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 ...

Viper's-grass, in La∣tin Scorzonera.

The Root is eaten with Meat, and is as sweet as Parsnips. 'Tis much used for the Biting of Venomous Creatures, in Pestilential Fevers, for Melancholy, Palpitation of the Heart the Falling-sick∣ness, Giddiness, Obstructi∣ons of the Bowels, Dis∣eases of the Womb, for the Jaundice, and at the Beginning of a Dropsie. Take of the Roots of Scorzonera and Angelica, each six Drams; of the Leaves of Wood-Sorrel, with the Roots, two Handfuls; of Rasp'd Hart's-horn and Ivory, each half an Ounce, of Liquorish two Drams; boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Barly-water, to one Pint and an half; to the strain'd Liquor add of Compounded Scordium-water, and of the cold Cordial-water of Saxony, each three Ounces; of Sy∣rup of Rasberries three Ounces; mingle them; make an Apozem, of which take three Ounces, or four, at pleasure. This is much used in Fevers.