Common-Brook-Lime, in Latin Anagallis aquatica.
It grows commonly in little Brooks.
It heats and moistens moderately. 'Tis chief∣ly used in the Scurvy; it powerfully expels the Stone of the Kidnies and Blad∣der; it provokes the Cour∣ses,
The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...
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- The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...
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- Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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- 1694.
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"The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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and expels a dead Child. Outwardly appli∣ed, it cures Inflam'd Tu∣mours, and St. Anthony's Fire. 'Tis much of the same virtue with Water∣cresses, only not so strong.
Country-people cure Wounds with Brook-lime, mix'd with a little Salt, and a Spider's Web, and applied to the Wound, wrapp'd about with a dou∣ble Cloth.
Brook-lime boyld in Wa∣ter, applied to blind Piles, has presently eas'd the Pain, when other Medicines would do no good. Fabri∣cius says, he knew a large Ulcer that possess'd almost the whole Leg, and reach∣ed almost to the Bone, was cured in a Scorbutical Person only with Brook-lime boyl'd in Beer, and applied twice a Day. But it is most commonly used inwardly to cure the Scur∣vy: Take of the Juice of Brook-lime, Water-cresses and Scurvy-grass, each half a Pint; of the Juice of Oranges, four Ounces; fine Sugar, two Pounds; make a Syrup over a gen∣tle Fire: Take one Spoon∣ful in your Beer every time you drink.