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Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
ial, Nephritickand Alexipharmick-, having much 
the fame Qualities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues of MuJUrd-Seed, to which we (hall re- 
fer you. 
X. T be Specification. It, viz. the Root , removes 
Obltruftions of the Lungs and other V Lfcera, breeds 
a laudable Chyle and good Juices, and cures Rheu- 
matifms, Gouts, and Confumptions. 
XI. The Preparations. You may have, I. Ibe 
Vinous Juice of the Root. 2. A Spirit from the 
fame. 3. A Liquid Juice or Sapa. 4. A Liquid 
Juice by exprejfion from the Baked Roots. 5. A 
Decotfion of the Roots. 6 . The Simple Pulp oj the 
Roots , made by Baking or Boiling. 7. T he hxp ref- 
fed Oil of the Seed. 
good Diet to be obferved of fuch, as have come 
out of a Salivation, or other Courfe for the Cure 
of the foul Difeafe doing truly much more than 
could be reafonably expefled, in compleating the 
Cures of thofe Difeafes, beyond many other things 
of much greater Name. 
XVII. The Exprejfed Oil from the Seed. Being 
mixed with Venice Treacle or Mithridate , it is 
fingular good again!! Poifon, and malign and in- 
fectious Difeafes. Gerard fays, that in the Low 
Countries, as Holland , Zealand , plunders , it 
is given to eafe rhe After-pains of Women in Child- 
Bed \ and they give it both to kill and expel 
Worms in Children : And being walhed with Wa- 
ter, and then anointed upon the Skin, it takes a~ 
way its ruggednefs, and makes it foft and Smooth. 
77;e Virtues. 
XII. The Vinous Juice. It is made of the Ex- 
prejfei Juice of the ram Root , by being Hrji beaten 
to a Pulp in a Mill , or othermife , and then ex- 
preffed out ; after which, it is fermented in wooden 
Vans or Vejjels, as Juices of Grapes, Apples, 
Pears (ftc. It is a pleafmg Liquor, and may be 
drank as Ale, Beer, Cyder, Perry, Wine &c. at 
Meals and other times to quench Third. It is 
Diuretick, Cordial, and ftrengthens the Stomach 
and Bowels. 
XIII. Spirit us Raporum -, The Spirit of Turneps. 
It is drawn from the aforementioned Liquor, at 
you draw Spirit of Wine from Wine. It has much 
the fame Virtues with Spirit of Wine, and may be 
drank alone, or with Sugar, as you drink Brandy 
to warm the Stomach, cherilii the Bowels, and 
revive the Spirits. With it you may make Punch 
with Water, Lime-Juice and Sugar, as you do 
with Brandy, which being drank, will have the 
fame EfTefts ; and if taken plentifully or freely, 
viz. about half a Pint at a time, I. In the Morn- 
ing fading. 2. Half an Hour before Dinner. 3. At 
four in the Afternoon ; and 4. At Bed time, and 
be continued in the fame manner for 10 or 12 
Weeks together, it will Cure a Pining Confump- 
tion. And may be ufed in Chymical Operations, 
for making T indures, ExtraSs, Cordial Waters, 
Spirits, Sac. 
XIV. The Liquid Juice or Sapa. It is done by 
Expreflion out of either raw Turneps, or after they 
are Baked, or Boiled foft in their Skins -, and this 
Juice may be taken Simply as it is expreffed our ; 
or otherwife made into an Effence, or Sapa, and fo 
kept for farther ufe. Thefe Preparations are all 
PeHoral, Chylifick, Nutritive, and redore in deep 
Confumptions. . 
XV. The Decotfion of the Roots. It is good 
againd the Rickets in Children, Gouts, Rlieuma- 
tifms. Quartan Agues, Adhma’s, Coughs, Wheez- 
ings, Shortnefs of Breath, Confumptions ; mcrea- 
fes Seed, expels Sand, Gravel, and Tarrarous mat- 
ter in the Reins and Bladder, and provokes Urine, 
being drank daily as the uiual Drink. 
XVI. The Simple Pulp of the Root, made by 
Baking or Boiling. If it is eaten without Vinegar 
or Salt, only of it felf, or mixed with a little new 
Cream, or Milk, and fome pure fine white Bread, 
and the Patient confines himlell to Live of it lor 
6 7 or 8 Weeks, eating no other Food, neither 
Flelh nor Fifh, Pickles, Sawces, or Sweet-Meats, 
during that fpace of time, and drinking in the mean 
feafon only a drong TecoSion of Turneps, it ef- 
feHually cures a Kheumatifm and Gout, as alio 
the Scurvy and Confumption, altho’the Patient is 
in a very Deplorable Condition it is alio a very 
CHAP. DCCXVI. 
Of T U R N E P Wild: 
0 R, 
Wild RAPE. 
1. np H E Names. It is called in Greek Asmara 
J. Diqfcoridis : and in Latin eLampfane Mat- 
thioli , alfo Rapum Sylvefire, and Rapiftrum , ( a Si- 
milit uditie Rapi foliorum , and in Engli(h Wild 
Turnep. 
II. The Kinds., We have two fortspretry com- 
mon with us, viz. 1. Rapum non Bulbofmn, Rapum 
majus Sylvefire, The greater Wild Rape or lur- 
nep; and this is that Rape which yields the Rape- 
Seed, or Cole-Seed, out of which Oil is drawn in 
Mills by Exprellion, for many Mechanick ufes. 
2. Rapiftrum Sylvefire , and Rapiftrum minus. The 
leffer wild Rape or Turnep. 
Turnep Wild. 
The 
