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 ...

The Dock called Monk's-Rubarb, or Garden-patience, in Latin Hippo-lapathum.

'Tis sometimes as high as a Man. The Stalk is channel'd, and reddish; a∣bove it is divided into ma∣ny Sprigs. The Leaves are a Foot, or a Foot and an half broad, and point∣ed; of a dull green Co∣lour. The Root is thick, long, and has many Fibres, and of a Saffron-colour. The Leaves come out in March, and it flowers a∣bout June.

The Root purges Cho∣ler, and watery-Humours. Take of the dried Root one Dram, of Ginger one Scru∣ple: Those that use it for Rubarb take a double quantity. The Root expels Gravel: Take Dock-roots prepar'd and Polypody, each one Ounce; Sena ten Drams, Rubarb six Drams, Monks-Rubarb five Drams, Yellow Sanders two Drams, Salt of Wormwood, and Scurvy-grass, each one Dram; cut and bruise them, and put them into a Glass, with Snail-water and White-wine, each one Pint and an half; stop the Glass, and set it in a Cellar twen∣ty four Hours: Take six Ounces of it, or more, ac∣cording as it works, every Morning. This is good for the Itch.