hog bed

HOGBED OR HOGWEED, Ambrosia—Grows near farm yards, and on stony soils, like moss, about three inches high. The leaves are of a deep green colour, small and curly. The hogs delight to make their bed on it from whence it derives its name. A handful of this plant infused in a quart of water, and given in doses of a tea-cupful three or four times a-day, is a popular remedy among women to promote the menses or courses.

Brother Luke: I write this particularly by itself and make a Conclusion in the former, because if you have occasion and see convenient you may let any one see it, and save yourself some labour of discoursing some matters, that are discours’d upon your manage. I have sent Hawkins up and down to every house to look about your Tobᵒ, who renders me a very vile account thereof, some gone, some hogbeds, and some damnify’d and that, that remains good there is such plenty of new Tobᵒ there's no disposing a pound thereof, for Mr Harrison neither look’d after it himself & discouraged Hawkins in the looking after it. I hope you remember the Hospital , that I desired you to bring in, as also to perswade a Minister in, if you can with a sober serious learned one. I suppose my sister will be large with you about your family affairs, that I Need add no further, I am With Sincerity S’r

Your Wff.