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De- coition. 4. The Spirituous Tincture. $. Acid Tincture. 6. The Saline Tincture. 7.

Cataplasm.

The Virtues.

X. The Liquid Juice. Being given to two or three ounces, it purges well, and powerfully opens Ob-ttructions of the Liver and Spleen, and helps such as are Asthmatick, or are troubled with difficulty of breathing, being taken every Morning falling for some time.

XI. The Essence. It has all the Virtues of the Juice aforegoing, befides which it is a powerful Medicament against a Phthisick, and for the Cure of the Yellow and Black Jaundice, as also the Dropsie : It brings away the After-birth, and effectually clemfes Women newly brought to Bed : you may give it from two ounces to four in a glass of White Port Wine every Morning falling : It is also good for Inward Bruises caused by any fall or blow, dif-lolving the congealed Blood in what patt of the Body so ever. It purges well, and not chur-liihly.

XII. The Decoction. You may make it thus : Of the young tender twigs or woody substance,

and of the Leaves, Ife j. Bruise them well, and put them into a Glass Vesica, or Bolt-head ; affufe thereon White Tort II Tine ifc iij fs. cover it with a blind head, and infuse in a Sand heat for twelve hours and then make the heat so great as it may boil gently; which done, decant, and fir am out for uje. It has the Virtues of the Essence, is a Specifick for cure of the Jaundice and Dropsie, according to Tragus and Do-don£us, is good against the Vertigo and Megrim, and other Head Diseases, cleanses Women in Childbed, and represses Hysterick Vapors. Dose four ounces every Morning : it purges the Body very gently.

XIII. The Spirituous Tincture. It purges not, but very much strengthens the Viscera, chiefly the Liver and Spleen, and reprefles Vapors Ascending from the Stomach, and other parts, to the Head and Brain, causing Vertigo's, Megrims, and other Distempers of that Ventricle. Dose two drams, or more, every Morning fasting, and Evening at Bed time in a Glass of generous Wine.

XIV. The Acid Tincture. Let it be made with Spirit of Wine acuated with Spirit of Salt. It powerfully provokes Urine, cleanses the Reins, Ureters, and Bladder, and cures the Dropsie to a miracle ·, but it ought to be taken a considerable time, and always in the Decoction of the same Plant, or in a Decoction of Centory, Gentian, and Roman Wormwood. Dose from half an ounce to an ounce, more or less, so as to give a pleasant Acidity, Morning and Evening : and it is to be put into all the Ale, Beer, or Wine the Patient drinks.

XV. The Salute Tincture. Bathed with, it takes away Scurf, Morphew, and fait, and sharp breakings out of the Skin : inwardly taken to one dram, it provokes Urine, and cleanses the Urinary pafTa-ges of Slimy, Viscous, or Tartarous Matter, which is commonly the matter that breeds the Stone and Strangury.

XV I. Tl?e Cataplasm. It is to be made of the brui-fed Berries, and Roiin in fine Pouder. This applied to Felons, which commonly come on the Fingers ends, cures them in a very short time.

CHAP. LXXVIIL BLEW-BOTTLE.

I. *The Names. It is called in Greek, KvctvQ;

j. a floris Cyaneo, vel Coeruleo colore : In Latin, Cyanus : and in Englijb, Blew-bottle, or Cornflower.

II. The Kinds. It is twofold : 1. Single-flowred, of which in this Chapter. 2. Double-flowred, of which in the next. The fingle fiowred is also I. Cyanus magnus, vel Cyanus major vulgaris, Cyanus hortensis, The greater Common Blew-bottle, or Garden Blew-bottle. This some call Cyanus menta-nus ·, Hermolaus takes it to be the Leucoium Diof-coridis ·, 'Cefalpinus to be a kind of Struthium Theo-phrafti: Eabius Columna, thinks it to be Papaver Heracleum Theophrafti h and Lobel cjueftions whether it be not a Species of Chondrilla. 2. Cyanus minor vulgaris, Cyanus fegetum, The lesser Common Blew, or Yield Blew-bottle : It is called by fomeflos Erumenti, Corn-flower : Battifecula ( as Ray has it) and Baptifecula, or Blaptifecula, from its turning the Edges of Sickles in cutting down Corn ·, Secula, i. e. Falx, afecundo diUa, being taken for a Sickle in Ancient times.

III. The description. The Greater or Garden Blew-bottle has a Root which creeps under ground, fpreading it self divers ways,fo that its heads with green Leaves will abide all the Winter, (which in the other sorts do not fo, but perish wholly after Seed time, rijing again of their own Sowing before Winter ) and grows Yearly into new (hoots and springs, by which it very much increases : from this shot rises up a crefied or rather winged Stalk, of a wbitifh green color, about two or three feet high, on which are set divers Leaves, something long and broad, without any divifwn, or denting in about the edges j green on the upper side, and grayifb underneath, each


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