XVI. The Grams or Seeds. Taken to 20 grains 
as Dw/corides fays, they purge by Stool, Choler, 
Flegm and Water : but unlefs taken in a Raifon 
they burn the Mouth and Throat : for fome per- 
fons half this Dofe may be fufficient, and to feme 
others too much. It Cures Melancholy and Mad- 
nefi. They ought to be ufed with Caution, other- 
wife the Medicament may be dangerous, and there- 
fore not to be taken without Correctives. 
X VII. The Balfam. It is made of the Touler 
of the Leaves mint with Honey. Or, It may be 
beaten up with a little Nitre and Vinegar. It 0- 
pens Crulty Sores, and deanfes and heals Old and 
Filthy Ulcers. 
CHAP. DCLVin. 
Of S P U R G E Wotd, 
OR, 
T I T H Y M A L. 
F 'T' H E Names. It called by the Arabians 
X Xaufer, and Ethula, aifo Ethutia , and by 
Mefucs, Scebranani Alfcebran : in Greek T/Sifc**®. 
in Latine, Tithymalus , and Tithymalus 
Characias (i. e. Vallaris , from its growing in Val- 
leys and low and moift places of the Woods) alfo 
Tithymalus nemorofus : in Englilh, Wood Spurge 
or Tithymal. 
*!;. Tgf Kinds. Authors make t4or 15 Species 
of thisrlant, but we (hall only take notice of the 
following five, as being moll familiar with us, 
viz. 1. xt&KlcuJ'HjuoJ'Ht, Tithymalus Cha- 
racias vel nemorofus vulgaris , Our Common Wood 
Spurge. 2. Tithymalus Characias major , Tithy- 
malus Characias legitimus Clufij , The Greater 
Wood Spurge. 3. TifvW®- a Tithy- 
malus dendroides, Tithymalus nemorofus minor 
The Idler Wood Spurge. 4. TAW©- laifdn, J 
IMim'ms, Tithymalus Myrfinites , Myrtle Spurge. 
5. Tithymalus dendroides Cameranj , Gefneri 
Mattbioli, aliorumque ; Tithymalus dendroides five 
arboreus Myrtifonr.atus non infolijs fed in frutice 
Lobelij-, Tithymalus Characias Tertius Dodontei 
Shrub Spurge. ’ 
T he Defcriptions. 
III. The firtl, or Our Common Wood Spurge- 
It has for its Root a f mall bujh of Fibres or Threads , 
Jpread every way under the Earth , from whence 
rifes up larger Stalks , with fever al other lejfer a 
foot and half two feet or more high , befet with 
fmall, long , narrow Leaves , but Shorter and lejfer 
than the next following , not much unlike to the 
Leaves of the Almond-tree , for which reafon I 
fuppofe , Lobel called it Tithymalus Characias 
Amygdaloides t the flowers are yellow, Jiandtrtg in 
fuch Cups of Leaves as other Spurges do after 
which come Triangular heads\ or Seed , Vejfels in 
which the Seed is contained. 
Common Wood Spurge. 
IV. The fecond, or Our Greater Wood Spurge. 
Its Root is long and fomewhat woody, fpreading it 
felf under ground but not creeping. It has divers 
Spurge Wood Great. 
tough. 
