Salmon 
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Lib. L 
tending to anAJh color or grey on the lower fide ■ 
they are always three fet together on a hot JIM 
mojl round at the emit, an] a /title dented about ■ 
L\bre From the Joints of the Stalks, with theie 
Leaves, come forth (mail white Flowers, iwwtt 
unlike to Pea/e Blooms, but much left ; which be- 
ta* pal's' d away, after them, follow long, flender 
,i uioiv, ffattilh, crooked Cods or Horns, fma l or 
(harp pointed, in which are : contmned imall une- 
ven cornered Seeds, of a yellowifh color ; which 
being dryed, have indeed a pretty ftrong Smell, but 
not unpleafant. 
IV. The Places. It grows almoft in all parts of 
the World : in Foreign Countries they low whole 
Fields of it, for Fodder for their Cartel-, but with 
us it is only fown in Gardens, and yet it grows as 
well here as in any other place. 
V The Times. In Foreign Nations they low it 
for Seed in the end of January <x beginning of Febru- 
ary • but we in England fow it not until Apt tl ; and 
it flowers with us in the beginning of July , and the 
Seed is ripe in the end of Auguji or beginning or 
September: but for Food for Cartel, it is fown be- 
fore Winter, as is before hinted. 
VI. The Vitalities. Galen fays it is hot in the 
fecond Degree and dry in the firft : it is Aperitive, 
( leanfing, Aftringent and Vulnerary ; a good Petto- 
ral and Hyfterick ■, and withal Cathartick, purging 
awav grofs Humors. . _ , 
VII. The Specification. It is peculiar agamlt the 
Dyfentery and other Fluxes of the Bowels, as alfo 
a Gonorrhoea. 
VIII. The Preparations. Vou may have there- 
from, T. The prepared Pulfe or Seed. 2. A De- 
cohlion in Wine, a- A Bathe. 4. A Meal. 5. A 
Mucilage. 6. An Oil. 7. A Cataplafm. 8. A 
Juice from the Leaves. 
The Virtues. 
IX. The prepared Pulfe. They bury it a while 
in Faith or Sand till it fprouts a little, to make it 
iweet ■ then it is carried to the Market to be fold 
for Food. This, fays Alpinus, the Egyptians e at 
and Galen fays it was ufed ( among the Grecians) 
in his time, lor that it makes fuch as eat it to grow 
fat , and therefore is thought to cure Confumptions, 
and’ to be good for Confumptive People. Thofe 
F.ajicrn People did ufe to eat it as they did Lupins , 
for that it was more agreeable than Lupins, having 
nothing in its own proper Subltance which is ob- 
noxious : fomecimes the Pulfe is preferved in Pickle, 
and fo eaten to keep the Body foluble. 
X. The Decotfion in Wine. It mollifies the Hard- 
nels of the Spleen and Womb, and eafes the Pains 
of thofe Parts, opens their Obflruflions, and is good 
again® Hypochondriack Melancholy, makes fmooth 
the Bowels, and helps the Difeafe called Tenafmus, 
which is a deiire often to go to Stool, without do- 
ing any thing. It prevails againft a Dyfentety or 
Bloody-fiux , and all other fluxes of the Bowels. 
Applied to the Forehead with Cloths dipt therein, 
it flops the Flux of Humors to the Eyes, eafes their 
Pains, and takes away their Inflammation. Ufed 
alfo in Clyfters, it is faid to be good againft the 
Stone, by opening and mollifying the inward Parts. 
It cures Ulcers in the Intejiinum Re it urn and the 0- 
ther Guts : drunk to the quantity of half a pint, it 
purges and cleanfes the Stomach of gtofs and evil 
Humors. If the Decoftion is made with Dates and 
Honey, it mundifies or cleanfes the Breft and Lungs, 
caufes Expectoration , and heals Ulcers of thofe 
Parts. The Decoftion being made in Wine or Wa- 
ter, and given inwardly half a pint or more at a 
time. Morning and Night, for fome days together, 
cures a Gonorrhoea. Alexis. 
XI. The Bath. It is made by boiling the Seed in 
Water till it is broken. If Women fit in it as hot 
as they can endure, it opens Obftruffions of the 
Womb, and (if it be about the time ) provokes the 
Terms. Bathed upon Parts affe&d with the Gout, 
it eafes the Pain thereof, and removes Aches which 
come of Cold : it is alio good to wafh the Hair 
and Head, and to cleanfe it from Scurff, Morphew 
and dry Scabs. It heals Ulcers of the Womb, 
ftrengthens the Part, cleanfes, dries and reftores its 
Tone. 
XII. The Meal or Ponder. Taken to two drams 
mixed with a little Honey, it is Pectoral, and caufes 
an Excretion of many pernicious Humors which 
lodge in the Stomach and Guts, maturates inward 
Apoftems, cleanfes Ulcers in the Breft and Lungs, 
and heals them, and eafes the griping Pain of the 
Bowels : but in fome People it is apt to overturn 
the Stomach or caufe a Loathing, efpecially in fuch 
as are weak and tender ; but troubles not fuch as 
have ftrong Stomachs, as have molt of your robuft 
Country People. 
XIII. The Mucilage. Applied to the Joints, it 
gives eafe in the Gout and other like Pains. _ Ap- 
plied to the Forehead with Cloths dipt therein, it 
flops Fluxes of Humors to the Eyes, eafing their 
Pains and Inflammations. Taken inwardly with 
Honey, it is Pe&oral, and caufes an Expe&oration 
of thick, tough and grofs Humors out of the Breft 
and Lungs, and is profitable againft Coughs, Colds, 
Catarrhs, Afthma’s, and other Difeafes of thofe 
Parts. 
XIV. The Oil, made by Exprefion or Isolation. 
Label fays it is of more Virtue than will be belie- 
ved and that it is good to diffolve hard Tumors or 
Kernels, difeuffes feitrhous Swellings, mollifies the 
Intrails, Womb and other Parts, removes Scurft and 
Morphew, and cleanfes, dries and heals Ulcers of 
the privy Parts. , r , 
XV. The Calaplafm. It is always made ol the 
Meal, mixed with other proper Ingredients. If it 
is made by boiling it to a Thicknefs with Mead, it 
