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 ...

Goat's-Rue, in Latin Galega.

It spreads a small, white Root in the Earth. The Stalks are four Foot high, or higher, channell'd, empty, and has many Branches. The Leaves are like the Leaves of a Vetch, they have a soft, little Thorn at the end of them. The Flowers are placed upon peculiar Twigs, ari∣sing from the Wings of the Leaves; they grow one a∣bove another, like the ma∣ny flower'd Vetch, and are

of a whitish Colour. The Pods are round, small, long, and upright, wherein is contain'd the Seed.

'Tis Alexipharmick, and Sudorifick. It expels Poy∣son, and cures the Plague. 'Tis used in Children's Convulsions; a Spoonful of the Juice may be given at a time. 'Tis good for the Worms, and for the Biting of Serpents. The raw Herb, or when it is boyl'd, is also eaten in these Cases. The distill'd Wa∣ter of it is used to expel Contagion, and in Chil∣dren's Convulsions. The Honourable Mr. Boyle com∣mends it much, from his own Experience, in curing Pestilential and Malignant Diseases. 'Tis one of the Ingredients in the London-Plague-Water. Take of the Roots of Angelica, Ma∣ster-wort, Butter-bur, and Peony, each half a Pound; of Athamantick Spikenard, and of Scorzonera, each four Ounces; of Virginian Snake-weed two Ounces; of the Leaves of Rue, Rosemary, Balm, Carduus Benedictus, Scordium, Ma∣rigolds and their Flowers, Dragons, Goat's Rue, and Mint, each four Handfuls; pour upon them four Gal∣lons of the best Brandy, let them infuse gently in B. M. (the Vessel being close stop'd) for three Days; draw off four Gal∣lons, wherein hang in a Bag half an Ounce of Saf∣fron; to every Pint of this, add an Ounce and an half of Fine Sugar.