- 
cy in Operation ; being vehemently fubtil, and frill 
much more exalted in their Virtues and Effetls. It 
may be given inwardly from half a dram to a dram 
and half or two drams ( according as the Necefiity 
may require) in a Glafs of Wine or other fit Vehi- 
cle, Morning and Night, or oftner, as you fee fit. 
CHAP. CCL. 
Of FETHERFEW Wild. 
I.' ■ 'HE Names. It is called in Greeks n«f0L 
X vmv mJlvlv, x} in Latin , Parthenium fyl- 
iieftre, Matricaria agreftis , Febrifuge agria ; and in 
Enghfh , Wild or Field Fetherfew. 
Nahpd-flowred Fetherfew * 
II. T be Kinds. This is the fecond Species of 
Fetherfew , and is twofold, viz. i . Parthenium , vcl 
Matricaria bullatis fioribus aureis , Naked Feiher- 
few. 2. Parthenium , vel Matricaria grati odor is, 
Matricaria altera Camerarii , Arthemejia tenuifolia 
odorata Tabernmontani , Matricaria odor at a Bauhini , 
Sweet-fcented Fetherfew. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Naked Fc- 
therfew, has a bujhy fibrous Root , like to the others , 
from whence Spring up Leaves and Stalks , Spread- 
ing themf elves forth into tv any Branches , not at all 
differing ffrom the former in Shape or Manner of 
Growing. At the tops of the Stalks and Branches 
grow the Flowers, not like the former ^ for this is 
a Head of naked yellow Thrums, without any Pale 
or Border of white Leaves, as are in the others, 
which is the only thing by which this kind differs 
from the other two, and for which Reafon it is cal- 
led Naked Fetherfew. 
Sweet-fcented. Wild Fetberfei 
IV. The fecond, or Sweet-fcented Fetherfew, hoi 
a bujhy fibrous Root , like the firft Common kind, 
and in its Leaves, Stalks, Branching jorth and Flow- 
ers, it differs not at all from the firft , being in all 
things fo like, that there can no Difference lie per. 
ceived between them, till you come to fmeUing to it, 
and then you will find it to be of a more pleafant 
and odoriferous Smell, which fo continues in the 
kind, and is not altered, nor made fo by Art,, but is 
the Work ofNature only ; nor vet degenerates from 
this Excellency by any Accident or Caliialty what- 
foever. 
V. T be Places. The firft grows in Effex, and 
was there found growing by one Mr. William Coys. 
The fecond has been found Wild in many places of 
England, (as well as the former naked kind.) Ca- 
merarim afro fays, that it grows in an liland called 
live, in the Levant Seas : but they are alfo ( both 
of them) nurs’d up with us in our Gardens, 
VI'. The 'Tniics. They Bower both of them in 
June 
