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Salmon s Herbal. Lib. 1. 
provoke the Terms, ltrengthen the Stomach and 
help Digeftion. 
XII. The Preparation!. You may have there- 
from, I . A 'juice and EJjence. 2. A LecoUion 
,n Wine or Water. 3. A Pickle or Sailer. 
The Virtues. 
XIII. The Juice or EJjence. They provoke Urine 
and the Courles, are helpful againft the Yellow 
Jaundice, open dbifrXiOifons of the Stopj^n; Li- 
ver. Spleen, Mefen'tery, Reins ahd Womb, and 
fo remove thofe difehfes which afflift thole 
parts. They are profitable againft the Strangury, 
and carry off any Tartarous naueilage, which af- 
fiias the Urinal Veffels.’ Dofe 2 or 3 Spoonfuls 
in a Glafs of White Port or Lisbon Wise morn- 
ing and night. 
XIV. T he DccoUion in Wine. The Roots, Stalks, 
and Leaves boiled in Wine and Drunk, provokes 
Urine, removes the difficulty of making Water, 
and is good againft the Jaundice : It has an 
excellent property to open, cleanfe and dry: It 
helps Digeftion, cleanfes the Urinary parts from 
Stones, Gravel, Sand, and Slimy matter, is good 
againft Hypochondriacal Melancholy, and has all 
the Virtues of the Juice and Effence. Dofe half 
a pint morning and night. 
XV. The Pickle or Sallet. It is a-Wry pleafant 
thing both to the Palate and Stomach, helps 
Digeftion, opens obftruUions of the Vifcera, pro- 
voking Urine and cleanfing thofe Veffels of all 
Heterogeneous matters obftruUing them. It 
ftrengthens the Stomach, provokes Appetite ; and 
is a molt excellent and familiar Sawce, of ex- 
traordinary adyantage and molt agreeable to the 
Bodies of Human Kind. 
CHAP. DCXVII. 
Of S A N I C L E, 
O R , 
HEAL-WORT. 
I. t ~r'HE Names. We do not find that this 
X Plant, or any of its Species were ever 
known to the Ancient Greeks or Latines , and 
therefore no Names can he derived from thofe 
Fountains-, but our Modern Authors have called 
it in Latine, Sanicula (a potiore fanandi munere) 
and by fome Sanicula mas , becaufe thofe make 
the Aftrantia nigra Diofcoridis , or the Helleborus 
niger SanicuU folio major , to be Sanicula feemina :) 
It is the Diapenfii Brunfelfij , Gerardi , Lobelij 
& Mattbioli •, Sideritis tertia Diofcoridis Columnd 5 
Confolida quinquefolia Taber nmontani Quinque- 
folium d>iiar turn Mattbioli , in Englifh Sanicle , 
Healwort , and Self-heal by fome. 
II. T be Kinds. Beftdj£-,riie Sanicula major or 
Alcbimilla , o$ Great commonly called 
Ladies Mantle , of wMich vre have treated al- 
ready in Chap. 421 aforegoing-, we have thefe 
following Species oj this Plant, viz. 1. Sani- 
cula , Sanicula Vulgaris , Diapenfia Gerardi , Our 
Common Sanicle. 2. Sanicula Guttata $ Sani- 
cula Montana altera Clufij Sanicula Alpina & 
Guttata Camerarij aliorumque ^ Sanicula Cario- 
phyllata , five , Geum Alginum recentiorum folio 
hederaceo Lobelij j Spotted Sanicle and London 
Pride. 3. Sanicula. Alpina , Sanicula Cor tufa 1 
(from its Author) Mattbioli j Caryopbyllata Ye- 
ronenfium fiore Sanicula ? Urfimv Lobelij -, Sanicula 
Montana prima Clufij , Bears Ear Sanicle. 4. Sa- 
nicula fruticofa Americana , Sanicula five Cor tufa 
Americana fruticofa , Shrubby Sanicle of Ame- 
rica. To thefe add, 5;. Sanicula Eboracenfis Pin- 
guicula Cucullata Gefneri , Sanicula Montana 
flore calcari donata , Torkjhire Sanicle, or Butter- 
wort, of which we have already difeourfed in 
Chap. 102 . aforegoing, and therefore fhall fay 
nothing of it in this place, faving, that the Cut 
there inferted is error, and belongs to the Jirft 
Sanicle in this Chapter. 
T he Defcriptions. 
III. The Firft, Or our Common Sanicle. Its 
Root is compofed of many black Fibres or Strings 
as it were fet in a Bunch together , proceeding 
from a little long bead, which abides with the 
Green Leaves vpon it , all the Winter and pe- 
rijh not. From this head of the Root rife up 
many great round Leaves , (landing upon long 
brownifh Stalks , every one fomewhat deeply cut or 
divided into Jive or fix parts , and fome of thofe 
cut in alfo , fomewhat like the Leaf of a Crowfoot , 
or fome of the kinds of Dovefoot , and finely dented 
about the Edgesjfmoothj and of a dark finning green 
Sanicle Common. 
color , and fome times reddifh about the brims • from 
among which rife tip fmall round green Stalks , 
without any joint or Leaf thereon , faving at the 
Top , where it Branches out into Flowers ■, having 
a Leaf divided into three or four parts, at that joint 
with the Flowers , which are fmall and white , fart- 
ing out of fmall round greenifh yellow Heads , ma- 
ny flanding together in a Tuft , in which after- 
wards the Seeds are contained , which are fmall \ 
round \ rough Burrs , fomething like unto the Seeds 
