828 Salmon V Herbal Lib. 1. 
the Terms, and haftens and facilitates the Birth, 
and forces away the After-Birth. 
XXII. The Spirit. It is Cordial, good again!! 
ficknefs at Herrt, Fainting and Swooning Fits, 
and other Diftempers of the Heart and Stomach. 
It expels Wind, cheats the Spirits, repreffes Me- 
lancholy, and caufes a kind of Elevation of Soul. 
Dofe a Dram, two, or three, now and then in a 
Glafs of Wine. 
XXIII. The Fixed Salt. It is highly Diuretick, 
Nephritick and Hylterick : and is a Specifick again!! 
the Stone, Sand, Gravel and Vifcous Slime in the 
Reins, Ureters and Bladder. It gives prefent eafe 
in the Strangury, prevails again!! Vapors and Hy- 
lterick Fits, and cleanfes the Womb of cold, vicid, 
and putrid Humors which may offend it. Dofe 
from S Grains to a Scruple, in Parfly or Hydropiper 
Wat er, Onion Water , White Fort Wine, or any 
other ft Vehicle. 
CHAP. DXLVII. 
Of PATIENCE Garden. 
0 R, 
Monks RHUBARB. 
I. '-ip H E Names. It is called in Greek , Turn- 
x rimAoV, hdm.hv MmUtv: in Latine , Hip- 
polapathum , Lapathum Hortenfe , Patientia Hor- 
tenfis , Rhabarbarum Hortenfium , Rhabarbarum 
Monachorum : and in Englifh , Garden Patience -, 
Carden Dock , Horfe Dock , and Monks Rhu- 
barb. 
II. The Kinds. Of the Hippolapathun ? or Horfe 
Dock , there are two Special Sorts, viz. 1. Hip- 
polapathum ^ Fatientia Hortenfis -, 
Lapathitm Sativum , Rhabarbarum Monachorum , 
Garden Patience, or Monks Rhubarb. 2. Hippo, 
lapathum not bum, Hippolapatbum rotundifolium , 
Lapathum Rotundifolium Lapathum Sativum re- 
lit ndi folium C lu ft j & Camerarij -, FfeiidoRha recent i- 
tiorum Lobelij Rhabarbaricum Cordi in Hi form 
Plantar urn. Lib. 4. Fol. 201. Baltard Rubarb, 
Garden round Leav’d Horfe Dock, or Great round 
Leav’d Garden Dock. 
T be Defcriptions. 
III. The fir ft, or Garden Patience, or Monks 
Rhubarb. It has a very long great Root , brown 
without and ycl/ow within , much like to thofe of the 
Common Wild or Water Docks, but a little red- 
der but when Dry , in color and t aft e like to the 
true Rhubarb -, having alfo a lefts Jlore of diftcolo- 
red Veins , than the next following ixfyenthat is dry . 
it grows up with very large ftrong tall Stalks, cham- 
fered or furrowed ( and riftes up to be about 8 or 9 
Feet high , as Gerard fays , when it grows in good 
andfcrt il ground -, ) jet about with great, large or 
broad and long Leaves ( not much unlike to thofe of the 
Great Water DockJ of a fair green color, and not 
dented at all about the edges. The Stalks towards 
their tops , ftpread themf elves out into fteveral ftmall 
Branches, which towards their tops bear reddifh or 
V atience Garden , or 
Alonks-Rbiilarb. 
purplifl) Flowers, or Flowers of a light purple color 
declining to brownnefts. Which being pad away, the 
Seed follows, contained in thin chaffy Husks, and 
oft a triangular Form, like to the Seed oft our Com- 
mon Docks. This Patience or Garden Horfe Dock 
has obtained the Name oft Rhubarb, for fo?ne ftmall 
purging faculty which it has, much like to that oft 
the True Rhubarb. 
IV. The ftecond, or Baltard Rhubarb, or Gar- 
den round Leav’d Horfe Dock. Its Root is exceed- 
ing great and thick, very like unto the Rha Barba- 
ricum , as well in color and tafte as proportion 
and Purges after the fame manner , if given in a 
greater Dofe or quantity : it grows much greater 
. than that of the Patience before deftcribed, with 
many great Branches and Fibres adjoining to it : it 
is indeed yellow on the out-fide , and ftomewhat oft 
a paleifh yellow within, with ftome Store of dift- 
colorcd Veins therein , like to the True Rhubarb 
but much lefts, eftpe dally when it is dry, which then 
looftes its frefth color, which the True Rhubarb con- 
flantly retains. This Baltard Rhubarb riftes up 
with fteveral large, great, broad, round, thin , and 
yellowifh green Leaves, in fhape like to thofe oft the 
Garden Bur- Dock, a little waved about the edges ; 
they rife up from the Bpot, every one flanding on a 
reafonable thick and long brow nifth foot Stalk. From 
among thefte Leaves , riftes up a pretty large Stalk, 
much like the former, about two Feet or more high, 
having fome J'uch like Leaves as before deftcribed 
thereon , but f mailer. Towards the top , the Stalk 
ftpreads it ftelf out into fteveral Branches , ftome 
greater and ftome leffer, towards the tops oft which 
grow long ftpiked Heads full oft ftmall brownifl) 
Flowers-, after which follows in thin chaffy Husks 
the feed, which isfthining and triangular like to the 
Common Dgck$ ; or oft the Garden Patience before 
deftcribed. 
V. TJ;e 
