times a Dato^or in a Paroxyfm, either alone, it al- 
layed, and dulcified with line white Sugar or mix! 
ivitli any proper Vehicle. The Patient’ troubled 
' with any of the aforefaid Difeafe, dull not take 
It in vain efpecially fuch as are Paralytick. Dolb 
ijom one Dram to two or three Dams or more, ac- 
cording as the Age of the Patient will admit, and 
extremity of die Difeafe may require. 
XXII. The HftiUed. Oil. It has all the Yir 
tuts of the Juice, Eflence, Infufion, Tinbhires and 
Spirit ^ and almolf an hundred times more power- 
ful than them all, fo diat the Virtues hereof need 
not now be again repeated in vain : but this in par- 
ticular ic is one of the greatelf Anriparaly ticks, 
Antepilepticks and Anriiparmaticks in the World • 
and befides, being given to Women in Travel, it 
facilitates the Birth, and expels the After-birth, and 
gives Eaie in After-pains, beyond any other Medi- 
cine I know in the World. The Dofe is from four 
Drops to twelve, fixteen or twenty, ( in Extremity) 
in any proper Vehicle. Firft drop it into Sugar 
mixing them well together with the Point of a Knife- 
then put it into the Wine, diddled Water, or other 
fit Veluculum, and fo give it the Patient to drink 
relating the Dofe as oft as you fee convenient. • 
XXIII . The Powers. This Preparation has all the 
v irtues of the Oil aforegoing, and may be given in 
the fame. V ehicle : but as it is a more diluted Sub- 
llance, it may be given in a much larger quantity, 
tv--, from half a Dram to two Drams or more as 
The Exigency may require. It is very fubtil and pe- 
netrative, and pierces more than the Oil does. Out- 
wardly applied, it is admirable againlt the Sciatica, 
as alio againlt the Gour from a cold Caufe : and is 
good againll a Lethargy, being bathed upon the 
Eorcbead and Temples, ihuffed up the Noitrils 
and taken alfo inwardly, as is before direfled. ’ 
XXIV. T he Elixir. This is the Powers elixira- 
ted, has all. the Virtues of the Powers exalted, and 
fo operates in a left Dofe, viz. from a Scruple to a 
Dram, or from twenty Drops to lixty Drops, which 
may be given Morning, Noon and Night in fuch 
proper Vehicle as the Phyfician (lull afllgn. It is 
peculiarly commended againft Palfies, and Difeafes 
of the Womb, as Suffocation ; as alfo the Epilepfy 
in younger Perfons. It gives Eafe in and cures the 
Strangury, inwardly taken ; and prevails againlt the 
Colick even by bathing the outward Parts therewith. 
An Ounce of the Elixir being mixed with fix Ounces 
of the dittilled Water, makes an excellent Lotion 
for the Head in Pains thereof, as alfo in Lethargies 
and to ftrengthen the fame. 
CHAP. C9CCXXIV. 
O/LAVENDE R-C O T T O N, 
OR , 
SANTOLINE. 
\- r ~T'HE- Names. It is called in Greek , 
X imeiar©-, Cbamtecyparijpu -, and ’Affjj nra 6 nkaa 
Abrotonon Theleia : in Latine , Chattnecypanjlrts, 
Abrotomnn famine, and Santolma ; and in Engl'tjh , 
Lavender-Cotton, and Santoline. 
■ JF le Authors make nine or ten Kinds of 
this Plant ; we fhall be contented with iix of them, 
which we find growing in our Gardens, or in Tome 
of our Plantations beyond Sea, viz. 1. Abrotanum 
ftmin'a tp/gare , Santolma communis Angni/lar.t ■ 
Gref polina Cxjalpini ; Chanixerpariftas Herb.: Plinij ■ 
Our Common Garden Lavender-Cotton: 2. Abro- 
tanum firm no. magnum ; Abrotanum ftemina J ivun- 
diim C/ufiij ; Abr'onmum jirmina joins magis viridi - 
bias Camerarij Folium, ali/id Column* Gleat I.a- 
vender-Cotton. 3; Abrotanum .frmina narbonenje 
mugno Jlor'c ■, Sampnicum majra Cadi-, Abfinlhiun; 
martnum pritnum Tubcr.namontani ■, %eripltium varum 
lb wf corid is, according co Pena and Label, who fivs 
it has the Form of' Abrotanum ftrmina Santolma 
prima Dodontci ; Abraimum jcvimna tertium Ciujii 
Karbonenfe ; Po’ij altera Species major Cotmiiis-, 
Abrotanum ftemina flare majore Banhini ; French 
Lavender-Cotton. 4. Abrotanum ftemina Ericz/p- 
liis Banhini -, Santolina tertia Pod, ntei ■, Unguent .1- 
ria Lutetian arum ; Chamscyparijfm Dalecbampij , (as 
Bauhine thinks ) Heath-leaved Lavender-Cotton ■, 
Fine leaved Lavender-Cotton. Abrotanum fte- 
miria joins Rpjamanm mains id minus Banhini A- 
brotanum ftemina quart unrCluflj, (which is his firlt 
Spanifh Kind) Abrotanum ftemina llofemonnifohis 
minus Banhini, ( which is the lelfer Species ) and is 
the Second Spanifl) Abrotanum ftemina Chtflj ■ Kole- 
mary-Ieaved Lavender-Cotton, both Greater and Lef- 
fer. 6. Abrotanum ftemina vindis minor Banhini, 
( fo called in refpe£l to the fecond green Kind above- 
named) and is the third Sptmijh of Clujhts, called, 
Abrot anum ftemina Sa/amanticenfis ; Srfhll green 
Lavender-Cotton. 
III. The Defcriptions. T he firft, or Our Com- 
mon Garden Lavender-Cotton. It hut a -Root which 
is woody, and fpreads it [elf under Ground with Jc- 
veral hard Fibres. From this Root rile up feveral 
woody, brittle, hoary Branches, on which grow 
many long, four-fquare, hoary, or wliitifii Leaves 
dented about the edges. At the tops of 'the- Branch- 
es grow up naked Stalks, bearing every one a large 
yellow Head or Flower, like unto Tanfy or A Lud- 
lin, but greater, of a Gold-yellow Color - abiding 
a long time upon the Stalks, if kept but very drv : 
alter which comes fmall dark-colored Seed. The 
whole Plant is of a very ftrong fweet Smell, bht not 
unplealant, nor much unlike Southernwood. 
IV. The fecond , or Great Lavender-Cotton. It 
haj a Root which fpreads it f elf in the Ground , with 
hard moody Branches, like the other, and endures the 
Extremity of Winter, at well at the other doth 
This is very like to the former Ordinary Garden 
Kind, but not' bufiiing out fo thick with Stalks 
growing to have a great height, and a thick Stem 
or Stalk, not fet with fo many Branches thereon 
but fomewhat bigger than the other, on which grow 
fourlquare dented Leaves, like thereunto, but iome- 
what larger, thicker and greener; the Flowers Hand 
m.the fame manner, every one upon its long Sraik 
being as yellow and large as the former, and which 
being palt away give the like Seed. The finell of 
the whole Plant and every part thereof is ftrong 
but not lo- plea-funt to a great many as the other’ 
this will be propagated by flipping as well as the 
former. 
V. The third, or French Lavender-Cottoif. It has 
a Root which is at great and at woody as either of 
the afgegoing, and Jprcads as muck in the. Ground 
Thri' grows not ro be fo'high as rhe .firft or' 
Kind but has many woody, fiiorr. 
above- half -a Yard high, .vari- 
l n fo many other frrtall ones, on which - 
w =! likt the others, but fomewhat fmaller, 
f P erfe % or thinly fet on the- Branches, of 
w ^ r ? Color, neither fo green as the lafl 
or o DM, nor fully fo White as the firlt or Common 
Ki/d', of a Itrong Smell: fombtbing like to our firlt. 
The 
