1282 Salmons 
have the Virtues of Wormwood, but more fit for 
Antient People, whofe Natural heat is abated j it 
warms and comforts the Stomach, and helps Di- 
geftion, and is good for fach as are, troubled with 
Cachexy, Dropfy, and Jaundice, Lfc. 
XXV. Water and Spirit of Wormwood Compound. 
Take Tops and Leaves of dryed Wormwood , 2 
Pounds - Annifeeds , half a Pound ^ 6 Gallons of 
fmall Wines : mix , and digeft all together for 24 
hours , then diflilthem in an Alembic k as aforefaid , 
adding 2 Ounces of double refined Sugar to every 
Pint of the diflilled Liquor. The fir ft Quart keep 
for Spirit of Wormwood Compound: and all the reft 
for Wormwood Water Compound. It has all the 
former Virtues, but more agreeable to fuch as 
have got Coughs, Cold, Wheezing, or any (luffing 
in the Stomach and Lungs, or troubled with the 
Colick. 
XXVI. Oil of Wormwood Diflilled. It has all 
the Specifick Virtues afcribed to Wormwood, at 
Sell. VIII. aforegoing. A Drop, or 2, or 3, of this 
Oil, mixt firft with a little white Sugar, and then 
drank in a Glafs of White Port or Lisbon Wine, 
or Canary, makes an excellent draught to (Irength- 
en the Stomach, Liver, and other Vifcera-, to help 
again!! a Cachexia, caufe a good Appetite and 
Digeftion, and make a good color in the Face : 
It expels Wind, provokes Urine, and is good a- 
gainlt Hypochondriack Melancholy, and univer- 
fallv (Lengthens the whole Body. 
XXVII. Poteftates Abfinthifoi Powers of Worm- 
wood. They have all the Virtues of the Oil ex- 
alted, and fo more fubtil, and are alfo much more 
pleafant to be taken : you may take Morning, 
Noon and Night, 40 or 50 Drops in a Glafs of 
generous Wine. 
XXVIII. The Spirituous Tinllure. TisaNoble 
Medicament, and has all the Specifick Virtues enu- 
merated, at Sell. VIII. aforegoing 5 it refills Vomit- 
ing and Naufeoufnefs , and (Lengthens the Sto- 
mach above all other Preparations of Wormwood. 
You may take 20, 30, or 40 Drops, or more at a 
time, in a Glafs of Canary the more the Wine 
is, the greater number of Drops may be given at 
a time. 
XXIX. The Acid Tinllure. It is an Antidote 
againft all hot, burning, and malign Fevers, and 
is an excellent thing againft the Plague or Peftilence 
it felf, and all other Contagious and Peftilential 
Difeafes : it provokes Urine and the Terms, and 
carries off the Morbifick caufe of Internal difaf- 
feUions, by the Urinary paffages. 
XXX. The Oily Tinllure. It is good to pro- 
voke Urine, and cleanfe the Urinary paffages 
from Sand, Gravel, Stones, and Slimy and Tarta- 
rous matter infefting thofe Parts : it is an excel- 
lent thing againft. the Colick, Palfy, Convuftions 
of the Bowels, and Gout affeUing the Stomach. 
Dofe from 8 to 16 or 20 Drops, firft Dropt into 
and mixt with Sugar, and then to be taken in a 
Glafs of White Port or Lisbon Wine : outwardly, 
it is good to Anoint parts afflifled with the Gout, 
Sciatica, Rheumatifm, life. As alfo to help the 
Headach, proceeding from a cold and moift caufe, 
being Anointed upon the Part. . And applyed to 
the Piles or Hemorrhoids, it gives prefent eafe, 
and in a (hort time after Cures them. 
XXXI. The Fixed or Elementary Salt , made by 
Incineration and Elixiviation. Taken from 10 
Grains to a Scruple, or half a Dram, it is an An- 
tidote againft the Scurvy, and purifies the whole 
Mafs of Blood and Lympha , effeUually carry ing 
off the Recrements of thofe Fluids by Urine. 
Ic may be given in Wine, in a cold and moift ha- 
bit of Body : but in a hot and dry Conftitution, 
HerhaL Lib. J. 
it ought to be given in a thin fort of Water Gruel. 
If a Scruple or half a Dram of it be mixed with 
a large Spoonful of Juice of Limons, and fo given 
to one that is affefted with an extream Vomiting, 
it flops it upon the fpot : It gives eale in the 
Strangury, provokes Urine potently, and expels 
Sand, Gravel, and Tartarous Mucilage, from the 
Reins, Ureters, and Bladder. 
CHAP. DCCXLV. 
Of WORMWOOD Roman . 
O R, 
P 0 N T I C K. 
I.'T'ifE Names. It is called in Greek 'AfMitt 
JL namlv ■ in Latin Abfnthium Romanum -, Ab- 
fnthium Fonticum , by almoft tall Writers. In 
Englijh , Roman Wormwood, and Pontick Worm- 
wood . 
II. The Kinds. We obferve but three Species, 
viz. 1. Abftnthium Romanum vulgar e ; Abftnthium 
Fonticum commune : Our common Roman , or 
Pontick Wormwood. This by many is Judged 
to be the true Abftnthium of Pontus , which Di- 
ofcorides and Galen do fo much commend. 2. 
Abftnthium Fonticum verum ; Abfnthium Ponti- 
cum Montanum Bauhini ; Abfnthium Montanutn 
Camerarij Fj Taberncemontani : who alfo calls it 
Romanum Abfnthium commune , Jive A/pinum Gcf- 
neri-, Abfnthium tenuifolium Fonticum Galeni Ge- 
rardo : The true Roman Wormwood. 5. Abfn- 
thium tenuifolium Auftriacum Clufj , Fo ItaHcum , 
(becaufe ic has been found to grow in feveral 
Parts in Italy.) Abfnthium Fonticum Tridentinum 
Herbariorum Lobelia Fj Lugdunenf : Fine Leav’d 
Pontick Wormwood, or Auftrian Wormwood 
' The Defcriptwns. 
III. The firft, or our common Roman or Pon- 
tick Wormwood. The Root from a Jhort Head , 
Jhoots forth many long Fibres into the Earth, by 
which it is nourijhed ; and fends forth divers 
Sprouts round about it, by which it much encreajes. 
It is a fmall lew Herb, with much more fender and 
Jhort Stalks than the next : on which grow very 
fmall and fine Jhort hoary white Leaves, fmaller 
and finer than thofe of the fine Southernwood ; 
which grow at feveral Joints, many coming forth 
together : at the tops of the Stalks grow fmall yel- 
lowifh Flowers , neither fo many nor fo great, as 
thofe of the next. The fmell hereof is f aint, and 
far weaker than in the next to be Defcribed ; and 
the Tafle thereof much lefs bitter. 
IV. The fecond, or true Roman Wormwood. 
Its Roots are [mailer , lefs Woody, and fuller of 
Fibres, than thofe of our Common Wormwood in 
in the loft Chapter : It has alfo more fender and 
jhort er Stalks, by a Foot at leaf, than that of our 
Common Wormwood, and reafonable large Leaves, 
yet fmaller , and more finely cut in and divided than 
it, but as labile and hoary both Leaves and Stalks. 
The Flowers are alfo of a pale yellow color , ft end- 
ing upon the fmall Branches in the fame manner : 
fo that excepting it is fmaller every way, and in 
each part, it is altogether like to our Common 
broad 
