177. Lapasium: i.e. the dock; hot and dry in the third degree; there are three sorts of it, lapatium rotundum, i.e. the broad-leaved dock; lapatium acutum, i.e. the curled dock; and lapatium domesticum, i.e. the cultivated dock. Platearius says they have the dissolving, attenuating and opening virtues. If juice of dock, oil of walnut and pitch, equal amounts of each, be boiled in strong wine, and powder of the tartar of wine be put through them, and they be boiled again as with ointments, it will help with every sort of scabby head. If juice of dock and honey be mixed together and a spoonful be drunk fasting in the morning, it will kill the lumbrici, i.e. the long worms. Item, if