Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

HO FAMILY HERBAL.
a surprising and speedy effect against those violent
pains in the belly, which are owing to those creatures.
The best way of giving them is in the ex-
pressed juice ; or if children will not take that,
they may be boiled in milk, to which they gi\e very
little taste. It is a powerful remedy ; and a small
dose will take effect, especially of the juice; so
that it is best to begin with very little, and as that
is well borne, to increase the quantity.
Dragons. Dj^acontium.
A FINE, tall, and beautiful plant ; kept in
gardens for its use in medicine, as well as for its
appearance.
It is foar feet high. The stalk is
thick, round, and firm ; perfectly smooth, and
painted on the surface with several colours ;
purple, white, green,
and others. The leaves
are very large, and stand on long foot-stalks : they
are of a deep and strong green ; and each is divided
into several portions in the manner of fingers.
The flower is like that of the common arum or
cuckoo pint : it is contained in a hollow green case,
of a deep purple within, and the is
pistil also of a
deep purple ; after this is fallen, appear as in the
arum, large red berries in a cluster. The whole
plant is of an acrid and insupportable taste.
The whole is plant to be gathered when in flower,
and dried ; it may afterwards be given in decoction,
powder, or otherwise. It was vastly esteemed for
malignant fevers, and in the small pox ; but it has
relate lost much of its credit : at preieut it is only
"ised in i.ome compositions.