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<P>THE Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian ENLARGED: With Three Hundred, Sixty, and Nine Medicines made of Engli&s;h Herbs that were not in any Impre&s;sion until this: The Epi&s;tle wil Inform you how to know This Impre&s;sion from any other.</P>
<P>Being an A&s;trologo-Phy&s;ical Di&s;cour&s;e of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation: Containing a Compleat Method of Phy&s;ick, whereby a man may pre&s;erve his Body in Health; or Cure him&s;elf, being Sick, for three pence Charge, with &s;uch things only as grow in <HI>England,</HI> they being mo&s;t fit for Engli&s;h Bodies.</P>
<P>Herein is al&s;o &s;hewed the&s;e Seven Things, viz. 1 The Way of ma|king Plai&s;ters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pulti&s;&s;es, Syrups, Decoctions, Julips, or Waters, of al &s;orts of Phy&s;ical Herbs, That you may have them ready for your u&s;e at al times of the yeer. 2 What Planet Go|verneth every Herb or Tree (u&s;ed in Phy&s;ick) that groweth in <HI>England.</HI> 3 The Time of gathering al Herbs, both Vulgarly, and A&s;tologically. 4 The Way of Drying and Keeping the Herbs al the yeer. 5 The Way of Keeping their Juyces ready for u&s;e at al times. 6 The Way of Making and Keeping al kind of u&s;eful Com|pounds made of Herbs. 7 The Way of mixing Medicines accor|ding to Cau&s;e and Mixture of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and Part of the Body Afflicted.</P>
<P>By NICH. CULPEPER, Gent. Student in <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> and <HI>A&s;trologie:</HI> Living in <HI>Spittle Fields.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Peter Cole</HI> in <HI>Leaden-Hall,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the &s;ign of the <HI>Printing-pre&s;s</HI> in <HI>Cornhil,</HI> neer the Royal Exchange. 1653.</P>
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<P>TAke notice, That in this Impre&s;&s;ion, publi&s;hed <HI>September</HI> the <HI>5^t^h 1653.</HI> I have made very many Additions to every Sheet in the Book: And al&s;o, That th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e Books of mine that are printed of that Letter the &s;mal Bibles are printed with, are very fal&s;ly prin|ted; there being u&s;ually twenty or thirty gro&s;s mi&s;takes in every Sheet, many of them &s;uch as are exceeding dangerous to &s;uch as &s;hal venture to u&s;e them: And therfore I do hereby warn you of them, I can do no more at pre&s;ent; only take notice of the&s;e three Directions by which you &s;hal be &s;ure to know the True one from the Fal&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>The fir&s;t Direction.]</HI> The True one hath this Title over the head of every Page in the Book, <HI>[The Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian enlarged:]</HI> The &s;mal Counter|fet one hath only this Title <HI>[The Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian.]</HI></P>
<P><HI>The &s;econd Direction.]</HI> The true one hath the&s;e words <HI>[Government and Vertues]</HI> following the Time of the Plants flowerings, &amp;c. The coun|terfet &s;mal one hath the&s;e words. <HI>[Vertues and U&s;e]</HI> following the Time of the Plants flowering.</P>
<P><HI>The third Direction.]</HI> The true one is in <HI>Octavo,</HI> of a bigger Letter than the counterfet one, which is in <HI>Twelves,</HI> of the Letter &s;mal Bibles u&s;e to be printed on. I &s;hall now &s;peak &s;omthing to the Book it &s;elf.</P>
<P>All other Authors that have written of the Nature of Herbs, gave not a bit of a Rea&s;on why &s;uch an Herb was appropriated to &s;uch a part of the Bo|dy, nor why it cured &s;uch a Di&s;ea&s;e: Truly my own Body being &s;ickly, brought me ea&s;ily into a capacity, to know that Health was the greate&s;t of all Earthly Ble&s;&s;ings, and truly he was never &s;ick that doth not beleeve it. Then I con|&s;idered, that all Medicines were compounded of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Seeds, &amp;c. and this fir&s;t &s;et me awork in &s;tudying the Nature of Simples, mo&s;t of which I knew by &s;ight before; and indeed all the Authors I could reade gave me but little &s;atisfaction in this particular, or none at al: I cannot build my faith upon Authors words, nor beleeve a thing becau&s;e they &s;ay it, and could wi&s;h every Body were of my mind in this, To labor to be able to give a rea&s;on for every thing they &s;ay or do; they &s;ay Rea&s;on makes a Man differ from a Bea&s;t, if that be true, pray what are they that in&s;tead of Rea|&s;on, for their Judgment, quote old Authors? perhaps their Authors knew a Rea&s;on for what they wrote, perhaps they did not, what is that to us, do we know it? Truly in writing this Work fir&s;t, to &s;atisfie my &s;elf, I drew out all, the Vertues of vulgar Herbs, Plants, and Trees &amp;c. out of the be&s;t, or mo&s;t approved Authors I had, or could get; and having done &s;o, I &s;et my &s;elf to &s;tudy the Rea&s;on of them. I knew well enough, the whol world, and every thing in it, was formed of a Compo&s;ition of contrary Elements, and in &s;uch a Harmony as mu&s;t needs &s;hew the Wi&s;dom and Power of a great God: I knew as well, this Creation, though thus compo&s;ed of contraries, was one
<PB REF="4"> united Body, and Man an Epitome of it; I knew tho&s;e various affections in Man in re&s;pect of Sickne&s;s and Health were cau&s;ed Naturally (though God may have other ends be&s;t known to him&s;elf) by the various operations of the Microco&s;m; and I could not be ignorant, That as the Cau&s;e is, &s;o mu&s;t the Cure be; and therfore he that would know the Rea&s;on of the opera|tion of Herbs, mu&s;t look up as high as the Stars: I alwaies found the Di&s;ea&s;e vary according to the various motion of the Stars; and this is enough one would think to teach a Man by the Effect where the Cau&s;e lay. Then to find out the Rea&s;on of the operation of Herbs, Plants, &amp;c. by the Stars went I, and herein I could find but few Authors, but tho&s;e as full of non&s;en&s;e and contradictions as an Egg is full of meat; this being little plea&s;ing, and le&s;s profitable to me, I con&s;ulted with my two Brothers, Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Experience,</HI> and took a Voyage to vi&s;it my Mother <HI>Nature,</HI> by who&s;e ad|vice together with the help of Dr. <HI>Diligence,</HI> I at la&s;t obtained my de&s;ires, and being warned by Mr. <HI>Hone&s;ty,</HI> a &s;tranger in our daies, to publi&s;h it to the World, I have done it.</P>
<P>But you will &s;ay, <HI>What need I have written of this Subject, &s;eeing &s;o ma|ny Famous and Learned Men have written &s;o much of it in the Engli&s;h Tongue, nay, much more than I have done?</HI></P>
<P>To this I An&s;wer,</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> All that have written of Herbs either in the Engli&s;h, or not in the Engli&s;h Tongue, have no waies an&s;wered my intents in this Book, for they have in|termixed many, nay, very many outlandi&s;h Herbs, and very many which are hard, nay, not at all to be gotten, and what harm this may do I am very &s;en|&s;ible of. Once a Student in Phy&s;ick in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;ent up to <HI>London</HI> to me, to buy for him &s;uch and &s;uch Medicines, and &s;end them down, which when I viewed, they were Medicines quoted by Authors living in another Nation, and not to be had in <HI>London</HI> for Love nor Money; &s;o the poor man had spent much pains and brains in &s;tudying Medicines for a Di&s;ea&s;e that were not to be had: &s;o a man reading <HI>Gerrards</HI> or <HI>Parkin&s;ons</HI> Herbal for the Cure of a Di&s;ea&s;e, he may as like as not, light on an Herb that is not here to be had, or not without great difficulty, if po&s;&s;ible; but in mine, all grow neer him.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> My la&s;t, though not the lea&s;t of my Rea&s;ons is, Neither <HI>Gerrard</HI> nor <HI>Par|kin&s;on,</HI> nor any that ever wrote in the like Nature, ever gave one wi&s;e Rea|&s;on for what they wrote, and &s;o did nothing el&s;e but train up yong Novices in Phy&s;ick in the School of Tradition, and teach them ju&s;t as a Parrot is taught to &s;peak; an Author &s;aith &s;o, ther fore 'tis true; and if all that Au|thors &s;ay be true, why do they contradict one another? But in mine, if you view it with the Eye of Rea&s;on, you &s;hall &s;ee a Rea&s;on for every thing that is written, whereby you may find the very Ground and Foundation of Phy&s;ick; you may know what you do, and wherefore you do it; and this &s;hall call me Father, it being (that I know of) never done in the world before.</P>
<P>I have now but two things more to write, and then I have done.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>1 What the Profit and Benefit of this Work is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2 In&s;tructions in the U&s;e of it.</HI></ITEM>
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<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> The Profit and Benefits ari&s;ing from it, or that may acrue to a wi&s;e
<PB REF="4"> man from it, are many, &s;o many that &s;hould I &s;um up all the particulars, the Epi&s;tle would be as big as the Book; I &s;hall only quote &s;ome few general Heads.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, The admirable Harmony of the Creation is herein &s;een, in the in|fluence of Stars upon Herbs, and the Body of Man, how one part of the Creation is &s;ub&s;ervient to another, and all for the u&s;e of Man, wherby the in|finite Power and Wi&s;dom of God in the Creation appears: and if I do not admire at the &s;implicity of the Ranters, never tru&s;t me; Who but viewing the Creation can hold &s;uch a &s;otti&s;h Opinion, as that it was from Eternity, when the My&s;teries of it are &s;o cleer to every eye? but that Scripture &s;hall be verified to them, <HI>Rom. 1.20. The invi&s;ible things of Him from the Crea|tion of the World are cleerly &s;een, being under&s;tood by the things that are made, even His Eternal Power and Godhead, &s;o that they are without ex|cu&s;e.</HI> And a Poet could teach them a better Le&s;&s;on:
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<L><HI>Excideret ne tibi Divini mune<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is Author</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pre&s;entem mon&s;trat, quaelibet Herba Deum.</HI></L>
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<L>Becau&s;e out of thy thoughts God &s;hould not pa&s;s,</L>
<L>His Image &s;tamped is on every Gra&s;s.</L>
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<P>This indeed is true, God hath &s;tamped his Image upon every Creature, and therfore the abu&s;e of the Creature is a great &s;in; but how much more doth the Wi&s;dom and Excellency of God appear if we con&s;ider the Harmony of the Creation in the Vertue and Operation of every Herb? This is the Fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Secondly, Hereby thou maie&s;t know what infinite knowledge <HI>Adam</HI> had in his Innocency, that by looking upon a Creature, he was able to give it a name according to his Nature, and by knowing that, thou maie&s;t know how great thy fall was, and be humbled for it even in this re&s;pect, becau&s;e hereby thou art &s;o ignorant.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Here is the right way for thee to begin the &s;tudy of Phy&s;ick if thou art minded to begin at the right end, for here thou ha&s;t the Rea&s;on of the whole Art. I wrote before in certain A&s;trological Lectures which I read, and Printed, intituled, <HI>Semeiotica Uranica,</HI> what Planet cau&s;ed (as a &s;econd Cau&s;e) every Di&s;ea&s;e, and how it might be found out what Planet cau&s;ed it; here thou ha&s;t what Planet cures it by <HI>Sympathy</HI> and <HI>Antipathy;</HI> and this brings me to my la&s;t promi&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In&s;tructions for the right u&s;e of the Book.</HI></P>
<P>And herein let me premi&s;e a word or two, The Herbs, Plants, &amp;c. are now in the Book appropriated to their proper Planets. Therefore,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Con&s;ider what Planet cau&s;eth the Di&s;ea&s;e: that thou maie&s;t find in my <HI>Semeiotica.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, Con&s;ider what part of the Body is afflicted by the Di&s;ea&s;e, and whether it lie in the Fle&s;h, or Bloud, or Bones, or Ventricles.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Con&s;ider by what Planet the afflicted part of the Body is gover|ned: that my <HI>Semeiotica</HI> wil inform you in al&s;o.</P>
<P>Fourthly, You have in this Book the Herbs for Cure appropriated to the &s;e|veral Di&s;ea&s;es, and the Di&s;ea&s;es for your ea&s;e &s;et down in the Margin, wher|by
<PB REF="5"> you may &s;trengthen the part of the Body by its like; as the Brain by Herbs of <HI>Mercury,</HI> the Brea&s;t and Liver by Herbs of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> the Heart and Vitals by Herbs of the <HI>Sun,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Fifthly, You may oppo&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es by Herbs of the Planet oppo&s;ite to the Planet that cau&s;eth them: as Di&s;ea&s;es of <HI>Jupiter</HI> by Herbs of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and the contrary; Di&s;ea&s;es of the <HI>Luminaries</HI> by Herbs of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and the con|trary; Di&s;ea&s;es of <HI>Mars</HI> by Herbs of <HI>Venus,</HI> and the contrary.</P>
<P>Sixthly, There is a way to cure Di&s;ea&s;es &s;omtimes by Sympathy, and &s;o e|very Planet cures his own Di&s;ea&s;e, as the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Moon</HI> by their Herbs cure the Eyes, <HI>Saturn</HI> the Spleen, <HI>Jupiter</HI> the Liver, <HI>Mars</HI> the Gall and Di&s;ea&s;es of Choller, and <HI>Venus</HI> Di&s;ea&s;es in the In&s;truments of Generation.</P>
<P>Seventhly, There was a &s;mal Treati&s;e of mine of <HI>Humane Vertues,</HI> printed at the latter end of my <HI>Ephemeris</HI> for the year <HI>1651.</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e it would do much good to yong Students to peru&s;e that with this Book.</P>
<P>Eighthly, Yong Students would do them&s;elves much good, and benefit them&s;elves exceedingly in the &s;tudy of Phy&s;ick, if they would take the pains to view the Vertues of the Herbs, &amp;c. in the Book, and compare them to the&s;e Rules, they &s;hal to their exceeding great content find them al agreeable to them, and &s;hal therby &s;ee the rea&s;on why &s;uch an Herb conduceth to the Cure of &s;uch a Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Ninthly, I gave you the Key of al in the Herb <HI>Wormwood,</HI> which if becau&s;e of the volubility of the Language, any think it wil not fit the Lock, I have given it you again in another Herb of the &s;ame Planet in the Book, plainly without any circum&s;tances.</P>
<P>The Herb is <HI>Carduus Benedictus,</HI> which is in the Alphabetical Order in the Book, to which place I refer you.</P>
<P>If you plea&s;e to make u&s;e of the&s;e Rules, and them at <HI>Carduus,</HI> in the Book, you &s;hal find them true throughout the Book, and by heeding them, you may be able to give a Rea&s;on of your Judgment to him that asketh you: I a&s;&s;ure you it gave much content to me, and for your goods did I pen it; but I mu&s;t conclude, my Epi&s;tle having exceeded its Bounds already: Hereby you &s;ee what Rea&s;on may be given for Medicines, and what nece&s;&s;ity there is for e|very <HI>Phy&s;itian</HI> to be an <HI>A&s;trologer,</HI> you have heard it before I &s;uppo&s;e, but now you know it; what remains, but that you labor to glorifie God in your &s;everal places, and do good to your &s;elves fir&s;t by encrea&s;ing your knowledge, and to your Neighbors afterwards by helping their infirmities; &s;ome &s;uch I hope this Nation is worthy of, and to &s;uch &s;hal I remain a Friend: and when the Purcha&s;er may without fear of Theeving Knaves enjoy their ju&s;t Proprie|ties in their Copies, I &s;hal not fail to bring forth many more Books for a Com|mon good in the Engli&s;h Tongue for the benefit of al my Country-men, poor or rich.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nich. Culpeper.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Spittle Fields next door to the Red Lyon.</HI>
<DATE>September, <HI>5. 1653.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF ALL THE HERBS AND PLANTS.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">In this BOOK; As al&s;o what PLANET governeth every one of them.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>AMara-Dulcis, it is under Mer|cury. <HI>1. 2</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>All-heal, it is under the Dominion of Mars, <HI>2. 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alkanet, it is under the dominion of Venus, <HI>3. 4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Anchu&s;a, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alkanet, and Venus owns it. <HI>3. 4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Adders Tongue, it is under the Moon in Cancer. <HI>4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Agremonie, it is under Jupiter and the Sign Cancer. <HI>5. 6</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Agremonie, it is under Ju|piter and the Sign Cancer. <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ale-hoof, it is under Venus. <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alexander, or Ali&s;ander, it is under Jupiter. <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Black Alder Tree, it is under Ve|nus. <HI>9. 10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Common Alder Tree, it is under Ve|nus. <HI>11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angelica, it is under the Sun in Leo. <HI>11. 12</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Amaranthus, it is under the Domi|nion of Saturn. <HI>13</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Anemone is under Mars. <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Arrach is under the Moon. <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Arrach wild and &s;tinking, it is under the Dominion of Venus, and under the &s;ign Scorpio. <HI>15</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Arch-Angel, red, white, yellow, they are under Venus. <HI>15. 16. 17</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ar&s;mart, and dead Ar&s;mart, It is under Saturn, and the other &s;ort under Mars. <HI>17</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;arabacca, it is under Mars. <HI>18. 19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;paragus, and prickly Sparagus, they are under Jupiter. <HI>19. 20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;h Tree is governed by the Sun. <HI>20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Avens is under Jupiter. <HI>21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Aron, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckowpint, it is under Mars. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Aleco&s;t, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Co&s;tmary under Jupiter. <HI>75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Aparine, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cleavers, it is under the Moon. <HI>70</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Acanthus, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Branckur&s;in under the Moon. <HI>40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ammi, and Amios, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;hops Weed under Venus. <HI>34. 35</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Balm, it is an Herb of Jupiter. <HI>22</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Barberry, it is under Mars. <HI>23</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Barly, it is a notable plant of Sa|turn. <HI>23</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Bazel, or &s;weet Bazel, it is an Herb of Mars, and under the Scorpion. <HI>24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Bay-Tree, it is a Tree of the Sun, under the &s;ign Leo. <HI>25</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Beans are under Venus. <HI>26</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>French Beans belong to Venus. <HI>26</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ladies Bed&s;traw, it is under Ve|nus. <HI>27</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Beets, the red under Saturn, and the white under Jupiter. <HI>28. 29</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Betony, called al&s;o Brownwort, and Bi&s;hops Leavs, it is an Herb of Jupiter. <HI>29. 30</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wood Betony, it is appropriated to Jupiter, and the &s;ign Aries. <HI>30</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Beech Tree is under Saturn. <HI>32</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bilberries are under Jupiter. <HI>32. 33</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bifoil is a Plant of Saturn. <HI>33</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Birch Tree is under Venus. <HI>34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Birdsfoot belong to Saturn. <HI>34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hops Weed, or Bulwort is under Venus. <HI>34. 35</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;tort is under Saturn. <HI>35. 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>One Blade is an Herb of the Sun. <HI>37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Bramble, or Black berry Bu&s;h, a Plant of Venus in Aries. <HI>37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Blits are under the Dominion of Ve|nus. <HI>38</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Burrage and Buglos are under Jupi|ter. <HI>18. 19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Blue Bottle, and Blue Blow is under Saturn. <HI>40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Brankur&s;in and Bearsbreech are un|der the Moon. <HI>40. 41</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Briony is under Mars. <HI>41. 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Brooklime under Mars. <HI>43</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Butchers Broom, and Bru&s;cus is under Mars. <HI>43. 44</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Broom, and Broom rape are under Mars. <HI>44. 45</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bucks Horn Plantane is under Sa|turn. <HI>45</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bucks horn is under Saturn. <HI>46</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bugle, or brown Bugle is under Ve|nus. <HI>46. 47</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Burnet is an Herb of the Sun. <HI>48</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Butterbur is an herb of the Sun. <HI>49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Burdock is an Herb of Venus. <HI>49. 50</HI> And is al&s;o called Bardon and clot|bur.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bitter &s;weet, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Amara-Dulcis, it is under Mercury. <HI>1. 2</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spani&s;h Buglos, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alkanet, Venus owns it. <HI>3. 4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bru&s;ewort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Sopewort, it is un|der Venus. <HI>342</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bearsfoot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> black Hellibore, it is under Mars. <HI>126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Baldmony, &s;ee Gentian, it is under Mars. <HI>111</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Brim&s;tonewort, &s;ee Sow Fennel an Herb of Mercury. <HI>100</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Barba-Aron, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckowpint, it is under Mars. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ba&s;ionets and Butterflowers, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crowfoot, it is under Mars. <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bal&s;om Herb, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Co&s;tmary, it is under Jupiter. <HI>75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Buls foot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Colts foot, it is under Venus. <HI>72. 73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Le&s;&s;-&s;eed, Thi&s;tle <HI>&s;ee</HI> Carduus Benedi|ctus, it is under Mars. <HI>55</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bipenula, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Burnet, it is under the Sun. <HI>48</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ba&s;tard Agremony, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Water Agre|mony, it is under Jupiter. <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="C" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cabbages and Coleworts are Herbs of the Moon. <HI>50. 51</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sea-Colewort, the Moon owns it. <HI>51</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Calamint, or Mountain Mint is an Herb of Mercury. <HI>52</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chamomell is under the Sun <HI>53</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Caltropes, or Caltropes are un|der the government of the Moon. <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Champions wilde are under the Sun. <HI>54. 55</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Carduus Benedictus, it is an Herb of Mars. <HI>55</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Carrots are under Mercury. <HI>56</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Caraway is under Mercury. <HI>57</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Celondine is an Herb of the Sun <HI>57. 58</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The le&s;ser Celondine is under Mars. <HI>59. 60</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The ordinary &s;mall Centaury is a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Herb of the Sun. <HI>60</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Cherry Tree is a Tree of Venus <HI>6<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="6">
<ITEM>Winter Cherry is a Plant of Venus. <HI>62</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chervill Cerefolium is under Jupi|ter. <HI>62</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Che&s;nut Tree is under Jupiter. <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sweet Chervil, and &s;weet Cicely are under Jupiter. <HI>63</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earth Che&s;nuts, and Ciper nuts are under Venus. <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chick weed is under the Moon. <HI>65</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cich Pea&s;e or Cicers is under Venus. <HI>65. 66</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cinkfoyl is an Herb of Jupiter. <HI>66</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cives-Chives, and Civet is under Mars. <HI>68</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Clary, or Cleer-Eye is under the Moon. <HI>68</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Clary, or Chri&s;ts-Eye is under the Moon. <HI>69</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cleavers and Clavers are under the Moon. <HI>70</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Clowns Woundwort is under Saturn. <HI>71</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cocks Head is under Venus. <HI>71. 72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Columbines is under Venus. <HI>72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Coltsfoot, or Coughwort is under Venus. <HI>72. 73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Comfry is an Herb of Saturn. <HI>73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Corralwort is under the Moon. <HI>74. 75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cudweed, or Cottonweed, al&s;o it is called Chafweed, Dwarf Cotton, and petty Cotton, it is an Herb of Venus. <HI>76</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cow&s;lips are under Venus. <HI>76</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Crab&s;claws are under Venus. <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Back Cre&s;&s;es is under Mars. <HI>77. 78.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sciatica Cre&s;&s;es is under Saturn. <HI>78</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Cre&s;&s;es are under the Moon. <HI>79</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cro&s;&s;wort is under Saturn. <HI>79. 80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Crowfoot is an an Herb of Mars. <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cuckowpint, or Pintle, or Calves foot is under the Dominion of Mars. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cucumers, or Cowcumbers, they are governed by the Moon. <HI>82</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ceterach, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Spleenwort, Saturn owns it. <HI>346</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Carpenters Herb, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Selfheal, it is under Venus. <HI>339. 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cammoak, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Re&s;t-Harrow, it is under the Dominion of Mars. <HI>313</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Corn-Ro&s;e, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Poppy under the Moon. <HI>35. 306</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Camepitys, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Ground Pine, it is under Mars. <HI>299</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Callians, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis, it is under Ve|nus. <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Catmint, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Nep it is under Venus. <HI>171</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cuckoo-flowers, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Ladies &s;mocks, the Moon governs it. <HI>141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;tmas Herb, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Black Hellibore, it is under Saturn. <HI>126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cul-me-to-you, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hearts-ea&s;e, it is under Saturn. <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cranes Bill, <HI>&s;ee</HI>-Doves foot, it is un|der Mars. <HI>89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Crop, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Darnel, it is under Saturn. <HI>84 85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Midle Con&s;ound, and midle Comfry, or Herb Carpenter, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bugle un|der Venus. <HI>46. 47</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Corn-flower, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Blue Bottle, it is under Saturn. <HI>49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Comin-Royall, and Ethiopian Com|min Seed, for both <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;hops weed it is under Venus. <HI>34. 35</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Clovewort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Avens, it is under Jupiter. <HI>21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Catsfoot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alehoof, it is under Venus. <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="D" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dai&s;ies are governed by Venus, and under the &s;ign Cancer. <HI>83</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dandelion is under Jupiter. <HI>84</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Darnel is under Saturn. <HI>84. 85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dill is under Mercury. <HI>85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Devils-bit is under Venus. <HI>86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Docks are under Jupiter. <HI>87</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doder of Time, and other Dodders are under Saturn. <HI>87. 88</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="7">
<ITEM>Dogs gra&s;s is under Jupiter. <HI>88. 89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doves foot is a Martiall Plant. <HI>89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ducks meat, Cancer claims the Herb and the Moon will be Lady of it. <HI>90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Down, or Cotton Thi&s;tle is under Mars. <HI>90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dragons is a Plant of Mars. <HI>91</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Great round Leaved Dock, or Ba&s;terd Rubarb is governed by Mars. See <HI>322</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>There is a Dock called Garden-Pati|ence, or Monks Rubarb, it is un|der Mars. <HI>322</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dyers Weed, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Wold and Weld, it is under Mars. <HI>370</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dittander, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Pepperwort, Mars owns it. <HI>296</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dogs &s;ton<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis under Venus. <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dewberry-Bu&s;h, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Goosberry Bu&s;h, it is under Venus. <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dropwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Filipendula, it is un|der Venus. <HI>101. 102</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Danewort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Dwarf Elder, it is under Venus. <HI>91</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dentaria, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Corralwort, it is under the Moon. <HI>74. 75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dragonwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;tort under Sa|turn. <HI>35. 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dogs Arrach, and Goats Arrach, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Arrach wild and &s;tinking, it is un|der the Dominion of Venus. <HI>15</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="E" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Elder Tree is under Venus <HI>91. 92</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dwarf Elder is under Venus. <HI>92</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Elm-Tree is under Saturn. <HI>93</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Endive is under Venus. <HI>93</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Elicompane is under Mercury. <HI>94</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Eringo is a Veneriall Plant. <HI>95</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Eye-Bright the Sun claims Dominion over it, and is under the &s;ign Lyon</ITEM>
<ITEM>Epithimum, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Doder of Time, it is under Saturn. <HI>87. 88</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Earth-Nuts, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Earth-Che&s;nuts they are under Venus. <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Engli&s;h Serpentarie is under Saturn, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;tort. <HI>35. 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Eupatorium, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Water Agremony, It is under Jupiter. <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="F" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fern is under Mercury. <HI>97</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Fern is under Saturn. <HI>97. 98</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fetherfew is under Venus. <HI>98</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fennel is an Herb of Mercury, and un|der Virgo. <HI>99</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sow-Fennel, and Hogs Fennel is an Herb of Mercury. <HI>100</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Figwort is under Venus. <HI>101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Filipendula is under Venus. <HI>101. 102</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Figtree is under Jupiter. <HI>102</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tht yellow water Flag, or Flowrde|luce is under the Moon. <HI>103</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Flaxweed is under Mars. <HI>103. 104</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fleawort is under Saturn. <HI>104. 105</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Flixweed is under Saturn. <HI>105. 106</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fluellin or Luellin is a Lunar Herb. <HI>106. 107</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Foxglove is under Venus. <HI>108. 109</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fumitory is under Saturn. <HI>109</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Fur&s;-Bu&s;h is under Mars. <HI>110</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fool&s;tons, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis und. Venus. <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fox&s;tones, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis, it is under Venus. <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Feapberrie, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Goosberry, it is under Venus. <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Felwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Gentian, it is under Mars. <HI>111</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Frogsfoot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crowsfoot, it is un|der Mars. <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fre&s;hwater Soldier, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crab&s;claws, it is under Venus. <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Foalsfoot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Coltsfoot under Venus. <HI>72. 73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Five Fingered, or Five Leaved Gra&s;s is an Herb of Jupiter. <HI>66</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Figwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> the le&s;&s;er Celondine, it is under Mars. <HI>59. 60</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Flower Gentle, Flower Velure, Flo|rimer and Velvet Flower, <HI>&s;ee</HI>
<PB REF="7"> Amaranthus, it's under Saturn <HI>13</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="G" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gentian is under Mars <HI>111, 112</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Clove Gilli-flowers are under the dominion of Jupiter <HI>113</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Germander is under Mercury <HI>113</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Stinking Gladwin is under Saturn <HI>114</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Golden Rod Venus claims it <HI>115</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goutwort, or Herb Gerrard, Saturn Rules it <HI>115, 116</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gromel three &s;orts, are under Venus <HI>116</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goosberry bu&s;h is under Venus <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Winter Green is under Saturn <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ground&s;el is under Venus <HI>118</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Patience, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Monks Rubarb under Mars <HI>322</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goats Stones, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis, under Ve|nus <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Go&s;s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> the Furf-bu&s;h undr Mars <HI>110</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Quich Gra&s;s, or Couch Gra&s;s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Dogs Gra&s;s under Jupiter <HI>88, 89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gold Knobs, Gold Cups, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crow|foot under Mars <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goo&s;-gra&s;s, or Goo&s;-&s;hare, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Clea|vers under the Moon <HI>70</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ground-nuts, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Earth Che&s;tnuts under Venus <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gill go by ground, <HI>and</HI> Gill creep by ground, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Ale-hoof, it is under Venus <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="H" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hercules Alheal, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alheal, Mars hath the dominion therof <HI>2, 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hercules Woundwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alheal, Mars hath the dominion therof <HI>2, 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Harts-ea&s;e is Saturnine <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb of the Trinity, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hearts-ea&s;e under Saturn <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hartichokes are under Venus <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Harts-tongue is under Jupiter <HI>120</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hazel Nut is under Mercury <HI>120</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hawkweed is owned by Saturn <HI>121</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Haw-thorn is under Mars <HI>122</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hemlock is under Saturn <HI>122, 123</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hemp is under Saturn <HI>123</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Henbane is under Saturn <HI>124</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hedg Hy&s;op is under Mars <HI>125, 126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Black Hellebore is an Herb of Saturn <HI>126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb Robert is under Venus <HI>127</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb Truelove is under Venus <HI>127 128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hy&s;op is under Jupiter <HI>128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hops are under Mars <HI>129</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Horehound is under Mercury <HI>130</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s;-tail is under Saturn <HI>131</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hou&s;leeks are under Jupiter <HI>132</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hounds-tongue is under Mercury, <HI>132, 133</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Holly, Holm, or Hulver-bu&s;h is under Saturn <HI>133</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Honey-&s;uckles, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Meadow Trefoyl under Mercury <HI>362</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Honey &s;uckles, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Wood-bind under Mercury <HI>373</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Smal Hou&s;leek, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Stone-Crop under the Moon <HI>349</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Heart-trefoyl is under the Sun <HI>362</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Heliotropium, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Turn&s;ole under the Sun <HI>361</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hook-heal, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Self-heal under Ve|nus <HI>339, 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s;-Rhadi&s;h, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Rhadi&s;h under Mars <HI>310, 311</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb Two-pence, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Money-wort under Venus <HI>162</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hore-&s;trange, and Hore-&s;trong, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hogs Fennel under Mercury <HI>100</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s;-hoof, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Colts-foot und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Ve|nus <HI>72, 73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Holy Thi&s;tle, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Carduus Benedictus under Mars <HI>55</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hearts-horn, Herb &s;tella, Herb &s;tella|ria, Herb Eve, and Herb Ive, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bucks-horn under Saturn <HI>46</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hurt-&s;ickle, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Blue-bottle under Sa|turn <HI>40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb William, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;hops-weed un|der
<PB REF="8"> Venus. <HI>34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Herb Bennet, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Avens under Ju|piter <HI>21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s; Par&s;ly, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alexander, it is under Jupiter <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Haymaids, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alehoof, it is under Jupiter <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hepatorum, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Water Agrimony, it is under Jupiter <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ba&s;tard Hemp, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Water Agrimony, it is under Jupiter <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Hemp is under Jupiter <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="I" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. Johns-wort under the Sun, and the Sign Leo <HI>134</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ivy is under Saturn <HI>135</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Juniper Bu&s;h, it is a Solar Herb <HI>136</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. James-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Ragwort under Venus <HI>311, 312</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Juray, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Darnel under Saturn <HI>84, 85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Jarus, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckoopint under Mars <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ground Ivy, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alehoof, it is under Venus <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="K" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>K</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Kidney-wort is under Venus <HI>137</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knapweed is under Saturn <HI>138</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knot-gra&s;s is under Saturn <HI>138</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Kings Claver, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Melilot <HI>156</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knights Pond-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crabs claws under Venus <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knee-holm, Knee-holly, Knee-hulver, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Butchers Broom under Mars <HI>43, 44</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="L" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ladies Mantle is governed by Venus <HI>139, 140</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lavender, Mercury owns it <HI>140</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lavender Cotton, Mercury governs it <HI>141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ladies Smocks, the Moon governs it <HI>141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lettice, the Moon owns it <HI>141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Lilly, white and yellow, are un|der the Government of the Moon <HI>142</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lilly of the Valley, Conval Lilly, May Lilly, and Lilly Confancy, are under Mercury <HI>143</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>White Lillies are Governed by the Moon <HI>143, 144</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Liquoris, Mercury governs it <HI>144</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Liver-wort, its under Jupiter <HI>145</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Loo&s;-&s;trif is under the Moon <HI>145</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Loo&s;-&s;trife with &s;piked heads or flo|wers, is an Herb of the Moon <HI>146</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lovage is an Herb of the Sun <HI>147</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lungwort is an Herb of Jupiter <HI>147</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Live in idlene&s;s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hearts-ea&s;e un|der Saturn <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Locker Goulons, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crowfoot under Mars <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lappa Major, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bur-dock under Venus <HI>49, 50</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ladies Seal, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Briony, a Martial Plant <HI>41, 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Langue-de-beef, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Borrage and Bu|glo&s;s under Jupiter. <HI>38, 39</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="M" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>M</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Moral, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Amara-dulcis, it is un|der Mercury <HI>1, 2</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Madder is an Herb of Mars <HI>148</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Maiden-hair, or Wall-Rue, or ordi|nary white Maiden-hair, is an Herb of Mercury <HI>148, 149</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Golden Maiden-hair, is of Mercury <HI>149</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mallows, and Mar&s;h-mallows, are both governed by Venus <HI>150</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Maple-Tree is under Jupiter <HI>152</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Marjoram, and Ba&s;tard Marjo|ram, and Grove Marjoram, are under Mercury <HI>152, 153</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sweet Marjoram is an herb of Mer|cury <HI>153</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Marigolds are herbs of the Sun <HI>154</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;terwort is an herb of Mars <HI>155</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sweet Maudlin is an herb of Jupiter <HI>155</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Medlar is under Saturn <HI>156</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Melilot, or Kings Claver is under Mercury <HI>156</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>French Mercury, Dogs Mercury, are
<PB REF="8"> under Venus <HI>157, 158</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mint is an Herb of Venus <HI>159</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mi&s;leto is under the Sun <HI>160, 161</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Money-wort, Venus owns it <HI>162</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Moonwort, the Moon owns it <HI>162 163</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;&s;es, Saturn owns them <HI>163</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mother-wort, Venus owns it <HI>164</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mou&s;-ear the Moon owns <HI>165</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mugwort is under Venus <HI>166</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mulberry-tree, Mercury Rules <HI>166</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mullein Saturn owns <HI>167</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mu&s;tard is governed by Mars <HI>168</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hedg Mu&s;tard, Mars owns it <HI>169 170</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meadow Trefoyl und. Mercury <HI>362</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Methridate Mu&s;tard, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Treacle Mu&s;tard under Mars <HI>356, 357</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meadow-&s;weet, or Mead-&s;weet are under Venus <HI>309</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medick Fetch, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cocks-head under Venus, <HI>71</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Merrhis and Merla, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Chervil un|der Jupiter <HI>62</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Macedonian Par&s;ly &s;eed, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alex|ander, it's under Jupiter <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="N" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Nailwort <HI>170</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nep or Catmint is under Venus <HI>171</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nettles are under Mars <HI>171</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Night&s;hade is under Saturn <HI>172, 173</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dead Nettles, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Arch-angel <HI>15</HI> the three &s;orts under Venus <HI>17</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="O" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Oak Jupiter owns <HI>173</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Oats <HI>284</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>One-blade is an herb of the &s;un <HI>284 285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Orchis is under Venus <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Onions are under Mars <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Orpine the Moon owns <HI>286</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Organe, Origanum, <HI>&s;ee</HI> wild Marjo|ram under Mercury <HI>153</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>One-berry, Herb True-love, it's under Venus <HI>127, 128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>O&s;mond Royal, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Water Fern under Saturn <HI>97, 98</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ox-tongue, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Buglo&s;s under Jupiter <HI>38, 39</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Oy&s;ter-loit, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;tort under Saturn <HI>35, 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Orach, and Orage, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Garden Ar|rach under the Moon <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Opopanay wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Aleheal, Mars owns it <HI>2, 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Orchanet, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alkanet, Venus owns it <HI>3, 4</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="P" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Par&s;ly is under Mercury <HI>287</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Par&s;ly-piert, or Par&s;ly break-&s;tone <HI>288</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Par&s;nep is under Venuus <HI>288</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cow Par&s;nep is under Mercury <HI>289</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Peach-tree, Venus owns it <HI>290</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Pear-t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee belong to Venus <HI>291</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pellitory of Spain is under Mercury <HI>291, 292</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pellitory of the Wall, Mercury owns it <HI>292, 293</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Peny-royal, Venus owns it <HI>294</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Peony, Ma&s;c. &amp; Foemina, the Sun owns them <HI>295</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pepper-wort, it's a Martial Herb <HI>296</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Perwinkle, Venus owns it <HI>297</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;aint Peters Wort under the &s;un <HI>297</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pimpernel is a &s;olar Herb <HI>298</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ground Pine, Mars owns it <HI>299</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Plantane is under Venus <HI>300</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Plums are under Venus <HI>302</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pollipody of the Oak is an Herb of &s;aturn <HI>302, 303</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Poplar tree is under &s;aturn <HI>304</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Poppy white and black, and the wild Poppy, or Corn Ro&s;e, the Moon Rules <HI>305, 306</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pur&s;lain is under the Moon <HI>307</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prim-ro&s;es is under Venus <HI>308</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Privet, the Moon rules it <HI>308</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purk Leaves, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Tut&s;an under the Moon <HI>363</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prick-Maddam, <HI>&s;ee</HI> &s;tone-Crop under the Moon <HI>349</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="9">
<ITEM>Prunel, <HI>&s;ee</HI> &s;elf-heal under Venus <HI>339, 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pan&s;es, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hearts-ea&s;e under &s;aturn <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pi&s;s-a-beds, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Dandelyon under Ju|piter <HI>84</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prie&s;t-pintle, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckoo-pint under Mars <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Polts, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crowfoot under Mars <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Peagles, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cow&s;lips under Venus <HI>76</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pig-nuts, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Earth Che&s;tnuts under Venus <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pile-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> the le&s;&s;er Celondine un|der Mars <HI>59, 60</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Petafitis, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Butter-bur under the &s;un <HI>49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pimpinella, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Burnet under the &s;un <HI>48</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pettigree, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Butchers Broom under Mars <HI>43, 44</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pa&s;&s;ion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;tort under &s;aturn <HI>35 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Porcicaria, or Peach-wort, or Plum|bago, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Ar&s;-&s;mart under Saturn and Mars <HI>17</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Black Pot-herb, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alexander under Jupiter <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Par&s;ly, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alexander under Jupiter <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Panay, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Albeal, Mars owns it <HI>2, 3</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="Q" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Q</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Queen of the Meadows, Meadow-&s;weet, or Mead-&s;weet, Venus claims them <HI>309</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Quince-tree, Saturn owns. <HI>309, 310</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="R" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Rhadi&s;h and Hor&s;e Rhadi&s;h are under Mars <HI>310, 311</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ragwort is under Venus <HI>311, 312</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rattle-gra&s;s, red and yellow, both a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e under the dominion of the Moon <HI>312, 313</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Re&s;tharrow, or Cammoak are under the dominion of Mars <HI>313</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rocket is under the Dominion of Mars <HI>314</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Winter Rocket, or Winter Cre&s;&s;es is under Venus <HI>315</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Red Ro&s;es are under Jupiter, Da|mask Ro&s;es are under Venus, white Ro&s;es are under the Moon <HI>315</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro&s;a Solis, or Sun-dew, the Sun rules it <HI>319</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro&s;emary, the Sun governs it <HI>319</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rubarb, or Rhapontick, Mars claims the Rule over it <HI>321, 322</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Patience, or Monks Rhubarb, and great round leav'd Dock, or Ba&s;tard Rubarb, Mars governs them <HI>322</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meadow Rue <HI>324</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Rue is an Herb of Sun, and under Leo <HI>324</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rupture-wort is Saturnine <HI>326</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ru&s;hes are under Saturn <HI>327</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rye <HI>327</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ramp and Wake-Robin, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckoo|pint under Mars <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Red Fitchling, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cocks-head under Venus <HI>71, 72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ru&s;h Leeks, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cives under Mars <HI>68</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ru&s;cus, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Butchers Broom under Mars <HI>43, 44</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="S" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Saffron is an Herb of the Sun <HI>328</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sage is an Herb of Jupiter <HI>328</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wood Sage is under Venus <HI>329, 330</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Solomons &s;eal, &s;aturn owns the Plant <HI>330, 331</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sampire is an Herb of Jupiter <HI>331</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sanicle is an Herb of Venus <HI>332</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sara&s;ens con&s;und, or Sara&s;ens woundwort &s;aturn governs <HI>333</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sawce alone, or Jack by the Hedg, its an Herb of Mercury <HI>334</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Winterland Summer Savory, Mercury governs them <HI>334</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Savin Mars owns <HI>335</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The common white Saxifrage, the Moon Governs <HI>335, 336</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="9">
<ITEM>Burnet Saxifrage the Moon governs <HI>336</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Scabious three &s;orts, Mercury owns them <HI>337</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Scurvy-gra&s;s under Jupiter. <HI>338, 339</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Self-heal, and Sickle-wort under Ve|nus <HI>339, 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Service-tree under the dominion of Saturn <HI>340, 341</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Shepherds pur&s;e under Saturn <HI>341</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Small age is an Herb of Mercury <HI>341</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sopewort is under Venus <HI>342</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sorrel is under Venus <HI>342</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wood Sorrel under Venus <HI>343</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sow-Thi&s;tle is under Venus <HI>344</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Southernwood is a Mercurial Plant <HI>345</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spignel is under Venus <HI>345, 346</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spleen-wort is under Saturn <HI>346</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Star-thi&s;tle is under Mars <HI>347</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Strawberries Venus owns <HI>347</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Succory Jupiter Rules <HI>348, 349</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Stone-crop, &s;mal Hou&s;leek is under the Moon <HI>349</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Setfoyl, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Tormentil under the &s;un <HI>359, 360</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Silver-weed, <HI>&s;ee</HI> wild Tan&s;ie under Venus <HI>353</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Stagger-wort, and &s;tammer-wort, and &s;eggram, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Rag-wort under Ve|nus <HI>311, 312</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Satirian, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Orchis under Venus <HI>285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sengreen, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hou&s;leek under Jupiter <HI>132</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Setter-wort, and &s;etter-gra&s;s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> black Hellebore under &s;aturn <HI>126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sulpher-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> &s;ow-fennel under Mercury <HI>100</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sea-holly, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Eringo under Venus <HI>95</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Starch-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cuckoo-pint under Mars <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sweth, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Cives under Mars <HI>68</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Saligot, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Caltrop under the Moon <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sicklewort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bugle under Venus <HI>46, 47</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sanguinare and &s;wine-Cre&s;&s;es, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Buckshorn under Saturn <HI>46</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Syanus, <HI>&s;ee</HI> blue-bottle under Saturn <HI>40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Snakeweed, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bi&s;tort under &s;aturn <HI>35, 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sparagus or sperage, <HI>&s;ee</HI> A&s;paragus it's under Jupiter <HI>19, 20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Serpents Tongue under the Moon in Cancer <HI>4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spani&s;h Buglo&s;s, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alkanet, Venus owns it <HI>3, 4</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="T" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>T</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Engli&s;h Tobacco, it is a Martial Plant <HI>350</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Tamarisk Tree is governed by Saturn. <HI>351</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Garden Tan&s;ie is under Venus. <HI>352</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Tan&s;ie Venus, rules it. <HI>353</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thi&s;tles, Mars rules them. <HI>353</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Melancholy Thi&s;tle, it is under Capricorn, and therefore under both Saturn and Mars. <HI>354</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Our Ladies Thi&s;tle is under Jupiter <HI>354, 355</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Wooly or Cotton Thi&s;tle is a plant of Mars <HI>355</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Fullers Thi&s;tle, or Tea&s;le is an Herb of Venus <HI>356</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Treacle Mu&s;tard, and Methridate Mu&s;tard are Herbs of Mars <HI>356. 357</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The black Thorn, or Sloe-Bu&s;h <HI>357</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thorough-wax, or Thorough-Leaf <HI>358</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Time <HI>358</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Time, or Mother Time is un|dor Venus. <HI>359</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tormentil or Setfoyl is an Herb of The Sun. <HI>359. 360</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Turn&s;ole or Hellitropium is an Herb of the Sun <HI>361</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meadow Trefoyl or Honey-&s;uckles are under Mercury <HI>362</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Heart Trefoyl is under the Domini|on
<PB REF="10"> of the Sun <HI>362</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pearl-Trefoyl is under the Domini- of the Moon <HI>363</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tut&s;an, or Park Leaves are an Herb of the Sun. <HI>363</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Faces in a Hood, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Hearts-ea&s;e, it is under Saturn. <HI>119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Throatwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Figwort, it is un|der Venus. <HI>101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cotton Thi&s;tle, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Down, it is un|under Mars <HI>90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tooth-wort, Toothed Violet, Dog-teeth Violet, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Coralwort, it is under the Moon <HI>74</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tribus Aquaticus, Tribus Lacu&s;tris, and Tribus Macinus are Herbs of the Moon, <HI>&s;ee</HI> water Caltrops <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tamus, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Briony a Martial Plant <HI>41. 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Twayblade, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bifoyl under Saturn <HI>33</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tanhoof, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Alehoof, it is under Ve|nus <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="V" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>V</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Garden Valerian is under the Go|vernment of Mercury. <HI>363. 364</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Vervain is an Herb of Venus <HI>365</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Vine is under Venus <HI>366</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Violets are under Venus. <HI>366</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Vipers Buglo&s;s is an Herb of the Sun <HI>367</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Black Vine, white Vine, for both <HI>&s;ee</HI> Briony a Martiall Herb <HI>41. 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wild Vine, or Wood Vine, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Brio|ny a Martiall Herb <HI>41. 42</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="W" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>W</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wall-Flowers, or Winter Gilly Flo|wers, the Moon rules them. <HI>368</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Walnut is a Plant of the Sun <HI>368</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wold, Weld, or Dyers Weed is under Mars <HI>370</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wheat is under Venus <HI>370</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Willow tree is governed by the Moon <HI>371</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Woad is under Saturn <HI>372</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Woodbind or Honey-&s;uckles is a Plant of Mercury <HI>373</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mwood is an Herb of Mars <HI>374 375</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Whitlow Gra&s;s <HI>170</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Willow Herb, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Loo&s;-&s;trif <HI>145</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wall-Pennyroyall, or Wall-Penny|wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Kidny-wort, it is un|der Venus <HI>137</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wineberrybu&s;h, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Goosberrie-bu&s;h, it is under Venus <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Whins, <HI>&s;ee</HI> the Firsbu&s;h, it is under Mars <HI>110</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water-Flag, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Yellow Flower De|luce, it is under the Moon <HI>103</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wal-wort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Elder Tree under Ve|nus <HI>91. 92</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wray, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Darnel, it is under &s;aturn <HI>84. 85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wading Pondweed, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Crabclaws, and Water Sengreen, water Hou&s;|leek, it is under Venus <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Waternuts, and Water Che&s;nuts, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Caltrop under the Moon <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Water Pimpernell, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Brookline a Martial Plant <HI>43</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Whorts and Whortlburies, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Bilber|ries under Jupiter <HI>32. 33</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wind Flower, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Anemone, and it is under Mars <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Woody-Night&s;hade, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Amara Dul|cis, it is under Mercury <HI>1. 2</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hercules, Woundwort, <HI>&s;ee</HI> Allheal, Mars hath the dominion thereof <HI>2. 3</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="Y" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Y</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Yarrow, called al&s;o No&s;ebleed, Mil|foyl, and Thou&s;and Leaf, it is un|der the influence of Venus <HI>379</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="10">
<HEAD>The CONTENTS of the DIRECTIONS for making Syrups, Con&s;erves, Oyls, Oyntments, Plai&s;ters, &amp;c. of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Whereby you may have them ready for your u&s;e all the yeer long.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Sect. 1</HI> The way of gathering, drying, and pre|&s;erving Simples and their Juyces.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Chap. 1 <HI>Of Leavs of Herbs or Trees</HI> 381</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 2 <HI>Of Flowers</HI> 382</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 3 <HI>Of Seeds</HI> Ibid</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 4 <HI>Of Roots</HI> ibid</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 5 <HI>Of Barks</HI> 383</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 6 <HI>Of Juyces</HI> 384</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Sect. 2</HI> The way of making and keeping all nece&s;&s;ary Compounds.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 1</HI> Of Di&s;tilled Waters <HI>384</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 2</HI> Of Syrups <HI>385</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 3</HI> Of Juleps <HI>386</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 4</HI> Of Decoctions <HI>387</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 5</HI> Of Oyls <HI>388</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 6</HI> Of Electuaries <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 7</HI> Of Con&s;erves <HI>389</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 8</HI> Of Pre&s;erves <HI>390</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 9</HI> Of Lohochs <HI>391</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 10</HI> Of Oyntments <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 11</HI> Of Plai&s;ters <HI>392</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 12</HI> Of Pulti&s;&s;es <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 13</HI> Of Troches <HI>393</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 14</HI> Of Pills <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 15</HI> The way of mixing Me|dicines according to the Cau&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and part of the Body afflicted <HI>394</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="index">
<HEAD>Authors made u&s;e of in this Treati&s;e.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<ITEM>Aegineta</ITEM>
<ITEM>Aetius</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ari&s;totle</ITEM>
<ITEM>Avicenna</ITEM>
<ITEM>Averrois</ITEM>
<ITEM>Avenaris</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andreas Cae&s;alpinus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Antonius Mu&s;a</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Bauhine:</HI> now printed in 3 large Volumns with large Cuts.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bellus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bartholomeus Anglus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Butler,</HI> a Manu&s;cript</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<ITEM>Clu&s;ius</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cameravius</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<ITEM>Dodoneus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dio&s;corides</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Experience</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<ITEM>Fabius Columna</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fuch&s;ius</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<ITEM>Ge&s;nar</ITEM>
<ITEM>Galen</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gerrard</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<ITEM>I&s;idore</ITEM>
<ITEM>John&s;on</ITEM>
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<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<ITEM>Leonicerus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lobel</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lugdunen&s;is</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Mathiolus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Me&s;ue</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mizaldus</ITEM>
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<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<ITEM>Otho Brunf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lfius</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Parkin&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pliny</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pena</ITEM>
<ITEM>Platearius</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pona</ITEM>
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<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Dr.</HI> Rea&s;on</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rha&s;is</ITEM>
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<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<ITEM>Serapio</ITEM>
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<HEAD>T</HEAD>
<ITEM>Taberna Montanus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Theophra&s;tus</ITEM>
<ITEM>Turner</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tragus</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Names of &s;everal Books Printed by <HI>Peter Cole</HI> in <HI>Leaden-Hal London,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the &s;ign of the Printing-pre&s;s in Cornhil, neer the Exchange.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>Six &s;everal Books, by <HI>Nich. Cul|peper,</HI> Gent. Student in <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> and <HI>A&s;trology.</HI>
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<ITEM>1 A Tran&s;lation of the <HI>New Di|&s;pen&s;atory,</HI> made by the Colledge of Phy&s;itians of <HI>London.</HI> Whereunto is added, The <HI>Key to</HI> Galen's <HI>Method of Phy&s;ick.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 A <HI>Directory</HI> for <HI>Midwives,</HI> or a Guide for <HI>Women.</HI> Newly enlarged by the Author in every &s;heet, and il|lu&s;trated with divers new Plates.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Galen's</HI> Art of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> with a large Comment.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 The <HI>Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian;</HI> being an <HI>A&s;trologo-Phy&s;ical</HI> Di&s;cour&s;e of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherin is &s;hewed how to cure a mans &s;elf of mo&s;t di&s;ea&s;es incident to mans Body, with &s;uch things as grow in <HI>England,</HI> and for three pence charge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Al&s;o n the &s;ame Book is &s;hewed, 1 The time of gathering al Herbs both Vulgarly and A&s;trologically. 2 The way of drying, and keeping them and their Juyces. 3 The way of making and keeping al manner of u&s;eful Compounds, made of tho&s;e Herbs. 4 The way of mixing the Medicines according to the Cau&s;e, and mixture of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and the part of the Body afflicted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 The <HI>Anatomy of the Body of Man,</HI> Wherein is exactly de&s;cribed the &s;everal parts of the Body of Man, illu&s;trated with very many larg Bra&s;s Plates.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 A <HI>New Method</HI> both of &s;tudy|ing and practi&s;ing Phy&s;ick.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Godly and Fruitful <HI>Expo&s;ition,</HI> on the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle of <HI>Peter.</HI> By Mr <HI>John Rogers,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Word of God at <HI>Dedham</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Wonders of the <HI>Load&s;tone,</HI> by Mr <HI>Samuel Ward</HI> of <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;wich.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the Go&s;pel of the Evangeli&s;t St. <HI>Matthew,</HI> by Mr. <HI>Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clows</HI> Chyrurgery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Marks of Salvation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;tians Engagement for the Go&s;pel, by <HI>John Goodwin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Great Church Ordinance of Bap|ti&s;m.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Love's</HI> Ca&s;e, containing his Petitions, Narrative, and Speech.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vox Pacifica,</HI> or a Per&s;wa&s;ive to Peace.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pre&s;tons</HI> Saints &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, and Satans Overthrow.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pious mans Practi&s;e in Parliament Time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Treati&s;e of the RICKETS, be|ing a Di&s;ea&s;e common to Children; Wherin is &s;hewed, 1 The E&s;&s;ence. 2 The Cau&s;es. 3 The Signs. 4 The Remedies of the Di&s;ea&s;e. Publi&s;hed in Latine by Dr. <HI>Gli&s;&s;on,</HI> Dr. <HI>Bate,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Regemorter,</HI> now tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Sym&s;ons</HI> Sermon at We&s;tmin|&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Feaks</HI> Sermon before the Lord Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Phillips</HI> Treati&s;e of Hel. &mdash; of Chri&s;ts Geneology.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eaton</HI> on the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant, &s;hewing that they oblige not.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
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<ITEM>Seven Books of <HI>Mr. Jeremiah Bur|roughs</HI> lately publi&s;hed; As al&s;o the Texts of Scriptur upon which they are grounded.
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 The Rare Jewell of <HI>Chri&s;tian Contentment,</HI> on <HI>Phil.</HI> 4.11. Wher|in is &s;hewed, 1. What <HI>Contentment</HI> is, 2. It is an holy Art and My&s;tery 3. The Excellencies of it, 4. The Evil of the contrary &s;in of Murmu|ring, and the Aggravations of it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Go&s;pel-Wor&s;hip,</HI> on <HI>Levit.</HI> 10.3 Wherein is &s;hewed, 1. The right manner of the Wor&s;hip of God in generall; and particularly, In Hea|ring the Word, Receiving the Lord Supper, and Prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Gospel Conver&s;ation,</HI> on <HI>Phil.</HI> 1.17. Wherein is &s;hewed, 1. That the Conver&s;ations of Believers mu&s;t be above what could be by the Light of Nature, 2. Beyond tho&s;e that li|ved under the Law,, 3. And &s;utable to what Truths the Go&s;pel holds forth. To which is added, <HI>The Mi|&s;ery of tho&s;e men that have their Por|tion in this Life only,</HI> on <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 17.14</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 A Treati&s;e of <HI>Earthly-minded|ne&s;&s;e.</HI> Wherein is &s;hewed, 1. What E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rthly-mindedne&s;s is, 2. Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great Evil therof, on <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. part of the 19. Ver&s;. Al&s;o to the &s;ame Book is joyned, A Treati&s;e of <HI>Heavenly mindedne&s;s, and walking with God</HI> on <HI>Gen.</HI> 5.24. and on <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.20.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. An <HI>Expo&s;ition,</HI> on the fourth, fifth, &s;ixth, and &s;eventh Chapters of the Prophe&s;ie of <HI>Ho&s;ea.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the eighth, ninth, and tenth Chapters of <HI>Ho&s;ea.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the eleventh, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">welfth and thirteenth Chaptets of <HI>Ho&s;ea,</HI> being now Compleat.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<ITEM>Twelve &s;everall Books of <HI>Mr. Wil|liam Bridg,</HI> Collected into one Volumn, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 The great Go&s;pel-My&s;tery of the Saints Comfort and Holine&s;s, opened and applied from Chri&s;ts Prie&s;tly Office.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Satans Power to Tempt; and Chri&s;ts Love to, and Care of His People under Temptation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Thankfulne&s;s required in every Condition.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Grace for Grace; or, the Over-flowing of Chri&s;ts Fulne&s;s received by all Saints.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 The Spirituall Actings of Faith through Natural Impo&s;&s;ibilities.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Evangelical Repentance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 The Spiritual-Life, and In-Being of Chri&s;t in all Believers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8 The Woman of Canaan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 The Saints Hiding-place in time of Gods Anger.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 Chri&s;ts Coming is at our Mid|night.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11 A Vindication of Go&s;pel-Or|dinances.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 Grace and Love beyond Gifts. A Congregational Church is a Ca|tholick Vi&s;ible Church, By <HI>Samuel Stone,</HI> in <HI>New England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Treati&s;e of Politick Power, wher|in &s;even Que&s;tions are An&s;wered, 1. Whereof Power is made, and for what ordained; 2. Whether Kings and Governours have an Ab&s;olute Power over the People; 3. Whe|ther Kings and Governours be &s;ub|ject to the Laws of God, or the Laws of their Countries; 4. How far the People are to obey their Governors, 5. Whether all the People have, be their Governours; 5. Whether it be Lawful to depo&s;e an evil Gover|nor; 7. What Confidence is to be given to Princes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Compa&s;&s;ionate Samaritan. Dr. <HI>Sibbs</HI> on the <HI>Philippians.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Be&s;t and Wor&s;t Magi&s;trate,
<PB REF="12"> By <HI>Obadiah Sedgwick.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Craft and Cruelty of the Churches Adver&s;aries, By <HI>Mathew N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wcomin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Sacred Panygrick, by <HI>Stephen M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtial.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">riff.</HI> Military Di&s;cipline.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Immortality of Mans Soul.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Anatomi&s;t Anatomized.</ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Charles</HI> his Ca&s;e, or an Ap|peal to all rational men concerning his Trial.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Owens</HI> &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;s of the Pro|mi&s;es:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Oven</HI> again&s;t Mr. <HI>Baxter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Vindication of Free Grace: Endeavouring to prove, 1 That we ore not elected as holy, but that we &s;hould be holy; and that Election is not of kinds, but per&s;ons. 2. That Chri&s;t did not by his death intend to &s;ave all men, and touching tho&s;e whom he intended to &s;ave, that he did not die for them onely if they would believe, but that they might believe. 3 That we are not ju&s;ti|fied properly by our believing in Chri&s;t, but by our Chri&s;t believed in. 4 That, that which differenceth one man from another, is not the improvement of a Common ability re&s;tored through Chri&s;t to all men in geneeall, but a principle of Gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wrought by the Spirit of God in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Elect. By <HI>Iohn Paw&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Six Sermons Preached by Docto<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Hill, viz.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>1 The Beauty and Sweetne&s;s of a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Olive Branch of Peace and Brother|ly Accommodation budding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Truth and Love happily mar|ried in the Churches of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The Spring of &s;trengthenin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Grace in the Rock of Ages Chri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Je&s;us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 The &s;trength of the Saints t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> make Je&s;us Chri&s;t their &s;trength.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 The Be&s;t and Wor&s;t of <HI>Paul.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 Gods eternal preparation for hi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> dying Saints.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Bi&s;hop of Canterburie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Speach on the Scaffold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The King's Speach on the Scaf|fold.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Magi&s;trates &s;upport and Bur+den. By Mr. <HI>Iohn Cordel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Di&s;cipline of the Church i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>New England,</HI> by the Churches an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Synod there.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Relation of <HI>Bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">adoes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Relation of the Repentance an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Conver&s;ion of the <HI>Indians</HI> in <HI>New<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">England,</HI> By Mr. <HI>Eliot</HI> and Mr. <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+hew.</HI></ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="half title">
<PB REF="12">
<P>Culpepers Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian Enlarged.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
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<PB N="1" REF="13">
<HEAD>THE Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian enlarged.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Amara-dulcis.</HEAD>
<P>_COn&s;idering diver&s;e Shires in this Nation give divers Names to one and the &s;ame Herb, and that common Name which it bears in one County, is not known in another: I &s;hall take the pains to &s;et down all the Names that I know of each Herb: pardon me for &s;etting that Name fir&s;t which is mo&s;t common to my|&s;elf; be&s;ides Amara-dulcis, &s;ome call it Morral, others Bitter-&s;weet, &s;ome Woody-Night&s;hade, and others Felon-wort.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> It grows up with woody &s;talks even to a mans height, and &s;omtimes higher: The leaves fall off at the approach of Winter, and &s;pring out again of the &s;ame &s;talk at Spring time: the Branch is incompa&s;&s;ed about with a whiti&s;h bark, and hath a peeth in the middle of it: the main Branch brancheth it &s;elf out into many &s;mal ones, with cla&s;pers, laying hold on what is next to them, as Vines do. It bears many leaves, they grow in no or|der at all, or at lea&s;t wi&s;e in no vulgar order: the leaves are lon|gi&s;h, though &s;omthing broad and pointed at the ends; many of them have two little leaves growing at the end of their foot &s;talk, &s;ome of them have but one, and &s;ome none; the leaves are of a pale green colour: the flowers are of a purple colour, or of a per|fect blue, like to Violets, and they &s;tand many of them together in knots: the Berries are green at the fir&s;t, but when they are ripe, they are very red: if you ta&s;te them, you &s;hall find them ju&s;t as the crabs which we in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> call Bitter-&s;weet, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;weet at fir&s;t, and bitter afterwards.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow commonly almo&s;t throughout <HI>England,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pecially in moi&s;t and &s;hady places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> The leaves &s;hout out about the latter end of <HI>March,</HI> if
<PB N="2" REF="14"> the temperature of the air be ordinary it flowereth in <HI>July,</HI> and the &s;eeds are ripe &s;oon after, u&s;ually in the next month.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Planet <HI>Mercury,</HI> and a notable Herb of his al&s;o, if it be rightly gathered under his influ|ence; it is excellent good to remove. Witchcrafts<NOTE PLACE="marg">Witchcraft.</NOTE> both in men and bea&s;ts, as al&s;o all &s;uddain Di&s;ea&s;es what&s;oever, being tyed round about the neck, it is one of the admirabli&s;t remedies for the Vertigo,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vertigo.</NOTE> or Di&s;sine&s;s in the head that is, and that's the rea&s;on (as <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;aith) the people in <HI>Germany</HI> commonly hang it a|bout their cattels necks when they fear any &s;uch evil hath betided them. Country people commonly u&s;e to take the berries of it and having brui&s;ed them, they apply them to Felons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Felons.</NOTE> and thereby &s;oon rid their fingers of &s;uch trouble&s;om gue&s;ts.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver and Spleen, difficulty of Brea|thing, brui|&s;es, falls, congealed blood, dro|p&s;ie, yellow and black Jaundice, Women af|ter delive|ry.</NOTE>We have now &s;hewed you the External u&s;e of the Herb, we &s;hal &s;peak a word or two of the Internal, and &s;o conclude: Take no|tice that it is a <HI>Mercurial herb,</HI> and therfore of very &s;ubtile parts, as indeed all <HI>Mercurial plants</HI> are; therefore take a pound of the wood and leaves together, brui&s;e the wood (which you may ea&s;ily do, for it is not &s;o hard as Oak) then put it in a pot, and put to it three pints of white Wine, put on the pot-lid and &s;hut it clo&s;e, then let it infu&s;e hot over a gentle fire 12. hours, then &s;train it out, &s;o have you a mo&s;t excellent Drink to open Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, to help difficulty of breath, brui&s;es, and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, to help the yellow Jaundice, the Drop&s;ie, and black Jaundice, and to clen&s;e Women newly brought in bed: you may drink a quarter of a pint of the infu&s;ion every morning, it purgeth the body very gently, and not churli&s;hly as &s;ome hold; and when you find good by this, re|member me.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Alheale.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called Alheal, Hercules Alheal, and Hercules Wound-wort, becau&s;e it is &s;uppo&s;ed that Hercules learned the herb and its vertues from <HI>Chyron,</HI> when he learned Phy&s;ick of him<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;ome call it Panay, and others Opopanay-wort.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> Its Root is long, thick, and exceeding full o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> juyce, of a hot and biting ta&s;te; the Leaves are great and large and winged almo&s;t like A&s;h-tree leaves, but that they are &s;ome+thing hairy, each leaf con&s;i&s;ting of five or &s;ix pair of &s;uch wing<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;et one again&s;t the other, upon foot &s;talks broad below, but nar|row toward the end, one of the leaves is a little deeper at the bot|tom than the other, of a fair, yellowi&s;h, fre&s;h, green colour; the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="3" REF="14"> are of a bitteri&s;h ta&s;te, being chewed in the mouth; from a|mong&s;t the&s;e ri&s;eth up a &s;talk, green in colour, round in form, great and &s;trong in magnitude, five or &s;ix foot high in altitude, with many joynts, and &s;ome leaves thereat; towards the top come forth umbels of &s;mal yellow flowers, after which are pa&s;&s;ed away, you may find whiti&s;h, yellow, &s;hort, flat &s;eeds, bitter al&s;o in ta&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> Having given you the De&s;cription of the Herb from the bottom to the top, give me leave to tell you that there are o|ther Herbs called by this name; but becau&s;e they are &s;trangers in <HI>England,</HI> I gave only the De&s;cription of this which is ea&s;ie to be had in the Gardens of divers.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Although <HI>Gerard</HI> &s;ay That they flower from the be|ginning of <HI>May</HI> to the end of <HI>December,</HI> experience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that it flowers not till the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">atter end of Summer, and &s;heds it &s;eeds pre&s;ently after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars;</HI> hot, biting, and chollerick: and remedies what evils <HI>Mars</HI> afflicts the body of Man with by &s;impathy, as Vipers fle&s;h attract poy&s;on, and the Load&s;ton iron: It kills the worms, helps the Gout, Cramp, and Convul&s;ion; provokes Urin, and helps all Joynt-aches, it helps all cold griefs of the Head, the Vertigo Falling &s;ickne&s;s, and Lethargy, the wind Chollick, ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Worms, Gout Cramp, Convul&s;ion provoke u|rin, Joynt-aches, Vertigo, Falling &s;ickne&s;s, Leathargie, Chollick, ob&s;tructions of the Li|ver and Spleen, Stone, Terms provokes, dead Birth, Sinews, Itch, Sores, Tooth ach, mad Dogs, venemous Bea&s;ts, Chollor.</NOTE> it provokes the Terms, expels the dead Birth, it is excellent good for the grief of the Sinews, Itch, Sores, and Tooth ach, the bi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ings of mad Dogs and venemous Bea&s;ts, and purgeth Chollor very gently.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Alkanet.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides the common Name it is called Orchanet, and Spani&s;h Buglo&s;s, and by Apothecaries, Anchu&s;a.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> Of the many &s;orts of this Herb, there is but one <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nown to grow commonly in this Nation; of which one take <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his De&s;cription, It hath a great and thick Root, of a redi&s;h co|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">our, long, narrow, hairy leaves, green like the leaves of Buglo&s;s which lie very thick upon the ground, the &s;talks ri&s;e up compa&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed round about thick with leaves which are le&s;&s;er and narrower
<PB N="4" REF="15"> then the former, they are tender and &s;lender, the flowers are hol|low, &s;mall, and of a redi&s;h purple colour, the &s;eed is greyi&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows in <HI>Kent</HI> neer <HI>Roche&s;ter,</HI> and in many places, in the We&s;t Countrey, both in <HI>Devon&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Cornwel.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>July</HI> and the beginning of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;oon after, but the Root is in its prime as Car|rots and Per&s;nips are before the herb run up to &s;talk.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;lcers In|flamations Burnings S. Anth. fire Morphew, Lepro&s;ie, dead Child yell. Jaund &s;pleen, gra|vel, Vene|mous bea&s;ts Flux, worms, Mother, Back, Brui&s;es, Falls, &s;mal-pox. Mea&s;les, Wounds.</NOTE><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb under the dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and indeed one of her darlings, though &s;omthing hard to come by. It helps old Ulcers, hot Inflamations, burnings by common Fire, and S^t Anthonies fire, by antipathy to <HI>Mars,</HI> for the&s;e u&s;es, your be&s;t way is to make it into an Ointment; al&s;o if you make a Viniget of it, as you make Viniger of Ro&s;es, it helps the Morphew and Lepro&s;ie, if you apply the herb to the Privities it draws forth the dead Child, it helps the yellow Jaundice, Spleen, and Gravel in the Kidneys, (<HI>Dia&s;corides</HI> &s;aith) it helps &s;uch as are bitten by venemous Bea&s;ts, whether it be taken in|wardly, or applied to the wound: nay, he &s;aith further, If any one that hath newly eaten it do but &s;pit in the mouth of a Serpent the Serpent in&s;tantly dies. It &s;tayes the Flux of the Belly, kils Worms, helps the fits of the Mother; its Decoction made in Wine and drunk, &s;trengthens the Back, and ea&s;eth the pains ther|of, it helps Brui&s;es and Falls, and is as gallant a Remedy to drive out the &s;mal Pox and Mea&s;les as any is; an Oyntment made of it, ts excellent for green Wounds, Pricks, or Thru&s;ts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Adders Tongue, <HI>Or,</HI> Serpents Tongue.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;crip|tion.</HI> THis &s;mal Herb hath but one Leaf, which grows with the Stalk a fingers length above the ground, being fat, and of a fre&s;h green color, broad like the Water Plan|tane (but le&s;s) without any middle Rib in it: from the bottom of which Leaf on the in&s;ide, ri&s;eth up (ordinarily) one, &s;ome|times two, or three &s;mall &s;lender &s;talks, the upper half whereof is &s;omewhat bigger, and dented with &s;mall round dents of a yel|lowi&s;h green color, like the Tongue of an Adder or Serpent (on|ly this is as u&s;eful as they are formidable) The Root continues all the yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in moi&s;t Meadows, and &s;uch like places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And is to be found in <HI>April</HI> and <HI>May,</HI> for it quickly peri&s;heth with a little heat.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Cancer,</HI> and therefore if the weakne&s;s of the Re|tentive
<PB N="5" REF="15"> Faculty be cau&s;ed by an evil influence of <HI>Saturn,</HI> in any part of the Body governed by the <HI>Moon,</HI> or under the Dominion of <HI>Cancer,</HI> this Herb cures it by Sympathy: It cures tho&s;e Di&s;|ea&s;es after &s;pecified in any part of the Body under the Influence of <HI>Saturn,</HI> by Antipathy.</P>
<P>It is temperate in re&s;pect of heat, but dry in the Second Degree. The Juyce of the Leaves drunk with the Di&s;til|led Water of Hor&s;tail is a &s;ingular Remedy for all manner of Wounds in the Brea&s;t, Bowels,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds in the Brea&s;t, Bowels, Vomiting, Bleeding, Terms &s;tops, Whites, Wounds, Ulcers, In|flamati|ons in Wounds.</NOTE> or other parts of the Body, and is given with good &s;ucce&s;s unto tho&s;e who are trou|bled with Ca&s;ting, Vomiting, or Bleeding at the Mouth or No&s;e, or otherwi&s;e downwards. The &s;aid Juyce given in the di&s;tilled Water of Oaken Buds is very good for Women who have their u&s;ual Cour&s;es, or the Whites flowing down too abundantly. It helps &s;ore Eyes. The Leaves infu&s;ed or boyled in Oyl Ompha|cine, or unripe Olives, &s;et in the Sun for certain daies, or the green Leaves &s;ufficiently boyled in the &s;aid Oyl, is made an ex|cellent green Bal&s;om, not only for green and fre&s;h Wounds, but al&s;o for old and inveterate Ulcers, e&s;pecially if a little fine cleer Turpentine be di&s;&s;olved therein: It al&s;o &s;tayeth and repre&s;&s;eth al Inflamations that ari&s;e upon pains, by Hurts or Wounds.</P>
<P>What parts of the Body are under each Planet and Sign, and al&s;o what Di&s;ea&s;es may be found in my A&s;trological Judgment of Di&s;ea&s;es, and for the internal Work of Nature in the Body of Man, as Vital, Animal, Natural, and Procreative Spirit of Man; The Apprehen&s;ion, Judgment, Memory: The external Sences, <HI>viz.</HI> Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Ta&s;ting, and Feeling; the Vertues, Attractive, Retentive, Dige&s;tive, Expul&s;ive, &amp;c. under the Dominion of what Planets they are, may be found in my <HI>Ephemeris</HI> for the yeer 1651. in both which you &s;hal find the Chaff of Authors blown away, by the Fame of Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> and nothing but Rational Truths left for the Ingenious to feed up|on.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, To avoid blotting Paper with one thing many times, and al&s;o to ea&s;e your Pur&s;es in the price of the Book, and with|al to make you &s;tudious in Phy&s;ick, you have at the latter end of the Book, the way of pre&s;erving all Herbs either in Juyce, Con|&s;erve, Oyl, Oyntment, or Plai&s;ter, Electuary, Pill, or Troches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Agrimony.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;crip|tion.]</HI> THis hath diver&s;e long Leaves (&s;ome greater, &s;ome &s;maller) &s;et upon a Stalk, all of them dented about
<PB N="6" REF="16"> the edges, green above, and grayi&s;h underneath, and a little hairy withal: Among which ari&s;eth up u&s;ually, but one &s;trong, round, hairy, brown Stalk, two or three Foot high, with &s;maller Leaves &s;et here and there upon it; at the top whereof grow many &s;mal yellow flowers one above another in long Spikes: after which come rough heads of Seeds hanging downwards which wil cleave to and &s;tick upon Garments, or any thing that &s;hall rub again&s;t them. The Root is black, long, and &s;omwhat woody, abiding many yeers and &s;hooting afre&s;h every Spring, which Root, though &s;mal, hath a rea&s;onable good &s;cent.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth upon Banks neer the &s;ides of Hedges, or Pales.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And it flowreth in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the Seed being ripe &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb under <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and the Sign <HI>Cancer,</HI> and &s;trengthens tho&s;e parts under that Planet and Sign, and removes Di&s;ea&s;es in them by Sympathy, and tho&s;e under <HI>Saturn,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Clen&s;ing, Drying, Binding, Liver, Jaundice, Inward Wounds, Inward Brui&s;es, Bloody &amp; troubled &V;rine, Chollick, Brea&s;t, Cough, Tertian &amp; Quartan Agues, Bloody flux, Ul|cers, Can|cers, Thorns, Splinters and Nails in the fle&s;h Members out of joynt, A|po&s;thumes.</NOTE> <HI>Mars,</HI> and <HI>Mercury,</HI> by Antipathy. If they hap|pen in any part of the Body governed by <HI>Jupiter,</HI> or under the Signs, <HI>Cancer, Sagitary,</HI> or <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and therefore mu&s;t needs be good for the Gout, either u&s;ed outwardly in an Oyl or Oynt|ment, or inwardly in an Electuary or Syrup, or concreated Juyce; for which &s;ee the latter end of the Book.</P>
<P>It is of a clen&s;ing and cutting faculty without any manife&s;t heat, moderately drying and binding; It openeth and clen&s;eth the Liver, helpeth the Jaundice, and is very beneficial to the Bowels, healing al inward wounds, Brui&s;es, Hurts, and other di&s;tempers. The Decoction of the Herb made with Wine and drunk is good again&s;t the &s;tinging and biting of Serpents, and helps them that have foul, troubled, or bloody waters, and makes them pi&s;s cleer &s;peedily; It al&s;o helpeth the Chollick, clen&s;eth the Bre&s;t, and rids away the Cough. A draught of the Decocti|on taken warm before the Fit, fir&s;t removes, and in time rids away the Tertian or Quartan Agues: The Leaves and Seed ta|ken in Wine, &s;tayeth the Bloody flux. Outwardly applied, be|ing &s;tamped with old Swines grea&s;e, it helpeth old &s;ores, Can|cers, and inveterate Ulcers; and draweth forth Thorns, Splin|ters of Wood, Nails, or any other &s;uch thing gotten into the fle&s;h; it helpeth to &s;trengthen the Members that be out of joynt; and being brui&s;ed and applied, or the Juyce dropped in, it hel|peth foul and impo&s;thumed Ears.</P>
<P>The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is good to al the &s;aid purpo|&s;es, either inward or outward, but a great deal weaker.</P>
<P>It is a mo&s;t admirable remedy for &s;uch who&s;e Livers are an|noyed either by heat or cold. The Liver is the Former of Blood, and Blood the Nouri&s;her of the Body, and Agrimony a Streng|thener of the Liver.</P>
<PB N="7" REF="16">
<P>I cannot &s;tand to give you a Rea&s;on in every Herb why it cureth &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es, but if you plea&s;e to peru&s;e my Judgment in the Herb Wormwood, you &s;hal find them there; and it wil be wel worth your while to con&s;ider it in every Herb, you &s;hal find them true throughout the Book.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Water-Agrimony.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called in &s;ome Countreys, Water Hemp, Ba&s;tard Hemp, and Ba&s;tard Agrimony, Eupatorium, and Hepatorium, becau&s;e it &s;trengthens the Liver.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> The Root continues a long time, having many long, &s;lender &s;trings, the &s;talks grow up about two foot high, &s;ometimes higher; they are of a dark purple color; the Bran|ches are many, growing at di&s;tances the one from the other, the one from the one &s;ide of the &s;talk, the other from the oppo&s;ite point; the Leaves are winged, and much indented at the edges; the Flowers grow at the tops of the Branches, of a brown yellow color, &s;potted with black &s;pots, having a &s;ub&s;tance within the mid&s;t of them like that of a Dai&s;ie, if you rub them between your fingers, they &s;mel like Rozin, or Cedar when it is burnt; the Seeds are long, and ea&s;ily &s;tick to any woolen thing they touch.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They delight not in heat, and therefore they are not &s;o frequently found in the Southern parts of <HI>England</HI> as in the North, where they grow frequently; you may look for them in cold grounds, by ponds, and ditch &s;ides, as al&s;o by running wa|ters;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cutteth, Clen&s;eth, Brea&s;t, Cachexia, Drop&s;ie, yellow Jaundice, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Liver, spleen, Im|po&s;thums, &V;rine, terms pro|vokes, Worms, Itch, Scabs flies, wsps.</NOTE> &s;ometimes you &s;hal find them grow in the mid&s;t of the Waters.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They al flower in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe pre&s;ently after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant of <HI>Jupiter</HI> as wel as the other Agrimony, only this belongs to the Coele&s;tial Sign <HI>Cancer.</HI> It healeth and drieth, cutteth and clen&s;eth thick and tough humors of the Brea&s;t, and for this I hold it inferior to but few Herbs that grow: It helps the <HI>Cachexia,</HI> or evil di&s;po&s;ition of the Body; the drop&s;ie, and yellow Jaundice; it opens ob|&s;tructions of the Liver, and mollifies the hardne&s;s of the Spleen; being applied outwardly, it breaks Impo&s;thumes, taken inward|ly, it is an excellent Remedy for the third day Ague; It pro|vokes Urine and the Terms, it kills Worms, and clen&s;eth the Body of &s;harp Humors, which are the cau&s;e of Itch, Scabs; the &s;moke of the Herb being burnt drives away Flies, Wa&s;ps, &amp;c.
<PB N="8" REF="17"> it &s;trengthens the Lungues exceedingly.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs, Cattel.</NOTE> Country people give it to their Cattel, when they are troubled with the Cough, or bro|ken winded.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Alehoof, <HI>Or</HI> Ground-Ivy.</HEAD>
<P>SEveral Countries give it &s;everal Names, &s;o that there is &s;carce an Herb growing of that bigne&s;s that hath got &s;o ma|ny; It is called Cats-foot, Ground-Ivy, Gill go by ground, and Gill creep by ground, Tun-hoof, Hay-maids, and Ale|hoof.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> This well known Herb, lieth, &s;preadeth, and creepeth upon the ground, &s;hooting forth Roots, at the corners of the tender joynted Stalks, &s;et all along with two round Leaves at every Joynt, &s;omwhat hairy, crumpled, and unevenly dented about the edges with round dents: at the Joynts likewi&s;e with the Leaves towards the end of the Branches come forth hollow long Flowers, of a blui&s;h purple color, with &s;mal white &s;pots up|on the Lips that hang down: The Root is &s;mal with &s;trings.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is commonly found under Hedges, and on the &s;ides of Ditches, under Hou&s;es, or in &s;hadowed Lanes, and o|ther wa&s;t grounds in almo&s;t every part of the Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower &s;omwhat early, and abide &s;o a great while; the Leaves continue green untill Winter, and &s;omtimes abide, except the Winter be very &s;harp and cold.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Inward Wounds, Pains, gri|ping, Wind Choller, Stomach, Spleen, Belly, &s;top|ping in the Liver, Gal Plague, Poy&s;on,</NOTE><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> and therefore cures the Di&s;ea&s;es &s;he cau&s;es, by Sympathy, and tho&s;e of <HI>Mars</HI> by Antipathy: You may u&s;ually find it al the yeer long, except the yeer be extream fro&s;ty. It is quick, &s;harp, and bitter in ta&s;t, and is thereby found to be hot and dry; a &s;ingular Herb for all inward Wounds, exulcerated Lungues, or other parts, ei|ther by it &s;elf, or boyled with other the like Herbs: And being drunk, it in &s;hort time ea&s;eth all griping Pains, windy and chollerick Humors in the Stomach, Spleen, or Belly: helps the yellow Jaundice by opening the &s;toppings of the Gaul and Li|ver, and Melancholly by opening the &s;toppings of the Spleen, expelleth Venom or Poy&s;on, and al&s;o the Plague, it provoketh Urin, and Womens Cour&s;es. The Decoction of it in Wine drunk for &s;ome time together, procureth ea&s;e unto them that are troubled with the <HI>Sciatica,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gout, Sci|aticae, &s;ore Mouth &amp; Throat, Ulcers in the Privi|ties, Itch, Scabs, Web in the Eye, Redne&s;s &amp; watring of them, &V;l|cers, noi&s;e in the Ears Deafne&s;s.</NOTE> or Hip-Gout, as al&s;o the Gout in the Hands, Knees, or Feet: and if you put to the Decoction, &s;ome Honey, and a little burnt Allum, it is excellent good to gargle any &s;ore Mouth or Throat, and to wa&s;h the Sores and Ulcers in
<PB N="9" REF="17"> the privy parts of man or woman: It &s;peedily helpeth green Wounds, being brui&s;ed and bound thereunto: The Juyce of it boyled with a little Honey and <HI>Verdigreece,</HI> doth wonderfully clen&s;e Fi&s;tulaes, Ulcers, and &s;tayeth the &s;preading or eating of Cancers and Ulcers; It helpeth the Itch, Scabs, Wheals, and other breakings out in any part of the Body. The Juyce of Ce|londine, Field Day&s;ies, and Ground-Ivy clarified, and a little fine Sugar di&s;&s;olved therein, and dropped into the Eyes, is a So|vereign Remedy for all the Pains, Redne&s;s, and Watering of them; as al&s;o for the Pin and Web, Skins, and Films growing over the Sight; It helpeth Bea&s;ts as well as Men; The Juyce dropped into the Ears doth wonderfully help the noi&s;e and &s;inging of them, and helpeth the Hearing which is decayed. It is good to Tun up with new Drink, for it will &s;o clarifie it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be drunk the next morning; or if a|ny Drink be thick with removing, or any other accident, it will do the like in a few hours.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Alexander.</HEAD>
<P>IT is al&s;o called Ali&s;ander, Hor&s;e Par&s;ly, and Wild Par&s;ly, and the black Pot-Herb; the Seed of it is that which is u&s;ually &s;old in the Apothecaries Shops for Macedonian Par&s;ly-Seed.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> It is u&s;ually &s;own in all the Gardens in <HI>Europe,</HI> and &s;o well known, that it needs no further De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>June,</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver and Spleen, provokes the Terms Afterbirth Wind, pro|vokes U|rin, biting of Serpents</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and therefore friendly to Nature, for it warmeth a cold Stomach, and openeth &s;toppings of the Liver and Spleen; it is good to move Womens Cour&s;es, to expel the After-birth, to break wind, to provoke Urine, and help the Strangury; and the&s;e things the Seeds will do likewi&s;e: if either of them be boyled in Wine, or being brui&s;ed and taken in Wine, it is al&s;o effectual again&s;t the biting of Serpents. And now you know what Alexander Pottage is good for, that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance, but out of knowledg.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Black Alder-Tree.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;crip|tion.</HI> THis Tree &s;eldom groweth to any great bigne&s;s, but for the mo&s;t part abideth like a Hedg, Bu&s;h, or Tree &s;preading into Branches, the Wood of the Body being white, and of a dark red Core, or Heart; the outward Bark is
<PB N="10" REF="18"> of a blacki&s;h color, with many white &s;pots thereon: but the in|ner Bark next unto the Wood is yellow, which being chewed will turn the Spittle neer unto a Saffron color. The Leaves are &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of the ordinary Alder-Tree, or the Foemale Cornel, or Dog-berry-Tree, called in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> Dog-wood, but blacker, and not &s;o long. The Flowers are white, coming forth with the Leaves at the Joynts, which turn into &s;mal round Ber|ries, fir&s;t green, afterwards red, but blacki&s;h when they are through ripe, divided as it were into two parts, wherein is con|tained two &s;mal, round, and flat Seeds: The Root runneth not deep into the ground, but &s;preadeth rather under the upper cru&s;t of the Earth.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This Tree or Shrub may be found plentifully in St. Johns Wood by <HI>Horn&s;ey,</HI> and in the Woods upon <HI>Ham&s;ted Heath;</HI> as al&s;o at a Wood called the old, Park in <HI>Barcomb</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> neer the Brooks &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>May,</HI> and the Berries are ripe in <HI>Sep|tember.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Tree of <HI>Venus,</HI> and per|haps under the Coele&s;tial Sign <HI>Cancer.</HI> The inner yellow Bark hereof purgeth downwards both Choller and Flegm,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, Flegm,</NOTE> and the watry humors of &s;uch as have the Drop&s;ie, and &s;trengtheneth the inward parts again by binding. If the Bark hereof be boyled with Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops, and &s;ome Fennel, with Smallage, Endive, and Succory Roots, and a rea&s;onable draught taken every morning for &s;ome time together,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, Cachexia, Liver, Spleen.</NOTE> it is very effectual again&s;t the Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, and the evil di&s;po&s;ition of the Body, e&s;pecially if &s;ome &s;utable purging Medicine have been taken before to avoid the gro&s;&s;er excrements; It purgeth and &s;trengtheneth the Liver and Spleen, clen&s;ing them from &s;uch e|vil humors, and hardne&s;s as they are afflicted with: It is to be under&s;tood that the&s;e things are performed by the dryed Bark, for the fre&s;h green Bark taken inwardly, provoketh &s;trong Vomi|things, pains in the Stomach,, and gripings in the Belly: Yet if the Decoction may &s;tand and &s;ettle two or three daies untill the yellow color be changed black, it will not work &s;o &s;trongly as before,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach weak, A|petite lo&s;t, Flux, Lice Itch, Scabs Toothach, Teeth loo&s;.</NOTE> but will &s;trengthen the Stomach, and procure an Ap|petite to meat. The outer Bark contrarywi&s;e doth bind the Bo|dy, and is helpful for all Lasks and Fluxes thereof, but this mu&s;t al&s;o be dried fir&s;t, whereby it will work the better. The inner Bark hereof boyled in Vinegar, is an approved remedy to kill Lice, to cure the Itch, and take away Scabs by drying them up in a &s;hort time: It is &s;ingular good to wa&s;h the Teeth, to take away the Pains, to fa&s;ten tho&s;e that are loo&s;e, to clen&s;e them, and keep them &s;ound. The Leaves are good Fodder for Kine to make them give more Milk.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="18">
<P>If in the Spring time you u&s;e the Herbs before mentioned, and will but take a handful of each of them, and to them ad a hand|ful of Elder Buds, and having brui&s;ed them al, boyl them in a Gallon of ordinary Beer when 'tis new, and having boyled them half an hour, ad this to three Gallons more, and let them work together, and drink a draught of it every morning, half a pint, or there abouts: It is an excellent Purge for the Spring, to con&s;ume that Flegmatick quality the Winter hath left behind it, and withal keep your Body in health, and con&s;ume tho&s;e evil humors which the heat of Summer will readily &s;tir up, e&s;teem it as a Jewel.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Common Alder-Tree.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;crip|tion.</HI> GRoweth to a rea&s;onable heighth, and &s;preads much if it like the place: It is &s;o generally well known unto Country people, that I conceive it needle&s;s to tell them that which is no news.</P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> It delighteth to grow in moi&s;t Woods, and watry places; Flowring in <HI>April</HI> or <HI>May,</HI> and yielding ripe Seed in <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and &V;&s;e.]</HI> It is a Tree under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and of &s;ome watry Sign or other, I &s;uppo&s;e <HI>Pi&s;ces,</HI> and therefore the Decoction or di&s;tilled Water of the Leaves, is ex|cellent again&s;t Burnings, and Inflamation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Burnings, Inflama|tions.</NOTE> either with Wounds or without, to bath the place grieved with, and e&s;pecially for that inflamation in the Brea&s;t which the vulgar call an Ague.</P>
<P>If you cannot get the Leaves (as in Winter 'tis impo&s;&s;ible) make u&s;e of the Bark in the &s;ame manner.</P>
<P>The Leaves and Bark of the Alder-Tree, are cooling, drying,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cooling, Drying, Binding, Swellings,</NOTE> and binding,: The fre&s;h Leaves laid upon &s;wellings, di&s;&s;olveth them, and &s;tayeth the Inflamations; The Leaves put under the bare feet gauled with travelling are a great refre&s;hing to them: The &s;aid Leaves gathered while the morning dew is on them, and brought into a Chamber troubled with Fleas,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fleas.</NOTE> will gather them thereinto, which being &s;uddenly ca&s;t out will rid the Cham|ber of tho&s;e trouble&s;om Bed-fellows.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Angelica.</HEAD>
<P>TO write a De&s;cription of that which is &s;o well known to be growing in almo&s;t every Garden, I &s;uppo&s;e is altogether needle&s;s: yet for its Vertues it is of admirable u&s;e.</P>
<P>In times of Heatheni&s;m when men had found out any excellent Herb, &amp;c. they dedicated it to their gods, As the <HI>Bay-tree</HI> to <HI>Apollo,</HI> the <HI>Oak</HI> to <HI>Jupiter,</HI> the <HI>Vine</HI> to <HI>Bacchus,</HI> the <HI>Poplar</HI> to <HI>Hercules:</HI> The&s;e the Papi&s;ts following as their Patriarchs, they dedicate them to their Saints, as our <HI>Ladies Thi&s;tle</HI> to the
<PB N="12" REF="19"> <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin,</HI> St. <HI>Johns Wort</HI> to St. <HI>John,</HI> and another Wort to St. <HI>Peter,</HI> &amp;c. Our Phy&s;itians mu&s;t imitate like Apes, (though they cannot come off half &s;o cleverly) for they Bla&s;phe|mou&s;ly call Pan&s;ies, or Harts-ea&s;e, an <HI>Herb of the Trinity,</HI> becau&s;e it is of three colors: and a certain Oyntment, an <HI>Oyntment of the Apo&s;tles,</HI> becau&s;e it con&s;i&s;teth of twelve Ingredients; Alas poor Fools, I am &s;orry for their folly, and grieved at their Bla&s;|phemy; God &s;end them the re&s;t of their Age, for they have their &s;hare of Ignorance already; O! Why mu&s;t ours be Bla&s;|phemous becau&s;e the Heathens and Papi&s;ts were Idolatrous? cer|tainly they have read &s;o much in old ru&s;ty Authors, that they have lo&s;t al their Divinity, for unle&s;s it were among&s;t the Ran|ters, I never read or heard of &s;uch Bla&s;phemy: The Heathens and Papi&s;ts were bad, and ours wor&s;e; the Papi&s;ts giving Idola|trous Names to Herbs for their Vertues &s;ake, not for their fair looks, and therefore &s;ome called this, an Herb of the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> others more moderate called it ANGELICA, becau&s;e of its An|gelical Vertues, and that Name it retains &s;til, and al Nations follow it &s;o neer as their Dialect wil permit.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the <HI>Sun</HI> in <HI>Leo;</HI> let it be gathered when he is there, the <HI>Moon</HI> applying to his good A&s;pect; let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> let <HI>Sol</HI> be angular. Ob&s;erve the like in gathering the Herbs of other Plants, and you may happen to do wonders. In al Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es cau&s;ed by <HI>Saturn,</HI> this is as good a Pre&s;er|vative as grows.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Pe&s;tilence, Epidemi|cal Di&s;|ea&s;es.</NOTE> It re&s;i&s;ts Poy&s;on by defending and comforting the Heart, Blood, and Spirits; it doth the like again&s;t the Plague and al Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es if the Root be taken in Pouder to the weight of half a dram at a time with &s;om good Treacle in Car|dus Water, and the party thereupon laid to &s;weat in his Bed. If Treacle be not to be had, take it alone in Cardus, or Angelica Water. The Stalks or Roots candied and eaten fa&s;ting, are good Pre&s;ervatives in time of Infection; and at other times to warm and comfort a cold &s;tomach. The Root al&s;o &s;teeped in Vineger,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cold, Wind Pleure&s;ie, Cough, Lungues, Brea&s;t, Strangury, Shortne&s;s of Breath, Chollick, Provokes the Terms, after birth, &s;toppings of the Li|ver and Spleen; In|dige&s;tion, Surfets, Tooth-ach</NOTE> and a little of that Vineger taken &s;ometimes fa&s;ting, and the Root &s;melled unto, is good for the &s;ame purpo&s;e. A wa|ter di&s;tilled from the Root &s;imply, or &s;teeped in Wine, and di|&s;tilled in Gla&s;s, is much more effectual than the Water of the Leaves; and this Water drunk two or three &s;poonfuls at a time, ea&s;eth al pains and torments coming of cold and wind, &s;o as the Body be not bound: and taken with &s;ome of the Root in Pou|der at the beginning helpeth the Plure&s;ie, as al&s;o al other Di&s;ea|&s;es of the Lungues and Brea&s;t, as Coughs, Phthi&s;ick, and &s;hort|ne&s;s of Breath; and a Syrup of the Stalks doth the like: It helps pains of the Chollick, the Strangury, and &s;topping of the Urine, procureth Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the After-birth, ope|neth
<PB N="13" REF="19"> the &s;toppings of the Liver and Spleen, and briefly ea&s;eth and di&s;cu&s;&s;eth all windine&s;s and inward &s;wellings. The Decocti|on drunk before the fit of an Ague, that they may &s;weat (if po&s;|&s;ible) before the fit come, wil in two or three times taking rid it quite away: it helps dige&s;tion, and is a remedy for a Surfet. The Juyce, or the Water being dropped into the Eyes or Ears, helps dimne&s;s of &s;ight, and deafne&s;s: The Juyce put into the hollow Teeth, ea&s;eth their pains. The Roots in Pouder made up into a Plai&s;ter with a little Pitch;<NOTE PLACE="marg">biting of mad Dogs.</NOTE> and laid on the biting of a mad Dog, or any other Venemous Creature, doth wonderfully help: The Juyce, or the Water dropped, or tents wet therein, and put into old filthy deep Ulcers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ulcers, Gout, Sciatica.</NOTE> Or the Pouder of the Root (in want of either) doth clen&s;e and cau&s;e them to heal quickly, by covering the naked bones with fle&s;h. The di&s;tilled Water applied to pla|ces pained with the Gout or Sciatica, doth give a great deal of ea&s;e.</P>
<P>The wild Angelica is not &s;o effectual as the Garden, although it may be &s;afely u&s;ed to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Amaranthus.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides this common Name, by which it is be&s;t known by the Flori&s;ts of our dayes, it is al&s;o called, Flower-Gentle, Flo|wer-Velure, Floramor, and Velvet Flower.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> It being a Garden Flower, and wel known to e|very one that keeps of it, I might forbear the De&s;cription, yet notwith&s;tanding, becau&s;e &s;ome de&s;ire it, I &s;hal give it: It run|neth up with a Stalk a cubit high, &s;traked, and &s;omwhat reddi&s;h toward the Root, but very &s;mooth, divided towards the Top with &s;mal Branches, among which &s;tand long broad Leaves of a reddi&s;h green color, &s;lippery; the Flowers are not properly Flowers, but Tufts, very beautiful to behold, but of no &s;mel, of a reddi&s;h color; if you brui&s;e them they yield Juyce of the &s;ame color; being gathered they keep their beauty a long time; the Seed is of a &s;hining black color.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They continue in flower from <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> til the time the Fro&s;t nip them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Sa|turn,</HI> and is an excellent qualifier of the unruly actions and pa&s;&s;i|ons of <HI>Venus,</HI> though <HI>Mars</HI> al&s;o &s;hould joyn with her. The Flower dried and beaten into pouder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms &s;tops.</NOTE> &s;top the Terms in Wo|men, and &s;o do almo&s;t al other red things. And by the Icon, or Image of every Herb, the Ancients at fir&s;t found out their Vertues: Modern Writers they laugh at them for it; but I wonder in my heart how the Vertues of Herbs came at fir&s;t to be known, if not by their Signatures: The Modern have them from the Writing of the Ancients, the Ancients had no Wri|tings
<PB N="14" REF="20"> to have them from:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, blee|ding, Whites, Running of the Reins, French pox.</NOTE> but to proceed. The Flowers &s;top all Fluxes of Blood whether in man or woman, bleeding either by the No&s;e or Wound. There is al&s;o a &s;ort of <HI>Amaranthus</HI> which bears a white Flower, which &s;tops the Whites in women, and the running of the Reins in men, and is a mo&s;t gallant An|tivenerian, and a &s;ingular Remedy for the French Pox.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Anemone.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Wind-flower, becau&s;e they &s;ay the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth: <HI>Pliny</HI> is my Author, if it be not &s;o, blame him: The Seed al&s;o (it it bears any at all) flies away with the wind.</P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> They are &s;own u&s;ually in the Gardens of the Curious, and flowers in the Spring-time. As for De&s;cription I &s;hal pa&s;s it, they being wel known to al tho&s;e that &s;ow them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> being &s;uppo&s;ed to be a kind of Crowfoot. The Leaves provoke the Terms mightily being boyled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms provokes,</NOTE> and the Decoction drunk. The Body being bathed with the Decoction of them, cures the Lepro&s;ie. The Leaves being &s;tamped, and the Juyce &s;nuffed up the No&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Head pur|geth,</NOTE> purgeth the Head mightily; &s;o doth the Root being chewed in the mouth, for it procureth much &s;pitting, and bringeth away many watry and flegmatick humors, and is therefore excellent for the Lethargy:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lethargie.</NOTE> and when al is done, let Phy&s;itians prate what they plea&s;e, al the Pils in the <HI>Di&s;pen&s;atory</HI> purge not the Head like to hot things held in the mouth: being made into an Oyntment, and the Eye-lids anointed with it, it helps inflamations of the Eyes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes in|&s;lamed, &V;lcers.</NOTE> whereby it is palpable that every &s;tronger draweth its weaker like; the &s;ame Oyntment is excel|lent good to clen&s;e malignant and corroding Ulcers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Garden Arrach.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o, Orach, and Orage.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> It is &s;o commonly known to every Hou&s;|wife, it were but labor lo&s;t to de&s;cribe it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth and &s;eedeth from <HI>June</HI> to the end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Government of the <HI>Moon;</HI> in quality cold and moi&s;t like unto her. It &s;ofte|neth and loo&s;eneth the body of man being eaten, and fortifieth the expul&s;ive faculty in him.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expul&s;ive Faculty, Throat,</NOTE> The Herb whether it be brui&s;ed and applied to the Throat, or boyled, and in like manner appli|ed it matters not much, it is excellent good for &s;wellings in the Throat, the be&s;t way I &s;uppo&s;e is to boyl it, and having drunk the Decoction inwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yellow Jaurdice.</NOTE> apply the Herb outwardly; the Deco|ction of it be&s;ides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundice.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yellow Jaundice.</NOTE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="15" REF="20">
<HEAD>Arrach, wild and &s;tinking.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Vulvaria from that part of the Body upon which the operation is mo&s;t, al&s;o Dogs Arrach, Goats Arrach, and &s;tinking Mother-wort.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> This hath &s;mal, and almo&s;t round Leaves, yet a little pointed, and without dent or cut, of a dusky mealy color, growing on the &s;lender Stalks and Branches that &s;pread on the ground, with &s;mal flowers in clu&s;ters &s;et with the Leaves, and &s;mal Seeds &s;ucceeding like the re&s;t, peri&s;hing yeerly, and ri&s;ing again with its own &s;owing. It &s;mels like old rotten fi&s;h, or &s;om|thing wor&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows u&s;ually upon Dunghils.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Stinking Arrach is u&s;ed as a reme|dy to help Women pained, and almo&s;t &s;trangled with the Mo|ther,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mother,</NOTE> by &s;melling to it: But inwardly taken there is not a better Remedy under the Moon for that Di&s;ea&s;e. I would be large in commendation of this Herb, were I but Eloquent. It is an Herb under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and under the Sign <HI>Scorpio:</HI> It <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s common almo&s;t upon every Dunghil. The Works of God are given freely to Man, his Medicines are common and cheap, and ea&s;ie to be found: ('tis the Medicines of the <HI>Colledg of Phy&s;iti|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ns</HI> that are &s;o dear, and &s;carce to find.) I commend it for an Univer&s;al Medicine for the Womb,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Womb,</NOTE> and &s;uch a Medicine as wil <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a&s;ily, &s;afely, and &s;peedily cure any Di&s;ea&s;e thereof, as the fits of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Mother, Di&s;location, or falling out thereof; it cools the Womb being over-heated. (And let me tel you this, and I wil <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">el you but the truth, Heat of the Womb is one of the greate&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">au&s;es of hard Labor in Child-birth) It makes barren Women <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ruitful, it clen&s;eth the Womb if it be foul, and &s;trengthens it excee|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ingly; it provokes the Terms if they be &s;topped, and &s;tops them <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f they flow immoderatly: You can de&s;ire no good to your Womb <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut this Herb will effect it; therfore if you love Children, if you <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ove Health, if you love Ea&s;e, keep a Syrup alwaies by you made of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Juyce of this Herb and Sugar, (or Honey if it be to clen&s;e the Womb) &amp; let &s;uch as be rich keep it for their poor neighbors, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;tow it as freely as I be&s;tow my Studies upon them, or el&s;e let <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hem look to an&s;wer it another day when the Lord &s;hal come <HI>to make inqui&s;itian of Blood.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Arch-angel.</HEAD>
<P>TO put a glo&s;s upon their practice, the Phy&s;itians cal an Herb (which Country people vulgarly know by the name <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f <HI>Dead Nettles) Arch-angel,</HI> wherein whether they &s;avor of more
<PB N="16" REF="21"> Super&s;tition or Folly, I leave to the Judicious Reader. There i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> more curio&s;ity than courte&s;ie to my Country men u&s;ed by others in the explanation, as wel of the Names as De&s;cription of this &s;o wel-known an Herb: which that I may not al&s;o be guilty of, take this &s;hort De&s;cription, fir&s;t of the red Arch-angel.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> This hath diver&s;e &s;quar &s;talks &s;omwhat hairy, at the joynts whereof, grow two &s;ad green Leaves dented about the edges, oppo&s;ite to one another, the lowermo&s;t upon long foot&s;talks, but without any toward the tops which are &s;omwhat round, yet pointed, and a little crumpled and hairy: Round a|bout the upper joynts where the Leavs grow thick, are &s;undry ga|ping flowers of a pale reddi&s;h color; after which come the Seeds, three or four in a Husk. The Root is &s;mal and thriddy, peri|&s;hing every yeer: the whol Plant hath a &s;trong &s;cent, but not &s;tinking.</P>
<P>White Arch-angel hath divers &s;quare &s;talks, not &s;tanding &s;treight, upright, but bending downward, whereon &s;tand two Leaves at a joynt, larger and more pointed than the other, den|ted about the edges, and greener al&s;o, more like unto Nettle-Leaves, but not &s;tinging, yet hairy: At the joynts with the Leaves &s;tand larger and more open gaping white flowers, in Husks round about the &s;talks (but not with &s;uch a bu&s;h of leaves, as flowers &s;et in the top, as is on the other) wherein &s;tand &s;mal roundi&s;h black Seeds: The Root is white, with many &s;trings at it, not growing downward, but lying under the upper cru&s;t of the Earth, and abideth many yeers encrea&s;ing: This hath not &s;o &s;trong a &s;cent as the former.</P>
<P>Yellow Arch-angel is like the white in the Stalks and Leaves, but that the Stalks are more &s;treight and upright, and the joynts with Leaves are further a&s;under, having longer Leaves than the former; and the flowers a little larger and more gaping, of a fair yellow color in mo&s;t, in &s;ome paler. The Roots are like the White, only they creep not &s;o much under the ground.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow almo&s;t every where (unle&s;s it be in the middle of the &s;treet) the Yellow mo&s;t u&s;ually in the wet grounds of woods, and &s;omtimes in the dryer, in divers Countries of this Nation.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower from the beginning of the Spring al the Summer long.</P>
<P><HI>Vertues and U&s;e.]</HI> The Arch-angels are &s;omwhat hot and dryer than the &s;tinging Nettles, &amp; u&s;ed with better &s;ucce&s;s for the &s;top|ping &amp; hardne&s; of the Spleen, than they by u&s;ing the decoction of the Herb in Wine, &amp; afterwards applying the Herb hot unto the Region of the Spleen as a Plai&s;ter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen.</NOTE> or the Decoction with Spun|ges. The flowers of the white Arch-angel are pre&s;erved, o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> con&s;erved to be u&s;ed to &s;tay the Whites,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Whites.</NOTE> and the flowers of the
<PB N="17" REF="21"> Red to &s;tay the Reds in Women. It makes the heart merry, drives away Melancholly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melancho|ly, Quar|tan Agues, Bleeding at No&s;e, Swellings, Kings E|vil, Gout, Sciatica, Joynts, &V;lcers, old &s;ores, Brui&s;es, Burnings.</NOTE> quickens the Spirits, is good again&s;t Quartan Agues, &s;tancheth bleedings at mouth or no&s;e, if it be &s;tamped and applied to the nape of the Neck: The Herb al&s;o brui&s;ed, and with &s;ome Salt and Vineger, and Hogs Grea&s;e laid upon any hard tumor or &s;welling; or that which is vulgarly cal|led the Kings Evil, doth help to di&s;&s;olve or di&s;cu&s;s them, and being in like manner applied, doth much allay the pains, and give ea&s;e to the Gout, Sciatica, and other aches of the Joynts and Sinews: It is al&s;o very effectual to heal al green Wounds, and old Ulcers, al&s;o to &s;tay their fretting, gnawing, and &s;prea|ding; It draweth forth Splinters and &s;uch like things gotten in|to the fle&s;h, and is very good again&s;t brui&s;es and burnings. But the yellow Arch-angel, is mo&s;t commended for old filthy corrupt Sores and Ulcers, yea, although they grow to be hol|low; and to di&s;&s;olve tumors. The chief u&s;e of them is for Women, it being an Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> and may be found in my <HI>Guide for Women.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ar&s;-&s;mart.</HEAD>
<P>THe hot Ar&s;-&s;mart is called al&s;o Water-Pepper, Culrage: The mild Ar&s;-&s;mart is called dead Ar&s;-&s;mart, Porcicaria, or Peach-Wort, be|cau&s;e the Leaves are &s;o like the Leaves of a Peach-tree; it is al&s;o called Plumbago.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription of the mild.]</HI> This hath broad Leaves &s;et at the great red Joynts of the Stalks, with &s;emicircular blacki&s;h marks on them u&s;ually, yet &s;ometimes without: The flowers grow in long Spikes u&s;ually, either blu&s;h or whiti&s;h with &s;uch like Seed following. The Root is long, with many &s;trings thereat, peri&s;hing yeerly; this hath no &s;harp ta&s;t (as another &s;ort hath, which is quick and biting) but rather &s;owr like Sorrel, or el&s;e a little drying, or without ta&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows in watery Pla&s;hes, Ditches, and the like, which for the mo&s;t part are dry in Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> As the Vertues of both the&s;e is various, &s;o are al&s;o their Government; for that which is hot and biting, is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> but <HI>Saturn</HI> challengeth the other, as appears by that Leaden color'd &s;pot he hath placed upon the Leaf.</P>
<P>It is of a cooling and drying quality, and very effectual for pu|trified Ulcers in Man or Bea&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;lcers Cold &s;wel|lings, brui|&s;es, Conge|led Blood, Toothach, Felones, or Andicoms, Worms in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Ears, F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> ty|red Sor&s;es Impo&s;tums Inflama|tions, Wounds,</NOTE> to kill Worms, and clen&s;e the putrified Places: The Juyce thereof dropped in, or otherwi&s;e applied, con&s;umeth al cold &s;wellings, and di&s;&s;olveth the con|gealed Blood of brui&s;es by &s;trokes, &s;alls, &amp;c. A piece of the Root, or &s;ome of the &s;eed brui&s;ed and held to an aching Tooth, taketh away the pain. The Leaves brui&s;ed and laid to the Joynt that hath a Felon thereon, taketh it away. The Juyce de|&s;troyeth
<PB N="18" REF="22"> Worms in the Ears being dropped into them: if the hot Ar&s;mart be &s;trewed in a Chamber, it will &s;oon kill al the Fleas; and the Herb or Juyce of the cold Ar&s;mart put to a Hor&s;e or other Cattels &s;ores wil drive away the Flie in the hotte&s;t time of Summer; a good handful of the hot biting Ar&s;mart put un|der a Hor&s;es Saddle, wil make him travel the better, although he were half tyred before: The mild Ar&s;mart is good again&s;t hot Impo&s;thumes and Inflamations at the beginning, and to heal green Wounds.</P>
<P>All Authors chop the Vertues of both &s;orts of Ar&s;mart together, as men chop Herbs for the Pot, when both of them are of clean contrary qualities, The hot Ar&s;mart groweth not &s;o high, or tall, as the mild doth, but hath many leaves of the colour of Peach leaves, very &s;eldom or never &s;potted, in o|ther particulars it is like the former, but may ea&s;ily be known from it, if you wil be but plea&s;ed to break a leaf of it cro&s;s your tongue, for the hot wil make your tongue to &s;mart, &s;o wil not the cold; if you &s;ee them both toge|ther, you may ea&s;ily di&s;tingui&s;h them, becau&s; the mild hath far broader leavs: and our Colledg of Phy&s;itians out of their learned care for the publick good, <HI>Anglice</HI> their own gain, mi&s;take the one for the other in their <HI>New-Ma&s;ter-Piece,</HI> whereby they di&s;cover, 1 Their Ignorance, 2 Their Carele&s;ne&s;s, and he that hath but half an eye, may &s;ee their pride without a pair of Spe|ctacles. I have done what I could to di&s;tingui&s;h them in their Vertues, and when you find not the contrary named, u&s;e the cold. The truth is, I have not yet &s;poken with Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> nor his Brother Dr. <HI>Experience,</HI> concerning either of them both.</P>
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<HEAD>A&s;arabacca.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cription.] A Sarabacca <HI>hath many Heads ri&s;ing from the Roots, from whence come many &s;mooth Leaves, every one upon his own foot&s;talk, which are rounder and bigger than Violet Leaves, thicker al&s;o, and of a darker green &s;hining colour on the upper &s;ide, and of a paler yellow green underneath, little or nothing dented about the edges: from among which ri&s;e &s;mal, round, hollow, brown, green husks, upon &s;hort &s;talks about an inch long, divided at the brims into five divi&s;ions, very like the Cups or Heads of the Henbane &s;eed, but that they are &s;maller: and the&s;e be all the Flowers it carrieth, which are &s;omwhat &s;weet, being &s;melled unto, and wherein when they are ripe is contained &s;mal cornered, rough Seeds, very like the Kernels or Stones of Grapes or Rai&s;ons. The Roots are &s;mal and whiti&s;h, &s;preading di|vers wayes in the ground, and encrea&s;ing into divers Heads: but not run|ning or creeping under the ground as &s;ome other creeping Herbs do: They are &s;omwhat &s;weet in &s;mel, re&s;embling Nardus, but more when they are dry, than green: and of a &s;harp, but not unplea&s;ant ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth frequently in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They keep their Leaves green al Winter, but &s;hoot forth new in the Spring, and with them come forth tho&s;e Heads or Flowers which give ripe Seed about Mid&s;ummer, or &s;omwhat after.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="22">
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis a Plant under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> and therefore inimical to Nature. This Herb being drunk, not only provoketh Vomiting,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cau&s;eth Vomiting, Choller, Flegm, Urin, Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver and Spleen, Drop&s;ie, Jaundice, Agues.</NOTE> but purgeth downward, and by Urin al&s;o, purging both Choller and Flegm: if you ad to it &s;ome Spicknard, with the Whey of Goats-milk, or Honyed Water, it is made more &s;trong, but it purgeth Flegm more manife&s;tly than Chollor, and therefore doth much help pains in the Hips and o|ther parts, it being boyled in Whey, it wonderfully helpeth the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, and therefore profitable for the Drop&s;ie and Jaundice being &s;teeped in Wine and drunk. It helps tho&s;e continual Agues that come by the plenty of &s;tub|born humors: an Oyl made thereof by &s;etting it in the Sun, with &s;ome Laudanum added to it, provoketh &s;weating (the ridg of the Back being anointed therewith) and thereby driveth away the &s;haking fits of the Agues. It wil not abide any long boyling, for it lo&s;eth its chiefe&s;t &s;trength thereby: nor much beating, for the finer Pouder doth provoke Vomits and Urin, and the cour&s;er purgeth downwards.</P>
<P>The common u&s;e hereof, is, to take the Juyce of five or &s;even Leaves in a little drink to cau&s; Vomitings: the Roots have al&s;o the &s;ame Vertue, though they do not operate &s;o forcibly, yet they are very effectual again&s;t the biting of Serpents,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Serpents, Head, Memory.</NOTE> and therfore is put as an ingredient both into Methridate and Venice Treacle. The Leaves and Roots be|ing boyled in Ly, and the Head often wa&s;hed therwith, while it is warm, comforteth the Head and Brain that is ill-affected by taking cold, and helpeth the Memory.</P>
<P>I &s;hal de&s;ire Ignorant people to forbear the U&s;e of the Leaves; the Roots purge more gently, and may prove beneficial in &s;uch as have Cancers, or old putrified Ulcers, or Fi&s;tulaes upon their Bodies, to take a dram of them in Pouder in a quarter of a pint of white Wine in the morning. The truth is, I fancy Purging and Vomiting Medicines as little as any Man breathing doth, for they weaken Nature, nor &s;hal never advi&s;e them to be u&s;ed unle&s;s up|on urgent nece&s;&s;ity. If a Phy&s;itian be Natures Servant, it is his duty to &s;trengthen his Mi&s;tris as much as he can, and weaken her as little as may be.</P>
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<HEAD>A&s;paragus, Sparagus, or Sperage.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption. IT ri&s;eth up at fir&s;t with divers whiti&s;h green &s;caly Heads, very brittle or ea&s;ie to break while they are yong, which afterwards ri&s;e up in very long and &s;lender green &s;talks, of the bigne&s;s of an ordinary ri|ding wand at the bottom of mo&s;t, or bigger or le&s;&s;er, as the Roots are of growth: on which are &s;et divers branches of green Leavs, &s;horter and &s;maller than Fennel to the top: at the joynts whereof come forth &s;mal mo&s;&s;ie yellow|i&s;h Flowers, which turn into round Berries, green at the fir&s;t, and of an excel|lentred colour when they are ripe, &s;hewing like Beads of Corral, wherin are contained exceeding hard, black Seeds. The Roots are di&s;per&s;ed from a &s;pon|geous head into many long, thick, and round &s;trings, whereby it &s;ucketh much nouri&s;hment out of the ground, and encrea&s;eth plentifully therby.</P>
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<PB N="20" REF="23">
<HEAD>Prickly A&s;paragus, Sparagus, or Sperage.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] IT <HI>groweth u&s;ually in Gardens, and &s;ome of it grows wild in</HI> Aple|ton <HI>Meadow in</HI> Glouce&s;ter-&s;hire, <HI>where the poor people do ga|ther the Buds, or yong Shoots, and &s;el them cheaper than our garden</HI> A&s;paragus <HI>is &s;old at</HI> London.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They do for the mo&s;t part Flower, and bear their Berries late in the year, or not at al, although they are hou&s;ed in Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> The young Buds, or Branches, boyled in ones ordinary broth, maketh the belly &s;oluble and open, and boyled in white Wine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Belly, Strangury, Di&s;ury Gout, Sci|atica, Eyes Toothach.</NOTE> provoketh Urin being &s;topped, and is good again&s;t the Strangury, or difficulty of making water, it expelleth the gra|vel and &s;tone out of the Kidne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and helpeth pains in the Reins: And boyled in white wine or Vinegar, it is prevalent for them that have their Arteries loo&s;ned, or are troubled with the Hip-Gout, or Sciatica. The Decoction of the Roots boyled in wine and taken, is good to clear the &s;ight, and being held in the mouth ea&s;eth the toothach: and being taken fa&s;ting &s;everal mornings together &s;tirreth up bodily Lu&s;t in Man or Woman (what&s;oever &s;ome have written to the contrary.) The garden A&s;paragus nouri&s;heth more than the wild, yet hath it the &s;ame effects in al the aforementioned Di&s;ea&s;es. The Decoction of the Roots in white wine, and the Back and Belly bathed ther|with,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reins, Bladder, Mother, Cramp, Chollick, Convul&s;ion</NOTE> or kneeling or lying down in the &s;ame, or &s;itting therin as a Bath, hath been found effectual again&s;t pains of the Reins and Bladder, pains of the Mother and Chollick, and generally again&s;t al pains that happen to the lower parts of the Body, and no le&s;s effectual again&s;t &s;tiff and benumned Sinews, or tho&s;e that are &s;hrunk by Cramps and Convul&s;ions, and helpeth the Sciatica.</P>
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<HEAD>A&s;h-tree.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known, that time wil be mi&s;pent in writing a De|&s;cription of it; and therfore I &s;hal only in&s;i&s;t upon the Vertues of it.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is governed by the <HI>Sun,</HI> and the yong ten|der Tops with the Leaves taken inwardly, and &s;ome of them outwardly, ap|plyed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Adders &amp; Vipers bi|ting, Drop|&s;ie, Stone, Jaundice, Lepro&s;ie, &s;cabs, &s;cald Heads, Stitches, Stone, Di|&s;ury <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rickets.</NOTE> are &s;ingular good again&s;t the biting of the Viper, Adder, or any other venemous Bea&s;t: and the Water di&s;tilled therfrom, being taken a &s;mal quantity every morning fa&s;ting, is a &s;ingular Medicine for tho&s;e that are &s;ubject to a Drop&s;ie, or to abate the greatne&s;s of tho&s;e who are too gro&s;s or fat. The Decoction of the Leaves in white Wine, helpeth to break the Stone and ex|pel it, and cureth the Jaundice. The A&s;hes of the Bark of the A&s;h made into Ly, and tho&s;e Heads bathed therewith which are Leprous, Scabby, or Scal'd, they thereby cured. The Kernels within the Husks commonly called A&s;hen Keyes pre|vaileth again&s;t Stitches &amp; pains in the &s;ides proceeding of wind, and avoideth away the Stone by provoking Urin.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="23">
<P>I can ju&s;tly except again&s;t none of al this, &s;ave only the fir&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> That A&s;h-tree Tops and Leaves are good again&s;t the biting of Serpents and Vi|pers, and I &s;uppo&s;e this had its ri&s;e from <HI>Gerard</HI> or <HI>Pliny,</HI> both which hold that there is &s;uch an Antipathy between an Adder and an A&s;h-tree, that if an Adder be compa&s;&s;ed round with A&s;h-tree leaves, &s;he wil &s;ooner run through the fire than through the leaves, the contrary to which is the truth, as both my eyes are witne&s;s: the re&s;t are Vertues &s;omthing likely, only if it be in winter when you cannot get the leaves, you may &s;afely u&s;e the bark in|&s;tead of them, the Keys you may ea&s;ily keep al the year, gathering them when they are ripe.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Avens,</HI> called al&s;o <HI>Clovewort,</HI> and <HI>Herb Benet.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption] <HI>THe ordinary</HI> Avens <HI>hath many long, rough, dark green, winged Leaves ri&s;ing from the Root, every one made of many Leaves &s;et on each &s;ide of the middle Rib, the la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge&s;t three whereof grow at the ends and are &s;nip'd or denied round about the edges: the other being &s;mal pieces, &s;omtimes two, and &s;omtimes four, &s;tanding on each &s;ide of the middle rib un|derneath them: among which do ri&s;e up divers rough or hairy &s;talks about two foot high, branching forth with leaves at every joynt, not &s;o long as tho&s;e below, but almo&s;t as much out in on the edges, &s;ome into three parts, &s;ome in|to more: On the tops of the branches &s;tand &s;mal pale yellow Flowers con&s;i|&s;ting of five leaves, like the Flowers of Cynkfoil, but larger in the middle, whereof &s;tandeth a &s;mal green Head, which when the Flower is fallen grow|eth to be rough and round, being made of many long greeni&s;h purple &s;eeds (like grains) which wil &s;tick upon your Cloaths: the Root con&s;i&s;ts of many browni&s;h &s;trings or fibres, &s;melling &s;omwhat like unto Cloves, especially tho&s;e which grow in the higher, hotter, and drier grounds, and in the freer and clear air.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow wild in many places under Hedg-&s;ides, and by the Path-wayes in fields, yet they rather delight to grow in &s;hadowy than in Sunny places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June</HI> for the mo&s;t part, and their &s;eed is ripe in <HI>July</HI> at the furthe&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is Governed by <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and that gives hopes of a whol&s;om healthful Herb. It is good for the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t or Brea&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brea&s;ts, Stitches, Wind, Belly, &s;tomach, inward wounds, heart cold, brain, ob&s;tructi|ons, Chollick, Fluxes, Ruptures, spots and marks in the Face, Plague, Poy&s;on, In|dige&s;tion.</NOTE> for pains and Stitches in the &s;ides, and to expel crude and raw humors from the Belly an Stomach by the &s;weet &s;avor and warm|ing quality: it di&s;&s;olveth the inward congealed bloud hapning by fals or brui&s;es, and the &s;piting of Blood, if the Roots either green or dryed, be boyled in Wine and drunk, as al&s;o al maner of inward wounds or out|ward if they be wa&s;hed or bathed therewith. The De|coction al&s;o being drunk comforteth the Heart, and &s;trengtheneth the Stomach, and a cold Brain, and therefore is good in the Spring time to open Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and
<PB N="22" REF="24"> helpeth the wind Chollick: it al&s;o helpeth tho&s;e that have Fluxes, or are bur&s;ten, or have a Rupture: it taketh away &s;pots or marks in the Face, being wa&s;hed therwith, The juyce of the fre&s;h Root or Pouder of the dried Root hath the &s;ame effect with the Decoction. The Root in the Spring time &s;tee|ped in Wine doth give it a delicate &s;avor and ta&s;t, and being drunk fa&s;ting e|very morning comforteth the Heart, and is a good Pre&s;ervative again&s;t the Plague, or any other Poy&s;on: it helpeth Dige&s;tion, and warmeth a cold Stomach, and openeth the Orations of the Liver and Spleen.</P>
<P>It is very &s;afe, you need have no Do&s;e pre&s;cribed; and is very fit to be kept in every bodies hou&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Balm.</HEAD>
<P>THis Herb is &s;o wel known to be an inhabitant almo&s;t in every Garden that I &s;hal not need to write any De&s;cription thereof, although the Vertues thereof which are many, may not be omitted.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and under <HI>Cancer,</HI> and &s;trengthens Nature much in al its actions: let a Syrup made with the juyce of it and Sugar, (as you &s;hal be taught at the latter end of the Book) be kept in every Gentlewomans hou&s;e, to releeve the weak &s;tomachs and &s;ick Bodies of their poor &s;ickly neighbors, as al&s;o the Herb kept dry in the hou&s;e that &s;o with other convenient Simples you may make it into an Electuary with Hony according as the Di&s;ea&s;e is, and as you &s;hal be taught at the latter end of the Book.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mind, Heart, Faintings, Swonings, Melacho|ly, Indige|&s;tion, Ob|&s;truction of the Brain, Heart, Ar|teries, Ve|nemous-Bea&s;ts, Mad Dogs Terms, provokes, Toothach, bloody flux Mu&s;hroms dificulty of breathing, Gout, Li|ver Spleen Woman in Child-bed, Fainting in travel, Boyls.</NOTE> The <HI>Arabian</HI> Phy&s;itians have ex|tolled the Vertues hereof to the Skies, although the <HI>Greeks</HI> thought it not worth mentioning. <HI>Serapio</HI> &s;aith, It cau&s;eth the Mind and Heart to become merry, and reviveth the Heart fain|ting into &s;woonings, e&s;pecially of &s;uch who are overtaken in their &s;leep, and driveth away al trouble&s;ome cares and thoughts out of the Mind ari&s;ing from Melancholly, or black Choller: which <HI>Avicen</HI> al&s;o confirmeth. It is very good to help Dige&s;ti|on, and open Ob&s;tructions of the Brain: and hath &s;o much purging quality in it (&s;aith <HI>Avicen</HI>) as to expel tho&s;e Melanchol|ly vapors from the Spirits and Blood which are in the Heart and Arteries, although it cannot do &s;o in other parts of the Body. <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That the Leaves &s;teeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, and the Leaves externally applyed, is a remedy a|gain&s;t the &s;ting of Scorpions, and the bitings of Mad Dogs, and commendeth the Decoction thereof for Women to bath or &s;it in to procure their Cour&s;es: it is good to wa&s;h aching teeth ther|with, and profitable for tho&s;e that have the bloody-Flux. The Leaves al&s;o with a little Nitre taken in Drink, are good again&s;t a fur&s;et of <HI>Mu&s;hroms,</HI> helps the griping pains of the Belly, and being made into an Electuary, it is good for them that cannot fetch their breath: u&s;ed with Salt, it takes away Wens, Kernels, or hard Swellings in the Fle&s;h or Throat: it clen&s;eth foul Sores, and ca&s;eth pains of the Gout: It is as good for the Liver and
<PB N="23" REF="24"> Spleen. A Tan&s;ie or Cawdle made with Egs, and the juyce thereof while it is yong, putting to it &s;ome Sugar and Ro&s;ewater is good for Women in Child-bed, when the After-birth is not throughly avoided, and for their Faintings upon, or after their &s;ore Travel. The Herb brui&s;ed and boyled in a little Wine and Oyl, and laid warm on a Boyl, wil ripen and break it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Barberry.</HEAD>
<P>THe Shrub is &s;o wel known to every Boy and Girl that hath but attain|ed to the age of &s;even years, that it needs no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns the Shrub, and pre&s;ents it to the u&s;e of my Country-men to purge their Bodies of Choller. The inner Rind of the <HI>Barberry-tree</HI> boyled in white-Wine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworm yell-jaund boils, argues Burning, Scaldings, Apetit lo&s;t Hair.</NOTE> and a quarter of a pint drunk each morning, is an excellent Remedy to clen&s;e the Body of Chollerick Humors, and free it from &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es as Choller cau&s;eth, &s;uch be Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ring|worms, yellow Jaundice, Boiles, &amp;c. It is excellent for hot A|gues, Burnings, Scaldings, heat of Blood, heat of the Liver, Bloody-flux, for the Berries are as good as the Bark, and more plea&s;ing, they get a man a good Stomach to his Victuals, by &s;trengthening the attractive faculty, which is under <HI>Mars,</HI> as you may &s;ee more at large in the latter end of my <HI>Ephemeris</HI> for the year 1651. The Hair wa&s;hed with the Ly made of the A&s;hes of the tree and water, 'twil make it turn yellow, <HI>viz.</HI> of <HI>Mars</HI> his own colour. The Fruit and Rind of the Shrub, the Flowers of Broom and of Heath, or Furz, clen&s;e the Body of Choller by Sympathy, as the Flowers, Leaves, and Bark of the Peach-tree do by Antipathy: becau&s;e there are under <HI>Mars,</HI> that under <HI>Venus.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Barly.</HEAD>
<P>THe continual u&s;efulne&s;s hereof, hath made al in general &s;o acquainted herewith, that it is altogether needle&s;s to de&s;cribe its &s;everal kinds her|of plentifully growing, being yearly &s;own in this Land. The Vertues wher|of take as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a notable Plant of <HI>Saturn,</HI> if you view di|ligently its effects by Simpathy and Antipathy, you may ea&s;ily perceive a Rea&s;on of them, as al&s;o why Barly-Bread is &s;o unwhol&s;om for Me|lancholly People. <HI>BARLY</HI> in al the Parts and Compo&s;itions thereof (except <HI>Malt</HI>) is more cooling than <HI>Wheat,</HI> and a little clen&s;ing: and al the Preparations therof, as Barly-water and other things made ther|of,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Feavers, Agues, Stomach, Apo&s;tums, Inflamati|ons, spleen, Ears, Throat, Neck, Kings-E|vil, Lepro|&s;ie, Flux, Gout, Itch Eyes.</NOTE> do give great nouri&s;hment to per&s;ons troubled with Feavers, Agues, and heats in the Stomach. A Pultice made of Barly-meal or Flower, boyled with Vinegar and Hony, and a few dry Figs put into them, di&s;&s;olveth al hard Impo&s;thums, and a&s;wageth In|flamations being thereto applied: And being boyled with Me|lilot and Chamomel-flowers, and &s;ome Lin&s;eed, Fenugreek, and
<PB N="24" REF="25"> Rue in pouder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ears, Throat, Neck, Kings-E|vil, Lepro|&s;ie, Flux, Gout, ltch Eyes.</NOTE> and applied warm, it ca&s;eth the pains in the &s;ide and Stomach, and windine&s;s of the Spleen. The Meal of Barly and Fleawort boyled in Water, and made into a Pultis with Honey and Oyl of Lillies, applied warm, cureth &s;wellings under the Ears, Throat, Neck, and &s;uch like: and a Plai&s;ter made thereof with Tar, Wax, and Oyl, helpeth the Kings-Evil in the Throat: boyled with &s;harp Vineger into a Pultis and laid on hot, helpeth the Lepro&s;ie: Being boyled in red Wine with Pomegranate Rinds and Mirtles, &s;tayeth the Lask or other flux of the Belly: Boyled with Vineger and a Quince, it ea&s;eth the pains of the Gout. Barly flower, white Salt, Honey and Vineger mingled together, ta|keth away the Itch &s;peedily and certainly: The Water di&s;tilled from the green Barly in the end of <HI>May</HI> is very good for tho&s;e that have Defluxions of humors fallen into their Eyes, and ea&s;eth the pains being dropped into them: or white Bread &s;teeped therein and bound on to the Eyes, doth the &s;ame.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Garden Bazil,</HI> Or, <HI>Sweet Bazil.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] <HI>THe greater ordinary Bazil ri&s;eth up u&s;ually with one upright Stalk diver&s;ly branching forth on all &s;ides, with two Leaves at every Joynt, which are &s;omwhat broad and round, yet pointed, of a pale green color, but fre&s;h, a little &s;nipt about the edges, and of a &s;trong heady &s;cent: The flowers are &s;mal and white &s;tanding at the tops of the Branches, with two &s;mal Leaves at the Joynt, in &s;ome places green, in others brown, after which come black Seed. The Root peri&s;heth at the approach of Winter, and therefore mu&s;t be new &s;owen every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It only groweth in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It mu&s;t be &s;owed late, and flowers in the heat of Summer, being a very tender Plant.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is the Herb which al Authors are to|gether by the Ears about, and rail at one another like <HI>Lawyers: Galen</HI> and <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> hold it not fitting to be taken inwardly: and <HI>Chry&s;ippus</HI> rails at it with down-right <HI>Billings gate-Rhetorick. Pliny,</HI> and the <HI>Arabian</HI> Phy&s;i|tians defend it.</P>
<P>For mine own part I pre&s;ently found that Speech true;
<Q>Non no&s;trum inter nos tantas componere lites.</Q></P>
<P>And away to Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> went I, who told me it was an Herb of <HI>Mars,</HI> and under the <HI>Scorpion,</HI> and perhaps therefore called <HI>Ba&s;ilicon,</HI> and then no marvel if it carry a kind of virulent quality with it: Being ap|plied to the place bitten by a venemous Bea&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;ts, Bees, Wasps. Hornets.</NOTE> or &s;tung by a Wa&s;p or Hornet, it &s;peedily draws the Poy&s;on to it; <HI>Every like draws his like. Mizaldus</HI> affirms, That it being laid to rot in in Hor&s;-dung it wil breed venemous Bea&s;ts. And <HI>Hollerius</HI> a French Phy&s;itian affirms upon his own knowledg, That an ac|quaintance of his by common &s;melling to it, had a <HI>Scorpion</HI> bred in his Brain. Somthing is the matter this Herb and Rue wil not grow to|gether,
<PB N="25" REF="25"> no, nor neer one another: And we know Rue is as great an ene|my to Poy&s;on as any grows.</P>
<P>To conclude: It expelleth both Birth and After-birth; and as it helps the deficiency of <HI>Venus</HI> in one kind, &s;o it &s;poils all her actions in another. I dare write no more of it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Bay-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known that it needs no Di&s;cription; I &s;hal therefore only write the Vertues thereof, which are many,</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues]</HI> I &s;hal but only ad a word or two to what my friend hath written, <HI>viz.</HI> That it is a Tree of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and un|der the Coele&s;tial Sign <HI>Leo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Witchcraft</NOTE> and re&s;i&s;teth Witchcraft very po|tently, as al&s;o al the evil old <HI>Saturn</HI> can do to the Body of Man, and they are not a few, for it is the Speech of one, and I am mi&s;taken if it were not <HI>Mizaldus,</HI> That neither Witch nor Devil, Thunder not Light|ning wil hurt a Man in the place where a Bay-Tree is. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith, That the Leaves or Bark do dry and heal very much, and the Berries more than the Leaves: The Bark of the Root is le&s;s &s;harp and hot, but more bitter, and hath &s;ome a&s;triction withal, whereby it is effectual to break the &s;tone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Ob|&s;tructions of the Li|ver and Spleen, Drop&s;ie, Poy&s;on, Jaundice, Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Terms provokes, Cau&s;e De|livery, Afterbirth Eyes, Lungs, Coughs, Shortne&s;s of Breath, Megrim, Wind, ver|tigo, Di&s;u|ry, Mother Worms, Joynts, Nerves, Arteries, Stomach, Belly, Womb, Ears, Marks in the skin, Itch, Scabs.</NOTE> and good to open ob&s;tructions of the Liver, Spleen, and other inward parts, which bring the Drop&s;ie, Jaun|dice, &amp;c. The Berries are very effectual again&s;t al Poy&s;on of ve|nemous Creatures, and the &s;tings of Wa&s;ps and Bees, as al&s;o again&s;t the Pe&s;tilence, or other infectious Di&s;ea&s;es, and there|fore is put into &s;undry Treacles for that purpo&s;e: They likewi&s;e procure Womens Cour&s;es; and &s;even of them given to a Wo|man in &s;ore travel of Child-birth, do cau&s;e a &s;peedy delivery, and expel the After-birth; and therefore not to be taken by &s;uch as have not gone out their time le&s;t they procure Abort|ment, or cau&s;e Labor too &s;oon: They wonderfully help al cold and rhumatick Di&s;tillations from the Brain to the Eyes, Lungs, or other parts: And being made into an Electuary with Honey, do help the Con&s;umption, old Coughs, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and thin Rhewms; as al&s;o the Megrim: they mightily expel wind and provoke Urin; help the Mother, and kil the Worms: The Leaves al&s;o work the like effects. A Bath of the Decoction of the Leaves and Berries, is &s;ingular good for Women to &s;it in that are troubled with the Mother, or the Di&s;ea&s;es therof, or the &s;top|pings of their Cour&s;es, or for the di&s;ea&s;es of the Bladder, pains in the Bowels by wind, &amp; &s;topping of urin: A decoction likewi&s;e of equal parts of Bay-berries, Cummin-&s;eed, Hy&s;op, Origanum, and Euphorbium, with &s;ome Honey, and the Head bathed therewith doth wonderfully help Di&s;tillations and Rhewms, and &s;etleth the Pallat of the Mouth into its place. The Oyl made of the Berries is very comfortable in al cold Griefs of the Joynts, Nerves, Arteries, Stomach, Belly, or Womb, and helpeth Pal|&s;ies,
<PB N="26" REF="26"> Convul&s;ions, Cramps, Aches, trembling and numne&s;s in any part, wearine&s;s al&s;o, and pains that come by &s;ore travelling: Al griefs and pains likewi&s;e proceeding from Wind, either in the Head, Stomach, Back, Belly, or Womb, by anointing the parts affected therewith: And pains in the Ears are al&s;o cured by dropping in &s;ome of the Oyl, or by receiving into the Ears the warm fume of the Decoction of the Berries through a Fun|nel. The Oyl takes away marks of the Skin and Fle&s;h by brui|&s;es, fals, &amp;c. and di&s;&s;olveth the congealed Blood in them: It helpeth al&s;o the Itch, Scabs, and Wheals in the Skin.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Beans.</HEAD>
<P>BOth the Garden and Field Beans are &s;o wel known that it &s;aveth me la|bor of writing any De&s;cription of them: Their Vertues followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are Plants of <HI>Venus;</HI> and the di&s;til|led Water of the flowers of Garden Beans is good to clen&s;e the Face and Skin from &s;pots and wrinkles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spots, Stone, Di&s;ury, Inflama|tion, Womens Brea&s;ts, Felons, or Andicoms, Boils, Bru|&s;es, Ears, Eyes,</NOTE> and the Meal or Flower of them, or the &s;mal, doth the &s;ame. The Water di&s;tilled from the green Husks is held to be very effectual again&s;t the &s;tone, and to provoke Urine. Bean flower is u&s;ed in Pult<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;es to a&s;&s;wage Inflamations ri&s;ing upon Wounds, and the &s;welling of Womens Brea&s;ts cau&s;ed by the curding of their Milk, and repre&s;&s;eth their Milk: The flower of Beans and Fenugreek mixed with Honey, and applied to Felons, Boyls, Brui&s;es, or blue marks by blows, or the Impo&s;thumes in the Kernels of the Ears, helpeth them al: And with Ro&s;e Leaves, Frankin&s;ence, and the white of an Egg being applied to the Eyes, helpeth them that are &s;woln, or do water, or have received any blow upon them if u&s;ed with Wine. If a Bean be parted in two, the skin being taken away, and laid on the place where a Leech hath been &s;et that bleedeth too much,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Leeches.</NOTE> it &s;tayeth the bleeding. Bean flower boyled to a Pultis with Wine and Vineger and &s;ome Oyl put thereto, cea|&s;eth both pain and &s;welling of the Cods:<NOTE PLACE="marg">cods &s;wel|led, flux, Pain, Sinews, Sciatica, Gout.</NOTE> The Husks boyled in Water to a con&s;umption of a third part thereof, &s;tayeth a Lask: and the A&s;hes of the Husks made up with old Hogs grea&s;e, hel|peth the old pains, Contu&s;&s;ons and Wounds of the Sinews, the Sciatica, and Gout. The Field Beans have al the afore men|tioned Vertues as the Garden Beans.</P>
<P>Beans eaten are extream windy meat; but if after the Dutch fa&s;hion, when they are half boyled you hask them, and then &s;tew them (I cannot tel you how, for I never was Cook in al my life) they are whol|&s;omer Food.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>French Beans.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THis French or Kidney Bean ari&s;eth up at fir&s;t but with one Stalk, which afterwards divideth its &s;elf into many Arms
<PB N="27" REF="26"> or Branches, but al&s;o weak, that if they be not &s;u&s;tained with &s;ticks or poles, they will lie fruitle&s;s upon the ground: at &s;everal places of the&s;e Branches grow forth long foot&s;talks, with every one of them three broad round and pointed green Leaves at the end of them, towards the top, where|of come forth divers Flowers made like unto Pea&s;e Blo&s;&s;oms, of the &s;ame co|lor for the mo&s;t part that the fruit will be of, that is to &s;ay, white, yellow, red, blacki&s;h, or of a deep purple, but white is mo&s;t u&s;ual; after which come long and &s;lender flat Pods, &s;ome crooked, &s;ome &s;traight, with a &s;tring as it were running down the Back thereof, wherein are contained flatti&s;h round fruit made to the fa&s;hion of a Kidney; the Root is long, and &s;preadeth, with many &s;trings annexed to it, and peri&s;heth every yeer.</P>
<P>There is al&s;o another &s;ort of French Beans commonly growing with us in this Land, which is called the Scarlot flowred Bean.</P>
<P>This ari&s;eth up with &s;undry Branches as the other, but runs up higher to the length of Hop-poles, about which they grow twining, but turning con|trary to the Sun, having Foot&s;talks with three Leaves on each as on the o|ther: The Flowers al&s;o are in fa&s;hion like the other, but many more &s;et to|gether, and of a mo&s;t Orient Scarlet color. The Beans are larger than the ordinary kind, of a deep purple color, turning black when it is ripe and dry: The Root peri&s;heth al&s;o in Winter.</P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] <HI>The&s;e al&s;o belong to Dame <HI>Venus,</HI> and be|ing dried and beat to Pouder are as great &s;trengthners of the Kidneys as a|ny are; neither is there a better Remedy than it, a drachm at a time taken in white Wine to prevent the &s;tone, or to clen&s;e the Kidneys of gravel or &s;toppage.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Shortne&s;s of Breath, Incite to Venery.</NOTE> The ordinary French Beans are of an ea&s;ie dige&s;tion, they move the Belly, provoke Urine, enlarge the Brea&s;t that is &s;traightned with &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, engender Sperm, and incite Venery.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And the Scarlet color'd Beans in regard of the glorious beauty of their color, being &s;et neer a a Quick-&s;et Hedg, wil bravely adorn the &s;ame by climing up thereon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A gallant &s;hew.</NOTE> &s;o that they may be di&s;|cerned a great way, not without admiration of the beholder at a di&s;tance. But they wil go neer to kil the Quick-&s;ets by cloa|thing them in Scarlet.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ladies-Bed&s;traw.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ide the common Name above written it is called Chee&s;e-Rennet, be|cau&s;e it performs the &s;ame office; as al&s;o Gallion, Pettimugget, and Maids-Hair, and by &s;ome wild Ro&s;emary.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>This ari&s;eth up with divers &s;mal, brown, and &s;quare up|right &s;talks, a yard high, or more, &s;ometimes branched forth into divers parts, ful of Joynts, and with divers very fine &s;mal Leaves at every one of them, little or nothing rough at all: At the tops of the Branches grow many long tufts or branches of yellow Flowers very thick &s;et together, from the &s;e|veral Joynts which con&s;i&s;ts of four &s;mal Leaves a piece, which &s;mel &s;omwhat &s;trong, but not unplea&s;ant: The &s;eed is &s;mal and black like Poppy &s;eed, two
<PB N="28" REF="27"> for the mo&s;t part joyned together: The Root is reddi&s;h with many &s;mal thrids fa&s;tned unto it, which take &s;trong hold of the ground, and creepeth a little: And the Branches leaning a little down to the ground, take root at the Joynts thereof, whereby it is ea&s;ily encrea&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is al&s;o another &s;ort of Ladies Bed&s;traw growing frequently in</HI> Eng|land, <HI>which beareth white Flowers as the other doth yellow; but the Bran|ches of this are &s;o weak that unle&s;s it be &s;u&s;tained by the Hedges, or other things near which it groweth, it wil lie down on the ground; the Leaves a little bigger than the former, and the Flowers not &s;o plentiful as tho&s;e; and the Root hereof is al&s;o thriddy, and abiding.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in Meadows and Pa&s;tures both wet and dry, and by the Hedges.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>May</HI> for the mo&s;t part, and the &s;eed is ripe in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both Herbs of <HI>Venus,</HI> and there|fore &s;trengthen the parts both internal and external which &s;he rules. The Decoction of the former of the&s;e being drunk is good to fret and break the Stone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Di&s;ury, Bleeding, Wounds,</NOTE> provokes Urine, &s;tayeth inward bleedings, and healeth inward Wounds: The Herb or Flower brui&s;ed and put up into the No&s;trils, &s;tayeth their bleeding likewi&s;e: The Flowers and the Herb being made into an Oyl by being &s;et in the Sun, and changed after it hath &s;tood ten or twelve daies; or into an Oyntment being boyled in <HI>Axungia</HI> or Sallet-Oyl, with &s;ome Wax melted therein after it is &s;trained; either the Oyl made thereof,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Burnings, gauled feet, Wearine&s;s, &s;tifne&s;s of Joynts, &s;cabs, itch.</NOTE> or the Oyntment do help Burnings with fire, or Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lding with water: The &s;ame al&s;o, or the Decoction of the Herb and Flower is good to bath the Feet of Travellers and Lacquies who&s;e long running cau&s;eth wearine&s;s and &s;tifne&s;s in their Sinews and Joynts: If the Decoction be u&s;ed warm, and the Joynts afterwards anointed with the Oyntment, it helpeth the dry Scab, and the Itch in Children: And the Herb with the white Flower is al&s;o very good for the Sinews, Arteries, and Joynts to comfort and &s;trengthen them after travel, cold, and pains.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Beets.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] <HI>THere are two &s;orts of Beets which are be&s;t known generally, and whereof I &s;hall principally treat at this time,</HI> viz. <HI>The white and red Beets, and their Vertues.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The common white Beet hath many great Leaves next the ground &s;ome|what large, and of a whiti&s;h green color: The &s;talk is great, &s;trong, and rib|bed, bearing great &s;tore of Leaves upon it, almo&s;t to the very top of it: The flowers grow in very long tufts, &s;mal at the ends, and turning down their heads, which are &s;mal, pale, greeni&s;h, yellow Burs, giving cornered pric|kled Seed. The Root is great, long, and hard, and when it hath given &s;eed of no u&s;e at all.</HI></P>
<PB N="29" REF="27">
<P><HI>The common red Beet differeth not from the white, but only it is le&s;&s;er, and the Leaves and the Roots are &s;omwhat red: The Leaves are differently red, in &s;ome only with red &s;trakes or veins, &s;ome of a fre&s;h red, and others of a dark red. The Root hereof is red, &s;pungy, and not u&s;ed to be ea|ten.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Government of the&s;e two &s;orts of Beets are far different; the red Beet being under <HI>Saturn,</HI> &amp; the white under <HI>Jupi|ter,</HI> therfore take the Vertues of them apart, each by him&s;elf.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clen&s;, dige&s;t, Di&s;ury, Ob&s;tructions of the Li|ver and spleen, Vertigo, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Bur|ning, St. Anthonies fire, Wheals, Bli&s;ters, Chil|blains, Kibes, Itch, Dandriff, Scabs, &V;lcers, Cankers, Baldne&s;s.</NOTE> The white Beet doth much loo&s;en the Bel|ly, and is of a clen&s;ing dige&s;ting quality, and pro|voketh Urine: The Juyce of it openeth ob&s;tru|ctions both of the Liver and Spleen, and is good for the Headaches and &s;wimmings therein, and turnings of the Brain; and is effectual al&s;o again&s;t al venemous creatures: &amp; applied upon the Temples, &s;tayeth Inflamations in the Eyes; it helpeth burn|ings being u&s;ed without Oyl, &amp; with a little Allum put to it, is good for St. Anthonies fire. It is al&s;o good for al Wheals, Pu&s;hes, Bli&s;ters and Blains in the Skin: The Herb boyled and laid upon Chilblains or Kibes, helpeth them: The Decoction thereof in Water and &s;ome Vineger healeth the Itch, if bathed therewith, and clen&s;eth the Head of Dandriff, Scurf, and dry Scabs, and doth much good for fretting and running Sores, Ulcers, and Cankers in the Head, Legs, or other parts, and is much commended again&s;t Baldne&s;s and &s;hed|ding of Hair.</P>
<P>The red Beet is good to &s;tay the Bloody flux, Womens Cour&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, terms &s;tops, Whites, &s;tinking breath, Noi&s;e in the Ears, Smell lo&s;t.</NOTE> and the Whites, and to help the yellow Jaundice. The Juyce or the Root put into the No&s;trils, purgeth the Head, helpeth the noi&s;e in the Ears, and the Tooth-ach; the Juyce &s;nuffed up the No&s;e helps a &s;tinking breath it the cau&s;e lies in the No&s;e, as many times it doth, if any brui&s;e have been there, as al&s;o want of &s;mel coming that way.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Water-Betony.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Brown-Wort, and in <HI>York &s;hire,</HI> Bi&s;hops Leaves.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>Fir&s;t of the Water-Betony, which ri&s;eth up with &s;quare, hard, greeni&s;h &s;talks, &s;ometimes brown, &s;et with broad, dark green Leaves, denied about the edges with notches, &s;omwhat re&s;embling the Leaves of the Wood-Betony, but much larger, two for the mo&s;t part &s;et at a Joynt. The Flowers are many, &s;et at the tops of the &s;talks and branches, being round bellied, and open at the Brims and divided into two parts, the up|permo&s;t being like a hood, and the lowe&s;t like a lip hanging down, of a dark red color, which pa&s;&s;ing away, there comes in their places &s;mal round Heads with &s;mal points, in the ends, wherein lie &s;mal and browni&s;h Seeds: The Root is a thick Bu&s;h of &s;trings and threds growing from an Head.</HI></P>
<PB N="30" REF="28">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth by Ditch &s;ides, Brooks, and other Water-cour&s;es generally through this Land, and is &s;eldom found far from the Waters &s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth about <HI>July,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Water-Betony is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter</HI> in <HI>Can|ter,</HI> and is apropriated more to Wounds and Hurts in the Brea&s;t than Wood-Betony which follows. It is an excellent Remedy for &s;ick Hogs. It is of a clen&s;ing quality; the Leaves brui&s;ed and applied are effectual for all old and filthy Ulcers;<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;lcers,</NOTE> and e&s;pecially if the Juyce of the Leaves be boyled with a little Honey, and tents dipped therein, and the &s;ores dre&s;&s;ed therewith: as al&s;o for Brui&s;es<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brui&s;es,</NOTE> or Hurts whether inward or outward. The di&s;tilled Water of the Leaves is u&s;ed for the &s;ame purpo&s;es; as al&s;o to bath the Face or Hands &s;potted or blemi&s;hed, or di&s;colored by Sunburning.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sunbur|ning.</NOTE></P>
<P>I confe&s;s I do not much fancy di&s;tilled Waters, I mean &s;uch Waters as are di&s;tilled cold, &s;ome vertue of the Herb they may happily have (it were a &s;trange thing el&s;e) but this I am confident of, that being di&s;til|led in a Peuter Stil, as the vulgar and api&s;h fa&s;hion is, both Chymical Oyl and Salt is left behind, unle&s;s you burn them, and then al is &s;poiled, Water and al, which was good for as little as can be by &s;uch a Di&s;tillation. You have the be&s;t way of Di&s;tillation in my <HI>Tran&s;lation of the London Dispen|&s;atory.</HI> The Colledg of Phy&s;itians having as much skil in Di&s;tillations as an A&s;s hath in reading Hebrew.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wood-Betony.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THe Common or Wood-Betony hath many Leaves ri&s;ing from the Root, which are &s;omwhat broad and round at the ends, roundly dented about the edges, &s;tanding upon long Foot&s;talks, from among which ri&s;e up &s;mal, &s;quare, &s;lender, but yet upright hairy &s;talks, with &s;ome Leaves thereon, two apiece at the Joynts, &s;maller than the lower, whereon are &s;et &s;everal &s;piked Heads of flowers like Lavender, but thicker and &s;horter for the mo&s;t part, and of a reddi&s;h or purple color, &s;potted with white &s;pots both in the upper and lower part: The Seeds being contained within the Husks that hold the flowers are blacki&s;h, &s;omwhat long and un|even. The Roots are many white thriddy &s;trings; the &s;talk peri&s;heth, but the Root with &s;ome Leaves thereon, abides al the Winter. The whol Plant is &s;omwhat &s;mal.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth frequently in Woods, and delighteth in &s;hady places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And it flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> after which the Seed is quickly ripe, yet in its prime in <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is apropriated to the Planet <HI>Jupiter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Epidomical di&s;ea&s;es, witch-craft, Appetite, Indige&s;tion, &s;to|mach, belching Jaundice, fal|ling &s;ickne&s;s, pal&s;y, convul&s;i|on, &s;hrinking of the &s;inews, gout, drop&s;ie, Fren&s;y, cough, cold, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, A|gues of al &s;orts &s;ore Eyes, worms, Ob&s;tru|ctions of the Liver and Spleen, &s;titches, Pains in the back and belly, terms pro|vokes, mother, Childbirth, &s;tone, toothach, Venemous Bea&s;ts, mad-dogs, wearine&s;s bleeding at mouth &amp; no&s;e, pi&s;&s;ing &amp; &s;pit|ting of blood, Ruptures, brui|&s;es, wounds, Veins and &s;i|news cut, ul|cers, fi&s;tulaes, Boyls, Ears.</NOTE> and the Sign <HI>Aries. Antonius Mu&s;a</HI> Phy&s;itian to the Emperor <HI>Augu&s;tus Cae&s;ar,</HI> wrote a pecu|liar Book of the Vertues of this Herb; and among&s;t other Vertues, &s;aith of it, That it pre&s;erveth the Lives and Bo|dies
<PB N="31" REF="28"> of men free from the danger of Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es, and from Witchcrafts al&s;o: It is found by dayly experience to be good for many di&s;ea&s;es; It helpeth tho&s;e that loath, or cannot dige&s;t their Meat, tho&s;e that have weak &s;tomachs, or &s;owr belchings, or continual ri&s;ing in their &s;tomach, u|&s;ing it familiarly either green or dry; either the Herb, the Root, or the Flowers in Broth drunk, or Meat, or made in|to Con&s;erve, Syrup, Water, Electuary, or Pouder, as every one may be&s;t frame them&s;elves unto, or as the time or &s;ea|&s;on requireth, taken any of the afore&s;aid waies, it helpeth the Jaundice, Falling &s;ickne&s;s, the Pal&s;ie, Convul&s;ions, or &s;hrinking of the Sinews, the Gout, and tho&s;e that are incli|ned to Drop&s;ies, tho&s;e that have continual Pains in their Head, although it turn to Phren&s;ie. The Pouder mixed with pure Honey is no le&s;s available for al &s;orts of Coughs or Colds, Whee&s;ing, or &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, Di&s;tillations of thin Rhewm, upon the Lungs, which cau&s;eth con&s;umpti|ons. The Decoction made with Mead and a little Peny|royal, is good for tho&s;e that are troubled with putrid A|gues, whether Quotidian, Tertian, or Quartan, and to draw down and evacuate the blood and humors that by falling in|to the Eyes do hinder the &s;ight: The Decoction thereof made in Wine and taken, killeth the Worms in the Belly, openeth ob&s;tructions both of the Splleen and Liver, cureth &s;titches and Pains in the back, or &s;ides, the torments and griping pains of the bowels, and the wind Chollick: and mixed with Honey purgeth the belly, helpeth to bring down Womens Cour&s;es, and is of e&s;pecial u&s;e for tho&s;e that are troubled with the falling down of the Mother, and pains thereof, and cau&s;eth an ea&s;ie and &s;peedy delivery of Women in Childbirth: it helpeth al&s;o to break and expel the &s;tone either in the Bladder or Kidneys. The Decoction with Wine, gargled in the Mouth, ea&s;eth the Tooth-ach. It is commended again&s;t the &s;tinging or biting of Venemous Serpents or Mad Dogs, being u&s;ed inwardly, and applied outwardly to the place. A dram of the Pouder in Betony taken with a little Honey in &s;ome Vineger, doth wonderfully refre&s;h tho&s;e that are overwearied by travel; it &s;tayeth bleedings at the Mouth or No&s;e, and helpeth tho&s;e that pi&s;s or &s;pit blood, and tho&s;e that are bur&s;ten or have a Rupture, and is good for &s;uch as are brui&s;ed by any fall, or otherwi&s;e. The green Herb brui&s;ed, or the Juyce applied to any inward hurt, or out|ward green Wound in the Head or Body wil quickly heal and clo&s;e it up; as al&s;o any Veins or Sinews that are cut; and wil draw forth any broken Bone, or Splinter, Thorn, or other thing gotten into the fle&s;h: It is no le&s;s profitable for old Sores, or filthy Ulcers, yea, though they be fi&s;tulous and hollow, but &s;ome do advi&s;e to put a little Salt to this purpo&s;e: Being
<PB N="32" REF="29"> applied with a little Hogs Lard, it helpeth a Plague-&s;ore, and other Boyl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and Pu&s;hes: The fumes of the Decoction while it is warm received by a funnel into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains of them, de&s;troyeth the worms, and cureth the running &s;ores in them: The Juyce dropped into them doth the &s;ame. The Root of Betony is di&s;plea&s;ing both to the ta&s;t and &s;tomach, whereas the Leaves and Flowers by their &s;weet and &s;picy ta&s;t, are comforta|ble both in Meat and Medicine.</P>
<P>The&s;e are &s;ome of the many Vertues <HI>Antony Mu&s;ae</HI> an expert Phy&s;itia<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> (for it was not the practice of <HI>Octavius Cae&s;ar</HI> to keep Fools about him) a|propriates to Betony; It is a very precious Herb that's certain, and mo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> fitting to be kept in a mans hou&s;e both in Syrup, Con&s;erve, Oyl, Oyntment, and P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ai&s;ter. The Flowers are u&s;ually Con&s;erved.</P>
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<HEAD>The Beech-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>IN treating of this Tree, you mu&s;t under&s;tand that I mean the grea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Ma&s;t Beech; which is by way of di&s;tinction from that other &s;mal roug<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;ort, called in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> the &s;mal Beech; but in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> Hornbeam.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e it needle&s;s to de&s;cribe it, being already &s;o wel known to m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Country-men.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Woods among&s;t Oaks, and other Trees, and i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Parks, Forre&s;ts, and Cha&s;es, to feed Deer; and in other places to fatte<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Swine.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It bloometh in the end of <HI>April,</HI> or beginning of <HI>May</HI> for th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mo&s;t part, and the fruit is ripe in <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and therfore per|forms his qualities and properties in the&s;e operations: Th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Leaves of the Beech-Tree are cooling and binding,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cools, Binds, Hot &s;wel|lings, Scurff, Scabs, Tetters.</NOTE> and therfor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> good to be applied to hot &s;wellings to di&s;cu&s;s them: The Nu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> do much nouri&s;h &s;uch bea&s;ts as feed thereon: The Water th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> is found in the hollow places of decaying Beeches, wil cure bo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Man and Bea&s;t of any Scurf, Scab, or running Tetters, if the be wa&s;hed therewith. You may boyl the Leaves into a Pultis or make an Oyntment of them when time of yeer &s;erves.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Bilberries;</HI> called al&s;o by &s;ome, <HI>Whorts,</HI> and <HI>Whortleberries.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;crip|tions.]</HI> OF the&s;e I &s;hal only &s;peak of two &s;orts, which are commonly known in <HI>England, Viz.</HI> The Black, and the Red Bilber|ries. And fir&s;t of the Black.</P>
<P>This &s;mal Bu&s;h creepeth along upon the ground, &s;carce ri&s;ing half a yar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> high, with divers &s;mal dark green Leaves &s;et on the green Branches, not a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+waies one again&s;t another, and a little dented about the edges: At the foo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the Leaves come forth &s;mal, hollow, pale, blu&s;h colored flowers, th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> brims ending in five points, with a reddi&s;h threed in the middle, whic<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> pa&s;s into &s;mal round Berries of the bigne&s;s and color of Juniper Berries, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of a purple &s;weeti&s;h &s;harp ta&s;t; the Juyce of them giveth a purpli&s;h col<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="33" REF="29"> to their Hands and Lips that eat and handle them, e&s;pecially if they break them. The Root groweth a &s;loop under ground, &s;hooting forth in &s;undry places as it creepeth. This lo&s;eth its Leaves in Winter.</P>
<P>The Red Bilberry, or Whortle-bu&s;h, ri&s;eth up like the former, having &s;un|dry harder Leaves, like the Box-tree Leaves, green and round pointed &s;tan|ding on the &s;everal branches, at the tops whereof only, and not from the &s;ides as in the former, come forth divers round Flowers of a pale red co|lour, after which &s;ucceed round, reddi&s;h, &s;appy Berries when they are ripe, of a &s;harp ta&s;t. The Root runneth in the ground as the former, but the Leaves of this abide al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth in Forre&s;ts, on the Heaths, and &s;uch like bar|ren places: The Red grows in the North parts of this Land, as <HI>Lanca&s;hire, York&s;hire, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>March</HI> and <HI>April,</HI> and the Fruit of the Black is ripe in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> it is pitty they are u&s;ed no more in Phy&s;ick then they are. The Black Bilberries are good in hot Agues, and to cool the heat of the Liver and &s;tomach:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Agues, Stomach, Liver, Vomiting, Apetit lo&s;t, Cough, Phti&s;ick, Fulxes.</NOTE> they do &s;omwhat bind the Belly, and &s;tay Vomitings and Loathings: the Juyce of the Berries made into a Syrup, or the Pulp made into a Con&s;erve with Sugar, is good for the pur|po&s;es afore&s;aid, as al&s;o for an old Cough or an Ulcer in the Lungs or other Di&s;ea&s;es therin. The Red Whorts are more bin|ding and &s;top Womens Cour&s;es, &s;pitting of Blood, or any o|ther Flux of Blood or Humors, being u&s;ed a&s;wel outwardly, as inwardly.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Bifoyl,</HI> or <HI>Twayblade.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THis &s;mal Herb from a Root &s;omwhat &s;weet, &s;hooting down|wards many long &s;trings, ri&s;eth up a round green &s;talk bare or naked next the ground for an inch, two or three to the middle therof, as it is in age or growth, as al&s;o from the middle upward to the flowers, having only two broad Plantan-like Leaves (but whiter) &s;et at the middle of the &s;talk one again&s;t another, and compa&s;&s;eth it round at the bottom of them.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is an u&s;ual Inhabitant in Woods, Cop&s;es, and in many other places in this Land.</P>
<P>There is another &s;ort grows in wet Grounds and Mar&s;hes, which is &s;om|what differing from the former: It is a &s;maler Plant, and greener, having &s;omtimes three Leaves; the Spike of flowers is le&s;s then the former, and the Roots of this do run or creep in the ground.</P>
<P>They are much and often u&s;ed by many to good purpo&s;e for Wounds both green and old,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Ruptures.</NOTE> and to con&s;olidate or knit Rupturs, and wel it may, being a plant of <HI>Saturn.</HI></P>
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<PB N="34" REF="30">
<HEAD>The Birch-tree.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THis groweth a goodly tal &s;traight tree, fraught with many Boughs and &s;lender Branches bending downward; the old ones being covered with a di&s;colored chapped Bark, and the yonger being brow|ner by much: The Leaves at the fir&s;t breaking out are crumpled, and after|ward like the Beech Leaves, but &s;maler and greener, and dented about the edges: It beareth &s;mal &s;hort Catkins, &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of the Hazel-nut|tree, which abide on the branches a long time, until growing ripe they fal on the ground, and their Seed with them.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It u&s;ually groweth in Woods.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Tree of <HI>Venus.</HI> The juyce of the leavs while they are yong, or the di&s;tilled Water of them, or the Water that coms out of the Tree, being bored with an Augur and di&s;tilled after|wards:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ston, &s;ore Mouths.</NOTE> any of the&s;e being drunk for &s;ome time together, is avail|able to break the Stone in the Kidneys or bladder, and is good al&s;o to wa&s;h &s;ore Mouths.</P>
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<HEAD>Birds-Foot.</HEAD>
<P>THis &s;mal Herb groweth not above a &s;pan high, with many Branches &s;pread on the ground, &s;et with many wings of &s;mal Leaves: The Flowers grow upon the Branches, many &s;mal ones of a pale yelow color, be|ing &s;et at a head together, which afterwards turn into &s;o &s;mal joynted Cods wel re&s;embling the Claws of &s;mal Birds, whence it took its name.</P>
<P>There is another &s;ort of <HI>Birds-foot</HI> in al things like the former, but a little larger: the Flowers of a pale whiti&s;h red colour, and the Cods di&s;tinct by joynts like the other, but a little more crooked, and the Roots do carry ma|ny &s;mal white knots or kernels among&s;t the &s;trings.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e grow on Heaths, and many open untilled places of this land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower and &s;eed in the end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They belong to <HI>Saturn,</HI> and are of a drying binding quality, and thereby very good to be u&s;ed in Wound-drinks,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dry, Bind, Wounds, Stane, Ruptures.</NOTE> as al&s;o to apply outwardly for the &s;ame purpo&s;e. But the latter <HI>Birds-foot</HI> is found by experience to break the Stones in the Back or Kidnies, and drive them forth, if the Decoction thereof be taken; and it wonderfully helpeth the Rupture, being taken inwardly, and outwardly applied to the place.</P>
<P>Al Salts have be&s;t operation upon the Stone, as Oyntments and Plai&s;ters have upon Wounds: and therefore you may make a Salt of this for the &s;tone, the way how to do &s;o may be found in my Tran&s;lation of the <HI>Londo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Di&s;pen&s;atory,</HI> and it may be I may give you again in plainer terms at the latter end of this Book.</P>
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<HEAD>Bi&s;hops-weed.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides the Common Name <HI>Bi&s;hops-weed,</HI> its u&s;ually known by the greek Name <HI>Ammi</HI> and <HI>Amios,</HI> &s;ome cal it <HI>Aethiopian Commin-&s;eed,</HI> and o|thers
<PB N="35" REF="30"> <HI>Commin-royal,</HI> as al&s;o <HI>Herb-william,</HI> and <HI>Bulwore.</HI></P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> Common Bi&s;hops-weed ri&s;eth up with a round &s;traight &s;talk, &s;omtimes as high as a man, but u&s;ually three or four foot high, be&s;et with divers &s;mal, long, and &s;omwhat broad Leaves, cut in &s;ome places, and dented about the edges, growing one again&s;t another, of a dark green color, having &s;undry branches on them, and at the top &s;mal umbels of white flow|ers, which turn into &s;mal round brown &s;eed, little bigger then Par&s;ly-&s;eed, of a quick hot &s;cent and ta&s;t: The Root is white and &s;tringie, peri&s;hing yeerly after it hath &s;eeded, and u&s;ually ri&s;eth again of its own &s;owing.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth wild in many places in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> as between <HI>Greenheath</HI> and <HI>Grave&s;end.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is hot and dry in the third degree, of a bit|ter ta&s;t and &s;omthing &s;harp withal, it provokes Lu&s;t to pur|po&s;e:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Terms provokes, wind Chollick, vene|mous Bea&s;ts, Cantharides, black and blew Spots, High co|lour, Mother.</NOTE> I &s;uppo&s;e <HI>Venus</HI> owns it. It dige&s;teth Humors, pro|voketh Urin and Womens Cour&s;es, di&s;&s;olveth Wind: and being taken in wine, ea&s;eth pains &amp; griping in the Bowels, and is good again&s;t the biting of Serpents: It is u&s;ed to good effect in tho&s;e Medicins which are given to hinder the poy&s;onful operations of <HI>Cantharides</HI> upon the pa&s;&s;age of the Urin: Being mixed with Hony, and applied to black and blue marks, coming of blows or brui&s;es, it takes them away: and being drunk or outwardly applyed, it abateth an high colour, and makes it pale: and the Fumes thereof taken with Ro|zen, or Rai&s;ons, clen&s;eth the Mother.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Bi&s;tort,</HI> or <HI>Snakeweed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is called Snakeweed, engli&s;h Serpentary, Dragonwort, Oy&s;terloit, and Pa&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> This hath a thick, &s;hort, knobbed Root, blacki&s;h without, and &s;omwhat redi&s;h within, a little crooked or turned together, of an har&s;h a&s;tringent ta&s;t, with divers black threds hanging there, from whence &s;pring up every yeer divers Leaves &s;tanding upon long foot&s;talks, being &s;omwhat broad and long like a Dock-Leaf, and a little pointed at the ends, but that it is of a blewi&s;h green colour on the upper &s;ide, and of an A&s;h colour gray, and a little purpli&s;h underneath, with divers Veins therin; from among which ri&s;e up divers &s;mal and &s;lender &s;talks, two foot high, and almo&s;t na|ked, and without Leaves, or with very few, and narrow, bearing a &s;piky bu&s;h of pale fle&s;h-colour'd Flowers, which being pa&s;t, there abideth &s;mal &s;eed, &s;omwhat like unto Sorrel-&s;eed, but greater.</P>
<P>There are other &s;orts of <HI>Bi&s;tort,</HI> g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wing in this Land, but &s;maller, both in height, root, and &s;talks, and e&s;pecially in the Leavs, The Root blacki&s;h without, &amp; &s;omwhat whiti&s;h within, of an au&s;tere binding ta&s;t as the former.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in &s;hadowy moi&s;t Woods, and at the foot of Hils, but are chiefly nouri&s;hed up in Gardens. The narrow Leaved <HI>Bi&s;tort</HI> groweth in the North, in <HI>Lanca&s;hire, York&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Cumberland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about the end of <HI>May,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe about the beginning of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<PB N="36" REF="31">
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It belongs to <HI>Saturn,</HI> and is in operation cold and dry. Both the Leavs and Roots hare a powerful faculty to re&s;i&s;t al poy|&s;on: The Root in Pouder taken in drink, expelleth the Venom of the Plague,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Plague, Smal pox, Meazles, Purples, Epidemi|cal Di&s;ea|&s;es, Inward Bleeding, Flux, Vo|miting, Ruptures, Jaundice, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Ulcers, Abortion, Worms, Diabites, Running of the Reins, Wounds, Bleeding, Matrix, Terms, &s;tops, tooth-ach, Head, Cankers, Gums in|flamations Almonds of the Ears.</NOTE> the &s;mal Pox, Meazles, Purples, or any other in|fectious Di&s;ea&s;e, driving it out by &s;weating: The Root in Pou|der, or the Decoction thereof in Wine being drunk, &s;tayeth al manner of inward bleedings or &s;pittings of Blood, and any Flux|es in the body of either Man or Woman, or Vomitings. It is al&s;o very available again&s;t Ruptures, or Bur&s;tings, or al brui&s;es of Fals, di&s;&s;olving the congealed Blood, and ea&s;eth the pains that happen thereupon, it al&s;o helpeth the Jaundice. The Water di&s;tilled from both Leaves and Roots, is a &s;ingular Remedy to wa&s;h any place bitten or &s;tung by any Venemous Creature; as al&s;o for any of the purpo&s;es before &s;poken of. And is very good to wa&s;h any running Sores or Ulcers. The Decoction of the Root in Wine being drunk, hindereth Abortion or Mi&s;carriage in Child-bearing. The Leaves al&s;o kil the Worms in Children, and is a great help for them that cannot keep their water, if the juyce of Plantane be added therto, and outwardly applied, much helpeth the Gonorrhea, or running of the Reins. A dram of the Pouder of the Root taken in the Water thereof, wherin &s;om red hot Iron or Steel hath been quenched, is al&s;o an admirable help thereto, &s;o as the Body be fir&s;t prepared and purged from the offen&s;ive Humors. The Leaves, Seed, or Roots are al very good in Decoctions, Drinks, or Lotians, for inward or outward Wounds or other Sores. And the Pouder &s;trewed upon any cut or wound in a Vein, &s;tayeth the immoderate bleeding thereof: The Decoction of the Roots in Water whereupon &s;ome Pom|granate Plls and Flowers are added, injected into the Matrix, &s;tayeth the acce&s;s of Humors to the Ulcers thereof, and bringeth it to its right place, being fallen down, and &s;tayeth the immode|rate flux of the Cour&s;es. The Root hereof with Pellitory of <HI>Spain,</HI> and burnt Allum of each a little quantity, beaten &s;mal &amp; made into Pa&s;t, with &s;ome Hony, and a little piece thereof put into an hollow tooth, or held between the Teeth, if there be no of hollowne&s;s in them, &s;tayeth the defluction of Rhewm upon them which cau&s;eth pains, and helps to clen&s;e the Head, and avoid much offen&s;ive Water. The di&s;tilled Water is very effectual to wa&s;h Sores or Cankers in the No&s;e or any other part, if the Pouder of the Root he applied thereunto afterwards. It is good al&s;o to fa&s;ten the Gums, and to take away the Heat and Inflamations that happen in the Jaws, Al|monds of the Throat or Mouth, if the Decoction of the Leavs, Roots, or Seeds be u&s;ed, or the juyce of them; but the Roots are mo&s;t effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
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<PB N="37" REF="31">
<HEAD>One-Blade.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] <HI>THis &s;mal Plant never heareth more than one Leaf, but only when it ri&s;eth up with its &s;talk which thereon beareth another, and &s;eldom more, which are of a blewi&s;h green colour, broad at the bottom, and pointed with many ribs or veins like Plantane: At the top of the &s;talk grow many &s;mal white Flowers &s;tar-fa&s;hion, &s;melling &s;omthing &s;weet: after which come &s;mal reddi&s;h Berries when they are ripe. The Root is &s;mal, of the bigne&s;s of a Ru&s;h, lying and creeping under the upper cru&s;t of the Earth, &s;hooting forth in div<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs places.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows in moi&s;t &s;hadowy, gra&s;&s;ie places of Woods in many pla|ces of this Realm.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth about <HI>May,</HI> and the Berries be ripe in <HI>June,</HI> and then quickly peri&s;heth until the next year it &s;pringeth from the &s;ame again.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and therfore Cor|dial. Half a dram, or a dram at mo&s;t of the Roots hereof in Pouder, taken in Wine and Vinegar of each a like quantity, and the party pre&s;ently laid to &s;weat, is held to be a &s;overeign Remedy for tho&s;e that are infected with the Plague, and have a &s;ore upon them, by expelling the Poy&s;on and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pe&s;tilence, Wounds, Nerves, Sinews Hurt.</NOTE> It is al&s;o accom|pted a &s;ingular good Wound-Herb, and therfore u&s;ed with other Herbs in making &s;uch Balms as are nece&s;&s;ary for the Curing of Wounds, either green or old, and e&s;pecially if the Nerves or Si|news be hurt.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The Bramble,</HI> or <HI>Black-berry-bu&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription. The Vertues ther|of are as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant of <HI>Venus</HI> in <HI>Aries:</HI> You &s;hal have &s;ome Directions at the latter end of the Book for the gathering of al Herbs and Plants, &amp;c. If any ask the Rea&s;on why <HI>Venus</HI> is &s;o prickly? Tel them 'tis becau&s;e &s;he is in the hou&s;e of <HI>Mars.</HI> The Buds, Leaves, and Bran|ches while they are green, are of a good U&s;e in the Ulcers and pu|trid &s;ores of the Mouth and Throat,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ulcers, Sores, Quin&s;ie, Wou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ds, Flux, Bloody flux sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ting Blood, Gravel, &s;tone, Secrets, Terms &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ops, Poy&s;on Venemous Bea&s;ts, fundament Piles, Feavers, Head, Eyes, Itch Scab|by Heads,</NOTE> and for the Quin&s;ie: and likewi&s;e to heal other fre&s;h Wounds and Sores: but the Flowers and Fruit unripe are very binding, and &s;o profitable for the Bloo|dy-flux, Lasks, and are a fit Remedy for &s;pitting of Bloud. Ei|ther the Decoction or Pouder of the Root being taken, is good to break or drive forth Gravel, and the Stone in the Reins and Kidnyes. The Leavs and Brambles a&s;wel green as dry, are excel|lent good Lotions for &s;ores in the Mouth or &s;ecret parts: The Decoction of them, and of the dried Branches, do much bind the Belly, and are good for the too much flowing of Womans Cour|&s;es: The Berries or the Flowers are a powerful Remedy again&s;t the Poy&s;on of the mo&s;t venemous Serpents, as wel drunk as out|wardly applied, helpeth the &s;ores of the Fundament, &amp; the Piles.
<PB N="38" REF="32"> The juyce of the Berries mixed with the juyce of Mulberries, do bind more effectually, and help fretting and eating &s;ores and Ul|cers where&s;oever. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Branches, Leavs, and Flowers, or of the Fruit, is very plea&s;ant in ta&s;te, and very effectual in Feavers and hot di&s;tempers of the Body, Head, Eys, and other parts, and for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid. The Leaves boyled in Ly, and the Head wa&s;hed therwith, healeth the Itch, and the running &s;ores thereof, and maketh the Hair black. The Pouder of the Leaves &s;trewed on Cankers and running Ulcers, doth wonderfully help to heal them. Some u&s;e to Conden&s;ate the juyce of the Leaves, and &s;ome the juyce of the Berries, to keep for their u&s;e al the yeer, for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Blites.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] <HI>OF the&s;e there are two &s;orts commonly known, viz. white and Red: the White hath Leavs &s;omwhat like unto Beets, but &s;maller, rounder, and of a whiti&s;h green colour, every one &s;tanding upon a &s;mal long foot&s;talk: the &s;talk ri&s;eth up two or three foot high, with &s;uch like Leavs theron: the Flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or clu&s;ters, wherin are contained &s;mal and round &s;eed: the Root is very ful of threds or &s;trings.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Red Blite is in at things like the White, but that his leavs and tufted heads are exceeding red at fir&s;t, and after turn more purpli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There are other kind of Blites, which grow wild, differing from the two former &s;orts but little, only the wild are &s;maler in every part.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in Gardens, and wild in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They &s;eed in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> and <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are al of them cooling, drying, and binding, &s;erving to re&s;train the Fluxes of Bloud in either man or woman, e&s;pecially the Red; which al&s;o &s;tayeth the overflowing, of wo|mens Reds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reds and Whites in Women.</NOTE> as the white Blite &s;tayeth the Whites in Women: It is an excellent &s;ecret, you cannot wel fail in the u&s;e: they are al under the Dominion of <HI>Venus.</HI></P>
<P>There is one other &s;ort of wild Blites, like the other wild kinds, but ha|ving long and &s;pike heads of greeni&s;h Seed, &s;eeming by the thick &s;etting to|gether to be al Seed.</P>
<P>This &s;ort the Fi&s;hes are delighted with, and it is a good and u&s;ual Bait; for Fi&s;hes wil bite fa&s;t enough at them, if you have but wit enough to catch them when they bite.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Borrage,</HI> and <HI>Buglo&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o wel known to be inhabitants in every Garden; that I hold it needle&s;s to de&s;cribe them.</P>
<P>To the&s;e I may ad a third &s;ort, which is not &s;o common, nor yet &s;o well known, and therefore I &s;hall give you its Name and De&s;cription.</P>
<P>It is called Langue-de-beef; but why they &s;hould call one Herb by the
<PB N="39" REF="32"> name Buglo&s;s, and another by the name Langue-de-beef, is to me &s;ome que&s;tion, &s;eeing one &s;ignifies Ox-tongue in Greek, and the other &s;ignifies the &s;ame in French.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> The Leaves thereof are &s;maller than tho&s;e of Buglo&s;s, but much rougher, the &s;talk ri&s;ing up about a foot and half high, and is mo&s;t commonly of a red color, the Flowers &s;tand in &s;caly rough heads, be|ing compo&s;ed of many &s;mal yellow Flowers, not much unlike to tho&s;e of Dandelyon, and the Seed flieth away in Down as that doth: you may ea|&s;ily know the Flowers by their ta&s;t, for they are very bitter.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth wild in many places of the Land, and may be plenti|fully found neer <HI>London,</HI> as between <HI>Redrif</HI> and <HI>Debtford,</HI> by the Ditch|&s;ides: its Vertues are held to be the &s;ame with Borrage and Buglo&s;s, only this is &s;omething hotter.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are all three Herbs of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and under <HI>Leo,</HI> all great Cordials, great &s;trengthners of Nature. They are very Cordial. The Leaves or Roots are to very good purpo&s;e u&s;ed in Putrid and Pe&s;tilential Feavers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Feavers, Pe&s;tilence, Poy&s;on, venemous Bea&s;ts, Milk in Nur&s;es, Melancho|ly, ill blood Yellow Jaundice, Itch, ring|worms, Tetters, Scabs, weakne&s;s by long &s;ickne&s;s, Con&s;ump|tion, Swooning, Inflama|tions, ulcers, &s;ore mouths &amp; Throat, Cough, Flegm.</NOTE> to defend the Heart, and help to re&s;i&s;t and expel the poy&s;on, or the venom of other Creatures; the Seed is of the like effect; and the Seed and Leaves are good to encrea&s;e Milk in Womens Brea&s;ts: The Leaves, Flowers, and Seed, all, or any of them are good to ex|pel Pen&s;ivene&s;s and Melancholly: it helpeth to clarifie the Blood and mitigate heat in Feavers. The Juyce made into a Syrup prevaileth much to all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and is put with other cooling, opening, clen&s;ing Herbs, to open ob&s;tructions, and help the yellow Jaundice, and mixed with Fumitory, to cool, clen&s;e, and temper the Blood, thereby it helpeth the Itch, Ringworms, and Tetters, or other &s;preading Scabs or Sores. The flowers Candied, or made into a Con&s;erve are helping in the former cau&s;es, but are chiefly u&s;ed as a Cordial, and is good for tho&s;e that are weak with long &s;ickne&s;s, and to comfort the Heart and Spirits of tho&s;e that are in a con&s;umption, or trou|bled with often &s;woonings, or pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart: The Di|&s;tilled Water is no le&s;s effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and helpeth the redne&s;s and inflamation of the Eyes being wa&s;hed therewith: The dried Herb is never u&s;ed, but the green; yet the A&s;hes thereof boyled in Mead, or Honyed Water is available again&s;t Inflamations and Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat, to wa&s;h and gargle it therewith. The Roots of Buglo&s;s are effe|ctual being made into a licking Electuary, for the Cough, and to conden&s;ate thin flegm, and thewmatick di&s;tillations upon the Lungues.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="40" REF="33">
<HEAD>Blue-bottle.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called, Syanus, I &s;uppo&s;e from the color of it; Hurt-&s;ickle; be|cau&s;e it turns the edge of the Sickles that reap the Corn; Blew-blow, Corn-flower, and Blue-bottle.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> I &s;hall only de&s;cribe that which is commone&s;t, and in my opinion mo&s;t u&s;eful: Its Leaves &s;pread upon the ground, being of a whi|ti&s;h green color, &s;omewhat cut on the edges like tho&s;e of Corn Scabious, a|mong&s;t which ri&s;eth up a &s;talk divided into divers branches, be&s;et with long Leaves of a greeni&s;h color, either but very little indented, or not at al: The flowers are of a blue color, from whence it took its Name, con&s;i&s;ting of an innumerable company of &s;mal flowers, &s;et in a &s;caly head, not much unlike tho&s;e of Knapweed: The Seed is &s;mooth, bright, and &s;hining, wrapped up in a woolly mantle: The Root peri&s;heth every yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in Corn fields, among&s;t al &s;orts of Corn, Pea&s;e, Beans, and Tares excepted; if you plea&s;e to take them up from thence, and tran&s;plant them in your Garden, e&s;pecially toward the full Moon, they will grow more double than they are, and many times change color.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower from the beginning of <HI>May</HI> to the end of Harve&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> As they are naturally cold, dry, and binding, &s;o are they under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI> The Pouder or dried Leaves of the Blue-bottle,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brui&s;es, Broken, Veins, Poy&s;on, Plague, Epidemi|cal Di&s;|ea&s;es, Wounds, &V;lcers, Inflama|tions in the Eyes.</NOTE> or Corn-flower, is given with good &s;ucce&s;s to tho&s;e that are brui&s;ed by a fall, or have broken a Vein inwardly, and void much blood at the mouth, being taken in the Water of Plantane, Hor&s;tail, or the greater Comfry: it is a Remedy again&s;t the poy&s;on of the Scorpion, and re&s;i&s;teth al Venoms and Poy&s;ons. The Seed or Leaves taken in Wine is very good again&s;t the Plague, and al infectious Di&s;ea&s;es, and is very good in Pe&s;tilential Feavers. The Juyce put into fre&s;h or green Wounds, doth quickly &s;oder up the Lips of them together, and is very effectual to heal al Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth: The Juyce dropped into the Eyes, taketh away the heat and in|flamation in them. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb hath the &s;ame properties, and may be u&s;ed for all the effects afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Brank-Ur&s;ine.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ide the common Name Brank-Ur&s;ine, it is al&s;o called Bears-breech, and Acanthus, though I think our Engli&s;h Names to be more proper, for the Greek word <HI>Acanthos</HI> &s;ignifies any Thi&s;tle what&s;oever.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> This Thi&s;tle &s;hooteth forth very many large, thick, &s;ad, green &s;mooth Leaves upon the ground with a very thick and juycy middle Rib: The Leaves are parted with &s;undry deep ga&s;hes on the edge; the Leaves remain a long time before any &s;talk appears; afterwards ari&s;eth up a rea&s;onable big &s;talk three or four foot high, and bravely deckt with flo|wers from the middle of the &s;talk upwards, for on the lower part of the &s;talk there is neither Branch nor Leaf; the flowers are hooded and gaping, be|ing
<PB N="41" REF="33"> white in color, and &s;tanding in browni&s;h Husks with a &s;mal long undi|vided Leaf, under each Leaf; they &s;eldom &s;eed in our Country: its Roots are many, great and thick, blacki&s;h without, and whiti&s;h within, full of a clammi&s;h &s;ap, a piece of them if you &s;et it in the Garden, if you defend them from the fir&s;t Winters cold, wil grow and flouri&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They are only nur&s;ed up in Gardens in <HI>England,</HI> where they will grow very well.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an excellent Plant under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon:</HI> I could wi&s;h &s;uch as are &s;tudious would labor to keep it in their Gardens. The Leaves being boyled and u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters are excellent good to mollifie the belly, and make the pa&s;&s;ages &s;lippery: The Decoction drunk inwardly is excellent good for the Bloody flux.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bloody flux, Fra|ctures, di|&s;locations Kings E|vil. Burnings, Ruptures, Cramp, Gout, Di&s;ury, Hectick Feaver, Radical moi&s;ture.</NOTE> The Leaves being brui&s;ed, and rather boyled and applied like a Pultis, are exceeding good to unite broken bones, and &s;trengthen joynts that have been put out. The Decoction of either Leaves or Roots being drunk, and the decocted Leaves applied to the place, is excellent good for the Kings Evil that is broken and runneth, for by the influence of the <HI>Moon</HI> it re|viveth the ends of the Veins which are relaxed; there is &s;carce a better Remedy to be applied to &s;uch places as are burnt with fire than this is, for it fetcheth out the fire, and heals it without a &s;car: This is an excellent Remedy for &s;uch as are bur&s;ten, be|ing either taken inwardly, or applied to the place: in like man|ner u&s;ed it helps the Cramp and the Gout; it is excellent good in Hectick Feavers, and re&s;tores Radical moi&s;ture to &s;uch as are in Con&s;umptions.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Briony,</HI> or <HI>Wild Vine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is called Wild Vine, and Wood Vine, Tamus, our Ladies Seal; the white is called White Vine by &s;ome, and the black, Black Vine.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> The common white Briony groweth ramping upon the Hedges, &s;ending forth many long rough very tender Branches at the begin|ning, with many very rough broad Leaves thereon, cut (for the mo&s;t part) into five partitions, in form very like a Vine Leaf, but &s;maller, rougher, and of a whiti&s;h or hoary green color, &s;preading very far, &s;preading and twining with his &s;mal cla&s;pers (that come forth at the Joynts with the Leaves) very far on what&s;oever &s;tandeth next to it: At the &s;everal Joynts al&s;o (e&s;pecially towards the top of the Branches) cometh forth a long Stalk bearing many whiti&s;h flowers, together in a long tuft, con&s;i&s;ting of five &s;mal Leaves a|piece, laid open like a Star: after which come the Berries, &s;eparated one from another more than a Clu&s;ter of Grapes, green at the fir&s;t, and very red when they are through ripe, of no good &s;cent, but of a mo&s;t loath&s;om ta&s;t, provoking Vomit: The Root groweth to be exceeding great, with many long Twines or B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anches, growing from it of a pale whiti&s;h color on the out&s;ide, and more white within, and of a &s;harp, bitter loath&s;om ta&s;t.</P>
<PB N="42" REF="34">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Banks, or under Hedges, through this Land; the Roots lie very deep.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> &s;ome earlier, and &s;ome later than others.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are furious Martial Plants. The Roots of Briony purge the Belly with great violence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Vertigo, Flegm, Pal&s;ies, Convul&s;ion Cramp, &s;titches, Drop&s;ies, gravel, &s;tone, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Womb, mo|ther, Dead Child, Af|ter-birth, Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Sores, Can|kers, gan|grens, tet|ters, ring-worms, black &s;pots Freckles, Morphew, Lepro&s;ie, Broken Bones, &s;plinters, thorns, Whitlows or Nail-Wheals, or Andicoms.</NOTE> trou|bling the Stomach, and burning the Liver, and therefore not ra&s;hly to be taken, but being corrected is very profitable for the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head, as Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Giddine&s;s, and Swim|mings, by drawing away much Flegm and Rhewmatick humors that oppre&s;s the Head, as al&s;o the Joynts and Sinews, and is therefore good for Pal&s;ies Convul&s;ions, Cramps, and Stitches in the &s;ides, and the Drop&s;ie; and in provoking Urine it clen&s;eth the Reins and Kidnies from Gravel and Stone, by opening the Ob&s;tructions of the Spleen, and con&s;umeth the hardne&s;s and &s;wellings thereof. The Decoction of the Root in Wine drunk once a week at going to bed, clen&s;eth the Mother, and helpeth the ri&s;ing thereof, expelleth the dead Child, and Afterbirth, but is not to be u&s;ed by Women with Child, for fear of abortion; a dram of the Root in Pouder taken in white Wine bringeth down their Cour&s;es. An Electuary made of the Roots and Ho|ney, doth mightily clen&s;e the Che&s;t of rotten Flegm, and won|derfully help an old &s;trong Cough, tho&s;e that are troubled with &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and is very good for them that are brui&s;ed inwardly, to help to expel the clotted or congealed Blood. The Leaves, Fruit, and Root, do clen&s;e old and filthy &s;ores, are good again&s;t al fretting and running Cankers, Gangrenes, and Tet|ters, and therefore the Berries are by &s;ome Country People called Tetter-Berries. The Root clen&s;eth the Skin wonderfully from all black and blue &s;pots, freckles, morphew, lepro&s;ie, foul &s;cars, or other deformity what&s;oever: as al&s;o all running &s;cabs, and mangine&s;s are healed by the Pouder of the dried Root, or the Juyce thereof, but e&s;pecially by the fine white hardned Juyce: The di&s;tilled water of the Roots worketh the &s;ame effects, but more weakly. The Root brui&s;ed and applied of it &s;elf to any place where the Bones are broken, helpeth to draw them forth, as al&s;o &s;plinters and thorns in the fle&s;h; and being applied with a little Wine mixed therewith, it breaketh Boyls, and helpeth whitlows on the Joynts.</P>
<P>For all the&s;e latter beginning at Sores, Cankers, &amp;c. apply it outwardly, and take thy advice along with you, you &s;hal find in my <HI>Tran&s;lation of the London Di&s;pen&s;atory,</HI> among the Pre|parations at latter end, a Medicine called <HI>Eoecula Brioniae,</HI> take that and u&s;e it, you have the way there how to make it, and mix that with a little Hogs-Grea&s;e or other convenient Oyntment, and u&s;e it at your need.</P>
<P>As for the former Di&s;ea&s;es, where it mu&s;t be taken inwardly, it purgeth
<PB N="43" REF="34"> very violently, and needs an abler hand to correct it than mo&s;t Country people have, therefore it is a better way for them (in my opinion) to let the Simple alone, and take the Compound Water of it, mentioned in my <HI>Dispen|&s;atory,</HI> and that is far more &s;afe, being wi&s;ely corrected.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Brooklime,</HI> or <HI>Water-Pimpernel.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THis &s;endeth forth from a creeping Root, that &s;hooteth forth &s;trings at every Joynt as it runneth, divers and &s;undry green &s;talks, round and &s;appy with &s;ome branches on them, &s;omwhat broad, round, deep green, and thick Leaves &s;et by couples thereon: from the Bo&s;om whereof &s;hoot forth long Foot&s;talks, with &s;undry &s;mal blue flowers on them, that con&s;i&s;t of five &s;mal round pointed Leaves apiece.</P>
<P>There is another &s;ort nothing differing from the former, but that it is greater, and the flowers of a paler blue color.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in &s;mal &s;tanding Waters, and u&s;ually neer Water-cre&s;&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> giving Seed the next Month after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a hot and biting Martial Plant.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Blood pur|geth, ill hu|mors, &s;curvy, Di&s;ury, &s;tone, Terms provokes, Dead Child, Swellings, Inflama|tions.</NOTE> Brooklime and Watercre&s;&s;es are generally u&s;ed toge|ther in Diet Drinks with other things, &s;erving to purge the Blood and Body from ill humors that would de&s;troy health, and are helpful for the Scurvy: They do al&s;o provoke Urine, and help to break the &s;tone and pa&s;s it away; they procure Womens Cour&s;es, and expel the dead Child. Being fryed with Butter and Vineger, and applied warm, it helpeth al man|ner of Tumors or Swellings, and Inflamations.</P>
<P>Such drinks ought to be made of &s;undry Herbs according to the Malady offending, I &s;hal give a plain and ea&s;ie Rule at the latter end of this Book.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Butchers-Broom.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called Ru&s;cus, and Bru&s;cus, Knee-holm, Knee-holly, Knee-hulver, and Pettigree.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> The fir&s;t &s;hoots that &s;prout from the Root of Butchers-Broom are thick, whiti&s;h, and &s;hort, &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of A&s;paragus, but greater: the&s;e ri&s;ing up to be a foot and an half high, are &s;pread into di|vers Branches, green and &s;omwhat cre&s;ted with the roundne&s;s, tough and flexible, wheron are &s;et &s;omwhat broad and almo&s;t round hard Leavs, &s;harp and prickly pointed at the ends, of a dark green color, two for the mo&s;t part &s;et at a place, very clo&s;e or neer together; about the middle of the Leaf on the back or lower &s;ide from the middle Rib, breaketh forth a &s;mal whi|ti&s;h green flower con&s;i&s;ting of four &s;mal round pointed Leaves &s;tanding up|on little or no Foot&s;talk, and in the place whereof cometh a &s;mal round Berry, green at the fir&s;t, and red when it is ripe, wherein are two or three White, hard, round Seeds contained: The Root is thick, white, and great at
<PB N="44" REF="35"> the head, and from thence &s;endeth forth divers thick, white, long, tough &s;trings.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Cop&s;es, and upon Heaths, and wa&s;t Grounds, and oftentimes under or neer the Holly-bu&s;hes.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It &s;hooteth forth his yong Buds in the Spring, and the Berries are ripe in, or about <HI>September:</HI> The branches or leavs abiding green al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis a Plant of <HI>Mars,</HI> being of a gallant clen|&s;ing and opening quallity. The Decoction of the Roots made with Wine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructi|ons, Di&s;ury Gravel, &s;ton, &s;tran|gury, Terms provokes, Yellow-Jaundice, Headach, Flegm, Broken Bones, Di&s;locati|ons.</NOTE> openeth Ob&s;tructions, provoketh Urin, helpeth to expel Gravel and the Ston, the &s;tranguary, and Womans Cour&s;es, as al&s;o the yellow Jaundice, and the Head-ach: and with &s;ome Honey or Sugar put therunto, clen&s;eth the brea&s;t of Flegm, and the Che&s;t of much clammy humors gathered therin. The De|coction of the Roots drunk, and a Pultis made of the Berries and Leavs being applied are effectual in knitting and con&s;olidating broken Bones, or parts out of joynt. The common way of u&s;ing it, is to boyl the Roots of it and Par&s;ly, and Fennel, and Smal|lage in white Wine, and drink the Decoction, adding the like quantity of Gra&s;s-roots to them: the more of the Roots you boyl the &s;tronger wil the Decoction be, it works no ill effects, yet I hope you have wit enough to give the &s;tronge&s;t Decoction to the &s;tronge&s;t Bodies.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Broom,</HI> and <HI>Broomrape.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TO &s;pend time in wrighting a De&s;cription herof is altogether needle&s;s, it being &s;o generally u&s;ed by al the good Hu&s;wives almo&s;t through this Land to &s;weep their Hou&s;es with, and therefore very wel known to al &s;orts of people.</P>
<P>The <HI>Broomrape</HI> &s;pringeth up on many places from the Roots of the <HI>Broom</HI> (but more often in fields, as by Hedg-&s;ides, and on Heaths.) The Stalk wherof is of the bigne&s;s of a finger or thumb, above two foot high, having a &s;hew of Leavs on them, and many flowers at the top, of a deadi&s;h, yellow colour, as al&s;o the &s;talks and leavs are.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in many places of this Land commonly, and as com|monly &s;poyl al the Land they grow in.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And flower in the Summer Months, and give their &s;eed before Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Juyce, or Decoction of the yong bran|ches, or &s;eed, or the pouder of the &s;eed taken in drink, purgeth downwards, and draweth Flegmatick and watery Humors from the Joynts, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">by it helpeth the Drop&s;ie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegm, Joynts, Drop&s;ie, &s;ides, spleen Bladder, Kidnies, Stone, Di|&s;ury, black Jaundice, Agues. Toothach, Wind, Stitches, Lice,</NOTE> Gout, Sciatica, and the pains in the Hips and Joynts: It al&s;o provoketh &s;trong Vomits, and hel|peth the pains of the Sides, and &s;wellings of the Spleen, clen&s;eth al&s;o the Reins, or Kidnies and Bladder of the Stone, provoketh Urin abundantly, and hindereth the growing again of the &s;tone
<PB N="45" REF="35"> in the Body. The continual u&s;e of the Pouder of the Leavs and Seed, doth cure the black Jaundice: The Di&s;tilled water of the Flowers is profitable for al the &s;ame purpo&s;es: It al&s;o helpeth Surfets, and altereth the Fits of Agues, if three or four ounces therof, with as much of the water of the le&s;&s;er Centaury, and a little Sugar put therin be taken a little before the Fit cometh, and the party be laid down to &s;weat in their bed. The Oyl or Water that is drawn from the ends of the green &s;ticks heated in the fire, helpeth the Toothach. The juyce of the yong branches made in|to an Oyntment of old Hog&s; grea&s; and anointed, or the yong branches brui&s;ed and heated in Oyl or Hog&s;-grea&s;, and laid to the &s;ides pain|ed by wind, as in &s;titches, or the &s;pleen, ea&s;eth them in once or twice u&s;ing it: The &s;ame boyled in Oyl, is the &s;afe&s;t and &s;ure&s;t Medicin to kil Lice in the Head or Body of any: and is an e&s;pecial Remedy for joynt-aches and &s;woln knees that come by the fa&s;ling down of Humors.</P>
<P>The <HI>Broomrape</HI> al&s;o is not without his Vertues.</P>
<P>The Decoction therof in Wine is thought to be as effectual to avoid the Ston in the Kidnies and Bladder, and to provoke Urin, as the <HI>Broom</HI> it &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Di&s;ury, Green wounds,</NOTE> The juyce thereof is a &s;ingular good help to cure as wel green Wounds, as old and filthy Sores, and malignant Ulcers. The in&s;olate Oyl wherin there hath been three or four Repetitions of infu&s;ion of the top &s;talks with flowers &s;trained and cleered, clen&s;eth the skin from al manner of &s;pots, marks, and freckls that ari&s;e either by the heat of the &s;un, or the malignity of hu|mors. As for the <HI>Broom,</HI> and <HI>Broomrape, Mars</HI> owns them, and it is excee|ding prejudicial to the Liver, I &s;uppo&s;e by rea&s;on of the Antipathy between <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> therfore if the Liver be di&s;&s;affected, admini&s;ter none of it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Bucks-horn Plantane.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis being &s;own of &s;eed, ri&s;eth up at the fir&s;t with &s;mal, long, narrow, hairy, dark green leavs like gra&s;s, without any divi&s;ion or ga&s;h in them; but tho&s;e that fellow, are ga&s;hed in on both &s;ids the leavs into three or four ga&s;hes, and pointed at the ends, re&s;embling the knags of a Bucks-horn (wherof it took the name) and being wel grown round about the Root upon the ground, in order one by another, therby re&s;embling the form of it &s;tar: from among which ri&s;e up divers hairy &s;talks, about a hand breadth high, bearing every one a &s;mal long spiky head like to tho&s;e of the com|mon Plantane, having &s;uch like bloomings and &s;eed after them. The Root is &s;ingle, long, and &s;mal, with divers &s;trings at it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in dry &s;andy grounds, as in <HI>Tuttle-fields</HI> by <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter,</HI> and divers other places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower and &s;eed in <HI>May, June,</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and their green leavs do in a manner abide fre&s;h al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and is of a gallant drying and binding quallity. This boyled in Wine and drunk, and
<PB N="46" REF="36"> &s;ome of the Leavs applied to the hurt place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;ts, Stone, Stomach, Vomiting, Bleeding, Pi&s;&s;ing bloud, flux Bloudy Flux, Agues, Eyes,</NOTE> is an excellent Re|medy for the biting of the Viper or Adder, which I take to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> one and the &s;ame: The &s;ame being al&s;o drunk helpeth tho&s;e th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> are troubled with the &s;tone in the Reins or Kidnies by coolin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the heat of the parts afflicted &s;trengthening them: as al&s;o we<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;tomachs that cannot retain but ca&s;t up their Meat. It &s;tayeth a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> bleedings at Mouth and No&s;e, bloudy Urin, or the bloudy Flux, and &s;toppeth the Lask of the Belly and Bowels: The Leav<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hereof brui&s;ed and laid to their &s;ides that have an Ague, &s;udden|ly ea&s;eth the Fit: and the Leavs and Roots beaten with &s;ome Bay-&s;alt and applied to the Wri&s;ts, worketh the &s;ame effects. The Herb boyled in Ale or Wine, and given for &s;ome mornings and evenings together, &s;tayeth the di&s;tillations of hot and &s;harp Rhewms falling into the Eyes from the Head, and helpeth al &s;orts of &s;ore Eyes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Bucks-horn.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called al&s;o Harts-horn, Herba-&s;tella, and Herba-&s;tellaria, Sanguina|naria, Herb-eve, and Herb-ivy, and Wort-cre&s;&s;es and Swins-cre&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>They have many &s;mal and weak &s;tragling branches trailing here and there upon the ground: the leavs are many; &s;mal, and jagged, not much unlike to tho&s;e of</HI> Bucks-horn Plantane, <HI>but much &s;maller, and not &s;o hairy: The flowers grow among&s;t the leavs in &s;mal rough whiti&s;h clu&s;ters, the &s;eeds are &s;mal and browni&s;h, of a hoti&s;h ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in dry, barren, and &s;andy grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower and &s;eed when the re&s;t of the Plantans do.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is al&s;o under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn,</HI> the Vertues are held to be the &s;ame of Bucks-horn plantane, and therfore by al Authors, it is joyned with it, but be&s;ides tho&s;e, it is mo&s;t cer|tainly found out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleeding, Warts,</NOTE> That the Leavs being brui&s;ed, and applyed to the place, &s;top Bleeding, the herb being brui&s;ed, and applyed to Warts, wil make them con&s;ume and wax away in a &s;hort time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Bugle.</HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides the Name Bugle, it is called middle-Con&s;ond, and middle-Com|fry, brown-Bugle, and of &s;ome &s;ickl-Wort, and herb-Carpenter, though in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> we cal another herb by that name.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>This hath larger Leavs than tho&s;e of the</HI> Self-heal, <HI>but el&s;e of the &s;ame fa&s;hion, or rather a little longer, in &s;ome green on the upper &s;ide, and in others more browni&s;h, dented about the edges, &s;omwhat hairy, as the &s;quare &s;talk is al&s;o, which ri&s;eth up to be half a yard high &s;omtimes, with the leavs &s;et by couples: from the middle almo&s;t wherof upwards &s;tand the flo|wers together, with many &s;maller and browner leavs than the re&s;t on this &s;talk below, &s;et at di&s;tances, and the &s;talk bare between them, among which Flow|ers are al&s;o &s;mal ones of a blui&s;h, and &s;omtimes of an A&s;h colour, fa&s;hioned like the Flowers of the</HI> Ground-ivy, <HI>after which come &s;mal, round, blacki&s;h
<PB N="47" REF="36"> &s;eed. The Root is compo&s;ed of many &s;tring, and spreadeth upon the ground in divers parts round about.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> White-flowered Bugle <HI>differeth not in form or greatne&s;s from the for|mer, &s;aving that the Leavs and &s;talks are alwaies green and never brown, like the other, and that the Flowers therof are white.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in Woods, wet Cop&s;es, and Fields generally through|out <HI>England;</HI> but the white flowred Bugle is not &s;o plentiful as the other.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower from <HI>May</HI> until <HI>July,</HI> and in the mean time per|fect their Seed. The Roots and Leavs next therunto upon the ground abi|ding all Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues]</HI> This Herb is belonging to Dame <HI>Venus,</HI> if the Vertues of it make you in love with it, (as they wil if you be wi&s;e) keep a Syrup of it to take inwardly, and an Oyntment and Plai&s;ter of it to u&s;e outwardly alwaies by you.</P>
<P>The Decoction of the Leavs and Flowers made in Wine and taken di&s;&s;olveth the congealed Blood in tho&s;e that are brui&s;ed inwardly by a Fall or otherwi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brui&s;es, Falls, Wounds, Scabs, Ulcers, Liver-grown, gangrenes, Fi&s;tulaes, Sore Mouths, Gums, Sores in the &s;ecrets broken bones,</NOTE> and is very effectual for any in|ward Wounds, Thru&s;ts or Stabs into the Body or Bowels, and is an e&s;pecial help in all Wound-drinks, and for tho&s;e that are Liver-grown (as they call it.) It is wonderful in curing all manner of Ulcers and Sores whether new and fre&s;h, or old and inveterate, yea, Gangrenes and Fi&s;tulaes al&s;o, if the Leavs brui|&s;ed be applied, or their Juyce u&s;ed to wa&s;h and bath the places. And the &s;ame made into a Lotion with &s;ome Honey and Allum, cureth all &s;ores of the Mouth or Gums be they never &s;o foul, or of long continuance; and worketh no le&s;s powerfully and effe|ctually for &s;uch Ulcers and Sores as happen in the &s;ecret parts of Men or Women: Being al&s;o taken inwardly, or outwardly ap|plied, it helpeth tho&s;e that have broken any Bone, or have any Member out of Joynt. An Oyntment made with the Leavs of Bugle, Scabious and Sanicle brui&s;ed and boyled in Hogs Grea&s;, until the Herbs be dry, and then &s;trained forth into a Pot, for &s;uch occa&s;ions as &s;hal require it, is &s;o &s;ingular good for al &s;orts of hurts in the Body, that none that know its u&s;efulne&s;s wil be without it.</P>
<P>The truth is, I have known this Herb cure &s;ome Di&s;ea&s;es of <HI>Saturn,</HI> of which I thought good to quote one. Many times &s;uch as give them&s;elves much to drinking are troubled with &s;trange Fancies, &s;trange &s;ights in the night time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mares, &s;trange Sights in the night.</NOTE> and &s;ome with Voyces, as al&s;o with the Di&s;ea&s; <HI>Ephialtes</HI> or <HI>the Mare.</HI> I take the Rea&s;on of this to be (according to <HI>Fernelius</HI>) a Melancholly vapor made thin by ex|ce&s;&s;ive drinking &s;trong Liquor, and &s;o flies up and di&s;turbs the Fancy, and breeds imaginations like its &s;elf, <HI>viz.</HI> fearful and trouble&s;om: The&s;e I have known cured by taking only two &s;poonfuls of the Syrup of this Herb, after Supper two hours when you go to bed. But whether this do it by <HI>Sympathy</HI> or <HI>Antipathy</HI> is &s;ome que&s;tion; all that know any thing in <HI>A&s;trologie,</HI> know that there is a great Antipathy between <HI>Saturn</HI>
<PB N="48" REF="37"> and <HI>Venus</HI> in matter of Procreation, yea, &s;uch an one, that the barrenne&s;s of <HI>Saturn</HI> can be removed by none but <HI>Venus,</HI> nor the lu&s;t of <HI>Venus</HI> be repel|by none but <HI>Saturn;</HI> but I am not yet of opinion this is done this way: and my rea&s;on is, becau&s;e the&s;e vapors though in quality Melancholly, yet by their flying upward &s;eem to be &s;omthing <HI>A&euml;rial,</HI> therfore I rather think it is done by &s;impathy, <HI>Saturn</HI> being exalted in Libra the hou&s;e of <HI>Venus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Burnet.</HEAD>
<P>IT is al&s;o called Sanguiforba, Pimpinella, Bipenula, Solba&s;trella, &amp;c. The common Garden Burnet is &s;o wel known, that it needeth no Di&s;cription. There is another &s;ort which is wild, the de&s;cription wherof take as followeth.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The great wild Burnet, hath winged leavs ri&s;ing from the roots like the Garden Burnet, but not &s;o many, yet each of the&s;e leavs are at the lea&s;t twice as large as the other, and nicked in the &s;ame manner about the edges, of a grayi&s;h colour on the under&s;ide: the Stalks are greater and ri&s;e higher, with many &s;uch like leavs &s;et theron, and greater heads at the tops of a browni&s;h green colour, and out of them come &s;mal, dark, purple Flowers, like the former, but greater. The Root is black and long, like the other, but greater al&s;o: It hath almo&s;t neither &s;cent nor ta&s;t therin, like the garden kind.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t grows frequently in Gardens. The Wild kind groweth in divers Countries of this Land, e&s;pecially in <HI>Huntington</HI> and <HI>Northampt|on-&s;hires</HI> in the Meadows there: as al&s;o neer <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Pancras-Church,</HI> and by a Cau&s;ey-&s;ide in the middle of a Field by <HI>Paddington.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about the end of <HI>June</HI> and beginning of <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is an Herb the <HI>Sun</HI> challengeth domini|on over, and is a mo&s;t precious Herb, little inferior to <HI>Betony:</HI> The con|tinual u&s;e of it pre&s;ervs the Body in health, and the Spirits in vigor: for if the <HI>Sun</HI> be the pre&s;erver of Life under God, his Herbs are the be&s;t in the World to do it by. They are accounted to be both of one pro|perty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heart, Liver, melancolly Pe&s;tilence, epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es, Bleeding, Stoppeth Terms, &amp; Whites, Belching, Vomiting, Wounds, &V;lcers, Cankers, Sores, Fluxes,</NOTE> but the le&s;&s;er is more effectual, becau&s;e quicker, and more Aromatical: It is a friend to the Heart, Liver, and other the principal parts of a mans Body. Two or three of the Stalks with Leavs put into a Cup of Wine, e&s;pecially Clarret, are known to quicken the Spirits, refre&s;h and cheer the Heart, and drive away Melancholly: It is a &s;pecial help to defend the Heart from noi|&s;om vapors, and from infection of the Pe&s;tilence, the juyce ther|of being taken in &s;ome Drink, and the party laid to &s;weat therup|on. They have al&s;o a drying, and an a&s;tringent quality, wherby they are available in al manner of Fluxes of Bloud or Humors, to &s;tanch bleedings inward or outward, Lasks, Scourings, the Bloudy-flux, Womens too abundant Cour&s;es, the Whites, and the Chollerick Belchings and Ca&s;tings of the Stomach: and is a &s;ingular Wound-herb for al &s;orts of Wounds both of the Head and Body, either inward or outward: for al old Ulcers, or run|ning Cankers, and moi&s;t Sores, to be u&s;ed either by the juyce, or
<PB N="49" REF="37"> Decoction of the Herb, or by the Pouder of the Herb or Root, or the Wa|ter of the di&s;tilled Herb, or Oyntment by it &s;elf, or with other things to be kept. The &s;eed is al&s;o no le&s;s effectual both to &s;top Fluxes and dry up moi&s;t Sores, being taken in pouder inwardly, in Wine or &s;teeled Water, that is, wherin hot Gads of Steel have been quenched. Or the pouder of the &s;eed mixed with the Oyntments.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Butter-Bur,</HI> or <HI>Peta&s;itis.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis ri&s;eth up in</HI> February, <HI>with a thick Stalk about a foot high, wheron are &s;et a few &s;mal Leavs, or rather pieces, and at the tops, a long spiked head of Flowers, of a blu&s;h, or deep red colour, according to the &s;oyl wherin it groweth: and before the &s;talk with the flow|ers have abidden a month above ground, wil be withered and gon, blown a|way with the Wind; and the Leavs wil begin to spring, which being ful grown are very larg and broad, being &s;omWhat thin and almo&s;t round, who&s;e thick red foot &s;talks, about a foot long, &s;tand towards the midle of the leavs: The lower part being divided into two round parts, clo&s;e almo&s;t one to ano|ther, and of a pale green colour, and hoary underneath. The Root is long and &s;preading under ground, being in &s;ome places no bigger than ones finger, in o|thers much bigger, blacki&s;h on the out-&s;ide, and white within, of a bitter and unplea&s;ant ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> They grow in low and wet grounds by Rivers and Wa|ters-&s;ides: Their Flowers (as is &s;aid) ri&s;ing and decaying in <HI>February</HI> and <HI>March,</HI> before the Leavs which appear in <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and therfore is a great &s;trengthener of the Heart, and cheer of the Vital Spirits.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plague, epide|mical di&s;ea&s;es, Poy&s;on, Mother Wheezing, Dif|ficulty of brea|thing, Di&s;ury, terms provoks, Flat and broad Worms, Blemi|&s;hes of the skin</NOTE> The Roots herof are by long experience found to be very available again&s;t the Plague and Pe&s;tilenti|al Feavers, by provoking Sweat: if the Pouder therof be ta|ken in Wine, it al&s;o re&s;i&s;teth the force of any other Poy|&s;on. The Root herof taken with <HI>Zedoary</HI> and <HI>Angelica,</HI> or without them, helps the ri&s;ing of the Mother: The Deco|ction of the Root in Wine, is &s;ingular good for tho&s;e that Wheeze much, or are &s;hort-winded. It provoketh Urin al&s;o and Womens-cour&s;es, and killeth the Flat and broad worms in the Belly. The Pouder of the Root doth wonflerfully help to dry up the moi&s;ture of &s;ores that are hard to be cured, and taketh away al &s;pots and blemi&s;hes of the skin. It were wel if Gentlewomen would keep this Root pre&s;erved, to help their poor neighbors: <HI>It is fit the Rich &s;hould help the poor, for the poor cannot help them&s;elves.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Bur-Dock.</HEAD>
<P>THey are al&s;o called Per&s;onata Bardona, and Lappa Major, great Bur Bur-dock, and clot-Bur. It is &s;o wel known, even to the little Boys, who pul of the Burs, to throw and &s;tick upon one another, that I &s;hal &s;pare to write any De&s;cription of it.</P>
<PB N="50" REF="38">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow plentifully by Ditches and Water-&s;ides, and by the High-waies almo&s;t every where through this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> challengeth this herb for her own, and by its Leaf or Seed you may draw the Womb which way you plea&s;e, either upward by applying it to the Crown of the Head, in ca&s;e it fal out: or downwards in fits of the Mother, by applying it to the Soals of the Feet: Or if you would &s;tay it in its place, apply it to the Navel, and that is one good way to &s;tay the Child in it. See more of it in my <HI>Guid for Women.</HI> The <HI>Bur Leavs</HI> are cooling, moderatly drying, and di&s;cu&s;&s;ing withal, wherby it is good for old Ulcers and Sores: A dram of the Roots taken with Pine Kernels, helpeth them that &s;pit foul, mattery, and bloudy Flegm: The Leavs applied on the places troubled with the &s;hrinking of the Sinews or Arteries,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cools, Dryes, &V;lcers, Sores, Flegm, Sinews, Arteries, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Mad-Dogs Di&s;ury, Bladder, Sciatica, Burning, Sores, Cankers, Con&s;ump|tion, Stone, Flux,</NOTE> give much ea&s;e: The juyce of the leavs or rather the Roots them&s;elves given to drink with old Wine, doth wonderfully help the bitings of any Serpents: And the Root beaten with a little &s;alt and laid on the place, &s;uddainly ea&s;eth the pain therof, and helpeth tho&s;e that are bit with a mad-Dog. The juyce of the Leavs taken with Hony, provoketh Urin, and remedieth the pain of the Bladder. The Seed being drunk in Wine forty dayes together, doth wonderfully help the Sciatica. The Leavs brui&s;ed with the White of an Egg, and applied to any place burnt with Fire, taketh out the Fire, gives &s;uddain ea&s;e, and heals it up afterwards. The Decoction of them fo|mented on any fretting Sore or Canker, &s;tayeth the corroding quality, which mu&s;t be afterwards anointed with an Oyntment made of the &s;ame Liquor, Hogs-grea&s;e, Nitre, and Vinegar, boyled together. The Roots may be pre&s;erved with Sugar, and taken fa&s;ting, or at other times for the &s;aid purpo&s;es, and for Con&s;umptions, the Stone, and the Lask. The Seed is much commended to break the Stone, and cau&s;e it to be expelled by Urin, &amp; is often u&s;ed with other &s;eeds &amp; things to that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cabbages,</HI> and <HI>Coleworts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Shal &s;pare a labor in writing a De&s;cription of the&s;e, &s;ith almo&s;t every one that can but write at al may de&s;cribe them from his own knowledge, they being generally &s;o wel known that De&s;criptions are altogether needle&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e are generally planted in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Their flowring time is towards the middle or end of <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Cabbages</HI> or <HI>Coleworts</HI> boyled gently in Broth and eaten, do open the Body, but the &s;econd Decoction doth bind the Body. The juyce therof drunk in Wine, helpeth tho&s;e that are bitten by an Adder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;ts, Terms provokes, Hoarfne&s;s, Con&s;ump|tion, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Stone, Sight, Canker, Surfets, Swellings, Gout, Sores, Scabs, Wheals, melancolly, Wind.</NOTE> and the Decoction of the Flowers bringeth down womens Cour&s;es. Being taken with Hony, it recovereth Hoar&s;ne&s;s or lo&s;s of the voice. The often eating of them wel boyled, helpeth tho&s;e that are entring into a Con&s;umption. The
<PB N="51" REF="38"> Pulp of the middle Ribs of Coleworts boyled in Almond-milk and made up into an Electuary with Hony, being taken often, is very profitable for tho&s;e that are pur&s;ie and &s;hort-winded. Be|ing boyled twice, and an old Cock boyled in the Broth, and drunk, it helpeth the pains and Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, and the Stone in the Kidnies. The Juyce boyled with Hony, and dropped into the corner of the Eye, cleereth the &s;ight, by con&s;uming any Film or cloud beginning to dim it; it al&s;o con&s;umeth the Canker growing therin. They are much com|mended being eaten before meat to keep one from Surfeting, as al&s;o from being drunk with too much Wine, or quickly make a man &s;ober again that is drunk before. For (as they &s;ay) there is &s;uch an <HI>Antipathy</HI> or enmity between the Vine and the Cole|wort, that the one wil die where the other groweth. The De|coction of Coleworts taketh away the pain and ach, and allayeth the &s;wellings of &s;woln and gouty Legs and Knees, wherin many gro&s;s and watry humors are fallen, the place being bathed therwith warm: It helpeth al&s;o old and filthy &s;ores being wa&s;hed therwith, and healeth al &s;mal &s;cabs, pu&s;hes, and wheals that break out in the skin. The a&s;hes of Colewort &s;talks mixed with old Hogs-grea&s;e, are very effectual to anoint the &s;ides of tho&s;e that have had long pains therin, or any other place pained with Me|lancholly and windy humors. This was &s;urely <HI>Chry&s;ippus</HI> his god, and ther|fore he wrote a whole Volumn of them and their Vertues, and that none of the lea&s;t neither, for he would be no &s;mal Fool, he apropriates them to eve|ry part of the Body, and to every Di&s;ea&s;e in every part: and hone&s;t old <HI>Ca|to</HI> (they &s;ay) u&s;ed no other Phy&s;ick, I know not what Mettals their Bodies were made of, this I am &s;ure, Cabbages are extream windy, whether you take them as Meat, or as Medicine, yea as windy meat as can be eaten, un|le&s;s you eat Baggipes or Bellows, and they are but &s;eldom eaten in our daies, and Colewort-flowers are &s;omthing more tollerable, and the whol&s;omer food of the two. The <HI>Moon</HI> challengeth the Dominion of the Herb.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Sea Colewort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption. <HI>THis hath divers &s;omwhat long and broad, large thick wrink|led Leavs, &s;omwhat crumpled upon the edges, growing each upon a &s;everal thick Foot&s;talk very brittle, of a grayi&s;h green color. From a|mong which ri&s;eth up a &s;trong thick &s;talk, two foot high and better, with &s;ome Leavs theron to the top, where it brancheth forth much; and on every Branch, &s;tandeth a large bu&s;h of pale whiti&s;h Flowers, con&s;i&s;ting of four Leavs apiece: The Root is &s;omwhat great, and &s;hooteth forth many bran|ches under ground, keeping the green Leaves all the Winter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in many places upon the Sea Coa&s;ts, as wel on the Kenti&s;h, as E&s;&s;ex Shores; as at <HI>Lidd</HI> in <HI>Kent, Coleche&s;ter</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and divers other places, and in other Countries of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower and Seed about the time that other kinds do.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> claims the Dominion of the&s;e
<PB N="52" REF="39"> al&s;o. The Broth, or fir&s;t Decoction of the Sea Colewort, doth by the &s;harp,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sores, Wounds, &V;lcers, Swellings, Inflama|tions.</NOTE> nitrous, and bitter qualities therin, open the Bel|ly and purge the Body, it clen&s;eth and dige&s;teth more powerful|ly than the other kind: The Seed hereof brui&s;ed and drunk, killeth Worms. The Leavs or the Juyce of them applied to Sores or Ulcers clen&s;eth and healeth them, and di&s;&s;olveth Swel|lings, and taketh away Inflamations.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Calamint,</HI> Or <HI>Mountain Mint.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cri|ption.] <HI>THis is a &s;mal Herb &s;eldom ri&s;ing above a foot high, with &s;quare, hoary, and woody Stalks, and two &s;mal hoary Leavs &s;et at a joynt, about the bigne&s;s of Marjoram, or not much bigger, a little dented about the edges, and of a very fierce or quick &s;cent, as the whol Herb is: The Flowers &s;tand at &s;everal &s;paces of the Stalks from the middle al|mo&s;t upwards, which are &s;mal and gaping like to tho&s;e Mints, and of a pale blu&s;h color; after which follow &s;mal, round, blacki&s;h Seeds: The Root is &s;mal and woody, with divers &s;mal &s;prigs &s;preading within the ground, and dieth not, but abideth many yeers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Heaths, and Upland dry grounds, in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and a &s;trong one too, therfore excellent good in all afflictions of the Brain. The Decoction of the Herb being drunk,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms provokes, Di&s;ury, Ruptures, Convul|&s;ions, Cramps, Shortne&s;s of breath, Jaundice, Vomiting, Worms, Lepro&s;ie, Serpents, Black and blue, Marks, Scars, Sciatica, Ob&s;tructi|on of the Liver and Spleen, Teriian Agues, Gall, Cough, Bowels, Spleen.</NOTE> bringeth down Wo|mens Cour&s;es and provoketh Urin: It is profitable for tho&s;e that are Bur&s;ten, or troubled with Convul&s;ions or Cramps, with &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, or chollerick torments and pains in their Bellies or Stomachs; it al&s;o helpeth the yellow Jaundice, and &s;tayeth Vomiting, being taken in Wine; taken with Salt and Honey, it killeth all manner of Worms in the Body: it helpeth &s;uch as have the Lepro&s;ie, either taken inwardly, drin|king Whey after it, or the green Herb outwardly applied: It hindreth conception in Women: being either burned, or &s;trew|ed in the Chamber, it driveth away Venemous Serpents. It takes away black and blue marks in the Face, and maketh black Scars become wel colored, if the green Herb (not the dry) be boyled in Wine, and laid to the place, or the place wa&s;hed ther|with. Being applied to the Hucklebone, by continuance of time, it &s;pendeth the humors which cau&s;ed the pain of the Scia|tica. The Juyce dropped into the Ears killeth the Worms in them: The Leavs boyled in Wine and drunk, provoketh &s;weat, and openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen; it helpeth them that have a Tertian Ague (the Body being fir&s;t purged) by taking away the cold Fits. The Decoction hereof with &s;ome Sugar put therto afterwards, is very profitable for tho&s;e that be troubled with the overflowing of the Gall, and that have an
<PB N="53" REF="39"> old Cough, and that are &s;carce able to breath by the &s;hortne&s;s of their wind: That have any cold di&s;temper in their Bowels, and are troubled with the hardne&s;s of the Spleen, for all which purpo&s;es, both the Pouder called <HI>Diacalaminthes,</HI> and the Com|pound Syrup of Calamint (which are to be had at the Apotheca|ries) are mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>Let not Women be too bu&s;ie with it, for it works very vio|lently upon the Foeminine parts.</P>
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<HEAD>Chamomel.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known every where that it is but lo&s;t time and labor to de&s;cribe it. The Vertues whereof are as followeth:</P>
<P>A Decoction made of <HI>Chamomel</HI> and drunk, taketh away all pains and Stitches in the Sides.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stitches in the Side. Agues, Liver, Spleen, Wearine&s;s, Sinews, Swellings, Chollick, Stone, Belly-ach, Cold, Ach, Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, Brain, Cramp, Stitch in the Side.</NOTE> The Flowers of Chamomel beaten and made up into Bals with Oyl driveth away all &s;orts of Agues; if the party grieved be anointed with that Oyl taken from the Flowers, from the Crown of the Head to the Soal of the Foot, and afterwards laid to &s;weat in his bed, and that he &s;weat wel: This is <HI>Niche&s;&s;or</HI> an Egyptians Medicine. It is profitable for all &s;orts of Agues that come either from Flegm or Melancholly, or from an inflamation of the Bowels being ap|plied when the humors cau&s;ing them &s;hall be concocted; and there is nothing more profitable to the &s;ides and Region of the Liver and Spleen than it. The bathing with a Decoction of Chamomel taketh away wearine&s;s, ea&s;eth pains to what part of the Body &s;oever they be applied: it comforteth the Sinews that are over &s;trained, mollifieth al Swellings: It moderately com|forteth al parts that have need of warmth, dige&s;teth and di&s;&s;ol|veth what&s;oever hath need thereof by a wonderful &s;peedy pro|perty. It ea&s;eth all the pains of the Chollick and Stone, and al pains and torments of the Belly, and gently provoketh Urin. The Flowers boyled in Po&s;&s;et Drink provoketh Sweat, and hel|peth to expel Colds, Aches, and Pains, wher&s;oever, and is an excellent help to bring down Womens Cour&s;es. A Syrup made of the Juyce of Chamo|mel with the Flowers and white Wine, is a Remedy again&s;t the Jaundice and Drop&s;ie. The Flowers boyled in a Ly, are good to wa&s;h the Head, and comfort both it and the Brain. The Oyl made of the Flowers of Chamo|mel is much u&s;ed again&s;t all hard &s;wellings, pains, or aches, &s;hrinking of the Sinews, or Cramps, or pains in the Joynts, or any other part of the Body; being u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters, it helpeth to di&s;&s;olve wind and pains in the Belly; anointed al&s;o, it helpeth Stitches and pains in the Sides.</P>
<P><HI>Niche&s;&s;or</HI> &s;aith the Egyptians dedicated it to the <HI>Sun</HI> becau&s;e it cured A|gues; and they were like enough to do it, for they were the arr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nte&s;t Apes in their Religion that ever I read of. <HI>Bacchinus, Pena,</HI> and <HI>Lob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l,</HI> commend the Syrup made of the Juyce of it and Sugar taken inwardly, to be excellent for the Spleen. Al&s;o this is certain, that it mo&s;t wonderfully breaks the
<PB N="54" REF="40"> Stone: &s;ome take it in Syrup or Decoction, others inject the Juyce of it into the Bladder with a Syringe; my opinion is, That the Salt of it taken half a dram in a morning, in a little White or Rheni&s;h Wine, is better than either: that it is excellent for the Stone appears by this, which I have &s;een tried, <HI>viz.</HI> That a Stone that hath been taken out of the Body of a Man being wrapped in Chamomel will in time di&s;&s;olve, and in a little time too.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Water-Caltrops.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THey are called al&s;o,</HI> Tribulus Aquaticus, Tribulus Lacu&s;tris, <HI>and</HI> Tribulus Macinus, Caltrops, Saligot, Water Nuts, <HI>and</HI> Water Che&s;|nuts,</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> As for the greater &s;ort, or <HI>Water-Caltrop,</HI> it is not found here, or very rarely; two other &s;orts there are which I &s;hall here de&s;cribe: The fir&s;t hath a long, creeping, and joynted Root, &s;ending forth tufts at each joynt, from which joynts ari&s;e long, flat, &s;lender, knotted Stalks even to the top of the Water, divided towards the top into many branches, each car|rying two Leaves on both &s;ides, being about two inches long, and half an inch broad, thin, and almo&s;t tran&s;parent, they look as though they were torn, the Flowers are long, thick, and whiti&s;h, &s;et together almo&s;t like a bunch of Grapes, which being gone there &s;ucceed for the mo&s;t part four &s;harp pointed grains, altogether containing a &s;mal white Kernel in them.</P>
<P>The &s;econd differs not much from this, &s;ave that it delights in more cleer Water, its Stalks are not flat but round, its Leaves are not &s;o long, but more pointed; as for the place we need not determin, for their Name &s;heweth they grow in the Water.</P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] <HI>They are under the Domi|nion of the</HI> Moon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamations, cankers, mouth, throat, gums, Almonds of the Ears, Kings Evil, Stone, Gravel, Vene|mous Bea&s;ts, Poy&s;on.</NOTE> <HI>and being made into a Pultice, is excel|lent good for hot inflamations, and &s;wellings, cankers, &s;ore mouths and throats, being wa&s;hed with the Decoction, it clen&s;eth and &s;trengthneth the neck and throat much, and helps tho&s;e &s;wellings, which when people have, they &s;ay the Almonds of the Ears are fallen down; it is excellent good for the rankne&s;s of the Gums, a &s;afe and pre&s;ent Remedy for the Kings Evil; they are excellent good for the &s;tone and gravel, e&s;pecially the Nuts being dryed; they al&s;o re|&s;i&s;t poy&s;on, and bitings of venemous Bea&s;ts.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Campions Wild.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cri|ption.]</HI> THe white wild Campion hath many long and &s;omwhat broad dark green Leavs, lying upon the ground with divers Ribs therein, &s;omwhat like Plantane, but &s;omwhat hairy, broader, and not &s;o long: The hairy Stalks ri&s;e up in the middle of them three or four foot high, and &s;omtimes more, with divers great white joynts at &s;everal places thereon, and two &s;uch like Leavs thereat up to the top, &s;ending forth branches at &s;everal joynts al&s;o; all which bear on &s;everal foot&s;talks white flowers at the tops of them, con&s;i&s;ting of five broad pointed Leaves, every one cut in on the end un|to
<PB N="55" REF="40"> the middle, making them &s;eem to be two apiece, &s;melling &s;omwhat &s;weet, and each of them &s;tanding in large green &s;triped hairy Husks, large and round below next to the &s;talk: The Seed is &s;mal and grayi&s;h in the hard Heads that come up afterwards: The Root is white and long, &s;preading divers fangs in the ground.</P>
<P>The Red wild Campion groweth in the &s;ame manner as the white, but his Leavs are not &s;o plainly Ribbed, &s;omwhat &s;horter, rounder, and more woolly in handling: The Flowers are of the &s;ame form and bigne&s;s, but in &s;ome of a pale, in others of a bright red color, cut in at ends more finely, which ma|keth the Leavs &s;eem more in number than the other. The Seed and the Roots are alike: The Roots of both &s;orts abiding many ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs.</P>
<P>There are forty five kinds of Campions more, tho&s;e of them which are of Phy&s;ical u&s;es having the like vertues with the&s;e above de&s;cribed, which I take to be the two chiefe&s;t kinds.</P>
<P>Place.] <HI>They grow commonly through this Land by Fields, Hedg-&s;ides, and Ditches.</HI></P>
<P>Time.] <HI>They flower in Summer, &s;ome earlier than others, and &s;ome a|biding longer than others.</HI></P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] <HI>They belong unto</HI> Saturn, <HI>and it is found by experience that the Decoction of the Herb,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleeding inward &amp; outward, Di&s;ury, Gravel, Choller, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Plague, Sores, &V;lcers, Cankers, Fi&s;tulaes.</NOTE> <HI>either the White or Red being drunk, doth &s;tay inward bleedings; and applied outwardly it doth the like: And being drunk helpeth to expel the Urin being &s;topp'd, and Gravel or the Stone in the Reins or Kidnies. Two drachms of the Seed drunk in Wine, purgeth the Body of Chollerick Humors, and hel|peth tho&s;e that are &s;tung by Scorpions, or other Venemous Bea&s;ts; and may be as effectual for the Plague: It is of very good u&s;e in old Sores, Ulcers, Cankers, Fi&s;tulaes, and the like, to clen&s;e and heal them, by con&s;uming the moi&s;t hu|mors falling into them, and correcting the putrifaction of Hu|mors offending them.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Carduus Benedictus</HEAD>
<P>IT is called Carduus Benedictus, or ble&s;&s;ed Thi&s;tle, or holy Thi&s;tle; I &s;uppo&s;e the name was put upon it by &s;ome that had little Holine&s;s in them&s;elves.</P>
<P>I &s;hal &s;pare a labor in writing a De&s;cription of this, &s;ith almo&s;t every one that can but write at all may de&s;cribe them from his own knowledg.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plenitfully in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and &s;eed not long after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mars,</HI> and under the Sign <HI>Aries:</HI> Now in handling this Herb, I &s;hall give you a rational Pattern of all the re&s;t, and if you plea&s;e to view them throughout the Book, you &s;hall to your content find it true. It helps &s;wimmings and giddine&s;s of the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vertigo, yell-jaund.</NOTE> or the Di&s;ea&s;e called Vertigo, becau&s;e <HI>Aries</HI> is in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Mars.</HI> It is an excellent Remedy again&s;t the yel|low
<PB N="56" REF="41"> Jaundice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Attractive fa|culty, Tetters, Ringworms, Plague-&s;ores, Boyls, Itch, mad Dogs, Ve|nemous Bea&s;ts.</NOTE> and other Infirmities of the Gall, becau&s;e <HI>Mars</HI> governs Choller. It &s;trengthens the attractive facul|ty in man, and clarifies the blood, becau&s;e the one is ruled by <HI>Mars.</HI> The continual drinking the Decoction of it helps red Faces, Tetters, and Ringworms, becau&s;e <HI>Mars</HI> cau&s;eth them. It helps Plague-&s;ores, Boyls, and Itch, the bitings of mad Dogs, and venemous Bea&s;ts, all which in|firmities are under <HI>Mars.</HI> Thus you &s;ee what it doth by Sympathy.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">French Pox, &s;trengthens me|mory, Deafne&s;s, quartan Agues adu&s;t Choller, Urine.</NOTE>By Antipathy to other Planets, It cures the French Pox by Antipathy to <HI>Venus</HI> who governs it. It &s;trengthens the Memory, and cures Deafne&s;s by Antipathy to <HI>Saturn</HI> who hath his Fall in <HI>Aries</HI> which he Rules the Head. It cures Quartan Agues, and other Di&s;ea&s;es of Melancholly and a|du&s;t Choller by Sympathy to <HI>Saturn, Mars</HI> being exalted in <HI>Capricorn.</HI> Al&s;o it provokes Urin, the &s;topping of which is u&s;ually cau&s;ed by <HI>Mars,</HI> or the <HI>Moon.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Carrots.</HEAD>
<P>THe Garden kind are &s;o well known that they need no De&s;cription; but becau&s;e they are of le&s;s Phy&s;ical u&s;e than the wild kind (as in|deed almo&s;t in all Herbs the Wild are mo&s;t effectual in Phy&s;ick, as being more powerful in operation than the Garden kinds) I &s;hall therfore briefly de&s;cribe the wild Carrot.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>It groweth in a manner altogether like the Tame, but that the Leavs and Stalks are &s;omwhat whiter and rougher: The Stalks bear large tufts of white Flowers, with a deep purple &s;pot in the middle, which are contracted together when the Seed begins to ripen, that the middle part being hollow and low, and the outer Stalks ri&s;ing high, maketh the whol &V;mbel to &s;hew like a Birds ne&s;t. The Root is &s;mal, long, and hard, unfit for meat, being &s;omwhat &s;harp and &s;trong.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Wild kind groweth in divers parts of this Land plentifully by the Fields &s;ides, and in untilled places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower and Seed in the end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Wild Carrots belong to <HI>Mercury,</HI> and ther|fore breaketh Wind, and removeth Stitches in the &s;ides, provo|keth Urin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wind, Stitches, provokas Urin and the Terms, Stone, Drop&s;ie, Chollick, Barrenne&s;s Ulcers.</NOTE> and Womens Cour&s;es, and helpeth to break and ex|pel the Stone: The Seed al&s;o of the &s;ame worketh the like ef|fect, and is good for the Drop&s;ie, and tho&s;e who&s;e Bellies are &s;wollen with wind; helpeth the Chollick, the Stone in the Kidneys, and the ri&s;ing of the Mother, being taken in Wine, or boyled in Wine and taken; and helpeth conception. The Leavs being applied with Honey to running Sores or Ulcers, doth clen&s;e them.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e the Seeds of them perform this better than the Roots; And though <HI>Galen</HI> commend Garden Carrots highly,
<PB N="57" REF="41"> to break wind; yet experience teacheth, that they breed it fir&s;t; and we may thank Nature for expelling it, not they: The Seeds of them expel Wind indeed, and &s;o mend what the Root marreth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Caraway.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript. <HI>IT beareth divers &s;talks of fine cut Leavs lying upon the ground &s;omwhat like to the Leavs of Carrots, but not bu&s;hing &s;o thick, of a little quick ta&s;t in them, from among which ri&s;eth up a &s;quare &s;talk not &s;o high as the Carrot, at Who&s;e joynts are &s;et the like Leavs, but &s;maller and finer, and at the top &s;mal open tufts or umbels of white Flowers, which turn into &s;mal blacki&s;h &s;eed &s;maller than the Annis-&s;eed, and of a quicker and botter ta&s;t. The Root is whiti&s;h, &s;mal, and long, &s;omwhat like unto a Par&s;nip, but with more wrinkled Bark, and much le&s;s, of a little hot and quick ta&s;t, and &s;tronger than the Par&s;nip, and abideth after Seed-time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is u&s;ually &s;own with us in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and &s;eed quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is al&s;o a Mercurial Plant. Caraway Seed hath a moderate &s;harp quality whereby it breaketh Wind, and provoketh Urin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wind, Di&s;ury, Indige&s;tio~ Head, Stomach, Bowels, Mother, Black and blue &s;pots, Brui&s;es, Chollick,</NOTE> which al&s;o the Herb doth. The Root is better food than the Par&s;nip, and is plea&s;ant and comfortable to the Stomach, helping dige&s;tion. The Seed is conducing to all the cold griefs of Head and Stomach, the Bowels or Mother, as al&s;o the wind in them, and helpeth to &s;harpen the Eye-&s;ight. The Pouder of the Seed put into a Pultis, taketh away black and blue &s;pots of blows and brui&s;es. The Herb it &s;elf, or with &s;ome of the Seed brui&s;ed and fryed, laid hot in a bag or double cloth to the lower parts of the Belly, ea&s;eth the pains of the wind Cholleck.</P>
<P>The Roots of Caraways, eaten as men eat Par&s;nips, &s;treng|then the Stomachs of ancient people exceedingly, and they need not make a whol meal of them neither, and are fit to be planted in e|very ones Garden.</P>
<P>Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a Spoonful of them eaten in the morning fa&s;ting, and as many after each meal is a mo&s;t admirable Remedy for &s;uch as are troubled with wind.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Celondine.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath divers tender, round, whiti&s;h, green Stalks, with greater joynts than ordinary in other Herbs, as it were Knees, very brittle and ea&s;ie to break, from whence grow Branches with large tender long Leavs, much divided into many parts, eaih of them cut in on the edges, &s;et at the joynts on both &s;ides of the Branches, of a dark blui&s;h green color on the uper &s;ide like Columbines, and of a more pale, blui&s;h green underneath, full of a yellow &s;ap, when any part is broken, of a bitter ta&s;t, and &s;trong &s;cent. At the tops of the Branches which are much divided, grow gold yellow flowers of four leavs apiece, after which come &s;mal long
<PB N="58" REF="42"> Pods, with blacki&s;h Seed therein. The Root is &s;omwhat great at the head, &s;hooting forth divers other long Roots and &s;mal Strings, reddi&s;h on the out|&s;ide, and yellow within, full of a yellow &s;ap therein.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places by old Walls, by the Hedges, and way &s;ides in untilled places; and being once planted in a Garden, e&s;pecially in &s;ome &s;hady place, it will remain there.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower all the Summer long, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and under the Coele&s;tial <HI>Lyon,</HI> and is one of the be&s;t cures for the Eyes that is. All that know any thing in <HI>A&s;trologie,</HI> know as wel as I can tel them, That the Eyes are &s;ubject to the <HI>Luminaries;</HI> let it then be gathered when the <HI>Sun</HI> is in <HI>Leo,</HI> and the <HI>Moon</HI> in <HI>Aries</HI> applying to his Trine; let <HI>Leo</HI> ari&s;e, then may you make it into an Oyl or Oyntment which you plea&s;e to anoint your &s;ore Eyes withal: I can prove it both by my own experience, and the ex|perience of tho&s;e to whom I have taught it, That mo&s;t de&s;perate &s;ore Eyes have been cured by this only Medicine; And then I pray, is not this far better than endangering the Eyes by the art of the Needle? for if this do not ab&s;olutely take away the Film, it will &s;o facilitate the work that it may be done without danger.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver and Gall, yel|low, jaun|dice, drop|&s;ie, pe&s;ti|lence, Eyes, Ulcers, Tetters, Ring|worms, Cancers, warts, Belly, Bo|wels, Mo|ther Worms Terms &s;tops, Toothach, Itch, beau|ty lo&s;t.</NOTE> The Herb or Roots boy|led in white Wine and drunk, a few Anni&s;eeds being boyled therewith, openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Gall, helpeth the yellow Jaundice: and the often u&s;ing it, helps the Drop&s;ie and the Itch, and tho&s;e that have old Sores in their Legs, or o|ther parts of the Body. The Juyce thereof taken fa&s;ting, is held to be of &s;ingular good u&s;e again&s;t the Pe&s;tilence: The Di&s;til|led Water with a little Sugar, and a little good Treacle mixed therwith (the party upon the taking being laid down to &s;weat a little) hath the &s;ame effect. The juyce dropped into the Eyes clen&s;eth them from films and cloudine&s;s which darken the &s;ight, but it is be&s;t to allay the &s;harpne&s;s of the Juyce with a little Brea&s;t-milk: It is good in old filthy corroding, creeping Ul|cers where&s;oever, to &s;tay their malignity of fretting and running, and to cau&s;e them to heal the more &s;peedily: The Juyce often applied to Tetters, Ringworms, or other &s;uch like &s;preading Cancers, will quickly heal them, and rubbed often upon Warts will take them away. The Herb with the Roots brui&s;ed and heated with Oyl of Chamomel, and applied to the Navel, ta|keth away the griping pain in the Belly and Bowels, and all the pains of the Mother: and applied to Womens Brea&s;ts &s;tayeth the overmuch flowing of their Cour&s;es. The Juyce or Decocti|on of the Herb gargled between the Teeth that ach, ea&s;eth the pain: and the Pouder of the dryed Root, laid upon an aching, hollow, or loo&s; Tooth, wil cau&s; it to fall out. The Juyce mixed with &s;ome Pouder of Brim&s;tone, is not only good again&s;t the Itch, but taketh away all di&s;colorings of the Skin what&s;oever: And if it chance that in a tender
<PB N="59" REF="42"> Body it cau&s;eth any Itching or Inflamation, by bathing the place with a lit|tle Vinegar it is helped.</P>
<P>Another il-favor'd trick have Phy&s;itians got to u&s;e to the Eye, and that is wor&s;e than the Needle; which is, To eat away the Film by corroding or gnawing Medicines. This I ab&s;olutely prote&s;t again&s;t.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e the Tunicles of the Eye are very thin, and therfore &s;oon eaten a&s;under.</P>
<P N="2">2. The <HI>Callus</HI> or Film that they would eat away, is &s;eldom of an equal thickne&s;s in every place, and then the Tunicle may be eaten a&s;under in one place, before the Film be con&s;umed in another, and &s;o be a readier way to extingui&s;h the &s;ight, than to re&s;tore it.</P>
<P>It is called <HI>Chelidonium</HI> from the Greek word <GAP DESC="foreign">, which &s;ignifies a Swallow, becau&s;e they &s;ay, That if you prick out the Eyes of yong Swal|lows when they are in the Ne&s;t, the old ones wil recover their eyes again with this Herb. This I am confident, for I have tried it, That if you mar the very Apple of their Eyes with a Needle, &s;he will recover them a|gain but whether with this Herb or no, I know not.</P>
<P>Al&s;o I have read (and it &s;eems to me &s;omwhat probable) That the Herb being gathered, as I &s;hewed before, and the Elements drawn apart from it by the art of the Alchymi&s;t, and after they are drawn apart, rectified, the earthy quality &s;till in rectifying them, added to the <HI>Terra damnata</HI> (as Al|chymi&s;ts call it) or <HI>Terra &s;acrati&s;&s;ima</HI> (as &s;ome Phylo&s;ophers call it) the Elements &s;o rectified are &s;ufficient for the Cure of all Di&s;ea&s;es, the humor offending being known, and the contrary Element given: It is an Experi|ence worth the trying, and can do no harm.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The le&s;&s;er Celondine,</HI> u&s;ually known by the name of <HI>Pilewort,</HI> and <HI>Figwort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Wonder what ailed the Ancients to give this the name of <HI>Celondine</HI> which re&s;embles it neither in nature or form: It acquired the Name of <HI>Pile|wort</HI> from its Vertues, and it being no great matter where I &s;et it down, &s;o I do &s;et it down at al, I humor'd D. <HI>Tradition</HI> &s;o much as to &s;et it down here.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>This</HI> Celondine <HI>then, or</HI> Pilewort <HI>(which you plea&s;e) doth &s;pread many round, pale, green Leavs &s;et on weak and trailing Branches, which lie upon the ground, and are fat, &s;moth, and &s;omwhat &s;hining, and in &s;om places (though &s;eldom) marked with black &s;pots, each &s;tanding on a long foot&s;talk, among which ri&s;e &s;mal yellow Flowers, con&s;i&s;ting of nine or ten &s;mal narrow Leavs, upon &s;lender Foot&s;talks very like unto a Crowfoot, whereun|to the Seed al&s;o is not unlike, being many &s;mal ones &s;et together upon a Head. The Root is made of many &s;mal Kernels like grain of Corn, &s;ome twice as long as others, of a whiti&s;h colour, with &s;ome fibres at the end of them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth for the mo&s;t part in the moi&s;t corners of Fields, and places that are neer Water-&s;ides, yet wil abide in dryer grounds, if they be but a little &s;hadowed.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth betimes about <HI>March,</HI> or <HI>April,</HI> is quite gone in <HI>May,</HI> &s;o as it cannot be found until it &s;pring again.</P>
<PB N="60" REF="43">
<P><HI>Government end Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> and be|hold here another Verification of that Learning of the Ancients, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Vertue of an Herb may be known by its &s;igniture as plainly appears in this, for if you dig up the Root of it, you &s;hal perceive the perfect image of that Di&s;ea&s;e which they commonly cal the Piles. It is certain by good experience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hemor|rhoides, Kings-Evil.</NOTE> That the Decoction of the Leavs and Roots doth wonderfully help the Piles and Hemorrhoids, as al&s;o Ker|nels by the Ears and Throat called the Kings Evil, or any o|ther hard Wens or Tumors.</P>
<P>Here's another Secret for my Country men and Women, a couple of them together, Pilewort made into an Oyl Oyntment or Plai&s;ter, readily cures both the Piles or Hemrrhoids, and the Kings Evil, If I may lawfully cal it the Kings Evil now there is no Keng, the very Herb born a|bout ones Body next the skin, helps in &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es, though it never touch the place grieved, let good people make much of it for the&s;e u&s;es, with this I cured my own Daughter of the Kings Evil, broke the Sore, drew out a quarter of a pint of Corruption, and Cured it without any Scar at al, and in one Weeks time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Ordinary &s;mal Centaury.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth up mo&s;t u&s;ually but with one round and &s;om|what cre&s;ted &s;talk, about a foot high, or better, branching forth at the top into many sprigs, and &s;ome al&s;o from the joynts of the &s;talks below: The Flowers that &s;tand at the tops as it were in an umbel or tuft, are of a pale red, tending to a Carnation colour, con&s;i&s;ting of five, &s;omtimes &s;ix &s;mal Leavs, very like tho&s;e of</HI> St. Johns Wort, <HI>opening them&s;elvs in the day time, and clo&s;ing at night: after which come Seed in little &s;hort Husks in form like unto Wheat corns: The Leavs are &s;mal and &s;omwhat round. The Root &s;mal and hard, peri&s;hing every year: The whole plant is of an exceed|ing bitter ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort in al things like the former, &s;ave only it beareth white Flowers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow ordinarily in Fields, Pa&s;tures, and Woods, but that with the white Flowers, not &s;o frequent as the other.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>July,</HI> or therabouts, and Seed within a Month after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are al under the Dominion of the <HI>Sun,</HI> as appears in that their flowers open and &s;hut as the <HI>Sun</HI> either &s;heweth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, Sciatica, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Liver, Gall, Spleen, Agues, Drop&s;ie, green &s;ick|ne&s;s, Chol|lick, terms provokes, Joynts, Gout, Sci|atica, Cramp, Convul&s;i|on, Vene|mous Bea&s;ts, Eyes, Wounds, &V;lcers, Ears, Scabby Heads, Freckls, Spots,</NOTE> or hideth his face. This Herb boyled and drunk, purg|eth Chollerick and gro&s;s humors, and helpeth the Sciatica: It openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, Gall, and Spleen, helping the Jaundice, and ea&s;ing the pains in the &s;ides, and hardne&s;s of the Spleen, u&s;ed outwardly, and is given with very good effect in Agues: It helpeth tho&s;e that have the Drop&s;ie, or the green-Sickne&s;s, being much u&s;ed by the Italians in pouder for that purpo&s;e. It killeth the Worms in the Belly as is found by expe|rience.
<PB N="61" REF="43"> The Decoction therof (viz.) the tops of the &s;talks with the Leavs and Flowers, is good again&s;t the Chollick, and to bring down Womens Cour&s;es, helpeth to avoid the dead birth, and ea&s;eth pains of the Mother, and is very effectual in al old pains of the Joynts, as the Gout, Cramps, or Convul&s;ions. A dram of the Pouder therof taken in Wine, is a wonderful good help again&s;t the biting and poy&s;on of the Adder. The juyce of the Herb with a little Hony put to it, is good to cleer the Eyes from dimne&s;s, mi&s;ts, and clouds that offend or hinder the &s;ight: It is &s;ingular good both for green and fre&s;h Wounds, as al&s;o for old Ulcers and Sores, to clo&s;e up the one, and clen&s;e the other, and perfectly to cure them both, although they be hollow or fi|&s;tulous: the green Herb e&s;pecially being brui&s;ed and laid ther|to. The Decoction therof dropped into the Ears, clen&s;eth them from Worms, clen&s;eth the foul Ulcers and &s;preading Scabs of the Head, and taketh away al Freckls, Spots, and Marks in the Skin, being wa&s;hed therwith. The Herb is &s;o &s;afe you cannot fail in the u&s;ing of it, only give inwardly for inward Di&s;ea&s;es; u&s;e it outwardly for outward Di&s;ea&s;es: 'Tis very whol&s;om, but not very tooth&s;om.</P>
<P>There is be&s;ides the&s;e another &s;mal <HI>Centaury,</HI> which beareth a yellow Flower, in al other re&s;pects it is like the former, &s;ave that the Leavs are bigger, and of a darker green, and the &s;talk pa&s;&s;eth through the mid&s;t of them, as it doth in the Herb <HI>Thorowax.</HI> They are al of them as I told you under the Dominion of the <HI>Sun:</HI> yet this if you ob&s;erve it, you &s;hal find an excellent truth; In Di&s;ea&s;es of Bloud, u&s;e the red Centaury; if of Choller, u&s;e the yellow; but if of Flegm, or Water, you wil find the White be&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Cherry-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>I Suppo&s;e there are few but know this Tree, for his Fruits &s;ake, and ther|fore &s;hal &s;pare the writing a De&s;cription therof.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> For the place of its growth, it is afforded room in every Orchard.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Tree of <HI>Venus. Cherries,</HI> as they are of different ta&s;ts, &s;o they are of divers qualities: The &s;weet pa&s;s through the &s;tomack and belly more &s;peedily, but are of little Nouri&s;hment. The tart,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Appetite lo&s;t, Fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gm Gro&s;s Hu|mors, Cool, provoke Urin, Cough, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Sight, Gravel, Wind,</NOTE> or &s;owr, are more plea&s;ing to an hot Stomack, procu|ring Appetite to meat, and help to cut tough Flegm and gro&s;s Humors: but when the&s;e are dryed, they are more binding the Belly than when they are fre&s;h, being Cooling in hot Di&s;ea&s;es, and welcome to the Stomach, and provoke Urin. The Gum of the <HI>Cherry-tree</HI> di&s;&s;olved in Wine, is good for a cold Cough, and hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat, mendeth the colour in the Face, &s;harpneth the Eye-&s;ight, provoketh Appetite, and helpeth to break and expel the Stone: The <HI>Black Cherries</HI> brui&s;ed with the &s;tones, and di&s;tilled, the Water therof is much u&s;ed to break the Stone, expel Gravel, and break the Wind.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="62" REF="44">
<HEAD>Winter-Cherries.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe</HI> Winter-Cherry <HI>hath a running or creeping Root in the Ground of the bigne&s;s many times of ones little Finger, &s;hoo|ting forth at &s;everal joynts in &s;everal places, wherby it quickly &s;preadeth a great compa&s;s of ground: The Stalk ri&s;eth not above a yard high, wheron are &s;et many broad, and long green Leavs, &s;omwhat like Night&s;hade but lar|ger: at the joynts wherof come forth whiti&s;h Flowers made of five Leavs a piece, which after turn into green Berries, inclo&s;ed with thin skins, which change to be reddi&s;h, when they grow ripe, the Berry likewi&s;e being reddi&s;h, and as larg as a Cherry, wherin are contained many flat and yellowi&s;h &s;eeds lying within the pulp: which being gathered and &s;trung up, are kept all the year, to be u&s;ed upon occa&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow not naturally in this Land, but are cheri&s;hed in Gar|dens for their Vertues.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower not until the middle or latter end of <HI>July,</HI> and the Fruit is ripe about the end of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> or beginning of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is a Plant of <HI>Venus.</HI> They are of great u&s;e in Phy&s;ick: The Leavs being Cooling may be u&s;ed in Inflamati|ons, but not opening as the Berries and Fruit are, which by drawing down the Urin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamati|ons, Di&s;u|ry, Stone, G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avel, Ulc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs in the Reins, and Blad|der, pi&s;&s;ing Blood, &s;harpne&s;s of Urins. A precious Receipt.</NOTE> provoke it to be avoided plentifully when it is &s;topped, or grown hot, &s;harp, and painful in the pa&s;|&s;age: it is good al&s;o to expel the Stone and Gravel out of the Reins, Kidnies, and Bladder, helping to di&s;&s;olve the &s;tone, and avoiding it by greet or gravel &s;ent forth in the Urin: it al&s;o helpeth much to clen&s;e inward Impo&s;tumes or Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder, or in tho&s;e that avoid a bloudy or foul Urin. The di&s;tilled Water of the Fruit, or the Leavs together with them, or the Berries green or dry, di&s;tilled with a little Milk, and drunk morning and evening with a little Sugar, is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore &s;pecified, and e&s;pecially again&s;t the heat and &s;harpne&s;s of the Urin. I &s;hal only mention one way among&s;t many others which might be u&s;ed for ordering the Berries to be helpful for the Urin and the &s;tone, which is thus, Take three or four good handfuls of the Berries either green and fre&s;h, or dried, and having brui&s;ed them, put them into &s;o many Gallons of Beer or Ale when it is new tunned up: This Drink taken daily, hath been found to do much good to many; both to ea&s;e the pains, and expel urin, and the &s;tone, and to cau&s;e the &s;tone not to ingender. The Decoction of the Berries in Wine or Water is the mo&s;t u&s;ual way; but the Pouder of them taken in Drink, is more effectual.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Chervil.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IT is called Cerifolium, Myrrhis, and Mirrla, Chervil, &s;weet-Chervil, and &s;weet-Cicily.</HI></P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The Garden <HI>Chervil</HI> doth at fir&s;t &s;omwhat re&s;emble <HI>Par&s;ly,</HI> but
<PB N="63" REF="44"> after it is better grown the Leavs are much cut in and jagged, re&s;embling Hemlocks, being a little hairy, and of a whiti&s;h green color, &s;omtimes tur|ning reddi&s;h in the Summer with the &s;talks al&s;o; It ri&s;eth little above half a foot high, bearing white Flowers in spoked tu&s;ts, which turn into long and round Seed pointed at the ends, and blacki&s;h when they are ripe; of a &s;weet ta&s;t, but no &s;mel, though the Herb it &s;elf &s;melleth rea&s;onable well: The Root is &s;mal and long, and peri&s;heth every yeer, and mu&s;t be &s;owen anew in the Spring for Seed, and after <HI>July</HI> for Autumn Sallet.</P>
<P>The wild Chervil groweth two or three foot high, with yellow &s;talks and joynts, &s;et with broader and more hairy Leavs, divided into &s;undry parts nicked about the edges, and of a darker green color, which likewi&s;e grow reddi&s;h with the &s;talks; at the tops whereof &s;tand &s;mal white tufts of Flo|wers, and afterwards &s;maller and longer &s;eed: The Root is white, hard, and enduring long. This hath little or no &s;cent.</P>
<P>Place.] <HI>The fir&s;t is &s;own in Gardens for a Sallat-Herb. The &s;econd groweth wild in many of the Meadows of this Land, and by the Hedg-&s;ides, and on Heaths.</HI></P>
<P>Time.] <HI>They flower and &s;eed early, and thereupon are &s;own again in the end of Summer.</HI></P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] <HI>The Garden Chervil being ea|ten,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach, Clotted Blood, Brui&s;es, Falls, Di|&s;ury, &s;tone, Pleure&s;ie, Sides, Swellings, black and blue &s;pots.</NOTE> <HI>doth moderatly warm the Stomach, and is a certain Reme|dy (&s;aith</HI> Tragus) <HI>to di&s;&s;olve congealed or clotted Blood in the Body, or that which is clotted by brui&s;es, fals, &amp;c. The Juyce or di&s;tilled Water therof being drunk, and the brui&s;ed Leavs laid to the place, being taken either in meat or drink, it is held good to provoke Urin, to expel the Stone in the Kidnies, to &s;end down Womens Cour&s;es, and to help the Pleure&s;ie and prickings of the Sides.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The wild Chervil brui&s;ed and applied, di&s;&s;olveth Swellings in any part of the Body, and taketh away the Spoots and Marks of congealed Blood by brui&s;es or blows, in a little &s;pace.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Sweet Chervil,</HI> or, <HI>Sweet Cicely.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth very like the greater Hemlock, having large &s;pread Leavs, cut into divers parts, but of a fre&s;her green color than the Hemlock, ta&s;ting as &s;weet as the Anni&s;eed. The Stalk ri&s;eth up a yard high or better being cre&s;ted or hollow, having the like Leavs at the Joynts, but le&s;&s;er; and at the tops of the Branched Stalks, Umbels or Tufts of white Flowers; after which come large and long cre&s;ted, black &s;hining Seed, pointed at both ends, ta&s;ting quick, yet &s;weet and plea&s;ant. The Root is great and white, growing deep in the ground, and &s;preading &s;undry long Branches therein, in ta&s;t and &s;mel &s;tronger than the Leavs or Seed, and continuing many yeers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The&s;e are all three of them of the Nature of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and under his Dominion. This whol Plant, be|&s;ides
<PB N="64" REF="45"> its plea&s;antne&s;s in Sallats,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cold Stomach, Wind, Flegm, Lungues, Phti&s;ick, Pe&s;ti|lence, Terms provokes, Af|ter-birth, Ap|petite lo&s;t, &V;l|cers, Epidemi|cal Di&s;ea&s;es.</NOTE> hath al&s;o his Phy&s;ical Ver|tues. The Root boyled and eaten with Oyl and Vinegar, (or without Oyl) doth much plea&s;e and warm an old and cold Stomach, oppre&s;&s;ed with wind or flegm, or tho&s;e that have the Phti&s;ick or Con&s;umption of the Lungs. The &s;ame drunk with Wine, is a pre&s;ervative from the Plague; it provoketh Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the After-birth, procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth Wind. The Juyce is good to heal the Ulcers of the Head and Face. The candied Roots hereof are held as effectual as <HI>Angelica</HI> to pre&s;erve from infection in the time of a Plague, and to warm and comfort a cold weak Stomach.</P>
<P>It is &s;o harmle&s;s you cannot u&s;e it ami&s;s.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Che&s;tnut Tree.</HEAD>
<P>TO de&s;cribe a Tree &s;o commonly known, were as vain as tell a man he had gotten a Mouth; therfore take the Government and Vertues of them thus.</P>
<P>The Tree is ab&s;olutely under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and therfore the fruit mu&s;t needs breed good blood, and yield commendable nouri&s;h|ment to the Body, yet if eaten over much, they make the Blood thick, pro|cure headach, and bind the body; the inner skin that covereth the Nut, is of &s;o binding a quality, that a &s;cruple of it being taken by a man, or ten grains by a child,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Elux,</NOTE> &s;oon &s;tops any flux what&s;oever: The whol Nut being dried and beaten into pouder, and a drachm ta|ken at a time is a good remedy to &s;top the Terms in Women:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms, &s;tops, Cough, &s;pitting blood.</NOTE> If you dry Che&s;tnuts, and beat them into Pouder (only the Ker|nel I mean) both the Bark being taken away, beat them into Pouder, and make the Pouder up into an Electuary with Honey, &s;o have you an admirable Remedy for the Cough and &s;pitting blood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Earth-Che&s;tnuts.</HEAD>
<P>THey are called Earth-Nuts, Earth-Che&s;tnuts, Ground-Nuts, Cip|per-Nuts, and we in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> call them Pig-nuts: A De&s;cription of them were needle&s;s, for every Child knows them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are &s;omthing hot and dry in quality under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu&s;t provokes, Di&s;ury, &s;pitting blood, pi&s;|&s;ing blood.</NOTE> they provoke Lu&s;t ex|ceedingly, and &s;tir up to tho&s;e &s;ports &s;he is Mi&s;tris of; the Seed is excellent good to provoke Urin, and &s;o al&s;o is the Root, but it doth not perform it &s;o forcibly as the Seed doth. The Root being dried and beaten into Pouder, and the Pouder made into an Electuary is as &s;igular a Remedy for &s;pitting and pi&s;&s;ing blood as the former Che&s;tnuts was for Coughs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="65" REF="45">
<HEAD>Chickweed.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is generally known to mo&s;t People, I &s;hall therefore not trouble you with the De&s;cription thereof; nor my &s;elf with &s;etting forth the &s;everal kinds; &s;ith but only two or three are con&s;ide|able for their u&s;efulne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e are u&s;ually found in moi&s;t and watry places, by Wood &s;ides, and el&s;-where.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about <HI>June,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a fine &s;oft plea&s;ing Herb, under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> It is found to be as effectual as Pur&s;lain to all the purpo&s;es whereunto it &s;erveth, except for meat only. The Herb brui&s;ed, or the Juyce applied (with cloaths or &s;punges dipped therin) to the Region of the Liver,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hot Liver, Apo&s;tums, &s;wellings, Red Face, Wheals, Pu&s;hes, Itch, Scabs Cramp, Convul&s;i|on, Pal&s;ey, Red Eyes, Hemor|rhoids, Ulcers,</NOTE> and as they dry to have fre&s;h applied, doth wonderfully temper the heat of the Liver; and is effectual for all Impo&s;thums and Swellings wher&s;oever; for all redne&s;s in the Face, Wheals, Pu&s;hes, Itch, Scabs, the Juyce ei|ther &s;imply u&s;ed, or boyled with Hogs Grea&s;e and applied; the &s;ame helpeth Cramps, Convul&s;ions, and Pal&s;ies: The Juyce or di&s;tilled Water is of much good u&s;e for al heat and redne&s;s in the Eyes to drop &s;ome therof into them; as al&s;o into the Ears to ea&s;e pains in them, and is of good effect to ea&s;e the pains, the heat, and &s;harpne&s;s of Blood in the Piles, and generally all pains in the Body that ari&s;e of heat; it is u&s;ed al&s;o in hot and virulen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ulcers and Sores in the privy parts of Man or Woman, or on the Legs, or el&s;-where. The Leaves boyled with Ma&s;h-Mal|lows, and made into a Pultis with Fenugreek, and Lin-&s;eed, ap|plied to Swellings or Impo&s;thums ripeneth and breaketh them, or &s;wageth the &s;wellings, and ea&s;eth the pains: It helpeth the Sinews<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sinews.</NOTE> when they are &s;hrunk by Cramps or otherwi&s;e, and to extend and make them pliable again, by this Medicine. Boyl an handful of Chickweed, and a handful of red Ro&s;e Leavs dryed, but not di&s;tilled, in a quart of Mu&s;cadine until a fourth part be con&s;umed; then put to them a pint of Oyl of Trotters, or Sheeps-feer; let them boyl a good while, &s;till &s;tirring them well; which being &s;trained, anoint the grieved place therewith, warm again&s;t the fire, rubbing it wel in with ones hand, and bind al&s;o &s;ome of the Herb (if you will) to the place, and with Gods ble&s;&s;ing it will help with three times dre&s;&s;ing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cich-Pea&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Cicers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Garden &s;orts, whether red, black, or white, brings forth Stalks a yard long, wheron do grow many &s;mal and almo&s;t round Leavs, dented about the edges, &s;et on both &s;ides of a middle Rib: at the Joynts come forth one or two Flowers upon &s;hort Foot-&s;talks, Pea&s; fa&s;hion, either white or whiti&s;h, or purpli&s;h red, lighter or deeper accor|ding as the Pea&s; that follow wil be, that are contained in &s;mal, thick, and &s;hort
<PB N="66" REF="46"> Pods, wherin lie one or two Pea&s; more u&s;ually, a little pointed at the lower end, and almo&s;t round at the Head, yet a little corner'd or &s;harp. The Root is &s;mal, and peri&s;heth yeerly.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> They are &s;own in Gardens, or the Fields, as Pea&s;, be|ing &s;own later than Pea&s;, and gathered at the &s;ame time with them, or pre|&s;ently after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both under the Dominion of Ve|nus. They are no le&s;s windy than Beans, but nouri&s;h more, they provoke Urine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Seed en|crea&s;, Stone, Co&s;tivne&s;s, Terms, provokes, pain in the &s;ides, Ob&s;tructi|on, &s;tone, Open, Di|ge&s;t, Di&s;|&s;olve.</NOTE> and are thought to encrea&s;e Sperm, they have a clen&s;ing faculty, wherby they break the &s;tones in the Kid|neys: To drink the Cream of them being boyled in Water is the be&s;t way: it moveth the Belly downwards, provoketh Wo|mens Cour&s;es, and Urin, and encrea&s;eth both Milk and Seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of French Barley, and a &s;mal handful of Mar&s;h-Mallow Roots, clean wa&s;hed and cut, being boyled in the broth of a Chicken, and four ounces taken in the morning, and fa&s;ting two hours after is a good Medicine for a pain in the &s;ides. The white Cicers are u&s;ed more for Meat than Medicine, yet have they the &s;ame effects, and are thought more powerful to encrea&s; Milk and Seed.</P>
<P>The wild Cicers are &s;o much more powerful than the Garden kinds, by how much they exceed them in heat and drine&s;s, whereby they do more open Ob&s;tructions, break the &s;tone, and have all the properties of cutting, opening, dige&s;ting, and di&s;&s;olving, and this more &s;peedily and certainly than the former.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cinkfoyl,</HI> or <HI>Five Leaved Gra&s;s;</HI> Called in &s;ome Countries, <HI>Five Finger'd Gra&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis spreadeth and creepeth far upon the ground, with long &s;lender &s;trings like Strawberries, which take Root again and &s;hooteth forth many Leavs made of five parts, and &s;omtimes of &s;even, dented about the edges and &s;omwhat hard: The &s;talks are &s;lender leaning downwards, and bear many &s;mal yellow Flowers thereon, with &s;ome yellow threds in the middle, &s;tanding about a &s;mooth green head; which when it is ripe is a little rough, and containeth &s;mal browni&s;h Seeds. The Root is of a blacki&s;h brown color, &s;eldom &s;o big as ones little finger, but growing long with &s;ome threds thereat; and by the &s;mal &s;trings it quickly &s;preadeth over the ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth by Wood &s;ides, Hedg &s;ides, the Pathwaies in Fields, and in the borders and corners of them almo&s;t through all this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in Summer, &s;ome &s;ooner, &s;ome later.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and therefore &s;trengthens the parts of the Body that he rules; let <HI>Jupiter</HI> be angular and &s;trong when it is gathered, and if you give but a &s;cruple (which is but
<PB N="67" REF="46"> twenty grains of it) at a time, either in white Wine or white Wine Vinegar, you &s;hall very &s;eldom mi&s;s the cure of an Ague,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Agues.</NOTE> be it what Ague &s;oever in three Fits, as I have often proved to the admiration both of my &s;elf and others; let no man de&s;pi&s;e it becau&s;e it is plain and ea&s;ie, the waies of God are all &s;uch, 'tis the ungodline&s;s and impudency of Man that made things hard, and hath (by &s;o doing) made &s;port for all the Devils in Hell, and grieved the good Angels, and when you reade this, your own Genius, if you be any thing at al acquainted with it, may dictate to you many as good conclu&s;ions both of this and other Herbs.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamati|on, Fea|vers, Pe|&s;tilence, Sore Mouths, &V;lcers, Cankers, Fi&s;tulaes, Quin&s;y, yellow, Jaundice, falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Flux, Terms &s;tops, Whites, Bloody Flux, Toothach, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Cough, Pal&s;ey of the hands, Knots in the fle&s;h, St. Antho|nies fire, Shingles, &s;cabs, itch, joynts pai|ned, &s;ciati|ca, rupturs Gouts, Brui&s;es, Falls, Bleeding.</NOTE> It is an e&s;pecial Herb u&s;ed in all Inflamations and Feavers whether infectious or Pe&s;tilential; or among o|ther Herbs to cool and temper the Blood and Humors in the Body; As al&s;o for all Lotions, Gargles, Injections, and the like for &s;ore Mouths, Ulcers, Cankers, Fi&s;tulaes, and other corrupt, foul, or running Sores. The Juyce hereof drunk about four ounces at a time for certain daies together, cureth the Quin&s;ie, and the yellow Jaundice, and taken for thirty daies to|gether cureth the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s. The Roots boyled in Milk and drunk, is a mo&s;t effectual remedy for all Fluxes in Man or Woman, whether the Whites, or Reds, as al&s;o the Bloody flux. The Roots boyled in Vinegar, and the Decoction therof held in the Mouth, ea&s;eth the pains of the Toothach. The Juyce or Decoction taken with a little Honey, helpeth the hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat, and is good for the Cough of the Lungues. The Di&s;tilled Water of both Roots and Leavs is al&s;o effectual to all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid; and if the Hands be often wa&s;hed ther|in, and &s;uffered at every time to dry in of it &s;elf without wiping it will in &s;hort time help the Pal&s;ey, or &s;haking in them. The Root boyled in Vinegar, helpeth all knots, kernels, hard &s;wel|lings, and lumps growing in any part of the Fle&s;h, being there|to applied, as al&s;o all Inflamations, and St. Anthonies fire, all Impo&s;thumes, and painful Sores, with heat and putrifaction; the Shingles al&s;o, and all other &s;orts of running and foul Scabs, Sores, and Itch. The &s;ame al&s;o boyled in Wine, and applied to any Joynts full of pain ach, or the Gout in the Hands or Feet, or the Hip-gout, called the <HI>Sciatica,</HI> and the Decoction thereof drunk the while, doth cure them, and ea&s;eth much pains in the Bowels. The Roots are likewi&s;e effectual to help Rup|tures or Bur&s;tings, being u&s;ed with other things available to that purpo&s;e, taken either inwardly, or outwardly, or both; as al&s;o for Brui&s;es, or Hurts by Blows, Falls, or the like, and to &s;tay the bleeding of Wounds in any part inward or outward.</P>
<P>Some hold that one Leaf cures a Quotidian, three a Tertian, and four a Quartan Ague, and a hundred to one if it be not <HI>Dio|&s;corides,</HI> for he is full of &s;uch whim&s;eys. The truth is, I never &s;tood &s;o much upon the number of the Leavs, nor whether I
<PB N="68" REF="47"> gave it in Pouder or Decoction: If <HI>Jupiter</HI> were &s;trong and the <HI>Moon</HI> applying to him, or his good a&s;pect at the gathering of it, I never knew it mi&s;s the de&s;ired effects.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Cives.</HEAD>
<P>THey are al&s;o called Ru&s;h Leeks, Chives, Civet, and Sweth.</P>
<P><HI>Temperature and Vertues.]</HI> I confe&s;s I had not added the&s;e had it not been for a Letter I received of a Country Gentleman, who certified me that among&s;t other Herbs I had left the&s;e out; they are indeed a kind of Leeks, hot and dry in the fourth degree as they are, and al&s;o under the Do|minion of <HI>Mars;</HI> if they be eaten raw (I do not mean raw oppo&s;ite to ro|&s;ted or boyled, but raw oppo&s;ite to a Chymical Preparation) they &s;end up very hurtful vapors to the Brain, cau&s;ing trouble&s;om &s;leep and &s;poiling the eye&s;ight, yet of them prepared by the Art of the Alchymi&s;t may be made an excellent remedy for &s;toppage of Urine.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury.</NOTE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Clary,</HI> Or more properly, <HI>Cleer-Eye.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;r ordinary Garden Clary hath four &s;quare Stalks, with broad, rough, wrinkled, whiti&s;h, or hairy green Leavs, &s;omwhat evenly cut in on the edges, and of a &s;trong &s;weet &s;cent, growing &s;ome neer the ground, and &s;ome by couples upon Stalks: The Flowers grow at certain di&s;tances with two &s;mal Leavs at the Joynts under them, &s;om|what like unto the Flowers of Sage, but &s;maller, and of a whiti&s;h blue co|lor: The Seed is browni&s;h, and &s;omwhat flat, or not &s;o round as the wild, the Roots are blacki&s;h and &s;pread not far, and peri&s;h after the Seed time: It is u&s;ually &s;own, for it &s;eldom ri&s;eth of its own &s;owing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> &s;ome a little later than others, and their Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> or thereabouts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon:</HI> The Seed is u&s;ed to be put into the Eyes<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes,</NOTE> to cleer them from Moats, or other &s;uch like things gotten within the Lids to offend them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Swellings, Splinters. Thorns, Inflamati|ons, Boyls, Felons, Head, Brain, Lu&s;t pro|vokes, Back, Terms provokes,</NOTE> as al&s;o to cleer them from white or red &s;pots in them. The Muccilage of the Seed made with Water, and applied to tumors or &s;wellings, di&s;per&s;eth and taketh them away, as al&s;o draweth forth &s;plinters, thorns, or other things gotten into the fle&s;h. The Leavs u&s;ed with Vinegar either by it &s;elf or with a little Honey, doth help hot Inflamations, as al|&s;o Boyls, Felons, and the hot Inflamations that are gathered by their pains, if it be applied before they be grown too great. The Pouder of the dried Root put into the No&s;e, provoketh &s;neezing, and therby purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rhewm and Corruption. The Seed or Leavs taken in Wine provoketh to Venery. It is of much u&s;e both for Men and Women that have weak Backs, to help to &s;trengthen the Reins, u&s;ed either by it &s;elf or with other Herbs conducing to the &s;ame
<PB N="69" REF="47"> effect, and in Tan&s;ies often: The fre&s;h Leavs dipped in a Batter of Flo|wer, Egs, and a little Milk, and fried in Butter, and &s;erved to the Table, is not unplea&s;ant to any, but exceeding profitable for tho&s;e that are troubled with weak Backs, and the effects thereof. The Juyce of the Herb put in|to Ale or Beer, and drunk, bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the After-birth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Afterbirth</NOTE></P>
<P>It is an u&s;ual cour&s; with many men when they have gotten the running of the Reins, or Women the Whites, then run to the Bu&s;h of Clary; Maid bring hither the frying Pan, fetch me &s;ome Butter quickly, then to eating fried Clary, ju&s;t as Hogs eat Acorns, and this they think will cure their Di&s;ea&s;e (for&s;ooth) whereas when they have devoured as much Clary as will grow upon an Acre of ground, their Backs are as much the better as though they had pi&s;&s;ed in their &s;hoos, nay perhaps much wor&s;.</P>
<P>We will grant that Clary &s;trengthens the Back, but this we deny, That the cau&s; of the running of the Reins in Men, or the Whites in Women lies in the Back (though the Back may &s;omtimes be weakned by them) and ther|fore the Medicine is as proper, as for me when my Toe is &s;ore, to lay a Plai&s;ter to my No&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wild Clary.</HEAD>
<P>WIld Clary is mo&s;t bla&s;phemou&s;ly called Chri&s;ts-Eye, becau&s;e it cures Di&s;ea&s;es of the Eyes: I could wi&s;h from my very &s;oul, Bla&s;phemy, Ignorance, and Tyranny were cea&s;ed among&s;t Phy&s;itians that they might be happy, and I joyful.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>It is like the other Clary, but le&s;&s;er, with many &s;talks about a foot and an half high; the &s;talks are &s;quare, and &s;omthing hairy; the Flo|wers of a blui&s;h color. He that knows the common Clary cannot be ignorant of this.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows commonly in this Nation, in Barren places; you may find it plentifully if you look in the Fields neer <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> and the Fields neer <HI>Chel&s;y.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower from the beginning of <HI>June</HI> to the latter end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is &s;omthing hotter and dryer than the Garden Clary is, yet neverthele&s;s under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> as well as that the Seeds of it being beaten to Pouder and drunk with Wine is an admirable help to provoke Lu&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu&s;t pro|voketh, congealed Blood, cold &s;tomach, &s;ore Eyes, Films in the Eyes, Indige&s;ti|on.</NOTE> A Decocti|on of the Leavs being drunk warms the &s;tomach, and 'tis a won|der if it &s;hould not, the &s;tomach being <HI>Cancer</HI> the Hou&s;e of the <HI>Moon;</HI> al&s;o it helps dige&s;tion, &s;catters cungealed blood in any part of the Body, and help dimne&s;s of &s;ight; the Di&s;til|led water thereof clen&s;eth the Eyes of redne&s;s, wateri&s;hne&s;s and heat, 'tis a gallant Remedy for dimne&s;s of &s;ight, to take one of the Seeds of it, and put into the Eye, and there let it remain while it drops out of it &s;elf, the pain of it will be nothing to &s;peak on; it will clen&s;e the Eyes of all filthy and putrified
<PB N="70" REF="48"> matters, and in often repeating of it, wil take off any Film which covereth the &s;ight; a hand&s;omer, &s;afer, and ea&s;ier Remedy a great deal than to tear it off with a needle.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Cleavers.</HEAD>
<P>It is al&s;o called Aparine, Goo&s;-&s;hare, Goo&s;-gra&s;s, and Clavers.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Cleavers hath divers very rough &s;quare &s;talks, not &s;o big as the Tag of a Point, but ri&s;ing up to be two or three yards high &s;omtimes, if it meet with any tall Bu&s;hes or Trees whereon it may climb (yet without any cla&s;pers) or el&s; much lower, and lying upon the ground full of joynts, and at every of them &s;hooteth forth a Branch, be|&s;ides the Leavs thereat, which are u&s;ually &s;ix, &s;et in a round compa&s;s like a Star, or the Rowel of a Spur: from between the Leavs at the Joynts to|wards the tops of the Branches, come forth very &s;mal white Flowers, every one upon a &s;mal threddy Foot&s;talk, which after they are fallen, there do &s;hew two &s;mal, round, rough &s;eeds, joyned together like two Te&s;ticles, which when they are ripe grow hard and whiti&s;h, having a little hole on the &s;ide &s;om|what like unto a Navel. Both Stalks, Leavs, and Seeds are &s;o rough that they will cleav to any thing &s;hall touch them. The Root is &s;mal and very threddy, spreading much in the ground, but dieth every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth by the Hedg and Ditch &s;ides in many places of this Land, and is &s;o trouble&s;om an Inhabitant in Gardens, that it rampeth up|on, and is ready to choak what ever grows next it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe and falleth a|gain in the end of <HI>July</HI> or <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> from whence it &s;pringeth up again, and not from the old Roots.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon.</HI> The Juyce of the Herb, and the Seed together taken in Wine, helpeth tho&s;e that are bitten with an Adder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;ts, Heart, Fatne&s;s, yellow Jaundice, Flux, bloo|dy flux, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings, King I E|vil, pain in the Ears.</NOTE> by pre&s;erving the Heart from the Venom; It is familiarly taken in Broth to keep them lean and lank that are apt to grow fat. The di&s;tilled Water drunk twice a day helpeth the yellow Jaundice, and the Decoction of the Herb in experience &s;ound to do the &s;ame, and &s;tayeth Lasks and bloody Fluxes. The Juyce of the Leavs, or they a little brui&s;ed and applied to any bleeding Wound, &s;tay|eth the bleeding. The Juyce is al&s;o very good to clo&s;e up the lips of green Wounds; and the Pouder of the dried Herb &s;trewed therupon doth the &s;ame, and likewi&s;e helpeth old Ulcers: Being boyled with Hogs Grea&s;, it healeth al &s;orts of hard &s;wellings or kernels in the throat, being anointed therwith. The Juyce drop|ped into the Ears taketh away the pains of them.</P>
<P>It is a good remedy in the Spring, eaten (being fir&s;t chopped &s;mal and boyled well) in Water-gruel, to clean&s; the Blood, and &s;trengthen the Liver, therby keeping the Body in Health, and fitting it for that change of Sea&s;on that is coming.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="71" REF="48">
<HEAD>Clowns Woundwort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT groweth up &s;omtimes to three or four foot high, but u&s;ually about two foot, with &s;quare, green, rough &s;talks, but &s;lender, joynted &s;omwhat far a&s;under, and two very long, and &s;omwhat narrow, dark green Leavs, bluntly dented about the edges, thereat ending in a long point. The Flowers &s;tand toward the tops compa&s;&s;ing the Stalks at the Joynts with the Leavs and end likewi&s;e in a &s;piked top, having long and much open ga|ping hoods of a purpli&s;h red color, with whiti&s;h spots in them, &s;tanding in &s;omwhat rough Husks, wherein afterwards &s;tand blacki&s;h round Seeds. The Root is compo&s;ed of many long &s;trings, with &s;ome tuberous long Knobs growing among them, of a pale yellowi&s;h or whiti&s;h color, yet at &s;ome times of the yeer the&s;e knobby Roots in many places are not &s;een in the Plant: The whol Plant &s;melleth &s;omwhat &s;trongly.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in &s;undry Countries of this Land, both North and We&s;t, and frequently by Path &s;ides in the Fields neer about <HI>London,</HI> and within three or four miles di&s;tance about it, yet u&s;ually grows in or neer Ditches.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;oon after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the Planet <HI>Saturn.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, &V;lcers, Blood, Cancers, Bloody flux, Ve&s;|&s;els broken Ruptures, &s;pitting, pi&s;&s;ing, &amp; Vomiting Blood, Veins &s;welled, Mu&s;cles cut.</NOTE> It is &s;ingularly effectual in all fre&s;h and green Wounds, and therfore beareth not this name for nought. And is very available in &s;tanching of Blood, and to dry up the fluxes of Humors in old fretting Ulcers, Cancers, &amp;c. that hinder the healing of them.</P>
<P>A Syrup made of the Juyce of it is inferior to none for in|ward Wounds, Ruptures of Veins, bloody Flux, Ve&s;&s;els bro|ken, &s;pitting, pi&s;&s;ing, or vomiting Blood: Ruptures are excel|lently and &s;peedily, even to admiration, cured by taking now and then a little of the Syrup, and applying an Oyntment or Plai|&s;ter of the Herb to the place. Al&s;o if any Vein be &s;welled, or Mu&s;cle cut, apply a Plai&s;ter of this Herb to it, and if you ad a little Comfry to it, it will not do ami&s;s: I a&s;&s;ure thee the Herb de&s;ervs Commendations though it have gotten but a Clowni&s;h name, and whoever reades this (if he try it as I have done) wil commend it as well as I.</P>
<P>I have done, only take notice, That it is of a dry Earthy quality.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cocks-Head, Red Fitchling,</HI> or <HI>Medick Fetch.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath divers weak, but rough Stalks, half a yard long, leaning downwards, be&s;et with winged, Leavs, longer and more pointed than tho&s;e of Lentils, and whiti&s;h underneath; from the tops of the&s;e &s;talks ari&s;e up other &s;lender &s;talks, naked without Leaves unto the tops, where there grow many &s;mal Flowers in manner of a
<PB N="72" REF="49"> Spike, of a pale reddi&s;h color, with &s;ome bluene&s;s among them: after which ri&s;e up in their places, round, rough, and &s;omwhat flat Heads. The Root is tough and &s;omwhat woody, yet liveth, and &s;hooteth anew every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth under Hedges, and &s;omtimes in the open Fields, in divers places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower all the Months of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and the Seed ripeneth in the mean while.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of Ve|nus.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Knots and Kernels in the Fle&s;h, Strangury, Milk in Cattel.</NOTE> It hath power to rarifie and dige&s;t, and therfore the green Leavs brui&s;ed and laid as a Plai&s;ter di&s;per&s;eth Knots, Nodes, or Kernels in the Fle&s;h; and if when it is dry it be taken in Wine, it helpeth the Strangury: and being anointed with Oyl, it pro|voketh Sweat. It is a &s;ingular food for Cattel, to cau&s;e them to give &s;tore of Milk, and why then may it not do the like being boyled in the ordinary drink of Nur&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Columbines.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o well known, growing in almo&s;t every Garden, that I think I may &s;ave the expence of time in writing a De&s;cription of them.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>May,</HI> and abide not for the mo&s;t part when <HI>June</HI> is pa&s;t, perfecting their Seed in the mean time.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is al&s;o an Herb of <HI>Venus.</HI> The Leavs of Columbines are commonly u&s;ed in Lotions with good &s;ucce&s;s for &s;ore Mouths and Throats:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sore mouths &amp; throats, Ob&s;tructi|ons, yellow Jaundice, Womens travel, &s;tone.</NOTE> <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;aith, That a dram of the Seed taken in Wine with a little Saffron, openeth ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver, and is good for the yellow Jaundice, if the party after the taking therof be laid to &s;weat wel in his Bed: The Seed al&s;o taken in Wine cau&s;eth a &s;peedy Delivery of Wo|men in Child-birth, if one draught &s;uffice not, let her drink a &s;econd, and it is effectual. The Spaniards u&s;e to eat a piece of the Root hereof in a morning fa&s;ting, many daies together, to help them being troubled with the &s;tone in the Reins or Kid|neys.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Coltsfoot.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Cough-wort, Foals-foot, Hor&s;-hoof, and Bulls-foot.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>This &s;hooteth up a &s;lender &s;talk with &s;mal yellowi&s;h Flo|wers &s;omwhat early, which fall away quickly; and after they are pa&s;t, come up &s;omwhat round Leavs, &s;omtimes dented a little about the edges, much le&s;&s;er, thicker, and greener, than tho&s;e of Butter-bur, with a little down or freez over the green Leaf on the uper &s;ide, which may be rubbed away, and whiti&s;h or mealy underneath. The Root is &s;mal and white, spreading much under ground, &s;o that where it taketh, it wil hardly be driven away again, if any little piece be abiding therein; and from thence springeth fre&s;h Leavs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth as well in wet grounds, as in drier places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And Flowreth in the end of <HI>February,</HI> the Leavs beginning to appear in <HI>March.</HI></P>
<PB N="73" REF="49">
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Plant is under <HI>Venus.</HI> The fre&s;h Leaves, or Juyce, or a Syrup made therof is good for a hot dry Cough,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Whee|&s;ing, &s;hortnes of breath, Agues, In|flamations, Swelling, St. Antho|nies fire, Burnings, Chollerick pu&s;hes, piles, Inflamati|ons in the Privities.</NOTE> for whee&s;ings and &s;hortne&s;s of breath. The dry Leavs are be&s;t for tho&s;e that have thin Rhewms, and Di&s;til|la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ions upon the Lungs, cau&s;ing a Cough, for which al&s;o the dried Leavs taken as Tabaco, or the Root, is very good. The di&s;tilled Water hereof &s;imply, or with Elder Flowers and Night&s;hade, is a &s;ingular Remedy again&s;t al hot Agues, to drink two ounces at a time, and apply Cloaths wet therin to the Head and Stomach; which al&s;o doth much good being ap|plied to any hot Swellings or Inflamations; it helpeth St. An|thonies Fire, and Burnings, and is &s;ingular good to take away Wheals, and &s;mal Pu&s;hes that ari&s;e through heat; As al&s;o the burning heat of the Piles, or privy parts, cloathes wet therin being therunto applied.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Comfry.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common great Comfry hath divers very large and hairy green Leavs lying on the ground, &s;o hairy or prickly that if they touch any tender part of the Hands, Face, or Body, it will cau&s;e it to itch: The Stalk that ri&s;eth up from among them being two or three foot high, hollow and cornered, is very hairy al&s;o, having many &s;uch like Leavs as grow below, but le&s;&s;er and le&s;&s;er up to the top. At the Joynts of the Stalks, it is divided into many branches with &s;ome Leavs thereon, and at the ends &s;tand many Flowers in order one above another, which are &s;om|what long and hollow like the finger of a Glove, of a pale whiti&s;h color, after which come &s;mal black Seed. The Roots are great and long, spreading great thick Branches under ground, black on the out&s;ide and whiti&s;h within, &s;hort or ea&s;ie to break, and ful of a glutinus or clammy Juyce of little or no ta&s;t at all.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort in al things like this, &s;ave only it is &s;omwhat le&s;s, and heareth Flowers of a pale purple color.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow by Diches and Water &s;ides, and in divers Fields that are moi&s;t, for therin they chiefly delight to grow: The fir&s;t generally through al the Land, and the other but in &s;ome &s;everal places.</P>
<P>By the leave of my Authors, I know the fir&s;t grow often in dry places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and give their Seed in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is al&s;o an Herb of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and I &s;up|po&s;e under the Sign <HI>Capricorn,</HI> cold, dry, and earthy in quality: What was &s;poken of Clowns Woundwort,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spitting &amp; pi&s;&s;ing Blood, Inward <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">unds &amp; brui&s;es, Phti&s;ick, Bloody Flux, Terms, &s;tops, Whites, Nervs cut Mu&s;cles cut, &s;harp Humors, Wounds, Ruptures, broken Bones, Knotted Brea&s;ts, Hemor|rhoids, Inflama|tion, gout, Pained Joynts, Gangrens.</NOTE> may be &s;aid of this. The great Comfry helpeth tho&s;e that &s;pit blood, or make a bloody Urin: The Root boyled in Water or Wine, and the Decoction drunk, helpeth al inward hurts, brui&s;es, and wounds, and the Ulcers of the Lungs, cau&s;ing the Flegm that oppre&s;&s;eth them to be ea&s;ily &s;pit forth; It &s;tayeth the defluxions of Rhewm from the Head upon the Lungs, the Fluxes of Blood or humors
<PB N="74" REF="50"> by the Belly, Womens immoderate Cour&s;es, as well the Reds<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> the Whites; and the running of the Reins hapning by what cau&s;e &s;oever. A Syrup made therof is very effectual for al tho&s;e inward Griefs and Hurts; and the di&s;tilled Water for the &s;ame purpo&s;e al&s;o, and for outward Wounds and Sores in the Fle&s;hy or Sinewy part of the Body wher&s;oever; as al&s;o to take away the fits of Agues, and to allay the &s;harpne&s;s of Humors. A De|coction of the Leaves hereof is available to all the purpo&s;es, though not &s;o effectual as of the Roots. The Roots being out|wardly applied, helpeth fre&s;h wounds or cuts immediately, being brui&s;ed and laid thereunto; and is e&s;pecial good for Ruptures and broken bones: yea it is &s;aid to be &s;o powerful to con&s;oli|date and knit together; that if they be boyled with di&s;&s;evered pieces of fle&s;h in a pot, it wil joyn them together again. It is good to be applied to Womens Brea&s;ts that grow &s;ore by the a|bundance of Milk coming into them: as al&s;o to repre&s;s the overmuch bleeding of the Hemorrhoids to cool the In|flamation of the parts thereabouts, and to give ea&s;e of pains. The Roots of Comfry taken fre&s;h, beaten &s;mal, and &s;pread up|on Leather, and laid upon any place troubled with the Gout, do pre&s;ently give ea&s;e of the pains; and applied in the &s;ame manner giveth ea&s;e to pained Joynts, and profiteth very much for running and moi&s;t Ulcers, Gangreans, Mortifications, and the like, for which it hath by often experience been found helpful.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Corralwort.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called by &s;ome Toothwort, Toothed Violet, Dog-teeth Violet, and Dentaria.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> Of the many &s;orts of this Herb, two of them may be found growing in this Nation; the fir&s;t of which &s;hooteth forth one or two win|ged Leavs upon long browni&s;h Foot&s;talks, which are doubled down at their fir&s;t coming out of the ground: when they are fully opened they con&s;i&s;t of &s;even Leavs, mo&s;t commonly of a &s;ad green color, dented about the edges, &s;et on both &s;ides the middle Rib one again&s;t another, as the Leavs of the A&s;h-tree: the &s;talk beareth no Leavs on the lower half of it, the uper half beareth &s;omtimes three or four, each con&s;i&s;tfng of five Leavs, &s;omtimes but of three: on the top &s;tand four or five flowers upon &s;hort foot&s;talks, with long husks; the flowers are very like the flowers of &s;tock Gilliflowers, of a pale purpli&s;h color, con&s;i&s;ting of four Leavs apiece, after which come &s;mal Cods which contain the Seed: the Root is very &s;mooth, white, and &s;hining, it doth not grow downwards, but creepeth along under the uper cru&s;t of the ground, and con&s;i&s;teth of divers &s;mal round knobs, &s;et together: toward the top of the &s;talk there grow &s;ome &s;ingle Leavs, by each of which cometh a &s;mal round cloven Bulb, which when it is ripe, if it be &s;et in the ground it will grow to be a Root.</P>
<P>As for the other Corralwort which groweth in this Nation, 'tis more
<PB N="75" REF="50"> &s;carcy than this, being a very &s;mal Plant not much unlike Crowfoot, ther|fore &s;ome think it to be one of the &s;orts of Crowfoot: I know not where to direct you to it, and therfore I &s;hall forbear the De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth neer <HI>Mayfield</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> in a Wood called High-reed, and in another Wood there al&s;o, called Fox holes.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower from the latter end of <HI>April</HI> to the middle of <HI>May,</HI> and before the middle of <HI>July</HI> they are gone and not to be found.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, gravel, &s;tone, &s;ides, Bowels, wounds in the Brea&s;t and Lungs, rupture, fluxes, Wounds and Ulcers.</NOTE> It clen&s;eth the Bladder and provoketh Urin, expels Gravel, and the Stone, it ea&s;eth pains in the &s;ides and bowels; it is excellent good for inward wounds, e&s;peci|ally &s;uch as are made in the Brea&s;t or Lungs by taking a dram of the pouder of the Root every morning in Wine; the &s;ame is excellent good for Ruptures, as al&s;o &s;top flu|xes: an Oyntment made of it, is excellent good for wounds and Ulcers, for it &s;oon dries up the watry humor which hinders the Cure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Co&s;tmary,</HI> or <HI>Aleco&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Bal&s;om Herb.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o frequently known to be an Inhabitant in almo&s;t every G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+den, That I &s;uppo&s;e it needle&s;s to write a De&s;cription thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> The ordinary Co&s;tmary as well as Maudlin provoketh Urin abun|dantly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Womb, Choller, Flegm, pu|trefaction, Corrupti|on, Ob&s;tru|ctions, Quotidian Agues, Stomach, Liver, Head-ach, Rhewm, raw hu|mors, Cachexia, Worms, &V;lcers.</NOTE> and moi&s;teneth the hardne&s;s of the Mother; it gently purgeth Choller and Flegm, extenuating that which is gro&s;s, and cutting that which is tough and gluttenous, clen&s;eth that which is foul, and hindreth putrifaction and corruption, it di&s;|&s;olveth without Attraction, openeth Ob&s;tructions, and hea|leth their evil effects, and is a wonderful help to all &s;orts of day Agues. It is a&s;tringent to the &s;tomach, and &s;trengtheneth the Liver and al the other inward parts, and taken in Whey, wor|keth the more effectually. Taken fa&s;ting in the morning, it is very profitable for the pains of the Head that are continual, and to &s;tay, dry up, and con&s;ume al thin Rhewms, or di&s;tillations from the Head into the &s;tomach, and helpeth much to dige&s;t raw humors that are gathered therein. It is very profitable for tho&s;e that are fallen into a continual evil di&s;po&s;ition of the whol body called <HI>Cachexia,</HI> being taken e&s;pecially in the beginning of the Di&s;ea&s;: It is an e&s;pecial friend and help to evil, weak, and cold Livers. The Seed is familiarly given to Children for the Worms, and &s;o is the Infu&s;ion of the Flowers in white Wine, given them to the quantity of two ounces at a time: It maketh an excellent Salve to clean&s; and heal old Ulcers, being boyled with Oyl Olive, and Adders Tongue with it: and after it is &s;trained, to put a little Wax, Rozin, and Turpentine to bring it into a convenient Body.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Cudweed,</HI> or <HI>Cottonweed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides Cudweed and Cottonweed, it is called Chafweed, Dwarf Cotton and Petty Cotton.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The common Cudweed ri&s;eth up but with one Stalk &s;om|time, and &s;omtimes with two or three, thick &s;et on all &s;ides with &s;mal, long, and narrow whiti&s;h or wooly Leavs, from the middle of the Stalk almo&s;t up to the top; with every Leaf &s;tandeth a &s;mal Flower, of a dun or brow|ni&s;h yellow color, or not &s;o yellow as others: in which Heads after the Flowers are fallen come &s;mal Seed wrapped up with the down therein, and is carried away with the Wind. The Root is &s;mal and threddy.</P>
<P>There are other &s;orts hereof, which are &s;omwhat le&s;&s;er than the former, not much different, &s;ave only that as the &s;talk and Leavs are &s;horter, &s;o the Flowers are palet, and more open,</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in dry, barren, &s;andy, and gravelly Grounds, in mo&s;t places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about <HI>July,</HI> &s;ome earlier, &s;ome later, and their Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> is Lady of it. The Plants are all a&s;tringent, or binding and drying, and therefore profitable for defluxions of Rhewm from the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ind, dry, Fluxes, Terms ill &s;topped, Ruptures, Worms, Tena&s;mus, Woands, Bleeding, Ulcers, Quin&s;ie.</NOTE> and to &s;tay fluxes of Blood wher&s;oever. The Decoction being made into red Wine and drunk, or the Pouder taken therin; it al&s;o helpeth the Bloody Flux, and ea&s;eth the torments that come therby, &s;tayeth the immoderate Cour&s;es of Women, and is al&s;o good for in|ward or outward Wounds, Hurts, and Brui&s;es, and helpeth Children both of Bur&s;tings and the Worms; and the Di&s;ea&s; called <HI>Tena&s;mus,</HI> which is an often provocation to the &s;tool, and doing nothing, being either drunk or injected: The green Leavs brui&s;ed and laid to any green wound &s;tayeth the bleeding, and healeth it up quickly: The Decoction or Juyce thereof doth the &s;ame, and helpeth al old and filthy Ulcers quickly: The Juyce of the Herb taken in Wine and Milk is (as <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith) a Soveraign Remedy again&s;t the Mumps and Quin&s;ie; and further &s;aith, That who&s;o|ever &s;hal &s;o take it, &s;hal never be troubled with that Di&s;ea&s; again.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cow&s;lips,</HI> or, <HI>Peagles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BOth the Wild and Garden Cow&s;lips are &s;o wel known, that I wil nei|ther trouble my &s;elf nor the Reader with any De&s;cription of them.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>April</HI> and <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> laies claim to the Herb as her own, and it is under the Sign <HI>Aries,</HI> and our City Dames know well enough the Oyntment or Di&s;tilled Water of it, adds Beauty, or at lea&s;t re&s;tores it when it is lo&s;t. The Flowers are held to be more effectual than the Leavs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spots, Wrinkles, Sunburn.</NOTE> and the Roots of little u&s;e. An Oyntment being made with them, taketh away &s;pots, and wrinkles of the Skin, Subur|ning
<PB N="77" REF="51"> and Freckles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Head, heat, wind Beauty ads, verti|go, Ephial|tes, Con|vul&s;ion, Cramp, Back, Bladder, Wounds, trembling, Frenzy, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Pal&s;ey.</NOTE> and ads Beauty exceedingly; They remedy al infirmities of the Head coming of Heat and Wind, as Verti|go, Ephialtes, fal&s; apparitions, Phren&s;ies, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Pal|&s;ies, Convul&s;ions, Cramps, Pains in the Nervs: The Roots ea&s; pains in the Back and Bladder, and open the pa&s;&s;ages of U|rin: The Leavs are good in Wounds, and the flowers take a|way trembling: If the Flowers be not well dried and kept in a warm place, they will &s;oon putrifie and look green, have a &s;pe|cial eye over them: if you let them &s;ee the Sun once a Month, it wil do neither the Sun nor them harm.</P>
<P>Becau&s; they &s;trengthen the Brain and Nerves, and remedy Pal&s;ies, the Greeks gave them the name <HI>Prrali&s;is;</HI> The flowers pre&s;erved or con&s;erved, and the quantity of a Nutmeg eaten e|very morning, is a &s;ufficient Do&s;e, for inward Di&s;ea&s;es, but for Wounds, Spots, Wrinkles, and Sunburning, an Oyntment is made of the Leavs and Hogs grea&s;.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Crabs-Claws.</HEAD>
<P>THey are called Water Sengreen, Knights Pondwort, Water Hou&s;leek, Wading Pondweed, and Fre&s;h water Soldier.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> It hath &s;undry long narrow Leaves with &s;harp prickles on the edges of them, al&s;o very &s;harp pointed; the &s;talks which bear flowers &s;eldom grow &s;o high as the Leavs, bearing a forked head like a Crabs Claw, out of which comes a white flower con&s;i&s;ting of three Leavs, with divers yellowi&s;h hairy threds in the middle: it taketh Root in the mud in the bottom of the Water.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows plentifully in the Fens in <HI>Lincon&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowers in <HI>June,</HI> and u&s;ually from thence till <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis a Plant under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and therfore a great &s;trengthner of the Reins; it is excel|lent good in that Inflamation which is commonly called St.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reins, St. An|thonies Fire, Inflamations and Swellings in Wounds, kidnies brui&s;ed pi&s;&s;ing blood, Terms &s;tops.</NOTE> Anthonies fire, it a&s;&s;wageth al Inflamations and Swel|lings in Wounds, and an Oyntment made of it is excel|lent good to heal them: there is &s;carce a better Remedy growing than this is, for &s;uch as have brui&s;ed their Kid|nies, and upon that account pi&s;&s;ing blood: a drachm of the pouder of the Herb taken every morning is a very good Remedy to &s;top the Terms.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Back-Cre&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath long Leavs deeply cut and jagged on both &s;ides not much unlike wild Mu&s;tard; the Stalks be &s;mal, very limber, though very tough, you may twi&s;t them round as you may a Willow before they break: The Flowers be very &s;mal and yellow; after which comes &s;mal Cods which contain the Seed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is a common Herb, grows u&s;ually by the way &s;ides, and &s;om|times
<PB N="78" REF="52"> upon mud Wals about <HI>London,</HI> but it delights mo&s;t to grow among&s;t &s;tones and rubbi&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowers in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> and <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Brain, Rhumes, Lungs, cough yell. Jaund. Sciatica, Inflamati|ons in the Brea&s;t and Te&s;ticles.</NOTE> and is a Plant of a hot and biting nature: The truth is, the Seed of Banck-Cre&s;&s;es &s;trengthen the Brain exceeding|ly, being in performing that office little inferior to Mu&s;tard Seed, if at al: they are excellent good to &s;tay tho&s;e Rhewms which fal down from the Head upon the Lungs: You may beat the Seed into pouder if you plea&s;e, and make it up into an Electuary with Honey, &s;o have you an excellent remedy by you, not only for the premi&s;es, but al&s;o for the Cough, yellow Jaundice and Sciatica. The Herb boyled into a Pultice, is an excellent Remedy for Inflamations both in Womens Brea&s;ts and Mens Te&s;ticles.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>Sciatica-Cre&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THe&s;e are of two kinds; The fir&s;t ri&s;eth up with a round Stalk about two foot high, &s;pread into divers Branches, who&s;e lower Leavs are &s;omwhat larger than the uper, yet al of them cut, or torn on the edges, &s;omwhat like Garden-Cre&s;&s;es, but &s;maller: The flowers are &s;mal and white, growing at the tops of the Branches, where afterwards grow Husks, with &s;mall browni&s;h Seed therein, very &s;trong and &s;harp in ta&s;t, more than the Cre&s;&s;es of the Garden: The Root is long, white and woody.</P>
<P>The other hath the lower Leavs whol, &s;omwhat long and broad, not torn at al, but only &s;omwhat deeply dented about the edges towards the ends, but tho&s;e that grow up higher are le&s;&s;er. The Flowers and Seed are like the former, and &s;o is the Root likewi&s;e: and both Root and Seed as &s;harp as it.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e grow by the way &s;ides in untilled places, and by the &s;ides of old walls.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in the end of <HI>June,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Saturnine Plant. The Leavs, but e|&s;pecially the Roots taken fre&s;h in the Summer time, beaten and made into a Pultis or Salve, with old Hogs Grea&s;, and applied to the place pained with the Sciatica,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sciatica, Gout, Headach, Rhewms, Spleen, Scars, Le|pro&s;ie, Scurf, Scabs.</NOTE> to continue thereon four hours if it be on a Man, and two hours on a Woman; the place afterwards bathed with Wine and Oyl mixed together, and then wrapped with wool or Skins after they have &s;wet a little, wil a&s;&s;uredly cure not only the &s;ame Di&s;ea&s;e in the Hips, Hucklebone, or o|ther of the Joynts, as the Gout in the Hands or Feet, but all o|ther old Griefs of the Head (as inveterate Rhewms) and other parts of the Body that is hard to be cured: And if of the for|mer Griefs any part remain; the &s;ame Medicine after twenty
<PB N="79" REF="52"> daies is to be applied again. The &s;ame is al&s;o effectual in the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Spleen: and applied to the Skin it taketh away the the blemi&s;hes there|of, whether they be Scars, Lepro&s;ie, Scabs, or Scurf: which although it exulcerate the part, yet that is to be helped afterwards with a Salve made of Oyl and Wax.</P>
<P>E&s;teem of this as another Secret.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Water-Cre&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;R ordinary Water-Cre&s;&s;es &s;preadeth forth with many weak, hollow &s;appy Stalks, &s;hooting out fibres at the Joynts, and upwards, long, winged Leavs, made of &s;undry broad, &s;appy, and almo&s;t round Leavs, of a browni&s;h green color. The flowers are many and white, &s;tanding on long Foot&s;talks, after which come &s;mal yellow Seed, con|tained in &s;mal long pods like Horns: The whol Plant abideth green in the Winter, and ta&s;teth &s;omwhat hot and &s;harp.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow (for the mo&s;t part) in the &s;mal &s;tanding Waters, yet &s;omtimes in &s;mal Rivulets of running Water.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower and Seed in the beginning of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon.</HI> They are more powerful again&s;t the Scurvy, and to clen&s;e the Blood and Humors than Brooklime is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scurvy, Blood, hu|mors, &s;tone Di&s;ury, terms pro|vokes, &V;l|cers, fren|kls, Pim|ples, &s;pots, Dulne&s;s, Lethargie.</NOTE> and &s;erve in al the other u&s;es in which Brooklime is available, as to break the &s;tone, and provoke Urin, and Womens Cour&s;es. The De|coction thereof clen&s;eth Ulcers by wa&s;hing them therewith. The Leavs brui&s;ed, or the Juyce, is good to be applied to the Face, or other parts troubled with Freckles, Pimples, Spots, or the like, at night, and wa&s;hed away in the morning. The Juyce mixed with Vinegar, and the fore part of the Head bathed ther|with, is very good for tho&s;e that are dull and drou&s;ie, or have the Lethargy.</P>
<P>Water-cre&s;s Pottage is a good Remedy to clen&s;e the Blood in the Spring, and help Headaches, and con&s;ume the gro&s;s Humors Winter hath left behind, tho&s;e that would live in health may u&s;e it if they plea&s;e, if they will not I cannot help it: If any fancy not Pottage, they may eat the Herb as a Sallat.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Cro&s;swort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Cro&s;swort groweth up with &s;quare hairy brown Stalks, little above a foot high, having four &s;mal broad and pointed hairy, yet &s;mooth green Leavs, growing at every joynt, each a|gain&s;t other, cro&s;s waies, which hath cau&s;ed the name: Toward the tops of the Stalks at the Joynts with the Leavs in three or four rows upwards, &s;tand &s;mal, pale yellow Flowers; after whith come &s;mal blacki&s;h, round Seed, four for the mo&s;t part &s;et in every Husk. The Root is very &s;mal and full of fibres, or thrids, taking good hold of the ground, and &s;preading with the Branches a great deal of ground, which peri&s;h not in Winter, although the Leavs die every yeer, and &s;pring again anew.</HI></P>
<PB N="80" REF="53">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many moi&s;t grounds, as wel Meadows, as untille<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> places about <HI>London.</HI> In <HI>Ham&s;ted</HI> Church-yard, at <HI>Wye</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> and &s;un|dry other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth from <HI>May</HI> al the Summer long in one place or other as they are more open to the Sun; the Seed ripeneth &s;oon after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of Sa|turn.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, inward &amp; outward, flegm, Ob|&s;tructions, Stomach, Bowels, Ruptures.</NOTE> This is a &s;ingular good Wound Herb, and is u&s;ed in|wardly, not only to &s;tay bleeding of Wounds, but to con&s;olidate them, as it doth outwardly any green Wounds, which it quickly &s;odereth up and healeth. The Decoction of the Herb in Wine, helpeth to expectorate flegm out of the Che&s;t, and is good for Ob&s;tructions in the Brea&s;t, Stomach, or Bowels, and helpeth a decayed Appetite; It is al&s;o good to wa&s;h any Wound or Sore with, to clen&s;e and heal it: The Herb brui&s;ed, and then boy|led and applied outwardly for certain daies together, renewing it often, and in the mean time, the Decoction of the Herb in the Wine taken inwardly every day, doth certainly cure the Rupture in any, &s;o as it be not too inveterate; but very &s;peedily if it be fre&s;h and lately taken.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Crowfoot.</HEAD>
<P>MAny are the Names this furious biting Herb hath obtained, almo&s;t e|nough to make up a Welch-mans Pedegree, if he fetch it no further than <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Gaunt</HI> or <HI>William</HI> the Conquerer, for it is called Frogs-foot, from the Greek Name <GAP DESC="foreign">, Crowfoot, Gold Knobs, Gold Cups, King Kob, Ba&s;&s;inets, Troll Flower, Polts, Locker Goulons, and Butter-Flowers.</P>
<P>Abundance are the &s;orts of this Herb, that to de&s;cribe them all would tire the patience even of <HI>Socrates</HI> him&s;elf; but becau&s;e I have not yet attai|ned to the Spirit of <HI>Socrates,</HI> I &s;hall but de&s;cribe the mo&s;t u&s;ual.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The mo&s;t common Crowfoot hath many dark green Leavs cut into divers parts, in ta&s;t biting and &s;harp, biting and bli&s;tering the Tongue, it bears many Flowers, and tho&s;e of a bright re&s;plendent yellow color, I do not remember that ever I &s;aw any thing yellower, Virgins in Ancient time u&s;ed to make Pouder of them to &s;trew Bride Beds: after which flowers come &s;mal Heads of Seeds, round, but rugged like a Pine Apple.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow very common every where, unle&s;s you run your Head into a Hedg, you cannot but &s;ee &s;ome of them where ever you walk.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June,</HI> even til <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This fiery and hot &s;pirited Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> is no way fit to be given inwardly, but an Oyntment of the Leavs or flo|wers wil draw a Bli&s;ter, and may &s;o be fitting applied to the nape of the Neck to draw back Rhewm from the Eyes: the Herb being brui&s;ed and mixed with a little Mu&s;tard, draws a Bli&s;ter as well and as perfectly as Can|tharides, and with far le&s;s danger to the Ve&s;&s;els of Urin, which Canthari|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es naturally delight to wrong; I knew the Herb once applied to a Pe&s;ti|lential
<PB N="81" REF="53"> ri&s;ing that was falling down, and it &s;aved life even beyond hope; it were good keeping an Oyntment and Plai&s;ter of it if it were but for that.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Cuckowpint.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called Aron, Jarus, and Barba-aron, Calves-foot, Ramp, Starch|wort, Cuckoo-pintle, Prie&s;t-pintle, and Wake-robin.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>This &s;hooteth forth three, four, or five Leavs at the mo&s;t, from one Root, every one whereof is &s;omwhat large and long, broad at the bottom next the Stalk, and forked, but ending in a point, without cut on the edges, of a full green color, each &s;tanding upon a thick round &s;talk, of a hands breadth long, or more: among which after two or three months that they be|gin to wither, ri&s;eth up a bare, round, whiti&s;h green &s;talk, spot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed and &s;tra|ked with-purple, &s;omwhat higher than the Leavs: at the top whereof &s;tan|deth a long hollow Ho&s;e or Husk, clo&s;e at the bottom, but open from the mid|dle upwards ending in a point; in the middle whereof &s;tandeth a &s;mal long Pe&s;tle or Clapper, &s;maller at the bottom than at the top, of a dark purple co|lor as the Husk is on the in&s;ide, though green without; which after it hath &s;o abidden for &s;ome time, the Husk with the Clapper decayeth, and the foot or bottom thereof groweth to be a &s;mal long Bunch of Berries, green at the fir&s;t, and of a yellowi&s;h red color when they are ripe, of the bigne&s;s of an Ha|zel Nut Kernel; which abideth thereon almo&s;t until Winter; The Root is round and &s;omwhat long, for the mo&s;t part lying along, the Leavs &s;hooting forth at the bigger end, which when it beareth his Berries is &s;omwhat wrin|kled and loo&s;, another growing under it, which is &s;o &s;olid and firm|with many &s;mal thrids hanging thereat: The whol Plant is of a very &s;harp biting ta&s;t, pricking the Tongue as Nettles do the Hands, and &s;o abideth for a great while without alteration: The Root hereof was anciently u&s;ed in|&s;tead of Starch, to &s;tarch Linnen withal.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort of Cuckoopint, with le&s;&s;er Leavs than the former, and &s;omwhat harder, having blacki&s;h &s;pots upon them, which for the mo&s;t part abide longer green in Summer than the former; and both Leavs and Roots are more &s;harp and fierce than it: In all things el&s;e it is like the former.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e two &s;orts grow frequently-almo&s;t under every Hedg &s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They &s;hoot forth Leavs in the Spring, and continue but until the middle of Summer, or &s;omwhat later, their Husks appearing before they fall away; and their fruit &s;hewing in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars. Tragus</HI> reporteth that a dram weight, or more if need be, of the &s;potted Wake-Ro|bin, either fre&s;h and green, or dried, being beaten and taken, is a mo&s;t pre&s;ent and &s;ure Remedy for Poy&s;on and the Plague.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Plague, Boyl, Difficulty, of breath, Cough,</NOTE> The Juyce of the Herb taken to the quantity of a &s;poonful hath the &s;ame effect. But if there be a little Vinegar added thereun|to as wel as unto the Root afore&s;aid, it &s;omwhat allayeth the &s;harp biting ta&s;t thereof upon the Tongue. The green Leavs brui&s;ed, and laid upon any boyl or Plague-&s;ore, doth wonderful|ly
<PB N="82" REF="54"> help to draw forth the Poy&s;on: A dram of the Pouder of the dried Root taken with twice &s;o much Sugar in the form of a licking Electuary, or the green Root doth wonderfully help tho&s;e that are pur&s;ie and &s;hort winded, as al&s;o tho&s;e that have a Cough; it breaketh, dige&s;teth, and rid|deth away Flegm from the Stomach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegm, Di&s;ury, Terms, provokes, Afterbirth Ulcers, Itch, Rup|tures, Polipus, Eyes, Throat, Jaws, Gout, Piles, or Hemor|rhoids, Funda|ment fal|ling down, Scurf, Freckles, Spots, Blemi&s;hes.</NOTE> Che&s;t, and Lungs. The Milk wherein the Root hath been boiled is effectual al&s;o for the &s;ame purpo&s;e. The &s;aid Pouder taken in Wine or other Drink; or the Juyce of the Berries, or the Pouder of them, or the Wine wherein they have been boyled, provoketh Urine, and bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es, and purgeth them effectually after Child-bearing to bring away the After-birth. Taken with Sheeps Milk it healeth the inward Ulcers of the Bowels. The di&s;tilled Water hereof is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid; A &s;poonful taken at a time healeth the Itch; and an ounce or more taken at a time for &s;ome daies together doth help the Rup|ture: The Leavs either green or dry, or the Juyce of them, doth clen&s;e al manner of rotten and filthy Ulcers in what part of the Body &s;oever, and healeth the &s;tinking &s;ores in the No&s;e cal|led <HI>Polipus.</HI> The Water wherein the Root hath been boyled dropped into the Eyes, clen&s;eth them from any Film or Skin, Clouds or Mi&s;ts which begin to hinder the Sight, and helpeth the watering or redne&s;s of them; or when by &s;ome chance they become black and blue. The Root mixed with Bean Flower and applied to the Throat or Jaws that are inflamed, helpeth them. The Juyce of the Berries, boyled in Oyl of Ro&s;es, or beaten into Pouder and mixed with the Oyl, and dropped into the Ears, ea&s;eth pains in them. The Berries or the Roots beaten with hot Ox Dung, and applied, ea&s;eth the pains of the Gout. The Leavs and Roots boyled in Wine with a little Oyl, and appli|ed to the Piles, or the falling down of the Fundament ea&s;eth them; and &s;o doth &s;itting over the hot fumes thereof. The fre&s;h Roots brui&s;ed, and di|&s;tilled with a little Milk, yieldeth a mo&s;t Soveraign Water to clen&s;e the Skin fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Scurf, Freckles, Spots, or Blemi&s;hes what&s;oever therein.</P>
<P>Authors have left large Commendation of this Herb you &s;ee, but for my part I have neither &s;poken with Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> nor Dr. <HI>Experience</HI> about it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Cucumers,</HI> Or, (according to the pronounciation of the vulgar) <HI>Cowcumbers.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Government &amp; Vertues.]</HI> THere is no di&s;pute to be made, but that they are under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> and though they are &s;o much cryed out again&s;t for their coldne&s;s, and that if they were but one degree colder they would be Poy&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach het, Liver hot, Humors raw, Skin clen&s;eth, Hot Rhewms in the Eyes, provokes Urin, and clen&s;e the Pa&s;&s;ages, &V;lcers in the Bladder, Red Face, Sunburning, Freckles, Morphew.</NOTE> the be&s;t of Galeni&s;ts hold them but to be cold and moi&s;t in the &s;e|cond degree, and then not &s;o hot as either Lettice or Pur|&s;lain:
<PB N="83" REF="54"> They are excellent good for hot Stomachs and hot Livers; the unmea&s;urable u&s;e of them fils the Body ful of raw humors, and &s;o indeed the unmea&s;urable u&s;e of any thing el&s;e do harm: The Juyce of Cucumers, the Face be|ing wa&s;hed with it, clen&s;eth the Skin, and is excellent good for hot Rhewms in the Eyes; the Seed is excellent to pro|voke Urine, and clen&s;e the pa&s;&s;ages thereof when they are &s;topped; neither do I think there is a better Remedy for Ulcers in the Bladder growing than Cucumers are: The u&s;ual cour&s;e is to u&s;e the Seeds in Emultions, as they make Almond Milk; but a better way far (in my opinion) is this, when the &s;ea&s;on of the yeer is, To take the Cucumers and brui&s;e them well, and di&s;til the Water from them, and let &s;uch as are troubled with Ulcers in their Bladders drink no other drink; The Face being wa&s;hed with the &s;ame Water, cureth the redde&s;t face that is; it is al&s;o excellent good for Sunburning, Freckles, and Morphew.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dai&s;ies.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o well known to almo&s;t every Child, that I &s;uppo&s;e it is al|together needle&s;s to write any De&s;cription of them. Take therefore the Vertues of them as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is under the Sign <HI>Cancer,</HI> and un|der the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and therfore excellent good for wounds in the Brea&s;t, and very fitting to be kept both in Oyls, Oyntments, and Plai|&s;ters, as al&s;o in Syrup. The greater wild Dai&s;ie is a Wound Herb of good re&s;pect, often u&s;ed in tho&s;e Drinks or Salves that are for Wounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, inward &amp; outward, Choller, Liver, Brea&s;t, Ulcers, Swellings, Kernels, Brui&s;es, Falls, Ruptures, Burnings, Inflama|tions.</NOTE> either inward or outward. The Juyce or Di&s;tilled Water of the&s;e, or the &s;mal Dai&s;ies, doth much temper the heat of Choller, and refre&s;heth the Liver, and other inward parts. A Decoction made of them and drunk, helpeth to cure the Wounds made in the hollowne&s;s of the Brea&s;t: The &s;ame al&s;o cureth all Ulcers and Pu&s;tles in the Mouth or Tongue, or in the &s;ecret parts. The Leavs brui&s;ed and applied to the Cods, or to any other parts that are &s;wollen and hot, doth de&s;olve it and temper the heat: A Decoction made hereof with Walwort and Agrimony, and the places fomented or bathed therewith warm, giveth great ea&s;e to them that are troubled with the Pal|&s;ey, Sciatica, or the Gout: The &s;ame al&s;o di&s;per&s;eth and di&s;&s;ol|veth the Knots or Kernels that grow in the Fle&s;h of any part of the Body, and the Brui&s;es and Hurts that come of Fals and Blows: They are al&s;o u&s;ed for Ruptures, and other inward Burnings with very good &s;ucce&s;s. An Oyntment made hereof doth wonderfully help all Wounds that have Inflamations about them, or by rea&s;on of moi&s;t humors having acce&s;s unto them, are kept long from healing, and &s;uch are tho&s;e for the mo&s;t part that happen in the Joynts of the Arms or Legs. The Juyce of them dropped into the running Eyes of a|ny doth much help them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="84" REF="55">
<HEAD>Dandelyon, <HI>vulgarly called</HI> Pi&s;s-a-beds.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis is &s;o wel known to have many long and deeply ga&s;hed Leavs lying on the ground, round about the Head of the Root; the ends of each ga&s;h or jag on both &s;ides, looking downwards towards the Root, the middle rib being white, which broken, yieldeth a|bundance of bitter Milk, but the Root much more: from among the Leavs which alwaies abide green, ari&s;e many &s;lender, weak, naked foot&s;talks, every one of them bearing at the top one large yellow Flower, con&s;i&s;ting of many rows of yellow Leavs, broad at the points, and nicked in, with a deep &s;pot of yellow in the middle, which growing ripe, the green Husk wherein the Flower &s;tood, turneth it &s;elf down to the Stalk, and the head of Down be|cometh as round as a Ball, with long reddi&s;h Seed underneath, bearing a part of the Down on the Head of every one, which together is blown away with the wind, or may be at once blown away with ones mouth. The Root groweth downwards exceeding deep, which being broken off within the ground, wil notwith&s;tanding &s;hoot forth again; and wil hardly be de|&s;troyed where it hath once taken deep Root in the ground.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth frequent in al Meadows and Pa&s;ture grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in one place or other almo&s;t al the yeer long.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> It is of an opening and clen&s;ing quality, and therfore very effectual for the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Openeth, Clen&s;eth, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Liver, Gall, Spleen, Jaundice, hypochon|drical, Melan|cholly, Di&s;ury, Con&s;ump|tion, Cachexia, Watching, heat, ague, Pe&s;tilence.</NOTE> Gall, and Spleen, and the Di&s;ea&s;es that ari&s;e from them, as the Jaundice, and Hypochon|drical pa&s;&s;ion: It wonderfully openeth the pa&s;&s;ages of the Urin both in yong and old: It powerfully clen&s;eth Apo&s;thumes, and inward in the Uritory Pa&s;&s;ages, and by the drying and tem|perate quality doth aftewards heal them; for which purpo&s;e the Decoction of the Roots or Leavs in white Wine, or the Leavs chopped as Potherbs with a few Alli&s;anders, and boyled in their broth, is very effectual. And who&s;o is drawing towards a con|&s;umption, or an evil di&s;po&s;ition of the whol Body called <HI>Ca|chexia,</HI> by the u&s;e hereof for &s;ome time together &s;hal find a won|derful help: It helpeth al&s;o to procure re&s;t and &s;leep to Bodies di&s;tempered by the heat of Ague Fits, or otherwi&s;e. The di&s;til|led Water is effectual to drink in Pe&s;tilential Feavers, and to wa&s;h the Sores.</P>
<P>You &s;ee here what Vertues this common Herb hath, and that's the rea&s;on the French &amp; Dutch &s;o often eat them in the Spring; and now if you look a little further you may &s;ee plainly with|out a pair of Spectacles, that Forraign Phy&s;itians are not &s;o &s;elfi&s;h as our are but more communicative of the Vertues of Plants to People.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Darnel.</HEAD>
<P>IT is al&s;o called Juray, and Wray; in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> they call it Crop, it being a pe&s;tilent Enemy among&s;t Corn.</P>
<PB N="85" REF="55">
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> This hath all the Winter long, &s;undry long, fat, and rough Leavs, which when the Stalk ri&s;eth, which is &s;lender and joynted, are nar|rower, but rough &s;til; on the top groweth a long &s;pik, compo&s;ed of many Heads, &s;et one above another, containing two or three Husks with &s;harp, but &s;hort Beards or awns at the ends; the Seed is ea&s;ily &s;haked out of the Ear, the Husk it &s;elf being &s;omwhat tough.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Country Husbandmen do know this too wel to grow among their Corn: or in the Borders and Pathwaies of other Fields that are fal|low.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a malitious Plant of &s;ullen <HI>Saturn.</HI> As it is not without &s;ome Vices, &s;o hath it al&s;o many Vertues. The Meal of <HI>Darnel</HI> is very good to &s;tay Gangreans,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gangrenes Cankers, Lepro&s;ie, Morphew, Ring|worms, Sciatica, Thorns, Splinters, broken Bones, Diabets.</NOTE> and other &s;uch like fretting and eating Cankers, and putrid Sores: It al&s;o clen&s;eth the Skin of al lepro&s;ies, Morphews, Ringworms, and the like, if it be u&s;ed with Salt and Rhadi&s;h Roots. And being u|&s;ed with quick Brim&s;tone and Vinegar, it di&s;&s;olveth Knots and Kernels, and breaketh tho&s;e that are hard to be di&s;&s;olved, being boyled in Wine with Pidgeons Dung and Lin&s;eed: A Deco|ction therof made with Water and Honey, and the place bathed therwith, is profitable for the Sciatica. Darnel Meal applied in a Pulti&s;s, draweth forth Splinters and broken Bones in the Fle&s;h: The red Darnel boyled in red Wine and taken, &s;tayeth the Lask and al other fluxes, and Womens bloody I&s;&s;ues; and re&s;traineth Urin that pa&s;&s;eth away too &s;uddenly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dill.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Dill groweth up with &s;eldom more than one Stalk, neither &s;o high, nor &s;o great u&s;ually as Fennel, being round, and with fewer Joynts thereon, who&s;e Leavs are &s;adder, and &s;om|what long, and &s;o like Fennel that it deceiveth many, but harder in hand|ling and &s;omwhat thicker, and of a &s;tronger unplea&s;anter &s;cent: The tops of the Stalks have four Branches and &s;maller &V;mbels of yellow flowers, which turn into &s;mal Seed &s;omwhat flatter and thinner than Fennel Seed. The Root is &s;omwhat &s;mal and woody, peri&s;hing every yeer after it hath born Seed; and is al&s;o unprofitable, being never put to any u&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is mo&s;t u&s;ually &s;own in Gardens, and grounds for the purpo&s;e, and is al&s;o found wild with us in &s;ome places.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Mercury hath the Dominion of the Plant, and therfore to be &s;ure it &s;trengthens the Brain. The Dill be|ing boyled and drunk is good to ea&s; Swellings and pains,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Swellings, Pains, Loo&s;ne&s;s, Vomiting, Mother, Hiccough, Raw hu|mors, Wind, Apo&s;tums, Ulcers, Terms provokes.</NOTE> it al&s;o &s;tayeth the Belly, and Stomach from ca&s;ting: The Decoction thereof helpeth Women that are troubled with the pains and windine&s;s of the Mother, if they &s;it therin. It &s;tayeth the Hic|cough, being boyled in Wine, and but &s;melled unto, being tied in a cloth. The Seed is of more u&s;e than the Leavs, and more effectual to dige&s;t raw and vi&s;cuous humors, and is u&s;ed in Me|dicines
<PB N="86" REF="56"> that &s;erve to expel wind and the pains proceeding there; from. The Seed being toa&s;ted or fried, and u&s;ed in Oyls or Plai&s;ters, di&s;&s;olveth the Impo&s;thumes in the Fundament, and drieth up all moi&s;t Ulcers (e&s;pecially in the &s;ecret parts.) The Oyl made of Dill is effectual to warm, to re&s;olve Humors and Impo&s;thums, to ea&s; pains and to procure re&s;t. The Decoction of Dill be it Herb or Seed (only if boyl the Seed you mu&s;t brui&s;e it) in white Wine, being drunk is a gallant expeller of Wind and provoker of the Terms.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Devils-bit.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] THis ri&s;eth up with a round, green, &s;mooth &s;talk, about two foot high, &s;et with divers long, and &s;omwhat narrow, &s;mooth, dark, green Leavs, &s;omwhat &s;nip'd about the edges for the mo&s;t part, being el&s; al whol and not divided at al, or but very &s;eldom, even to the tops of the Branches which yet are &s;maller than tho&s;e below, with one Rib only in the middle: At the end of each Branch &s;tandeth a round Head of many Flowers &s;et together in the &s;ame manner or more neatly than the Scabious, and of a more blewi&s;h purple color; which being pa&s;t there followeth Seed that falleth away. The Root is &s;omwhat thick, but &s;hort and blacki&s;h with many &s;trings,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Learned Tale that co&s;t a dull Fryar &s;e|ven yeers &s;tudy.</NOTE> abiding after Seed time many yeers. This Root was longer until the Devil (as the Fryars &s;ay) bit a|way the re&s;t of it for &s;pight, envying its u&s;efulne&s;s unto Man|kind. For-&s;ure he was not troubled with any Di&s;ea&s; for which it is proper.</P>
<P>There are two other &s;orts hereof, in nothing unlike the for|mer, &s;ave that the one beareth white, and the other Blu&s;h co|lor'd Flowers.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth as wel in dry Meadows and Fields, as moi&s;t, in many places of this Land: But the other two are more rare, and hard to meet with, yet they are both found growing wild about <HI>Appledore,</HI> neer <HI>Rye</HI> in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower not u&s;ually until <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Plant is Venerial, plea&s;ing and harmle&s;s.</P>
<P>The Herb or Root (al that the Devil hath left of it) being boyled in Wine and drunk is very powerful again&s;t the Plague,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pe&s;tilence, Fea|vers, Poy&s;on, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Brui&s;es, Fals, Clotted Blood, Swel|lings of the Throat, Mo|ther, Wind, Worms, Wounds Scurf, Itch, Dandrif, Pim|ples, Freckles, Morphew.</NOTE> and al Pe&s;tilential Di&s;ea&s;es or Feavers, Poy&s;ons al|&s;o and the bitings of Venemous Bea&s;ts: It al&s;o helpeth tho&s;e that are inwardly brui&s;ed by any ca&s;ualty, or outward|ly by fals or blows, di&s;&s;olving the clotted blood: and the Herb or Root beaten and outwardly applied, taketh away the black and blue Marks that remain in the Skin. The Decoction of the Herb, with Honey of Ro&s;es put therein is very effectual to help the inveterate tumors and &s;wellings of the Almonds and Throat, by often gargling the Mouth therwith. It helpeth al&s;o to procure Womens Cour&s;es,
<PB N="87" REF="56"> and ea&s;eth all pains of the Mother, and to break and di&s;|cu&s;s Winds therin and in the Bowels. The Pouder of the Root taken in Drink, driveth forth the Worms in the Bo|dy: The Juyce or di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is effectual for green Wounds, or old Sores, and clen&s;eth the Body inwardly, and the Seed outwardly, from Sores, Scurf, Itches, Pimples, Freckles, Morphew, or other deformities thereof, but e&s;pecially if a little Vitriol be di&s;&s;olved therein.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dock.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o wel known many kinds of them, that I &s;hal not trouble you with a De&s;cription of them; my Book grows big too fa&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> All Docks are under <HI>Jupiter;</HI> of which the red Dock which is commonly called Bloodwort,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clen&s;e the Blood, &s;trengthens the Liver,</NOTE> clen|&s;eth the Blood, and &s;trengtheneth the Liver; but the yellow Dock Root is be&s;t to be taken when either the Blood or Liver is afflicted by Choller. All of them have a kind of cooling (but not all alike) drying quality, the Sorrels being mo&s;t cold, and the Bloodworts mo&s;t drying:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Loathing of Meat, Spitting Blood, Scabs, Itch, Freckles, Morphew.</NOTE> Of the Bur-Dock I have &s;poken already by him&s;elf. The Seed of mo&s;t of the other kinds whether of the Garden or Field, do &s;tay Lasks or Fluxes of al &s;orts, the loathings of the &s;tomach through Choller, and is help|ful to tho&s;e that &s;pit Blood. The Roots boyled in Vinegar hel|peth the Itch, Scabs, and breakings out of the Skin, if it be ba|thed therewith. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb and Roots hath the &s;ame Vertue, and clen&s;eth the Skin of Freckles, Mor|phews, and al other Spots and Di&s;colorings therein.</P>
<P>Al Docks being boyled with meat, make it boyled the &s;ooner: Be&s;ide Bloodwort is exceeding &s;trengthening to the Liver, and procures good Blood, being as whol&s;om a Pot Herb as any grows in a Garden, yet &s;uch is the nicity of our times for&s;ooth, that Women wil not put it in the Pot becau&s;e it makes the Portage black, Pride and Ignorance (a couple of Mon&s;ters in the Creation) preferring Nicity before Health.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Dodder of Time,</HI> or <HI>Epithimum,</HI> and other <HI>Dodders.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis fir&s;t from Seeds giveth Roots in the ground, which &s;hooteth forth thrids or &s;trings, gro&s;&s;er or finer, as the pro|perty of the Plant wherein it groweth, and the Climate doth &s;uffer, creeping and &s;preading on that Plant whereon it fa&s;tneth, be it high or low. The&s;e &s;trings have no Leavs at all upon them, but wind and interlace them&s;elvs &s;o thick upon a &s;mal Plant that it taketh away all comfort of the Sun from it, and is ready to choak, or &s;trangle it: After the&s;e &s;trings are ri&s;en up to that height that they may draw Nouri&s;hment from the Plant, they &s;eem to be broken off from the ground, either by the &s;trength of their ri&s;ing, or withered by the heat of the Sun. Upon the&s;e &s;trings are found clu&s;ters of &s;mal Heads
<PB N="88" REF="57"> or Husks, out of which &s;tart forth whiti&s;h Flowers, which afrerwards give &s;mal pale color'd Seed &s;omwhat flat, and twice as big as Poppy &s;eed. It generally participates of the Nature of that Plant which it climbeth upon, but the Dodder of Time is accounted the be&s;t, and is the only true Epithimum.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Al Dodders are under <HI>Saturn,</HI> Tel not me of Phy&s;itians crying up Epithimum, or that Dodder which grows upon Time (mo&s;t of which comes from <HI>Hymettus</HI> in <HI>Greece,</HI> or <HI>Hibla</HI> in <HI>Sicilia,</HI> becau&s;e tho&s;e Mountains abound with Time) he is a Phy&s;itian indeed that hath wit enough to chu&s;e his Dodder according to the nature of the Di&s;ea&s;, and Humor peccant: We confe&s;s, Time is the hotte&s;t Herb it u&s;ually grows upon, and therfore that which grows upon Time is hotter than that which grows upon colder Herbs, for it draws Nouri&s;hment fromwhat it grows up|on as wel as from the Earth wher its Root is; &amp; thus you &s;ee old <HI>Saturn</HI> wi&s;e enough to have two &s;trings to his Bow. This is accounted the mo&s;t effectual for Melanchollick Di&s;ea&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melan|cholly, Ad|du&s;t Chol|ler, trem|bling, fain|ting, Swooning, Spleen, Hypochon|dria, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Gall, Jaundice, Liver,</NOTE> and to purge black or burnt Choller, which is the cau&s; of many Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head and Brains, as al&s;o for the trembling of the Heart, faintings, and &s;woonings. It is helpful in al Di&s;ea&s;es and Griefs of the Spleen, and of that Melancholly that ari&s;eth from the windi|ne&s;s of the <HI>Hypochondria.</HI> It purgeth al&s;o the Reins or Kidnies by Urin. It openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Gall, wherby it pro|fiteth them that have the Jaundice; as al&s;o of the Liver and Spleen; purging the Veins of Chollerick and Flegmatick Hu|mors, and helpeth Childrens Agues, a little Worm&s;eed being put thereto.</P>
<P>The other Dodders do (as I &s;aid before) participate of the Nature of tho&s;e Plants whereon they grow: As that which hath been found growing upon Nettles in the We&s;t Country, hath by experience been found very effectual to procure plenty of Urin,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury.</NOTE> where it hath been &s;topped or hindred. And &s;o of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Sympathy and Antipathy, are the two Hinges upon which the whol Mo|del of Phy&s;ick turns, and that Phy&s;itian which minds them not is like a Door off from the Hooks, more likely to do a man a mi&s;chief than to &s;ecure him: then al the Di&s;ea&s;es <HI>Saturn</HI> cau&s;eth, this helps by Sympathy, and &s;trengthens al the parts of the Body he rules: Such as cau&s;ed by <HI>Sol</HI> it helps by Antipathy: what tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es are, &s;ee my Judgment of Di&s;ea&s;es by A&s;trology, and you be plea&s;ed to look the Herb Wormwood, you &s;hal find a Rational way for it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Dogs-Gra&s;s, Quich-Gra&s;s,</HI> Or,<HI>Couch-Gra&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] IT <HI>is well known that this Gra&s;s creepeth far about under ground with long white joynted Roots, and &s;mal fibres almo&s;t at every Joynt very &s;weet in ta&s;t, as the re&s;t of the Herb is, and interlacing one another, from whence &s;hoot forth many fair long gra&s;&s;y Leavs. &s;mal at
<PB N="89" REF="57"> the ends, and cutting or &s;harp on the edges. The Stalks are joynted l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke Corn with the like Leavs on them, and a long &s;piked Head with long H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ks on them, and hard rough Seed in them. If you know it not by this De&s;cri|ption, watch the Dogs when they are &s;ick, and they will quickly lead you to it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth commonly through this Land in divers ploughed grounds, to the no &s;mal trouble to the Husbandman, as al&s;o of the Gardi|ners in Gardens to weed it out if they can, for it is a con&s;tant Cu&s;tomer to the place it gets footing in.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis a gentle Remedy under the Dominion of Jupiter. This is the mo&s;t Medicinable of al the Quich-gra&s;&s;es: Being boyled and drunk, it openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Gall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver, Gall, Di&s;ury, Griping, Inflamati|on, &V;lcers in the Bladder, Wounds, Vomiting, Worms, Stopping.</NOTE> and the &s;toppings of the Urin, and ea&s;eth the griping pains of the Belly, and Inflamations; wa&s;teth the matter of the &s;tone in the Bladder, and the Ulcers therof al&s;o: The Roots brui&s;ed and applied doth con&s;olidate Wounds: The Seed doth more powerfully expel Urin, and &s;tayeth the Lask, and Vomi|tings: The di&s;tilled Water alone, or with a little Worm&s;eed killeth the Worms in Children.</P>
<P>The way of u&s;e is to brui&s;e the Roots, and having wel boyled them in white Wine, drink the Decoction; 'tis opening, but not purging very &s;afe; 'tis a Remedy again&s;t al Di&s;ea&s;es coming of &s;topping, &amp; &s;uch are half tho&s;e which are incident to the Body of man; and although a Gardiner be of another opinion, yet a Phy&s;itian holds half an Acre of them to be worth five Acres of Carrots twice told over.</P>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD><HI>Dovesfoot,</HI> or <HI>Cranesbil.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath divers &s;mal, round, pale, green Leavs, cut in a|bout the edges, much like Mallows, &s;tanding upon long, red|di&s;h hairy &s;talks lying in a round compa&s;s upon the ground; among which ri&s;e up two or three, or more, reddi&s;h, joynted, &s;lender, weak, and hairy Stalks, with &s;ome &s;uch like Leavs thereon, but &s;maller, and more cut in up to the tops, where grow many very &s;mal, bright, red Flowers of five Leavs apiece; after which follow &s;mal Heads, with &s;mal &s;hort beaks pointing forth, as all other &s;orts of the&s;e Herbs do.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Pa&s;ture grounds, and by the Path &s;ides in many places, and wil al&s;o be in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> &s;ome earlier, and &s;ome later, and the Seed is ripe quickly afte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a very gentle, though Martial Plant: It is found by experience to be &s;ingular good for the Wind Chollick,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chollick, &s;tone, Gra|vel, Wounds, Congealed Blood, Sores, Ul|cers, Fi&s;tulaes, Gout, Si|news, Ruptures.</NOTE> and pains thereof, as al&s;o to expel the &s;tone and gra|vel in the Kidnies. The Decoction thereof in Wine is an ex|ceeding good wound Drink for tho&s;e that have inward Wounds, Hurts, or Brui&s;es, both to &s;tay the Bleeding, to di&s;&s;olve and ex|pel
<PB N="90" REF="58"> the congealed Blood, and to heal the parts, as al&s;o to clen&s;e and heal outward Sores, Ulcers, and Fi&s;tulaes; and for green Wounds many do but brui&s;e the Herb, and apply it to the place, and it healeth them quickly. The &s;ame Decoction in Wine fo|mented to any place pained with the Gout, or to Joynt-aches, or pain of the Sinews giveth much ea&s;e. The Pouder, or Deco|ction of the Herb taken for &s;ome time together, is found by ex|perience to be &s;ingular good for Ruptures, and Bur&s;tings in Peo|ple, either yong or old.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ducks-meat.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known to &s;wim on the top of &s;tanding Waters, as Ponds, Pools, and Ditches, that it is needle&s;s further to de&s;cribe it.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Cancer claims the Herb, and the Moon wil be Lady of it; a word is enough to a wi&s;e man. It is ef|fectual to help Inflamations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamations, St. Anthonies fire, pe&s;tilence, Eyes, Swel|lings of the Cods, Head-ach.</NOTE> and St. Anthonies fire, as al|&s;o the Gout, either applied by it &s;elf, or in a Pultis with Bar|ly Meal. The di&s;tilled Water hereof is by &s;ome highly e|&s;teemed, again&s;t al inward Inflamations, and Pe&s;tilent Fea|vers; as al&s;o to help the redne&s;s of the Eyes, the Swellings of the Cods, and of the Brea&s;ts before they be grown too much. The fre&s;h Herb applied to the Forehead, ea&s;eth the Pains of the Head-ach coming of heat.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Down,</HI> or <HI>Cotton-Thi&s;tle.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath many large Leavs lying on the ground, &s;omwhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green color on the uper &s;ide, but covered with a long hairy wool, or Cottony Down, &s;et with mo&s;t &s;harp, and cruel pricks; from the middle of who&s;e Heads of Flowers, thru&s;t forth many purpli&s;h, crim&s;on Treds, and &s;omtimes (although more &s;eldom) white ones. The Seed that followeth in the&s;e Heads, lying in a great deal of fine white Down is &s;omwhat large, long, and round, like the Seed of Ladies Thi&s;tle, but &s;omwhat paler. The Root is great and thick, &s;prea|ding much, yet it u&s;ually dieth after Seed time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on divers Ditches Banks, and in the Corn Fields, and High-waies generally every where throughout the Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth and beareth Seed about the end of Summer, when o|ther Thi&s;tles do Flower and Seed.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Mars owns the Plant, and manife&s;ts to the World, That though it may hurt your Fingers it wil help your Body, for I fancy it much for the&s;e en&s;uing Vertues. <HI>Pliny</HI> and <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> write, That the Leavs and Roots hereof taken in Drink, helpeth tho&s;e that have a Crick in their Neck,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry Neck,</NOTE> whereby they cannot turn their Neck but their whol Body mu&s;t turn al&s;o (&s;ure they do not mean tho&s;e that have got a Crick in their Neck by being under the Hangmans hands.) <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith that the Root and Leavs hereof are of an
<PB N="91" REF="58"> heating quality, and good for &s;uch per&s;ons as have their Bodies drawn together by &s;ome <HI>Spa&s;me</HI> or Convul&s;ion;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spa&s;mus, convul&s;ion Rickets.</NOTE> as it is with Children that have the Rickets, or rather (as the Colledg of Phy&s;itians wil have it) the <HI>Rachites,</HI> for which name for the Di&s;ea&s;e, they have (in a particular Treati&s;e lately &s;et forth by them) Learnedly Di&s;puted, and put forth to the publick view, that the World may &s;ee they took much pains to little purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dragons.</HEAD>
<P>THey are &s;o wel known to every one that plants them in their Gardens, they need no De&s;cription; if not, let them look down towards the lower end of the &s;talk, and &s;ee how like a Snake they look.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Plant is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> and therefroe it would be a wonder if it &s;hould want &s;ome obnoxious quali|ty or other: in al Herbs of that quality, the &s;afe&s;t way is either to di&s;til the Herb in an Alembick, in what Vehecle you plea&s;e, or el&s;e to pre&s;s out the Juyce, and Di&s;til that in a Gla&s;s Stil in Sand, it &s;cou|reth and clen&s;eth the internal parts of the Body mightily,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scoureth, Clen&s;eth, free|kles, Morphew, Sunburning, Wounds, ulcers, Cankers, Poli|pus, &s;pots in the Eyes, Pin and Web, &s;ight helpeth, Pe&s;ti|lence, poy&s;on, Venemous Bea&s;ts,</NOTE> and &s;o it doth the external parts al&s;o, being externally ap|plied from Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning: your be&s;t way to u&s;e it externally, is to mix it with Vinegar: an Oyntment of it is held to be good in Wounds and Ul|cers, it con&s;umes Cankers, and that fle&s;h growing in the No&s;trils, which they call Polipus. Al&s;o the di&s;tilled Water being dropped into the Eyes, takes away &s;pots there, as al|&s;o Pin and Web, and amends the dimne&s;s of &s;ight; it is excellent good again&s;t the Pe&s;tilence and Poy&s;ons. <HI>Pliny</HI> and <HI>Dio&s;crides</HI> affirm that no Serpent will meddle with him that carries this Herb about him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Elder-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>I Hold it needle&s;s to write any De&s;cription of this, &s;ith every Boy that plaies with a Potgun, wil not mi&s;take another Tree in&s;tead of Elder. I &s;hal therfore in this place only de&s;cribe the Dwarf Elder, called al&s;o Dane|wort, and Wal-wort.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Dwarf Elder.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is but an Herb, every yeer dying with his Stalks to the ground, and ri&s;ing again afre&s;h every Spring; and is like unto the Elders both in form and quality, ri&s;ing up with a four &s;quare rough hairy Stalk, four foot high, or more &s;omtimes. The winged Leavs are &s;om|what narrower than the Elder, but el&s; very like them. The Flowers are white with a da&s;h of purple, &s;tanding in Umbels, very like the Elder al&s;o, but more &s;weet in &s;cent, after which come &s;mal blacki&s;h Berries, full of juyce while they are fre&s;h, wherein there lie &s;mal hard Kernels or Seed. The Root
<PB N="92" REF="59"> doth creep under the uper cru&s;t of the ground, &s;pringing afre&s;h in divers pla|ces being of the bigne&s;s of ones finger or thumb &s;omtimes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Elder Tree groweth in Hedges, being planted there to &s;trengthen the Fences, and Partitions of Grounds, and to hold up the Banks by Ditches, and Water-cour&s;es.</P>
<P>The Dwarf Elder groweth wild in many places of <HI>England,</HI> where being once gotten into a ground it is not ea&s;ily gotten forth again.</P>
<P><HI>Times.]</HI> Mo&s;t of the Elder Trees Flower in <HI>June,</HI> and their Fruit is ripe for the mo&s;t part in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>But the Dwarf Elder, or Walwort flowreth &s;omwhat later, and his fruit is not ripe until <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Both Elder and Dwarf Elder are under the Dominion of <HI>Venus.</HI> The fir&s;t Shoots of the common Elder boyled like A&s;paragus, and the yong Leavs and Stalks boyled in fat Broth, doth mightily carry forth Flegm and Choller.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegm, Coller, Drop&s;ie, Venemous Bea&s;ts, mad dogs, Terms, provokes, Inflamati|on, Brain, Ears, Urin pro|vokes, Sunbur|ning, Frec|kles, mor|phew, Headach, &V;lcers, Pal&s;ey.</NOTE> The middle or inward Bark boyled in Water, and given to drink, worketh much more violently; and the Berries either green or dry, ex|pel the &s;ame Humors, and is often given with good &s;ucce&s;s to help the Drop&s;ie. The Bark of the Root boyled in Wine, or the Juyce therof drunk, worketh the &s;ame effects, but more po|werfully than either the Leavs or Fruit. The Juyce of the Root taken doth mightily provoke Vomit, and purgeth the watry hu|mors of the Drop&s;ie. The Decoction of the Root taken, cu|reth the biting of the Adder, and biting of mad dogs; it mol|lifieth the hardne&s;s of the Mother, if Women &s;it therin, and o|peneth the Veins, and bringeth down their Cour&s;es: The Ber|ries boyled in Wine performeth the &s;ame effect; and the hair of the Head wa&s;hed therewiih is made black. The Juyce of the green Leavs applied to the hot inflamations of the Eyes, a&s;&s;wa|geth them. The Juyce of the Leavs &s;nuffed up into the No|&s;trils, purgeth the Tunicles of the Brain. The Juyce of the Ber|ries boyled with a little Honey, and dropped into the Ears, hel|peth the pains of them. The Decoction of the Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urin. The di&s;tilled Water of the Flo|wers is of much u&s;e to cleer the Skin from Sunburning, Freckles, Morphew, or the like; and taketh away Headaches coming of a cold cau&s;e, the Head being bathed therwith. The Leavs or Flowers di|&s;tilled in the Month of <HI>May,</HI> and the Legs often wa&s;hed with the &s;aid di|&s;tilled Water it taketh away the Ulcers and Sores of them: The Eyes wa|&s;hed therwith, it taketh away the redne&s;s and Blood&s;hot: And the Hands wa&s;hed morning and evening therewith, helpeth the Pal&s;ey, and &s;haking of them.</P>
<P>The Dwarf Elder is more powerful than the Common El|der,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gout, In|flamation, Burning, Scalding, Chollick, Stone, Di&s;ury.</NOTE> in opening and purging Choller, Flegm, and Water, in helping the Gout, Piles, and Womens Di&s;ea&s;es, coloreth the hair black, helpeth inflamation in the Eyes, and pains in the
<PB N="93" REF="59"> Ears, the biting of Serpents, or a mad dog, Burnings and Scal|dings, the wind Chollick, Chollick and Stone, the difficulty of Urin, the cure of old Sores, and Fi&s;tulous Ulcers.</P>
<P>Either Leavs or Bark of Elder &s;tripped upwards as you gather it, cau&s;eth Vomiting, but &s;tripped downward, it purgeth downwards. Al&s;o Dr. <HI>Butler</HI> in a Manu&s;cript of his commend Dwarf Elder to the Sky for Drop&s;ies, <HI>viz.</HI> To drink it being boyled in white Wine, to drink the De|coction I mean, not the Elder.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Elm Tree.</HEAD>
<P>THis Tree is &s;o wel known, growing generally in al Countries of this Land; that it is needle&s;s to de&s;cribe it.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a cold and Saturnine Plant, The Leavs hereof brui&s;ed, and applied, healeth green wounds being bound thereon with its own Bark:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Scurf, Lepro&s;ie. Beauty, Ruptures, Swillings, Baldne&s;s, Gout, burning.</NOTE> The Leavs or the Bark u&s;ed with Vinegar, cureth Scurf, and Lepro&s;y very effectually: The De|coction of the Leavs, Bark, or Root, being bathed, healeth bro|ken Bones. The Water that is found in the Bladders on the Leavs, while it is fre&s;h, is very effectual to clen&s;e the Skin and make it fair: and if cloaths be often wet therein, and applied to the Ruptures of Children it helpeth them, if they be after wel bound up with a Tru&s;s. The &s;aid Water put into a gla&s;s, and &s;et in the Ground, or el&s; in Dung for twenty five daies, the mouth therof being clo&s;e &s;topped; and the bottom &s;et upon a lay of ordinary Salt, that the Feces may &s;ettle and Water become very cleer, is a &s;ingular and Soveraign Balm for green Wounds, being u&s;ed with &s;oft tents: The Decoction of the Bark of the Root fomented mollifieth hard tumors, and the &s;hrinking of the Sinews. The Roots of the Elm boyled for a long time in Water, and the fat ri&s;ing on the top thereof being clean &s;cummed off, and the place anointed therewith that is grown bald, and the Hair fallen away, wil quickly re&s;tore them again. The &s;aid Bark ground with Brine and Pickle, until it come to the form of a Pultis, and laid on the place pained with the Gout, giveth great ea&s;. The Decoction of the Bark in Water is excellent to bath &s;uch places as have been burned with fire.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Endive.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Garden Endive beareth a longer and a larger Leaf than Succory, and abideth but one yeer, quickly run|ning up to Stalk and Seed, and then peri&s;heth: It hath blue Flowers, and the Seed of the ordinary Endive is &s;o like Succory Seed, that it is hard to di|&s;tingui&s;h them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a fine cooling, clen&s;ing Jovial Plant. The Decoction of the Leavs, or the Juyce, or the di&s;tilled Water of Endive
<PB N="94" REF="60"> &s;erveth wel to cool the exce&s;&s;ive heat in the Liver and Stomach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver, Stomach, Agues, Sarpne&s;s of Urine, and Exco|riations thereby, Pa&s;&s;ion of the heart, Ulcers, Swellings, Eyes, gout.</NOTE> and in the hot fits of Agues, and al other Inflamations in any part of the Body; it cooleth the heat and &s;harpne&s;s of the U|rine, the Excoriations in the Uritory parts: The Seed is of the &s;ame property or rather more powerful, and be&s;ides is available for the faintings, &s;woonings, and pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart. Out|wardly applied they &s;erve to temper the &s;harp Humors of fret|ting Ulcers, hot Tumors and Swellings, and Pe&s;tilential &s;ores; and wonderfully helpeth not only the redne&s;s and inflamation in the Eyes, but the dimne&s;s of the Sight al&s;o: They are al&s;o u&s;ed to allay the pains of the Gout.</P>
<P>You cannot u&s;e it ami&s;s; a Syrup of it is a fine cooling Medi|cine for Feavers, See the end of this Book, and the <HI>Eng. Disp.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Elecampane.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;hooteth forth many large Leavs, long, and broad, lying neer the ground, &s;mal at both ends, &s;omwhat &s;oft in hand|ling, of a whiti&s;h green on the uper &s;ide, and gray underneath, each &s;et up|on a &s;hort foot&s;talk; from among which ri&s;e up divers great, and &s;trong hai|ry &s;talks, three or four foot high, with &s;ome Leavs thereupon compa&s;&s;ing them about at the lower ends, and are branched toward the tops, bearing divers great and large Flowers like tho&s;e of the Corn Marigold, both the Border of Leavs and the middle thrum being yellow, which turn into Down, with long, &s;mal, browni&s;h Seed among it, and is carried away with the wind. The Root is great and thick, branched forth divers waies, blacki&s;h on the out&s;ide, and white within, of a very bitter ta&s;t, and &s;trong, but good &s;cent, e&s;pecially when they are dried, no part el&s;e of the Plant having any &s;mel.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in the moi&s;t Grounds, and &s;hadowy place, oftner than in the dry and open Borders of Fields and Lanes, and in other wa&s;t places almo&s;t in every Country of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in the end of <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t:</HI> The Roots are gathered for u&s;e, as wel in the Spring before the Leavs come forth as in Autumn or Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant under the Dominion of <HI>Mer|cury.</HI> The fre&s;h Roots of Elecampane pre&s;erved with Sugar, or made into a Syrup or Con&s;erve, are very effectual to warm a cold and win|dy Stomach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cold &s;to|mach, Wind, Stitch, Spleen, Cough, Shortne&s;s of breath, Whee&s;ing, Terms provokes, Mother, Stone, poy&s;on, venemous Bea&s;ts, Pe&s;tilence, Eyes, Worms, loo&s; teeth, spitting Blood, Cramps, Convul&s;i|ons, Gout, Joynts, Itch, Cankers, Freckles, Morphew, Spots.</NOTE> or the pricking therein, and Stitches in the &s;ides cau&s;ed by the Spleen; and to help the Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and whee&s;ing in the Lungs. The dried Root made in|to Pouder, and mixed with Sugar and taken, &s;erveth to the &s;ame purpo&s;es, and is al&s;o profitable for tho&s;e that have their Urin &s;topped; or the &s;topping of Womens Cour&s;es, the pains of the Mother, and of the Stone in the Reins, Kidnies, or Bladder: It re&s;i&s;teth Poy&s;on, and &s;tayeth the &s;preading of the Venom of Serpents, as al&s;o of putrid and Pe&s;tilential Feavers, and the Plague it &s;elf. The Roots and Herb beaten and put into new
<PB N="95" REF="60"> Ale or Beer, and dayly drunk, cleereth, &s;trengthneth, and quick|neth the Sight of the Eyes wonderfully. The Decoction of the Roots in Wine or the Juyce taken therein, killeth and driveth forth al manner of Worms in the Belly, Stomach, and Maw; and gargled in the Mouth, or the Root chewed fa&s;tneth loo&s;e Teeth, and helpeth to keep them from putrifaction: And be|ing drunk is good for tho&s;e that &s;pit Blood, helpeth to remove Cramps or Convul&s;ions, and the pains of the Gout, the Sciati|ca, the loo&s;ne&s;s and pains in the Joynts, or tho&s;e Members that are out of joynt, by cold or moi&s;ture hapning to them, applied outwardly as wel as inwardly, and is good for tho&s;e that are bur|&s;ten, or have any inward brui&s;e. The Roots boyled wel in Vi|negar, beaten afterwards and made into an Oyntment with Hogs Suet, or Oyl of Trotters is an excellent remedy for Scabs or Itch in yong or old: The places al&s;o bathed or wa&s;hed with the Decoction doth the &s;ame; it al&s;o helpeth al &s;orts of filthy, old, putrid Sores or Cankers wher&s;oever. In the Roots of this Herb lieth the chief effect for al the Remedies afore&s;aid: The di&s;tilled Water of the Leavs and Roots together is very profita|ble to clen&s;e the Skin of the Face or other Parts, from any Morphew, Spots, or Blemi&s;hes therein, and maketh it cleer.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Eringo,</HI> or, <HI>Sea-Holly.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe fir&s;t Leavs of our ordinary Sea-Holly, are nothing &s;o hard and prickly as when they grow old, being almo&s;t round and deeply dented about the edges; hard, and &s;harp pointed, and a little crumpled, of a blui&s;h green color, every one upon a long Foot&s;talk: but tho&s;e that grow up higher with the Stalk, do as it were compa&s;s it about. The &s;talk it &s;elf is round and &s;trong, yet &s;omwhat cre&s;ted with Joynts, and Leavs &s;et thereat, but more divided, &s;harp, and prickly; and branches ri|&s;ing from thence, which have likewi&s;e other &s;maller branches, each of them bearing &s;everal blui&s;h round prickly heads, with many &s;mal jagged, prickly Leavs under them &s;tanding like a Star, and are &s;omtimes found greeni&s;h or whiti&s;h: The Root groweth wonderful long, even to eight or ten foot in length, &s;et with Rings or Circles, toward the uper part, but &s;mooth and without joynts down lower, browni&s;h on the out&s;ide, and very white within, with a pith in the middle, of a plea&s;ant ta&s;t, but much more being artificially pre&s;erved and candy'd with Sugar.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found about the Sea Coa&s;ts, in almo&s;t every Country of this Land which bordereth upon the Sea.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in the end of Summer, and giveth ripe Seed within a Month after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Plant is Venerial, and breedeth Seed exceedingly and &s;trengthens the Spirit pro|creative,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Seed breedeth, Ob&s;tructions, Spleen, Liver, yellow jaund. Drop&s;ie, Chol|lick, Di&s;ury, Strangury, Reins, French Pox, Kings Evil, venemous Bea&s;ts, Thorns, broken bones, Splinters, Apo&s;thumes, Mecancholly, Quartan and Quotidian A|gues, Wry Necks</NOTE> it is hot and moi&s;t, and under the Coele&s;tial Ballance. The Decoction of the Root hereof in Wine is
<PB N="96" REF="61"> very effectual to open the Ob&s;tructions of the Spleen and Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Drop&s;ie, th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> pains in the Loyns, and wind Chollick, provoketh urine, and expelleth the Stone, and procureth Womens Cour&s;es. The continued u&s;e of the Decoction for fifteen daies, ta|ken fa&s;ting, and next to bedward, doth help the Strangury, the pi&s;&s;ing by drops, the &s;topping of Urine and Stone, and al defects of the Reins or Kidnies; and if the &s;aid drink be continued longer, it is &s;aid that it perfectly cureth the &s;tone, and that experience hath found it &s;o: It is found good a|gain&s;t the French Pox. The Roots brui&s;ed and applied outwardly, helpeth the Kernels of the Throat, commonly called the Kings evil; or taken inwardly and applied to the place &s;tung or bitten by any Serpent, healeth it &s;peedily. If the Roots be brui&s;ed and boyled in old Hogs Grea&s;, or &s;al|ted Lard and applied to broken Bones, Thorns, &amp;c. re|maining in the Fle&s;h, doth not only draw them forth, but healeth up the place again, gathering new fle&s;h where it was con&s;umed: The Juyce of the Leavs dropped into the Ears, helpeth Impo&s;thumes therin: The di&s;tilled Water of the whol Herb when the Leavs and Stalks are yong, is profitably drunk for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid; and helpeth the Melancholly of the Heart, and is available in Quartan and Quotidian Agues, as al&s;o for them that have their Necks drawn awry, and cannot turn them without turning their whol Body.</P>
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<HEAD>Eyebright.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Eyebright is a &s;mal low Herb, ri&s;ing up u&s;ually but with one blacki&s;h, green &s;talk, a span high, or not much more, &s;pread from the bottom into &s;undry branches, whereon are &s;et &s;mal and almo&s;t round, yet pointed, dark, green Leavs finely &s;nipped about the edges, two alwaies &s;et together, and very thick: At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle upward, come forth &s;mal white Flowers &s;tryped with pur|ple and yellow spots or &s;tripes; after which follow &s;mal round heads with very &s;mal &s;eed therein. The Root is long, &s;mal, and threddy at the end.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many Meadows, and gra&s;&s;y places in this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Is is under the Sign of the <HI>Lyon,</HI> and <HI>Sol</HI> claims Dominion over it. If this Herb were but as much u&s;ed as it is neg|lectes, it would half &s;poil the Spectacle-makers Trade; and a man would think that rea&s;on &s;hould teach people to prefer the pre&s;ervation of their Natural, before Artificial Spectacles: which that they may be in&s;tructed how to do, take the Vertues of Eyebright as followeth:</P>
<P>The Juyce or di&s;tilled Water of Eyebright taken inwardly in white Wine or Broth, or dropped into the Eyes for divers daies to|gether,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes, Dimne&s;s, Brain, Memory.</NOTE> helpeth al infirmities of the Eyes that cau&s; dimne&s;s of Sight: Some make a Con&s;erve of the flowers to the &s;ame effect: Being u&s;ed any of the&s;e waies it al&s;o helpeth a weak Brain or
<PB N="97" REF="61"> Memory. This tunned up with &s;trong Beer that it may work together, and drunk: Or the Pouder of the dried herb mixed with Sugar, a little Mace, and Fennel-&s;eeds, and drunk or eaten in broth: Or the &s;aid Pouder made into an Electuary with Sugar and taken, hath the &s;ame powerful effect to help and re&s;tore the &s;ight decayed through age. And <HI>Arnoldus de villa nova,</HI> &s;aith, It hath re&s;tored &s;ight to them that have been blind a long time before.</P>
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<HEAD>Fern.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OF this there are two kinds principally to be noted, viz. The Male and Female: The Femal groweth higher than the Male, but the Leavs therof are le&s;&s;er, and more divided or dented, and of as &s;trong a &s;mel as the Male: The Vertues of them are both alike, and ther|fore I &s;hal not trouble you with any further De&s;cription or di&s;tinction of them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They both grow on Heaths, and in &s;hady places neer the Hedg|&s;ides in al Countries of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flouri&s;h and give their &s;eed at Mid&s;ummer.</P>
<P>The Femal <HI>Fern</HI> is that Plant which is in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> called Brakes, the &s;eed of which &s;ome Authors hold to be &s;o rare, &s;uch a thing there is I know, and may ea&s;ily be had upon <HI>Mid&s;ummer-eve,</HI> and for ought I know, two or three dayes before or after, if not more.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury,</HI> both the Male, and the Female. The Roots of both the&s;e &s;orts of <HI>Ferns,</HI> being brui&s;ed and boyled in Mead, or honyed water, and drunk, killeth both the broad, and long Worms in the Body, and abateth the &s;welling, and hardne&s;s of the Spleen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Worms, Spleen, Choller, Flegm, Stomach, Wounds, Ulcers, Serpents, Gnats, Venemous Bea&s;ts.</NOTE> The green Leavs eaten, purgeth the Belly, and Chollerick and wateri&s;h humors, but it troubles the &s;tomack. They are dangerous for Women with Child to meddle with, by rea&s;on they cau&s;e Abortment. The Roots brui&s;ed and boyled in Oyl, or Hogs-grea&s;e, maketh a very profitable Oynt|ment to heal Wounds, or pricks gotten into the Fle&s;h. The Pouder of them u&s;ed in &s;oul Ulcers, drieth up their malignant moi&s;ture, and cau&s;eth their &s;peedier healing: <HI>Fern</HI> being bur|ned, the &s;moak therof driveth away Serpents, Gnats, and other noy&s;ome Creatures, which in the Fenny Countries do in the night time trouble and mole&s;t people lying in their Beds with their faces uncovered: it cau&s;eth barrenne&s;s.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>O&s;mond Royal,</HI> or <HI>Water-Fern.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;hooteth forth in the spring time, for in the Winter the Leavs peri&s;h, divers rough hard &s;talks, half round and hol|lowi&s;h, or flat on the other-&s;ide, two foot high, having divers branches of winged yellowi&s;h green leavs on al &s;ides, &s;et one again&s;t another, longer, nar|rower, and not nicked on the edges as the former: From the top of &s;ome of the&s;e &s;talks grow forth a long bu&s;h of &s;mal, and more yellowi&s;h, green, &s;caly aglets, as it were &s;et in the &s;ame manner on the &s;talks as the leavs are, which are accounted the flower and &s;eeds. The Root is rough, thick, and &s;caly,
<PB N="98" REF="62"> with a white pith in the middle, which is called the Heart therof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Moors, Bogs, and Watery places in many parts of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is green al the Summer, and the Root only abideth in Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns the Plant. This hath al the ver|tues mentioned in the former Ferns, and is much more effectual than they both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or inward and outward Griefs, and is accounted &s;ingular good in Wounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Brui&s;es, Broken, Bones, Chollick, Spleen, Ruptures.</NOTE> Brui&s;es, or the like: The Decoction to be drunk, or boyled into an Oyntment, or Oyl, as a Bal&s;om, or Balm, and &s;o it is &s;ingular good again&s;t Brui&s;es, and Bones bro|ken or out of joynt, and giveth much ea&s;e to the Chollick, and Spleenetick Di&s;ea&s;es: as al&s;o for Ruptures, or Bur&s;tings. The Decoction of the Root in white Wine, provokes Urin excee|dingly, and clen&s;eth the Bladder and pa&s;&s;ages of Urin.</P>
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<HEAD>Featherfew.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon</HI> Featherfew <HI>hath many larg, fre&s;h, green Leavs, ve|ry much torn, or cut on the edges: The &s;talks are hard and round &s;et with many &s;uch like leavs, but &s;omwhat &s;maler, and at the tops &s;tand many &s;ingle flowers upon &s;everal &s;mal foot&s;talks, con&s;i&s;ting of many &s;mal white leavs, &s;tanding round about a yellow thrum in the middle. The Root is &s;omwhat hard and &s;hort, with many &s;trong fibres at it. The &s;cent of the whole Plant is very &s;trong, and &s;tuffing, and the ta&s;t very bitter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This grow wild in &s;ome places of this Land, but it is for the mo&s;t part nouri&s;hed in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth in the Months of <HI>June,</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> commands the Herb, and hath com|manded it to &s;uccor her Si&s;ters <HI>[Women]</HI> and to be a general &s;trengthner of their Wombs, and Remedy &s;uch infirmities as a carele&s;s Midwife hath there cau&s;ed, if they wil be but plea&s;ed to make u&s;e of her Herb boyled in white Wine, and drink the Decoction, it clen&s;eth the Womb, expelleth the Af|ter-birth, doth the Woman al the good &s;he can de&s;ire of an Herb. And if any grumble becau&s;e they cannot get the Herb in Winter, tel them, if they plea&s;e, they may make a Syrup of it in Summer. It is chiefly u&s;ed for the Di&s;ca&s;es of the Mother, whether it be the &s;trangling or ri&s;ing of the Mother,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mother, Womb, Terms provokes, Dead-birth, After-birth, Cough, Reins, Bladder, Choller, Flegm, Melan|cholly, Sadne&s;s, Head-ach, Vertigo, Ague, Deformity of the skin Wind, Chollick, Opium.</NOTE> or Hardne&s;s, or Inflamations of the &s;ame, applied outwardly therunto: Or a Decoction of the Flowers in Wine, with a little Nutmeg or Mace put therin, and drunk often in a day, is an approved Remedy to bring down Womens Cour&s;es &s;peedily, and helpeth to expel the Dead-birth, and After-birth. For a Woman to &s;it over the hot fumes of the Decoction of the Herb made in Water, or Wine, is effectual al&s;o for the &s;ame: and in &s;ome ca&s;es, to apply the boyled Herb warm to the privy parts. The Decoction therof made, with &s;ome Sugar or Hony put therto, is u&s;ed by many with good &s;ucce&s;s, to help the Cough and &s;tuffing of the Che&s;t by cold, as al&s;o to clen&s;e the Reins
<PB N="99" REF="62"> and Bladder, and help to expel the &s;tone in them. The Pouder of the Herb taken in Wine, with &s;ome Oximel, purgeth both Choller and Flegm, and is available for tho&s;e that are &s;hort winded, and are troubled with Melancholly and Heavine&s;s, or &s;adne&s;s of the Spirits. It is very effectual for al pains in the head coming of a cold cau&s;e, the Herb being brui&s;ed, and applied to the crown of the head: as al&s;o for a Vertigo, that is a turning, or &s;wimming in the head. The Decoction therof drunk warm, and the Herb brui&s;ed with a few corns of Bay-&s;alt, and applied to the Wri&s;ts before the coming of the Ague fits, doth take them away. The Di&s;tilled water taketh away Freckls, and other &s;pots and deformities in the Face. The Herb brui&s;ed and heated on a Tyle, with &s;ome Wine to moi&s;ten it, or fryed with a little Wine and Oyl in a frying-pan, and applied warm outwardly to the places, helpeth the Wind and Chollick in the lower part of the Belly: It is an e&s;pecial Remedy again&s;t Opium taken too liberally.</P>
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<HEAD>Fennel.</HEAD>
<P>EVery Garden affordeth this &s;o plentifully, that it needeth no De&s;cription <HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> One good old fa&s;hion is not yet left off, viz. To boyl Fennel with Fi&s;h, for it con&s;umes that flegmatick humor which Fi&s;h mo&s;t plentifully afford and annoy the Body by, therfore it is a mo&s;t fit herb for that purpo&s;e, though few that u&s;e it know why or wherfore they do it; I &s;uppo&s;e the rea&s;on of its benefit this way is, becau&s;e it is an Herb of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and under <HI>Virgo,</HI> and therfore bears Antipathy to <HI>Pi&s;ces.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Wind, Di&s;ury, Stone, encrea&s;|eth Milk, A|mends Milk, Hiccough, Loa|thing of meat, Venem. Bea&s;ts, Poy&s;on, Mu&s;h|roms, ob&s;tructi|ons in the Li|ver, Spleen, &amp; Gall, yellow Jaundice, Gout Cramp, Whee|&s;ing, Terms, provoks, After-delivery, Clen&s;e Open, Fatne&s;s, Eyes.</NOTE> <HI>Fennel</HI> is good to break Wind, to provoke Urin, and ea&s;e the pains of the Stone, and help to break it. The Leavs or Seeds boyled in Barly-water and drunk, is good for Nur&s;es to encrea&s;e their Milk, and make it more whol&s;om for the Child. The Leavs, or rather the Seed boyled in wa|ter &s;tayeth the Hiccough, and taketh away that loathing which oftentimes hapneth to the &s;tomachs of &s;ick, and fea|veri&s;h Per&s;ons, and allayeth the heat therof. The Seed boyl|ed in Wine and drunk, is good for tho&s;e that are bitten with Serpents, or have eaten poy&s;onful Herbs, or Mu&s;hroms: The Seed and the Root much more helpeth to open Ob|&s;tructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Gall, and therby hel|peth the painful and windy &s;wellings of the Spleen, and the yellow Jaundice, as al&s;o the Gout and Cramps. The Seed is of good u&s;e in Medicines to help &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and Whee&s;ing by &s;topping of the Lungs. It helpeth al&s;o to bring down the Cour&s;es, and to clen&s;e the Parts after delivery. The Roots are of mo&s;t u&s;e in Phy&s;ick-Drinks and Broths that are taken to clen&s;e the Bloud, to open Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, to provoke Urine, and amend the ill colour in the Face after &s;ickne&s;s, and to cau&s;e a good habit through the Body: Both Leavs,
<PB N="100" REF="63"> Seeds, and Roots hereof are much u&s;ed in Drinks or Broths, to make people more &s;pare and lean that are too fat. The Di&s;tilled Water of the whol Herb or the conden&s;ate Juyce di&s;&s;olved, but e&s;pecially the Natural Juyce that in hot Countries i&s;&s;ueth out therof of its own accord, dropped into the Eyes, clen&s;eth them from Mi&s;ts and Films that hinder the &s;ight. The &s;weet <HI>Fennel</HI> is much weaker in Phy&s;ical u&s;es, than the common <HI>Fennel.</HI> The wild <HI>Fennel</HI> is &s;tronger and hotter than the tame, and therfore mo&s;t powerful again&s;t the Stone, but not &s;o effectual to encrea&s;e Milk, becau&s;e of its drine&s;s.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Sow-Fennel,</HI> or <HI>Hogs-Fennel.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BE&s;ides the common Name in Engli&s;h Hogs-Fennel, and the Latin name <HI>Peu&s;idanum,</HI> it is called Hoar-&s;trang, and Hoar-&s;trong, Sulpher-wort, and Brim&s;tone-wort.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The common</HI> Sow-Fennel <HI>hath divers branched &s;talks of thick and &s;omwhat long Leavs, three for the mo&s;t part joyned together at a place, among which ri&s;eth a cre&s;ted &s;trait &s;talk, le&s;s than Fennel, with &s;om joynts theron, and Leavs growing therat, and toward the top &s;o in Branches i&s;|&s;uing from thence; likewi&s;e on the tops of the &s;talk and branches &s;tand di|vers tufts of yellow Flowers, where after grow &s;omwhat flat, thin, and yel|lowi&s;h &s;eed, bigger than Fennel-&s;eed. The Root groweth great and deep, with many other parts and fibres about them, of a &s;trong &s;cent like hot Brim&s;tone, and yeelding forth a yellowi&s;h milk, or clammy Juyce, almo&s;t like a Gum.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plentifully in the &s;alt low Mar&s;hes neer by <HI>Feaver|&s;ham</HI> in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth and &s;eedeth in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is an Herb of <HI>Mercury.</HI> The juyce of <HI>Sow-Fennel</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> and <HI>Galen</HI>) u&s;ed with Vinegar and Ro&s;e|water, or the juyce with a little Euphorbium put to the no&s;e, helpeth tho&s;e that are troubled with the Lethargy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lethargy, Fren|zie, Vertigo, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s Headach, Pal|&s;ey, Sciatica, Cramp, Sinews, Cough, &s;hortne&s;s, of breath, Wind, Spleen, Child|birth, Reins, Bladder, Womb, Ears, Hollow Teeth, &V;lcers, Broken bones, Thorns, wounds.</NOTE> the Fren|zie, the turning or giddine&s;s of the Head, the falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s, long, and inveterate Headach, the Pal&s;ie, Sciatica, and the Cramp, and generally al the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Sinews, u&s;ed with Oyl and Vinegar. The juyce di&s;&s;olved in Wine, or put into an Eg, is good for the Cough, or &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Wind in the Body: It purgeth the Belly gently, helpeth the hard|ne&s;s of the Spleen, giveth ea&s;e to Women that have &s;ore Travail in Childbirth, and ea&s;eth the pains of the Reins, and Bladder, and al&s;o of the Womb. A little of the juyce di&s;&s;olved in Wine and dropped into the Ears, ea&s;eth much of the pains in them; and put into an hollow-tooth, ea&s;eth the pain therof. The Root is le&s;s effectual in al the afore|&s;aid Di&s;ea&s;es: yet the Pouder of the Root clen&s;eth foul Ul|cers being put into them: and taketh out &s;plinters of Bro|ken B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes, or other things in the Fle&s;h, and healeth them up perfectly: as al&s;o it dryeth up old and inveterate running &s;ores; and is of admirable Ver|tue in al g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">een Wounds.</P>
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<PB N="101" REF="63">
<HEAD><HI>Fig-wort,</HI> or <HI>Throat-wort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common great</HI> Figwort <HI>&s;endeth forth divers great, &s;trong, hard, &s;quare, brown &s;talks, three or four foot high, wherin grow larg, hard, and dark green Leavs, two at a joynt, which are larger and harder than Nettle Leavs, but not &s;tinging: At the tops of the &s;talks &s;tand many purple flowers &s;et in husks, which are &s;omwhat gaping and open, &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of Water-Betony: after which come hard round Heads, with a &s;mal point in the middle, wherin lie &s;mal browni&s;h &s;eed. The Root is great, white, and thick, with many branches at it growing a&s;lope un|der the upper cru&s;t of the ground, which abideth many years, but keepeth not his green Leavs in Winter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth frequently in moi&s;t and &s;hadowy Woods, and in the lower parts of the Fields and Meadows.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth about <HI>July,</HI> and the &s;eed wil be ripe about a Month after the flowers are fallen.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Some Latin Authors cal it <HI>Cervicria,</HI> becau&s;e 'tis appropriated to the Neck, and we <HI>Throatwort,</HI> becau&s;e 'tis appropriated to the Throat. <HI>Venus</HI> own the Herb, and the Coele&s;tial <HI>Bull</HI> wil not deny it, therfore a better Remedy cannot be for the Kings Evil, becau&s;e the <HI>Moon</HI> that rules the Di&s;ea&s;e is exalted there, nor for any Di&s;ea&s;e in the Neck, the re&s;t of the Di&s;ea&s;es &s;pecified, you may (if you look) &s;ee a very good Rea&s;on for their Cure by this Herb. The Decoction of the Herb taken inwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Congealed blood by Wound, brui&s; or Fall, Kings-Evil, Wens, He|morrhoids, fun|dament, Ulcers, Scurff, Spots, Freckls, Defor|mity, Lepro&s;ie.</NOTE> and the brui&s;ed Herb applied outwardly, di&s;&s;olveth clotted or congealed Bloud within the Body, co|ming by any Wound, Brui&s;e, or Fall; and is no le&s;s effe|ctual for the Kings Evil, or any other Knots, Kernels, Bunches or Wens growing in the Fle&s;h wher&s;oever, and for the Hemorrhoids, or Piles, or other Knobs, or Kernels which &s;omtimes grow about the Fundament. An Oynt|ment made hereof, may be u&s;ed at al times when the fre&s;h Herb is not to be had. The di&s;tilled Water of the whole Plant, Roots and al, is u&s;ed for the &s;ame purpo&s;es, and drieth up the &s;uperfluous virulent moi&s;ture of hollow and corroding Ulcers: It taketh away al redne&s;s, &s;pots, and Freckls in the Face, as al&s;o the Scurff, of any foul Deformity therin, and the Lepro&s;ie likewi&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Filipendula,</HI> or <HI>Dropwort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;endeth forth many Leavs, &s;om bigger, &s;om le&s;&s;er, &s;et on each &s;ide of a middle Rib, and each of them dented about the edges, &s;omwhat re&s;embling wild Tan&s;ie, or rather Agrimony, but harder in handling; among which ri&s;e up one or more &s;talks two or three foot high, with like leavs growing theron, and &s;omtimes al&s;o divided into other bran|ches spreading at the top into many white &s;weet &s;melling Flowers, con&s;i&s;ting of five leavs apiece with &s;om thrids in the middle of them &s;tanding together in a tuft, or umbel, each upon a &s;mal foot&s;talk, which after they have been
<PB N="102" REF="64"> open and blown a good while, do fall away, and in their places appear &s;mal round chaffy heads like Buttons wherin are the chaffy Seed &s;et and placed. The Root con&s;i&s;ts of many &s;mal black tuberous pieces, fa&s;tned together by ma|ny &s;mal, long, blacki&s;h &s;trings which run from one to another.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of this Land, in the corners of dry Fields and Medows, and their hedg-&s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and their &s;eed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> and is ve|ry effectual to open the Pa&s;&s;ages of the Urine, and help the Strangury,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Strangury, Reins, Bladder, Stone, Gravel, Wind, Lungs, Whee&s;ing, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Cough, Flegm.</NOTE> and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins, helping mightily to expel the &s;tone in the Kidnies or Bladder, and the Gravel al&s;o, and the&s;e are done by taking the Roots in Pouder, or a Decoction of them in white Wine, wherunto a little Honey is added: The &s;ame al&s;o helpeth to expel the Afterbirth. The Roots made into Pouder, and mixed with honey into the form of an Electuary, doth much help them who&s;e &s;tomachs are &s;wollen, di&s;&s;olving and breaking the Wind which was the cau&s;e therof, and is al&s;o very effectual for al Di&s;ea&s;es of the Lungs, as &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Whee&s;ings, Hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat, and the Cough, and to expectorate cold Flegm, or any other parts thereabouts. It is called <HI>Dropwort</HI> becau&s;e it helps &s;uch as pi&s;s by drops.</P>
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<HEAD>The Figtree.</HEAD>
<P>FOR to give a De&s;cription of a Tree &s;o wel known to every body that keeps it in their Garden, were needle&s;s; they pro&s;per very wel in our Engli&s;h Gardens, yet are fitter for Medicine than for any other profit which is gotten by the Fruit of them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Tree is under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> The Milk which i&s;&s;ueth out from the Leavs or Branches when they are bro|ken off, being dropped upon Warts takes them away. The Decoction of the Leavs of a Fig-tree,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Warts, head&s;ore Lepro&s;ie, Mor|phew, &s;curff, &s;cabs, &s;ores, ul|cers, bloud con|gealed cau&s;ed by Brui&s;es or Fals Bloudy-flux, kibes, Chilblains Toothach, noi&s;e in the Ears, Dea&s;ne&s;s, biting of mad-Dogs, Venem. Bea&s;ts, Cough, Hoar&s;|ne&s;s, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, Brea&s;t, Lungs, Drop&s;ie, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Lice.</NOTE> is excellent good to wa&s;h &s;ore Heads withal: neither is there &s;carcely a better Remedy for the Lepro&s;ie then it is; it clears the Face al&s;o of Morphew, and the body of white &s;curf, moi&s;t &s;cabs, and run|ning &s;ores if it be dropped into old fretting Ulcers, it clen|&s;eth out the moi&s;ture and bringeth up the fle&s;h, becau&s;e you cannot have the Leavs green al the year, you may make an Oyntment of them whil&s;t you may: A Decoction of the Leavs being drunk inwardly, or rather a Syrup made of them, di&s;&s;olves congealed bloud, cau&s;ed by Brui&s;es or Fals, and helps the Bloudy-flux: The A&s;hes of the Wood made into an Oyntment with Hogs-grea&s;, helps Kibes and Chil|blains: The Juyce being put into a hollow-tooth, ea&s;eth pain, as al&s;o pain and noi&s;e in the Ears being dropped into them, and deafne&s;s: An Oyntment made of the juyce and Hogs-grea&s;e is as excellent a Remedy for the biting of a
<PB N="103" REF="64"> man Dog, or other Venemous Bea&s;t as mo&s;t is. A Syrup made of the Leaves or green fruit is excellent good for Coughs, Hoar&s;ne&s;s or &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and al Di&s;ea&s;es of the Brea&s;t and Lungs. It is al&s;o excellent good for the Drop&s;ie, and fal|ling-&s;ickne&s;s. They &s;ay that the Fig-Tree as wel as the Bay-Tree is never hurt by lightning; as al&s;o that a Bull if he be ne|ver &s;o mad, if you tie him to a Fig-Tree wil quickly become tame and gentle. As for &s;uch Figs as come from beyond Sea, I have little to &s;ay to them, becau&s;e I write not of Ig&s;oticks; yet &s;ome Au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hors &s;ay the eating of them makes people Lou&s;ie.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The yellow Water-Flag,</HI> Or, <HI>Flowerdeluce.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth like the Flower-de-luces, but it hath much longer and narrower &s;ad green Leavs joyned together in that fa&s;hion; the Stalk al&s;o groweth often times as high, bearing &s;mal yel|low Flowers, &s;haped like the Flowerdeluce with three falling Leavs, and o|ther three arched that cover their bottoms; but in&s;tead of the three upright Leavs as the Flowerdeluce hath, this hath only three &s;hort pieces &s;tanding in their places, after which &s;ucceed thick and long three &s;quare Heads con|taining in each part &s;omwhat big and flat Seed like to tho&s;e of the Flower|deluces: The Root is long and &s;lender, of a pale browni&s;h color on the out|&s;ide, and of a hoar fle&s;h color on the in&s;ide, with many hard fibres thereat, and very har&s;h in ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It u&s;ually groweth in watery Ditches, Ponds, Lakes, and Moor &s;ides which are alwaies overflown with Water.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon.</HI> The Root of this Water-flag is very a&s;tringent, cooling, and drying,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Binds, cools, Dries, Flux, Bloody flux, Bleeding, Terms &s;tops, Eyes, spots, Blemi&s;hes, Inflamati|ons, Sore Brea&s;ts, Cankers, &V;lcers. Noli me tangere.</NOTE> and therby helpeth al Lasks and Fluxes, whether of blood, or humors, as bleeding at mouth, no&s;e, or other parts, bloody fluxes, and the immoderate Flux of Womens Cour&s;es. The di&s;tilled water of the whol Herb, Flowers, and Roots, is a Soveraign good Remedy for watering Eyes, both to be dropped into them, and to have cloathes or &s;punges wetted therein and applied to the Forehead: It al&s;o helpeth the &s;pots or blemi&s;hes that happen in or about the Eyes, or in any other parts: The &s;aid water fomented on &s;wellings and hot inflamations of Wo|mens &s;ore Brea&s;ts, upon Cankers al&s;o, &amp; tho&s;e &s;preading Ulcers called <HI>Noli me tangere,</HI> doth much good: It helpeth al&s;o foul Ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman, or el&s;where. An Oyntment made of the Flowers is better for the&s;e external applications.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Flaxweed,</HI> or <HI>Toadflax.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>Our common Flaxweed hath divers Stalks full fraught with long and narrow blue or A&s;h-color'd Leavs, and
<PB N="104" REF="65"> from the middle of them almo&s;t upward &s;tored with a number of palo yellow Flowers, of a &s;trong unplea&s;ant &s;cent, with deeper yellow mouths, and blac|ki&s;h flat Seeds in round Heads. The Root is &s;omwhat woody and white, e|&s;pecially the main downright one, with many fibres, abiding many yeers, &s;hoo|ting forth Roots every way round about, and new Branches every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">roweth throughout this Land, both by the way &s;ides in Meadows, as al&s;o by Hedg &s;ides, and upon the &s;ides of Banks and Borders of Fields.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in Summer, and the Seed is ripe u&s;ually before the end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns the Herb: in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> we cal it Gall-wort, and lay it in our Chickens water, to cure them of the Gall I think, I am &s;ure it releevs them when they are drooping. This is frequently u&s;ed to provoke Urin being &s;topped,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Drop&s;ie, Ob&s;tructi|on of the Liver, yellow Jaundice, dead child and After birth Inflamati|ons, Eyes, Ulcers, Cancers, Fi&s;tulaes, Lepro&s;ie, Scabs, Pimples, Freckles.</NOTE> and to &s;pend the abundance of tho&s;e watery humors by Urin which cau&s;e the Drop&s;ie. The Decoction of the Herb both Leavs and Flo|wers in Wine, taken and drunk doth &s;omwhat move the Belly downwards, openeth ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and helpeth the yellow Jaundice, expelleth poy&s;on, provoketh Womens Cour|&s;es, driveth forth the dead Child, and Afterbirth. The di&s;til|led Water of the Herb and Flowers is effectual for al the &s;ame purpo&s;es, e&s;p <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ially being drunk with a dram of the Pouder of the Seeds, or Bark of the Root of Walwort, and a little Cinna|mon for certain daies together, is held a &s;ingular Remedy for the Drop&s;ie: The Juyce of the Herb or the di&s;tilled Water dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for al heat, inflama|tions and redne&s;s in them. The Juyce or water put into foul Ulcers whether they be Cancrous or Fi&s;tulous, with tents rouled therein, or the parts wa&s;hed or injected therwith clen|&s;eth them throughly from the bottom, and healeth them up &s;afe|ly. The &s;ame Juyce or Water al&s;o clen&s;eth the Skin wonder|fully of all &s;orts of deformity therof, as Lepry, Morphew, Scurf, Wheals, Pimples, or any other &s;pots or marks in the Skin, ap|plied of it &s;elf, or u&s;ed with &s;ome Pouder of Lupines.</P>
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<HEAD>Fleawort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe ordinary Fleawort ri&s;eth up with a Stalk two Foot high, or more, full of Joynts and Branches on every &s;ide up to the top, and at every joynt two &s;mal, long, and narrow whiti&s;h green Leavs &s;omwhat hairy: At the tops of eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y Branch &s;tand divers &s;mal &s;hort &s;caly or chaffy heads, out of which come forth &s;mal whiti&s;h yellow threds, like to tho&s;e of the Plantane Herbs, which are the Bloomings or Flowers. The &s;eed inclo&s;ed in tho&s;e Heads is &s;mal and &s;hining while it is fre&s;h very like un|to Fleas, both for color and bigne&s;s, but turning black when it groweth old. The Root is not long but white, hard, and woody, peri&s;hing every yeer and ri|&s;ing again of its own Seed for divers yeers if it be &s;uffered to &s;hed: The
<PB N="105" REF="65"> whol Plant is &s;omwhat whiti&s;h and hairy, &s;melling &s;omwhat like Rozin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort hereof differing not from the former in the manner of growing, but only that his &s;talk and branches being &s;omwhat greater, do a little more bow down to the ground: The Leavs are &s;omwhat larger, the heads &s;omwhat le&s;&s;er, the Seed alike; and the Root and Leavs abide al the Winter, and peri&s;h not as the former.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth only in Gardens; the &s;econd plentifully in Fields that are neer the Sea.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>July</HI> or thereabouts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is cold and dry, Saturnine: I &s;uppo&s;e it obtained the name Fleawort becau&s;e the Seeds are &s;o like Fleas.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Corro|&s;ion, Cholle|rick humors, Agues, fea|vers, Infla|mation, Thir&s;t, Hoar&s;ene&s;s, &s;alt humors, Pleur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ie, Hemor|rboids, Headach, Megrim, A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;thumes, Bluns, Wheals, Pu&s;hes, Pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ples, Gout, Joynts, Sciatica, Nipples, &s;ore brea&s;ts, Ears, Worms, &V;lcers.</NOTE> The Seed fried and &s;o taken &s;taieth the Flux or Lask of the Belly, and the corro&s;ions that come by rea&s;on of hot, Chollerick, Sharp, and malignant Humors, or by the too much purging of any violent Medicine, as Scammony or the like. The Muccilage of the Seed made with Ro&s;e Water, and a little Sugar Candy put thereto is very good in al hot Agues and burning Feavers, and other Inflamations to cool the thir&s;t, and lenifie the drine&s;s and roughne&s;s of the Tongue and Throat. It helpeth al&s;o hoar&s;ne&s;s of the voice, and Di&s;|ea&s;es of the Brea&s;t and Lungs cau&s;ed by heat, or &s;harp &s;alt humors, and the Pleure&s;ie al&s;o. The Muccilage of the Seed made in Plantane Water, whereunto the Yolk of an Eg or two and a little Populeon is put, is a mo&s;t &s;afe and &s;ure Remedy to ea&s;e the &s;harpne&s;s, prickings, and pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles, if it be laid on a cloth and bound thereto. It helpeth al&s;o al Inflamations in any parts of the Body, and the pains that come thereby, as the Headach and Megrim, and al hot Impo&s;thumes or Swellings, or breakings out of the Skin, as Blains, Wheals, Pu&s;hes, Purples, and the like; as al&s;o the pains of the Joynts, and of tho&s;e that are out of joynt; the pains of the Gout and Sciatica, the bur&s;ting of yong Chil|dren, and the &s;welling of the Navel, applied with Oyl of Ro|&s;es and Vinegar. It is al&s;o very good to heal the Nipples and &s;ore Brea&s;ts of Women being often applied thereunto. The Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put into the Ears hel|peth the running of them, and the Worms breeding in them: The &s;ame al&s;o mixed with Hogs Grea&s;e, and applied to cor|rupt and filthy Ulcers and Sores, clen&s;eth and healeth them.</P>
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<HEAD>Flixweed.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] IT <HI>ri&s;eth up with a round upright hard &s;talk, four or five foot high, &s;pread into &s;undry Branches, whereon grow many gray|i&s;h green Leavs very finely cut and &s;evered into a number of &s;hort and almo&s;t round parts. The Flowers are very &s;mal and yellow growing &s;pike fa&s;hion, after which come very &s;mal long Pods, with very &s;mal yellowi&s;h Seed in
<PB N="106" REF="66"> them. The Root is long and woody peri&s;hing every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort differing in nothing, &s;ave only it hath &s;omwhat broa|der Leavs: They have a &s;trong evil &s;avor being &s;melt unto, and are of a drying ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow wild in the Fields by Hedg &s;ides, and High waies, and among rubbi&s;h, and in many other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower and Seed quickly after, namely in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This Herb is Saturnine al&s;o. Both the Herb and Seed of Flixweed is of excellent u&s;e to &s;tay the Flux or Lask of the Belly being drunk in Water wherein gads of &s;teel heated have been often quenched;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Bleeding, Bloody, Flux, Terms &s;tops, broken Bones, Members disjointed, worms, Sores, Ulcers.</NOTE> and is no le&s;s effectual for the &s;aid purpo&s;e than Plantane or Comfry, and to re&s;train a|ny other Flux of Blood in man or woman, as al&s;o to con&s;olidate Bones broken, or out of joynt. The Juyce therof drunk in Wine, or the Decoction of the Herb drunk, doth kil the Worms in the Stomach or Belly, or the Worms that grow in putrid and filthy Ulcers; And made into a Salve doth quickly heal al old Sores, how foul or Malignant &s;oever they be. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb worketh the &s;ame effects although &s;omwhat weaker, yet is a fair Medicine, and more acceptable to be taken.</P>
<P>It is called Flixweed becau&s;e it cures the Flux, and for its u|niting broken Bones, &amp;c. <HI>Paracel&s;us</HI> extols it to the Skies. It is fitting Syrupts, Oyntments, and Plai&s;ters of it, were kept in your Hou|&s;es.</P>
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<HEAD>Flower-de-luce.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known, being nur&s;ed up in mo&s;t Gardens, that I &s;hal not need to &s;pend time in writing a De&s;cription thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> The Flaggy kinds thereof have the mo&s;t Phy&s;ical u&s;es; the Dwarf kinds therof flower in <HI>April,</HI> the greater &s;orts in <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is Lunar. The Juyce or Deco|ction of the green Roots of the Flaggy kind of Flowerdeluce, with a little Hony drunk,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach, Flegm, Choller, jaundice, Drop&s;ie, Bel|ly, &s;ides, Agues, Li|ver, spleen, Stones, convul&s;ion, Cramp, ve|nemous Bea&s;ts, di|&s;ury, chollick, Terms provokes, Cough, &s;nee|&s;ing, hemor|rhoids, Toothach, Joynts, &s;i|news, gout, Sciatica, Womb, Rhewm, Brea&s;t, Wounds, &V;lcers, fi&s;tulaes, Cankers.</NOTE> doth purge and clen&s; the Stomach of gro&s;s and tough flegm and choller therein; it helpeth the Jaundice and the Drop&s;ie, by evacuating tho&s;e humors both upwards and downwards, and becau&s;e it &s;omwhat hurteth the Stomach, is not to be taken but with Honey and Spicknard. The &s;ame being drunk doth ea&s; the pains and torments of the Belly and &s;ides, the &s;haking of Agues, the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Liver and Spleen, the Worms in the Belly, the &s;tone in the Reins, Convul&s;ions or Cramps that come of cold humors; it al&s;o helpeth tho&s;e who&s;e Seed pa&s;&s;eth from them unawares; It is a Remedy again&s;t the bitings and &s;tingings of venemous Creatures, being boyled in Water and Vinegar and drunk: Being boyled in Wine and drunk it provoketh Urine, helpeth
<PB N="107" REF="66"> the Chollick bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es; and made up into a Pe&s;&s;ary with Honey, and put up into the Body, dra|weth forth the dead Child. It is much commended again&s;t the Cough to expectorate tough flegm; It much ea&s;eth pains in the Head, and procureth &s;leep: Being put into the No&s;trils it procureth &s;neezing, and therby purgeth the Head of flegm: The Juyce of the Root applied to the Piles or Hemorrhoids giveth much ea&s;e. The Decoction of the Roots gargled in the Mouth ea&s;eth the Toothach, and helpeth a &s;tinking breath. The Oyl called <HI>Oleum Irinum</HI> if it be rightly made of the great broad flag Flowerdeluce (and not of the great bulbous blue Flowerdeluce as is u&s;ed by &s;ome Apothecaries) and Roots of the &s;ame of the Flaggy kinds is very effectual to warm and comfort al cold joynts and &s;inews, as al&s;o the Gout and Scia|tica, and mollifieth, di&s;&s;olveth, and con&s;umeth Tumors or Swellings in any part of the Body, as al&s;o of the Matrix: It helpeth the Cramp and Convul&s;ion of the &s;inews: The Head and Temples anointed therewith helpeth the Catark or thin Rhewm di&s;tilling from thence; and u&s;ed upon the Brea&s;t or Stomach, helpeth to extenuate the cold tough flegm. It helpeth al&s;o the pains and noi&s;e in the Ears, and the &s;tench of the No&s;trils. The Root it &s;elf either green or in Pouder, helpeth to clen&s;e, heal, and incarnate Wounds, and to cover the naked Bones with Ble&s;h again that Ulcers have made bare; and is al&s;o very good to clen&s;e and heal up Fi&s;tulaes and Cankers that are hard to be cured.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Fluellin,</HI> or <HI>Lluellin.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;hooteth forth many long Branches partly lying upon the Ground, and part &s;tanding upright, &s;et with almo&s;t round Leavs, yet a little pointed, and &s;omtimes more long than round, with|out order thereon, &s;omwhat hoary, and of an evil greeni&s;h white color; at the Joynts all along the Stalks, and with the Leavs come forth &s;mal Flo|wers, one at a place, upon a very &s;mal &s;hort Foot&s;talk, gaping &s;omwhat like Snapdragons, or rather like Toadflax, with the uper Jaw of a yellow color, and the lower of a purpli&s;h, with a &s;mal heel or &s;pur behind, after which come &s;mal round Heads, containing &s;mal black Seed. The Root is &s;mal and threddy, dying every yeer, and rai&s;eth it &s;elf again of its own &s;owing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort of Lluellin which hath longer Branches wholly trai|ling upon the ground two or three foot long, and &s;omtimes more, thinner &s;et with Leavs thereon, upon &s;mal Foot&s;talks. The Leavs are a little larger and &s;omwhat round, and cornered &s;omtimes in &s;ome places on the edges; but the lower part of them being the broade&s;t, hath on each &s;ide a &s;mal point, ma|king it &s;eem as if they were Ears, &s;omwhat hairy, but not hoary, and of a better green color than the former: The Flowers come forth like the former: but the colors therein are more white than yellow, and the purple not &s;o fair, It is a larger flower, and &s;o are the Seed, and Seed Ve&s;&s;els: The Root is like the other, and peri&s;heth every yeer.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in divers Corn Fields, and in borders about them, and in other fertile grounds, about <HI>Southfleet</HI> in <HI>Kent</HI> abundantly, at <HI>Buck|worth, Hamerton,</HI> and <HI>Richwer&s;worth</HI> in <HI>Huntington-&s;hire;</HI> and in divers other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They are in Flower about <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the whol Plant is dry and withered before <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> be done.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Lunar Herb. The Leavs brui&s;ed and applied with Barly Meal to watering Eyes that are hot and in|flamed by defluxions from the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes, flux, Bloody Flux, Terms &s;tops, Wounds, &V;lcers, Cankers.</NOTE> doth very much help them, as al&s;o the Fluxes of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, Bloody Flux, Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;tayeth al manner of blee|ding at No&s;e, Mouth, or any other place, or that cometh by a|ny brui&s;e or hurt, or bur&s;ting a Vein; and wonderfully it hel|peth al tho&s;e inward parts that need con&s;olidating or &s;trengthe|ning: and is no le&s;s effectual both to heal and clo&s;e green Wounds, as to clen&s;e or heal al foul or old Ulcers, fretting or &s;preading Cankers or the like.</P>
<P>Bees are indu&s;trious, and go abroad to gather Honey from each Plant and Flower, but Drones lie at home, and eat up what the Bees have taken pains for: Ju&s;t &s;o do our Colledg of Phy&s;itians, lie at home and domineer, and &s;uck out the &s;weetne&s;s of other Mens Labors and Studies, them&s;elves being as ignorant in the knowledg of Herbs as a Child of four yeers old, as I can make appear to any Rational man by their la&s;t Di&s;pen&s;atory; Now then to hide their Ignorance, there is not a readier way in the World, than to hide Knowledg from their Country men, that &s;o no body might be able &s;o much as to &s;mel out their Ignorance. When Simples were more in u&s;e, mens bo|dies were in better health by far than now they are, or &s;hal be if the Col|ledg can help it. The truth is, this Herb is of a fine cooling, dryin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> qua|lity, and an Oyntment or Plai&s;ter of it, might do a man a cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath any hot virulent Sores; 'tis admirable for the Ulcers of the French Pox, if taken inwardly may cure the Di&s;ea&s;. It was at fir&s;t called Foemale Speedwel, but a Shentleman of <HI>Wales,</HI> who&s;e No&s;e was almo&s;t eaten off with the Pox, and &s;o neer the matter, that the Doctors commanded it to be cut off, being cured by only the u&s;e of this Herb, to honor the Herb for &s;aving her No&s;e whol, gave it one of her own Country names, <HI>Lluellin.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Foxglove.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many long and broad Leavs lying upon the ground dea|ted about the edges, a little &s;oft or woolly, and of a hoary green color, among which ri&s;e up &s;omtimes &s;undry Stalks, but one very of|ten bearing &s;uch Leavs theron from the bottom to the middle, from whence to the top it is &s;tored with large and long hollow reddi&s;h purple Flowers, a little more long and eminent at the lower edg, with &s;ome white &s;pots with|in them, one above another, with &s;mal green Leavs at every one, but all of them turning their heads one way, and hanging downwards, having &s;ome threds al&s;o in the middle, from whence ri&s;e round heads pointed &s;harp at the
<PB N="109" REF="67"> ends, wherein &s;mal brown Seed lieth. The Roots are many &s;mal huskie fibres, and &s;ome greater &s;trings among them: The Flower hath no &s;cent, but the Leavs have a bitter hot ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on the dry &s;andy grounds for the mo&s;t part, and as well on the higher as lower places under Hedg &s;ides in almo&s;t every Coun|try of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It &s;eldom Flowreth before <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Plant is under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI> being of a gentle clen&s;ing Nature; and withal very friendly to Nature.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Clen&s;, dry, Heat, Ob&s;tructi|on of the Liver and Spleen, Kings Evil, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, &s;cabby Heads.</NOTE> The Herb is familiarly and frequently u&s;ed by the <HI>Italians</HI> to heal any fre&s;h or green Wound, the Leavs being but brui&s;ed and bound thereon; and the Juyce thereof is al&s;o u&s;ed in old Sores, to clen&s;, dry, and heal them. The Decoction hereof made up with &s;ome Sugar or Honey is available to clen&s; and purge the Body, both upwards and downwards &s;omtimes of tough flegm and clammy humors, and to open ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen: It hath been found by experience to be available for the Kings Evil, the Herb brui&s;ed and applied, or an Oyntment made with the Juyce thereof, and &s;o u&s;ed: And a Decoction of two handfuls thereof with four Ounces of Polipo|dy in Ale, hath been found by late experience to cure divers of the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, that have been troubled with it above twenty yeers.</P>
<P>My &s;elf am confident that an Oyntment of it is one of the be&s;t Remedies for a Scabby Head that is.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Fumitory.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> OUr common Fumitory is a tender &s;appy Herb, &s;ending forth from one &s;quare, &s;lender, weak Stalk, and leaning downwards on al &s;ides many Branches two or three foot long, with finely cut and jagged Leaves of a whiti&s;h, or rather blui&s;h, Seagreen color: At the tops of the Branches &s;tand many &s;mal Flowers, as it were in a long &s;pike one above another, made like little Birds of a reddi&s;h purple color with whiti&s;h bellies: After which come &s;mal round Husks containing &s;mal black Seed. The Root is yellow, &s;mal, and not very long, ful of Juyce while it is green, but quickly peri&s;hing with the ripe Seed: In the Corn Fields in <HI>Cornwal</HI> this beareth white Flowers.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in the Corn Fields almo&s;t every where as wel as in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>May</HI> for the mo&s;t part, and the Seed ripeneth &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns the Herb, and pre&s;ents it to the World as a Cure for his own Di&s;ea&s;es, and a &s;trengthener of the parts of the Body he rules: If by my A&s;trological Judgment of Di&s;ea&s;es, from the Decombiture, you find <HI>Saturn</HI> Author of the Di&s;ea&s;, or if by Directi|on from a Nativity you fear a Saturnine Di&s;ea&s; approaching, you may by
<PB N="110" REF="68"> this Herb prevent it in the one, and cure it in the other: and therfore 'tis fit you keep a Syrup of it alwayes by you. The Juyce or Syrup made therof, or the Decoction made in Whey by it &s;elf, with &s;om other pur|ging or opening Herbs and Roots to cau&s;e it to work the better,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver, Spleen, Choller, Adu&s;t, Melan|cholly, Madne&s;s, Forget|fulne&s;s, Jaundice, yellow, &amp; Black, Pe&s;tilence, Sore Mouth, &amp; Throat, Eyes, Hairs, Scabs, Itch, Pimples, Wheales.</NOTE> (it &s;elf being but weak) is very effectual for the Liver and Spleen, opening the Ob&s;tructions therof, and clarifying the Bloud from &s;alti&s;h, Chollerick, and Adu&s;t humors, which cau&s;e Lepro&s;y, Scabs, Tetters, and Itches, and &s;uch like breakings out of the skin, and after the purging, doth &s;trengthen al the in|ward parts: It is good al&s;o again&s;t the yellow Jaundice, and &s;pendeth it by Urine, which it procureth in abundance. The Pouder of the dried Herb given for &s;om time together, cureth Melancholly, but the &s;eed is &s;tronge&s;t in operation for al the former Di&s;ea&s;es. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is al&s;o of good effect in the former Di&s;ea&s;es, and conduceth much again&s;t the Plague and Pe&s;tilence, being taken with good Treacle. The Di|&s;tilled Water al&s;o, with a little Water and Honey of Ro&s;es help|eth al the &s;ores of the Mouth or Throat, being gargled often therwith. The juyce dropped into the Eyes, cleareth the &s;ight, and taketh away redne&s;s, and other defects in them, although it procure &s;om pain for the pre&s;ent, and cau&s;e tears. <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, It hindereth any fre&s;h &s;pringing of Hairs on the Eye-lids (after they be pulled away) if the Eye-lids be anointed with the juyce hereof with Gum <HI>Arabick</HI> di&s;&s;olved therin. The juyce of Fumitory and Docks mingled with Vinegar, and the places gently wa&s;hed or wet therwith, cureth al &s;orts of Scabs, Pimples, Itches, Wheals, or Pu&s;hes which ari&s;e on the Face or Hands, or any other part of the Body.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Fur&s;-Bu&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known, as wel by this name, as in &s;om Countries by the name <HI>Go&s;s,</HI> or <HI>Whins,</HI> that I &s;hal not need to write any De&s;cription therof, my intent being to teach my Country-men what they know not, rather than to tel them again of that which is generally known before.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They are known to grow on dry barren Heaths, and other wa&s;t gravelly or &s;andy Grounds in al Countries of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They al&s;o Flower in the Summer Months.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns the Herb. They are hot and dry good to open Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen. A De|coction made with the flowers therof,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions, Liver, Spleen, yell. Jaundice, Di&s;ury, Gravel, Stone.</NOTE> hath been found ef|fectual again&s;t the Jaundice, as al&s;o to provoke Urine, and clen&s;e the Kidneys from Gravel, or Stones, ingendered in them. <HI>Mars</HI> doth al this by Sympathy.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="111" REF="68">
<HEAD>Garlick.</HEAD>
<P>THe offen&s;ivene&s;s of the breath of him that hath eaten Garlick wil lead you by the No&s;e to the knowledg hereof, and (in&s;tead of a De&s;crip|tion) direct you to the place where it groweth in Gardens, which kinds are the be&s;t, and mo&s;t Phy&s;ical.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns this Herb. This was anciently accounted the Poormans <HI>Treacle,</HI> it being a remedy for al Di&s;ea&s;es or hurts (except tho&s;e which it &s;elf breeds) It provoketh Urine and Womens Cour|&s;es, helpeth the biting of a mad Dog, and other venemous Creatures:<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;rine, Terms provokes, mad-Dogs, venemous Bea&s;ts, Worms, Lethargy, flegm Pe&s;tilence, Apo|&s;thums, mineral vapors, &s;tinking Waters, Henban Hemlock, wol&s;|bane, Drop&s;ie, Cramps, Con|vul&s;ions, Fal|ling-&s;ickne&s;s.</NOTE> killeth Worms in Children, cutteth and avoi|deth tough flegm, purgeth the head, helpeth the Lethargy, is a good pre&s;ervative again&s;t, and a remedy for any Plague|&s;ore, or foul Ulcer: taketh away &s;pots and blemi&s;hes in the skin, ea&s;eth pains of the ears, ripeneth and breaketh Impo|&s;thumes or other &s;wellings: And for al the&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es, the Onyons are al&s;o effectual. But the Garlick hath &s;ome more peculiar Vertues be&s;ides the former, viz. It hath a &s;pecial quality to di&s;cu&s;s the inconveniences coming by corrupt A|gues or Mineral vapors, or by drinking corrupt and &s;tinking Waters; as al&s;o by taking of Wolf-bane, Henbane, Hem|lock, or other poy&s;onful and dangerous herbs. It is al&s;o held good in Hydropick Di&s;ea&s;es, the Jaundice, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s Cramps, Convul&s;ions, the Piles or Hemorrhoids or other cold Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>Many Authors quote many Di&s;ea&s;es this is good for, but conceal its Vices: Its heat is very vehement, and al vehement hot things &s;end up but ill favor'd vapors to the Brain: in Chollerick men 'twil ad fuel to the fire, in men oppre&s;&s;ed by Melancholly, 'twil attenuate the humor, and &s;end up &s;trange Fancies, and as many &s;trange Vi&s;ions to the Head: therfore let it be taken inwardly with great moderation, outwardly you may make more bold with it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Gentian, Felwort,</HI> or <HI>Baldmony.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is confe&s;&s;ed that Gentian which is mo&s;t u&s;ed among&s;t us, is brought o|ver from beyond Sea: yet have we two &s;orts of it growing frequently in our Nation, which be&s;ides the Rea&s;ons &s;o frequently alleadged, Why Eng|li&s;h Herbs &s;hould be fitte&s;t for Engli&s;h bodies? hath been proved by the ex|perience of divers able Phy&s;itians to be not a whit inferior in Vertue to that which cometh from beyond Sea: therfore be plea&s;ed to take the De&s;cripti|on of them as followeth.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>The greater of the two hath many &s;mal long Roots thru&s;t down deep in the ground, and abiding al the winter. The &s;talks are &s;omtime more, &s;omtimes fewer, of a browni&s;h green colour, which is &s;omtimes two foot high, if the ground be fruitful, having many long, narrow, dark green Leavs, &s;et by couples up to the top: the Flowers are long and hollow, of a purple colour, ending in five corners.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>The &s;maller &s;ort which is to be found in our Land, groweth up with &s;un|dry Stalks not a foot high, parted into &s;everal &s;mal branches, wheron divers &s;mal Leavs together, very like tho&s;e of the le&s;&s;er Centaury or whiti&s;h green colour; on the top of the &s;talks grow divers perfect blue Flowers, &s;tanding in long husks, but not &s;o big as the other: the Root is very &s;mal, and ful of thrids.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth in divers places both of the Ea&s;t and We&s;t Countries, and as wel in wet as in dry Grounds, as neer Long-field by <HI>Grave&s;-end</HI> neer <HI>Cobham</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> neer <HI>Lelling&s;tone</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> al&s;o in a Chalky-pit hard by a <HI>Paper-mill</HI> not far from <HI>Dartford</HI> in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P>The Second groweth al&s;o in divers places in <HI>Kent,</HI> as about <HI>Southfleet,</HI> and <HI>Longfield</HI> upon <HI>Barton hills</HI> in <HI>Bedford&s;hire:</HI> al&s;o not far from S^t <HI>Albans</HI> upon a piece of wa&s;t Chalky ground as you go out of <HI>Dun&s;table way</HI> towards <HI>Gorkambury.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> and is one of the principalli&s;t Herbs he is Ruler of. They re&s;i&s;t Putrifaction, Poy&s;on, Pe&s;tilence: neither can a more &s;ure Remedy be found to prevent the Pe&s;tilence than it is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Pe&s;ti|lence, Stomach, Indige&s;tion, Heart, pre&s;er|veth, Fainting, &s;wooning, Bi|ting of mad-dogs, venemous Bea&s;ts, Liver, Apetite, Weari|ne&s;s, Joynts, Stitches, Sides, Brui&s;es, &V;rine provoks, Cramp Convul&s;ions, &s;tone, Ruptures tough Flegm, &s;cabs, Itch, &s;ors &V;lcers, Worms, Kings-Evil, A|gues, yellow-Jaundice, Bots Venem. Bea&s;ts.</NOTE> It &s;trengthens the Stomach exceedingly, and helps Dige&s;tion, it pre&s;erves the Heart, and pre&s;erves it again&s;t Fainting and Swooning, the Pouder of the dry Roots helps the biting of mad-Dogs, and Venemous Bea&s;ts, opens Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and re&s;toreth an Apetite to their Meat to &s;uch as have lo&s;t it: The Herb &s;teeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, refre&s;heth &s;uch as are over-weary with Travel, and are grown lame in their joynts either by cold or evil lodgings: It helps &s;titches and griping pains in the Sides: and is an excellent Remedy for &s;uch as are Brui&s;ed by Falls: It provokes Urine, and the Terms exceedingly, therfore let it not be given to Women with Child: The &s;ame is very profitable for &s;uch as are troubled with Cramps and Convul&s;ions to drink the De|coction: Al&s;o they &s;ay it breaks the Stone, and helps Rup|tures mo&s;t certainly: It is very excellent in al cold Di&s;ea&s;es, and for &s;uch as are troubled with tough Flegm, Scabs, Itch, or any fretting Sores and Ulcers: It is an admirable Reme|dy to kil the Worms by taking half a dram of the Pouder in the morning in any convenient Liquor, the &s;ame is excel|lent good to be taken inwardly for the Kings-Evil: It helps Agues of al &s;orts, and the yellow Jaundice, as al&s;o the Bots in Cattel when Kine are bitten on the Udder by any vene|mous Bea&s;t, do but &s;troak the place with the Decoction of any of the&s;e, and it wil in&s;tantly help them.</P>
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<PB N="113" REF="69">
<HEAD>Clove-gilli-Flowers.</HEAD>
<P>IT is in vain to de&s;cribe an Herb &s;o wel known.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are gallant fine temperate Flowers, of the nature, and under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter;</HI> yea, &s;o temperate, that no exce&s;s, neither in heat, cold, drine&s;s, nor moi&s;ture can be pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ceived in them: they are great &s;trengthners both of the Brain and Heart, and wil therfore &s;erve either for Cordials or Cephalicks as your occa&s;ion wil &s;erve:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brain, Heart, con|&s;umptions, &s;trengthens Nature.</NOTE> There is both a Syrup and a Con&s;erve made of them, and of them alone commonly to be had at every <HI>Apothecaries</HI> to take now and then a little of either, &s;trengthens Nature much in &s;uch as are in Con&s;umptions. They are al&s;o excellent good in hot Pe&s;tilential Feavers, and expel Poy&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Germander.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon</HI> Germander <HI>&s;hooteth forth &s;undry &s;talks with &s;mal and &s;omwhat round Leavs, dented about the edges: The Flowers &s;tand at the tops, of a deep purple colour: The Roots is compo&s;ed of divers &s;prigs, which &s;hoot forth a great way round about, quickly over|&s;preading a Ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth u&s;ually with us in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And Flowereth in <HI>June,</HI> or <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a mo&s;t prevalent Herb of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and &s;trengthens the Brain and Apprehen&s;ion exceedingly: you may &s;ee what hu|mane Vertues are under <HI>Mercury</HI> in the latter end of my <HI>Ephemeris</HI> for 1651 &s;trengthen them when weak; relieve them, when drooping, by this Herb. This taken with Hony (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI>) is a remedy for Coughs, for hardne&s;s of the Spleen, and difficulty of Urin, and helpeth tho&s;e that are fallen into a Drop&s;ie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Spleen, Di&s;ury, Drop&s;ie Terms provoks Dead Child, Poy&s;on, Ulcers, Cramps, Agues, Falling-&s;icknes Head-ach, Me|lancholly, Dul|ne&s;s of &s;pirit, Convul&s;ion, Pal&s;ey, yellow jau~dice, worms.</NOTE> e&s;pecially at the begin|ning of the Di&s;ea&s;e, a Decoction being made therof when it is green, and drunk: It al&s;o bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the dead Child: It is mo&s;t effectual again&s;t the Poy&s;on of al Serpents, being drunk in Wine and the brui&s;ed Herb outwardly applyed, u&s;ed with Hony, it clen&s;eth old and foul Ulcers, and made into an Oyl, and the Eyes anointed therwith, taketh away their dimne&s;s and moi&s;tne&s;s: It is likewi&s;e good for the pains in the &s;ides, and Cramps. The Decoction therof taken for &s;ome daies toge|ther, driveth away and cureth both Tertian and Quartan Agues. It is al&s;o good again&s;t al Di&s;ea&s;es of the Brain, as continual Head-ach, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Melancholly Drow|&s;ines and Dulne&s;s of Spirit, Convul&s;ions, and Pal&s;ies. A Dram of the Seed taken in Pouder, purgeth by Urin, and is good again&s;t the yellow Jaundice. The juyce of the Leavs dropped into the Ears, killeth the Worms in them. The tops therof when they are in flower &s;teeped twenty four hours in a draught of white Wine and drunk, killeth Worms in the Bel|ly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="114" REF="70">
<HEAD>Stinking Gladwin.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is one of the kinds of flower-de-luces, having divers Leavs ri&s;ing from the Roots very like a Flower-de-luce, but that they are &s;harp edged on both &s;ides, and thicker in the middle, of a deeper green color, narrower and &s;harper pointed, and of a &s;trong ill &s;cent if they be brui&s;ed between the fingers: In the middle ri&s;eth up a rea&s;onable &s;trong &s;talk a yard high at lea&s;t, beareth</HI> 3 <HI>or</HI> 4 <HI>Flowers at the top, made &s;omwhat like the Flowers of the Flower-de-luce, with three upright leavs of a dead purpl|i&s;h A&s;h-color with &s;ome Veins di&s;coloured in them, the other three do not fal down, nor the three other &s;mal ones are &s;o arched, nor cover the lower Leavs as the Flower deluce doth, but &s;tand loo&s;e, or a&s;under from them: After they are pa&s;t, ther come up three &s;quare hard husks opening wide into three parts when they are ripe, wherin lie reddi&s;h &s;eed, turning black when it hath abidden long: The Root is like that of the Flower-de-luce, but reddi&s;h on the out-&s;ide, and whiti&s;h within, very &s;harp and hot in ta&s;te of as evil a &s;cent as the Leavs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth as wel on the Up-land grounds as al&s;o in moi&s;t pla|ces, in Woods, and &s;hadowy places by the Sea &s;ide in many places of this Land, and is u&s;ually nur&s;ed up in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth not until <HI>July,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> or <HI>Sep|tember,</HI> yet the Husks after they are ripe, opening them&s;elves, wil hold their &s;eeds within them for 2 or 3 Months, and not &s;hed them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is &s;uppo&s;ed to be under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI> It is u&s;ed by many Country people to purge corrupt Flegm and Choller,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegm, Choller, Head, Cramp Convul&s;ion Gout; Sciatica, Belly-ach, Strangury, Fluxes, Terms provokes, Di&s;ury, Spleen, Wounds, Splinters, Thorns, B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Bones. Kings E|vil, Itch, Scab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, Blemi&s;hes in the Skin.</NOTE> which they do by drinking the Decoction of the Roots, and &s;ome to make it work more gently, do but infu&s;e the &s;liced Roots in Ale, and &s;ome take the Leavs which &s;erveth wel for the weaker &s;tomachs. The juyce hereof put up, or &s;nuffed up the No&s;e, cau&s;eth &s;neezing, and draweth from the Head much corruption; and the Pouder therof doth the &s;ame: The Pouder therof drunk in Wine, helpeth tho&s;e that are trou|bled with Cramps and Convul&s;ion, or with the Gout or Sciati|ca, and giveth ea&s;e to tho&s;e that have any griping pains in their Body or Belly, and helpeth tho&s;e that have the Strangury. It is given with much profit to tho&s;e that have had long Fluxes by the &s;harp and evil quality of humors, which it &s;tayeth, having fir&s;t clen&s;ed and purged them by the drying and binding proper|ty therin. The Root boyled in Wine and drunk, doth effectual|ly procure Womens Cour&s;es, and u&s;ed as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Pe&s;&s;ary, worketh the &s;ame effects, but cau&s;eth Abortion in Women with Child. Half a dram of the &s;eed beaten to Pouder, and taken in Wine, doth &s;peedily cau&s;e one to pi&s;s which otherwi&s;e cannot. The &s;ame ta|ken with Vinegar, di&s;&s;olveth the hardne&s;s and &s;wellings of the Spleen. The Root is very effectual in al Wounds, and e&s;pecially of the Head, as al&s;o to draw forth any Splinters, Thorns, Bro|ken Bones, or any other thing &s;ticking in the Fle&s;h, without cau|&s;ing
<PB N="115" REF="70"> pain, being u&s;ed with a little Verdigree&s;e and Hony, and the great Centaury Root: The &s;ame boyled in Vinegar and laid upon any Tumor or Swelling, doth very effectually di&s;&s;olve and con&s;ume them, yea even the &s;wellings of the Throat called the Kings evil. The juyce of the Leavs and Roots healeth the Itch, and al running or &s;preading Scabs or Sores, and Blemi&s;hes, or Scars in the Skin wher&s;oever they be.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Golden Rod.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis ri&s;eth up with browni&s;h &s;mal round &s;talks, two foot high and &s;omtimes more, having theron many narrow and long dark green leavs, very &s;eldom with any dents about the edges, or any &s;trakes or white &s;pots therin, yet they are &s;omtimes &s;o found, divided at the tops into many &s;mal branches, with divers &s;mal yellow Flowers on every one of them, all which are turned one way, and being ripe do turn into Down, and are carried away with the Wind. The Root con&s;i&s;teth of many &s;mal fibres which grow not deep in the ground, but abideth al the Winter therin, &s;hooting forth new branches every year, the old ones dying down to the ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in the open places of Woods, and Cop&s;es both moi&s;t and dry grounds in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowereth about the Month of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> claims the Herb, and therfore to be &s;ure, it re&s;tores Beauty lo&s;t. <HI>Arnoldus de villa nova,</HI> commendeth it much again&s;t the Stone in the Reins and Kidneys, and to provoke Urin in abundance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Beauty lo&s;t, Stone, Gravel, Di&s;ury, wounds Flux, Bloudy-Flux, Terms &s;tops, Ruptures ulcers, Sore Mouth, and Throat, Teeth|loo&s;e.</NOTE> wherby al&s;o the Gravel or Stone may be avoided. The Decoction of the Herb green or dry, or the di&s;tilled Water therof is very effectual for inward Brui&s;es, as al&s;o to be outwardly applyed, it &s;tayeth bleedings in any part of the Body, and of Wounds al&s;o, the Fluxes of Hu|mors, the Bloudy-Flux, and Womens Cour&s;es: and is no le&s;s prevalent in al Ruptures or Bur&s;tings, being drunk in|wardly and outwardly applyed. It is a &s;overaign Wound-Herb, inferior to none, both for inward and outward hurts, green Wounds, and old Sores, and Ulcers are quickly cured therwith. It is al&s;o of e&s;pecial u&s;e in al Lotions for Sores, or Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, or privy Parts of man or Woman. The de|coction al&s;o helpeth to fa&s;ten the Teeth that are loo&s;e in the Gums.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Goutwort,</HI> or <HI>Herb-Gerrard.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is a low Herb &s;eldom ri&s;ing half a yard high, having &s;un|dry Leavs &s;tanding on browni&s;h green &s;talks by threes, &s;nip|ped about, and of a &s;trong unplea&s;ant &s;avor. The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed blacki&s;h, the Root runneth in the Ground, quickly taking up a great deal of room.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth by Hedg and Wall &s;ides, and often in the Borders or Corners of Fields, and in Gardens al&s;o.</P>
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<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowereth and Seedeth about the end of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> rules it: neither is it to be &s;uppo&s;ed <HI>Goutwort</HI> had not his name for nothing, but upon good expe|rience to help the cold Gout,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gout, Sciatica, Joynts.</NOTE> and Sciatica, as al&s;o Joynt-aches, and other cold Griefs. The very bearing of it about one, ea&s;eth the pains of the Gout, &amp; defends him that bears it from the di&s;ea&s;.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Gromel.</HEAD>
<P>OF this I &s;hal briefly de&s;cribe three kinds, which are principally u&s;ed in Phy&s;ick, the Vertues wherof are alike, though &s;omwhat different in their manner and form of growing.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cription.]</HI> The <HI>greater Gromel</HI> groweth up with &s;lender hard and hairy &s;talks trailing and taking Root in the ground as it lyeth theron, and parted into many other &s;maller branches with hairy dark green leavs theron. At the Joynts with the Leavs come forth very &s;mal blue flowers, and after them hard &s;tony roundi&s;h &s;eed. The Root is long and Woody, abiding the winter, and &s;hooting forth fre&s;h &s;talks in the Spring.</P>
<P>The <HI>&s;mal wild Gromel</HI> &s;endeth forth divers upright hard branched &s;talks two or three foot high, ful of joynts, at every of which groweth &s;mal, long, hard, and rough Leavs like the former but le&s;&s;er, among which Leavs come forth &s;mal white Flowers, and after them grayi&s;h round Seed like the for|mer. The Root is not very long, but with many &s;trings therat.</P>
<P>The <HI>garden Gromel</HI> hath divers upright &s;lender woody hairy &s;talks brown and cre&s;ted, very little branched, with leavs like the former, and white Flowers, after which in rough brown Husks is contained a white hard round Seed, &s;hining like Pearls, and greater than either of the former: The Root is like the fir&s;t De&s;cribed, with divers Branches and Strings thereat; which continueth (as the fir&s;t doth) al Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The two Fir&s;t grow wild in barren or untilled places, and by the Way &s;ides in many places of this Land. The la&s;t is a Nur&s;ling in the Gar|dens of the curious.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They al Fower from <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> unto <HI>September</HI> &s;omtimes, and in the mean time the &s;eed ripeneth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb belongs to Dame <HI>Venus,</HI> and ther|fore if <HI>Mars</HI> cau&s;e the Chollick or Stone, as u&s;ually he doth if in <HI>Virgo:</HI> this is your Cure. The&s;e are accounted to be of as &s;ingular force as any other Herb or Seed what&s;oever,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Gravel, Strangury, Travail in Women.</NOTE> to break the Stone, and to avoid it and the Gravel either in the Reins or Bladder: as al&s;o to provoke Urine being &s;topped, and to help the Strangury. The Seed is of greate&s;t u&s;e, being brui&s;ed and boyled in white Wine, or in Broth, or the like, or the Pouder of the Seed ta|ken therin: Two drams of the Seed in Pouder taken with Wo|mens Brea&s;t-milk, is very effectual to procure a &s;peedy Delivery to &s;uch Wo|men as have &s;ore pains in their Travel, and cannot be delivered. The Herb it &s;elf (when the Seed is not to be had) either boyled, or the juyce therof drunk, is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, but not &s;o powerful or &s;peedy in operation.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
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<HEAD>Goosberry Bu&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Feapberry, and in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> Dewberry Bu&s;h, and in &s;ome Countries Wine-berries.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Domi|nion of <HI>Venus.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Appetite, &s;to|mach, womens Longing, Swellings, Inflamations, St. Anthonies fire, &s;tomach, Liver, &s;tone, Gravel, Worms.</NOTE> The Berries whil&s;t they are unripe being &s;calded or baked, are good to &s;tir up a fainting or decaying Appetite, e&s;pecially &s;uch who&s;e Stomachs are afflicted by Chollerick humors: They are excellent good to &s;tay the Longings of women with Child: They may ea&s;ily keep them pre&s;erved with Sugar al the yeer long. The Decocti|on of the Leavs of the Tree cools hot &s;wellings and Infla|mations, as al&s;o St. Anthonies fire. The ripe Goosberries being eaten, are an excellent remedy to allay the violent heat both of the Stomach and Liver. The yong and tender Leavs break the Stone, and expel Gravel both from the Kidneys and Bladder: Al the evils they do to the Body of Man is, they are &s;uppo&s;ed to breed Crudities, and by Crudities, Worms.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Winter Green.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;endeth forth &s;even, eight, or nine Leavs from a &s;mal browni&s;h creeping Root, every one &s;tanding upon a long Foot&s;talk, which are almo&s;t as broad as long, round pointed, of a &s;ad green color, and hard in handling, and like the Leaf of a Pear-tree, from whence ari&s;eth a &s;lender weak Stalk, yet &s;tanding upright, bearing at the top many &s;mal, white, and &s;weet &s;melling Flowers, laid open like a Star, con&s;i&s;ting of five round pointed Leavs, with many yellowi&s;h thrids &s;tanding in the mid|dle, about a green Head, and a long &s;tile with them, which in time groweth to be the Seed Ve&s;&s;el, which being ripe is &s;ound five &s;quare with a &s;mal point at it, wherin is contained Seed as &s;mal as du&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth &s;eldom in the Fields, but frequently in the Woods Northwards, <HI>viz.</HI> In <HI>York&s;hire, Lanca&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth about <HI>June</HI> or <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Winter-green is under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and is a &s;ingular good Wound Herb, and an e&s;pecial Remedy for to heal green Wounds &s;peedily,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Ulcers, Kidneys, Bladder, Flux, bloody flux, Terms, &s;tops, Inflamati|ons, Cankers, fi&s;tulaes.</NOTE> the green Leavs be|ing brui&s;ed and applied, or the Juyce of them: A Salve made of the green Herbs &s;tamped, or the Juyce boyled with Hogs Lard, or with Sallat Oyl and Wax, and &s;ome Turpentine added unto it, is a Soveraign &s;alve, and highly extolled by the Germans, who much u&s;e it to heal al manner of Wounds and Sores. The Herb boyled in Wine and Water, and given to drink to them that have any inward Ulcers in their Kidnies, or Neck of the Bladder, doth wonderfully help them: It &s;taieth al&s;o al Fluxes, whether of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, bloody flux, Womens Cour&s;es, and bleeding of wounds, and taketh away any infla|mation
<PB N="118" REF="72"> ri&s;ing upon pains of the Heart. It is no le&s;s helpful for foul Ulcers hard to be cured, as al&s;o for Cankers or Fi&s;tulaes. The di&s;tilled water of the Herb doth effectually perform the &s;ame things.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ground&s;el.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;r common Ground&s;el hath a round, green, and &s;omwhat browni&s;h Stalk, &s;pread toward the top into Branches, &s;et with long, and &s;omwhat narrow green Leaves cut in on the edges, &s;omwhat like the Oak Leaves, but le&s;&s;er, and round at the ends; at the tops of the Branches &s;tand many &s;mal green Heads, out of which grow &s;mal yellow threds or thrums, which are the Flowers, and continue many daies blown in that manner before it pa&s;s away into Down, and with the Seed is carried away in the wind. The Root is &s;mal and threddy, and &s;oon peri&s;heth, and as &s;oon ri&s;eth again of its own &s;owing, &s;o that it may be &s;een many months in the yeer, both green, and in flower, and &s;eed, for it wil &s;pring and &s;eed twice in a yeer at lea&s;t if it be &s;uffered in a Garden.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth almo&s;t every where, as wel on the tops of Wals, as at the foot among Rubbi&s;h, and untilled grounds, but e&s;pecially in Gar|dens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth as is &s;aid before, almo&s;t in every Month through the yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This Herb is <HI>Venus</HI> her Mris. piece, and is as gallant an Univer&s;al Medicine for al Di&s;ea&s;es coming of heat what&s;oever they be,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller in the Stomach, yellow Jaundice, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Di&s;ury, Gravel, Sciatica, Chollick, Liver, Terms provokes, Womens, Brea&s;ts, Privy parts, Arteries Joynts &amp; &s;inews over heated, Kernels, Wounds in the Sinews, Inflamati|ons in the Eyes.</NOTE> or in what part of the Body &s;oever they lie, as the Sun &s;hines upon, 'tis very &s;afe and friendly to the Body of man, yet cau&s;eth Vomiting if the Stomach be afflicted, if not, purging, and it doth it with more gentlene&s;s than can be expected. 'Tis moi&s;t and &s;omwhat cold withal, thereby cau&s;ing expul&s;ion, and repre&s;&s;ing the heat cau&s;ed by the motion of the internal parts in Purges and Vomits: Lay by your Learned Re|ceipts, Take &s;o much Senna, &s;o much Scammony, &s;o much Co|locynthis, &s;o much Infu&s;ion of <HI>Crocus Metallorum, &amp;c.</HI> this Herb alone pre&s;erved in a Syrup, in a di&s;tilled Water, in an Oyntment, &s;hal do the deed for you in al hot Di&s;ea&s;es, and it &s;hal do it, 1. Safely, 2. Speedily.</P>
<P>The Decoction of the Herb (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI>) made with Wine and drunk, helpeth the pains of the Stomach proceeding of Choller (which it may wel do by a Vomit, as dayly experi|ence &s;heweth) The Juyce hereof taken in Drink, or the Deco|ction of it in Ale, gently performeth the &s;ame: It is good a|gain&s;t the Jaundice and Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, being taken in Wine; as al&s;o again&s;t difficulty of making Water; it provoketh Urin, expelleth Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys; a dram thereof gi|ven in Oximel, after &s;ome walking or &s;tirring the Body; It helpeth al&s;o the Sciatica, griping of the Belly and the Chollick,
<PB N="119" REF="72"> helpeth the defects of the Liver, and provoketh Womens Cour|&s;es. The fre&s;h Herb boyled and made into a Pultis and applied to the Brea&s;ts of Women that are &s;wollen with pain and heat, as al&s;o to the privy Parts of Man or Woman, the Seat, or Fun|dament, or the Arteries, Joynts, and Sinews when they are infla|med and &s;woln, doth much ea&s;e them: and u&s;ed with &s;ome Salt helpeth to di&s;&s;olve Knots or Kernels in any part of the Body. The Juyce of the Herb or (as <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith) the Leavs and Flowers with &s;ome Fine Frankin&s;ence in Pouder, u&s;ed in Wounds of the Body, Nervs, or Sinews, doth &s;ingularly help to heal them. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb performeth wel al the afore&s;aid Cures, but e&s;pecially for Inflamations or watering of the Eyes by rea&s;on of the De|fluxion of Rhewm into them.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Harts-ea&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>THis is that Herb which &s;uch Phy&s;itians as are Licen&s;ed to bla&s;pheme by Authority without danger, having their tongues bored through with a hot Iron, cal an Herb of the Trinity; it is al&s;o called by tho&s;e that are more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idlene&s;s, Cul-me-to-you; and in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> we cal them Pan&s;ies.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> Be&s;ides tho&s;e which are brought up in Gardens, they grow com|monly about, wild in the Field, e&s;pecially in &s;uch as are very barren; &s;om|times you may find it on the tops on high hils.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower al the Spring and Summer long.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is really Saturnine, &s;omthing cold vi&s;cous,<NOTE PLACE="marg">French Pox, Convul&s;ions, falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s, infla|mations in the Brea&s;t and Lungs, Pleure&s;ie, Scabs, Itch.</NOTE> and &s;limy: A &s;trong Decoction of the Herbs and Flowers (if you wil you may make it into a Sy|rup, or di&s;tilled in an Alembick with what Vehecle you plea&s;) is an excellent Cure for the French Pox, the Herb being a gallant Antivenerian; and that Antivenerians are the be&s;t Cure for that Di&s;ea&s;e, far better and &s;afer than to torment them with the Flux divers forraign Phy&s;itians have confe&s;&s;ed: The Spirit of it is excellent good for the convul&s;ions in Chil|dren, as al&s;o for the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, and a gallant remedy for Inflamations of the Lungs and Brea&s;t, Pleure&s;ie, Scabs, Itch, &amp;c. It is under the Coele&s;tial Sign <HI>Cancer.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hartichokes.</HEAD>
<P>THe Latins cal them <HI>Cinera,</HI> only our Colledg cals them <HI>Artichokus.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Dominion of <HI>Venus</HI> and therfore it is no marvel if they provoke Lu&s;t much, as in|deed they do,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu&s;t pro|voketh, Nocturnal Polutions, Purgeth by Urin.</NOTE> being &s;omthing windy meat, and yet they &s;tay the involuntary cour&s;e of Natural Seed in Man, which is commonly called Nocturnal Polutions. And here I care not greatly if I quote a little of <HI>Galens</HI> non&s;en&s;e in his Treati&s;e of the Faculties of Nouri&s;hments, he &s;aith they contain plenty of Chollerick
<PB N="120" REF="73"> Juyce (which notwith&s;tanding I can &s;carcely beleeve) of which he &s;aith is ingendred Melancholly Juyce, and of that Melan|cholly Juyce, thin Chollerick Blood; but to proceed: this is certain, That the Decoction of the Root boyled in Wine, or the Root brui&s;ed and di&s;tilled in an in an Alembick, and being drunk purgeth by Urin excee|dingly.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Harts-Tongue.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath divers Leavs ri&s;ing from the Root, every one &s;e|verally, which fold them&s;elvs in their fir&s;t &s;pringing and &s;preading; when they are full grown are about a foot long, &s;mooth and green above, but hard and with little Sap in them, and &s;traked on the back athwart on both &s;ides of the middle Rib, with &s;mal and &s;omwhat long brow|ni&s;h marks; the bottoms of the Leavs are a little bowed on each &s;ide of the middle Rib &s;omwhat narrow with the length, and &s;omwhat &s;mal at the end. The Root is of many black threds, folded or interlaced together.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is green al the Winter, but new Leavs &s;pring every yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Jupiter</HI> claims Dominion over this Herb, therfore is a &s;ingular Remedy for the Liver, both to &s;trengthen it when weak, and ea&s;e it when afflicted, 'tis no matter by what: you &s;hould do wel to keep it in a Syrup al the yeer, for though Authors &s;ay 'tis green al the yeer,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen, Liver, Flux, Bloody flux, Hiccough, Gums, venemous Bea&s;ts.</NOTE> I &s;carce beleev it. Ha ts-tongue is much commended again&s;t the hardne&s;s and &s;toppings of the Spleen and Liver, and again&s;t the heat of the Liver and Stomach, and again&s;t Lasks and the bloody Flux: The di&s;tilled Water ther|of is al&s;o very good again&s;t the Pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart, and to &s;tay the Hiccough to help he falling of the Pillar, and &s;tay the bleeding of the G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns being gargled in the mouth. <HI>Dio&s;co|rides</HI> &s;aith it is good again&s;t the &s;tinging or biting of Serpents.</P>
<P>As tor the u&s;e of it, my Directions <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t latter end wil be &s;uffici|ent, and enough for tho&s;e that are &s;tudious in Phy&s;ick to whet their Brains upon for one yeer or two.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Hazel Nut.</HEAD>
<P>HAzel Nuts are &s;o wel known to every Boy, that they need no De&s;crip|tion.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury.</HI> The parched Kernels made into an Electuary, or the milk drawn from the K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nels with Mead or Honeyed Water, is very good to help an old Cough;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Ph<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ick, Flux, Terms &s;tops.</NOTE> and being parched and a little Pepper put to them and drunk, dige&s;teth the di&s;tillations of Rhewm from the Head: The dried Husks and Shels to the weight of two drams taken in red Wine, &s;tayeth Lasks, and Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;o doth the red Skin that covers the Kernels which is more effectual to &s;tay Womens Cour&s;es.</P>
<P>And if this be true as it is, then why &s;hould the Vulgar &s;o familiarly af|firm,
<PB N="121" REF="73"> That eating Nuts cau&s;eth &s;hortne&s;s of breath, than which nothing is fal&s;er; for how can that which &s;trengthen the Lungs cau&s;e &s;hortne&s;s of breath? I confe&s;s the Opinion is far older than I am, I knew Tradition was a Friend to Errors before, but never that he was the Father of Slan|ders; or are mens tongues &s;o given to &s;landering one another that they mu&s;t &s;lander Nuts too, to keep their tongues in ure? If any thing of the Hazel Nut be &s;topping 'tis the Husks and Shels, and no body is &s;o mad to eat them unle&s;s Phy&s;ically, and the red Skin which covers the Kernel which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> may ea&s;ily pul off. And thus have I made an Apology for Nuts which cannot &s;peak for them&s;elves.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hawkweed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> IT hath many large Leavs lying on the ground, much rent or torn on the &s;ides into many ga&s;hes like Dandelyon, but with greater parts more like the &s;mooth Sow-Thi&s;tle, from among which ari&s;eth a hollow rough &s;talk two or three foot high branched from the middle up|ward, wherein are &s;et at every joynt longer Leavs, little or nothing rent or cut in, beating at their top &s;undry pale yellow Flowers con&s;i&s;ting of many &s;mal narrow Leavs, broad pointed, and nicked in at the ends, &s;et in a double row or more the outermo&s;t being larger than the inner, which form mo&s;t of the Hawkweeds (for there are many kinds of them) do hold, which turn into Down, and with the &s;mal browni&s;h Seeds, is blown away with the wind: The Root is long and &s;omwhat greater, with many &s;mal fibres ther|at. The whol is ful of bitter milk.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in divers places about Field &s;ides, and the Path-waies in dry grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth and flies away in the Summer Months.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns it. Hawk|weed (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI>) is cooling,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cools, Dries, Binds, gnaw|ing in the Sto|mach, Inflama|tions, Agues, Crudity, de&s;ury, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Poy&s;on, Drop&s;ie, flegm, chollick, spleen, Watching, Lu&s;t &s;tops, Veneri|ous Dreams, Reins, Bladder, Eyes, &V;lcers, Burnings, In|flamations, St. Anthonies fire, Heat, &s;alt flegm, Convul|&s;ion, Cramp, Freckles, spots, Morphew, Wrinkles.</NOTE> &s;omwhat drying and binding, and therfore good for the heat of the Stomach, and gnawings therin, for Inflamations, and the hot fits of Agues. The Juyce therof in Wine, helpeth dige&s;tion, di&s;|cu&s;&s;eth wind, hindreth crudities abiding in the Stomach, and helpeth the difficulty of making Water, the biting of venemous Serpents, and &s;ting of the Scorpion, if the Herb be al&s;o outwardly applied to the place, and is very good a|gain&s;t al other Poy&s;ons. A &s;cruple of the dryed Juyce given in Wine and Vinegar is profitable for tho&s;e that have the Drop&s;ie. The Decoction of the Herb taken with Honey, dige&s;teth thin flegm in the Che&s;t or Lungs, and with Hy|&s;op helpeth the Cough. The Decoction therof and of wild Succory made with Wine and taken helpeth the wind chol|lick and hardne&s;s of the Spleen, it procureth re&s;t and &s;leep, hindreth Venery and Venerious Dreams, cooleth heats, purgeth the &s;tomach, encrea&s;eth blood, and helpeth the di&s;ea&s;es of the Reins and Bladder. Outwardly applied it is
<PB N="122" REF="74"> &s;ingular good for al the defects and di&s;ea&s;es of the Eyes, u|&s;ed with &s;ome Womens Milk, and is u&s;ed with good &s;ucce&s;s in fretting or creeping Ulcers, e&s;pecially in the beginning. The green Herb b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ui&s;ed, and with a little Salt applied to a|ny place burnt with fire before bli&s;ters do ari&s;e, helpeth them, as al&s;o Inflamations, St. Anthonies fire, and al Pu|&s;hes, and Eruptions, Heat, and &s;alt Flegm. The &s;ame ap|plied with Meal and fair Water in manner of a Pulti&s;s to any place affected with Convul&s;ions and the Cramp, or &s;uch as are out of Joynt doth give help and ea&s;e. The di&s;tilled water clen&s;eth the Skin and taketh away frec|kles, Spots, the Morphew or Wrinkles in the face.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Hawthorn.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not my intent to trouble you with a De&s;cription of this Tree, which is &s;o wel know that it needeth none.</P>
<P>It is ordinarily but a Hedg Bu&s;h, although being pruned and dre&s;&s;ed, it groweth to be a Tree of a rea&s;onable height.</P>
<P>As for the Hawthorn Tree at <HI>Gla&s;tenbury,</HI> which is &s;aid to Flower yeerly on <HI>Chri&s;tmas Day,</HI> it rather &s;hews the Super&s;tition of tho&s;e who ob&s;erve it for the time or its Flowring, than any great wonder, &s;ith the like may be found in divers other places of this Land; as in <HI>Whey-&s;treet</HI> in <HI>Rummey</HI> Mar&s;h, and neer unto <HI>Namptwich</HI> in <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> by a place called <HI>White Green,</HI> where if the Winter be mild, they wil have white Blo&s;&s;oms al over before and about <HI>Chri&s;tmas;</HI> as in <HI>May</HI> if the weather be fro&s;ty, it flowreth not un|til <HI>January,</HI> or that the hard weather be over.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Tree of <HI>Mars.</HI> The Berries, or the Seeds in the Berries beaten to Pouder and drunk in Wine, are held &s;ingular good again&s;t the Stone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Drop&s;ie, Flux, Inward pains, Splinters, Thorns.</NOTE> and are good for the Drop&s;ie. The di&s;tilled Water of the Flower &s;tayeth the Lask. The Seeds cleered from the Down, brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine and drunk is good for inward tormenting pains: It cloathes and &s;punges be wet in the &s;aid di&s;tilled water and applied to any place wherein Thorns, Splinters, or the like, do abide in the Fle&s;h, it wil notably draw them forth.</P>
<P>And thus you &s;ee the Thorn gives a Medicine for his own pricking, and &s;o doth almo&s;t every thing el&s;.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hemlock.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common great Hemlock groweth up with a green &s;talk, four or five foot high or more, ful of red &s;pots &s;omtimes, and at the Joynts very large winged Leavs &s;et at them which are divided into many other winged Leavs, one &s;et again&s;t another, dented about the ed|ges, of a &s;ad green color branched towards the top where it is full of umbels of white Flowers, and afterwards with whiti&s;h flat Seed: The Root is long, white, and &s;omtimes crooked and hollow within; the whol Plant and eve|ry part hath a &s;trong, heady, and il favor'd &s;cent, much offending the Sen&s;es.</HI></P>
<PB N="123" REF="74">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in al Countries of this Land by Wals and Hedges &s;ides, in wa&s;t grounds and untilled places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth and &s;eedeth in <HI>July,</HI> or thereabouts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> claims Dominion over the Herb; yet I wonder why it may not be applied to the Privities in a Priapi&s;mus, or continual &s;tanding of the Yard, it being very beneficial for that Di&s;ea&s;; I &s;uppo&s;e my Authors Judgment was fir&s;t upon the oppo&s;ite Di&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Saturn</HI> to <HI>Venus</HI> in tho&s;e Faculties, and therfore he forbid the applying of it to tho&s;e parts that it might not cau&s; Barrenne&s;s, or &s;poil the Spirit Pro|creative, which if it do, yet applied to the Privities it &s;tops lu&s;tful thoughts.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lechery.</NOTE> Hemlock is exceeding cold, and very dange|rous, e&s;pecially to be taken inwardly: It may &s;afely be applied to Inflamations.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamti|ons, St. Anthonies Fire, Tetters, Ring|worms, Eyes, Pin and Web, Gout.</NOTE> Tumors, and Swelling in any part of the Body (&s;ave the privy Parts) as al&s;o to St. Anthonies fire, Wheals Pu|&s;hes, and creeping Ulcers that ri&s;e of hot &s;harp Humors, by coo|ling &amp; repelling the heat. The Leavs brui&s;ed &amp; laid to the Brow or Forehead, is good for their Eyes that are red and Swollen, as al&s;o to take away a Pin and Web growing in the Eye, this is a tried Medicine: Take a &s;mal handful of the Herb, and half &s;o much Bay Salt beaten together, and applied to the contrary Wre&s;t of the Hand for twenty four hours, doth remove it in thrice dre&s;&s;ing. If the Root hereof be roa&s;ted under the Embers, wrapped in double wet Papers, until it be &s;oft and tender, and then applied to the Gout in the Hands or Fingers, it wil quickly help this evil, If any &s;hal through mi&s;take eat the Herb Hemlock in&s;tead of Par&s;ly, or the Root in&s;tead of a Par&s;nip (both which it is very like) whereby hapneth a kind of Phren&s;ie, or perturbation of the Sences, as if they were &s;tupified or drunk, the Remedy is as <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, To drink of the be&s;t and &s;tronge&s;t pure Wine, before it &s;trike to the Heart, or Gentian put into Wine, or a draught of good Vinegar, wherewith <HI>Tragus</HI> doth affirm that he cured a Woman that had eaten the Root.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hemp.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known to every good Hu&s;wife in the Country, that I &s;hal not need to write any De&s;cription of it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is &s;own in the end of <HI>March,</HI> or beginning of <HI>April,</HI> and is ripe in <HI>Angu&s;t</HI> or <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and good for &s;om|thing el&s;e you &s;ee than to make Halters only. The Seed of Hemp con&s;umeth Wind,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wind, Cough, Jaundice, Gall, Choller, Flux, Chollick, Bleeding, Worms, Earwigs, Inflama|tion, Gout, Sinews &s;hrunk.</NOTE> and by the much u&s;e thereof di&s;per&s;eth it &s;o much that it drieth up the natural Seed for Procreation; yet being boyled in Milk and taken, helpeth &s;uch as have a hot dry Cough. The Dutch make an Emul&s;ion out of the Seed, and give it with good &s;ucce&s;s to tho&s;e that have the Jaundice, e|&s;pecially in the beginning of the Di&s;ea&s; if there be no Ague ac|companying it, for it openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Gall, and
<PB N="124" REF="75"> cau&s;eth dige&s;tion of Choller. The Emul&s;ion or Decoction of the Seed &s;tayeth Lasks and continual fluxes, ea&s;eth the Chollick, and allayeth the trouble&s;om humors in the Bowels, and &s;tayeth bleeding at the Mouth, No&s;e, or other place, &s;om of the Leavs be|ing fried with the blood of them that bleed, and &s;o given then to eat. It is held very good to kil the Worms in man or bea&s;t, and the Juyce dropped into the Ears, killeth Worms in them, and draweth forth Earwigs, or other living Creatures gotten into them. The Decoction of the Root allayeth Inflamations in the Head or any other parts; the Herb it &s;elf, or the di&s;tilled Water there|of doth the like: The Decoction of the Roots ea&s;eth the pains of the Gout, the hard tumors or knots in the Joynts, the pains and &s;hrinking of the Sinews, and the pains of the Hips: The fre&s;h Juyce mixed with a little Oyl and Butter, is good for any place that hath been burnt with fire, being thereto applied.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Henbane.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OUr common Henbane hath very large, thick, &s;oft, woolly Leavs lying upon the ground, much cut in or to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n on the edges, of a dark ill grayi&s;h green color, among which ri&s;e up divers thick and &s;hort Stacks two or three foot high, &s;pread into divers &s;maller branches with le&s;&s;er Leavs on them, and many hollow Flowers &s;carce appearing above the Husks, and u&s;ually torn on the one &s;ide, ending in five round points growing one above another, of a deadi&s;h yellow color, &s;omwhat pal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> toward the ed|ges, with many purpli&s;h Veins therein, and of a dark yellowi&s;h purple in the bottom of the Flower, with a &s;mal pointel of the &s;ame color in the middle, each of them &s;tanding in a hard clo&s;e Husk, which after the Flower is pa&s;t, groweth very like the Husk of A&s;arahacca, and &s;omwhat &s;harp at the top points, wherein is contained much &s;mal Seed very like Poppy Seed, but of a duskie grayi&s;h color. The Root is great, white, and thick, branching forth di|vers waies under ground, &s;o like a Par&s;nip Root (but that it is not &s;o white) that it hath deceived divers. The whol Plant more than the Root hath a heavy ill &s;o poriferous &s;mel &s;omwhat offen&s;ive.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It commonly groweth by the way &s;ides, and under Hedg &s;ides and Walls.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> and &s;pringeth again yeerly of its own Seed.</P>
<P>I doubt my Authors mi&s;took <HI>July</HI> for <HI>June,</HI> if not for <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> I wonder in my heart how A&s;trologers could take on them to make this an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and yet <HI>Mizaldus,</HI> a man of a penetrating Brain, was al&s;o of that Opinion as wel as the re&s;t; the Herb is indeed under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and I prove it by this Ar|gument,</P>
<P>All the Herbs which delight mo&s;t to grow in Saturnine places, are Satur|nine Herbs.</P>
<P>But Henbane delights mo&s;t to grow in Saturnine places, and whol Cart loads of it may be found neer the places where they empty the common
<PB N="125" REF="75"> Jakes, and &s;carce a &s;tinking Ditch to be found without it growing by it.</P>
<P><HI>Ergo</HI> 'tis an Herb of <HI>Saturn.</HI></P>
<P>The Leavs of Henbane do cool all hot Inflamations in the Eyes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflama|tion, Cods, Womens Brea&s;ts, Gout, Sciatica, Joynts Watching, Deafne&s;s, Noi&s;e in the Ears, Chilblains, Kibes,</NOTE> or any other part of the Body; and are good to a&s;&s;wage al manner of &s;wellings of the Cods or Womens Brea&s;ts, or el&s;|where, if they be boyled in Wine, and either applied them&s;elvs or the Fomentation warm; it al&s;o a&s;&s;wageth the pain of the Gout, the Sciatica, and al other pains in the Joynts which ari&s;e from an hot cau&s;. And applied with Vinegar to the Forehead and Temples, helpeth the headach and want of &s;leep in hot Feavers. The Juyce of the Herb or Seed, or the Oyl drawn from the Seed doth the like. The Oyl of the Seed is helpful for the Deafne&s;s, Noi&s;e, and Worms in the Ears, being drop|ped therein; the Juyce of the Herb or Root doth al&s;o the &s;ame. The Decoction of the Herb or Seed, or both, killeth Lice in Man and Bea&s;t. The fume of the dried Herb, Stalks, and Seed burned, quickly healeth Swellings, Chilblains, or Kibes in the Hands or Feet, by holding them in the fume therof. The Re|medy to help tho&s;e that have taken Henbane, is to drink Goats Milk, Ho|neyed Water, or Pine Kernels, with Sweet Wine: or in the ab&s;ence of the&s;e, Fennel Seed, Nettle Seed, the Seed of Cre&s;&s;es, Mu&s;tard, or Rha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h, as al|&s;o Onions, or Garlick taken in Wine, do al help to free them from danger, and re&s;tore them to their due temper again.</P>
<P>Take notice that this Herb mu&s;t never be taken inwardly; outwardly, an Oyl, Oyntment, or Plai&s;ter of it, is mo&s;t admirable for the Gout,<NOTE PLACE="marg">French Pox. Toothach.</NOTE> to cool the Venerial heat of the Reins in the French Pox, to &s;top the Toothach being applied to the aching &s;ide, to allay all Inflamations, and to help the Di&s;ea&s;es before pre|mi&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hedg-Hy&s;op.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THere are divers &s;orts of this Plant, the fir&s;t of which is an Italian by Birth, and only nur&s;ed up here in the Gar|dens of the Curious. Two or three &s;orts are to be found commonly growing wild here; the De&s;criptions of two of which I &s;hall give you: The fir&s;t is a &s;mooth low Plant, not a foot high, very bitter in ta&s;t, with many &s;quare Stalks, diver&s;ly branched from the bottom to the top, with divers Joynts, and two &s;mal Leavs at each Joynt, broader at the bottom than they are at the end, a little dented about the edges, of a &s;ad green color and ful of veins: The Flowers &s;tand at the Joynts, being of a fair purple color, with &s;ome white &s;pots in them, in fa&s;hion like tho&s;e of dead Nettles: The Seed is &s;mal and yellow, and the Roots spreadeth much under ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The &s;econd &s;eldom groweth half a foot high, &s;ending up many &s;mal bran|ches, whereon grow many &s;mal Leavs &s;et one again&s;t the other, &s;omwhat broad, but very &s;hort: the Flowers are like the Flowers of the other in fa|&s;hion, but of a pale reddi&s;h color: the Seeds are &s;mal and yellowi&s;h: the
<PB N="126" REF="76"> Root spreadeth like the other, neither will it yield to its fellow one are of bitterne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in wet low grounds, and by water &s;ides: the la&s;t may be found among&s;t the Bogs on Hamp&s;ted Heath.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe pre&s;ently after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are Herbs of <HI>Mars,</HI> and as chollerick and churli&s;h as he is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, Flegm, Drop&s;ie, Gout, Sciatica, Worms, &V;lcers,</NOTE> being mo&s;t violent purgers, e|&s;pecially of Choller and Flegm: It is not &s;afe taking them in|wardly, unle&s;s they be wel rectified by the Art of the Alchymi&s;t, and only the purity of them given; if &s;o u&s;ed, they may be very healthful both for the Drop&s;ie, Gout and Sciatica: outwardly u|&s;ed in Oyntments, they kil Worms, the belly being anointed with it; and are excellent good to clen&s;e old and filthy Ulcers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Black Hellebore.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called al&s;o Setter-wort, Setter-gra&s;s, Bears-foot, Chri&s;tmas Herb, and Chri&s;tmas Flower.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>It hath &s;undry fair green Leavs ri&s;ing from the Root, each of them &s;tanding about a handful high from the Earth, each Leaf is divided into &s;even, eight, or nine parts, dented from the middle of the Leaf to the point on both &s;ides, abiding green all the Winter; about Chri&s;tmas time, if the weather be any thing temperate, the Flowers appear upon Foot&s;talks, al|&s;o con&s;i&s;ting of five large, round, white Leavs apiece, which &s;omtimes are purple toward the edges, with many pale yellow thrums in the middle: The Seeds are divided into &s;everal Cels like tho&s;e of Columbines, &s;ave only they are greater; the Seeds are in color black, and in form long and round: The Root con&s;i&s;teth of a number numberle&s;s blacki&s;h &s;trings, all united into one Head.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another black Hellebore which groweth up and down in the Woods very like this, but that only the Leavs are &s;maller and narrower, and peri&s;h in the Winter when this doth not.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t is maintained in Gardens: The &s;econd is commonly found in the Woods in <HI>Northampton&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> The fir&s;t flowreth in <HI>December</HI> or <HI>January;</HI> the &s;econd in <HI>Fe|bruary</HI> or <HI>March.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and therefore no marvel if it have &s;ome &s;ullen conditions with it, and would be far &s;afer being purified by the Art of the Alchymi&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melan|cholly, Quartain Agues, Madne&s;s, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Lepro&s;ie, yellow &amp; black Jaundice, Gout, Sciatica, Terms provokes, &V;lcers, dead fle&s;h, Cough &amp; poy&s;on in Cattel.</NOTE> than given raw. If any have taken any harm by taking it, the common cure is to take Goats Milk, if you cannot get Goats Milk, you mu&s;t make a &s;hift with &s;uch as you can get. The Roots are very effectual again&s;t al Melancholly Di&s;ea&s;es, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are of long &s;tanding, as Quartan Agues, and Madne&s;s; it helps the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, and the Lepro&s;ie; both the yellow and
<PB N="127" REF="76"> the black Jaundice, the Gout, Sciatica, Convul&s;ions: and truly this was found out by experience, That the Roots of that which groweth wild in our own Country, work not &s;o churli&s;hly as tho&s;e do which are brought from beyond Sea, as being main|tained by a more temperate Air. The Root u&s;ed as a Pe&s;&s;ary provokes the Terms exceedingly; al&s;o being beaten into Pou|der and &s;trewed upon &s;oul Ulcers, it con&s;umes the dead fle&s;h, and in&s;tantly heals them; nay, it wil help Gangrenes in the be|ginning, twenty grains taken inwardly is a &s;ufficient Do&s;e for one time, and let that be corrected with half &s;o much Cinna|mon. Country people u&s;ed to rowel their Cattel with it: if a Bea&s;t be troubled with the Cough, or have taken any poy&s;on, they bore a hole through his Ear, and put a piece of the Root in it; this wil help him in twenty four hours time. Many other u&s;es Far|riers put it to, which I &s;hal forbear.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Herb Robert.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis ri&s;eth up with a reddi&s;h &s;talk two foot high, having divers Leavs theron upon very long and reddi&s;h foot|&s;talks, divided at the ends into three or five divi&s;ions, each of them out in on the edges &s;ome deeper than others, and all dented likewi&s;e about the ed|ges, which often times turn reddi&s;h: At the tops of the Stalk come forth di|vers flowers made of five Leavs, much larger than the Doves foot, and of a more reddi&s;h color, after which come beak heads as in others: The Root is &s;mal and threddy, and &s;melleth as the whol Plant very &s;trong, almo&s;t &s;tin|king.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth frequently every where by Way &s;ides, upon Ditch banks, and wa&s;t grounds wher&s;oever one goeth.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July</HI> chiefly, and the Seed is ripe &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Venus.</HI> Herb Robert is commended not only again&s;t the Stone, but to &s;tay Blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, blee|ding, Terms &s;tops, Wound, Ul|cers in the Privities.</NOTE> where, or how&s;oever flowing; it &s;peedily healeth al green Wounds, and is effectual in old Ulcers in the privy parts, or el&s;where. You may per&s;wade your &s;elf this is true, and al&s;o conceive a good rea&s;on for it, if you do but con&s;ider 'tis an Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> for al it hath a mans name.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Herb Truelove,</HI> or <HI>Oneberry.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cipt.] <HI>THe ordinary Herb Truelove, hath a &s;mal creeping Root running under the uper cru&s;t of the ground, &s;omwhat like a Couchgra&s;s Root but not &s;o white, &s;hooting forth &s;talks with Leavs, &s;ome whereof carry no berries, though others do, every &s;talk &s;mooth without Joynts and blacki&s;h green, ri&s;ing about half a foot high if it bear berries, otherwi&s;e &s;eldom &s;o high, bearing at the top four Leavs &s;et directly one again&s;t another in manner of a Cro&s;s or a R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bband tied (as it is called) on a True-loves Knot, which are each of them apart, &s;omwhat like unto a Night&s;hade Leaf,
<PB N="128" REF="77"> but &s;omwhat broader, having &s;omtimes three Leaves, &s;omtimes five, &s;omtimes &s;ix, &amp; the&s;e &s;omtimes greater than in others. In the middle of the four Leavs ri&s;eth up one &s;mal &s;lender Stalk about an inch high, bearing at the top therof one flower &s;pread open like a &s;tar, con&s;i&s;ting of four &s;mal &amp; narrow long poin|ted Leavs of a yellowi&s;h green color, and four other lying between them le&s;&s;er than they; in the middle wherof &s;tands a round dark purpli&s;h Button or Head, compa&s;&s;ed about with eight &s;mal yellow mealy threds with three colors, make it the more con&s;picuous and lovely to behold: This Button or head in the mid|dle, when the other Leavs are withered, becometh a blacki&s;h purple Berryful of Juyce of the bigne&s;s of a rea&s;onable Grape, having within it many white Seeds: The whol Plant is without any manife&s;t ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Woods and Cop&s;es, and &s;omtimes in the corners or borders of Fields, and wa&s;t grounds in very many places, of this Land; and abundantly in the Woods, Cop&s;es, and other places about <HI>Chi&s;lchur&s;t</HI> and <HI>Maid&s;tone</HI> in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They &s;pring up in the middle of <HI>April</HI> or <HI>May,</HI> and are in Flo|wer &s;oon after: The Berries are ripe in the end of <HI>May,</HI> and in &s;ome places in <HI>June.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns it. The Leavs or Berries here|of are effectual to expel poy&s;on of al &s;orts, e&s;pecially that of the Aconites;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Pe&s;tilence, Feavers, Witchcraft Chollick, Wounds, Ulcers, Swellings in the Groyn, Cods and Privities, Inflam|tions, A|po&s;thumes.</NOTE> as al&s;o the Plague, and other Pe&s;tilential Di&s;ea&s;es. Some have been holpen therby &s;aith <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> that have lyen long in a lingring &s;ickne&s;s, and others that by Witchcraft (as it was thought) were become half fooli&s;h, by taking a dram of the Seeds or Berries hereof in pouder every day for twenty daies to|gether, they were re&s;tored to their former health. The Roots in Pouder taken in Wine ea&s;eth the pains of the Chollick &s;pee|dily: The Leavs are very effectual as wel for green Wounds, as to clen&s;e and heal up old filthy Sores and Ulcers; and is very powerful to di&s;cu&s;s al Tumors, &amp; Swellings in the Cods, privie-Parts, or Groyn, or in any part of the Body, and &s;peedily to al|lay al Inflamations. The Leavs or the Juyce applied to Felons, or tho&s;e Nails of the Hands or Toes that have Impo&s;thumes or Sores gathered together at the Roots of them, healeth them in &s;hort &s;pace.</P>
<P>The Herb is not to be de&s;cribed for the premi&s;es, but is fit to be nouri&s;hed in every good Womans Garden.</P>
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<HEAD>Hy&s;op.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known to be an Inhabitant in every Garden, that it wil &s;ave me labor in writing a De&s;cription thereof. The Vertues are as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is <HI>Jupiters,</HI> and the the Sign <HI>Cancer;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Whee&s;ing, Gro&s;s Hu|mors, Worms, yellow Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, Spleen, Inflama|tions, black and blue &s;pots, Quin&s;ie, Toothach, noi&s;e in the Ears, venemous Bea&s;ts, Lice, It|ching of the Head Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Wounds.</NOTE> It &s;trengthens al the parts of the Body under <HI>Cancer</HI> and <HI>Jupiter,</HI> which what they be may be found amply di&s;cour&s;ed of in my <HI>A&s;trological Judgment</HI> of Di&s;ea&s;es. <HI>Dio|&s;corides</HI>
<PB N="129" REF="77"> &s;aith that Hy&s;op boyled with Rue and Honey, and drunk, helpeth tho&s;e that are troubled with Coughs, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, whee&s;ing, and Rhewmatick Di&s;tillations upon the Lungs: Taken al&s;o with Oximel, it purgeth gro&s;s Humors by the Stool; and with Honey killeth Worms in the Belly; and with fre&s;h or new Figs brui&s;ed, helpeth to loo&s;en the Belly, and more forcibly if the Root of Flower-de-luce and Cre&s;&s;es be ad|ded therto. It amendeth and cheri&s;heth the Native color of the Body &s;poiled by the yellow Jaundice, and being taken with Figs and Nitre helpeth the Drop&s;ie and Spleen. Being boyled with Wine, it is good to wa&s;h Inflamations: and taketh away black and blue Spots and Marks that come by &s;trokes, Brui&s;es, or Fals, being applied with warm Water. It is an excellent Medicin for the Quin&s;ie, or &s;welling in the Throat, to wa&s;h and gargle it, be|ing boyled with Figs. It helpeth the Toothach, being boyled in Vinegar, and gargled therewith. The hot vapors of the De|coction taken by a Funnel in at the Ears, ea&s;eth the Inflamati|ons and &s;inging noi&s;e of them: Being brui&s;ed, and Salt, Honey, and Cummin Seed put to it, it helpeth tho&s;e that are &s;tung by Serpents. The Oyl thereof being anointed killeth Lice, and taketh away Itching of the Head: It helpeth tho&s;e that have the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s which way &s;oever it be applied: It helpeth to expectorate tough Flegm, and is effectual in al cold Griefs, or Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t and Lungs, being taken either in a Syrup or licking Medicine. The green Herb brui&s;ed and a little Sugar put there|to doth quickly heal any cut, or green Wound, being thereunto applied.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hops.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription, I mean the ma|nured kind, which every good Husband or Hu&s;wife is acquainted with. <HI>The wild Hop groweth up as the other doth, ramping upon Trees or Hed|ges that &s;tand next unto them, with rough branches, and Leavs like the for|mer; but it giveth &s;maller Heads, and in far le&s;s plenty than it, &s;o that ther is &s;carce a Head or two &s;een in a yeer on divers of this wild kind, wherin con&s;i&s;teth the chief difference.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They delight to grow on low moi&s;t grounds, and are found in al parts of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They &s;pring not up until <HI>April,</HI> and Flower not until the latter end of <HI>June,</HI> the Heads are not gathered until the middle or latter end of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions Liver, spleen, Blood, Reins clen&s;eth, French Pox, Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ring|worms, Mor|phew, Poy&s;on Worms, Terms provokes, Di|&s;ury, yellow Jaundice, Li|ver, &s;tomach, Agues.</NOTE> This Phy&s;ical operation is to open ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver and Spleen, to clen&s;e the Blood to loo&s;en the Belly, to clen&s;e the Reins from Gravel, and provoke Urin. The Decoction of the tops of Hops, as wel of the tame as the wild, worketh the &s;ame effects. In clen&s;ing the
<PB N="130" REF="78"> Blood they help to cure the French Di&s;ea&s;, and al manner of Scabs, Itch, and other breakings out in the Body, as al|&s;o al Tetters, Ringworms, and &s;preading Sores, the Mor|phew, and al di&s;colorings of the Skin. The Decoction of the Flowers and tops, do help to expel Poy&s;on that any one hath drunk: Half a dram of the Seed in Pouder taken in drink, killeth Worms in the Body, bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth Urin: A Syrup made of the Juyce and Sugar, cureth the yellow Jaundice, ca&s;eth the Head|ach that comes of Heat, and tempereth the heat of the Li|ver and Stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot Agues that ri&s;e of Choller and Blood. Both the wild and the manured are of one property, and alike effectual in al the afore&s;aid Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>By al the&s;e Te&s;timonies, Beer appears to be better than Ale.</P>
<P><HI>Mars</HI> owns the Plant, and then Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> wil tel you how it performs the&s;e Actions.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Horehound.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> COmmon Horehound groweth up with &s;quare hoary Stalks, half a yard or two foot high, &s;et at the Joynts with two round crumpled rough Leavs, of a &s;ullen hoary green color, of a rea&s;onable good &s;cent, but a very bitter ta&s;t. The Flowers are &s;mal white and gaping, &s;et in rough, hard, prickly Husks, round about the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle of the Stalk upwards, wherein afterwards is found &s;mal round blacki&s;h Seed. The Root is blacki&s;h, hard, and woody, with many &s;trings thereat, and abideth many yeers.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found in many parts of this Land, in dry grounds, and wa&s;t green places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in or about <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury.</HI> A Decoction of the dried Herb with the Seed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Difficulty of breath, Cough, con&s;ump|tion, Flegm, Terms provokes, Afterbirth wearine&s;s, Poy&s;on, venemous Bea&s;ts, &V;lcers, Sides, Eyes, yell. Jaundice, Ears, Ob&s;tru|ctions of the li|ver, and &s;pleen, Liver, Itch, Tetters, Worms, Dogs-bitings, Womens Brea&s;ts Thorns, A|&s;thmaes.</NOTE> or the Juyce of the green Herb taken with Honey, is a Remedy for tho&s;e that are pur&s;ie or &s;hort winded, or have a Cough, or are fallen into a Con&s;umption either through long &s;ickne&s;s, or thin Di&s;tillations of Rhewm upon the Lungs. It helpeth to expectorate tough flegm from the Che&s;t, being taken with the Roots of Iris or O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ris. It is given to Women to bring down their Cour&s;es, to ex|pel the Afterbirth, and to them that have &s;ore and long Travels, as al&s;o to tho&s;e that have taken Poy&s;on, or are &s;tung or bitten by Venemous Serpents: The Leavs u&s;ed with Honey purge foul Ulcers, &s;tay running or creeping &s;ores, and the growing of the Fle&s;h over the Nails. It al&s;o helpeth pains of the &s;ides. The Juyce thereof with Wine and Honey helpeth to cleer the Eye|&s;ight, and &s;nuffed up into the No&s;trils, purgeth away the yellow Jaundice, and with a little Oyl of Ro&s;es dropped into the Ears ea&s;eth the pains of them. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith it openeth ob&s;tructions
<PB N="131" REF="78"> both of the Liver and Spleen, purgeth the Brea&s;t and Lungs of Flegm: and u&s;ed outwardly, it both clen&s;eth and dige|&s;teth. A Decoction of <HI>Horehound</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Mathiolus</HI>) is a|vailable for tho&s;e that have bad Livers, and for &s;uch as have Itches and Running Tetters. The Pouder hereof taken, or the Decoction, killeth Worms. The green Leavs brui&s;ed and boyled in old Hogs-grea&s;e unto an Oyntment, healeth the biting of Dogs, abateth the &s;wellings of womens Brea&s;ts, and taketh away the &s;welling and Pains that come by any pricking of Thorns, or &s;uch like means, and u&s;ed with Vi|negar it clen&s;eth and healeth Tetters. There is a Syrup made of <HI>Horehound</HI> to be had at the Apothecaries, very good for old Coughs, to rid the tough Flegm, as al&s;o to avoid cold Rhewm from the Lungs of old Folks, and for tho&s;e that are A&s;thmatick or &s;hort winded.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hor&s;e-Taile.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> OF this there are many kinds, but I &s;hal not trouble you nor my &s;elf with any large De&s;cription of them, which to do, were but as the proverb is, <HI>To find a knot in a Ru&s;h:</HI> Al the kinds herof be|ing nothing el&s;e but knotted Ru&s;hes, &s;ome with Leavs, and &s;ome without: Take the De&s;cription of the mo&s;t eminent &s;ort as followeth,</P>
<P>The <HI>great Hor&s;e-taile</HI> at the fir&s;t &s;pringing hath heads &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of A&s;paragus, and after grow to be hard, rough hollow &s;talks, joynted at &s;un|dry places up to the top, a foot high, &s;o made as if the lower part were put into the upper, whereat grow on each &s;ide a bu&s;h of &s;mal, long, Ru&s;h like hard Leavs, each part re&s;embling a Hor&s;-tail (from whence it was &s;o called) At the tops of the &s;talks come forth &s;mal Catkins like to tho&s;e of Trees. The Root creepeth under ground having joynts at &s;undry places.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This (as mo&s;t of the other &s;orts hereof) groweth in wet grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They &s;pring up in <HI>April,</HI> and their blooming Catkins in <HI>July,</HI> &s;eeding for the mo&s;t part in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and then peri&s;h down to the ground, ri|&s;ing afre&s;h in the &s;pring.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tues.]</HI> The Herb is belonging to <HI>Saturn,</HI> yet is very harmle&s;s, &amp; excellent good for the things following, <HI>Hor&s;-Tail,</HI> the &s;moother rather than the rough, and the leaved rather than the bare, are mo&s;t Phy&s;ical: It is very powerful to &s;tanch bleedings wher&s;oever, either inward or out|ward, the Juyce or the Decoction therof being drunk, or the Juyce,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleeding-flux, Terms &s;tops, Pi&s;&s;ing Blood, Inward &V;lcers Excoriations of the Bladder, &V;lvers, wounds Ruptures, Di&s;|&s;ury, &s;tone, &s;tran|gury, Cough, Inflamations, pimpls, red face</NOTE> Decoction, or di&s;tilled Water applied outwardly. It &s;tayeth al&s;o al &s;orts of Lasks and Fluxes in Man or Wo|man, and the pi&s;&s;ing of Bloud, and healeth al&s;o not only the inward Ulcers, and Excoriations of the entrails, bladder, &amp;c. but al other &s;orts of foul, moi&s;t, and running Ulcers, and &s;oon &s;odereth together the tops of green wounds: It cu+reth al&s;o Ruptures in Children. The Decoction therof i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Wine being drunk, provoketh Urin, and helpeth the Stone
<PB N="132" REF="79"> and the Strangury: and the Di&s;tilled Water therof drunk two or three times in a day, and a &s;mal quantity at a time; as al&s;o ea&s;eth the Entrails or Guts, and is effectual again&s;t a Cough that cometh by di&s;tillation from the head. The juyce or di&s;tilled Water being warmed, and hot Inflamations, Pu|&s;tules, or read Wheals, and other breakings out in the skin, w^c^h being bathed therwith doth help them, and doth no le&s;s ea&s;e the &s;wellings, heat, and in|flamations of the Fundament or Privie parts in Man or Woman.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Hou&s;leeks,</HI> or <HI>Sengreen.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BOth the&s;e are &s;o wel known unto my Country Men, that I &s;hal not need to write any De&s;cription of them.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth commonly on Walls and Hou&s;e&s;ides, and flowereth in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and it is reported by <HI>Myzaldus,</HI> to pre&s;erve what it grows upon, from Fire and Lightning. Our ordinary <HI>Hou&s;leek</HI> is good for al inward heats as wel as outward, and in the Eyes or other parts of the Body: A Po&s;&s;et made with the juyce of Hou&s;leek is &s;ingular good in al hot Agues, for it cooleth and temper|eth the Bloud and Spirits,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heat, Eyes, A|gues, Thir&s;t, &s;alt Rhewms, Ears, Terms &s;tops, Fluxes, Infla|mations, <HI>S.</HI> An|thonies fire, Burning, Scald|ings, Tetters, Ring-worms, Corns on the Hands &amp; feet, Hendach, fren|zie, Watching, bleeding, nettles Bees, &amp;c.</NOTE> and quench the thir&s;t: and is al|&s;o good to &s;tay al hot defluxions of &s;harp and &s;alt Rhewms in the Eyes, the juyce being dropped into them, or into the Eares helpeth them: It helpeth al&s;o other fluxes of Humors into th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bowels, and the immoderate Cour&s;es of Women. It cooleth and re&s;traineth al&s;o al other hot inflamations, St. Anthonies Fire, Scaldings and Burnings, the Shingls, fret|ting Ulcers, Cankers, Tetters, Ringworms, and the like; and much ea&s;eth the pain of the Gout proceeding from an hot Cau&s;e. The juyce al&s;o taketh away Warts and Corns in the Hands or Feet, being often bathed therwith, and the skin of the Leavs being laid on them afterwards. It ea&s;eth al&s;o the Head-ach, and di&s;tempered heat of the Brain in Phren&s;ies, or through want of &s;leep, being applied to the Temples and Fore-head. The Leavs brui&s;ed and laid upon the Crown or Seam of the Head, &s;tayeth bleeding at the No&s;e very quickly. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is pro|fitable for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid: The Leavs being gently rubbed on any place &s;tung with Nettles or Bees, doth quickly take away the Pain.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hounds-Tongue.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe great ordinary</HI> Hounds-Tongue <HI>hath many long and &s;om|what narrow, &s;oft, hairy darki&s;h green Leavs, lying on the ground &s;omwhat like unto Buglo&s;s leavs, from among which ri&s;eth up a rough hairy &s;talk about two foot high, with &s;ome &s;maller Leavs theron, and branch|ed at the top into divers parts, with a &s;mal Leaf at the Foot of every branch which is &s;omwhat long, with many Flowers &s;et along the &s;ame, which branch
<PB N="133" REF="79"> is crooked or turned inwards before it flowereth and openeth by degrees as the Flowers do blow, which con&s;i&s;t of four &s;mal purpli&s;h red Leavs of a dead colour, &s;carce ri&s;ing out of the Husk wherin they &s;tand, with &s;ome thrids in the middle: It hath &s;omtimes a white Flower. After the Flowers are pa&s;t, there commeth rough flat Seed, with a &s;mal pointel in the middle, ea&s;ily clea|ving to any garment that it toucheth, and not &s;o ea&s;ily pulled off again: The Root is black, thick, and long, hard to break, and ful of a clammy juyce, &s;mel|ling &s;omwhat &s;trong, of an evil &s;cent as the Leavs al&s;o do.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in mo&s;t places of this Land, in wa&s;t grounds, and untitled places by high way &s;ides, Lanes, and Hedg &s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth about <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe &s;hortly af|ter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant under the Dominion of <HI>Mercu|ry.</HI> The Root is very effectually u&s;ed in Pills, as wel as in Decoctions, or otherwi&s;e, to &s;tay al &s;harp and thin Defluxions of Rhewm from the head into the eyes or no&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes, No&s;e Stomach, Lungs, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Mad-dogs Scaldings, Burnings, Hermor|rhoids, Wounds, Ulcers, French Pox.</NOTE> or upon the Stomach or Lungs, as al&s;o for Coughs or &s;hortne&s;s of breath. The leavs boyled in wine (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI>) but others do rather appoint it to be made with Water, and to ad therto Oyl and Salt, mollifieth or open|eth the Belly downwards: It al&s;o helpeth to cure the biting of a Mad Dog, &s;ome of the Leavs being al&s;o applied to the Wound: The Leavs brui&s;ed, or the Juyce of them boyled in Hogs-lard, and applied, helpeth the falling away of the Hair which cometh of hot and &s;harp humors: as al&s;o for any place that is &s;calded or burnt: The Leavs brui&s;ed, and laid to any green Wound, doth heal it up quickly: The Root baked under the embers, wrapped in Pa&s;t, or wet Papers, or in a wet double Cloth, and therof a &s;uppo&s;itory made, and put up into, or applied to the Fundament, doth very effectually help the painful Piles or Hemorrhoids. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb and Roots, is very good to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, to be u&s;ed as wel inwardly to drink, as outwardly to wa&s;h any &s;ore places, for it healeth al manner of Wounds and Punctures, and tho&s;e foul Ulcers that ari&s;e by the French-pox.</P>
<P><HI>Myzaldus</HI> ads to this, That the Leavs laid under the Feet, wil keep the Dogs from barking at you: <HI>Hounds-tongue,</HI> becau&s;e it ties the Tongue of Hounds, whether it be true or not, I never tried, yet I have cured the biting of a mad Dog with this only Medicine.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Holly, Holm,</HI> or <HI>Hulver-bu&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOR to De&s;cribe a Tree &s;o wel known, is needle&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Tree is really <HI>Saturnine,</HI> the Berries expel Wind, and therfore are held to be profitable in the Chollick: The Berries have a &s;trong quality with them, for if you eat a do|zen of them in the morning fa&s;ting when they are ripe and not dried,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expel Wind, Chollick, Flegm Fluxes, bloudy-fluxes, &s;top the Terms, Bones broken, Mem|bers out of joynt, Witch|craft.</NOTE> they purge the Body of gro&s;s and clammy Flegme: but if you dry the Berries, and beat them into Pouder, they
<PB N="134" REF="80"> bind the Body, and &s;top Fluxes, bloudy Flaxes, and the Terms in Women: Both the Bark of the Tree, and al&s;o the Leavs are excellent good being u&s;ed in Fomentations for broken Bones, and &s;uch Members as are out of joynt. <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, The Branches of the Tree defend Hou&s;es from Lightning, and Men from Witchraft.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>St. Johns-wort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common</HI> St. Johns-wort <HI>&s;hooteth forth browni&s;h, upright, hard, round &s;talks, two foot high, spreading many branches from the &s;ides up to the tops of them, with two &s;mal Leavs &s;et one again&s;t a|nother at every place, which are of a deep green colour, &s;omwhat like the leavs of the le&s;&s;er Centaury, but narrower, and ful of &s;mal holes in every leaf, which cannot be &s;o wel perceived as when they are held up to the light: At the tops of the Stalks and branches &s;tand yellow Flowers made of five leavs a piece, with many yellow thrids in the middle, which being brui&s;ed, do yeild a reddi&s;h juyce like Bloud, after which come &s;mal round Heads, wherin is contained &s;mal blacki&s;h &s;eed &s;melling like Rozin: The Root is hard and woody, with divers &s;trings and fibres at it, and of a browni&s;h colour, which abideth in the ground many years, &s;hooting anew every &s;pring.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth in Woods and Cop&s;es, as wel tho&s;e that are &s;hady as open to the Sun.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about Mid&s;ummer, and in <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in the latter end of <HI>July</HI> or <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Coele&s;tial Sign <HI>Leo,</HI> and un|der the Dominion of the <HI>Sun:</HI> It may be if you meet with a Papi&s;t that is an Al&s;trologer, he wil tel you S^t^. <HI>Jobn</HI> made it over to him by a Letter of At|turny, e&s;pecially if withal he be a Lawyer al&s;o. St. <HI>Johns-wort</HI> is as &s;ingu|lar a Wound herb as any other what&s;oever, either for inward Wounds, Hurts, or Brui&s;es, to be boyled in Wine and drunk, or prepared into Oyl or Oyntment,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Brui&s;es, Ob&s;tru|ctions, Swellings, Spitting and Vomi|ting Bloud Venemous Bea&s;ts, Di&s;ury, Choller, Agues, Sciatica, Falling-Sickne&s;s, Pal&s;ie.</NOTE> Bath or Lotion outwardly: It hath power to open Ob&s;tructions, to di&s;&s;olve Swellings, to clo&s;e up the lips of Wounds, and to &s;trengthen the parts that are weak and feeble. The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers, but of the Seed e&s;pe|cially in Wine, being drunk; or the &s;eed made into Pouder, and drunk with the juyce of Knotgra&s;s, helpeth al manner of Spit|ting and Vomiting of Bloud, be it by any Vein broken inward|ly, by Brui&s;es, Fals, or how&s;oever. The &s;ame helpeth tho&s;e that are bitten or &s;tung by any Venemous Creature: and is good for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Stone in their Kidneys, or that cannot make Water; and being applied provoketh Womens Cour&s;es. Two drams of the Seed of St. <HI>Johns-wort</HI> made into Pouder and drunk in a little Broth, doth gently expel Choller, or congealed Bloud in the Stomach: The Decoction of the Leavs and Seeds being drunk &s;omwhat warm before the Fits of Agues, whether they be Tertians, or Quartans, doth alter the Fits, and
<PB N="135" REF="80"> by often u&s;ing doth take them quite away: The Seed is much commended being drunk for forty dayes together, to help the Sciatica, the Falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s, and the Pal&s;ie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ivy.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT is &s;o wel known to every Child almo&s;t to grow in Woods upon the Trees, and upon the &s;tone Walls of Churches, Hou&s;es, &amp;c. and &s;omtimes to grow alone of it &s;elf, though but &s;eldom.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> flowereth not until <HI>July,</HI> and the Berries are not ripe til Chri&s;t-tide that they have felt the winter fro&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI> A pugil of the Flowers, which may be about a dram (&s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI>) drunk twice a day in red Wine, helpeth the Lask and Bloudy Flux. It is an enemy to the Nervs and Sinews being much taken inwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux Bloudy-Flux, Jaundice, Spitting Bloud, Worms, Drunken|ne&s;s, Pe&s;tilence, Stone, Di&s;ury, Terms provokes, Spleen, Stitch, Head-ach, &V;lcers, Wounds, Burnings, Scaldings, &s;alt-flegm, Rhewm, Sore Ears.</NOTE> but very helpful unto them being outwardly applied, <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That the yellow Berries are good again&s;t the Jaundice, and taken before one be &s;et to drink hard, pre&s;erveth from Drunkenne&s;s, and helpeth tho&s;e that &s;pit Bloud: and that the white Berries be|ing taken inwardly, or applied outwardly killeth the Worms in the Belly. The Berries are a &s;ingular Remedy to prevent the Plague, as al&s;o to free them from it that have got it, by drinking the Berries therof made in Pouder, for two or three dayes toge|ther: They being taken in Wine, do certainly help to break the Stone, provoke Urine, and Womens Cour&s;es. The fre&s;h Leavs of <HI>Ivy</HI> boyled in Vinegar, and applied warm to the &s;ides of tho&s;e that are troubled with the Spleen, Ach, or Stitch in the &s;ides, doth give them much ea&s;e: the &s;ame applied with &s;ome Ro&s;ewa|ter and Oyl of Ro&s;es to the Temples and Fore-head, ea&s;eth the Headach, though it be of long continuance. The fre&s;h Leavs boyled in Wine, and old filthy Ulcers that are hard to be cured, wa&s;hed therwith, doth wonderfully help to clen&s;e and heal them: It al&s;o quickly healeth green Wounds, as al&s;o it is effectual to heal al Burnings and Scaldings, and al kind of exulcerations co|ming therby, or by &s;alt Flegm or hot Humors in other parts of the Body. The Juyce of the Berries or Leavs &s;nuffed up into the Nole, purgeth the Head and Brain of thin Rhewm that ma|keth Defluxions into the Eyes and No&s;e, and cureth the Ulcers and Stench therin: the &s;ame dropped into the Ears, helpeth the old, and running Sores of them: tho&s;e that are troubled with the Spleen &s;hal find much ca&s;e by continual drinking out of a Cup made of Ivy, &s;o as the drink may &s;tand &s;ome &s;mal time therin before it be drunk. <HI>Cato</HI> &s;aith, That Wine put into &s;uch a Cup wil &s;oak through it, by rea&s;on of the Antipathy that is between them.</P>
<P>There &s;eems to be a very great Antipathy between Wine and Ivy, for if a|ny have got a Surfet by drinking Wine, his &s;peedie&s;t Cure is to drink a draught of the &s;ame Wine wherin a handful of Ivy Leads being fir&s;t brui&s;ed have been boyled.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="136" REF="81">
<HEAD>Juniper-Bu&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>FOR to give a De&s;cription of a Bu&s;h &s;o commonly known is needle&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow plentifully in divers Woods in <HI>Kent,</HI> upon <HI>Warny</HI>-Common neer <HI>Brentwood</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> upon <HI>Finchly</HI>-common without <HI>Hygate,</HI> hard by the <HI>New-found-Wells</HI> neer <HI>Dullage,</HI> upon a common between <HI>Mit|chum</HI> and <HI>Croydon,</HI> in the High-way neer <HI>Amer&s;ham</HI> in <HI>Buckingham-&s;hire,</HI> and in many other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> The Berries are not ripe the fir&s;t year, but continue green two Summers, and one Winter before they be ripe; at which time they are of a black colour, and therfore you &s;hal alwayes find upon the Bu&s;hes green-ber|ries: the berries are ripe about the Fall of the Leaf.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This admirable <HI>Solar</HI> &s;hrub, is &s;carce to be parralel'd for his Vertues. The Berries are hot in the third degree, and dry but in the fir&s;t: being a mo&s;t admirable Counter-poy&s;on, and as great a re&s;i&s;ter of the Pe&s;tilence as any grows;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Counter-poy&s;on Pe&s;tilence, Ve|nemous Bea&s;ts, Urin provoketh Di&s;urys, Stran|gury, Drop&s;ie, Terms provok|eth, Mother fits Stomach, Wind expels, Chollick Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Con|&s;umption, pains in the Belly, ru|ptures, Cramp, Convul&s;ions, &s;peedy delivery to Women, brain Memory, Sight, Agues, Gout, Sciatica, Limbs &s;trengtheneth, Scurvy, Fluxes &s;top, Piles, worms, Itch, Scab, Lepro&s;ie, Stone, Appetite provoketh, Pal|&s;ies, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s.</NOTE> they are excellent good again&s;t the bitings of venemous Bea&s;ts, they provoke Urin exceedingly, and therfore are wery available to Di&s;urys, and Strangurys: it is &s;o powerful a Remedy a|gain&s;t the Drop&s;ie, that the very Lee made of the A&s;hes of the Herb being drunk, cures the Di&s;ea&s;e: it provokes the Terms, helps the Fits of the Mother, &s;trengthens the Stomach exceedingly, and expels Wind: indeed there is &s;carce a better Remedy for Wind in any part of the Body, or the Chollick than the Chymical Oyl drawed from the Ber|ries: &s;uch Country-people as know not how to draw the Chymical Oyl, may content them&s;elves by eating ten or a dozen of the ripe Berries every morning fa&s;ting, they are admirable good for the Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and Con&s;umption, pains in the Belly, Ruptures, Cramps, and Convul&s;ions: They give &s;afe and &s;peedy delivery to Wo|men with Child, they &s;trengthen the Brain, exceedingly help the Memory, and fortifie the Sight by &s;trengthening the optick Nervs: They are excellent good in al &s;orts of Agues, they help the Gout, and Sciatica, and &s;trengthen al the Limbs of the Body: The A&s;hes of the Wood is a &s;pe|cial Remedy for &s;uch as have the Scurvie to rub their Gums with: the Berries &s;tay al Fluxes, helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles, and kil Worms in Children: A Lye made of the A&s;hes of the Wood, and the Body bathed with it, cures the Itch, Scabs, and Lepro&s;ie: The Berries break the Stone, procure Appetite, when it is lo&s;t, and are excellent good for Pal&s;ies and Falling-&s;ickne&s;s.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="137" REF="81">
<HEAD><HI>Kidney-wort,</HI> or <HI>Wall-Penyroyal,</HI> Or <HI>Wall Peny-wort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many thick, flat, and round Leavs growing from the Root, every one having a long Foot&s;talk fa&s;tned underneath a|bout the middle of it, and a little unevenly waved &s;omtimes about the edges, of a pale green color, and &s;omwhat hollow on the uper &s;ide like a Sawcer; from among which ri&s;e one or more tender &s;mooth hollow Stalks half a foot high, with two or three &s;mal Leavs theron, u&s;ually not round as tho&s;e below, but &s;omwhat long and divided at the edges: The tops are &s;omtimes divi|ded into long Branches, bearing a number of Flowers, &s;et round about a long &s;pike one above another, which are hollow and like a little Bell, of a whi|ti&s;h green color, after which come &s;mal Heads containing very &s;mal brow|ni&s;h &s;eed, which falling on the ground, wil plentifully &s;pring up before Win|ter, if it have moi&s;ture. The Root is round, and mo&s;t u&s;ually &s;mooth, grayi&s;h without and white within, having &s;mal fibres at the head of the Root, and bottom of the Stalk.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth very plentifully in many places of this Land, but e|&s;pecially in al the We&s;t parts thereof, upon &s;tone and mud Wals, upon Rocks al&s;o, and in &s;tony places upon the ground, at the bottom of old Trees, and &s;omtimes on the Bodies of them that are decayed and rotten.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It u&s;ually flowreth in the beginning of <HI>May,</HI> and the Seed is ri|pening quickly after, &s;heddeth it &s;elf: &s;o that about the end of <HI>May</HI> u&s;ually the Leavs and Stalks are withered, dry, and gone until <HI>September,</HI> that the Leavs &s;pring up again, and &s;o abide al Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> challengeth the Herb under <HI>Libra.</HI> The Juyce or the di&s;tilled Water being drunk, is very effectu|al for al Inflamations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamati|ons, pimples, Redne&s;s, St. Anthonies fire, kidnies, hurt by the &s;tone, di&s;ury, &s;tone, bloo|dy flux, Piles, Hemor|rhoids, Gout, Scia|tica, Cods, Kings Evil, Kibes, Chil|blains.</NOTE> and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot Stomach, or a hot Liver, or the Bowels: The brui&s;ed Herb, or the place bathed with the Juyce or di&s;tilled Water thereof, and outwardly applied healeth Pimples, Redne&s;s, St. Anthonies fire, and other outward heats and Inflamations. The &s;aid Juyce or Water helpeth much al&s;o to heal &s;ore Kid|neys, torn or fretted by the Stone, or exulcerated within, and ea&s;eth the pains; It al&s;o provoketh Urine, and is available for the Drop&s;ie, and helpeth to break the &s;tone, cooling the infla|med parts and other pains of the Bowels, and the bloody flux; It is &s;ingular good to cool the painful Piles, or Hemorrhoidal Veins, the Juyce being u&s;ed as a Bath unto them, or made in|to an Oyntment: It is no le&s;s effectual to give ea&s; of pains to the hot Gout, the Sciatica, and the Inflamations and Swel|lings in the Cods; It helpeth the Kernels or Knots in the Neck or Throat, called the Kings Evil; healeth Kibes and Chilblains if they be bathed with the Juyce, or anointed with an Oyntment made thereof, and &s;ome of the skin of the Leaf laid upon them; It is al&s;o u&s;ed in green Wounds to &s;tay the Blood, and to heal them quickly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="138" REF="82">
<HEAD>Knapweed.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THe common &s;ort hereof hath many long and &s;omwhat broad dark green Leavs, ri&s;ing from the Root deeply den|ted about the edges, and &s;omtimes a little rent or torn on both &s;ides in two or three places, and &s;omwhat hairy withal, among which ri&s;eth up a &s;trong round &s;talk four or five foot high, divided into many Branches; at the tops whereof &s;tand great &s;caly green heads, and from the middle of them thru&s;t forth a number of dark purpli&s;h red thrums or thrids, which after they are withered and pa&s;t, there is found divers black Seeds, lying in a great deal of Down, &s;omwhat like unto a Thi&s;tle Seed, but &s;maller: The Root is white, hard, and woody, with divers fibres annexed thereunto, which peri&s;heth not but abideth with Leavs thereon al the Winter, &s;hooting out fre&s;h every Spring.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in mo&s;t Fields and Meadows, and about their bor|ders and Hedges, and in many wa&s;t grounds al&s;o, almo&s;t every where.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It u&s;ually flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe &s;hort|ly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> challengeth the Herb for his own. This Knapweed helpeth to &s;tay Fluxes, both of Blood at the Mouth or No&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fluxes, blee|ding, Veins broken, Phti&s;ick, Falls, Blows, Ruptures, Sores, Can|kers, Fi&s;tu|laes, Scab|by head, Sore throat, Uvula, Jaws.</NOTE> or other outward parts, and tho&s;e veins that are inwardly broken, or inward Wounds, as al&s;o the Fluxes of the belly; It &s;tayeth the di&s;tillations of thin and &s;harp hu|mors from the head upon the Stomach and Lungs: it is good for tho&s;e that are brui&s;ed by any fal, blows, or otherwi&s;e. It is very profitable for tho&s;e that are bur&s;ten and have a Rupture, by drinking the Decoction of the Herb and Roots in Wine, and applying the &s;ame outwardly to the place. It is &s;ingular good in al running &s;ores, cankrous and fi&s;tulous, drying up the moi&s;ture, and healing them up gently, without &s;harpne&s;s; it doth the like to running &s;ores or &s;cabs of the head or other parts. It is of &s;pecial u&s;e for the &s;orene&s;s of the Throat, &s;wel|ling of the Uvula and Jaws; and excellent good to &s;tay the bleeding, and heal up al green Wounds.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Knot-gra&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>IT is generally &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in every Country of this Land, by the High-way &s;ides, and by Foot-paths in Fields, as al&s;o by the &s;ides of old Wals.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It &s;pringeth up late in the Sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, and abideth until Winter, when al the Branches peri&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> &s;eems to me to own the Herb, and yet &s;ome hold the <HI>Sun;</HI> out of doubt 'tis <HI>Saturn.</HI> The Juyce of the common kind of Knotgra&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleeding, Heat, Flux, Bloody Flux, Cour&s;es &s;tops, Di&s;ury, Gravel, venemous Bea&s;ts, Rhewm, Worms, Heat, Choller, Inflama|tions, Apo&s;tums, Gangrenes Fi&s;tulaes, Cankers, Ulcers, Wounds Ears.</NOTE> is mo&s;t effectual to &s;tay blee|ding at the Mouth, being drunk in &s;teeled or red Wine: and the bleeding at the No&s;e, to be applied to the Forehead and
<PB N="139" REF="82"> Temples, or to be &s;quirted up into the No&s;trils. And no le&s;s effectual to cool and temper that heat of the Blood and Stomach and to &s;tay any Flux of the Blood or Humors, as Lask, Bloody flux, Womens Cour&s;es, and Running of the Reins. It is &s;in|gular good to provoke Urin, help the &s;trangury, and allayeth the heat that cometh therby; and it is powerful by Urin to expel the Gravel, or &s;tone in the Kidneys or Bladder, a dram of the Pouder of the Herb being taken in Wine for many daies toge|ther: Being boyled in Wine and drunk, it is profitable to tho&s;e that are &s;tung or bitten by venemous creatures, and very effectu|al to &s;tay al defluxions of Rhewmatick humors upon the &s;to|mach, and killeth Worms in the belly or &s;tomach, quieteth in|ward pains that ari&s;e from the heat, &s;harpne&s;s, and corruption of blood and choller: The di&s;tilled Water hereof taken by it &s;elf, or with the Pouder of the Herb or Seed, is very effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and is accounted as one of the mo&s;t So|vereign Remedies to cool al manner of Inflamations, breakings out through heat, hot &s;wellings, and impo&s;tumations, Gangrenes, and fi&s;tulous Cankers, or &s;oul filthy Ulcers, being applied or put into them; but e&s;pecially for al &s;orts of Ulcers and Sores hap|pening in the privy parts of men or Women. It helpeth al fre&s;h and green Wounds, and &s;peedily helpeth them: The Juyce dropped into the Ears clen&s;eth them being foul, and having running matter in them.</P>
<P>It is very prevalent for the premi&s;es; as al&s;o for broken Joynts, and Rup|tures.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ladies-Mantle.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many Leavs ri&s;ing from the Root, &s;tanding upon long hairy Foot&s;talks, being almo&s;t round, but a liitle cut in on the edges, into eight or ten parts more or le&s;s, making it &s;eem like a &s;tar, with &s;o many corners and points, and dented round about, of a light green color &s;om|what hard in handling, and as if it were folded, or plaited at fir&s;t, and then crumpled in divers places, and a little hairy as the &s;talk is al&s;o, which ri&s;eth up among them to the height of two or three foot, with &s;uch like Leavs ther|on but &s;maller, and being weak is not able to &s;tand upright, but bendeth down to the ground, divided at the top into two or three &s;mal Branches, with &s;mal yellowi&s;h green Heads, and Flowers of a whiti&s;h color, breaking out of them; which being pa&s;t, there cometh &s;mal yellow Seed tike Poppy Seed: The Root is &s;omwhat long and black, with many &s;trings or fibres thereat.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth naturally in many Pa&s;tures, and Wood &s;ides, in <HI>Hert|ford&s;hire, Wilt&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Kent,</HI> and other places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June,</HI> and abideth after Seed time green al the Winter.</P>
<PB N="140" REF="83">
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> claims the Herb as her own. Ladies-Mantle is very proper for tho&s;e Wounds that have Inflamations, and is very effectual to &s;tay bleedings,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflama|tions, Bleeding, Vomiting, Fluxes, Brui&s;es, Ruptures, Flagging Brea&s;ts, Barrenne&s;s Women with Child.</NOTE> vomitings, fluxes of al &s;orts in man or woman, and brui&s;es by fals or otherwi&s;e, and helpeth Ruptures, and &s;uch Women or Maids as have over great flagging Brea&s;ts, cau&s;ing them to grow le&s;s and hard, being both drunk, and outwardly applied: The di&s;tilled Water drunk for twenty daies together helpeth Conception, and to retain the Birth if the Woman do &s;omtimes al&s;o &s;it in a Bath made of the Decoction of the Herb. It is one of the mo&s;t &s;ingular Wound Herbs that is, and therfore highly prized and prai&s;ed by the <HI>Germans,</HI> who u&s;e in al Wounds inward and outward, to drink the Decoction therof, and wa&s;h the Wounds therwith, or dip Tents therin and put them into the Wounds, which wonderful|ly drieth up al humidity of the Sores, and abateth Inflamations therein. It quickly healeth at green Wounds, not &s;uffering any corruption to remain behind, and cureth old Sores though fi&s;tulous and hollow.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lavender.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known, being an Inhabitant in almo&s;t every Garden, that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth about the end of <HI>June,</HI> and beginning of <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> owns the Herb, and it carries his effects very potently. Lavender is of &s;pecial good u&s;e for al the griefs and pains of the Head and Brains that proceed of a cold cau&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Head, brains Apoplexy, falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s, Lethar|gie, Cramps, convul&s;ions, Pal&s;ey, both dead and &s;haking, &s;to|mach, Liver, spleen, terms provokes, Chollick, Vertigo, lo&s;s of Voyce, Trembling, Fainting.</NOTE> as the Apoplexy, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, the drouzie or &s;luggi&s;h Malady, Cramps, Convul&s;ions, Pal&s;eys, and often faintings. It &s;trengtheneth the Stomach, and freeth the Li|ver and Spleen from Ob&s;tructions, provoketh Womens Cour|&s;es, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth. The Flo|wers of Lavender &s;teeped in Wine helpeth them to make wa|ter that are &s;topped, or are troubled with the Wind, or Chol|lick, if the places be bathed therewith. A Decoction made with the Flowers of Lavender, Horehound, Fennel, and A|&s;paragus Roots, and a little Cinnamon, is very profitably u&s;ed to help the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, and the giddine&s;s or turning of the Brain: To gargle the Mouth with the Decoction therof is good again&s;t the Toothach. Two &s;poonfuls of the di&s;tilled Water of the Flowers taken, helpeth them that have lo&s;t their voyce; as al&s;o the tremblings and pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart, and faintings and &s;woonings, not only being drunk, but applied to the Temples, or No&s;trils to be &s;melt unto, but it is not &s;afe to u&s;e it where the Body repleat with Blood and Humors, becau&s;e of the hot and &s;ubtil &s;pirits wherwith it is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. The Chymical Oyl drawn from Lavender, u&s;ually called Oyl of Spike, is of &s;o fierce and piercing &s;pi|rits
<PB N="141" REF="83"> that it is cautiou&s;ly to be u&s;ed, &s;ome few drops being &s;ufficient to be gi|ven with other things, either for inward or outward Griefs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lavender Cotton.</HEAD>
<P>IT being a common Garden Herb, I &s;hal forbear the De&s;cription, only take notice, That it flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, putri|faction, Vene|mous Bea&s;t, Running of the Reins, whites in Women, worms, Scabs, Itch.</NOTE> It re&s;i&s;teth Poy&s;on, Putrifaction, and helps the bitings of venemous Bea&s;ts: A dram of the Pouder of the dried Leavs taken every morning fa&s;ting in any convenient Vehecle, &s;tops the running of the Reins in Men, and Whites in Women. The Seed being beaten into Pouder, and taken as Worm&s;eed, it kils the Worms, not only in Children, but al&s;o in people of riper yeers: the like doth the Herb it &s;elf being boyled in Milk, and the Milk drunk: The Body bathed with the Decoction of it, helps Scabs and Itch.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Ladies-Smocks,</HI> or <HI>Cuckoo-Flowers.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Root is compo&s;ed of many &s;mal white thrids, from whence &s;pringeth up divers long &s;talks of winged Leavs con&s;i&s;ting of many round tender dark green Leavs &s;et one again&s;t another upon a middle Rib, the greate&s;t being at the ends, among&s;t which ri&s;e up divers tender weak round green &s;talks, &s;omwhat &s;traked with longer and &s;maller Leavs upon them; on the tops of which &s;tand Flowers almo&s;t like Stock-gilli-flowers, but rounder and not &s;o long, of a blu&s;hing white color: The Seed is reddi&s;h, and groweth in &s;mal pouches, being of a &s;harp biting ta&s;t, and &s;o hath the Herb.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in moi&s;t places, and neer to Brook &s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>April</HI> or <HI>May,</HI> and the lower Leavs continue green al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Domi|nion of the <HI>Moon,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">&s;curvy, provoke &V;rin, &s;tone, Stomach, lo&s;t Appetite, indi|ge&s;tion.</NOTE> and very little inferior to Water-Cre&s;|&s;es in al their operations: They are excellent good for the Scurvy; they provoke Urin, and break the Stone, and ex|cellently warm a cold and weak Stomach, re&s;toring lo&s;t ap|petite, and helping dige&s;tion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lettice.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known, being generally u&s;ed as a Sallet Herb, that it is alto|gether needle&s;s to write any De&s;cription thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> owns them, and that's the rea|&s;on they cool and moi&s;ten what heat and drine&s;s <HI>Mars</HI> cau&s;eth, becau&s; <HI>Mars</HI> hath his fal in <HI>Cancer,</HI> and they cool the Heart, becau&s;e the <HI>Sun</HI> rules it be|tween whom and the <HI>Moon</HI> is a Reception in the Generation of Man, as you may &s;ee in my <HI>Guide for Women.</HI> The Juyce of Lettice mixed or boyled
<PB N="142" REF="84"> with Oyl of Ro&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Watching, Headach, Indige|&s;tion, Thir&s;t, Milk en|crea&s;eth, Choller, Bowels, Lu&s;t, venerious Dreams, Inflama|tion, Heat of &V;rin.</NOTE> and applied to the forehead and temples pro|cureth Sleep, and ea&s;eth the Headach proceeding of an hot cau&s;; being eaten boyled, it helpeth to loo&s;en the Belly. It helpeth di|ge&s;tion, quencheth thir&s;t, encrea&s;eth Milk in Nur&s;es, ea&s;eth griping pains of the &s;tomach or Bowels, that come of Choller. It abateth Bodily Lu&s;t, repre&s;&s;eth Venerious Dreams, being out|wardly applied to the Cods with a little Camphire: Applied in the &s;ame manner to the Region of the Heart, Liver, or Reins, or by bathing the &s;aid place with the Juyce or di&s;tilled Water, wher|in &s;om white Sanders, or red ro&s;es are put al&s;o, it not only repre&s;|&s;eth the heat and Inflamation therein, but comforts and &s;treng|thens tho&s;e parts, &amp; al&s;o tempereth the heat of Urin. <HI>Galen</HI> advi|&s;eth old men to u&s;e it with Spices, and where Spices are wanting to ad Mints, Rocket and &s;uch like hot Herbs, or el&s; Citron, Lemmon, or Orange Seeds, to abate the cold of one, and heat of the other. The Seed and di&s;tilled Water of the Lettice work the like effects in all things: but the u&s;eof Lettice is chiefly forbidden to tho&s;e that are &s;hort winded, or have any imperfection in their Lungs, or &s;pit Blood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Water-Lilly.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] OF the&s;e there are two principally noted kinds, viz. The <HI>White,</HI> and the <HI>Yellow.</HI></P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>The white Lilly hath very large, round, and thick, dark green Leavs lying on the Water, &s;u&s;tained by long and thick Foot&s;talks, that ri&s;e from a great, thick, round and long tuberous black Root, spungie or loo&s;, with many Knobs thereon like Eyes, and whiti&s;h within, from amid&s;t the which ri&s;e other the like thick and great &s;talks, &s;u&s;taining one large white Flower thereon, green on the out&s;ide, but as white as Snow within, con&s;i|&s;ting of divers rows of long, and &s;omwhat thick and narrow Leavs, &s;maller and thinner the more inward they be, encompa&s;&s;ing a head within with many yellow thrids or thrums in the middle, where after they are pa&s;t, &s;tand round, Poppy-like Heads, ful of broad, oyly, and bitter Seed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The yellow kind is little different from the former &s;ave only it hath fewer Leavs on the Flowers, greater and more &s;hining Seed, and a whiti&s;h Root, both within and without: The Roots of both being &s;omwhat &s;weet in ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They are found growing in great Pools and &s;tanding Waters, and &s;omtimes in &s;low running Rivers and le&s;&s;er Ditches of Water, in &s;un|dry places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower mo&s;t commonly about the end of <HI>May,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> and therfore cools and moi&s;tens like the former. The Leavs and Flowers of the Water-Lillies are cold and moi&s;t, but the Root and Seed is cold and dry:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflama|tions, Agues, Watching, Frenzie, Flux, Belly, Running of the Reins, Veneyr, Freckles, Spots, Sunburn, Morphew.</NOTE> The Leavs do cool al Infl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mations, and both outward and inward heats of Agues, and &s;o doth the
<PB N="143" REF="84"> Flowers al&s;o, either by the Syrup or Con&s;erve: The Syrup hel|peth much to procure re&s;t, and to &s;ettle the Brains of Frantick per&s;ons, by cooling the hot di&s;temperature of the Head. The Seed as wel as the Root is effectual to &s;tay Fluxes of Bloud or Humors, either of Wounds, or of the Belly: but the Roots are mo&s;t u&s;ed, &s;ome chu&s;ing the one, and &s;ome the other to be more effectual to cool, bind, and re&s;train al Fuxes in Man or Women, as al&s;o the Running of the Reins, and the pa&s;&s;ing away of the Seed when one is a&s;leep: but the frequent u&s;e hereof extin|gui&s;heth Venerous actions: The Root is likewi&s;e very good for tho&s;e who&s;e Urine is hot and &s;harp, to be boyled in Wine or Water, and the Decoction drunk. The di&s;tilled Water of the Flowers is very effectual for al the Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid, both in|wardly taken and outwardly applied, and is much commended to take away Freckles, Spors, Sun burn, and Morphew from the Face, or other parts of the Body. The Oyl made of the Flowers, as Oyl of Ro&s;es is made, is profitablly u&s;ed to cool hot Tumors, and the Inflamations of Ulcers and Wounds, and to ea&s;e the pains, and help the Sores.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lilly of the Valley.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Conval-Lilly, May-Lillys, and Lilly-Confancy.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The Root is &s;mal and creepeth far in the Ground as gra&s;s Roots do: the Leavs are many, among&s;t which ari&s;eth up a &s;talk half a foot high, with many white flowers like little bels, with turned edges, of a &s;trong, though plea&s;ing &s;mel: the Berries are red, not much unlike tho&s;e of</HI> Spar|ragus.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow plentifully upon <HI>Ham&s;teed-heath,</HI> and in many other places in this Nation.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>May,</HI> and the &s;eed is ripe in <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and therfore there is no que&s;tion to be made but it &s;trengthens the Brain,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brain, Memroy, inflamations in the Eyes, pin &amp; web, lo&s;t speech Pal&s;ie, Appo|plexy, Heart, Vital Spirits, Gout.</NOTE> recruits a weak Memory, and makes it &s;trong a|gain: The Di&s;tilled water dropped into the Eyes, helps inflamations there, as al&s;o that infirmity which they cal a Pin and Web: the Spirit or the flowers di&s;tilled in Wine, re&s;toreth lo&s;t Speech, helps the Pal&s;ie, and is exceeding good in the Appoplexy, comforteth the Heart and vital Spirits. <HI>Gerrard</HI> &s;aith, That the flowers being clo&s;e &s;topped up in a Gla&s;s, put into an Ant-hill, and taken away again a month after, you &s;hal find a Liquor in the Gla&s;s, which be|ing outwardly applyed, helps the Gout.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>White-Lillys.</HEAD>
<P>IT were in vain to De&s;cribe a Plant &s;o commonly known in every ones Garden, therfore I &s;hal not tel you what they are, but what they are good for.</P>
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<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> and by Antipathy to <HI>Mars,</HI> expel Poy&s;on: they are excellent good in Pe|&s;tilental Feavers: The Roots being brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine, and the Decoction drunk, for it expels the Venom to the exteriour parts of the Body:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Poy&s;on, Pe&s;ti|lential Feavers Venom, Drop&s;y Scald-Heads, &V;nites Sinews, Ulcers, After-birth, Plague-&s;ores, Swellings in the Privitys Burnings, &s;cal|dings, Hair re|&s;toreth.</NOTE> The Juyce of it being tempered with Barly-meal baked, and &s;o eaten for ordinary bread, is an ex|cellent cure for the Drop&s;ie: An Oyntment being made of the Root and Hogs-grea&s;e, is excellent good for &s;cald heads, and unites Sinews when they are cut; be&s;ides the Vertue that it hath to clen&s;e Ulcers, it being of a fine &s;uppu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ating quality: The Root boyled in any convenient Decoction gives &s;peedy delivery to Women in Travel, and expels the After-birth: The Root roa&s;ted and mixed with a little Hogs-grea&s;e, makes a gallant Pulti&s;s to ripen and break Plague-&s;ores: The Oyntment is excellent good for Swel|lings in the Privities, and wil cure Burnings and Scaldings without a &s;car, and trimly deck a bald place with Hairs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Liquoris.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OUr Engli&s;h</HI> Liquoris <HI>ri&s;eth up with divers woody &s;talks, wheron are &s;et at &s;everal di&s;tances, many narrow, long, green Leavs, &s;et together on both &s;ides of the &s;talk, and an od one at the end, very wel re&s;embling a yong A&s;h-tree &s;prung up from the &s;eed: This by many years continuance in a place without removing, and not el&s;e, wil bring forth Flowers, many &s;tanding together Spike fa&s;hion one above another upon the &s;talks, of the form of Pea&s;-blo&s;oms, but of a very pale blue colour, which turn into long, &s;omwhat flat, and &s;mooth Cods, wherin is contained &s;mal, round, hard &s;eed: The Root runneth down exceeding deep into the ground, with di|vers other &s;maller Roots and Fibres growing with them, and &s;hoot out Suck|ers from the main Roots al about, wherby it is much encrea&s;ed, of a browni&s;h colour on the out&s;ide, and yellow within.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is planted in Fields and Gardens in divers places of this Land, and therfore good profit is made.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury.</HI> Li|quoris boyled in fair Water with &s;ome Maiden-hair and figs, maketh a good Drink for tho&s;e that have a dry Cough,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Phti&s;ick, Con&s;ump|tion, Reins, Strangury, Heat of &V;rine, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yes, Bladder;</NOTE> or hoar&s;|ne&s;s, Whee&s;ing, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and for al the griefs of the Brea&s;t and Lungs, Phti&s;ick or Con&s;umptions cau&s;ed by the Di|&s;tillation of &s;alt humors on them. It is al&s;o good in al pains of the Reins, the Strangury, and heat of Urine: The fine Pouder of Liquoris blown through a Quil into the Eyes that have a Pin and Web (as they cal it) or Rhewmatick Di&s;tillations into them doth clen&s;e and help them: The Juyce of Liquoris is as effectu|al in al the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Brea&s;t and Lungs, the Reins and Blad|der, as the Decoction. The juyce di&s;&s;olved in Ro&s;e-water with &s;ome Gum-Tragacanth, is a fine licking Medicine for Hoar&s;|ne&s;s, Whee&s;ings, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
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<HEAD>Liver-wort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common</HI> Liver-wort <HI>groweth clo&s;e, and &s;preadeth much upon the ground in moi&s;t and &s;hadowy places, with many &s;ad green Leavs, or rather (as it were) &s;ticking flat one to another, very un|evenly cut in on the edges, and crumpled, from among which ari&s;e &s;mal &s;len|der &s;talks an Inch or two high at mo&s;t, bearing &s;mal &s;tarlike Flowers at the tops: The Roots are very fine and &s;mal.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Command of <HI>Ju|piter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver, Inflamati|on, yellow-Jaundice, Spleen, Running of the Reins, Whites, Tetters, Ring-Worms, Surfets.</NOTE> and under the &s;ign <HI>Cancer.</HI> It is a &s;ingular good He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b for al the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Liver, both to cool and clen&s;e it, and help|eth the Inflamations in any part, and the yellow Jaundice like|wi&s;e: being brui&s;ed and boyled in &s;mal Beer and drunk, it coo|leth the heat of the Liver and Kidneys, and helpeth the running of the Reins in Men, and the Whites in Women: It is a &s;in|gular Remedy to &s;tay the &s;preading of Tetters, Ring-worms, and other fretting and running Sores and Scabs, and is an excel|lent Remedy for &s;uch who&s;e Livers are corrupted by Surfets, which cau&s;eth their Bodies to break out, for it fortifies the Li|ver exceedingly, and make it impregnable.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Loo&s;-&s;trife,</HI> or <HI>Willow-Herb.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Common yellow</HI> Loo&s;-&s;trife <HI>groweth to be four or five foot high or more, with great round &s;talks a little cre&s;ted, diver&s;ly branched from the midd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of them to the tops into great and long Branches, on al which at the Joynts there grow long and narrow Leaves but broader below, and u&s;ually two at a Joynt, yet &s;omtimes three or four &s;om|what like willow-leavs, &s;mooth on the edges, and of a faint green colour from the upper joynts of the branches, and at the tops of them al&s;o &s;tand many yel|low Flowers of Five leavs apiece, with divers yellow thrids in the middle, which turn into &s;mal round heads, containing &s;mal cornered &s;eeds: The Root creepeth under ground, almo&s;t like Couch-gra&s;s, but greater, and &s;hoot|eth up every spring, browni&s;h heads, which afterwards grow up into &s;talks: It hath no &s;cent nor ta&s;te but only a&s;tringent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of this Land in moi&s;t Meadows, and by Water-&s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth from <HI>June</HI> to <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This Herb is good for al manner of Bleeding at Mouth, or No&s;e, or Wounds, and al Fluxes of the Bel|ly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleeding, Flux, Bloudy-Flux, Terms &s;tops, Wounds, Sore Mouth, Privi|ties, Gnats.</NOTE> and the Bloudy-flux, given either to drink, or taken by Cly&s;ter, it &s;tayeth al&s;o the abundance of Womens Cour&s;es: It is a &s;ingular good Wound-herb for green Wounds, to &s;tay the bleeding, and quickly clo&s;e together the lips of the Wound, if the herb be brui&s;ed, and the juyce only applied: It is often u&s;ed in Gargles for &s;ore Mouths, as al&s;o for the
<PB N="146" REF="86"> &s;ecret parts: The &s;moak hereof being burned, driveth away Flyes and Gnats which u&s;e in the night-time to mole&s;t people inhabiting neer Mar&s;hes, and in the Fenny Countries.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Loo&s;-&s;trife, with Spiked Heads of Flowers.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth with many woody &s;quare &s;talks, ful of joynts about three foot high at lea&s;t, at every one wherof, &s;tand two long leavs, &s;horter, narrower, and of a deeper green colour than the former; and &s;om browni&s;h. The Stalks are branched into many long &s;tems of spiked-Flowers, half a foot long, growing in Rundls one above another, out of &s;mal husks very like the &s;piked heads of Lavender; each of which flowers have five round pointed Leavs of a purple violet colour, or &s;omwhat inclin|ing to redne&s;s, in which husks &s;tand &s;mal round heads, after the Flowers are fallen, wherin is contained &s;mal &s;eed: The Root creepeth under ground like unto the yellow, but is greater than it; and &s;o is the heads of the leavs when they fir&s;t appear out of the ground, and more brown than the other.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth u&s;ually by Rivers, and Ditches-&s;ides in wet Grounds, as about the Ditches at and neer <HI>Lambeth;</HI> and in many other places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in the Months of <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is an Herb of the <HI>Moon,</HI> and un|der the &s;ign <HI>Cancer:</HI> neither do I know a better Pre&s;erver of the Sight when 'tis wel; nor a better Curer of &s;ore Eyes, than Eye-bright taken inwardly; and this u&s;ed outwardly: 'tis cold in quality. This Herb is no whit inferior unto the former; it having not only al the Vertues which the former hath, but &s;ome particular Vertues of its own found out by experience, as namely, The Di&s;tilled Water is a pre&s;ent Remedy for Hurts and Blows on the Eyes, and for Blindne&s;s, &s;o as the Chri&s;taline Humor be not peri&s;hed or hurt;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eyes, Blindne&s;s, Wounds, Ulcers, Inflama|tions. Quin&s;ie, Kings E|vil, Spots, Marks, Scars.</NOTE> and this hath been &s;ufficiently proved true by the expe|rience of a man of Judgment, who kept it long to him&s;elf as a great &s;ecret: It al&s;o cleereth the Eyes of du&s;t or any other thing gotten into them, and pre&s;erveth the &s;ight. It is al&s;o very much available again&s;t Wounds and Thru&s;ts, being made into an Oyntment on this manner, To every ounce of the Water, ad two drams of <HI>May</HI>-butter without &s;alt, and of Sugar and Wax of each as much al&s;o, let them boyl gently al together: Let Tents be dip|ped in the Liquor that remaineth after it is cold, and put into the Wounds, and the place covered with a linnen cloth doubled and anointed with the Oyntment; and this is al&s;o an approved Me|dicine. It likewi&s;e clen&s;eth and healeth al foul Ulcers and Sores wher&s;oever, and &s;tayeth their inflamations by wa&s;hing them with the Water, and laying on them a green Leaf or two in the Summer, or dry Leavs in the Winter. This Water gargled warm in the mouth, and &s;ome|times drunk al&s;o, doth cure the Quin&s;ie, or Kings-Evil in the Throat. The &s;aid water applied warm, taketh away al Spots, Marks, and Scars in the Skin: And a little of it drunk, quencheth thir&s;t when it is extraordinary.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="147" REF="86">
<HEAD>Lovage.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many long and great &s;talks, of larg winged leavs divi|ded into many parts like Smallage, but much larger and grea|ter, every leaf being cut about the edges, broade&s;t forwards, and &s;malle&s;t at the &s;talk, of a &s;ad green colour, &s;mooth and &s;hining; from among which ri&s;e up &s;undry &s;trong hollow green &s;talks, five or &s;ix foot, yea &s;omtimes &s;even or eight foot high, ful of joynts, but le&s;&s;er leavs &s;et on them than grow below; and with them toward the tops come forth long branches, bearing at their tops large um|bels of yellow Flowers; and after them flat browni&s;h &s;eed. The Root groweth thick, great, and deep, &s;preading much, and enduring long, of a browni&s;h co|lour on the out-&s;ide, and whiti&s;h within. The whole Plant, and every part of it, &s;melleth &s;trong, and Aromatically, and is of an hot, &s;harp, biting ta&s;te.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is u&s;ually planted in Gardens, where if it be &s;uffered, it groweth huge, and great,</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in the end of <HI>July,</HI> and &s;eedeth in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the <HI>Sun</HI> under the &s;ign <HI>Tau|rus,</HI> if <HI>Saturn</HI> offend the Throat (as he alwaies doth, if he be occa&s;ioner of the Malady, and in <HI>Taurus</HI> is the Gene&s;is) this is your Cure. It openeth, cutteth, and dige&s;teth Humors, and mightily provoketh Wo|mens Cour&s;es and Urine.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Humors, Terms provokes Di&s;|ury, Cold Sto|mach, Indige|&s;tion, Wind, poy|&s;on, Epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es, Agues bellyach, Quin|&s;ie, Plure&s;ie, Spots, Freckles Boyls.</NOTE> Half a dram at a time of the dried Root in Pouder taken in Wine, doth wondefully warm a cold &s;tomach, helping dige&s;tion, and con&s;uming al raw and &s;uperfluous moi&s;ture therin: ea&s;eth al inward gripings and pains, di&s;&s;olveth wind, and re&s;i&s;teth Poy&s;on and Infection: It is a known and much practi&s;ed Remedy to drink the De|coction of the herb for any &s;ort of Ague, and to help the pains and torments of the Body and Bowels coming of cold. The Seed is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid (except the la&s;t) and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orketh more powerfully: The Di&s;tilled Water of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> helpeth the Quin&s;ie in the throat, if the mouth and thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="5 letters"> gargled and wa&s;hed therwith, and helpeth the Plure&s;ie, being drunk three or four times. Being dropped into the Eyes it taketh away the redne&s;s or dimne&s;s of them; it likewi&s;e taketh away Spots or Freckles in the Face. The Leavs brui&s;ed and fryed with a little Hogs Lard, and laid hot to any Botch or Boyl, wil quickly break it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lungwort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is a kind of</HI> Mo&s;s <HI>that groweth on &s;undry &s;orts of trees especially Oaks, and Beeches, with broad, grayi&s;h, tough Leavs, diver&s;ly folded, crumpled, and ga&s;hed in on the edges, and &s;ometimes spotted al&s;o, with many &s;mal &s;pots on the upper-&s;ide: It was never &s;een to bear any &s;talk or flower at any time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Jupiter</HI> &s;eems to own this Herb. This is of great u&s;e with many Phy&s;itians to help the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Lungs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs, Coughs, Whee&s;ing, &s;hort|ne&s;s of breath, Ulcers in the Privities and el&s;where.</NOTE> and for Coughs, Whee&s;ings, and &s;hortne&s;s of breath,
<PB N="148" REF="87"> which it cureth both in Man and Bea&s;t: It is very profita|bly put into Lotions that are taken to &s;tay the moi&s;t Hu|mors that flow to Ulcers and hinder their healing, as al&s;o to wa&s;h al other Ulcers in the privy parts of Man or Woman.</P>
<P>It is an excellent Remedy boyled in Beer for broken-winded Hor&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Madder.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>GArden Madder &s;hooteth forth many very long, weak, four &s;quare, reddi&s;h Stalks trailing on the ground a great way, very rough or hairy, and ful of Joynts; at every of tho&s;e Joynts come forth divers long, and &s;omwhat narrow Leavs, &s;tanding like a &s;tar about the &s;talks, rough al&s;o and hairy, toward the tops whereof come forth many &s;mal pale yellow Flowers: after which come &s;mal round heads, green at fir&s;t, and red|di&s;h afterwards, but black when they are ripe, wherin is contained the Seed. The Root is not very great, but exceeding long, running down half a mans length into the ground, red and very cleer while it is fre&s;h, &s;preading divers waies.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is only manured in Gardens or larger Fields for the profit that is made thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth towards the end of Summer, and the Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mars.</HI> It hath an opening quality, and afterwards to bind and &s;trengthen. It is an a&s;&s;u|red Remedy for the yellow Jaundice by opening the Ob&s;tru|ctions of the Liver and Gall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yell. Jaund. Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Gall, spleen, Me|lancholly, Pal&s;ey, Scia|tica, brui&s;es inward and outward, Terms pro|vokes, frec|kles, Mor|phew, Scurf.</NOTE> and clen&s;ing tho&s;e parts: It o|peneth al&s;o the Ob&s;tructions of the Spleen, and dimini&s;heth the Melanchollick humor. It is available for the Pal&s;ey and Sciatica, and effectual for brui&s;es inward or outward, and is therefore much u&s;ed in Vulnerary Drinks. The Root for all tho&s;e afore&s;aid purpo&s;es, is to be boyled in Wine or Water, as the cau&s;e requireth, and &s;ome Honey or Sugar put therunto afterwards. The Seed hereof taken with Vinegar and Honey, helpeth the Swellings and hardne&s;s of the Spleen. The De|coction of the Leavs and Branches is a good Fomentation for Women to &s;it over that have not their Cour&s;es. The Leavs and Roots beaten and applied to any part that is di&s;coloured with Freckles Morphew; the white Scurf, or any &s;uch deformity of the Skin, clen&s;eth them throughly, and taketh them away.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Maiden-hair.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> OUr common Maiden-hair doth from a number of hard black fibres, &s;end forth a great many blacki&s;h &s;hining brittle Stalks, hardly a &s;pan long; in many not half &s;o long, on each &s;ide &s;et very thick with &s;mal round dark green Leavs, and &s;potted on the back of them like other Ferns.</P>
<PB N="149" REF="87">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth much upon old &s;tone Wals in the We&s;t parts, and <HI>Wales,</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> and divers other places of this Land; It joyeth likewi&s;e to grow by Springs, Wels, and rockie, moi&s;t and &s;hadowy places; and is alwaies green.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Wall-Rue,</HI> or ordinary <HI>White Maiden-hair.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis hath very fine pale green &s;talks, almo&s;t as fine as hairs, &s;et confu&s;edly with divers pale green Leavs on very &s;hort Foot&s;talks, &s;omwhat neer unto the color of Garden Rue, and not much dif|fering in form, but more dive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ly cut in on the edges, and thicker, &s;mooth on the uper part, and &s;potted finely underneath.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of this Land, as at <HI>Dartford,</HI> and the Bridg at <HI>A&s;hford</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> at <HI>Beconsfield</HI> in <HI>Buckingham&s;hire,</HI> at <HI>Wolley,</HI> in <HI>Huntington&s;hire,</HI> on <HI>Frammingham</HI> Ca&s;tle in <HI>Suffolk,</HI> on the Church wals at <HI>Mayfi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ld</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> in <HI>Summer&s;et&s;hire,</HI> and divers other places of this Land, and is green in Winter as wel as in Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Both this and the former are under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and &s;o is that al&s;o which follows after: and the Vertues of both the&s;e are &s;o neer alike, that although I have de&s;cribed them and their places of growing &s;everally, yet I &s;hal in writing the Vertues of them, joyn them both together as followeth:</P>
<P>The Decoction of the Herb Maidenhair being drunk, hel|peth tho&s;e that are troubled with the Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, the yellow Jaundice, Spleen, Di&s;ury, Stone, Terms provokes, Bleeding, Fluxes, Lungs, Swellings, Ulcers, Scurff, Sores, Baldne&s;s.</NOTE> the yellow Jaundice, di&s;ea&s;es of the Spleen, &s;topping of Urin, and helpeth exceedingly to break the Stone in the Kidneys (in al which di&s;ea&s;es the Wal-Rue is al&s;o very effectual:) It provo|keth Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;tayeth both Bleedings and Fluxes of the Stomach and Belly, e&s;pecially when the Herb is dry, for being green it loo&s;neth the Belly, and avoideth Choller and Flegm from the Stomach and Liver, it clen&s;eth the Lungs, and by rectifying the Blood cau&s;eth a good color to the whol Body: The Herb boyled in Oyl of Chamomel, di&s;&s;olveth Knots, al|layeth Swellings, and drieth up moi&s;t Ulcers. The Ly made therof is &s;ingular good to clen&s;e the Head from Scurf, and from dry and running Sores; &s;tayeth the falling or &s;hedding of the Hair, and cau&s;eth it to grow thick, fair, and wel colored; for which purpo&s;e &s;ome boyl it in Wine, putting &s;ome Smallage &s;eed therto, and afterwards &s;ome Oyl. The Wall-Rue is as effe|ctual as Maidenhair in al di&s;ea&s;es of the Head, and falling or the recovering of Hair again; and generally for al the afore|mentioned Di&s;ea&s;es: And be&s;ides, The Pouder of it taken in drink for fourty daies together, helpeth the bur&s;tings in Children.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Golden Maiden-hair.</HEAD>
<P>TO the two former give me leav to ad this, and I &s;hal do no more but only de&s;cribe it unto you; and for the Vertues refer you to the for|mer,
<PB N="150" REF="88"> &s;ith what&s;oever is &s;aid of them, may be al&s;o &s;aid of this.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI>It hath many &s;mal browni&s;h red hairs to make up the form of Leavs growing about the ground from the Root, and in the middle of them in Summer, ri&s;e &s;mal Stalks of the &s;ame color, &s;et with very fine yello|wi&s;h green hairs on them, and bearing a &s;mal gold yellow Head, le&s;&s;er than a Wheat Corn, &s;tanding in a great Husk. The Root is very &s;mal and thriddy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Bogs and Moori&s;h places, and al&s;o on dry &s;ha|dowy places, at <HI>Ham&s;ted</HI> Heath, and el&s;where.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Mallows,</HI> and <HI>Mar&s;h-Mallows.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COmmon Mallows are generally &s;o wel known that they need no De|&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Our common Mar&s;h-Mallows have divers &s;oft hoary white &s;talks ri&s;ing to be three or four foot high, &s;preading forth many Branches, the Leavs wherof are &s;oft and hairy; &s;omwhat le&s;&s;er than the other Mallow Leavs, but longer pointed, cut (for the mo&s;t part) into &s;ome few divi&s;ions, but deep: The Flowers are many, but &s;maller al&s;o than the other Mallows, and white, or tending to a blu&s;h color. After which come &s;uch like round ca&s;es and &s;eed as in the other Mallows. The Roots are many and long, &s;hooting from one Head, of the bigne&s;s of a Thumb or Finger, very pliant, tough and bending like Liquoris, of a whiti&s;h yellow color on the out&s;ide, and more white with|in, ful of a &s;limy juyce, which being laid in water wil thicken it as if it were gelly.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Common Mallows grow in every Country of this Land.</P>
<P>The Common Mar&s;h-Mallows in mo&s;t of the the Salt Ma&s;hes from <HI>Woolwich,</HI> down to the Sea, both on the Kenti&s;h and E&s;&s;ex Shores, and in divers other places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower al the Summer Months, even until the Winter do pul them down.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns them both. The Leavs of ei|ther of the &s;orts before &s;pecified, and the Roots al&s;o boyled in Wine or Water, or in Broth with Par&s;ly o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Fennel roots, doth help to o|pen the Body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Agues, Choller, Gripings in the Belly, Milk, Excoria|tion, Phti&s;ick, Pleure&s;y, Travel in Women, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Eyes, Bees, Wa&s;ps &amp;c. Poy&s;on, hard &s;wel|ling, Inflamati|on, Cods, Liver, Spleen, Roughne&s;s of the skin Scurf, Dandrif, Scabby Heads, Scalding, Burning, St. Antho|nies fire, &s;ore Mouth &amp; Throat, Baldne&s;s, Thorns.</NOTE> and is very convenient in hot Agues, or other di|&s;tempers of the Body to apply the Leavs &s;o boyled warm to the Belly: It not only voideth hot Chollerick and other offen&s;ive Humors, but ea&s;eth the pains and torments of the Belly coming therby; and are therfore u&s;ed in al Cly&s;ters conducing to tho&s;e purpo&s;es: The &s;ame u&s;ed by Nur&s;es, procureth them &s;tore of Milk. The Decoction of the Seed of any of the common Mallows, made in Milk or Wine, doth mervelou&s;ly help exco|riations, the Phti&s;ick, Pleure&s;ie, and other Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t and Lungs that proceed of hot cau&s;es, if it be continued taking for &s;ome time together: The Leavs and Roots work the &s;ame effects: They help much al&s;o in the excoriations of the Guts and Bowels, and hardne&s;s of the Mother, and in al hot and
<PB N="151" REF="88"> &s;harp Di&s;ea&s;es therof. The Juyce drunk in Wine, or the De|coction of them therein, doth help Women to a &s;peedy and ea&s;ie Delivery. <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That who&s;oever &s;hal take a &s;poonful of any of the Mallows, &s;hal that day be free from al Di&s;ea&s;es that may come unto him; and that it is &s;pecial good for the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s. The Syrup al&s;o, and Con&s;erve made of the Flowers are very effectual for the &s;ame Di&s;ea&s;es, and to open the Body being co&s;tive: The Leavs brui&s;ed and laid to the Eyes with a little Honey, taketh away the Impo&s;tumations of them. The Leavs brui&s;ed or rubbed upon any place &s;tung with Bees, Wa&s;ps, or the like, pre&s;ently taketh away the pains, redne&s;s, and &s;wellings that ri&s;e thereupon: and <HI>Dio&s;ocrides</HI> &s;aith, The Decoction of the Leavs and Roots helpeth al &s;orts of Poy&s;on, &s;o as the Poy&s;on be pre&s;ently voided by Vomit. A Pulti&s;s made of the Leavs boyled and brui&s;ed, wherunto ad &s;ome Bean or Barly flower and Oyl of Ro&s;es, is an e&s;pecial Remedy again&s;t al hard Tumors and Inflamations of Impo&s;thumes and Swellings of the Cods and other parts, and ea&s;eth the pains of them; as al&s;o again&s;t the hardne&s;s of the Liver or Spleen, being applied to the places. The Juyce of the Mallows boyled in old Oyl and applied, ta|keth away al roughne&s;s of the Skin, as al&s;o the Scurf, Dandrif, or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be anointed there|with, or wa&s;hed with the Decoction, and pre&s;erveth the Hair from falling off. It is al&s;o effectual again&s;t Scaldings and Bur|nings, St. Anthonies fire, and al other hot, red, and painful Swellings in any part of the Body. The Flowers boyled in Oyl or Water (as every one is di&s;po&s;ed) wherunto a little Honey and Allum is put, is an excellent Gargle to wa&s;h, clen&s;e, and heal any &s;ore Mouth, or Throat, in a &s;hort &s;pace. If the Feet be bathed or wa&s;hed with the De|coction of the Leavs, Roots, and Flowers, it helpeth much the Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head: If the Head be wa&s;hed therwith, it &s;taieth the falling and &s;hedding of the Hair. The green Leavs (&s;aith <HI>Pliny</HI>) beaten with Nitre and applied, draweth out Thorns or Pricks in the Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>The Mar&s;h-Mallows are more effectual in al the Di&s;ea&s;es before mentio|ned: The Leavs are likewi&s;e u&s;ed to loo&s;en the Belly gently, and in Decoctions for Cly&s;ters to ea&s; al pains of the Body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Whee&s;ing, Excoriati|on of the Guts, Ruptures, Cramps, Convul&s;i|ons, The Kings Evil, Kernels, Chincough Wounds, brui&s;es, Falls, Blows, Mu&s;cles, Morphew, Sunbur|ning.</NOTE> ope|ning the &s;trait Pa&s;&s;ages, and making them &s;lippery, wherby the Stone may de&s;cend the more ea&s;ily, and without pain out of the Reins, Kidneys and Bladder, and to ea&s; the torturing pains therof: But the Roots are of more e&s;pecial u&s;e for tho&s;e purpo|&s;es, as wel as for Coughs, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and Whee&s;ings, being boyled in Wine or Honeyed Water and drunk. The Roots and Seeds herof boyled in Wine or Water, is with good &s;ucce&s;s u&s;ed by them that have Excoriations in the Guts, or the Bloody flux, by qualifying the violence of the &s;harp fret|ting Humors, ea&s;ing the pains, and healing the &s;orene&s;s: It is
<PB N="152" REF="89"> profitably taken of them that are troubled with Ruptures, Cramps, or Convul&s;ions of the Sinews; and boyled in white Wine for the Impo&s;thumes of the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil, and of tho&s;e Kernels that ri&s;e behind the Ears, and Inflamations or &s;wellings in Womens Brea&s;ts. The dried Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is &s;pecial good for the Chin|cough. <HI>Hippocrates</HI> u&s;ed to give the Decoction of the Roots, or the Juyce therof to drink to tho&s;e that were wounded, and ready to faint through lo&s;s of Blood, and applied the &s;ame mix|ed with Honey and Rozin to the Wounds: As al&s;o the Roots boyled in Wine to tho&s;e that had received any hurt by Brui&s;es, Fals, or Blows, or had any Bone or Member out of Joynt, or a|ny &s;welling pain or ach in the Mu&s;cles, Sinews, or Arteries. The Muccilage of the Roots, and of Lin&s;eed, and of Fenugreek put together, is much u&s;ed in Pulti&s;&s;es, Oyntments, and Plai|&s;ters, to mollifie and dige&s;t al hard &s;wellings, and the Inflamati|on of them, and to ea&s; pains in any part of the Body. The Seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar clen&s;eth the Skin of the Morphew, and al other di&s;colorings, being bathed therwith in the Sun.</P>
<P>You may remember that not long &s;ince there was a raging Di&s;ea&s; called the Bloody Flux; the Colledg of Phy&s;ittans not knowing what to make of it, called it, The Plague in the Guts, for their wits were at <HI>ne plus ultra</HI> about it. My &s;on was taken with the &s;ame Di&s;ea&s;, and the excoriation of his Bowels was exceeding great; my &s;elf being in the Country was &s;ent for up; the only thing I gave him was Mallows brui&s;ed and boyled both in his Milk and Drink, in two daies (the ble&s;&s;ing of God being upon it) it cured him, and I here to &s;hew my thankfulne&s;s to God in communicating it to his Creatures, leav it to po&s;terity.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Maple-Tree.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver &s;treng|thens, open ob|&s;tructions of the Liver and spleen, pains in the &s;ides.</NOTE>IT is under the Dominion of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> The Decoction either of the Leavs or Bark mu&s;t needs &s;trengthen the Liver much, and &s;o you &s;hal find it do if you u&s;e it: it is excellent good to open ob&s;tructions both of the Liver and Spleen, and ea&s;eth pains of the &s;ides thence proceeding.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wild Marjoram.</HEAD>
<P>CAlled al&s;o Organe, Origanum, Ba&s;tard Marjoram, Wild Marjoram, and Grove Marjoram.</P>
<P>De&s;cription.] <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ild or Field Marjoram hath a Root which creepeth much under ground, which continueth a long time, &s;ending up &s;undry browni&s;h hard &s;quare &s;talks with &s;mal dark green Leavs very like tho&s;e of &s;weet Marjo|ram, but harder, and &s;omwhat broader; at the tops of the &s;talks &s;tand tufts of Flowers of a deep purpli&s;h red color; the Seed is &s;mal and &s;omthing blac|ker than that of &s;weet Marjoram.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plentifully in the borders of Corn Fields, and in &s;ome Cop&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth toward the latter end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach, Head, Hu|mors, appetite, cough, Con&s;umption of the Lungs, poy&s;on Chol|ler, spleen, venemous Bea&s;ts, poy&s;on, Urine provoketh, terms pro|vokes, Drop&s;ie, &s;cur|vy, &s;cabs, Itch, lepro|&s;ie, yellow Jaundice, Deafne&s;s, noi&s;e and pain in the Ears.</NOTE> It &s;trengthens the &s;tomach and Head much, there being &s;carce a better remedy growing for &s;uch as are troubled with a &s;owr humor in their &s;tomachs; it re&s;tores Appetite being lo&s;t, helps the Cough and Con&s;umption of the Lungs, it clen&s;eth the Body of Choller expelleth poy&s;on, and remedieth the infirmities of the &s;pleen, helps the bi|tings of Venemous Bea&s;ts, and helps &s;uch as have poy&s;oned them&s;elvs by eating Hemlock, Henbane, or Opium; it provoketh Urin and the Terms in Wo|men, helps the Drop&s;ie and the Scurvy, Scabs, Itch, and the yellow Jaundice: the Juyce being dropped into the Ears, helps Deafne&s;s, pain and noi&s;e in the Ears. And thus much for this Herb, between which and Adders there is a deadly Antipathy.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sweet Marjoram.</HEAD>
<P>SWeet Marjoram is &s;o wel known, being an Inhabitant in every Garden, that it is needle&s;s to write an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> De&s;cription thereof, neither of the Win|ter Sweet Marjoram, nor Pot Marjoram.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow commonly in Gardens; &s;ome &s;orts there are that grow wild in the Borders or Corn Fields, and Pa&s;tures in &s;undry places of this Land, but it is not my purpo&s;e to in&s;i&s;t upon them: The Garden kinds being mo&s;t u&s;ed and u&s;eful.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in the end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and under <HI>Aries,</HI> and is therfore an excellent Remedy for the Brain and other parts of the Body and Mind, under the Dominion of the &s;ame Planet. Our common Sweet Marjoram is warming and comfortable in cold Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Head, Stomach, Brea&s;t, Ob&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u|ctions, Liver, spleen, Womb, Wind, Drop&s;ie, Belly-ach, Terms provokes, Marks of Blows, Noi&s;e in the Ears, Joynts, Sinews, Swellings, &s;nee&s;ing, Flegm.</NOTE> Stomach, Sinews, and other parts, taken inwardly, or outwardly applied: The Decoction therof being drunk, hel|peth al Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t which hinder the freene&s;s of brea|thing, and is al&s;o profitable for the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen: It helpeth the cold griefs of the Womb, and the windine&s;s therof, and the lo&s;s of Speech, by re&s;olution of the Tongue. The Decoction therof made with &s;ome Pellitory of Spain, and long Pepper, or with a little Acorus or Origanum, being drunk, is good for tho&s;e that are beginning to fal into a Drop&s;ie, for tho&s;e that cannot make Water, and again&s;t pains and torment in the Belly; it provoketh Womens Cour&s;es if it be put up as a Pe&s;&s;ary. Being made into Pouder and mixed with Honey, it taketh away the black marks of blows and brui&s;es,
<PB N="154" REF="90"> being therto applied. It is good for the Inflamations and wa|tering of the Eyes, being mixed with fine Flower and laid unto them. The Juyce dropped into the Ears ea&s;eth the pains and &s;inging noi&s;e in them. It is profitably put into tho&s;e Oynt|ments and Salves that are made to warm and comfort the out|ward parts, as the Joynts and Sinews, for Swellings al&s;o, and places out of Joynt. The Pouder therof &s;nuffed up into the No&s;e, provoketh &s;neezing, and therby purgeth the Brain; and chewed in the Mouth draweth forth much Flegm. The Oyl made therof is very warming and comfortable to the Joynts that are &s;tiff, and the Sinews that are hard, to mollifie and &s;upple them. Marjo|ram is much u&s;ed in al odoriferous Waters, Pouders, &amp;c. that are for orna|ment or delight.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Marigolds.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e being &s;o plentiful in every Garden, are &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower al the Summer long, and &s;omtimes in Winter if it be mild.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and under <HI>Leo:</HI> They &s;trengthen the Heart exceedingly, and are very expul&s;ive, and little le&s;s effectual in the &s;mal Pox and Meazles than Saf|fron.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heart, Vital Spirits, pe&s;tilence, &s;mal Pox, Meazles, Hot &s;wel|lings, Feavers, pe&s;tilence.</NOTE> The Juyce of Marigold Leavs mixed with Vinegar, and any hot &s;welling bathed with it, in&s;tantly giveth ea&s;e and a&s;&s;wa|geth it. The Flowers either green or dried are u&s;ed much in Po&s;&s;ets, Broths, and Drinks as a comforter of the Heart and Spi|rits, and to expel any malignant or pe&s;tilential quality which might annoy them. A Plai&s;ter made with the dry Flowers in Pouder, Hogs Grea&s;, Turpentine and Rozin, and appled to the Brea&s;t, &s;trengthens and &s;uccors the Heart infinitly in Feavers whether pe&s;tilential or not pe&s;tilential.</P>
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<HEAD>Ma&s;terwort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon Ma&s;terwort hath divers &s;talks of winged Leavs divided into &s;undry parts, three for the mo&s;t part &s;tanding together at a &s;mal foot&s;talk on both &s;ides of the greater, and three likewi&s;e at the end of the &s;talk, &s;omwhat broad and cut in on the edges, into three or more divi&s;ions, all of them dented about the brims, of a dark green color, &s;omwhat re&s;embling the Leavs of Angelica, but that the&s;e grow lower to the ground, and on le&s;&s;er &s;talks; among which ri&s;e up two or three &s;hort &s;talks about two foot high, and &s;lender, with &s;uch like Leavs at the Joynts as grow below, but with le&s;&s;er and &s;ewer divi&s;ions, bearing Umbels of white Flowers, and after them &s;mal, thin, flat, blacki&s;h &s;eed bigger than Dil &s;eeds: The Root is &s;omwhat greater and groweth rather &s;idewaies than down deep into the ground, &s;hooting forth &s;undry heads, which ta&s;t &s;harp, biting on the tongue, and is the hotte&s;t and &s;harpe&s;t part of the Plant, and the &s;eed next unto it,
<PB N="155" REF="90"> being &s;omwhat blacki&s;h on the out&s;ide, and &s;melling well.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is u&s;ually kept in Gardens with us in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth and &s;eedeth about the end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mars.</HI> The Root of Ma&s;terwort is hotter than Pepper,<NOTE PLACE="marg">cold griefs &s;tomach, Cold Rhewms, urin, &s;tone, Gravel, Womens Cour&s;es, dead child Mother, Drop&s;ie, cramps, &amp; Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Cold poy|&s;ons, &s;weat Green Wounds, Rotten ul|cers, gout.</NOTE> and very available in al cold griefs and Di&s;ea&s;es both of &s;tomach and body, di&s;&s;ol|ving very powerfully upward and downward: It is al&s;o u&s;ed in a Decoction with Wine again&s;t al cold Rhewms, or Di&s;tillati|ons upon the Lungs, and &s;hortne&s;s of breath, to be taken mor|ning and evening; it al&s;o provoketh Urin, and helpeth to break the Stone, and expel the Gravel from the Kidneys, pro|cureth Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the dead birth; is &s;in|gular good for the &s;trangling of the Mother, and other &s;uch like Feminine Di&s;ea&s;es. It is effectual al&s;o again&s;t the Drop&s;ie, Cramps, &amp; the Falling-&s;ickne&s;, for the Decoction in Wine being gargled in the Mouth, draweth down much Water and Flegm from the Brain, purging and ea&s;ing it of what oppre&s;&s;eth it. It is of a rare qualitie again&s;t al &s;orts of cold poy&s;on, to be taken as there is cau&s;e; it provoketh &s;weat: but le&s;t the ta&s;t hereof, or of the Seed (which worketh to the like effect, though not &s;o powerfully) &s;hould be too offen&s;ive, the be&s;t way is to take the Water di&s;tilled both from the Herb and Root. The Juyce here|of dropped, or Tents dipped therin, and applied either to green Wounds, or filthy rotten Ulcers, and tho&s;e that come by inveno|med Weapons, doth &s;oon clen&s;e and heal them: The &s;ame is al&s;o very good to help the Gout coming of a cold cau&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sweet Maudlin.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon Maudlin have &s;omwhat long, and narrow Leavs, &s;nip'd about the edges: the &s;talks are two foot high, bea|ring at the tops many yellow Flowers &s;et round together and al of an equal height in &V;mbels, tufts like unto Tan&s;ie; after which flowreth &s;mal whi|ti&s;h Seed almo&s;t as big as Worm&s;eed. The whol Herb is &s;weet and bitter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Vertues hereof being the &s;ame with Co&s;tmary, or Aleco&s;t, I &s;hal not trouble you to make any repetition there|of, le&s;t my Book grow too big: but rather refer you unto Co&s;tmary for &s;a|tisfaction.</P>
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<HEAD>The Medlar.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis Tree groweth neer the bigne&s;s of the Quince Tree, &s;preading Branches rea&s;onable large, with longer and nar|rower Leavs than either the Apple or Quince, and not dented about the ed|ges: At the end of the &s;prigs &s;tand the Flowers made of five white, great broad pointed Leavs, nicked in the middle, with &s;ome white thrids al&s;o:
<PB N="156" REF="91"> after which cometh the Fruit, of a browni&s;h green color being ripe, bearing a Crown as it were on the top, which were the five green Leavs; and being rubbed off or fallen away, the head of the Fruit is &s;een to be &s;omwhat hol|low. The Fruit is very har&s;h before it be mellowed, and hath u&s;ually five hard kernels within it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another kind herof differing nothing from the former, but that it hath &s;ome Thorns on it in &s;everal places, which the other hath not, and the Fruit is &s;mal and not &s;o plea&s;ant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They grow in this Land, and Flower in <HI>May</HI> for the mo&s;t part, and bear ripe Fruit in <HI>September,</HI> and <HI>October.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Fruit is old <HI>Saturns,</HI> and &s;ure a better Medicine he hardly hath to &s;trengthen the Retentive faculty, therfore it &s;taies Womens Longings, the good old man cannot endure Womens minds &s;hould run a gadding: Al&s;o a Plai&s;ter made of the Fruit dried before they be rotten,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mi&s;car|riage, Fluxes, &s;tayeth Womens Longings, Hinders Mi&s;car|riage, Gargle, Womens Cour&s;es, Piles, Loathing of Meat, or Ca&s;ting, bleeding, Fre&s;h Wounds, &s;tone in the Kidneys.</NOTE> and other convenient things, and applied to the Reins of the Back, &s;tops Mi&s;carriage in Women with Child. They are very powerful to &s;tay any Fluxes of Blood or Humors in Man or Woman: the Leavs have al&s;o the like qua|lity. The Fruit eaten by Women with Child, &s;tayeth their Longings after unu&s;ual meats, and is very effectual for them that are apt to Mi&s;carry, and be delivered before their time, to help that Malady, and make them joyful Mothers. The De|coction of them is good to gargle and wa&s;h the Mouth, Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oat, and Teeth, when there is any defluxion of Blood to &s;tay it, or of Humors, which cau&s;eth pains and &s;wellings: It is a good bath for Women to &s;it over that have their Cour&s;es flow too a|bundantly; or for the Piles when they bleed too much. If a Pulti&s;s or Plai&s;ter be made with dried Medlars, beaten and mix|ed with the Juyce of red Ro&s;es, wherunto a few Cloves and Nutmeg may be added, and a little red Corral al&s;o, and appli|ed to the Stomach that is given to ca&s;ting, or loathing of Meat, it effectually helpeth. The dried Leavs in Pouder, &s;trewed on fre&s;h bleeding Wounds, re&s;traineth the Blood, and healeth up the Wound quickly: The Medlar &s;tones made into Pouder and drunk in Wine, wherin &s;om Par&s;ly Roots have lien infu&s;ed all night, or a little boyled, do break the &s;tone in the Kidneys, hel|ping to expel it.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Melilot,</HI> or <HI>Kings-Claver.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath many green &s;talks two or threr foot high, ri&s;ing from a tough long white Root, which dieth not every year; &s;et round about at the joynts with &s;mal, and &s;omwhat long wel &s;melling leavs &s;et three together, unevenly dented about the edges: The flowers are yellow, and wel &s;melling al&s;o, made like other Trefoyls, but &s;mal, &s;tanding in long spikes, one above another, for an hand breadth long, or better, which afterwards turn into long crooked Cods, wherin is contained flat &s;eed, &s;om|what brown.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, as in the edg of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> and in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> as al&s;o in <HI>Huntington &s;hire,</HI> and in other places, but mo&s;t u&s;ually in Corn fields, in corners of Meadows.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Melilot</HI> boyled in Wine and ap|plied,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hard Tu|mors &amp; in|flamations in the Eyes or el&s;where &V;lcers in the Head, Stomach pained, Headach, Wind, &s;plee~ Dimne&s;s of &s;ight, &s;tu|pidity of Sen&s;es, &s;trengthen Memory, Apoplexy.</NOTE> mollifieth al hard Tumors and Inflamations that happen in the Eyes or other parts of the Body, as the Fundament; or privy parts of Man or Woman; and &s;omtimes the yolk of a roa|&s;ted Eg, or fine Flower or Poppy-&s;eed, or Endive is added unto it. It helpeth the &s;preading Ulcers in the head, it being wa&s;hed with a Ly made therof; It helpeth the pains of the Stomach be|ing applied fre&s;h, or boyled with any of the aforenamed things. It helpeth al&s;o the pains of the Ears being dropped into them; and &s;teeped in Vinegar and Ro&s;e water, it mitigateth the head|ach. The flowers of Melilot, and Chamomel, are much u&s;ed to be put together in Cli&s;ters to expel Wind, and to ea&s;e pains; al|&s;o into Pultices for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and to a&s;&s;wage Swellings, or Tumors in the Spleen or other parts; and helpeth Inflamati|ons in any part of the Body. The juyce dropped into the Eyes, is a &s;ingular good Medicine to take away any film or skin that cloudeth or dimneth the Eye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ht. The head often wa&s;hed with the Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb and Flowers, or a Ly made therwith, is effectual for tho&s;e that have &s;uddenly lo&s;t their &s;en|&s;es; as al&s;o to &s;trengthen the Memory, to comfort the Head and Brains, and to pre&s;erve them from pains and the Apoplexy.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>French,</HI> and <HI>Dogs Mercury.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis ri&s;eth up with a &s;quare green &s;talk ful of joynts two foot high or therabouts, with two leaves at every joynt, and branches likewi&s;e from both &s;ides of the &s;talk, &s;et with fre&s;h green leavs &s;omwhat broad and long, about the bigne&s;s of the Leavs of Ba&s;&s;el finely den|ted about the edges: towards the tops of the &s;talks and branches come forth at every joynt in the <HI>Male Mercury</HI> two &s;mal round green heads, &s;tanding to|gether upon a &s;hort foot-&s;talk, which growing ripe are the &s;eeds, not ha|ving any Flower: In the Female, the &s;talk is longer, &s;pike fa&s;hion, &s;et round about with &s;mal green husks, which are the flowers made like &s;mal branches of grapes which give no &s;eed, but abide long upon the &s;talks without &s;hed|ding: The Root is compo&s;ed of many &s;mal Fibres, which peri&s;heth every year at the fir&s;t approach of Winter, and ri&s;eth again of its own &s;owing, and where it once is &s;uffered to &s;ow it &s;elf, the ground wil never want it after|wards, even both &s;orts of it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Dogs Mercury.</HEAD>
<P>HAving De&s;cribed unto you that which is called <HI>French Mercury,</HI> I com now to &s;hew you in a De&s;cription this kind al&s;o.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>This is likewi&s;e of two kinds, Male and Female, having many
<PB N="158" REF="92"> &s;talks, &s;lenderer and lower than Mercury, and without any branches at al up|on them: The Male is &s;et with two Leavs at every joynt, &s;omwhat greater than the Female, but more pointed and ful of Veins, and &s;omwhat harder in handling, of a darker green colour, and le&s;s dented, or &s;nip'd about the edges: At the Joynts with the Leavs come forth longer &s;talks than the former, with two hairy round Seeds upon them, twice as big as tho&s;e of the former Mer|cury: The ta&s;t hereof is Herby; and the &s;mel &s;omwhat &s;trong and Virulent: The Female hath much harder leavs &s;tanding upon longer foot-&s;talks, and the &s;talks are al&s;o longer: from the joynts come forth spikes of flowers, like the French Female Mercury: The Roots of them both are many, and ful of &s;mal Fibres, which run under ground, and mat them&s;elves very much, not peri&s;h|ing as the former Mercuries do; but abiding the Winter, and &s;hoot forth new Branches every year (for the old die down to the ground)</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Male and Female French Mercury are found wild in divers places of this Land; as by a Village called <HI>Brookland</HI> in <HI>Rumny</HI>-Mar&s;h in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P>The Dogs-Mercury in &s;undry places of <HI>Kent</HI> al&s;o, and el&s;ewhere; but the Female more &s;eldom than the Male.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flouri&s;h in the Summer months, and therein give their Seed.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cury</HI> they &s;ay owns this Herb, but I rather think 'tis <HI>Venus,</HI> and am partly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nfident of it too: for I never read that <HI>Mercury</HI> ever minded Womens bu&s;ine&s;s &s;o much; I beleeve he minds his Study more. The Decoction of the Leavs of Mercury, or the Juyce thereof in Broth, or drunk with a little Sugar put to it, purgeth Chol|lerick and Wateri&s;h Humors.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Purgeth Chollerick Humors, Womens Sickne&s;s, Mother, Womens Cour&s;es, &s;trangury, &s;ore Eyes, Agues, Fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gm, Rhewms, and Catarrhes, Melan|cholly Humors, Yellow Jaundice, Warts, Scabs, Tetters, &amp; Ring-worms, Swellings, Inflamati|ons, Wateri&s;h &amp; Melan|cholly Humors.</NOTE> <HI>Hippocrates</HI> commendeth it won|derfully for Womens Di&s;ea&s;es; and applied it to the &s;ecret parts to ea&s;e the pains of the Mother; and u&s;ed the Decoction of it, both to procure Womans Cour&s;es, and to expel the After-birth: And gave the Decoction thereof with Mirrh or Pepper, or u&s;ed to apply the Leavs outwardly again&s;t the Strangury, and Di&s;ea&s;es of the Reins and Bladder. He u&s;ed it al&s;o for &s;ore and watering Eyes, and for the Deafne&s;s and pain in the Ears, by dropping the Juyce thereof into them, and bathing them afterwards in white Wine. The Decoction thereof made with Water, and a Cock Chicken, is a mo&s;t &s;afe Medicine again&s;t the hot fits of Agues: it al&s;o clen&s;eth the Brea&s;t and Lungs of Flegm, but a lit|tle offendeth the Stomach: The Juyce or di&s;tilled Water &s;nuf|fed up into the no&s;trils, purgeth the Head and Eyes of Catarrhes and Rhewms. Some u&s;e to drink two or three Ounces of the di|&s;tilled Water, with a little Sugar put to it, in the morning fa|&s;ting, to open and purge the Body of gro&s;s vi&s;cuous and Melan|cholly Humors. It is wonderful (if it be not fabulous) that <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> and <HI>Theophra&s;tus</HI> do relate of it, viz. That if Wo|men u&s;e the&s;e herbs either inwardly or outwardly for three dayes together after Conception, and their Cour&s;es be pa&s;t, they &s;hal
<PB N="159" REF="92"> bring forth Male or Female Children, according to that kind of Herb they u&s;e. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, That the Seed both of the Male and Female Mercury boyled with Wormwood and drunk, cureth the yellow Jaundice in a &s;peedy manner: The Leavs or the juyce rubbed upon Warts, taketh them away: The juyce mingled with &s;ome Vinegar, helpeth al running Scabs, Tetters, Ring-worms, and the Itch: <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith, That being applied in manner of a Pultis, to any &s;welling or Inflamation, it dige&s;teth the Swelling and allayeth the Inflamation; and is therfore given in Cly&s;ters to evacuate the Belly from offen&s;ive Humors. The Dogs Mer|cury, although it be le&s;s u&s;ed, yet may &s;erve in the &s;ame manner to the &s;ame purpo&s;e to purge wateri&s;h and Melancholly Humors.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mint.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OF al the kinds of</HI> Mints, <HI>the</HI> Spear-Mint, <HI>or</HI> Heart-Mint, <HI>being mo&s;t u&s;eful: I &s;hal only de&s;cribe it, as followeth:</HI> Spear-Mint, <HI>hath divers round &s;talks and long, but narrowi&s;h Leavs &s;et ther|on, of a dark green color. The flowers &s;tand in &s;piked heads at the tops of the Branches, being of a pale blu&s;h colour. The &s;mel or &s;cent hereof is &s;omwhat neer unto Ba&s;il; it encrea&s;eth by the Root under ground, as al the others do.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is an u&s;ual inhabitant i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gardens; and becau&s;e it &s;eldom giveth any good Seed, the defect is recompenced by the plentiful encrea&s; of the root which being once planted in a Garden, wil hardly be rid out again.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth not until the beginning of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> for the mo&s;t part.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Venus. Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, It hath a Heating, Binding, and drying quality, &amp; therfore the Juyce taken with Vinegar,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provoks venery &s;tays vomiting, allayeth choller Impo&s;thums, great Brea&s;ts, mad-Dogs bi|ting, pains of the Ears, good for the &s;tomach pains of the Head, Sores &amp; Scabs, Chops of the Fundament Poy&s;on, Helpeth Liver, &amp; Sto|mach, &s;tayeth Vomiting, and Hiccough, pro|voketh Lu&s;t, Spleen, Gravel, Stone, &amp; &s;tran|gury, comforts the Head, &s;ore Mouth, ill Breath, Pallat-down.</NOTE> &s;tayeth Bleeding; it &s;tirreth up Venery, or bodily Lu&s;t. Two or three Branches thereof taken with the Juyce of &s;owr Pomegranates, &s;tayeth the Hic|cough, Vomitting, and allayeth the Choller. It di&s;&s;olveth Impo&s;thums being laid to with Barly-meal. It is good to re|pre&s;s the Milk in womens Brea&s;ts, and for &s;uch as have &s;wol|len, flagging, or great Brea&s;ts. Applied with Salt, it helpeth the biting of a mad Dog; with Mead or Honyed-water, it ea&s;eth the pains of the Ears, and taketh away the roughne&s;s of the Tongue, being rubbed therupon. It &s;uffereth not milk to curdle in the Stomach if the Leavs hereof be &s;teep|ed or boyled in it before you drink it. Briefly it is very pro|fitable to the Stomach. The often u&s;e hereof is a very pow|erful Medicine to &s;tay Womens Cour&s;es, and the Whites. Applied to the Forehead or Temples, it ea&s;eth pains of the Head. And is good to wa&s;h the Heads of yong Children therwith, again&s;t al manner of breakings out, Sores, or Scabs therin; and healeth the chops of the Fundament. It is al&s;o profitable again&s;t the Poy&s;on of Venemous Creatures. The
<PB N="160" REF="93"> Di&s;tilled Water of <HI>Mints</HI> is available to al the purpo&s;es a|fore&s;aid, yet more weakly. But if a Spirit thereof be right|ly and Chymically drawn, it is much more powerful than the Herb it &s;elf. <HI>Simeon Sethi</HI> &s;aith, It helpeth a cold Liver, &s;trengthneth the Belly and Stomach, cau&s;eth dige&s;tion, &s;tay|eth Vomit and the Hiccough is good again&s;t the Gnawings of the Heart, provoketh Appetite, taketh away Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and &s;tirreth up bodily Lu&s;t; But thereof too much mu&s;t not be taken, becau&s;e it maketh the Bloud thin and wheyi&s;h, and turneth it into Choller, and therfore Chollerick per&s;ons mu&s;t ab&s;tain from it. It is a &s;afe Medicine for the biting of a mad Dog, being brui&s;ed with Salt and laid theron. The Pouder of it being dried and taken after Meat, helpeth dige&s;tion, and tho&s;e that are Splenetick: taken with Wine it hel|peth Women in their &s;ore Travel in Child bearing: It is good again&s;t the Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys, and the Strangury. Being &s;melled unto, it is comfortable for the Head and Memory. The Decoction thereof gar|gled in the Mouth, cureth the Gums and Mouth that is &s;ore, and mendeth an ill &s;avored Breath: as al&s;o with Rue and Coriander, cau&s;eth the Pallat of the Mouth that is down to return to his place, the Decoction being gar|gled and held in the Mouth.</P>
<P>The Vertues of the Wild or Hor&s; <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ints,</HI> &s;uch as grow in Ditches (who&s;e De&s;cription I purpo&s;ely omitted in regard they are wel enough known) are e&s;pecially to di&s;&s;olve Wind in the Stomach, to help the Chollick,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wind, Venereal Dreams, and nightly polluti|ons, Ears pain|ed, biting of Serpents, Kings Evil, a &s;tinking Breath, Lepro&s;ie Dandrif.</NOTE> and tho&s;e that are &s;hort Winded, and are an e|&s;pecial Remedy for tho&s;e that have Vene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ious Dreams and pollutions in the night, being outwardly applyed to the Te|&s;ticles or Cods. The juyce dropped into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains of them, and de&s;troyeth the Worms that breed therin. They are good again&s;t the Venemous biting of Serpents. The juyce laid on warm, helpeth the Kings Evil, or Kernels in the Throat: The Decoction or Di&s;tilled Water helpeth a &s;tinking Breath proceeding from the corruption of the Teeth; and &s;nuffed up into the No&s;e, purgeth the Head. <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That eating of the Leavs hath been found by experience to cure the Lepro&s;ie, and applying &s;ome of them to the Face, and to help the Scurf or Dandrif of the head, u&s;ed with Vinegar.</P>
<P>They are extream bad for wounded people; and they &s;ay a wounded man that eats Mints, his Wound wil never be Cured; and that's a long day.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mi&s;&s;elto.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis ri&s;eth up from the Branch or Arm of the Tree wheron it groweth, with a woody &s;tem, parting it &s;elf into &s;undry Branches, and they again divided into many other &s;maller twigs, interlacing them&s;elves one within another, very much covered with a grayi&s;h green bark, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ving two Leavs &s;et at every joynt, and at the end likewi&s;e, which are
<PB N="161" REF="93"> &s;omwhat long and narrow, &s;mal at the bottom, but broader toward the end. At the knots or joynts of the Boughs and Branches, grow &s;mal yellowi&s;h flow|ers, which turn into &s;mal round white tran&s;parant Berries three or four to|gether, full of gluttenous moi&s;ture, with a blacki&s;h Seed in every of them, which was never yet known to &s;pring, being put into the ground, or any where el&s; to grow.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place]</HI> It groweth very rarely on Oaks with us, but upon &s;undry other, as wel Timber as Fruit-Trees, plentifully in Woods, Groves, and the like, through al this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in the Spring time, but the Berries be not ripe until <HI>October,</HI> and abide on the Branches al the Winter, unle&s;s the Black-Birds, and other Birds do devour them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> That it is under the Dominion of the <HI>Sun,</HI> I do not que&s;tion; and can al&s;o take for granted, That that which grows upon Oaks participates &s;omthing of the Nature of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> becau&s; an Oak is one of his Trees; as al&s;o that w^c^h grows upon Pear-trees, and Apple-trees, participates &s;omthing of his Nature, becau&s;e he rules the Trees it grows up|on, having no Root of its own: But why that &s;hould have mo&s;t Vertues that grows upon Oaks I know not, unle&s;s becau&s;e 'tis rare&s;t, and harde&s;t to come by; and our Colledges Opinion is in this, contrary to the Scripture, which &s;aith, <HI>Gods tender mercies are over all his Works,</HI> and &s;o 'tis, let the Colledg of Phy&s;itians walk as contrary to him as they plea&s;e, and that's as contrary as the Ea&s;t is to the We&s;t. <HI>Clu&s;ius</HI> affirms that which grows upon Pear-trees to be as prevalent, and give order that it &s;hould not touch the ground after it is gathered, and al&s;o &s;aith, That being hung a|bout the Neck it remedies Witchcraft.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Witchcraft</NOTE> Both the Leavs and Berries of Mi&s;&s;elto do heat and dry, and are of &s;ubtil parts: The Birdlime doth mollifie hard Knots,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Impo&s;tums Spleen, Ulcers Falling-Sickne&s;s, Apoplexy, Pal&s;ey, Impo&s;tums</NOTE> Tumors and Inpo&s;t|humes, ripeneth and di&s;cu&s;&s;eth them; and draweth forth thick as wel as thin Humors from the remote places of the Body, di|ge&s;ting and &s;eparating them: And being mixed with equal parts of Rozin and Wax, doth mollifie the hardne&s;s of the Spleen, and healeth old Ulcers and Sores: Being mixed with Sanda|rack, and Ortment, it helpeth to draw off foul Nails; and if Quicklime and Wine Lees, be added therunto it worketh the &s;tronger. The Mi&s;&s;elto it &s;elf of the Oak (as the be&s;t) made into Pouder and given in drink to tho&s;e that have the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, doth a&s;&s;uredly heal them as <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, but it is fit to u&s;e it for forty daies to|gether. Some have &s;o highly e&s;teemed of the Vertues hereof that they have called it, <HI>Lignum Sanctae Crucis,</HI> Wood of the holy Cro&s;s, beleeving it to help the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Apoplexie, and Pal&s;ie very &s;peedily, not only to be inwardly taken, but to be hung at their Necks. <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;aith, That the fre&s;h Wood of any Mi&s;lelto brui&s;ed, and the Juyce drawn forth and dropped into the Ears that have Impo&s;tumes in them, doth help and ea&s; them with|in a few daies.</P>
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<PB N="162" REF="94">
<HEAD><HI>Money-wort,</HI> or <HI>Herb-Twopence.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Money-wort, &s;endeth forth from a &s;mal thriddy Root, divers long, weak, and &s;lender Branches lying and running upon the ground two or three foot long or more, &s;et with Leavs two at a Joynt one again&s;t another at equal di&s;tances, which are almo&s;t round, but pointed at the ends, &s;mooth, and of a good green color: At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle forward come forth at every joynt &s;omtimes one yellow Flower, and &s;omtimes two, &s;tanding each on a &s;mal Foot&s;talk, and made of five Leavs, narrow, and pointed at the ends, with &s;ome yellow threds in the middle: which being pa&s;t, there &s;tand in their places &s;mal round Heads of Seed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plentifully in almo&s;t al places of this Land; com|monly in moi&s;t grounds by Hedg &s;ides, and in the middle of gra&s;&s;y Fields.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns it. Money-wort is &s;ingular good to &s;tay al Fluxes in Man or Woman, whether they be Lasks,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fluxes, &V;lcers, Green Wounds, Old ulcers</NOTE> bloody Fluxes, the flowing of Womens Cour&s;es, blee|dings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakne&s;s of the Stomach that is given to ca&s;ting. It is very good al&s;o for al Ulcers, or Excoriations of the Lungs or other inward parts. It is excee|ding good for al Wounds, either fre&s;h or green to heal them &s;pee|dily; and for old Ulcers that are of a &s;preading Nature: For al which purpo&s;es, the Juyce of the Herb, or the Pouder drunk in Water wherin hot Steel hath been often quenched; or the Decoction of the green Herb in Wine or Water drunk; or the Seed, Juyce, or Decoction u&s;ed to the outward places to wa&s;h or bath them, or to have Tents dipped therein and put into them, are effectual.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Moon-wort.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> IT ri&s;eth up u&s;ually but with one dark green thick and fat Leaf &s;tanding upon a &s;hort foot&s;talk, not above two fingers breadth; but when it wil flower it may be &s;aid to bear a &s;mal &s;lender &s;talk about four or five inches high, having but one Leaf &s;et in the middle there|of, which is much divided on both &s;ides into &s;omtimes five or &s;even parts on a &s;ide, &s;omtimes more, each of which parts is &s;mal next the middle rib, but broad forwards and round pointed, re&s;embling therin an half Moon from whence it took the name, the upermo&s;t parts or divi&s;ions being le&s;s than the lowe&s;t: The &s;talk ri&s;eth above this Leaf two or three inches, bearing ma|ny branches of &s;mal long Tongues, every one like the &s;piky head of Adders-Tongue, of a browni&s;h color, which whether I &s;hal cal them Flowers or the Seed, I wel know not: which after they have continued a while re&s;olve into a Mealy du&s;t: The Root is &s;mal and Fibrous. This hath &s;omtimes divers &s;uch like Leavs as are before de&s;cribed, with &s;o many branches or tops ari&s;ing from one Stalk each divided from the other.</P>
<PB N="163" REF="94">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Hils, and Heaths, yet where there is much Gra&s;s, for therin it delighteth to grow.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is to be found only in <HI>April</HI> and <HI>May,</HI> for in <HI>June</HI> when a|ny hot weather cometh, for the mo&s;t part it is withered and gone.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> owns the Herb. Moon-wort is cold and drying more than Adders-Tongue, and is therfore held to be more available for al Wounds both inward and outward: The Leavs bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">led in red Wine and drunk &s;tayeth the immoderate Flux of Womens Cour&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Womens Cour&s;es, Bleedings, vomiting, Fluxes, Broken &amp; disjoynted Bones, Green Wounds.</NOTE> and the Whites: It al&s;o &s;tayeth Bleeding, Vomitings, and other Fluxes: It helpeth al Blows and Brui&s;es, and to con|&s;olidate al Fractures and Di&s;locations: It is good for Ruptures: But it is chiefly u&s;ed by mo&s;t with other Herbs to make Oyls or Bal&s;oms to heal fre&s;h or green Wounds (as I &s;aid before) either inward or outward, for which it is excellent good.</P>
<P>Moon-wort is an Herb which they &s;ay wil open Locks, and un&s;hoo &s;uch Hor&s;es as tread upon it; this &s;ome laugh to &s;corn, and tho&s;e no &s;mal Fools neither: but Country people that I know, cal it [Un&s;hoo the Hor&s;e:] Be&s;ides, I have heard Com|manders &s;ay, That on White Down in <HI>Devon-&s;hire</HI> neer <HI>Tiver|ton,</HI> there was found thirty Hor&s;-&s;hoos, pulled off from the feet of the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Hor&s;es being there drawn up in a Body, many of them being but newly &s;hod, and no rea&s;on known, which cau&s;ed much admiration: and the Herb de&s;cribed u&s;ually grows upon Heaths.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mo&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>I Shal not trouble the Reader with any De&s;cription of the&s;e, &s;ith my intent is to &s;peak only of two kinds as the mo&s;t principal, viz. <HI>Ground-Mo&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Tree-Mo&s;s,</HI> both which are very wel known.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Ground-Mo&s;s, growing in our moi&s;t Woods, and the bottoms of Hils, in boggy grounds, and in &s;hadowy Ditches, and many o|ther &s;uch li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e places.</P>
<P>The Tree-Mo&s;s groweth only on Trees.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Al &s;orts of Mo&s;&s;es are under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI> The Ground-Mo&s;s is held to be &s;ingular good to break the Stone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Inflama|tions.</NOTE> and to expel and drive it forth by Urin, being boyled in Wine and drunk: The Herb brui&s;ed and boyled in Water and applied, ea&s;eth al Inflamations and pains coming of an hot cau&s;e; and is therefore u&s;ed to ea&s;e the pains of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ot Gout.</P>
<P>The Tree-Mo&s;&s;es are cooling and binding, and partake of a dige&s;ting and mollifying quality withal, as <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith. But each Mo&s;s doth partake of the Nature of the Tree from whence it is taken; therfore that of the Oak is more binding,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fluxes, Vomiting, Bleeding, Womens Cour&s;es,</NOTE> and is of good effect to &s;tay Fluxes in man or Woman, as al&s;o Vomitings or Bleedings, the Pouder therof being taken in Wine: The Decoction therof in Wine is very good for Women to be bathed with, or to &s;it in
<PB N="164" REF="95"> that are troubled with the overflowing of their Cour&s;es: The &s;ame being drunk &s;tayeth the &s;tomach that is troubled with ca&s;ting, or the Hiccough; and as <HI>Avicenna</HI> &s;aith, it comforteth the Heart: The Pouder therof taken in Drink for &s;ome time together, is thought available for the Drop&s;ie.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Drop&s;ie, Headach, Sinews.</NOTE> The Oyl of Ro&s;es that have had fre&s;h Mo&s;s &s;teeped therin for a time, and after boyled and applied to the Temples and F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rehead, do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h mervelou&s;ly ea&s; the Head-ach coming of a hot cau&s;; as al&s;o the Di&s;tillations of hot Rhewm or Humors to the Eyes or other parts: The Ancients much u&s;ed it in their Oyntments and other Medicines again&s;t La&s;&s;itude, and to &s;trengthen and comfort the Sinews. For which, if it was good then, I know no rea&s;on but it may be found &s;o &s;til.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mother-wort.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis hath a hard, &s;quare, browni&s;h, rough, &s;trong Stalk, ri&s;ing three or four foot high at lea&s;t, &s;preading into many Branches; wheron grow Leavs on each &s;ide with long Foot&s;talks, two at every Joynt, which are &s;omwhat broad and long, as it were rough, or crum|pled, with many great Veins therin, of a &s;ad green color, and deeply den|ted about the edges, and almo&s;t divided: From the middle of the Branches up to the tops of them (which are very long and &s;mal) grow the Flowers round about them at di&s;tances, in &s;harp pointed rough hard Husks, of a more red or purple color than Balm or Horehound, but in the &s;ame manner or form as the Horehounds: after which come &s;mal round blacki&s;h Seeds in great plenty. The Root &s;endeth forth a number of long &s;trings and &s;mal fibres, taking &s;trong hold in the ground, of a dark yellowi&s;h or browni&s;h color, and abideth as the Horehound doth, the &s;mel of this being not much different from it.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth only in Gardens with us in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns the Herb, and it is under <HI>Leo:</HI> There is no better Herb to drive Melancholly Vapors from the Heart,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melan|cholly Vapors, Swounings Sore Tra|vail, Mother, vrine, Womens Cour&s;es, Flegm, Cold Flegm, Cramps, Convul|&s;ions.</NOTE> to &s;trengthen it, and make a merry, cheerful, blithe &s;oul, than this Herb: It may be kept in a Syrup or Con&s;erve, therfore the Latins called it <HI>Cardiaca.</HI> Be&s;ides, it makes Wo|men joyful Mothers of Children, and &s;ettles their Wombs as they &s;hould be; therfore we cal it <HI>Motherwort.</HI> It is held to be of much u&s;e for the trembling of the Heart, and in faintings and &s;woonings from whence it took the name <HI>Cardiaca.</HI> The Pouder therof to the quantity of a &s;poonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help to Women in their &s;ore Travels, as al&s;o for the &s;uffocations or ri&s;ings of the Mother; and from the&s;e effects it is likely it took the name of Motherwort with us. It al&s;o provo|keth Urine and Womens Cour&s;es, clen&s;eth the Che&s;t of cold Flegm oppre&s;&s;ing it, and killeth the Worms in the Belly: It is of good u&s;e to warm and dry up the cold Humors, to dige&s;t and di&s;per&s;e them that are &s;etled in the Veins, Joynts, and Sinews of the Body, and to help Cramps and Convul&s;ions.</P>
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<PB N="165" REF="95">
<HEAD>Mou&s;e-Ear.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] MOu&s;e-Ear <HI>is a low Herb creeping upon the ground by &s;mal &s;trings like the Strawberry Plant, wherby it &s;hooteth forth &s;mal Roots, whereat grow upon the ground many &s;mal and &s;omwhat &s;hort Leavs &s;et in a round form together, hollowi&s;h in the middle where they are broade&s;t, of an hoary color al over, and very hairy, which being broken do give a white Milk: From among the&s;e Leavs &s;pring up two or three &s;mal hoary Stalks about a span high, with a few &s;maller Leavs theron: At the tops wherof &s;tandeth u&s;ually but one Flower, con&s;i&s;ting of many paler yellow Leavs broad at the points, and a little dented in, &s;et in three or four rows, the greater outermo&s;t, very like a D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndelyon Flower, and a little reddi&s;h un|derneath about the edges, e&s;pecially if it grow in a dry ground: which after they have &s;tood long in Flower, do turn into Down, which with the Seed is carried away with the wind.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on Ditch Banks, and &s;omtimes in Ditches if they be dry, and in &s;andy grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth about <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and abideth green all the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> owns the Herb al&s;o, and though Authors cry out upon Alchymi&s;ts for attempting to fix Quick Silver by this Herb and Moonwort: A Roman would not have judged a thing by the &s;ucce&s;s; if it be to be fixed at al, 'tis by Lunar Influence. The Juyce here|of taken in Wine, or the Decoction therof drunk, doth help the Jaundice although of long continuance to drink therof morning and evening,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jaundice, Stone, belly-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch, Dro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ie, Flux, Wounds, Bloody Flux, Terms &s;tops, Cough, Phti&s;ick, Ruptures, Canker, Ulcers, &s;preading &s;ores.</NOTE> and ab&s;tain from other drink two or three hours after: It is a &s;pecial Remedy again&s;t the Stone, and the tormen|ting pains therof; as al&s;o other Tortures and griping pains of the Bowels: The Decoction thereof with Succory and Cen|taury, is held very effectual to help the Drop&s;ie, and them that are inclining therunto, and the Di&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es of the Spleen. It &s;tay|eth the Fluxes of Blood, either at the Mouth or No&s;e, and inward bleedings al&s;o, for it is a &s;ingular Wound-Herb for Wounds both inward and outward; It helpeth the Bloody flux, and hel|peth the abundance of Womens Cour&s;es. There is a Syrup made of the Juyce herof and Sugar by the Apothecaries of <HI>Italy,</HI> and other places, which is of much account with them, to be gi|ven to tho&s;e that are troubled with the Cough or Phti&s;ick: The &s;ame al&s;o is &s;ingular good for Ruptures or Bur&s;tings. The green Herb brui&s;ed and pre&s;ently bound to any fre&s;h Cut or Wound, doth quickly &s;oder the Lips therof. And the Juyce, Decoction, or Pouder of the dried Herb, is mo&s;t &s;ingular to &s;tay the malig|nity of &s;preading and fretting Cankers and Ulcers wher&s;oever, yea, in the Mouth, or &s;ecret parts: The di&s;tilled Water of the Plant is available in all the Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid, and to wa&s;h outward Wounds and Sores, and to ap|ply Tents, or Cloaths wet therin.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="166" REF="96">
<HEAD>Mugwort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon Mugwort have divers Leavs lying upon the ground, very much divided, or cut deeply in about the Brims, &s;omwhat like Wormwood, but much larger, of a dark green color on the upper &s;ide, and very hoary white underneath. The &s;talks ri&s;e to be four or five foot high, having on it &s;uch like Leavs as tho&s;e below, but &s;omwhat &s;maller, branching forth very much toward the top, wheron are &s;et very &s;mal pale yellowi&s;h Flowers like Buttons, which fal away; and after them come &s;mal Seed inclo&s;ed in round Heads: The Root is long and hard with many &s;mal Fibres growing from it, whereby it taketh &s;trong hold in the ground, but both &s;talk and Leaf do die down every yeer, and the Root &s;hooteth anew in the Spring. The whol Plant is of a rea&s;onable good &s;cent, and is more ea|&s;ily propagated by the Slips, than by the Seed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land, by the way &s;ides, as al&s;o by &s;mal Water-Cour&s;es, and in divers other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is an Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> therfore main|taineth the parts of the Body &s;he rules, and remedies the Di&s;ea|&s;es of the parts that are under her Signs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms provokes, Birth, Afterbirth Womb in|flamed, Wens,</NOTE> <HI>Taurus</HI> and <HI>Libra.</HI> Mugwort is with good &s;ucce&s;s put among other Herbs that are boyled for Women to &s;it over the hot Decoction, to draw down their Cour&s;es, to help the Delivery of the Birth, and expel the Afterbirth, as al&s;o for the Ob&s;tructions and Inflamations of the Mother. It breaketh the Stone, and cau&s;eth one to make water where it is &s;topped: The Juyce thereof made up with Mirrh, and put under as a Pe&s;&s;ary, worketh the &s;ame effect, and &s;o doth the Root al&s;o, being made up with Hogs Grea&s;e into an Oyntment,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kings Evil, pains in the Neck, Opium, Sciatica, Sinews pained, Cramp.</NOTE> it taketh away Wens and hard Knots and Kernels that grow about the Neck and Throat, and ea&s;eth the pains about the Neck more effectually, if &s;ome field Dai&s;ies be put with it. The Herb it &s;elf being fre&s;h, or the Juyce therof taken, is a &s;pecial Remedy upon the overmuch ta|king of Opium. Three drams of the Pouder of the dried Leavs taken in Wine, is a &s;peedy and the be&s;t certain help for the Scia|tica. A Decoction therof made with Chamomel and Agrimo|ny, and the place bathed therwith while it is warm, taketh away the pains of the Sinews and the Cramp.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Mulberry-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o wel known where it groweth, that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It beareth Fruit in the Months of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> rules the Tree, therfore are its ef|fects variable as his are. The Mulberry is of different parts; the ripe Ber|ries by rea&s;on of their &s;weetne&s;s and &s;lippery moi&s;ture, opening the Belly, and the unripe binding it, e&s;pecially when they are dried, and
<PB N="167" REF="96"> then they are good to &s;tay Fluxes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Binding, Fluxes, Lasks, Terms &s;tops, Inflama|tion, &V;vula, &s;ore Mouth &amp; Throat, Toothach, Bleeding, Hemor|rhoids,</NOTE> Lasks, and the abundance of Womens Cour&s;es. The Bark of the Root killeth the broad Worms in the Body. The Juyce, or the Syrup made of the Juyce of the Berries, helpeth al Inflamations or Sores in the Mouth or Throat, and the Pallat of the Mouth when it is fallen down. The Juyce of the Leavs is a Remedy again&s;t the biting of Serpents, and for tho&s;e that have taken Aconite: The Leavs beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire. A Decoction made of the Bark and Leavs, is good to wa&s;h the Mouth and Teeth when they ach. If the Root be a little &s;lit or cut, and a &s;mal hole made in the ground next ther|unto, in the Harve&s;t time, it wil give out a certain Juyce, which being hardned, the next day is of good u&s;e to help the Tooth|ach, to di&s;&s;olve knots, and purge the Belly: The Leavs of Mul|berries are &s;aid to &s;tay bleeding at Mouth or No&s;e, or the blee|ding of the Piles, or of a Wound being bound unto the places. A Branch of the Tree taken when the <HI>Moon</HI> is at the ful,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A curious &s;ecret.</NOTE> and bound to the Wre&s;t of a Womans Arm, who&s;e Cour&s;es come down too much doth &s;tay them in a &s;hort &s;pace.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mullein.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon white Mullein hath many fair large woolly white Leavs lying next the ground, &s;omwhat longer than broad, pointed at the ends, and as it were dented about the edges: The Stalk ri|&s;eth up to be four or five foot high, covered over with &s;uch like Leavs, but le&s;&s;er, &s;o that no Stalk can be &s;een for the multitude of Leavs thereon up to the Flowers, which come forth on al &s;ides of the Stalk, without any Branches for the mo&s;t part, and are many &s;et together in a long &s;pike, in &s;ome of a gold yellow color, in others more pale, con&s;i&s;ting of five round pointed Leavs, which afterward give &s;mal round Heads, wherin is &s;mal browni&s;h Seed contained: The Root is long, white, and woody, peri&s;hing after it hath born Seed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth by way &s;ides, and Lanes, in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> or thereabouts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI> A &s;mal quantity of the Root given in Wine, is commended by <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> again&s;t Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Ruptures, Cramp, Convul|&s;ion, Cough, Toothach, Hemor|rhoids, Bloody, Flux, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Reins, Bladder, Sinews, Gout, Warts, Bellyach, Chollick, Inflama|tion, Thorns, splinters, Boyls, Groyn, Disjun|ctures.</NOTE> The De|coction thereof drunk is profitable for tho&s;e that are Bur&s;ten, and for Cramps and Convul&s;ions, and for tho&s;e that are trou|bled with an old Cough. The Decoction therof gargled, ea|&s;eth the pains of the Toothach. An Oyl made by the often In|fu&s;ion of the Flowers, is of very good effect for the Piles. The Decoction of the Root in red Wine, or in Water (if there be an Ague) wherin red hot Steel hath been often quenched, doth &s;tay the Bloody flux: The &s;ame al&s;o openeth ob&s;tructions of the Bladder and Reins when one cannot make water. A De|coction
<PB N="168" REF="97"> of the Leavs hereof, and of Sage, Marjoram and Cha|momel Flowers, and the places bathed therewith that have Si|news &s;tark with cold, or Cramps, doth bring them much ea&s;, and comfort. Three ounces of the di&s;tilled Water of the Flowers drunk morning and evening for &s;ome daies together, is &s;aid to be the mo&s;t excellent Remedy for the hot Gout. The Juyce of the Leavs and Flowers being laid upon rough Warts, as al&s;o the Pouder of the dried roots rubbed on, doth ea&s;ily take them away; but doth no good to &s;mooth Warts. The Pouder of the dried Flowers is an e&s;pecial Remedy for tho&s;e that are troubled with Belly-aches or the pains of the Chollick. The Decoction of the Root, and &s;o likewi&s;e of the Leavs is of great effect to di&s;|&s;olve the Tumors, Swellings, or Inflamation of the Throat. The Seed and Leavs boyled in Wine, and applied, draweth forth &s;peedily Thorns, or Splinters gotten into the Fle&s;h, ea&s;eth the pains, and healeth them al&s;o. The Leavs brui&s;ed and wrapped in double Papers, and covered with hot a&s;hes and Embers to bake a while, and then taken forth and laid warm on any Botch or Boyl hapning in the Groyn or Share, doth di&s;&s;olve and heal them. The Seed brui&s;ed, and boyled in Wine, and laid on any Member that hath been out of Joynt and is newly &s;et again, taketh, away al Swellings and pains therof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Mu&s;tard.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;r common Mu&s;tard hath large and broad rough Leavs, very much jagged with uneven and unorderly ga&s;hes, &s;om|what like Turnip Leavs, but le&s;&s;er and rougher: The Stalk ri&s;eth to be more than a foot high, &amp; &s;omtimes two foot high, being round, rough, and branched at the top, bearing &s;uch like Leavs theron as grow below, but le&s;&s;er, and le&s;s divided; and divers yellow Flowers one above another at the tops; after which come &s;mal rough Pods, with &s;mal lank flat ends, wherein is contained round yellowi&s;h Seed, &s;harp, hot, and biting upon the Tongue: The Root is &s;mal, long, and woody, when it beareth Stalks, and peri&s;heth every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth with us in Gardens only, and other manured places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is an annual Plant, Flowring in <HI>July,</HI> and their Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an excellent Sawce for &s;uch who&s;e Blood wants clarifying, and for weak Stomachs, being an Herb of <HI>Mars,</HI> but naught for Chollerick people, though as good for &s;uch as are aged or troubled with cold Di&s;ea&s;es: <HI>Aries</HI> claims &s;omthing to do with it, there|fore it &s;trengthens the Heart and re&s;i&s;teth Poy&s;on: let &s;uch who&s;e Stomachs are &s;o weak they cannot dige&s;t their meat, or appetite it, take of Mu&s;tard Seed a dram, Cinnamon as much, and having beaten them to Pouder, ad half as much Ma&s;tich in Pouder, and with Gum Arabick di&s;&s;olved in Ro&s;e Water, make it up into Troches, of which they may take one of about half
<PB N="169" REF="97"> a dram weight an hour or two before meals, let old men and women make much of this Medicine, and they wil either give me thanks, or manife&s;t in|gratitude. Mu&s;tard Seed hath the Vertue of heating, di&s;cu&s;&s;ing, rarefying,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, Dries, Splinters, Thorns, Terms, povokes, Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Lethargie, Sneezing, Di&s;ury, Poy&s;on, Mu&s;hroms venemous Brea&s;ts, Agues, Lu&s;t pro|vokes, Spleen, &V;vula, Sciatica; Toothach, Pains, Hair, Brui&s;es, Black and blue spots, roughne&s;s, Lepro&s;ie, Leuzie E|vil, Mor-Freckles, Wry Necks.</NOTE> and drawing out Splinters of Bones, and other things out of the fle&s;h. It is of good effect to bring down Womens Cour&s;es, for the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s or Lethargy, drou&s;ie forgetful evil, to u&s;e it both inwardly, and outwardly to rub th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> No&s;trils, Forehead and Temples, to warm and quicken the Spirits, for by the fierce &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pne&s;s it purgeth the Brain by &s;neezing, and drawing down Rhewm and other vi&s;cuous Humors, which by their di&s;tillations upon the Lungs and Che&s;t procure Cough|ing, and therfore with &s;ome Honey added thereto doth much good therein. The Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk, provoketh Urin, re&s;i&s;teth the force of Poy&s;on, the malignity of Mu&s;hroms, and the Venom of Scorpions, or other Venemous Creatures, if it be taken in time: and taken before the cold fits of Agues, altereth, le&s;&s;eneth, and cureth them. The Seed taken either by it &s;elf or with other things, either in an E|lectuary or Drink, doth mightily &s;tir up bodily Lu&s;t, and hel|peth the Spleen and pains in the Sides, and gnawing in the Bo|wels. And u&s;ed as a Gargle, draweth up the Pallat of the Mouth being fallen down, and al&s;o it di&s;&s;olveth the Swellings about the Throat if it be outwardly applied. Being chewed in the Mouth, it oftentimes helpeth the Toothach. The outward ap|plication hereof upon the pained place of the Sciatica, di&s;cu&s;&s;eth the Humors, and ea&s;eth the pains, as al&s;o of the Gout, and other Joynt aches. And is much and often u&s;ed to ea&s; pains in the Sides or Loyns, the Shoulders, or other parts of the Body, upon the applying therof to rai&s;e Bli&s;ters, and cureth the Di&s;ea&s;e by drawing it to the outward part of the Body: It is al&s;o u&s;ed to help the falling of the Hair: The Seed brui&s;ed, mixed with Honey and applied, or made up with Wax, taketh away the Marks, and black and blue &s;pots of Brui&s;es or the like, the rough|ne&s;s or &s;cabbedne&s;s of the Skin, as al&s;o the Lepro&s;ie and Lou&s;ie evil: it helpeth al&s;o the crick in the Neck. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower, is much u&s;ed to drink inward|ly to help in any the Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid, or to wa&s;h the Mouth when the Pallat is down, and for the di&s;ea&s;es of the Throat to gargle, but outwardly al&s;o for Scabs, Itch, or other like infirmities, and clen&s;eth the Face from Morphew, Spots, Freckles, and other Deformities.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Hedg-Mu&s;tard.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth up u&s;ually but with one blacki&s;h green Stalk, tough, ea&s;ie to bend but not break, branched into divers parts, and &s;omtimes with divers Stalks &s;et full of Branches, whereon grow long, rough, or hard rugged Leavs, very much torn or cut on the edges into
<PB N="170" REF="98"> many parts, &s;ome bigger, and &s;omele&s;&s;er, of a dirty green color: The Flo|wers are &s;mal and yellow, that grow at the tops of the Branches, in long spikes, flowring by degrees, &s;o that continuing long in Flower the &s;talks wil have &s;mal round Cods at the bottom, growing upright and clo&s;e to the &s;talk, while the top Flowers, yet &s;hew them&s;elves; in which are contained &s;mal yellow Seed, &s;harp and &s;trong, as the Herb is al&s;o. The Root groweth down &s;lender and woody, yet abiding, and &s;pringing again every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth frequently in this Land by the Waies and Hedg|&s;ides, and &s;omtimes in the open Fields.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth mo&s;t u&s;ually about <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns this Herb al&s;o. It is &s;ingular good in al the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t and Lungs, Hoar&s;ne&s;s of Voyce,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Che&s;t, Lungs, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Jaundice, Plu|re&s;ie, Back, Loyns, Belly, Chollick, Poy|&s;on, Sciatica, Gout, Joynts, Fi&s;tulaes, ulcers, cankers, Te&s;ticles, wo|mens Brea&s;ts.</NOTE> and by the u&s;e of the Decoction therof for a little &s;pace, tho&s;e have been recovered who had utterly lo&s;t their voyce, and almo&s;t their &s;pirits al&s;o. The Juyce thereof made into a Syrup, or licking Medicine with Honey or Sugar is no le&s;s effectual for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and for al o|ther Coughs, Whee&s;ings, and &s;hortne&s;s of Breath The &s;ame is al&s;o profitable for tho&s;e that have the Jaundice, the Plure&s;ie, pains in the Back and Loyns, and for torments in the Belly, or the Chollick, being al&s;o u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters. The Seed is held to be a &s;pecial Remedy again&s;t Poy|&s;on and Venom: It is &s;ingular good for the Sciatica, the Gout, and al Joynt aches, Sores, and Cankers in the Mouth, Throat, or behind the Ears; and no le&s;s for the hardne&s;s and Swelling of the Te&s;ticles, or of Womens Brea&s;ts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Nail-wort,</HI> or <HI>Whitlow-gra&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis very &s;mal and common Herb hath no Roots, &s;ave only a few &s;trings, neither doth it ever grow to be above a band breadth high: The Leavs are very &s;mal, and &s;omthing long, not much unlike tho&s;e of Chickweed; among&s;t which ari&s;e up divers &s;lender Stalks, bearing many white Flowers one above another, which are exceeding &s;mal: After which come &s;mal flat Pouches containing the Seed which is very &s;mal, but of a &s;harp ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lace.]</HI> It grows commonly upon old &s;tone and brick Wals, and &s;om|times in dry gravelly Grounds, e&s;pecially if there be gra&s;s or Mo&s;s neer, to &s;hadow it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower very early in the yeer, &s;omtimes in <HI>January,</HI> and in <HI>February,</HI> for before the end of <HI>April</HI> they are not to be found.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Impo&s;thumse, whitlows, Fe|lons, Andicoms Nail-wheals.</NOTE><HI>[Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is held to be exceeding good for tho&s;e Impo&s;thumes in the Joynts, and under the Nails, which they cal Whitlows, Felons, Andicoms, and Nail-wheals.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="171" REF="98">
<HEAD><HI>Nep,</HI> or <HI>Catmint.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> COmmon Garden Nep &s;hooteth forth hard four &s;quare Stalks with a hoarine&s;s on them, a yard high or more, ful of Branches, bearing at every Joynt two broad Leavs, &s;omwhat like Balm but longer pointed, &s;ofter, whiter, and more hoary, nicked about the edges, and of a &s;trong &s;weet &s;cent. The flowers grow in large tufts at the tops of the Branches, and undernea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h them likewi&s;e on the Stalks many together, of a whiti&s;h purple color. The Roots are compo&s;ed of many long &s;trings or Fibres, fa&s;tning them&s;elves &s;trongly in the ground, and abide with green Leavs theron al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is only nur&s;ed up in our Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And it flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> or therabouts.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Venus.</HI> Nep is generally u&s;ed for Women to procure their Cour&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Terms provokes, Barrenne&s;s Womb, Wind, Mother, Cough, Rhewms, Vertigo, Cramp, Cold ach, Difficulty of breath, Brui&s;es, Hemor|rhoids, Scabby Heads.</NOTE> being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient Herbs in a Decoction to bath them, or &s;it over the hot fumes therof, and by the frequent u&s;e therof it taketh away barrenne&s;s, and the wind and pains of the Mother. It is al&s;o u&s;ed in pains of the Head coming of any cold cau&s;, as Catarrhs, Rhewms, and for &s;wimming and giddine&s;s therof, and is of e&s;pecial u&s;e for the windine&s;s of the Stomach and Belly. It is effectual for any Cramps or cold aches, to di&s;&s;olve the cold and wind that af|flicteth the place, and is u&s;ed for Colds, Coughs, and &s;hortne&s;s of breath. The Juyce therof drunk in Wine is profitable for tho&s;e that are brui&s;ed by any accident. The green Herb brui&s;ed and applied to the Fundament, and lying there two or three hours, ea&s;eth the pains of the Piles. The Juyce al&s;o being made up into an Oyntment, is effectual for the &s;ame purpo&s;e: The Head wa&s;hed with a Decoction therof, it taketh away Scabs; and may be effectual for other parts of the Body al&s;o.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Nettles.</HEAD>
<P>NEttles are &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription at al, they may be found by feeling in the darke&s;t night.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is an Herb <HI>Mars</HI> claims Domini|on over: you know <HI>Mars</HI> is hot and dry, and you know as wel that Win|ter is cold and moi&s;t; then you may know as wel the rea&s;on why Nettle tops eaten in &s;pring con&s;ume the Flegmatick &s;uperfluities in the Body of man, that the coldne&s;s and moi&s;ture of Winter hath left behind. The Roots or Leavs boyled,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs, wheezing, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Plure&s;ie, Almonds of the Ears, Ears, Throat, Mouth, &V;vula, Terms provokes Mother, Di&s;ury, Gravel, Vorms, &s;pleen, bleeding, Venem. Bea&s;ts mad-dogs, hem|lock, Henbane, Night-&s;hade, Mandrakes, Le|thargy, Mor|phew, Lepro&s;ie, Bleeding, Poli|pus, Ulcers, Fi|&s;tulaes, Gan|greens, Scabs, Itch, Wounds, Wearine&s;s, Di&s;|junctures, gout, Sciatica, joynts.</NOTE> or the Juyce of either of them, or both, made into an Electuary with Honey or Sugar, is a &s;afe and &s;ure Medicine to open the Pipes &amp; Pa&s;&s;ages of the Lungs, w^c^h is the cau&s;e of whee&s;ing and &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and helpeth to ex|pectorate tough flegm, as al&s;o to rai&s;e the impo&s;tumated Plure&s;ie, and &s;pend it by &s;pitting; the &s;ame helpeth the &s;welling of the
<PB N="172" REF="99"> Almonds of the Throat, the Mouth &amp; Throat being gargled therwith. The Juyce is al&s;o effectual to &s;ettle the Pallate of the Mouth in it's place, and to heal and temper the infla|mations and &s;orene&s;s of the Mouth and Throat. The De|coction of the Leavs in Wine, being drunk, is &s;ingular good to provoke Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;ettle the &s;uffocation or &s;trangling of the Mother, and al other di&s;ea&s;es therof, as al|&s;o applied outwardly with a little Mirrh. The &s;ame al&s;o, or the Seed, provoketh Urine, and expelleth the G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avel and Stone in the Reins or Bladder often proved to be effectual in many that have taken it. The &s;ame killeth the Worms in Children, ea&s;eth pains in the &s;ides, and di&s;&s;olveth the win|dine&s;s in the Spleen, as al&s;o in the Body, although others think it only powerful to provoke Venery. The Juyce of the Leavs taken two or three dayes together, &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yeth bleeding at the Mouth. The Seed being drunk, is a Remedy again&s;t the &s;tinging of Venemous Creatures, the bitting of mad-Dogs, the poy&s;onful qualities of Hemlocks, Henbane, Night&s;hade, Mandrake, or other &s;uch like He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bs that &s;tu|pifie or dull the Sen&s;es; as al&s;o the Lethargy, e&s;pecially to u&s;e it outwardly to rub the Fore-head, or Temples in the Le|thargy, and the places bitten or &s;tung with Bea&s;ts, with a lit|tle Salt. The Di&s;tilled Watter of the Herb is al&s;o effectual (although not &s;o powerful) for the Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid, as for outward Wounds and Sores to wa&s;h them, and to clen&s;e the skin from Morphew, Lepro&s;ie, and other di&s;|colourings thereof; The Seed or Leavs brui&s;ed, and put into the No&s;trils, &s;tayeth the Bleeding of them, and taketh away the Fle&s;h growing in them, called <HI>Polipus.</HI> The Juyce of the Leavs, or the Decoction of them, or of the Roots, is &s;ingular good to wa&s;h either old, rotten, or &s;tinking Sores, or Fi|&s;tulaes and Gangrenes, and &s;uch as are fretting, eating, or corroding Scabs, Mangine&s;s and Itch in any part of the Body, as al&s;o green Wounds by wa|&s;hing them therwith, or applying the green Herb brui&s;ed therunto, yea, al|though the Fle&s;h were &s;eparated from the Bones: The &s;ame applied to our wearied Members refre&s;heth them, or to places that have been out of Joynt being fir&s;t &s;et again, &s;trengtheneth, drieth, and comforteth them, as al&s;o tho&s;e places troubled with aches and Gouts, and the Defluxion of Humors upon the Joynts or Sinews, it ea&s;eth the pains, and drieth or di&s;&s;olveth the De|fluxions, An Oyntment made of the Juyce, Oyl, and a little Wax, is &s;in|gular good to rub cold and benummed Members. An handful of the Leavs of green Nettles, and another of Wal-wort, or D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">newort, brui&s;ed and ap|plied &s;imply of them&s;elvs to the Gout, Sciatica, or Joynt-aches in any part, hath been found to be an admirable help therunto.</P>
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<HEAD>Night&s;hade.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> COmmon <HI>Night&s;hade</HI> hath an upright, round green, hollow &s;talk, about a Foot or half a yard high, bu&s;hing forth in|to
<PB N="173" REF="99"> many Branches, whereon grow many green Leavs, &s;omewhat broad and pointed at the ends, &s;oft and full of Juyce, &s;omwhat like unto Bazil, but lar|ger, and a little unevenly dented about the edges: at the tops of the Stalks and B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anches, come forth three or four or more white Flowers made of five &s;mal pointed Leavs apeice, &s;tanding on a Stalk together, one above another with yellow pointels in the middle, compo&s;ed of four or five yellow threds &s;et to|gethe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> which afterwards turn into &s;o many pendulous green Berries of the bigne&s;&s;e of &s;mal Pea&s;e, full of green Juyce, and &s;mall whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h round flat Seed lying within it. The Root is white and a little woody when it hath given Flower and fruit with many &s;mal Fibres at it; The whole Plant is of a wa|teri&s;h in&s;ipide ta&s;t, but the Juyce within the Berries is &s;omwhat vi&s;cuous, and of a cooling and binding quality.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth wild with us, under old Walls, and in Rubbi&s;h, the common paths, and &s;ides of Hedges, and Fields, as al&s;o in our Gardens here in <HI>England</HI> without any planting.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It dieth down every year, and ari&s;eth again of its own &s;owing, but &s;pringeth not until the latter end of <HI>April</HI> at the &s;oone&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a cold <HI>Saturnine</HI> Plant. This common <HI>Night&s;hade</HI> is wholly u&s;ed to cool hot Inflamations either inwardly or out|wardly, being no way dangerous to any that &s;hal u&s;e it, as mo&s;t of the re&s;t of the Night&s;hades are;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamati|ons, Inflama|tions, in the Eyes, Shingles, Ring-Worms, Terms, &s;tops, Te&s;ticles, Gouts, Ears,</NOTE> yet it mu&s;t be u&s;ed moderatly: The di&s;tilled Water only of the whole Herb is fitte&s;t and &s;afe&s;t to be taken inwardly: The juyce al&s;o clarified and taken, being mingled with a little Vinegar, is good to wa&s;h the Mouth and Throat that is inflamed: But outwardly the juyce of the Herb or Berries with Oyl of Ro&s;es, and a little Vinegar and Ceru&s;s la|bored together in a leaden morter, is very good to anoint al hot Inflamations in the Eyes: It doth al&s;o much good for the Shin|gles, Ringworms, and in al running, fretting, and corroding Ulcers, and in moi&s;t Fi&s;tulaes, and if the juyce be made up with &s;ome Hens-dung and applied therunto: A Pe&s;&s;ary dipped in the Juyce, and put up into the Matrix, &s;tayeth the immoderate Flux of Womens Cour&s;es: A Cloth wet therin, and applied to the the Te&s;ticles or Cods, upon any &s;welling therin, giveth much ea&s;e, as al&s;o to the Gout that cometh of hot and &s;harp Humors. The juyce droped into the Ears, ea&s;eth pains therof that ari&s;e of heat or in|flamation. And <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, It is good for hot &s;wellings under the Throat. Have a care you mi&s;take not the <HI>deadly Night&s;hade</HI> for this; if you know it not, you may let them both alone and take no harm, having other Medicines &s;ufficient in the Book.</P>
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<HEAD>The Oak.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known (the Timber therof being the Glory and Safety of this Nation by Sea) that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Jupiter</HI> owns the Tree. The Leavs and Bark of the Oak, and the Acorn Cups, do bind and dry very
<PB N="284" REF="100"> much:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dry, Bind, &s;pit|ting Bloud, flux Vomiting, Ve|nerious Acts, Di&s;ury, Poy&s;on, Venem. Bea&s;ts, Catharides, &V;l|cers of the bladder,</NOTE> The inner Bark of the Tree, and the thin skin that covereth the Acorn, are mo&s;t u&s;ed to &s;tay the &s;pitting of Bloud, and the Bloudy-flux: The Decoction of that Bark, and the Pouder of the Cups, to &s;tay Vomitings, &s;pitting of Bloud, bleeding at Mouth, or other Flux of Bloud in man or Woman, Lasks al&s;o, and the involuntary Flux of natural Seed. The Acorns in Pouder taken in Wine, provoketh U|rine, and re&s;i&s;teth the Poy&s;on of Venemous Creatures. The Decoction of Acorns and the Bark made in Milk, and ta|ken, re&s;i&s;teth the force of Poy&s;onous Herbs and Medicines, as al&s;o the Virulency of Cantharides, when one by eating them, hath his Bladder exulcerated, and pi&s;&s;eth Blood. <HI>Hippocrates</HI> &s;aith, He u&s;ed the fumes of Oak Leavs to Women that were troubled with the &s;trangling of the Mo|ther; and <HI>Galen</HI> applied them being brui&s;ed, to cure green Wounds. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Oaken Buds before they break out into Leavs,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mother, wou~ds Inflamation, Flux, pe&s;tilen|ces, epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es, Liver Stone, Terms &s;tops, Scabs.</NOTE> is good to be u&s;ed either inward or outward|ly to a&s;&s;wage Inflamations, and &s;top al manner of Fluxes in man or Woman: The &s;ame is &s;ingular good in Pe&s;tilential and hot burning Feavers, for it re&s;i&s;teth the force of the in|fection, and allayeth the heat: it cooleth the heat of the Li|ver, breaketh the Stone in the Kidneys, and &s;tayeth Womens Cour&s;es. The Decoction of the Leavs worketh the &s;ame ef|fects. The Water that is found in the hollow places of old Oaks, is very effectual again&s;t any foul or &s;preading Scab. The Di&s;tilled Water (or Decoction which is better) of the Leavs is one of the be&s;t Reme|dies that I know for the Whites in Women.</P>
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<HEAD>Oats.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are al&s;o &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Oats</HI> fryed with Bay-&s;alt, and ap|plied to the Sides,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stitch, wind, Itch, Lepro&s;ie, Fi&s;tulaes, Apo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ums, Frecles,</NOTE> takes away the pains of Stitches and Wind in the Sides or Belly. A pultis made of the Meal of Oats, and &s;om Oyl of Bays put therto, helpeth the Itch, and the Lepro&s;ie, as al|&s;o the Fi&s;tulaes of the Fundament, and di&s;&s;olveth hard Impo|&s;thumes. The Meal of Oates boyled with Vinegar and applied, taketh away Freckles and Spots in the Face, or other parts of the Body.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>One-Blade.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;mal Plant never beareth more than one Leaf, but only when it ri&s;eth up with his &s;talk, which theron beareth a|nother, and &s;eldom more, which are of a blewi&s;h green colour, pointed, with many ribs, or veins therin, like Plantane: At the top of the &s;talk, grow many &s;mal whit Flowers, &s;tar-fa&s;hion, &s;melling &s;omwhat &s;weet; after which come &s;mal reddi&s;h Berries when they are ripe. The Root is &s;mal of the bigne&s;s of a Ru&s;h, lying and creeping under the upper cru&s;t of the Earth, &s;hooting forth in d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es places.</HI></P>
<PB N="285" REF="100">
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in moi&s;t, &s;hadowy, and gra&s;&s;y places of Woods, in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth about <HI>May,</HI> and the Berries be ripe in <HI>June,</HI> and then quickly peri&s;heth until the next year, it &s;pringeth from the &s;ame Root a|gain.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a precious Herb of the <HI>Sun.</HI> Half a dram, or a dram at mo&s;t in pouder of the Roots hereof taken in Wine and Vinegar,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pe&s;tilence, Poy&s;on, Epidemi|cal di&s;ea&s;es Wounds, Sinews Cut.</NOTE> of each equal parts, and the party laid pre&s;ently to &s;weat thereupon, is held to be a &s;overeign Remedy for tho&s;e that are infected with the Plague, and have a Sore upon them, by ex|pelling the Poy&s;on and Infection, and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger. It is a &s;ingular good Wound herb, and is thereupon u&s;ed with other the like effects in making Compound-Balms for the Curing of Wounds, be they fre&s;h and green, or old and malignant, and e&s;pecially if the Sinews be hurt.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Orchis.</HEAD>
<P>IT hath gotten almo&s;t as many &s;everal Names attributed to the &s;everal &s;orts of it, as would almo&s;t fill a &s;heet of Paper; as, Dogs-&s;tones, Goats-&s;tones, Fools-&s;tones, Fox-&s;tones, Satirian, Cullians, together with many others, too tedious to rehear&s;.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>To de&s;cribe all the &s;everal &s;orts of it were an endle&s;s piece of work; therfore I &s;hal only de&s;cribe the Roots becau&s;e they are to be u&s;ed with &s;ome di&s;cretion: They have each of them a double Root within, &s;ome of them is round, in others like a hand; the&s;e Roots alter every year by cour&s;e, when the one ri&s;eth and waxeth full, the other waxeth lank and peri&s;heth: Now it is that which is full which is to be u&s;ed in Medicine, the other being either of no u&s;e at all, or el&s;e according to the humor of &s;ome, it de&s;troyes and di&s;&s;anul the Vertue of the other, quite undoing what that doth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> One or other of them may be found in Flower, from the begin|ning of <HI>April,</HI> to the latter end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are hot and moi&s;t in opperation, under the Dominion of Dame <HI>Venus,</HI> and provoke Lu&s;t excee|dingly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu&s;t provoketh Worms Kings-Evil.</NOTE> which they &s;ay the dry or withered Root re&s;trains again; they are held to kill the Worms in Children: as al|&s;o being brui&s;ed and applied to the place, to help the Kings-evil.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Onions.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o well known that I need not &s;pend time about writing a De|&s;cription of them.</P>
<P><HI>Government and vertues.] Mars</HI> owns them, and they have gotten this quality, to draw any corruption to them, for if you pill one and lay him up|on a Dunghil, you &s;hal find him rotten in half a day, by drawing putrifa|ction to it, then being brui&s;ed and applied to a Plague-Sore 'tis very pro|bable 'twill do the like.</P>
<PB N="286" REF="101">
<P><HI>Onions</HI> are Flatulent or Windy, yet they do &s;omwhat provoke appetite, en|crea&s;e thir&s;t, ea&s;e the Belly and Bowels; provoke Womens Cour&s;es, help the biting of a mad Dog,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mad Dogs Worms, Cough, Lethargy, Epidemi|cal di&s;ea|&s;es.</NOTE> and of other venemous Creatures, to be u&s;ed with Honey and Rue, and encrea&s;eth Sperm, e&s;peci|ally the &s;eed of them: They al&s;o kill the Worms in Children if they drink the water fa&s;ting wherein they have been &s;teeped all night. Being roa&s;ted under the Embers and eaten with Honey, or Sugar and Oyl they much conduce to help an inveterate Cough, and expectorate the tough Flegm. The Juyce being &s;nuffed up into the No&s;trils, purgeth the Head and helpeth the Lethargy (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et the often eating of them is &s;aid to procure pains in the Head) It hath been held by diver&s;e Country people a good pre&s;ervative again&s;t in|fection to eat Onions fa&s;ting with Bread and Salt: as al&s;o to make a great Onion hollow, filling the place with good Triacle, and after to roa&s;t it well under the Embers, which after taking away of the outermo&s;t skin there|of, being beaten together, is a Soveraign Salve for either Plague-Sore, or any other putrid Ulcer. The Juyce of Onions is good for either &s;calding, or burning by fire, water, or Gunpouder, and u&s;ed with Vinegar, taketh away all blemi&s;hes, Spots, and Marks in the Skin, and dropped into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains and noi&s;e of them. Applied al&s;o with Figs beaten to|gether, helpeth to ripen and break Impo&s;tumes and other Sores.</P>
<P><HI>Lecks</HI> are as like them in quality as a Pomewater is like an Apple: They are a Remedy ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;t a Surfeit of Mu&s;hroms, being baked under the Embers and taken; and being boyled and applied warm helpeth the Piles; In o|ther things they have the &s;ame property as the Onions, although not &s;o effe|ctual.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Orpine.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon</HI> Orpine <HI>ri&s;eth up with diver&s;e round brittle Stalks, thick &s;et with fat and fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hly Leavs without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges, of a pale green colour; The Flowers are white or whiti&s;h growing in tufts, after which come &s;mall chaffy Husks, with &s;eed like du&s;t in them. The Roots are diver&s;e thick, round, white, tu|berous clogs; and the Plant groweth not &s;o big in &s;ome places as in others where it is found.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is frequent almo&s;t in every Country of this Land, and is che|ri&s;hed in Gardens with us, where it groweth greater than that which is wild, and groweth in the &s;hadowy &s;ides of Fields and Woods.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth about <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> owns the Herb, and he that knows but her Exaltation, knows what I &s;ay is true.</P>
<P><HI>Orpine</HI> is &s;eldome u&s;ed in inward Medicines with us, although <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h from experience in <HI>Germany</HI> that the di&s;tilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Excoriation of Bowels, Pti&s;ick Womb, Bloody Flux, Wounds</NOTE> and for Ulcers in the Lungs, Liver, or other inward parts, as al&s;o in the Matrix, and helpeth all tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es, being drunk for certain daies together: And
<PB N="187" REF="101"> that it &s;tayeth the &s;harpne&s;s of Humors in the Bloody Flux,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamation, Scalding, Bur|nings, Quin&s;ie, Ruptures.</NOTE> and other Fluxes in the Body, or in Wounds: The Root thereof al&s;o performeth the &s;ame effect. It is u&s;ed outward|ly to cool any heat or inflamation upon any Hurt or Wound and ea&s;eth the pains of them: as al&s;o to heal Scaldings or Burnings: The juyce thereof beaten with &s;ome green Sallet Oyl, and anointed. the Leaf al&s;o brui&s;ed and laid to any green Wound in the Hands or Legs, doth heal them quickly; and being bound to the Throat, much helpeth the Quin&s;ie, it helpeth al&s;o Ruptures and Bur&s;tine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>If you plea&s;e to make the Juyce thereof into a Syrup with Honey or Sugar, you may &s;afely take a &s;poonfull or two at a time (let my Author &s;ay what he will) for a Quin&s;ie, and you &s;hall find the Medicine more plea&s;ant, and the Cure more &s;peedy, than if you took a Dogs-turd which is the Learned Col|ledges vulgar Cure.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Par&s;ley.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o well known that it needs no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach, Di|&s;ury, Terms provokes, Li|ver, Spleen, fal|ling-&s;ickne&s;s, Stone, Wind, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Cough, Sucking Chil|dren, Eyes, Wo|mens Brea&s;ts, Curdled Milk, Black and Blue marks Jaun|dice, Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e, Drop|&s;ie.</NOTE> and is very comfortable to the Stomach, and hel|peth to provok to Urine and Womens Cour&s;es, and to break wind both in the Stomach and Bowels, and doth a little open the Body, but the Root much more, and openeth Ob|&s;tructions both of the Liver and Spleen, and is therefore ac|counted one of the five opening Roots; <HI>Galen</HI> commendeth it again&s;t the Falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and to provoke Urine migh|tily, e&s;pecially if the Roots be boyled and eaten like Par&s;|nips. The Seed is effectuall to provoke Urine and Wo|mens Cour&s;es, to expell wind, to break the Stone, and ca&s;e the pains and torments thereof, or of any other part in the Body occa&s;ioned by Wind. It is al&s;o effectuall again&s;t the Venom of any poy&s;onfull Creature, and the danger that cometh to them that have taken Litharge, and is good a|gain&s;t the Cough. The di&s;tilled water of Par&s;ley is a familiar Medicine with Nur&s;es to give their Children when they are troubled with wind in the Stomach or Belly, which they call the frets, and is al&s;o much available to them that are of greater years. The Leavs of Par&s;ley laid to the eyes that are inflamed with heat or &s;woln, doth much help them, if it be u&s;ed with Bread or Meal; and being fryed with Butter and applied to Womens Brea&s;ts that are hard through the curdling of their Milk, it abateth the hardne&s;s quickly, and al&s;o it taketh away black and blue marks coming of Brui&s;es or Falls. The Juyce thereof dropped into the Ears with a little Wine ea&s;eth the pains; <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;et|teth down an excellent Medicine to help the Jaundice and Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e, the Drop&s;ie, and Stone in the Kidneys, in this manner: Take of the Seeds of <HI>Par&s;ley, Fennill, Annis,</HI> and <HI>Caraways,</HI> of each an ounce; of the Roots of <HI>Par&s;ley, Burnet, Saxifrage,</HI> and <HI>Carawayes</HI> of each one ounce and an half, let the Seeds be brui&s;ed, and the Roots wa&s;hed and cut &s;mal: Let them lie
<PB N="188" REF="102"> all night in &s;teep in a pottle of white Wine, and in the morning be boyled in a clo&s;e earthen Ve&s;&s;el until a third part or more be wa&s;ted, which being &s;trained and cleared: take four ounces thereof morning and evening fir&s;t and la&s;t ab&s;taining from drink after it for three hours: This openeth Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions of Liver &amp; &s;pleen</NOTE> and expel|leth the Drop&s;ie and Jaundice by Urine.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Par&s;ley-Piert, or Par&s;ley Break-Stone.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Root although it be very &s;mal and thriddy yet it con|tinues many years, from whence ari&s;e many Leavs ly|ing along upon the ground, each &s;tanding upon a long &s;mal foot Stalk, the Leavs as broad as a mans Nail, very deeply indented on the edges, &s;omewhat like a Par&s;ly Leaf, but of a very dusky green colour, the Stalks are very weak and &s;lender, about three or four fingers in length, &s;et &s;o full of Leavs that they can hardly be &s;een, either having no foot Stalk at all, or but very &s;hort, the Flowers are &s;o &s;mall they can hardly be &s;een, and the Seed as &s;mall as &s;mall may be.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> Its a common Herb throughout the Nation, and rejoiceth in barren, &s;andy moi&s;t places; it may be found plentifully about <HI>Hemp&s;ted-Heath</HI> in <HI>Hidepark,</HI> and in <HI>Tuttle fields.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It may be found all the Summer time, even from the beginning of <HI>April</HI> to the end of <HI>October.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Its operation is very pre|valent to provoke Urine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Urine provoketh Stone.</NOTE> and to break the Stone; it is a very good Sallet Herb: It were good the Gentry would pick it up as they pick up Sampire for their u&s;e all the Winter; I cannot teach them how to do it, yet this I can tell them, it is a very whole&s;ome Herb: they may al&s;o keep the Herb dry, or in a Syrup, if they plea&s;e;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gravil in the Kidneys Stran|gury.</NOTE> you may take a dram of the Pouder of it in White Wine, it would bring away gravill from the Kidneys incen&s;ibly and without pain; It al&s;o helps the Strangury.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Par&s;nip.</HEAD>
<P>THe Garden kind thereof is &s;o well known (the Root being common|ly eaten) that I &s;hal not trouble you with any De&s;cription of it. But the wilde kind being of more Phy&s;ical u&s;e, I &s;hall in this place de&s;cribe unto you.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The wilde</HI> Par&s;nip <HI>differeth little from the Garden kind, but groweth not &s;o fair and large, nor hath &s;o many Leavs; and the Root is &s;hor|ter, more woody and not &s;o fit to be eaten, and therefore the more Medicinable.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The name of the fir&s;t &s;heweth the place of its growth.</P>
<P>The other groweth wild in diver&s;e places, as in the Mar&s;hes by <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> and el&s;where, and flowreth in <HI>July;</HI> the Seed being ripe about the begin|ning of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> the &s;econd year after the &s;owing; for if they do flower the fir&s;t year, the Country people call them Madneps.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Garden Par&s;nips are under <HI>Venus.</HI> The
<PB N="189" REF="102"> Garden <HI>Par&s;nip</HI> nouri&s;heth much,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu&s;t provokes, Di&s;ury, Clen&s;e, Open, Vene|mous Bea&s;ts, Chollick, Di|&s;ury.</NOTE> and is good and whole|&s;ome Nouri&s;hment, but a little windy, whereby it is thought to procure bodily lu&s;t: but it fatneth the Body much if much u&s;ed, It is conducible to the Stomach and Reins, and provoketh Urine. But the wild <HI>Par&s;nip</HI> hath a cutting, attenuating, clen&s;ing and opening quality therein: It re&s;i&s;t|eth and helpeth the bitings of Serpents, ea&s;eth pains and Stitches in the &s;ides, and di&s;&s;olveth wind both in the Stomach and Bowels, which is the Chollick, and provoketh Urine. The Root is often u&s;ed, but the Seed much more.</P>
<P>The wilde being better then the tame &s;hews Dame <HI>Nature</HI> to be the be&s;t Phy&s;itian.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Cow-Par&s;nep.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth with three or four large, &s;pread, winged, rough, Leavs, lying often on the Ground, or el&s;e rai&s;ed a little from it, with long, round, hairy foot&s;talks under them, parted u&s;ually into five divi&s;ions, the two couples &s;tanding each again&s;t other, and one at the end, and each Leaf being almo&s;t round, yet &s;omewhat deeply cut in on the edges, in &s;ome Leavs, and not &s;o deep in others of a whiti&s;h green colour, &s;melling &s;omewhat &s;trongly: among which ari&s;eth up a round cre&s;ted hairy Stalk two or three foot high with a few Joynts and Leavs thereon, and branched at the top, where &s;tand large &V;mbels of white, and &s;ometimes reddi&s;h Flowers, and after them, flat, whiti&s;h, thin winged Seed, two alwayes joyned toge|ther. The Root is long and white with two or three long &s;trings growing down into the ground, &s;melling likewi&s;e &s;trongly, and unplea&s;ant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in moi&s;t Meadows, and the borders and corners of Fields, and near Ditches, generally through this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> and Seedeth in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> hath the dominion over them. The Seed hereof as <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith is of a &s;harp and cutting quality, and is therefore a fit Medicine for the Cough and &s;hortne&s;&s;e of Breath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Diffi|culty of breath, Falling&s;ickne&s;s Jaundice, Fi|&s;tula, Phlegm, Liver, Mo|ther, Lethar|gy, Frenzy, Headach, Scabs, Shin|gles.</NOTE> the Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e and the Jaundice. The Root is available to all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and is al&s;o of great u&s;e to take away the hard skin that groweth on a Fi&s;tula, if it be but &s;craped upon it. The Seed hereof being drunk clen&s;eth the belly from tough Phlegmatick matter therin, ea&s;eth them that are Liver-grown, and Womens pa&s;&s;ions of the Mother, as wel being drunk as the &s;moke therof received underneath, and likewi&s;e rai&s;eth &s;uch as are fallen into a deep &s;leep, or have the Lethargy by burning it under their No&s;e: The Seed &amp; Root boyled in oyl, and the Head rubbed ther|with helpeth not onely tho&s;e that are fallen into a Frenzy, but al&s;o the Lethargy or Drow&s;ie evil, and tho&s;e that have been long troubled with the Headach, if it be likewi&s;e u&s;ed with Rue: It helpeth al&s;o the running Scab and the Shingles: The Juyce of the Flowers dropped into the Ears that run and are full of matter, it clean&s;eth and heal|eth them.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="190" REF="103">
<HEAD>The Peach-tree.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;eript.] A Peach-tree <HI>groweth not &s;o great as the Apricock-tree, yet &s;preadeth Branches rea&s;onable well, from whence &s;pring &s;maller reddi&s;h twigs, whereon are &s;et long and narrow green Leavs dented about the edges. The blo&s;&s;omes are greater than the Plum, and of a light Purple colour. The fruit round, and &s;ometimes as big as a rea&s;onable Pip|pin, others are &s;maller, as al&s;o differing in colours and ta&s;ts, as ru&s;&s;et, red, or yellow, wateri&s;h or firm, with a frieze or Cotton all over, with a cleft therein like an Apricock, and a rugged furrowed great Stone within it, and a bitter Kernell within the Stone: It &s;ooner waxeth old, and decayeth than the Apricock, by much.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They are nur&s;ed up in Gardens and Orchards through this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Tney Flower in the Spring, and fructifie in <HI>Autumn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Lady <HI>Venus</HI> owns this Tree, and by it oppo|&s;eth the ill-effects of <HI>Mars,</HI> and indeed for Children and young people, no|thing is better to purge Choller, and the Jaundice, than the Leavs and Flowers of this Tree, being made into a Syrup or Con&s;erve, let &s;uch as delight to plea&s;e their lu&s;t regard the Fruit, but &s;uch as love their health and their Childrens, let them regard what I &s;ay, they may &s;afely give two &s;poonfuls of the Syrup at a time, 'tis as gentle as <HI>Venus</HI> her &s;elf. The Leavs of Peaches brui&s;ed and laid on the Belly killeth Worms; and &s;o they do al&s;o being boyled in Ale and drunk,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Worms, Open, Humors, Wounds.</NOTE> and o|pen the Belly likewi&s;e; and being dried is a &s;afe Medicine to di&s;cu&s;&s;e Humors. The Pouder of them &s;trewed upon fre&s;h bleeding Wounds, &s;tayeth their bleeding, and clo&s;eth them up. The Flowers &s;teeped all night in a little Wine &s;tanding warm, &s;trained forth in the morning and drunk fa&s;ting, doth gently open the Belly, and move it downwards: A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Ro&s;es is made worketh more forcibly then that of Ro&s;es, for it provoketh Vomiting, and and &s;pendeth wateri&s;h and Hydropick Humors by the continuance thereof. The Flowers made into a Con&s;erve worketh the &s;ame effect. The Liquor that droppeth from the Tree being wounded, is given in the Decoction of Coltsfoot,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Drop&s;ie, Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, Vomi|ting and &s;pit|ting of Bloud, Stone, Wind, Chollick.</NOTE> to tho&s;e that are troubled with the Cough or &s;hortne&s;&s;e of Breath, by adding thereto &s;ome &s;weet Wine and putting &s;ome Saffron al&s;o therein, it is good for tho&s;e that are hoarce or have lo&s;t their voice; hel|peth all defects of the Lungs, and tho&s;e that vomite or &s;pit blood. Two drams thereof given in the Juyce of Lemmons or of Radi&s;h, is good for them that are troubled with the Stone. The Kernels of the Stones do wonderfully ea&s;e the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or &s;harp Humors, and help to make an excellent Medicine for the Stone upon all occa&s;ions, on this man|ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; Take fifty Kernels of Peach Stones, and one hundred of the Kernels of Cherry Stones, a handful of Elder Flowers, Fre&s;h or dried, and three pints of Mu&s;cadine, &s;et them in a clo&s;ed pot into a bed of Hor&s;e dung for
<PB N="191" REF="103"> ten dayes, which after di&s;till in Gla&s;s with a gentle fire, and keep it for your u&s;e; you may drink upon occa&s;ion three or four ounces at a time. The Milk or Cream of the&s;e Kernels being drawn forth with &s;ome Vervain Water, and applied to the Forehead and Temples, doth much help to procure re&s;t and &s;leep to &s;ick per&s;ons wanting it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Watching, Ears, Baldne&s;s.</NOTE> The Oyl drawn from the Kernels, the Temples being therwith a|nointed doth the like: The &s;aid Oyl put into Cly&s;ters ea&s;eth the pains of the wind Chollick, and anointed on the lower part of the Belly doth the like, and dropped into the Ears ea&s;eth the pains of them: the juyce of the Leavs doth the like. Being al&s;o anointed on the Forehead and Temples, it helpeth the Megrim and al other pains in the Head. If the Kernels be brui&s;ed and boyled in Vinegar until they become thick, and applied to the Head, it marvelou&s;ly procure the Hair to grow a|gain upon bald places, or where it is too thin.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Pear-tree.</HEAD>
<P>PEar-trees are &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Tree belongs to <HI>Venus,</HI> and &s;o doth the Apple-tree. For their Phy&s;ical u&s;e they are be&s;t di&s;cerned by their ta&s;ts. Al the &s;weet or lucious &s;orts whether manured or wild, do help to move the Belly downward more or le&s;s: Tho&s;e that are har&s;h and &s;owr do on the contrary bind the Belly as much; and the Leavs do &s;o al&s;o. Tho&s;e that are moi&s;t do in &s;ome &s;ort cool, but har&s;h or wild &s;orts much more, and are very good in repelling Medicines: as if the wild &s;orts be boyled with Mu&s;hroms,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mu&s;hroms Stomach, Inflama|tions, Cool, Bind, Wounds.</NOTE> it maketh them the le&s;s dangerous. The &s;aid Pears boyled with a little Honey, helpeth much the oppre&s;&s;ed Stomach, as al &s;orts of them do, &s;ome more, &s;ome le&s;s; but the har&s;her &s;orts do mo&s;t cool and bind, &s;erving wel to be bound to green wounds to cool and &s;tay the Blood, and heal up the Wound without further trouble or Inflamation, as <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith he hath found by experience. And wild Pears do &s;ooner clo&s;e up the Lips of green Wounds than the others.</P>
<P><HI>Schola Salerni</HI> advi&s;eth to drink much Wine after Pears, or el&s; (they &s;ay) they are as bad as Poy&s;on, nay, and they cur&s;e the Tree for it too: but if a poor man find his Stomach oppre&s;&s;ed by eating Pears, 'tis but working hard and it wil do as wel as drinking Wine.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Pellitory of Spain.</HEAD>
<P>COmmon <HI>Pellitory of Spain,</HI> if it be planted in our Gardens, it wil pro|&s;per very wel, yet is there one &s;ort growing ordinary here wild which I e&s;teem to be little inferior to the other, if at al. I &s;hal not deny you the De&s;criptions of them both.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>Common Pellitory is a very common Plant, and wil not be kept in our Gardens without diligent looking to. The Root goes down right into the ground, bearing Leavs being long and finely cut upon the Stalks lying upon the ground, much larger than the Leavs of Chamomel are: At the top
<PB N="292" REF="104"> it bears one &s;ingle large Flower at a place, having a border of many Leavs white on the uper &s;ide, and reddi&s;h underneath, with a yellow thrum in the middle, not &s;tanding &s;o clo&s;e as that of Chamomel doth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The other common Pellitory which groweth here, it hath a Root of a &s;harp biting ta&s;t, &s;carce di&s;cernable by the ta&s;t from that before de&s;cribed; from whence ari&s;eth divers brittle &s;talks, a yard high and more, with narrow long Leavs finely dented about the edges, &s;tanding one above another up to the top: The Flowers are many and white, &s;tanding in Tufts like tho&s;e of Yar|row, with a &s;mal yellowi&s;h thrum in the middle: The Seed is very &s;mal.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The la&s;t groweth in Fields by the Hedg &s;ides and Paths, almo&s;t every where.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth at the latter end of <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Government of <HI>Mercury,</HI> and I am per&s;waded that 'tis one of the be&s;t purgers of the Brain that grows:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brain purgeth, Agues, fleg|matick humors, Head, Teeth, di&s;tillations of the brain on the Lungs &amp; Eyes, Coughs, pti&s;icks Con&s;umptions, Apoplexy, fal|ling-&s;ickne&s;s, Lethargie, &s;nee|zing, Headach, black and blue &s;pots, Gout, Sciatica.</NOTE> An ounce of the Juyce taken in a draught of Muskadel an hour before the fit of an Ague comes, wil a&s;&s;uredly drive away the Ague at the &s;econd or third time taking at the furthe&s;t. Either the Herb or Root dried and chewed in the Mouth, purgeth the Brain of fleg|matick Humors, therby not only ea&s;ing pains in the Head and Teeth, but al&s;o hindering the di&s;tilling of the Brain upon the Lungs and Eyes, therby preventing Coughs, Phti|&s;icks, and Con&s;umptions, the Apoplexy, and Falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s: It is an excellent approved Remedy in the Le|thargy: the Pouder of the Herb or Root being &s;nuffed up the No&s;trils procureth &s;neezing, and ea&s;eth the Headach, being made into an Oyntment with Hogs Grea&s;e, it takes away black and blue &s;pots occa&s;ioned by blows or fals, and helps both the Gout and Sciatica.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Pellitory of the Wall.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT ri&s;eth up with many browni&s;h, red, tender and weak, clear, and almo&s;t transparent &s;talks about two foot high, upon which grow at the &s;everal Joynts, two Leavs &s;omwhat broad and long, of a dark green color, which afterwards turn browni&s;h, &s;mooth on the edges, but rough and hairy as the Stalks are al&s;o: At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle of the Stalks upwards, where it &s;preadeth into &s;ome Branches, &s;tand many &s;mal, pale, purpli&s;h Flowers, in hairy rough Heads or Husks: after which come &s;mal black and rough Seed, which wil &s;tick to any cloth or Gar|ment that &s;hal touch it. The Root is &s;omwhat long, with many &s;mal Fibres thereat, of a dark reddi&s;h color, which abideth the winter, although the &s;talks and leavs peri&s;h and &s;pring fre&s;h every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oweth wild generally through this Land, about the borders of Fields, and by the &s;ides of Wals, and among Rubbi&s;h; It wil endure wel being brought into Gardens, and planted on the &s;hady &s;ide, where it wil &s;pring of its own &s;owing.</P>
<PB N="293" REF="104">
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;oon after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mercury.</HI> The dried Herb Pellitory made up into an Electuary with Honey, or the Juyce of the Herb,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Old or dry Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Stone and Gravel, Mother, Womens, Cour&s;es, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Sore Throat, Teeth, Freckles, Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, Pain in the Ears, Impo&s;tums Burnings and &s;cal|dings, Inflama|tions, Ulcers, Scabs, Falling of the Hair, Piles, Gout, Fi&s;tulaes, Green Wounds, Brui&s;ed Tendon or Mu&s;cle.</NOTE> or the Decoction thereof made up with Sugar or Honey, is a &s;ingular remedy for any old or dry Cough, the &s;hortne&s;s of breath, and Whee&s;ing in the Throat. Three ounces of the Juyce therof taken at a time, doth wonderfully help &s;topping of the Urin, and to expel the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder, and is therfore u&s;ually put among other Herbs, u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters to mitigate pains in the Back, Sides, or Bowels proceeding of wind, &s;topping of Urin, the Gravel or Stone as afore&s;aid. If the brui&s;ed Herb &s;prinkled with &s;ome Muskadine be warmed upon a tile, or in a di&s;h upon a few quick Coals in a Chafing-di&s;h, and applied to the Belly, it worketh the &s;ame effect. The Decoction of the Herb being drunk, ea|&s;eth pains of the Mother, and bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es; it al&s;o ea&s;eth tho&s;e Griefs that ari&s;e from Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Reins: The &s;ame Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargle a &s;ore Throat. The juyce held a while in the Mouth, ea&s;eth pains in the Teeth. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb drunk with &s;ome Sugar worketh the &s;ame effects; and clen&s;eth the Skin from Spots, Freckles, Pur|ples, Wheals, Sunburn, Morphew, &amp;c. The juyce dropped in|to the Ears, ea&s;eth the noi&s;e in them, and taketh away the pric|king and &s;hooting pains therin: The &s;ame or the di&s;tilled Wa|ter, a&s;&s;wageth hot and &s;welling Impo&s;thumes, Burnings and &s;cal|dings by fire or Water, as al&s;o al other hot Tumors and Infla|mations, or breakings out of heat, being bathed often with wet Cloathes dipped therin. The &s;aid juyce made into a Liniment with Ceru&s;s and Oyl of Ro&s;es and anointed therwith, clen&s;eth foul rotten Ulcers, and &s;tayeth &s;preading or creeping Ulcers, and running Scabs or Sores in Childrens Heads: and helpeth to &s;tay falling of the Hair from off the Head. The &s;aid Oyntment, or the Herb applied to the Fundament openeth the Piles and ea|&s;eth their pains; &amp; being mixed with Goats Tallow helpeth the Gout. The juyce is very effectual to clen&s;e Fi&s;tulaes, and to heal them up &s;afely; or the Herb it &s;elf brui&s;ed, and applied with a little Salt. It is likewi&s;e &s;o effectual to heal any green Wound, that if it be brui&s;ed and bound thereto for three daies, you &s;hal need no other Medicine to heal it further. A Pulti&s;s made hereof with Mallows, and boyled in Wine with Wheat Bran, and Bean Flower, and &s;ome Oyl put thereto, and applied Warm to any brui&s;ed Sinew, Tendon, or Mu&s;cle, doth in a very &s;hort time re&s;tore them to their &s;trength, taking away the pains of the Brui&s;es; and di&s;&s;olveth the congealed Blood coming of Blows or Fals from high places.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall clarified and boyled into a Syrup with
<PB N="294" REF="105"> Honey, and a &s;poonful of it drunk every morning by &s;uch as are &s;ubject to the Drop&s;ie; if continuing that cour&s;e though but once a week, if ever they have the Drop&s;ie, let them come but to me, and I wil cure them <HI>gratis.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Peny-royal.</HEAD>
<P>PEny-royal is &s;o wel known unto al (I mean the common kind) that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>There is a greater kind than the ordinary &s;ort found wild with us, which &s;o abideth being brought into Gardens, and differeth not from it but only in the largene&s;s of the Leavs and Stalks, in ri&s;ing higher, and not creeping upon the ground &s;o much. The Flowers wherof are purple, growing in Run|dles about the Stalk like the other.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t which is common in Gardens, groweth al&s;o in many moi&s;t and watery places of this Land.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is found wild in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> in divers places by the High-way from <HI>London</HI> to <HI>Coleche&s;ter,</HI> and thereabouts more abundantly than in other Countries, and is al&s;o planted in their Gardens in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in the latter end of Summer, about <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is under <HI>Venus. Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That Peny-royal maketh thin tough flegm, warmeth the coldne&s;s of any part whereto it is applied,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tough flegm, terms provokes dead Child and Afterbirth, Vo|miting, Melan|cholly, Vene|mous Bea&s;ts, Fainting and Swouning, Gums, Gout, Marks in the Face, toothach, Pains in the Joynts, Head|ach, pains of the Belly and Brea&s;t, falling-&s;ickne&s;s, &s;tin|king Water, Cramps and Convul&s;ions, Sore Mouth, Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, pains of the Head and Eye-&s;ight, Lethargie, bur|nings.</NOTE> and dige&s;teth raw or corrupt matter: Being boyled and drunk, it pro|voketh Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth, and &s;taveth the di&s;po&s;ition to Vomit, being ta|ken in Water and Vinegar mingled together. And being mingled with Honey and Salt it avoideth Flegm out of the Lungs, and purgeth Melancholly by the Stool. Drunk with Wine it helpeth &s;uch as are bitten or &s;tung with Vene|mous Bea&s;ts: and applied to the No&s;trils with Vinegar, reviveth tho&s;e that are fainting and &s;wouning. Being dried and burnt, it &s;trengthneth the Gums: It is helpful to tho&s;e that are troubled with the Gout, being applied of it &s;elf to the place until it wax red; and applied in a Plai&s;ter, it ta|keth away &s;pots or marks in the Face: Applied with Salt, it profiteth tho&s;e that are Splenetick or Liver-grown. The Decoction doth help the Itch, if wa&s;hed therewith: Being put into Baths for Women to &s;it therein, it helpeth the &s;welling and hardne&s;s of the Mother. The green Herb brui&s;ed and put into Vinegar clen&s;eth foul Ulcers, and ta|keth away the marks of brui&s;es and blows about the Eyes, and al di&s;colorings of the Face by fire, yea, and the Lepro|&s;ie, being drunk and outwardly applied: Boyled in Wine with Honey and Salt, it helpeth the Toothach. It helpeth the cold griefs of the Joynts, taking away the pains, and warming the cold parts, being fa&s;t bound to the place after a bathing, or &s;weating in an Hot-hou&s;e. <HI>Pliny</HI> addeth,
<PB N="295" REF="105"> That Peny-royal and Mints together helps faintings or &s;wounings, being put into Vinegar, and put to the No&s;trils to be &s;melled unto, or a little thereof put into the Mouth. It ea&s;eth the Head-ach, and the pains of the Brea&s;t and Belly, &s;tayeth the gnawing of the Stomach, and inward pains of the Bowels: Being drunk in Wine it provoketh Womens Cour&s;es, and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth: Being given in Wine it helpeth the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s: Put into unwhol&s;om or &s;tinking Water that men mu&s;t drink (as at Sea, and where o|ther cannot be had) it maketh them the le&s;s hurtful: It helpeth Cramps or Convul&s;ions of the Sinews being applied with Honey, Salt, and Vinegar. It is very effectual for the Cough, being boyled in Milk and drunk, and for Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, The Decoction thereof being drunk, helpeth the Jaundice and Drop&s;ie, and al pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a cold cau&s;e, and that it helpeth to cleer and quic|ken the Eye-&s;ight. Applied to the No&s;trils of tho&s;e that have the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, or the Lethargy, or put into the Mouth, it helpeth them much, being brui&s;ed and with Vinegar applied. And applied with Barley Meal, it helpeth burnings by fire, and put into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains of them.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Peony, Ma&s;c. &amp; Foemina.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] MAle Peony <HI>ri&s;eth up with many browni&s;h Stalks, whereon grow many fair green, and &s;omtimes reddi&s;h Leavs, one &s;et again&s;t another upon a Stalk without any particular divi&s;ion in the Leaf at all. The Flowers &s;tand at the tops of the Stalks, con&s;i&s;ting of five or &s;ix broad Leavs, of a fair purpli&s;h red color, with many yellow threds in the middle &s;tanding about the Head, which after ri&s;eth to be the Seed Ve&s;&s;els, divided into two, three, or four rough crooked Pods like Horns, which being ful ripe, open and turn them&s;elvs down one edg to another backward, &s;hew|ing within them divers round, black, &s;hining &s;eed, having al&s;o many red or crim&s;on grains, intermixed with the black, whereby it maketh a very pretty &s;hew. The Roots are great, thick, and long, spreading and running down rea&s;onable deep in the ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The ordinary Female Peony hath many &s;talks, and more Leavs on them than the Male; the Leavs not &s;o large, but nicked diver&s;ly on the edges, &s;ome with great and deep, others with &s;maller cuts and divi&s;ions, of a dark or dead green colo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. The flowers are of a &s;trong heady &s;cent, mo&s;t u&s;ually &s;maller and of a more purple color than the Male, with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath. The Seed Ve&s;&s;els are like Horns as in the Male, but &s;maller; the Seed al&s;o is black, but le&s;s &s;hining. The Roots con&s;i&s;t of many thick and &s;hort tuberous clogs, fa&s;tned at the ends of long &s;trings, and all from the head of the Root which is thick and &s;hort, and of the like &s;cent with the Male.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> They grow in Gardens; and flower u&s;ually about May.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and under the <HI>Lyon:</HI> Phy&s;itians &s;ay Male Peony Roots are be&s;t, but Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> told me, Male
<PB N="296" REF="106"> Peony was be&s;t for Men, and Female Peony for Women; and he de&s;ires to be jugged by his Brother Dr. <HI>Experience.</HI> The Roots are held to be of mo&s;t Vertue; then the Seeds, next the Flowers, and la&s;t of al the Leavs. The Root of the Male Peony fre&s;h gathered, hath been found by experience to cure the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s; but the &s;ure&s;t way is (be&s;ides hanging it about the Neck,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, women not clen&s;ed in Child-birth, Mother, Ephialtes, or the Night-Mare, Melan|chollick Dreams.</NOTE> by which Children have been cured) to take the Root of the Male Peony wa&s;hed clean and &s;tamped &s;omwhat &s;mal, and lay to infu&s;e in Sack for twenty four hours at the lea&s;t, after &s;train it, and take it fir&s;t and la&s;t, morning and evening a good draught for &s;undry daies together before and after a full Moon, and this wil al&s;o cure older per&s;ons, if the Di&s;ea&s; be not grown too old and pa&s;t cure, e&s;pecially if there be a due and or|derly preparation of the Body, with Po&s;&s;et-drink made of Beto|ny &amp;c. The Root is al&s;o effectual for Women that are not &s;ufficiently clen&s;ed after Child-birth, and &s;uch as are troubled with the Mother; for which likewi&s;e the black Seed beaten to Pouder and given in Wine, is al&s;o available. The black Seed al&s;o taken before bed-time, and in the morning, is very effectu|al for &s;uch as in their &s;leep are troubled with the Di&s;ea&s;e called <HI>Ephialtes</HI> or <HI>Incubus,</HI> but we do commonly cal it the Night-Mare, a di&s;ea&s;e which Melancholly per&s;ons are &s;ubject unto: It is al&s;o good again&s;t Melanchollick Dreams. The Di&s;tilled Water, or Syrup made of the Flowers, worketh the &s;ame effects that the Root and the Seed do, al|though more weakly. The Female is often u&s;ed for the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, by rea&s;on the Male is &s;o &s;carce a Plant that it is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by few, and tho&s;e great Lovers of Rarities in this kind.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Pepper-wort,</HI> or <HI>Dittander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OUr common</HI> Pepper-wort <HI>&s;endeth forth &s;omwhat long, and broad Leavs, of a light blewi&s;h green colour, finely dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends, &s;tanding upon round hard &s;talks, three or four foot high, &s;preading many branches on all &s;ides, and having ma|ny &s;mal whit Flowers at the tops of them, after which follow &s;mal &s;eed in &s;mal Heads: The Root is &s;lender, running much under ground, and &s;hooting up again in many places: and both Leavs and Root, are very hot and &s;harp of ta&s;t like Pepper, for which cau&s;e it took the name.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth naturally in many places of this Land, as at <HI>Clare</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> neer al&s;o unto <HI>Exceter</HI> in <HI>Devon&s;hire;</HI> upon <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> Common in <HI>Kent;</HI> in <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> and divers other places: but is u&s;ually kept in Gar|dens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in the end of <HI>June,</HI> and in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Here's another Martial Herb for you, make much of it. <HI>Pliny</HI> and <HI>Paulus Aegineta</HI> &s;ay, That Pepper-wort is very effectual for the Sciatica,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sciatica, Gout, pain in th'joynts Di&s;colorings of the skin, Marks, &amp; &s;cars by bur|ning, &s;peedy de|livery.</NOTE> or any other Gout, or pain in the joynts, or any other inveterate grief: The Leavs hereof to be brui&s;ed and mixed with old Hogs grea&s;e
<PB N="297" REF="106"> and applied to the place, and to continue thereon four hours in Men, and two hours in Women, the place being after|wards bathed with Wine and Oyl mixed together, and then wrapped with Wool or skins after they have &s;weat a little. It al&s;o amendeth the deformities or di&s;colorings of the Skin, and helpeth to take away Marks, Scars, and Scabs; or the foul marks of burning with fire or iron. The juyce hereof is in &s;ome places u&s;ed to be given in Ale to drink to Women with Child, to procure them a &s;peedy Delivery in Travel.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Perwinkle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THe common &s;ort hereof hath many branches trayling, or run|ning upon the ground, &s;hooting out &s;mal fibres at the joynts as it runneth, taking therby hold in the ground, and rooteth in divers places: At the joynts of the&s;e branches &s;tand two &s;mal dark, green, &s;hining Leavs, &s;omwhat like Bay-leavs, but &s;maller, and with them come forth al&s;o the flo|wers (one at a joynt &s;tanding upon a tender Foot&s;talk) being &s;omwhat long and hollow, parted at the brims &s;omtimes into four, &s;omtimes into five leavs; the mo&s;t ordinary &s;ort are of a pale blue colour, &s;ome are pure white, and &s;ome of a dark reddi&s;h purple colour. The Root is little bigger than a Ru&s;h, bu&s;hing in the ground, and creeping with his branches far about, wherby it quickly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth a great compa&s;s, and is therfore mo&s;t u&s;ually planted under Hedges, where it may have room to run.</P>
<P>Place.] <HI>Tho&s;e with the pale blue, and tho&s;e with the white Flowers, grow in Woods, and Orchards, by the Hedge-&s;ides, in divers places of this Land. But tho&s;e with the purple Flowers, in Gardens only.</HI></P>
<P>Time.] <HI>They Flower in</HI> March <HI>and</HI> April.</P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] Venus <HI>owns this Herb, and &s;aith, That the Leavs eaten by Man and Wife together,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stanch Bleeding, Womens Cour&s;es, Flux of the Belly.</NOTE> <HI>cau&s;eth Love between them. The</HI> Perwinkle <HI>is a great Binder, &s;taying blee|ding both at Mouth and No&s;e, if &s;ome of the Leavs be chewed: The French u&s;e it to &s;tay Womens Cour&s;es.</HI> Dio&s;corides, Galen, <HI>and</HI> Aegineta <HI>commend it again&s;t the Lask, and Fluxes of the Belly, to be drunk in Wine.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>St. Peters-wort.</HEAD>
<P>IF Super&s;tition had not been the Father of Tradition, as wel as Igno|rance the Mother of Devotion, this Herb (as wel as St. Johns-wort) had found &s;ome other name to be known by: but we may &s;ay of our Fore-fathers, as St. <HI>Paul</HI> of the <HI>Athenians,</HI> I perceive that in many things you are too &s;u|per&s;titious: Yet &s;eeing it is come to pa&s;s, That Cu&s;tom having gotten po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion, pleads Pre&s;cription for the name; I &s;hal let it pa&s;s, and come to the De&s;cription of the Herb, which take as followeth:</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>It ri&s;eth up with &s;quare upright &s;talks for the mo&s;t part, &s;ome|what greater and higher than St. Johns-wort (and good rea&s;on too, St. Peter being the greater Apo&s;tle (ask the Pope el&s;e) for though God would have the
<PB N="298" REF="107"> Saints equal, the Pope is of another Opinion) but brown in the &s;ame manner, having two Leavs at every joynt, &s;omwhat like, but larger than St. Johns-wort, and a little rounder pointed with few or no holes to be &s;een therin, and having &s;omtimes &s;ome &s;maller Leavs ri&s;ing from the bo&s;om of the greater, and &s;omtimes a little hairy al&s;o: At the tops of the &s;talks &s;tand many &s;tar-like Flowers, with yellow thrids in the middle very like tho&s;e of St. Johns-wort, in&s;omuch that this is hardly di&s;cerned from it, but only by the largne&s;s and height, the &s;eed being al&s;o alike in both. The Root abideth long, &s;ending forth new &s;hoots every year.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many Groves and &s;mal low Woods, in divers places of this Land, as in <HI>Kent, Huntington, Cambridg,</HI> and <HI>Northampton-&s;hires,</HI> as al&s;o neer water Cour&s;es in other places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> There is not a &s;traw to chu&s;e between this and <HI>St. Johns-wort,</HI> only St. <HI>Peter</HI> mu&s;t have it, le&s;t he &s;hould lack Pot-herbs. It is of the &s;ame property with St. Johns-wort, but &s;om|what weak,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chollerick Humors, Sciatica, Burnings.</NOTE> and therfore more &s;eldom u&s;ed. Two drams of the Seed taken at a time in honeyed water, purgeth Chollerick Hu|mors (as &s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides, Pliny,</HI> and <HI>Galen</HI>) and therby helpeth tho&s;e that are troubled with the Sciatica: The Leavs are u&s;ed as St. Johns-wort, to help tho&s;e places of the Body that have been burnt with fire.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Pimpernel.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon</HI> Pimpernel <HI>hath divers weak &s;quare &s;talks lying on the ground, be&s;et al along with two &s;mal, and almo&s;t round Leavs at every Joynt, one again&s;t another, very like Chickweed, but hath no Foot&s;talks, for the Leavs do as it were compa&s;s the Stalk: The Flowers &s;tand &s;ingly each by them&s;elves at them and the Stalks, con&s;i&s;ting of five round &s;mal pointed Leavs of a fine pale red color, tending to an Orange, with &s;o many threds in the middle, in who&s;e places &s;ucceed &s;mooth round Heads, wherein is contained &s;mal Seed. The Root is &s;mal and fibrous, peri&s;hing eve|ry yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth every where almo&s;t, as wel in the Meadows and Corn-fields, as by the way &s;ides and in Gardens ari&s;ing of it &s;elf.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth from <HI>May</HI> unto <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time, and falleth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a gallant Solar Herb. This is of a clen&s;ing and attractive quality, whereby it draweth forth Thorns or Splinters,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Thorns or &s;plin|ters, purgeth the Head, Wounds &amp; &V;l|cers, clen&s;eth Face, Plague &amp; Pe&s;tilential Feavers, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Mad Dogs biting, Ob&s;tructions, Urin, &s;tone and gravel, Wounds and Ulcers, Clouds or mi&s;ts in the Eyes, Toothach, He|morrhoids.</NOTE> or other &s;uch like things gotten into the Fle&s;h, and put up into the No&s;trils purgeth the Head; and <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith al&s;o they have a drying faculity, whereby they are good to &s;oder the Lips of Wounds, and to clen&s;e &s;oul Ulcers. The di&s;tilled Water or Juyce is much e&s;tee|med by French Dames to clen&s;e the Skin from any rough|ne&s;s, deformity, or di&s;coloring therof: Being boyled in
<PB N="299" REF="107"> Wine, and given to drink, it is a good Remedy again&s;t the Plague, and other Pe&s;tilential Feavers, if the Party after taking it warm lie in his bed and &s;weat for two hours after, and u&s;e the &s;ame twice at lea&s;t. It helpeth al&s;o al &s;tingings and bitings of Venemous Bea&s;ts or Mad Dogs, being u&s;ed inwardly, and applied outwardly: The &s;ame al&s;o openeth the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and is very available again&s;t the Infirmities of the Reins, it provoketh Urine, and hel|peth to expel the Stone and Gravel out of the Kidneys and Bladder, and helpeth much in al inward Wounds and Ul|cers. The Decoction or di&s;tilled Water is no le&s;s effectu|al to be applied to al Wounds that are fre&s;h and green, or old filthy fretting and running Ulcers, which it very effectually cureth in &s;hort &s;paces. A little Honey mixed with the Juyce, and dropped into the Eyes, clen&s;eth them from cloudy mi&s;ts, or thick films which grow over them and hinder the &s;ight: It helpeth the Toothach being dropped into the Ear on the contrary &s;ide of the pain. It is al&s;o effectual to ea&s; the pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Ground Pine,</HI> or <HI>Chamepitys.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>OUr common Ground-Pine groweth low, &s;eldom ri&s;ing above an handbreadth high, &s;hooting forth divers &s;mal Branches, &s;et with &s;lender &s;mal long narrow grayi&s;h or whiti&s;h Leavs &s;omwhat hairy; and divided into three parts many times many bu&s;hing together at a Joynt, and &s;omtimes &s;ome growing &s;catteredly upon the &s;talks, &s;melling &s;omwhat &s;trong like unto Rozin; the Flowers are &s;omwhat &s;mal and of a pale yellow color growing from the Joynts of the Stalks all along among the Leavs, after which come &s;mal, long, and round Husks: The Root is &s;mal and woody, pe|ri&s;hing every yeer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth more plentifully in <HI>Kent</HI> than in any other Country of this Land; as namely, in many places from on this &s;ide <HI>Dartford,</HI> along to <HI>Southfleet, Cotham,</HI> and <HI>Roche&s;ter,</HI> and upon <HI>Chattam</HI> Down hard by the Beacon, and half a mile from <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> in a Field nigh a Hou&s;e called <HI>Sel&s;ey.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth and giveth Seed in the Summer Months.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> owns the Herb. The Decoction of Ground-Pine drunk, doth wonderfully prevail again&s;t the &s;tran|gury,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Strangury, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Mother, Womens Cour&s;es, Dead Child and Afterbirth</NOTE> or any inward pains ari&s;ing from the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Reins and Urine, and is e&s;pecial good for al Ob&s;tructions of the Li|ver and Spleen, and gently openerh the Body, for which purpo&s;e they were wont in former times to make Pils with the Pouder thereof, and the purple Figs. It mervelou&s;ly helpeth al the Di&s;|ea&s;es of the Mother u&s;ed inwardly, or applied outwardly, procu|ring Womens Cour&s;es, and expelling the dead Child and Af|ter-birth, yea, it is &s;o powerful upon tho&s;e Feminine parts that it is utterly forbidden to Women with Child, in that it will
<PB N="300" REF="108"> cau&s;e abortment or delivery before the time: It is as effect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all al&s;o in all pains and Di&s;ea&s;es of the Joynts, as Gouts, Cramps, Pal|&s;eys,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gouts, Cramps, Pal&s;eys, Sciati|ca, Aches, &amp;c. Drop&s;ie, poy&s;on of the Aconites Venemous Creatures, Cold Cough Pal&s;ie, Hard Brea&s;ts, &amp; Hard Swel|lings, Ulcers &amp; old Sores, Green Wounds.</NOTE> Sciatica, and Aches; either the Decoction of the Herb in Wine taken inwardly, or applyed outwardly, or both for &s;ome time together, for which purpo&s;e the Pills made with the Pouder of Ground Pine, and of Hermoda|ctils with Venice Turpentine are very effectual. The&s;e Pils al&s;o are &s;peciall good for tho&s;e that have the Drop&s;ie, to be continued for &s;ome time. The &s;ame is a &s;peciall good help for the Jaundice, and for gripping pains in the Joynts, Bel|ly, or inward parts; It helpeth al&s;o all Di&s;ea&s;es of the Brain proceeding of cold and Flegmatick Humors and Di&s;tillati|ons, as al&s;o for the Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e. It is an e&s;peciall Re|medy for the poy&s;on of the Aconites of all &s;orts, and other poy&s;onful Herbs, as al&s;o again&s;t the &s;tinging of any Venemous Creature: It is a good Remedy for a cold Cough e&s;pecially in the beginning. For all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, the Herb being tunned up in new drink and drunk, is almo&s;t as effectuall, but far more ac|ceptable to weak and dainty Stomachs. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb hath the &s;ame effects, but more weakly. The Con&s;erve of the Flowers doth the like, which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> much commendeth again&s;t the Pal&s;ey. The green Herb or the Decoction thereof being applied, di&s;&s;olveth the hardne&s;&s;e of Womens Brea&s;ts, and all other hard Swellings in any other part of the Bo|dy. The green Herb al&s;o applyed, or the Juyce thereof with &s;ome Honey, not only clean&s;eth putrid, &s;tinking foul and Malignant Ulcers and &s;ores of all &s;orts, but healeth and &s;odereth up the lips of green Wounds in any part al&s;o.</P>
<P>Let Wowen forbear it if they be with Child, for it works violently upon the Foeminine part.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Plantane.</HEAD>
<P>THis groweth &s;o familiarly in Meadows and Fields, and by Pathways, and is &s;o well known that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is in its beauty about <HI>June,</HI> and the Seed ripeneth &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Its true <HI>Myzaldus</HI> and others, yea almo&s;t all A&s;trologo-Phy&s;itians hold this to be an Herb of <HI>Mars,</HI> and they give a veri&s;imile of a truth for it too, <HI>viz.</HI> Becau&s;e it cures di&s;ea&s;es of the Head and privities which are under the Hou&s;es of <HI>Mars, Aries,</HI> and <HI>Scorpio:</HI> All Di&s;ea&s;ts of the Head comming of heat are cau&s;ed by <HI>Mars,</HI> for <HI>Venus</HI> is made of no &s;uch hot mettle, or at lea&s;t deals in inferior parts. The truth is it is under the command of <HI>Venus,</HI> and cures the head by Antipathy to <HI>Mars</HI> and the Privities by Sympathy to <HI>Venus,</HI> neither is there hardly a Martiall Di&s;ea&s;e but it cures, If I were to fortifie my Body again&s;t a Martial Di&s;ea&s;e I would do it by this Herb as &s;oon as by any, and may do it (it maybe) when time &s;hall &s;erve.</P>
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<P>The Juyce of Plantane clarified and drunk for diver&s;e days together,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pains in the Guts, Di&s;tilla|tion of Rhewm, Fluxes, and Womens Cour|&s;es, &s;pitting Blood or Blee|ding at Mouth, or No&s;e or of Wounds, pti&s;ick Con&s;umption or &V;lcers in the Lungs, Terti|an Ague, Drop&s;ie, and Falling&s;ickne&s;s, Toothach, pin and Web in the Eyes, pains in the Ears, In|flamations, Burning or Scalding, Hol|low &V;lcers, Cankers and &s;ore Mouth, or privy parts, Piles, pains of the Head, Lu|na&s;ie &amp; phren|&s;ie, Biting of Serpents, or Mad Dogs, Hot Gouts, Bones out of Joynt, Worms in the Belly, or in &V;lcers, Scabs &amp; Itch, Tetters, Ring|wormes &s;hingls and fretting &s;ores, Wounds.</NOTE> either of him&s;elf or in other drink prevaileth won|derfully again&s;t all torments or Excoriations in the Guts or Bowels, helpeth the di&s;tillations of Rhewm from the Head, and &s;taieth all manner of Fluxes, even Womens Cour&s;es when they flow too abundantly; It is good to &s;tay &s;pitting of Blood, and other Bleedings at the Mouth, or the making of foul or bloody water by rea&s;on of any Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder, and al&s;o &s;layeth the too free blee|ding of Wounds. It is held an e&s;pecial remedy for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Pti&s;ick, or Con&s;umption of the Lungs, or Ulcers in the Lungs, or Coughs that come of heat. The Decoction or Pouder of the Roots or Seed, is much more binding for all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid than the Leavs. <HI>Di|o&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That three Roots boyled in Wine and taken helpeth the Tertian Ague, and four the Quartan Ague: But (letting pa&s;s the numbers as Fabulous) I conceive the De|coction of d&s;ver&s;e Roots may be effectuall. The Herb (but e&s;pecially the Seed) is held to be profitable again&s;t the Drop&s;ie, the Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e, the yellow Jaundice, and &s;toppings of the Liver and Reins. The Roots of Plantane and Pellitory of Spain beaten to Pouder and put into hol|low Teeth, taketh away the pains of them: The clarified Juyce or di&s;tilled Water dropped into the Eyes cooleth the Inflamations in them, and taketh away the Pin and Web; and dropped into the Ears ea&s;eth pains in them, and help<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th and re&s;toreth the Hearing: The &s;ame al&s;o with Juyce of Hou&s;leek is profitable again&s;t all Inflamations and brea|kings out in the Skin, and again&s;t Burnings or Scaldings by Fire or Water. The Juyce or Decoction made either of it &s;elf, or other things of like nature is of much u&s;e and good effect for old and hollow Ulcers that are hard to be cured, and for Cankers and &s;ores in the Mouth or privy parts of Man or Woman; and helpeth al&s;o the pains of the Piles in the Fundament. The Juyce mixed with Oyl of Ro&s;es, and the Temples and Forehead anointed therewith ea&s;eth the pains of the Head proceeding from heat, and hel|peth Lunatick, and Phrenetick per&s;ons very much; as al&s;o the biting of Serpents or a Mad Dog: The &s;ame al&s;o is profitably applyed to all hot Gouts in the Feet or Hands, e&s;|pecially in the beginning. It is al&s;o good to be applied where any Bone is out of Joynt to hinder Inflamattons, Swellings and Pains that pre&s;ently ri&s;e thereupon. The Pouder of the dried Leavs taken in drink, killeth worms of the Belly, and boyled in Wine killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers. One part of Plantane Water, and two parts of the
<PB N="302" REF="109"> brine of pouder'd Beef boyled tegether and clarified, is a mo&s;t &s;ure Remedy to heal all &s;preading Scabs and Itch in the Head or Body, all manner of Tetters, Ringwormes, the Shingles, and all other running and fretting Sores. Briefly the Plantanes are &s;ingular good Wound Herbs to heal fre&s;h or old Wounds or Sores either inward or outward.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Plums.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o well known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> All <HI>Plums</HI> are under <HI>Venus,</HI> and are like Women, &s;ome better, &s;ome wor&s;e. As there is great diver&s;ity of the kinds, &s;o is there in the operation of Plums, for &s;ome that are &s;weet, moi&s;ten the Sto|mach and make the Belly &s;oluble; tho&s;e that are &s;owr quench thir&s;t more and bind the Belly;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Open the Belly, Quench Thir&s;t, and bind the Belly, procure Appetite, allay Choller, Cool the Stomach, Rhewm, Stone, Tetters, and Ringworms, Piles, Ulcers, Hoar&s;ne&s;&s;e, and pains in the Ears Stone and Chollick.</NOTE> the moi&s;t and wateri&s;h do &s;oone&s;t corrupt in the Stomach, but the firm do nouri&s;h more and offend le&s;&s;e: The dried fruit &s;old by the Grocers under the name of <HI>Damask Prunes,</HI> do &s;omewhat loo&s;en the Belly, and being &s;tewed are often u&s;ed both in health and &s;ickne&s;&s;e, to reli&s;h the Mouth and Stomach to procure Appetite, and a little to open the Body, allay Choller, and cool the Stomach: <HI>Plum-tree</HI> Leavs boyled in Wine, is good to wa&s;h and gargle the Mouth and Throat, to dry the Flux of Rhewm comming to the Pallat, Gums, or Al|monds of the Ears. The Gum of the Trees is good to break the Stone. The Gum or Leavs boyled in Vinegar and ap|plied, killeth Tetters and Ringworms. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, The Oyl pre&s;&s;ed out of the Kernels of the Stones, as Oyl of Almonds is made, is good again&s;t the inflamed Piles, the Tumors or Swellings of Ulcers, Hoar&s;ne&s;&s;e of the voice, roughne&s;&s;e of the Tongue and Throat, and likewi&s;e the pains in the Ears. And that five ounces of the &s;aid Oyl taken with one ounce of Mu&s;cadine, driveth forth the Stone, and helpeth the Chollick.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Pollipody of the Oak.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis is a &s;mall Herb, con&s;i&s;ting of nothing but Roots and Leavs: bearing neither Stalk, Flower nor Seed as it is thought. It hath three or four Leavs ri&s;ing from the Root, every one &s;ingly by it &s;elf, of about a hand length, which are winged, con&s;i&s;ting of many &s;mall narrow Leavs, cut into the middle rib &s;tanding on each &s;ide of the Stalk, large below, ond &s;maller up to the top, not dented or notched on the edges at all, as the Male Fern hath; of a &s;ad green colour, and &s;mooth on the upper &s;ide, but on the under &s;ide &s;omwhat rough, by rea&s;on of &s;ome yellowi&s;h &s;pots &s;et thereon: The Root is &s;maller then ones little finger lying a&s;lope, or creeping along under the upper cru&s;t of the earth, browni&s;h on the out &s;ide, and gree|ni&s;h within, of a &s;weeti&s;h har&s;hne&s;s in ta&s;te, &s;et with certain rough Knags on each &s;ide thereof, having al&s;o much Mo&s;&s;ine&s;s or yellow hairne&s;s upon it, and &s;ome Fibres underneath it, whereby it is nouri&s;hed.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth as wel upon old rotten &s;tumps, or trunks of Trees, as Oak, Beech, Hazel, Willow, or any other, as in the Woods under them, and upon old Mud Wals, as al&s;o in Mo&s;&s;ie, Stony, and Gravelly places, neer unto Woods: That which groweth upon Oaks is accounted the be&s;t, but the quantity thereof is &s;carce &s;ufficient for the common u&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It being alwaies green, may be gathered for u&s;e at any time.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> And why I pray mu&s;t Pollipodium of the Oak only be u&s;ed, Gentle Colledg of Phy&s;itians, can you give me but a glimps of a rea&s;on for it? is it only becau&s;e it is deare&s;t? wil you never leave your covetou&s;ne&s;s til your lives leave you? The truth is, that which grows upon the Earth is be&s;t ('tis an Herb of <HI>Saturn,</HI> and he &s;eldom climbs Trees) to purge Melancholly; if the humor be otherwi&s;e, chu&s;e your Pol|lipodium accordingly. <HI>Me&s;ue</HI> (who is called the Phy&s;itians Evangeli&s;t for the certainty of his Medicines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Drieth Hu|mors, pur|geth burnt Choller, Flegm, Melancholly Quartan A|gues, &s;pleen, Chollick, trouble&s;om &s;leeps, cough &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Whee|&s;ings, Lungs, Phti&s;ick, Member out of joynt, Pollipus, or Di&s;ea&s;e in the No&s;e, Chops in the fingers or toes.</NOTE> and the truth of his Opinions) &s;aith, That it drieth up thin Humors, dige|&s;teth thick and tough, and purgeth burnt Choller, and e&s;pe|cially tough and thick Flegm, and thin Flegm al&s;o, even from the joynts; and is therfore good for tho&s;e that are troubled with Melancholly, or Quartan Agues, e&s;pecially if it be taken in Whey, or Honeyed Water, or in Barley Water, or the Broth of a Chicken with Epithimum, or with Beets and Mallows. It is al&s;o good for the hardne&s;s of the Spleen and for prickings or &s;titches in the &s;ides, as al&s;o for the Chollick; &s;ome u&s;e to put to it &s;ome Fennel Seeds, or Annis Seeds, or Ginger to cor|rect that loathing it bringeth to the Stomach, which is more than needeth, it being a &s;afe and gentle Medicine, fit for al per&s;ons at al &s;ea&s;ons, which dayly experience confirmeth; and an ounce of it may be given at a time in a Decoction, if there be not Sena, or &s;ome other &s;trong purger put with it. A dram or two of the Pouder of the dried Roots, taken fa&s;ting in a cup of Honeyed Water, worketh gently, and for the pur|po&s;es afore&s;aid. The di&s;tilled Water both of Roots and Leavs is much commended for the Quartan Ague, to be taken for ma|ny daies together; as al&s;o again&s;t Melancholly, or fearful or trouble&s;om &s;leeps or dreams; and with &s;ome Sugar Candy di&s;&s;olved therein, is good again&s;t the Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of breath and Whee&s;ings, and tho&s;e di&s;tillations of thin Rhewm upon the Lungs, which cau&s;e Phti&s;icks, and oftentimes Con&s;umptions. The fre&s;h Roots beaten &s;mal, or the Pouder of the dried Roots mixed with Honey and applied to any Member that is out of Joynt, doth much help it: Applied al&s;o to the No&s;e, cureth the Di&s;ea&s; called <HI>Polipus,</HI> which is a piece of Fle&s;h growing therein, which in time &s;toppeth the pa&s;&s;age of breath through that No&s;tril; and it helpeth tho&s;e clefts or Chops that come be|tween the fingers or toes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="304" REF="110">
<HEAD>The Poplar-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THere are two &s;orts of</HI> Poplars <HI>which are mo&s;t familiar with us,</HI> Viz. <HI>The</HI> Black, <HI>and the</HI> White, <HI>both which I &s;hall here de&s;cribe unto you.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The white</HI> Poplar <HI>groweth great and rea&s;onable high, covered with a thick &s;mooth white Bark, e&s;pecially the Branches, having large Leavs cut into &s;e|verall divi&s;ions almo&s;t like a Vine Leaf, but not of &s;o deep a green on the up|per &s;ide, and hoary white underneath, of a rea&s;onable good &s;cent, the whole form repre&s;enting the Leaf of Coltsfoot. The Catkins which it bringeth forth before the Leavs, are long, and of a faint reddi&s;h colour, which fall away, bearing &s;eldome good Seed with them. The Wood hereof is &s;mooth, &s;oft, and white, very finely waved, whereby it is much e&s;teemed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The black</HI> Poplar <HI>groweth higher and &s;traiter then the White, with a grayi&s;h Bark bearing broad and green Leavs &s;omewhat like Ivy Leaves, not cut in on the edges like the White, but whole and dented, ending in a point, and not white underneath, hanging by &s;lender long Foot&s;ttalks, which with the Air are continually &s;haken like as the A&s;pin Leavs are: The Catkins hereof are greater then of the White, compo&s;ed of many round green Berries as it were &s;et together in a long Clu&s;ter, containing much downie matter, which being ripe is blown away with the winde: The clammy Buds hereof before they &s;pread into Leavs, are gathered to make the</HI> Unguentum Populeon, <HI>and are of a yellowi&s;h green colour and &s;mal, &s;omwhat &s;weet, but &s;trong. The Wood is &s;mooth, tough and and white, and ea&s;ie to be cloven: On both the&s;e Trees groweth a &s;weet kind of Musk, which in former times were u&s;ed, to be put into &s;weet Oyntments.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in moi&s;t Woods and by water &s;ides in &s;undry places of the Land, yet the white is not &s;o frequent as the other.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Their time is likewi&s;e expre&s;&s;ed before. The Catkins coming forth before the Leavs and ripen in the end of Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> hath Dominion over both. The White <HI>Poplar,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Galen,</HI> is of a clen&s;ing property: the weight of one ounce in Pouder of the Bark thereof being drunk &s;aith <HI>Dio|&s;corides</HI> is a Remedy for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Sciatica,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sciatica, Stran|gury, pain in the Ears, Dul &s;ight Gout, Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e, Warts, Pu&s;hes and Wheals, Heat, and Inflamati|ons, dryeth Wo|mens Milk.</NOTE> or the Strangury: The Juyce of the Leavs drop|ped warm into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains in them: The young clammy Buds or Eyes before they break out into Leavs, brui&s;ed, and a little Honey put to them, is a good Medicine for a dull &s;ight. The black <HI>Poplar</HI> is held to be more cooling than the White, and therefore the Leavs brui&s;ed with Vinegar and applyed, helpeth the Gout; The Seed drunk in Vinegar is held good again&s;t the Falling-&s;ickne&s;&s;e. The Water that droppeth from the hollow places of this Tree, taketh away Warts, Pu&s;hes, Wheals. and o|ther the like breakings out in the Body. The young black <HI>Poplar</HI> Buds, &s;aith <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> are much u&s;ed by Women to beautifie their hair, brui&s;ing
<PB N="305" REF="110"> them with fre&s;h Butter, and &s;training them after they have been kept for &s;ome time in the Sun. The Oyntment called <HI>Populeon,</HI> which is made of this Poplar, is &s;ingular good for al Heat and Inflamation in any part of the Body, and tempereth the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t of Wounds: It is much u&s;ed to dry up the Milk in Womens Brea&s;ts, when they have Weaned their Children.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Poppy.</HEAD>
<P>OF this I &s;hal De&s;cribe Three kinds, viz. The White and Black of the Garden; and the Erratick, Wild Poppy, or Corn Ro&s;e.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The</HI> White Poppy <HI>hath at fir&s;t four or five whiti&s;h green Leavs lying upon the ground, which ri&s;e with the &s;talk, compa&s;&s;ing it at the bottom of them, and are very large, much cut or torn in on the edges, and dented al&s;o be&s;ides: The &s;talk which is u&s;ually four or five foot high, hath &s;omtimes no branches at the top, &amp; u&s;ually but two or three at mo&s;t, bearing every one but one head, wrapped in a thin skin, which boweth down before it be ready to blow, and then ri&s;ing and being broken, the flower within it &s;preadeth it &s;elf open, and con&s;i&s;teth of four very large White round Leavs, with many whiti&s;h round thrids in the middle, &s;et about a &s;mal, round, green head, having a crown, or &s;tar-like cover at the head thereof, which growing ripe, becometh as large as a great Aple, wherin are contained a great number of &s;mal round &s;eed, in &s;everal partitions or divi&s;ions next unto the &s;hel, the middle thereof remaining hollow and empty. All the whole Plant, both Leavs, Stalks, and Heads, while they are fre&s;h, yong, and green, yeild a Milk when they are bro|ken, of an unplea&s;ant bitter ta&s;te, almo&s;t ready to provoke ca&s;ting, and of a &s;trong heady &s;mel, which being conden&s;ate, is called</HI> Opium. <HI>The Root is white, and woody, perri&s;hing as &s;oon as it hath given ripe &s;eed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Black Poppy <HI>little differeth from the former, until it beareth his flo|wer, which is &s;omwhat le&s;s, and of a black purpli&s;h colour, but without any purple &s;pots in the bottom of the Leaf. The Head of Seed is much le&s;s than the former, and openeth it &s;elf a little, round about the top, under the crown, &s;o that the &s;eed which is very black, wil fal out if one turn the head thereof downwards.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Wild Poppy, <HI>or Corn Ro&s;e, hath long and narrow Leavs, very much cut in on the edges into many divi&s;ions, of a light green colour, and &s;omtimes hairy withal: The Stalk is blacki&s;h and hairy al&s;o, but not &s;o tall as the gar|den-kinds, having &s;ome &s;uch like Leavs theron as grow below, parted into three or four Branches &s;omtimes, wheron grow &s;mal hairy heads, bowing down before the skin break, wherin the flower is inclo&s;ed, which when it is ful blown open, is of a fair yellowi&s;h red, or crim&s;on colour, and in &s;ome, much paler, without any &s;pot in the bottom of the Leavs, having many black &s;oft thrids in the middle, compa&s;&s;ing a &s;mal green head, which when it is ripe, is not biger then ones little finger end, wherin is contained much black &s;eed, &s;mal|ler by half than that of the Garden. The Root peri&s;heth every year, and spring|eth again of its own &s;owing. Of this kind, there is one le&s;&s;er in all the parts thereof, and differeth in nothing el&s;e.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The Garden kinds do not naturally grow wild in any Place, but are all &s;owen in Gardens where they grow.</P>
<P>The <HI>Wild Poppy,</HI> or Corn Ro&s;e is plentiful enough, and many times too much in the Corn-fields of al Countries through this Land, and al&s;o upon Ditch-banks, and by Hedg-&s;ides: The <HI>&s;maller wild kind</HI> is al&s;o found in Corn-fields, and al&s;o in &s;ome other places, but not &s;o plentiful as the for|mer.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> The <HI>Garden kinds</HI> are u&s;ually &s;own in the Spring, which then flo|wer about the end of <HI>May,</HI> and &s;omwhat earlier, if they &s;pring of their own &s;owing.</P>
<P>The <HI>Wild kinds</HI> Flower u&s;ually from <HI>May</HI> until <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed of them is ripe &s;oon after the flowring.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is <HI>Lunar,</HI> and of the Juyce of it is made <HI>Opium;</HI> only for lucre of Money they cheat you, and tel you 'tis a kind of <HI>tear,</HI> or &s;ome &s;uch like thing that drops from <HI>Poppies</HI> when they weep,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Procure &s;leep, Catarrhs, and deflu|xions of Rhewm, &s;tayeth, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Flux of the belly &amp; Womens Cour&s;es, Inflamati|ons, &amp; St. Anth. fire, pains in the Head, Phren&s;ies, Tooth-ach.</NOTE> and that is &s;ome where beyond the Seas, I know not where, beyond the <HI>Moon.</HI> The <HI>Garden Poppy</HI> heads, with &s;eeds made into a Syrup, is frequently, and to good effect, u&s;ed to pro|cure re&s;t and &s;leep in the &s;ick and weak, and to &s;tay Catarrhs and Defluxions of hot thin Rhewms from the Head into the Sto|mach, and upon the Lungs, cau&s;ing a continual Cough, the Fore-runner of a Con&s;umption: It helpeth al&s;o Hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat, and when one hath lo&s;t their voice, which the Oyl of the Seed doth likewi&s;e. The black &s;eed boyled in Wine and drunk, is &s;aid al&s;o to &s;tay the Flux of the Belly and Womens Cour&s;es. The empty &s;hels of the Poppy-heads are u&s;ually boyled in Water and given to procure re&s;t and &s;leep; &s;o do the Leavs in the &s;ame manner: as al&s;o if the Head and Temples be bathed with the Decoction warm, or with the Oyl of Poppies, the green Leavs or Heads brui&s;ed and applied with a little Vinegar, or made into a Pultis with Barly-meal, or Hogs-grea&s;e, it cooleth and tempereth al Inflamations, as al&s;o the Di&s;ea&s;e called St. An|thonies Fire. It is generally u&s;ed in Treacle and Methridate, and in al other Medieines that are made to procure re&s;t and &s;leep, and to ea&s;e pains in the Head as wel as in other parts: It is al&s;o u&s;ed to cool Inflamations, Agues, or Phren&s;ies, and to &s;tay defluxions which cau&s;e a Cough or Con&s;umption, and al&s;o other Fluxes of the Belly, or Wo|mens Cour&s;es: It is al&s;o put into hollow Teeth to ea&s;e the pain, and hath been found by experience to ea&s;e the pain of the Gout.</P>
<P>The <HI>Wild Poppy,</HI> or Corn Ro&s;e (as <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith) is good to prevent the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s. The Syrup made with the Flowers is with good effect given to tho&s;e that have the Plure&s;ie:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, Plure&s;ie, Surfets, Agues, and Inflama|tions.</NOTE> and the dried Flo|wers al&s;o, either boyled in Water, or made into Pouder and drunk, either in the Di&s;tilled water of them, or in &s;ome other Drink, worketh the like effect. The Di&s;tilled Water of the flo|wers, is held to be of much good u&s;e again&s;t Surfets, being drunk
<PB N="307" REF="111"> evening and morning: It is al&s;o more cooling than any of the other Poppies, and therfore cannot but be as effectual in hot A|gues, Phren&s;ies, and other Inflamations either inward or out|ward, the Syrup or Water to be u&s;ed therin, or the green Leavs u&s;ed outward|ly, either in an Oyntment, as it is in <HI>Populeon,</HI> a cooling Oyntment, or a|ny other wayes applied. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith, The Seed is dangerous to be u&s;ed in|wardly.</P>
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<HEAD>Pur&s;lane.</HEAD>
<P>GArden Pur&s;lane (being u&s;ed as a Sallet Herb) is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription; I &s;hal therfore only &s;peak of its Vertues as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis an Herb of the <HI>Moon.</HI> It is good to cool any heat in the Liver, Blood, Reins, and Stomach, and in hot Agues, no|thing better; It &s;tayeth hot and Chollerick Fluxes of the Belly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cooleth heat of Blood in hot A|gues, Chollerick Fluxes, Womens Cour&s;es, the Whites &amp; Ge|norrhea, di&s;tila|tions, phren&s;ie, Heat of Urine, Lu&s;t, and vene|rous Dreams, Worms, Vomi|ting, old, dry, Cough, Short Breath, &amp; phti|&s;ick, Ulcers in the &s;ecret parts. Redne&s;s of the Eyes, &amp; infla|mations, Crick, or pain in the Neck, bla&s;tings by Lightning, burning by gun-powder; Sore Brea&s;ts, Chil|drens Navils, Sore mouths, &amp; &s;wollen Gums, Fa&s;teneth teeth, toothach, bloody Urine Gout, Cramp, &amp; &s;tif|ne&s;s of the &s;i|news.</NOTE> Womens Cour&s;es, the Whites, and Gonorrhea, or running of the Reins, the Di&s;tillations from the Head, and pains therin proceeding of Heat, want of &s;leep, or the Phren&s;ie. The Seed is more effectual than the Herb, and is of &s;ingular good u&s;e to cool the heat and &s;harpne&s;s of the Urine, and the outragious Lu&s;t of the Body, Venerious Dreams, and the like, in&s;omuch that the over-frequent u&s;e hereof, extingui&s;heth the Heat and Vertu of Natural Pro|creation. The Seed brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine, and given to Children, expelleth the Worms. The juyce of the herb is held as effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, as al&s;o to &s;tay Vomitings; and taken with &s;ome Sugar or Honey, helpeth an old and dry Cough, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, and the Phti|&s;ick, and &s;tayeth immoderate Thir&s;t. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is u&s;ed by many (as the more plea&s;ing) with a little Sugar, to work the &s;ame effects. The juyce al&s;o is &s;ingular good in the Inflamations and Ulcers of the &s;ecret Parts in Man or Woman, as al&s;o of the Bowels and Hemor|rhoids, when they are Ulcerous, or Excoriations in them: The Herb brui&s;ed and applied to the Fore-head and Tem|ples, allayeth exce&s;&s;ive heat therin, hindring re&s;t and &s;leep: and applied to the Eyes, taketh away the Redne&s;s and In|flamation in them, and tho&s;e other Parts where Pu&s;hes, Wheals, Pimples, St. Anthonies Fire, and the like, break forth, e&s;pecially if a little Vinegar be put to it: And being laid to the Neck with as much of Galls and Lin&s;eed toge|ther, taketh away the pains therin and the Crick in the Neck. The Juyce is u&s;ed with Oyl of Ro&s;es for the &s;aid Cau&s;es, or for Bla&s;tings by Lightning, and Burnings by Gun-powder, or for Womens &s;ore Brea&s;ts, and to allay the heat in al other Sores or Hurts: Applied al&s;o to the Na|vels
<PB N="308" REF="112"> of Children that &s;tick forth, it helpeth them: It is al|&s;o good for &s;ore mouths, and Gums that are &s;wollen, to fa|&s;ten loo&s;e teeth. <HI>Camerarius</HI> &s;aith, That the Di&s;tilled Wa|ter u&s;ed by &s;ome, took away the pain of their Teeth when al other Remedies failed, and that the thickned Juyce made in Pills with the Pouder of Gum-Tragacanth, and Arabick, being taken prevaileth much to help tho&s;e that make a bloody water. Applied to the Gout it ea&s;eth pains thereof, and helpeth the hardne&s;s of Sinews, if it come not of the Cramp, or a cold Cau&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Primro&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o wel known, that they need no De&s;eription. Of the Leavs of Primro&s;es is made as fine a Salve to heal green Wounds as any is that I know: You &s;hal be taught to make Salves of any Herb at the latter end of the Book, make this as you are taught there, and do not (you that have any ingenuity in you) &s;ee your poor Neighbors go with wounded Limbs, when a half-penny co&s;t wil heal them.</P>
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<HEAD>Privet.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;r Common</HI> Privet <HI>is carried up with many &s;lender Bran|ches, to a rea&s;onable height and breadth, to cover Arbors, Bowrs, and Banquetting Hou&s;es, and brought, wrought, and cut into many Forms, of Men, Hor&s;es, Birds, &amp;c. which though at fir&s;t &s;upported, grow|eth afterwards &s;trong of it &s;elf: It beareth long and narrow green Leavs by couples, and &s;weet &s;melling white flowers in tufts at the ends of the branches, which turn into &s;mal black Berries that have a purpli&s;h Juyce within them, and &s;ome &s;eeds that are flat on the one &s;ide, with a hole or dent therin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in this Land, in divers Woods.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Our <HI>Privet</HI> Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July;</HI> the Berries are ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> and <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> is Lady of this. It is little u&s;ed in Phy&s;ick with us in the&s;e times, more than in Lotions to wa&s;h Sores,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lotions to wa&s;h &s;ore Mouths, Throats, Cool Inflamations, Dry Fluxes, in|flamation in Wounds, Head|ach, Fluxes, &amp; Womens cour&s;es Voiding blood, Rhewm in the Eyes.</NOTE> and &s;ore Mouths, and to cool Inflamations and dry up Fluxes. Yet <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, It &s;erveth to al the u&s;es for the which <HI>Ciprus</HI> or the Ea&s;t <HI>Privet</HI> is appointed by <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> and <HI>Galen.</HI> He further &s;aith, That the Oyl that is made of the Flowers of <HI>Privet</HI> infu&s;ed therin, and &s;et in the Sun, is &s;ingular good for the Inflamations of Wounds, and for the Head-ach coming of an hot cau&s;e. There is a &s;weet Water al&s;o di&s;tilled from the Flowers that is good for al tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es that need cooling and drying, and therfore helpeth al Fluxes of the Belly or Stomach. Bloudy Fluxes, and Womens Cour&s;es, being either drunk or applied, as al|&s;o for tho&s;e that void Bloud at their Mouth, or at any other place; and for Di&s;tillations of Rhewms in the Eyes, e&s;pe|cially if it be u&s;ed with <HI>Tutiae.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Queen of the Meadows, Meadow-&s;weet,</HI> Or, <HI>Mead-&s;weet.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Stalks of this are reddi&s;h, ri&s;ing to be three foot high, &s;omtimes four or five foot, having at the joynts therof large winged Leavs, &s;tanding one above another at di&s;tances, con&s;i&s;ting of many and &s;omwhat broad Leavs, &s;et on each &s;ide of a middle rib, being hard, rough, or rugged, crumpled much like to Elm-Leavs, having al&s;o &s;ome &s;mal|ler Leavs with them (as Agrimony hath) &s;omwhat deeply dented about the edges, of a &s;ad green colour on the upper &s;ide, and grayi&s;h underneath, of a pretty &s;harp &s;cent and ta&s;t, &s;omwhat like unto Burnet, and a Leaf herof put in|to a cup of Clarret-wine, giveth al&s;o a fine relli&s;h to it: At the tops of the &s;talks and branches &s;tand many tufts of &s;mal white Flowers, thru&s;t thick together, which &s;mel much &s;weeter than the Leavs: and in their places, being fallen, come crooked and cornered Seed: The Root is &s;omwhat woody, and black<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h on the out-&s;ide, and browni&s;h within, with divers greater &s;trings, and le&s;&s;er fibres &s;et therat, of a &s;trong &s;cent, but nothing &s;o plea&s;ant as the Flowers and Leavs, and peri&s;heth not, but abideth many years, &s;hooting forth anew every spring.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in moi&s;t Meadows, that lie much wet, or neer the Cour&s;es of Water.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in &s;ome place or other al the three Summer Months, that is, <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and their Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> claims dominion over the Herb. It is u&s;ed to &s;tay al manner of Bleedings, Fluxes, Vomitings, and Womens Cour&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bleedings, Flu|xes, Vomitings, womens cour&s;es &amp; the Whites, Quartan Ague, Chollick, opens the Belly, Old-&V;lcers, healeth &s;ore Mouths, or Secrets, rai&s;e Bli&s;ters, infla|mation in the Eyes.</NOTE> as al&s;o their Whites: It is &s;aid to alter and take away the Fits of Quartan Agues, and to make a merry Heart, for which purpo&s;e &s;ome u&s;e the Flowers, and &s;ome the Leavs. It helpeth &s;peedily tho&s;e that are trou|bled with the Chollick, being boyled in Wine; and with a little Honey taken warm, it openeth the Belly: but boyled in red Wine and drunk, it &s;tayeth the Flux of the Belly. Be|ing outwardly applied, it healeth old Ulcers that are Can|krous or eaten, or hollow and Fi&s;tulous, for which it is by many much commended, as al&s;o for the Sores in the mouth, or &s;ecret Parts. The Leavs, when they are ful grown, be|laid upon the skin, wil in a &s;hort time rai&s;e Bli&s;ters ther|on, as <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;aith. The Water therof helpeth the Heat and Inflamation in the Eyes.</P>
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<HEAD>The Quince-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe ordinary Quince-tree groweth often to the height and bigne&s;s of a rea&s;onable Apple-tree, but more u&s;ually low|er and crooked with a rough Bark, &s;preading Arms and Branches far abroad&punc; The Leavs are &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of the Apple-tree, but thicker, harder, and fuller of Veins, and white on the under &s;ide, not dented at all about the
<PB N="310" REF="113"> edges. The Flowers are large and white, &s;omtimes da&s;h'd over with a blu&s;h: The Fruit that followeth is yellow, being neer ripe, and covered with a white Freez or Cotton, thick &s;et on the yonger, and growing le&s;s as they grow to be through ripe, bunched out often times in &s;ome places, &s;ome being liker an Apple, and &s;ome a Pear, of a &s;trong heady &s;cent, and not durable to keep, and is &s;owr, har&s;h, and of an unplea&s;ant ta&s;t to eat fre&s;h; but being &s;calded, roa&s;ted, baked, or pre&s;erved, becometh more plea&s;ant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> It be&s;t likes to grow neer Ponds and Water &s;ides, and is frequent through this Land; and flowereth not until the Leavs be come forth: The Fruit is ripe in <HI>September</HI> or <HI>October.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Old <HI>Saturn</HI> owns the Tree. Quinces when they are green, helps al &s;orts of Fluxes in Man or Woman, and Chollerick Laske,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fluxes, Lasks, &amp;c. Provoketh Appetite, &s;tayeth vo|miting, Fainting Spirits, Choller, Flegm, poy&s;on, Womens Brea&s;ts, plague Sores, pre&s;erveth Hair.</NOTE> Ca&s;tings, and what&s;oever needeth A&s;triction more than any way prepared by fire: yet the Syrup of the Juyce, or the Con&s;erve, are much conducible, much of the bin|ding quality being con&s;umed by the fire: If a little Vinegar be added, it &s;tirreth up the langui&s;hing Appetite, and the Stomach given to ca&s;ting: Some Spices being added, it comforteth and &s;trengthneth the decayed and fainting Spirits, and helpeth the Liver oppre&s;&s;ed, that it cannot perfect the dige&s;tion; and cor|recteth Choller and Flegm: If you would have them Purging, put Honey to them in&s;tead of Sugar; and if more Laxative, for Choller, Rhubarb; for Flegm, Turbith; for watery. Hu|mors, Scammony: but if more forcibly to bind, u&s;e the unripe Quinces with Ro&s;es, and Acacia, or Hypoci&s;tis, and &s;ome tor|refied Rhubarb. To take the crude Juyce of Quinces, is held a pre&s;ervative again&s;t the force of deadly poy&s;on; for it hath been found mo&s;t certain true, That the very &s;mel of a Quince hath taken away al the &s;trength of the Poy&s;on of white Hellebore. If there be need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot Fluxes: The Oyl of Quinces, or other Medicines that may be made there|of, are very available to anoint the Belly, or other parts therewith: It like|wi&s;e &s;trengtheneth the Stomach and Belly, and the Sinews that are loo&s;ned by &s;harp Humors falling on them, and re&s;traineth immoderate &s;weatings. The Muccilage taken from the Seeds of Quinces boyled a little in Water, is very good to cool the Heat, and heal the Sore Brea&s;ts of Women. The &s;ame with a little Sugar is good to lenefie the har&s;hne&s;s and hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat, and roughne&s;s of the Tongue. The Cotton or Down of Quin|ces boyled and applied to Plague Sores, healeth them up; and laid as a Plai&s;ter made up with Wax, it bringeth Hair to them that are bald, and kee|peth it from falling if it be ready to &s;hed.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Rhadi&s;h and Hor&s;-Rhadi&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>THe Garden Radi&s;h is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cripton.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The Hor&s; Radi&s;h hath his fir&s;t Leavs that ri&s;e before Winter, about a foot and a half long, very much cut in or torn on the edges into
<PB N="311" REF="113"> many parts of a dark green colour, with a great Rib in the middle: After the&s;e have been up a while, others follow which are greater, rougher, broader, and lo|nger whol, and not devided as the fir&s;t, but only &s;omwhat roundly dented a|bout the edges: The &s;talk when it beareth Flowres (which is but &s;eldom) is great, ri&s;ing up with &s;ome few le&s;&s;er Leavs thereon to three or four foot high, &s;preading at the top many &s;mal branches of whiti&s;h Flowers, made of four Leavs apiece; after which come &s;mal pods like tho&s;e of Shepherds-pur&s;e, but &s;eldom with any Seed in them. The Root is great, long, white, and rug|ged, &s;hooting up divers Heads of Leavs, which may be parted for encrea&s;e, but it doth not creep within ground, nor run above ground, and is of a &s;trong, &s;harp and bitter ta&s;t, almo&s;t like Mu&s;tard.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found wild in &s;ome places of this Land, but is chiefly plan|ted in Gardens where it joyeth in a moi&s;t and &s;hadowy place.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth but &s;eldom, but when it doth, it is in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both under <HI>Mars.</HI> The Juyce of Hor&s;-Rhadi&s;h given to drink, is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scurvy, Worms, Sciatica, Liver and Spleen.</NOTE> It killeth the Worms in Children being drunk, and al&s;o laid upon the Belly. The Root brui&s;ed and laid to the place grieved with the Sciatica, Joynt ach, or the hard Swellings of the Liver and Spleen, doth wonderfully help them al. The di|&s;tilled water of the Herb and Roots, is more familiar to be taken with a little Sugar for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Garden Rhadi&s;hes are in wantonne&s;s by the Gentry eaten as Sallat, but they breed but &s;curvy humors in the Stomach, and corrupt the Blood, and then &s;end for a Phy&s;itian as fa&s;t as you can, this is one cau&s;e, makes the ow|ners of &s;uch nice Pallats &s;o unhealthful, yet for &s;uch as are trou|bled with the Gravel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stone, Di&s;ury.</NOTE> Stone, or &s;toppage of Urin, they are good Phy&s;ick if the Body be &s;trong that takes them: You may make the Juyce of the Roots into a Syrup if you plea&s;e for that u&s;e: They purge by Urine exceedingly.</P>
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<HEAD>Ragwort.</HEAD>
<P>IT is called al&s;o St. James-wort, Stagger-wort, and Stammer-wort, and Seggrum.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The greater common Ragwort hath many large, and long dark green Leavs lying on the ground, very much rent and torn on the &s;ides into many pieces; from among which ri&s;e up &s;omtimes but one, and &s;om|times two or three &s;quare or cre&s;ted blacki&s;h or browni&s;h Stalks three or four foot high, &s;omtimes branched, bearing divers &s;uch like Leavs upon them at &s;everal di&s;tances unto the tops, where it brancheth forth into ma|ny Stalks bearing yellow Flowers, con&s;i&s;ting of divers Leavs &s;et as a Pale or Border, with a dark yellow thrum in the middle, which do abide a great while, but at la&s;t are turned into Down, and with the &s;mal blacki&s;h gray Seed are carried away with the wind. The Root is made of many Fibres, wherby it is firmly fa&s;tned into the ground, and abideth many yeers.</P>
<P>There is another &s;ort hereof different from the former only in this, That
<PB N="312" REF="114"> it ri&s;eth not &s;o high; the Leavs are not &s;o finely jagged, nor of &s;o dark a green color, but rather &s;omwhat whiti&s;h, &s;oft, and woolly, and the Flowers u&s;ually paler.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow both of them wild in Pa&s;tures, and untilled grounds in many places, and often times both of them in one Field.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Ragwort is under the command of Dame <HI>Venus,</HI> and clen&s;eth, dige&s;teth, and di&s;cu&s;&s;eth. The De|coction of the Herb to wa&s;h the Mouth or Throat that have Ulcers or Sores therein;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sore Mouth or Throat, Swel|lings and Im|po&s;tumes, quin|&s;ie and Kings Evil, Catarrhs, and defluxions, Green wounds and &V;lcers in the privy parts, Running Can|kers, and hol|low Fi&s;tulaes, Aches &amp; pains Sciatica.</NOTE> and for &s;wellings, hardne&s;s, or Impo&s;tumations, for it throughly clen&s;eth and healeth them; as al&s;o the Quin&s;ie, and the Kings Evil: It helpeth to &s;tay Catarrhs, thin Rhewms and Defluxions from the Head into the Eyes, No&s;e, or Lungs. The Juyce is found by experience to be &s;ingular good to heal green Wounds, and to clen&s;e and heal al old and filthy Ulcers in the Privi|ties, and in other parts of the Body; as al&s;o inward Wounds and Ulcers, and &s;tayeth the malignity of fretting or running Cankers, and hollow Fi&s;tulaes, not &s;uffering them to &s;pread further. It is al&s;o much commended to help Aches and pains, either in the Fle&s;hy parts, or in the N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rvs and Sinews; as al&s;o the Sciatica, or pain of the Hips or Huckle-bone, to bath the places with the Decoction of the Herb, or to anoint them with an Oyntment made of the Herb brui&s;ed and boyled in old Hogs Suet, with &s;ome Ma&s;tich and Oriba|num in Pouder added unto it after it is &s;trained forth.</P>
<P>In <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> we cal it Ragweed.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Rattle-gra&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>OF this there are two kinds which I &s;hal &s;peak of, viz. The Red, and Yellow.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The common Red Rattle, hath &s;undry reddi&s;h hollow &s;talks, and &s;omtimes green, ri&s;ing from the Root, lying for the mo&s;t part on the ground, yet &s;ome growing more upright, with many &s;mal reddi&s;h or greeni&s;h Leavs &s;et on both &s;ides of a middle Rib finely dented about the edges: The Flowers &s;tand at the tops of the Stalks and Branches, of a fine purpli&s;h red color, like &s;mal gaping hoods; after which come flat blacki&s;h Seed in &s;mal Husks, which lying loo&s;e therein, wil rattle with &s;haking. The Root con|&s;i&s;ts of two or three &s;mal whiti&s;h &s;trings, with &s;ome fibres thereat.</P>
<P>The common Yellow Rattle hath &s;eldom above one round green Stalk, ri&s;ing from the Root, about half a yard or two foot high, and but few Bran|ches thereon, having two long, and &s;omwhat broad Leavs &s;et at a Joynt, deeply cut in on the edges, re&s;embling the Comb of a Cock, broade&s;t next to the Stalk, and &s;maller to the end: The Floweas grow at the tops of the Stalks with &s;ome &s;horter Leavs with them, hooded after the &s;ame manner that the others are, but of a fair yellow color in mo&s;t, or in &s;ome paler, and
<PB N="313" REF="114"> in &s;ome more white. The Seed is contained in large Husks, and being ripe wil rattle, or make a noi&s;e with lying loo&s;e in them. The Root is &s;mal and &s;lender, peri&s;hing every yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in our Meadows and Woods, generally through this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They are in Flower from <HI>Mid-Summer</HI> until <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> be pa&s;t &s;omtimes.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both of them under the Domini|on of the <HI>Moon.</HI> The Red <HI>Rattle</HI> is accounted profitable to heal up Fi&s;tulaes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fi&s;tulaes, and hollow Ulcers, Womens Cour|&s;es, Fluxes.</NOTE> and hollow Ulcers and to &s;tay the Flux of Humors to them, as al&s;o the abundance of Womens Cour&s;es, or any other Flux of Blood, being boyled in red Wine and drunk.</P>
<P>The Yellow <HI>Rattle,</HI> or Cocks Comb, is held to be good for tho&s;e that are troubled with a Cough,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough, Dim &s;ight.</NOTE> or dimne&s;s of &s;ight, if the Herb being boyled with Beans, and &s;ome Hony put thereto, be drunk, or dropped into the Eyes. The whol Seed being put into the Eyes draweth forth any Skin, Dimne&s;s or Film from the &s;ight without trouble or pain.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Re&s;t-Harrow, or Cammoak.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon Re&s;t-harrow ri&s;eth up with divers rough woody twigs, half a yard, or a yard high, &s;et at the Joynts with|out order, with little roundi&s;h Leavs &s;omtimes more than two or three at a place, of a dark green color, without thorns while they are yong, but after|wards armed in &s;undry places with &s;hort and &s;harp Thorns. The Flowers come forth at the tops of the twigs and branches whereof it is full, fa&s;hioned like Pea&s;e, or Bloom Blo&s;&s;oms, but le&s;&s;er, flatter, and &s;omwhat clo&s;er, of a faint purpli&s;h color; after which come &s;mal Pods, containing &s;mal, flat, and round Seed: The Root is blacki&s;h on the out&s;ide, and whiti&s;h within, very tough and hard to break, when it is fre&s;h and green, and as hard as an Horn when it is dried, thru&s;ting down deep into the ground, and spreading like|wi&s;e, every piece being apt to grow again if it be left in the ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of this Land, as wel in the Arable as wa&s;t ground.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth about the beginning or middle of <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars.</HI> It is &s;ingular good to provoke Urin when it is &s;topped, and to break and drive forth the Stone,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Urine &s;topped, Stone, Fle&s;hy, Rupture, Toothach, Liver and Spleen, ob&s;tructed, &V;lcers.</NOTE> which the Pouder of the Bark of the Root taken in Wine performeth effectually. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, The &s;ame helpeth the Di&s;ea&s;e called <HI>Hiernia Carno&s;a,</HI> the Fle&s;hy Rupture, by taking the &s;aid Pouder for &s;ome months together con&s;tantly, and that it hath cured &s;ome which &s;eemed incurable by any other means than by cutting or burning. The Decocti|on thereof made with &s;ome Vinegar and gargled in the Mouth,
<PB N="314" REF="115"> ea&s;eth the Toothach, e&s;pecially when it comes of Rhewm; and the &s;aid Decoction is very powerful to open ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, and other parts. A di&s;tilled Water made in <HI>Balneo Mariae</HI> with four pound of the Roots hereof fir&s;t &s;liced &s;mal, and afterwards &s;teeped in a gallon of Canary Wine, is &s;ingular good for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and to clen&s;e the pa&s;&s;ages of the Urine. The Pouder of the &s;aid Root made into an Electuary or Lozenges with Sugar: as al&s;o the Bark of the fre&s;h Roots boyled tender, and afterwards beaten in|to a Con&s;erve with Sugar, worketh the like effect. The Pouder of the Roots &s;trewed upon the brims of Ulcers, or mixed with any other conveni|ent thing and applied, con&s;umeth the hardne&s;s, and cau&s;eth them to heal the better.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Rocket.</HEAD>
<P>IN regard the Garden Rocket is rather u&s;ed as a Sallet Herb than to any Phy&s;ical purpo&s;es, I &s;hal omit it, and only &s;peak of the common wild Rocket: The De&s;cription whereof, take as followeth;</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The common wild Rocket, hath longer and narrower Leavs, much more divided into &s;lender cuts and jags on both &s;ides of the middle Rib than the Garden kinds have, of a &s;ad overworn green color, from among which ri&s;eth up divers &s;tiff &s;talks two or three foot high, &s;omtimes &s;et with the like Leavs, but &s;maller, and &s;maller upwards, branched from the middle into divers &s;tiff &s;talks, bearing &s;undry yellow Flowers on them made of four Leavs apiece, as the others are, which afterwards yield &s;mal reddi&s;h Seed, in &s;mal long Pods, of a more bitter and hot biting ta&s;t than the Garden kinds, as the Leavs are al&s;o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found wild in divers places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth about <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Au|gu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Wild Rockets are forbidden to be u&s;ed alone in regard their &s;harpne&s;s fumeth into the Head, cau&s;ing ach and pain therin: and are no le&s;s hurtful to hot and Chollerick per&s;ons, for fear of in|flaming their Blood, &amp; therfore for &s;uch we may &s;ay, a little doth but a little harm, for angry <HI>Mars</HI> rules them, and he &s;omtimes wil be te&s;ty when he meets with Fools. The Wild Rocket is more &s;trong and effectual to encrea&s;e Sperm and Venerious qualities,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Increa&s; Sperm &amp; venery, helps dige&s;tion, pro|vokes &V;rin, Biting of Ser|pents, &amp;c. Cough in Chil|dren, increa&s;eth Milk, clen&s;eth the Face, &s;cars, Blue &s;pots, Marks of &s;mal pox.</NOTE> wher|unto al&s;o the Seed is more effectual than the Garden kinds: It &s;erveth al&s;o to help Dige&s;tion, and provoketh Urin ex|ceedingly. The Seed is u&s;ed to cure the bitings of Ser|pents, the Scorpion, and the Shrew-Mou&s;e, and other poy|&s;ons, and expelleth Worms, and other noi&s;om Creatures that breed in the Body. The Herb boyled or &s;tewed, and &s;ome Sugar put thereto, helpeth the Cough in Children being taken often. The Seed al&s;o taken in drink taketh a|way the il &s;cent of the Arm-pits, encrea&s;eth Milk in Nur|&s;es, and wa&s;teth the Spleen. The Seed mixed with Ho|ney,
<PB N="315" REF="115"> and u&s;ed on the Face, clen&s;eth the Skin from Spots, Morphew, and other di&s;colorings therein; and u&s;ed with Vinegar taketh away Freckles and redne&s;s in the Face or o|other parts' and with the Gal of an Ox, it amendeth foul Scars, black and blue Spots, and the marks of the &s;mal Pox.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Winter Rocket,</HI> or <HI>Cre&s;&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.] WInter Rocket,</HI> or <HI>Winter Cre&s;&s;es,</HI> hath divers &s;omwhat large, &s;ad, green Leavs, lying upon the ground, torn or cut into divers parts, &s;omwhat like unto <HI>Rocket,</HI> or Turnip leavs, with &s;maller pieces next the bottom, and broad at the ends, which &s;o abide al win|ter (if it &s;pring up in <HI>Autumn,</HI> when it is u&s;ed to be eaten) from among which ri&s;eth up divers &s;mal round Stalks ful of branches, bearing many &s;mal yellow Flowers of four Leavs apiece, after which come &s;mal long Pods with reddi&s;h &s;eed in them: The Root is &s;omwhat &s;tringy, and peri&s;heth every year after the &s;eed is ripe.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth of its own accord in Gardens, and Fields, by the way &s;ides in divers places, and particularly in the next Pa&s;ture to the Conduit-Head behind <HI>Grayes-Inne</HI> that brings Water to Mr. <HI>Lamb</HI>'s Conduit in <HI>Hol|bourn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>May,</HI> and Seedeth in <HI>June,</HI> and then peri&s;heth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is profitable to provoke Urine, and helpeth the Strangury, and to expel Gravel and the Stone; It is al&s;o of good effect in the Scurvy: It is found by experience to be a &s;in|gular good Wound Herb,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Strangury, Gra|vel, &amp; Stone, &s;curvy, wounds ulcers, &amp; &s;ores.</NOTE> to clen&s;e inward Wounds: the Juyce or Decoction being drunk, or outwardly applied to wa&s;h foul Ulcers and Sores, clen&s;ing them by &s;harpne&s;s, and hindring or abating the dead Fle&s;h from growing therein, and healing them by the drying quality.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ro&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>I Hold it altogether needle&s;&s;e to trouble the Reader with a De&s;cription of any of the&s;e, &s;ith both the Garden <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> and the Wild <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> of the Bry|ars are well enough known; take therefore the Vertues of them as followeth; And fir&s;t I &s;hall begin with the Garden kinds.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> What a quarter have Authors made with Ro&s;es, what a Racket have they kept? I &s;hall ad, Red Ro&s;es are under <HI>Ju|piter,</HI> Damask under <HI>Venus,</HI> and White under the <HI>Moon,</HI> and Province un|der the King of <HI>France.</HI> The White and the Red Ro&s;es are cooling and drying, and yet the White is taken to exceed the Red in both tho&s;e proper|ties, but is &s;eldome u&s;ed inwardly in any Medicine. The bitterne&s;&s;e in the Ro&s;es when they are fre&s;h,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, and Wateri&s;h Hu|mors; Head|ach, Pains in the Ears, Eyes, Throat and Gums, Funda|ment, Bowels, and Matrix. St. Anthonies fire, Stomach, Womens Cour|&s;es, Defluxions fa&s;tneth Teeth, Lask and &s;pit|ting of Bloud, Heat &amp; Infla|mations, Re&s;t &amp; &s;leep, whiets &amp; Reds in Wo|men, Choller &amp; Flegm, Red|ne&s;s and wate|ring of the Eyes.</NOTE> e&s;pecially the Juyce purgeth Choller, and watery Humors, but being dryed and that heat which cau&s;ed the bitterne&s;&s;e being con|&s;umed, they have then a binding and a&s;tringent quality; Tho&s;e al&s;o that are not full blown do both cool and bind
<PB N="316" REF="116"> more then the&s;e that are full blown, and the White Ro&s;es more than the Red. The Decoction of Red Ro&s;es made with Wine and u&s;ed, is very good for the Headach, and pains in the Eyes, Ears, Throat and Gums, as al&s;o for the Fundament, the lower bowels, and the Matrix, being bathed, or put into them. The &s;ame Decoction with the Ro&s;es remaining in it, is profitably applyed to the Region of the Heart to ea&s; the Inflamation therein: as al&s;o St. An|thonies fire, and other Di&s;ea&s;es of the Stomach. Being dryed and beaten to powder, and taken into &s;teeled Wine or Water, it helpeth to &s;tay Womens Cour&s;es. The yelow threds in the midle of the Red Ro&s;es (which are erroneou&s;ly called the Ro&s;e Seed) being poudered and drunk in the di&s;tilled wa|ter of Quinces, &s;tayeth the overflowing of Womens Cour|&s;es, and doth wonderfully &s;tay the Defluxions of Rhewm upon the Gums and Teeth, pre&s;erving them from corrup|tion, and fa&s;tning them if they be loo&s;e, being wa&s;hed and gargled therwith, and &s;ome Vinegar of Squils added therto. The Heads with Seed being u&s;ed in Pouder or in a De|coction, &s;tayeth the Lask and &s;pitting of Bloud. Red Ro&s;es do &s;trengthen the Heart, the Stomach and the Liver, and the retentive fa|cultis, they mitigate the pains that ari&s;e from Heat, a&s;&s;wage Inflamations, procure re&s;t and &s;leep, &s;tay both Whites and Reds in Women, the Gonnorr|hea or running of the Reins, and the Fluxes of the Belly; the Juyce of them doth purge and clen&s;e the Body from Choller and Flegm: The Husks of the Ro&s;es with the Beards and Nails of the Ro&s;es are binding and cooling and the Di&s;tilled Water of either of them is good for the Heat and redne&s;&s;e in the Eyes, and to &s;tay and dry up the Rhewms and watering of them. Of the Red Ro&s;es are u&s;ully made many Compo&s;itions all &s;erving to &s;undry good u&s;es; <HI>Viz.</HI> Electuary of Ro&s;es; Con&s;erve both moi&s;t and dry, which is more u&s;ually called Sugar of Ro&s;es; Syrup of dryed Ro&s;es, and Honey of Ro&s;es; The Cordiall Pouder called <HI>Diarhodon Abhatis,</HI> and <HI>Aromati|ca Ro&s;arum;</HI> The Di&s;tilled Water of Ro&s;es, Vinegar of Ro&s;es, Oynt|ment and Oyl of Ro&s;es, and the Ro&s;e Leavs dryed, which although no Compo&s;ition, yet of very great u&s;e and effect. To write at large of every one of the&s;e would make my Book &s;wel too big, it being &s;ufficient for a Volum by it &s;elf to &s;peak fully of them: But briefly; The Electuary is pur|ging, whereof two or three Drams taken by it &s;elf in &s;ome convenient Li|quor is a purge &s;ufficient for a weak Con&s;titution; but may be encrea&s;ed to &s;ix drams according to the &s;trength of the Patient.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Purge for Choller, Hot Feavers, Pains of the Head, Heat of the Eyes, Jaundice &amp; Joynt Aches, Di&s;tillations &amp; Defluxions of Rhewm, Fluxes and Lasks, running of the Reins, Faintings, Swounings and trembling of the Heart, Helpeth Dige&s;tion, Stay|eth Ca&s;ting, In|fection, Cooleth the Liver and Bloud, re&s;i&s;teth Putrefaction, and Infection, Sore Mouths, Throats, &amp;c. Comfort the Heart &amp; Sto|mach, &s;tay Vo|miting, Faint Spirits, Redne&s;s of Eyes.</NOTE> It purgeth Choller without trouble, and is good in hot Feavers, and pains of the Head ari&s;ing from hot Chollerick Humors, and heat in the Eyes, the Jaun|dice al&s;o, and Joynt Aches proceeding of hot Humors. The moi&s;t Con&s;erve is of much u&s;e, both binding and Cordiall, for untill it be about two years old it is more
<PB N="317" REF="116"> binding then Cordiall, and after that, more Cordial than Binding: Some of the younger Con&s;erve taken with <HI>Me|thridatum</HI> mixed together, is good for tho&s;e that are trou|bled with Di&s;tillations of Rhewm from the Brain to the No&s;e, and Defluxsons of Rhewm into the Eyes, as al&s;o for Fluxes and Lasks of the Belly; and being mixed with the Pouder of Ma&s;tick, is very good for the running of the Reins, and for other loo&s;ne&s;&s;e of Humors in the Body. The old Con&s;erve mixed with <HI>Aromaticum Ro&s;arum</HI> is a very good Cordiall again&s;t Faintings, Swounings, Weak|ne&s;&s;e, and Tremblings of the Heart, &s;trengthning both it and a weak Stomach, helpeth dige&s;tion, &s;tayeth ca&s;ting and is a very good Pre&s;ervative in the time of Infection. The dry Con&s;erve which is called Sugar of Ro&s;es, is a very good Cordial to &s;trengthen the Heart and Spirits; as al&s;o to &s;tay Defluxions. The Syrup of dryed Red Ro&s;es &s;treng|theneth a Stomack given to ca&s;ting, cooleth an overheated Liver, and the Blood in Agues, comforteh the Heart and re&s;i&s;teth putrefaction and infection, and helpeth to &s;tay Lasks and Fluxes. Honey of Ro&s;es is much u&s;ed in Gar|gles and Lotions to wa&s;h Sores either in the Mouth, Throat, or other parts, both to clen&s;e and heal them, and to &s;tay the Fluxes of Humors falling upon them; it is al&s;o u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters both to cool and clen&s;e. The Cordiall Pouders called <HI>Diorhodon Abbatis</HI> and <HI>Aromaticus Ro&s;arum</HI> do comfort and &s;trengthen the Heart and Stomach, pro|cure an Appetite, help Dige&s;tion, &s;tayeth Vomiting; and is very good for tho&s;e that have &s;lippery Bowels to &s;trengthen them, and to dry up their moi&s;ture. Red Ro&s;e Water is of wel known and familiar u&s;e in al occa&s;ions (and better then Damask Ro&s;e Water) being cooling and Cordial, fre&s;hing quickning the weak &amp; faint &s;pirits, u&s;ed either in meats, or broths, to wa&s;h the Temples, to &s;mel to at the No&s;e, or to &s;mel the &s;weet vapors therof out of a perfuming Pot, or ca&s;t on a hot Fire-&s;hovel: It is al&s;o of much good u&s;e a|gain&s;t the redne&s;&s;e and Inflamations in the Eyes to bath them therewith; an the Temples of the Head al&s;o again&s;t pain &amp; ach, for which purpo&s;e al&s;o Vinegar of Ro&s;es is of much good u&s;e, and to procure re&s;t and &s;leep,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Procure &s;leep.</NOTE> if &s;ome thereof and Ro&s;ewater together be u&s;ed to &s;mel unto, or the No&s;e and Temples moi&s;tned there|with, but more u&s;ually to moi&s;ten a piece of Red Ro&s;e Cake cut fit for the purpo&s;e, and heated between a double folded Cloth, with a little beaten Nutmeg, and Poppy Seed &s;trewed on the &s;ide that mu&s;t ly next to the fore|head and Temples, and bound &s;o therto for all night. The Oyntment of Ro&s;es is much u&s;ed again&s;t heat and Inflama|tions in the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heat of the Liver, Back &amp; Reins, Pu&s;hes, Wheals &amp; Pim|ples, Fluxes of Humors.</NOTE> to anoint the Forehead and Temples, and being mixed with <HI>Unguentum Populeon,</HI> to procure re&s;t; as al&s;o it is u&s;ed for the heat of the Liver, of the Back
<PB N="318" REF="117"> and Reins, and to cool and heal Pu&s;hes, Wheals and o|ther red Pimples ri&s;ing in the Face or other parts. Oyl of Ro&s;es is not onely u&s;ed by it &s;alf to cool any hot Swellings or Inflamations, and to binde and &s;tay Fluxes of Humors unto Sores, but is al&s;o put into Oyntment and Plai&s;ters that are cooling and binding, and re&s;training the Flux of Humors. The dryed Leavs of the Red Ro&s;es are u&s;ed both inward and outwardly, both cooling, binding and Cordiall, for with them are made both <HI>Aromaticum Ro&s;arum, Diarhodon Abbatis,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Weak&s;tomack.</NOTE> and <HI>Saccharum Ro&s;arum,</HI> each of who&s;e Proper|ties are before declared. Ro&s;e Leavs and Mints heated and applied outwardly to the Stomach, &s;tayeth ca&s;tings, and very much &s;treng|theneth a weak Stomach; and applied as a Fomentation to the Region of the Liver and Heart, doth much cool and temper them, and al&s;o &s;erveth in|&s;tead of a Ro&s;e Cake (as is &s;aid before) to quiet the over hot Spirits and cau&s;e re&s;t and &s;leep. The Syrup of Damask Ro&s;es is both Simple and Compound,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Purgeth Chol|ler.</NOTE> and made with Agrick. The Sim|ple Solutive Syrup, is a familiar &s;afe, gentle and ea&s;ie Me|dicine, purging Choller, taken from one ounce to three or four;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bind che Belly.</NOTE> yet this is remarkable herein that the Di&s;tilled Wa|ter of this Syrup &s;hould notably bind the Belly; The Syrup with Agrick is more &s;trong and effectuall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melancholick humors, lepro&s;ie Itch, Tetters, French Pox.</NOTE> for one ounce thereof by it &s;elf will open the Body more than the other, and worketh as much on Flegm as Choller. The Com|pound Syrup is more forcible in working on Melancholick Humors, &amp; available again&s;t the Lepro&s;ie, Itch, Tetters, &amp;c. and the French Di&s;ea&s;e: Al&s;o Honey of Ro&s;es Solutive is made of the &s;ame infu&s;ion that the Syrup is made of, and therfore worketh the &s;ame effect both opening and purging, but is oftner given to Flegmatick than Cholerick per&s;ons and is more u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters than in Potions as the Syrup made with Sugar is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Open the Belly.</NOTE> The Con|&s;erve and Pre&s;erved Leavs of the&s;e Ro&s;es are al&s;o operative, in gently ope|ning the Belly.</P>
<P>The Simple Water of the Damask Ro&s;es is chiefly u&s;ed for Fumes to &s;wee|ten things, as the dried Leavs therof to make &s;weet Pouders, and fil &s;weet Bags, and little u&s;e they are put to in Phy&s;ick, although they have &s;ome pur|ging quality; The wild Ro&s;es al&s;o are few or none of them u&s;ed in Phy&s;ick, but yet are generally held to come neer the Nature of the manured Ro&s;es. The Fruit of the <HI>wild Bryar,</HI> which are called <HI>Heps,</HI> being throughly ripe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bind the Belly, and &s;tay Deflu|xions, Whites in Women, Stone, provoke &V;rine, chollick, Worms.</NOTE> and made into a Con&s;erve with Sugar, be&s;ides the plea&s;antne&s;s of the ta&s;t, doth gently bind the Belly, and &s;tay Defluxions from the Head upon the Stomach, drying up the moi&s;ture thereof, and helpeth dige&s;tion. The Pulp of the Heps dried into a hard Con&s;i&s;tance, like to the juyce of Liquoris, or &s;o dried that it may be made into pouder and taken in drink &s;tay|eth &s;peedily the Whites in Women. The Bryar Ball is often u&s;ed being made into Pouder and drunk to break the Stone, to pro|voke
<PB N="319" REF="117"> Urine when it is &s;topped, and to ea&s;e and help the Chol|lick, &s;ome appoint it to be burnt, and then taken for the &s;ame purpo&s;e. In the middle of the&s;e Balls are often found certain white Worms, which being dried and made into Pouder, and &s;ome of it drunk, is found by experience of many, to kil and drive forth the Worms of the Belly.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Ro&s;a Solis,</HI> or <HI>Sun-dew.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis hath divers &s;mal round hollow Leavs, &s;omwhat gree|ni&s;h, but ful of certain red hairs, which makes them &s;eem red, every one &s;tanding upon his own foot&s;talk, reddi&s;h hairy likewi&s;e. The Leavs are continually moi&s;t in the hotte&s;t day; yea, the hotter the Sun &s;hines on them, the moi&s;ter they are, with a certain &s;limine&s;s that wil rope (as we &s;ay) the &s;mal hairs alwayes holding this moi&s;ture: Among the&s;e leavs ri&s;e up &s;mal &s;lender &s;talks, reddi&s;h al&s;o, three or four fingers high, bearing divers &s;mal white knobs one above another, which are the Flowers; after which, in the Heads are certain &s;mal Seeds: The Root is a few &s;mal hairs.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth u&s;ually on Bogs, and in wet places, and &s;omtimes in moi&s;t Woods.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June,</HI> and then the Leavs are fitte&s;t to be ga|thered.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Sun</HI> rules it, and 'tis under the Sign <HI>Can|cer. Ro&s;a Solis</HI> is accounted good to help tho&s;e that have &s;alt Rhewm di&s;til|ling on their Lungs which breedeth a Con&s;umption, and therfore the di&s;til|led Water thereof in Wine, is held fit and profitable for &s;uch to drink,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;tillations of Rhewm, phti|&s;ick, Whee&s;ings, &s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ne&s;s of Breath, Cough, Ulcers in the Lungs, Comfort the heart, rai&s;e bli&s;ters, pa&s;&s;io~s of the Heart.</NOTE> which water wil be of a gold yellow colour: The &s;ame water is held to be good for al other Di&s;ea&s;es of the Lungs, as Phti&s;icks, Whee&s;ing, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, or the Cough; as al&s;o to heal the Ulcers that happen in the Lungs, and it comforteth the Heart and fainting Spirits; The Leavs outwardly applied to the Skin wil rai&s;e Bli&s;ters, which hath cau&s;ed &s;ome to think it dangerous to be taken inward: but there are other things which wil al&s;o draw Bli&s;ters, yet nothing dangerous to be taken inwardly. There is an u&s;ual Drink made hereof with <HI>Aquae vitae</HI> and Spices frequently, and without any offence or danger, but to good purpo&s;e u&s;ed in Qualms and Pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart.</P>
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<HEAD>Ro&s;emary.</HEAD>
<P>OUr Garden Ro&s;emary is &s;o wel known, that I need not de&s;cribe it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>April</HI> and <HI>May</HI> with us, and &s;omtimes again in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Sun</HI> claims priviledge in it, and 'tis un|der the Coele&s;tial <HI>Ram.</HI> It is an Herb of as great u&s;e with us in the&s;e dayes, as any what&s;oever, not only for Phy&s;ical, but civil purpo&s;es. The Phy&s;ical
<PB N="320" REF="118"> u&s;e of it (being my pre&s;ent Task) is very much, both for inward and out|ward Di&s;ea&s;es; for by the warming and comforting heat therof, it helpeth al cold di&s;ea&s;es, both of the Head, Stomach, Liver, and Belly. The Deco|ction thereof in Wine, helpeth the cold Di&s;tillations of Rhewm into the Eyes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cold Di&s;ea&s;es, Rhewm, &s;wim|ming of the head, drow&s;ines &s;tupidity, dumb Pal&s;ey, lethargy &amp; falling-&s;ick|ne&s;s, tooth-ach, &s;tinking breath, weak Memory, &s;tomach, Reten|tion of Meat, Wind, Liver-grown, dim &s;ight, yellow-Jaundice, Pe|&s;tilence whites, in Women, Cough, phti&s;ick, or con&s;umption benum'd joynts &s;pots and &s;cars in the skin.</NOTE> and al other cold Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head and Brain, as the Giddine&s;s or &s;wimming therein, Drow&s;ine&s;s, or Dulne&s;s of the Mind and Sen&s;es, like a &s;tu|pidne&s;s, the dumb Pal&s;ey, or lo&s;s of Speech, the Lethargy, and Falling-&s;ickne&s;s, to be both drunk and the Temples bathed therwith. It helpeth the pains in the Gums and Teeth, by Rhewm falling into them, or by putrifaction, cau&s;ing an evil &s;mel from them, or a &s;tinking Breath. It helpeth a weak Memory, and quickneth the Sen&s;es. It is very comfortable to the Stomach in al the cold Griefs ther|of, helping both retention of Meat, and dige&s;tion, the De|coction or Pouder being taken in Wine: It is a Remedy for the windine&s;s in the Stomach or Bowels, and expelleth it powerfully, as al&s;o wind in the Spleen. It helpeth tho&s;e that are Liver-grown, by opening the Ob&s;tructions ther|of. It helpeth dim Eyes, and procureth a cleer &s;ight, the Flowers therof being taken al the while it is flowring, e|very morning fa&s;ting with bread and &s;alt. Both <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> and <HI>Galen</HI> &s;ay, That if a Decoction be made thereof with Water, and they that have the yellow Jaundice do exerci&s;e their Bodies pre&s;ently after the taking thereof, it wil cer|tainly cure it: The Flowers, and the Con&s;erve made of them, is &s;ingular good to comfort the Heart, and to expel the contagion of the Pe&s;tilence; to burn the Herb in hou|&s;es and chambers, correcteth the air in them: Both the Flowers and the Leavs are very profitable for Women that are troubled with the Whites, if they be daily taken. The dried Leavs &s;hred &s;mal and taken in a Pipe like as Tobacco is taken, helpeth tho&s;e that have any Cough or Phti&s;ick, or Con|&s;umption, by warming and drying the thin Di&s;tillations which cau&s;e tho&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es. The Leavs are much u&s;ed in bathings, and made into Oyntments or Oyls, is &s;ingular good to help cold benumned Joynts, Sinews, or Mem|bers. The Chymical Oyl drawn from the Leavs and Flowers, is a &s;overeign help for al Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid to touch the Temples and No&s;trils with two or three drops, for al the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head and Brains &s;poken of before; as al&s;o to take a drop, two, or three, as the cau&s;e requireth, for the inward Griefs, yet mu&s;t it be done with De&s;cretion, for it is very quick and pier|cing, and therfore but a very little mu&s;t be taken at a time. There is al&s;o a|nother Oyl made by In&s;olation, in this manner; Take what quantity you wil of the Flowers, and put them into a &s;trong Gla&s;s clo&s;e &s;topped, tye a fine linnen Cloth over the Mouth, and turn the Mouth down into another &s;trong Gla&s;s, which being &s;et in the Sun, an Oyl wil di&s;til down into the lower Gla&s;s, to be pre&s;erved as precious for divers u&s;es, both inward and out|ward
<PB N="321" REF="118"> as a &s;overeign Balm to heal the Di&s;ea&s;es before mentioned, to clear a dim &s;ight, and to take away &s;pots, marks, and &s;cars in the skin.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Rubarb,</HI> or <HI>Rhapontick.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>DO not &s;tart, and &s;ay this grows you know not how far off; and then ask me, How it comes to pa&s;s that I bring it among our Engli&s;h Sim|ples? For though the name may &s;peak it Forreign, yet it grows with us in</HI> England, <HI>and that frequent enough in our Gardens; and when you have throughly peru&s;ed its Vertues, you wil conclude it nothing inferior to that which is brought us out of</HI> China, <HI>and by that time this hath been as much u&s;ed as that hath been, the name which the other hath gotten wil be eclip&s;ed by the fame of this: Take therfore a De&s;cription at larg of it, as fol|loweth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>De&s;crip.]</HI> At the fir&s;t appearing out of the Ground, when the Winter is pa&s;t, it hath a great round browni&s;h head, ri&s;ing from the middle or &s;ides of the Root, which openeth it &s;elf into &s;undry leavs one after another, very much crumpled or folded together at the fir&s;t, and browni&s;h; but afterward it &s;preadeth it &s;elf and becometh &s;mooth, very large, and almo&s;t round, every one &s;tanding on a browni&s;h &s;talk, of the thickne&s;s of a mans thumb, when they are grown to their fulne&s;s, and mo&s;t of them two foot and more in length, espe|cially when they grow in any moi&s;t or good ground: And the &s;talk of the leaf al&s;o from the bottom therof to the leaf it &s;elf, being al&s;o two foot: the breadth therof from edg to edg in the broade&s;t place, being al&s;o two foot; of a &s;ad or dark green color, of a fine tart, or &s;owri&s;h ta&s;t, much more plea&s;ant than the Garden or Wood-&s;orrel. From among the&s;e ri&s;eth up &s;ome, but not every year, a &s;trong thick &s;talk, not growing &s;o high as the Patience, or Garden Dock, with &s;uch round leavs as grow below, but &s;maller, at every joynt up to the top, and among the Flowers which are white spreading forth into many branches, and con&s;i&s;ting of five or &s;ix &s;mal white leavs apiece, hardly to be di&s;cerned from the white thrids in the middle, and &s;eeming to be al thrids, after which come browni&s;h three &s;quare Seed like unto other Docks, but lar|ger, wherby it may be plainly known to be a Dock. The Root groweth in time to be very great, with divers and &s;undry great spreading branches from it, of a dark, browni&s;h, or reddi&s;h colour on the out-&s;ide; with a pale yellow skin under it, which covereth the inner &s;ub&s;tance or Root, which rind and skin be|ing pared away, the root appeareth of &s;o fre&s;h and lively a colour, with fre&s;h color'd Veins running through it, that the choice&s;t of that Rubarb that is brought us from beyond the Seas cannot excel it: which Root if it be dryed carefully and as it ought (which mu&s;t be in our Country by the gentle heat of a fire, in regard the Sun is not hot enough here to do it, and every piece kept from touching one another) wil hold his colour almo&s;t as wel as when it is fre&s;h; and hath been approved of, and commended by tho&s;e who have often|times u&s;ed them.</P>
<P>Place.] <HI>It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth about the beginning, or middle of</HI> June, <HI>and the Seed is ripe in</HI> July.</P>
<P>Time.] <HI>The Roots that are to be dried and kept al the year following,
<PB N="322" REF="119"> are not to be taken up before the Stalk and Leavs be quite withered and gone, and that is not until the middle or end of</HI> October; <HI>and if they be taken a little before the Leavs do &s;pring, or when they are &s;prung up, the Roots wil not have half &s;o good a color in them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I have given the Precedence unto this, becau&s;e in Vertues al&s;o it hath the Preheminence: I come now to de&s;cribe unto you that which is called</HI> Pa|tience, <HI>or</HI> Monks Rubarb; <HI>and next unto that, the Great round Leav'd</HI> Dock, <HI>or</HI> Ba&s;tard Rubarb; <HI>for the one of the&s;e may happily &s;upply in the ab&s;ence of the other; being not much unlike in their Vertues, only one more powerful and efficacious than the other: And la&s;tly, &s;hal &s;hew you the Vertues of al the three Sorts.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Garden Patience,</HI> or <HI>Monks Rubarb.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis is a Dock bearing the name of Rubarb, for &s;ome pur|ging quality therein, and groweth up with large tall &s;talks, &s;et with &s;omwhat broad and long fair green Leavs, not dented at al; The tops of the Stalks being divided into many &s;mal Branches, bear reddi&s;h or purpli&s;h Flowers, and three &s;quare Seed like unto other Docks. The Root is long, great, and yellow like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder, and if it be a little dried &s;heweth-le&s;s &s;tore of di&s;colored veins, than the next doth when it is dry.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Great round leav'd Dock,</HI> or, <HI>Ba&s;tard Rubarb.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath divers large, round, thin, yellowi&s;h green Leavs, ri&s;ing from the Root, a little waved about the edges, every one &s;tanding on a rea&s;onable thick, and long browni&s;h Foot&s;talk; from among which, ri&s;eth up a pretty big &s;talk about two foot high, with &s;ome &s;uch like Leavs growing thereon, but &s;maller: At the top whereof &s;tand in a long spike many &s;mal browni&s;h Flowers, which turn into hard three &s;quare &s;hi|ning brown Seed, like the Garden Patience before de&s;cribed. This Root gro|weth greater than that, with many branches of great fibres thereat, yellow on the out &s;ide, and &s;omwhat pale yellow within, with &s;ome di&s;colored Veins like to the Rubard which is fir&s;t de&s;cribed, but much le&s;s than it, espe|cially when it is dry.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place and Time.]</HI> The&s;e al&s;o grow in Gardens, and Flower and Seed at, or neer the &s;ame time that our true Rubarb doth, viz. They flower in <HI>June,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mars</HI> claims Predominancy over al the&s;e whol&s;om Herbs: you cry out upon him for an infortune, when God crea|ted him for your good (only he is angry with Fools) What di&s;honor is this, not to <HI>Mars,</HI> but to God him&s;elf? A dram of the dried Root of Monks Rubarb, with a &s;cruple of Ginger made into Pouder and taken fa&s;ting in a draught or me&s;s of warm Broth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Purge Choller and flegm, &s;tay Lasks &amp; bloo|dy flux, Scabs and Ulcerous Sores, running Sores.</NOTE> purgeth Choller and Flegm downward very gently, and &s;afely with|out danger: The Seed thereof contrarily doth bind the
<PB N="323" REF="119"> Belly, and helpeth to &s;tay any &s;ort of Lask or Bloody flux. The di&s;tilled Water thereof is very profitably u&s;ed to heal Scabs, as al&s;o foul ulcerous Sores, and to allay the Infla|mation of them: The Juyce of the Leavs or Roots, or the Decoction of them in Vinegar, is u&s;ed as a mo&s;t effe|ctual Remedy to heal Scabs and running Sores.</P>
<P>The Ba&s;tard Rubarb hath al the properties of the Monks Rubarb, but more effectual for both inward and outward Di&s;ea&s;es. The Decoction thereof with Vinegar dropped into the Ears, taketh away the pains;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pains of the Ears, toothach, Jaundice, pains of the Stomach and loathing of Meat, Kings E|vil, &s;tone, Urin, Dim &s;ight, Li|ver and Blood.</NOTE> gargled in the Mouth taketh away the Tooth|ach, and being drunk healeth the Jaundice. The Seed thereof taken, ea&s;eth the gnawing and griping pains of the Stomach, and taketh away the loathing thereof unto meat. The Root therof helpeth the ruggedne&s;s of the Nails, and being boyled in Wine helpeth the &s;welling of the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil, as al&s;o the &s;wellings of the Kernels of the Ears: It helpeth them that are troubled with the Stone, provoketh Urine, and helpeth the dim|ne&s;s of the &s;ight. The Roots of this Ba&s;tard Rubarb are u&s;ed in opening and purging Diet Drinks with other things, to open the Li|ver, and to clen&s;e and cool the Blood.</P>
<P>The properties of that which is called the Engli&s;h Rubarb, are the &s;ame with the former, but much more effectual, and hath al the properties of the true Indian Rubarb, except the force in purging, wherein it is but of half the &s;trength thereof, and therefore a double quantity mu&s;t be u&s;ed;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller and flegm, Ob&s;tru|ctions, jaun|dice, Drop&s;ie, &s;pleen, Agues, Pains of the &s;ides, and &s;pit|ting of Blood, Running of the Reins, &s;welling in the Head, Sciatica, Gout, Cramp, Clotted Blood, Ulcers in the Eyes, or Eye-lids, &s;wel|lings and infla|mations, black and blue &s;pots, purge the Liver and Stomach.</NOTE> it likewi&s;e hath not that bitterne&s;s and a&s;tricti|on: in other things it worketh almo&s;t in an equal quality, which are the&s;e; It purgeth the Body of Choller and Flegm, being either taken of it &s;elf, made into Pouder and drunk in a draught of white Wine, or &s;teeped therein al night and taken fa&s;ting, or put among other Purges, as &s;hal be thought convenient, clen&s;ing the Stomach, Liver and Blood, opening Ob&s;tructions, and helping tho&s;e griefs that come thereof; as the Jaundice, Drop&s;ie, &s;wel|ling of the Spleen, Tertian and Day Agues, and pricking pain of the &s;ides, and al&s;o it &s;tayeth &s;pitting of Blood. The Pouder taken with Ca&s;&s;ia di&s;&s;olved, and a little wa|&s;hed Venice Turpentine, clen&s;eth the Reins and &s;treng|theneth them afterwards, and is very effectual to &s;tay the the running of the Reins or Gonorrhea. It is al&s;o given for the pains and &s;wellings in the Head, for tho&s;e that are troubled with Melancholly, and helpeth the Sciatica, the Gout, and the Cramp. The Pouder of Rubarb taken with a little Mummia and Madder Roots in &s;ome red Wine, di&s;&s;olveth clotted blood in the Body, hapning by a|ny fal or brui&s;e, and healeth bur&s;tings and broken parts as
<PB N="324" REF="120"> wel inward as outward: The Oyl likewi&s;e wherein it hath been boy|led, worketh the like effects, being anointed. It is u&s;ed to heal tho&s;e Ulcers that happen in the Eyes and Eye-lids, being &s;teeped and &s;trai|ned; as al&s;o to a&s;&s;wage the &s;wellings and inflamations; and applied with Honey, or boyled in Wine, it taketh away al black and blue &s;pots or marks that happen therein. Whey, or white Wine are the be&s;t Liquors to &s;teep it in, and thereby it worketh more effectually in opening Ob&s;tructions, and purging the Stomach and Liver. Many do u&s;e a little Indian Spicknard as the be&s;t correcter thereof.</P>
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<HEAD>Meadow Rue.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>MEadow Rue ri&s;eth up with a yellow &s;tringy Root, much spreading in the ground, and &s;hooting forth new &s;prouts round about, with many Herby green Stalks two foot high, cre&s;ted all the length of them, &s;et with joynts here and there, and many large Leavs on them as well as below, being divided into &s;maller Leavs, nicked or dented in the fore part of them, of a &s;ad greed color on the uper &s;ide, and pale green under|neath: Toward the top of the Stalk there &s;hooteth forth divers &s;hort bran|ches, on every one thereof there &s;tand two, three, or four &s;mal round Heads or Buttons, which breaking the skin that inclo&s;eth them &s;hew forth a tuft of pale greeni&s;h yellow threds, which falling away there comes in their places &s;mal three corner'd Cods, wherein is contained &s;mal, long, and round Seed. The whol Plant hath a &s;trong unplea&s;ant &s;cent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of this Land, in the Borders of moi&s;t Meadows, and by Ditch &s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>Time,]</HI> It flowreth about <HI>July,</HI> or the beginning of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That this Herb brui&s;ed and applied, perfecty healeth old Sores: and the di&s;tilled Wa|ter of the Herb and Flowers doth the like.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Old &s;ores, Open the Body, Lice and Vermine, Plague, Jaundice.</NOTE> It is u&s;ed by &s;ome among other Pot-herbs to open the Body and make it &s;oluble; but the Roots wa&s;hed clean, and boyled in Ale and drunk, pro|voketh to the &s;tool more than the Leavs, but yet very gently. The Root boyled in Water, and the places of the Body mo&s;t troubled with Vermine or Lice, wa&s;hed therewith while it is warm, de&s;troyeth them utterly. In <HI>Italy</HI> it is u&s;ed again&s;t the Plague, and in <HI>Saxony</HI> again&s;t the Jaundice, as <HI>Camerarius</HI> &s;aith.</P>
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<HEAD>Garden Rue.</HEAD>
<P>GArden Rue is &s;o wel known, both by this name, and the name <HI>Herb of Grace,</HI> that I &s;hal not need to write you any further De&s;cription of it: But &s;hal only &s;hew you the Vertues of it as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>Governmen and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and under <HI>Leo.</HI> It provoketh Urin and Womens Cour&s;es, being taken either in Meat or Drink.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Urine, Womens Cour&s;es, Poy&s;ons, Plague, Abate Venery, pains of the Che&s;t, &amp; &s;ides, Cough, Hard Breathihg, Sciatica, &amp; Joynt Aches, Agues, Wind Chollick, Mother, worms, Gout, Drop&s;ie, Bleeding, Swelling of the cods Wheals &amp; pimples, Morphew, &amp; warts, Scab, tet|ter, and ringworm, Pains of the Ears, Dim &s;ight, St. Ahtho|nies fire, Running &s;ores of the Head, Ulcers of the No&s;e, Antidote, pains of the Che&s;t, Stomach, Spleen, Belly, Ob&s;tructi|ons.</NOTE> The Seed thereof taken in Wine, is an Anti|dote again&s;t al dangerous Medicines or deadly Poy&s;ons. The Leavs taken either by them&s;elvs, or with Figs and Walnuts is
<PB N="325" REF="120"> called <HI>Methridates</HI> his Counter poy&s;on, again&s;t the Plague, and cau&s;eth al Venemous things to become harmle&s;s: Being often taken in meat or drink it abateth Venery, and de&s;troyeth the ability to beget Children. A Decoction made thereof with &s;ome dried Dil Leavs and Flowers, ea&s;eth al pains and torments inwardly to be drunk, and outwardly to be applied warm to the place grieved. The &s;ame being drunk helpeth the pains both of the Che&s;t and &s;ides, as al&s;o Coughs, and hardne&s;s of bretthing, the Inflamations of the Lungs, and the tormenting pains of the Sciatica, and the Joynts, being anointed or laid to the pla|ces, as al&s;o the &s;haking fits of Agues, to take a draught before the fit come: Being boyled or infu&s;ed in Oyl it is good to help the wind Chollick, the hardne&s;s or windine&s;s of the Mother, and freeth women from the &s;trangling or &s;uffocation thereof, if the Share and the parts thereabouts be anointed therewith: It killeth and driveth forth the Worms of the Belly, if it be drunk after it is boyled in Wine to the half with a little Honey: It helpeth the Gout or pains in the Joynts of Hands, Feet, or Knees, applied thereunto: and with Figs it helpeth the Drop&s;ie being bathed therewith: being brui&s;ed and put into the No|&s;trils it &s;tayeth the bleeding thereof. It helpeth the &s;welling of the Cods if they be bathed with a Decoction of Rue and Bay Leavs. It taketh away wheals and pimples if being brui&s;ed with a few Mirtle Leavs, if it be made up with Wax and applied: It cureth the Morphew and taketh away al &s;orts of Warts, if boyled in Wine with &s;ome Pepper and Nitre, and the places rubbed therewith: and with Allum and Honey, helpeth the dry Scab or any Tetter or Ring-worm: The Juyce thereof warmed in a Pomegranate Shel or Rind, and dropped into the Ears helpeth the pains of them. The Juyce of it and Fennel with a little Ho|ney, and the Gall of a Cock put thereto, helpeth the dimne&s;s of the Eye&s;ight. An Oyntment made of the Juyce thereof with Oyl of Ro&s;es, Ceru&s;s, and a little Vinegar, and anointed cureth St. Anthonies fire, and al foul running Sores in the Head; and the &s;tinking Ulcers of the No&s;e or other parrs. The Antidote u&s;ed by <HI>Methridates</HI> every morning fa&s;ting to &s;ecure him&s;elf from any Poy&s;on or Infection was this, Take twenty Leavs of Rue, a little Salt, a couple of Walnuts, and a couple of Figs beaten together into a Ma&s;s with twenty Juniper Berries, which is the quantity appointed for every day. Another Electuary is made thus, Take of Nitre, Pepper, and Cummin Seed, of each equal parts, of the Leavs of Rue clean picked as much in weight as al the other three weighed, beat them wel together, and put to as much Honey as wil make it up into an Electuary; (but you mu&s;t fir&s;t &s;teep your Cummin Seed in Vinegar twen|ty four hours, and then dry it, or rather toa&s;t it in a hot Fire-&s;hovel,
<PB N="326" REF="121"> or in an Oven) and it is a Remedy for the pains or griefs of the Che&s;t or Stomach of the Spleen, Belly or Sides, by Wind or Stitches; of the Liver by Ob&s;tructions, of the Reins and Bladder by the &s;topping of Urine, and helpeth al&s;o to extenuate fat corpulent Bodies.</P>
<P>What an infamy is ca&s;t upon the A&s;hes of <HI>Methridates</HI> (or <HI>Methridates</HI> as the <HI>Augu&s;tanes</HI> read his name) by unworthy people; they that de&s;erve no good report them&s;elves, love to give none to others, <HI>Viz.</HI> That renown|ed King of <HI>Pontus</HI> fortified his Body by Poy&s;on again&s;t Poy&s;on <HI>(He ca&s;t out Devils by Belzebub the Prince pf Devils)</HI> what a Sot is he that knows not if he had accu&s;tomed his Body to cold Poy&s;ons, hot Poy&s;ons would have di&s;patch'd him, or the contrary if not, corro&s;ions would have done it, the whol world is at this very time beholding to him for his &s;tudies in Phy&s;ick, &amp; he that u&s;eth the quantity of but a Hazel Nut of that Recept every morning to which his name is adjoyned, &s;hall to admiration pre&s;erve his Body in health, if he do but con&s;ider that Rue is an Herb of the <HI>Sun</HI> and under <HI>Leo,</HI> and gather it and the re&s;t accordingly.</P>
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<HEAD>Rupture wort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis &s;preadeth very many thredy Branches round about up|on the ground, about a &s;pan long, divided into many other &s;maller parts, full of &s;mal Joynts &s;et very thick together, wherat come forth two very &s;mall Leavs of a french yellow green colour; branches and all where groweth forth al&s;o a number of exceeding &s;mall yellowi&s;h Flowers, &s;carce to be di&s;cerned from the Stalks and Leavs, which turn into Seeds as &s;mall as the very du&s;t: The Root is very long and &s;mall, thru&s;ting down deep into the ground: This hath neither &s;mell nor ta&s;te at fir&s;t, but afterward hath a little a&s;tringent ta&s;te, without any manife&s;t heat, yet a little bitter and &s;harp withall.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in dry, &s;andy, and Rocky places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is fre&s;h and green all the Summer.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They &s;ay Saturn cau&s;eth Ruptures, if he do, he doth no more then he can cure, if you want wit he will teach you though to your co&s;t, this Herb is Saturns own, and is a notable Antevenerian. Rup|ture wort hath not his name in vain, for it is found by ex|perience to cure the Rupture,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ruptures, Fluxes, Running of the Reins, Strangury, Stone or Gravel, Stitches, Yellow Jaundice, Worms, Wounds, Defluxi|ons, Foul Ulcers.</NOTE> not onely in Children but al&s;o in Elder Per&s;ons, if the Di&s;ea&s;e be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the Pouder of the dried Herb every day in Wine for cer|tain dayes together; Or the Decoction made in Wine and drunk: Or the Juyce or di&s;tilled water of the green Herb taken in the &s;ame manner; and helpeth all other Fluxes either in men or Women; Vomitings al&s;o, and the Gonnorrhea or running of the Reins, being taken any of the waies afore&s;aid. It doth al|&s;o mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly help tho&s;e that have the Strangury, or have their Urine &s;topped, or are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder. The &s;ame al&s;o helpeth much all
<PB N="327" REF="121"> Stitches in the &s;ide, all gripping pains in the Stomach or Belly the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, and cureth the yellow Jaundice likewi&s;e: It killeth al&s;o the Worms in Children: being out|wardly applyed it conglutineth Wounds notably, and helpeth much to &s;tay Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head to the Eyes, No&s;e, and Teeth, being brui&s;ed green and bound thereto; Or the De|coction of the dried Herb, to bath the Forehead and Temples, or the Nape of Neck behind: It al&s;o drieth up the moi&s;ture of Fi&s;tulous Ulcers, or any others that are foul and &s;preading.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ru&s;hes.</HEAD>
<P>ALthough there are many kindes of Ru&s;hes, yet I &s;hall onely here in&s;i&s;t upon tho&s;e which are be&s;t known, and mo&s;t Medicinal, as the Bul|ru&s;hes, and other of the &s;oft and &s;mooth ktnds; which grow &s;o commonly in almo&s;t every place of this Land, and and are &s;o generally noted, that I &s;uppo&s;e it needle&s;&s;e to trouble you with any De&s;cription of them: Briefly then take the Vertues of them as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.)</HI> The Seeds of the&s;e &s;oft Ru&s;hes, &s;aith <HI>Dio&s;|corides</HI> and <HI>Galen,</HI> toa&s;ted (&s;aith <HI>Pliny</HI>) being drunk in Wine and Water, &s;tayeth the Lask and Womens Cour&s;es, when they come down too abun|dantly: but it cau&s;eth Headach: It provoketh &s;leep likewi&s;e, but mu&s;t be given with caution, le&s;t the party that takes it wake not untill the Re&s;ur|rection: <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, The Root boyled in water to the con&s;umprion of one third, helpeth the Cough.</P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee that Conveniences have their Inconveniencies, and Ver|tue is &s;eldome unaccompanied with &s;ome Vices. What I have writen con|cerning Ru&s;hes is to &s;atisfie my Countrey-mens Que&s;tion, <HI>Are our Ru&s;hes good for nothing?</HI> Yes, and as good let alone as taken; There are Reme|dies enough without them for any Di&s;ea&s;e, and therefore as the Proverb is I care not a Ru&s;h for them, or rather they wil do you as much good as if one had given you a Ru&s;h.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Rye.</HEAD>
<P>THis is &s;o well known in all the Countries of this Land, and e&s;pecially to the Country People who feed much thereon, that if I &s;hould de|&s;cribe it, they would pre&s;ently &s;ay, I might well have &s;pared that Labour: Its Vertues follow.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Rye is more dige&s;ting then Wheat;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Impo&s;tums Boyls &amp; Swel|lings, pains of the Head, Chops of the Hands or Feet.</NOTE> The Bread and the Leaven thereof ripeneth and breaketh Impo&s;tumes, Boyls, and other Swellings: The The Meal of Rye put between a double cloth, and moi&s;t|ned with a little Vinegar, and heated in a Pewter di&s;h, &s;et over a Chafingdi&s;h of coals; and bound &s;a&s;t to the head while it is hot, both much ea&s;e the continual pains of the Head. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, That the A&s;hes of Rye &s;traw put into Water, and &s;uffered therein a day and a night, and the Chops of the Hands or Feetwa&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">with, doth heal them.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="328" REF="122">
<HEAD>Saffron.</HEAD>
<P>THe Herb needs no De&s;cription it being known generally where it grows.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows frequently at <HI>Walden</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and in <HI>Cambridg-&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of the Sun, and under the Lion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heart &s;treng|theneth Brain. Con&s;umption of the Lungs, Pe|&s;tilence, &s;mall Pox, Mea&s;les, Yellow Jaun|dice. Flegm purgeth.</NOTE> and therefore you need not demand a rea&s;on why it &s;trengthens the Heart &s;o exceedingly: Let not above ten grains be given at one time, for if the Sun which is the fountain of Life, may dazle the eyes and make them blind, a Cordial being taken in an immoderat quan|tity may hurt the Heart in&s;tead of helping it. It quickneth the Brain, for the Sun is exalted in &Aries; as well as he hath his Hou&s;e in &Leo; it help Con&s;umption of the Lungs, help difficulty of Breathing: it is an excellent thing in Epime|dical Di&s;ea&s;es, as Pe&s;tilence &s;mal Pox, and Mea&s;les: It is a notable expul&s;ive Medicine, and a notable Remedy for the yellow Jaundice. My own Opinion is, (but I have no Author for it) that Her|modactils is nothing el&s;e but the Roots of Saffron dried, and my rea&s;on is, that the Roots of all Crocus both white and yellow purge Flegm as Hermo|dactils do, and if you plea&s;e to dry the Roots of any Crocus, neither your eyes nor your ta&s;t &s;hall di&s;tingui&s;h it from Hermodacti&s;s.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sage.</HEAD>
<P>OUr ordinary Garden Sage needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in or about <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertuee.] Jupiter</HI> claims this, and bid me tell you it is good for the Liver, and to breed good Bloud. A Decoction of the Leavs and Branches of Sage made and drunk, &s;aith <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> provoketh Urine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provok &V;rine, Womens Cour|&s;es, Expel the Dead Child, &amp; Afterbirth, &s;tanch Bleeding Clen&s;e Ulcers, &amp; &s;ores, Itch|ing of the Cods Help Concepti|on and hinder Mi&s;carriage, &s;pitting Bloud, Con&s;umption, Pains of the Head &amp; Joynts Falling&s;ickne&s;s Lerhargy, Dul|ne&s;s of &s;pirit, Pal&s;ey, De|fluxions of Rhewm, Im-Impo&s;tume be|hind the Ears, Hoar&s;ne&s;s and Cough, Bloudy Flux, Biting of Serpents, Worms in the Ears, or Sores, Quicken the &s;en&s;es, and help Memory, Sore Mouths and Throats, Can|kers, Pal&s;ey or Cromp, Stitch in the &s;ide.</NOTE> bringeth down Womens Cour&s;es, help|eth to expell the dead Chsld, and cau&s;eth the hairs to be|come black; it &s;tayeth the Bleeding of Wounds, and clen|&s;eth foul Ulcers or Sores; The &s;aid Decoction made in Wine taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bath|ed therewith. <HI>Agrippa</HI> &s;aith, That if Women that cannot conceive by rea&s;on of the moi&s;t &s;lipperine&s;s of their Wombs &s;hall take a quantity of the Juyce of Sage with a little Salt for four dayes before they company with their Hasbands, it will help them not onely to Conceive, but al&s;o to re|tain the Birth without mi&s;carrying. <HI>Orpheus</HI> &s;aith, Three &s;poonfuls of the Juyce of Sage taken fa&s;ting with a little Honey, doth pre&s;ently &s;tay the &s;pitting or ca&s;ting up of Bloud for them that are in a Con&s;umption, the&s;e Pills are much commended. Take of Spicknard of Ginger of each two drams; of the Seed of Sage toa&s;ted at the fire, eight drams, of long Pepper twelve drams, all the&s;e being brought
<PB N="329" REF="122"> into fine Pouder, put thereto &s;o much Juyce of Sage as may make them into a Ma&s;s for Pills, taking a dram of them every morning fa&s;ting, and &s;o likewi&s;e at night, drinking a little pure Water after them. <HI>Mathyolus</HI> &s;aith, it is very profitable for all manner of pains of the Head coming of cold and Rhewmatick Humors, as al&s;o for all pains of the Joynts, whether inwardly or outwardly, and therefore helpeth the Falling&s;ickne&s;s, the Lethargy, &s;uch as are dull and heavy of Spirit, the Pal&s;ey, and is of much u&s;e in all Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head, and for the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Che&s;t or Brea&s;t. The Leavs of Sage and Nettles brui&s;ed together, and laid upon the Impo&s;tume that ri&s;eth behind the Ears, doth a&s;&s;wage it much: The Juyce of Sage taken in warm Water, helpeth a Hoar&s;ne&s;&s;e and the Cough. The Leavs &s;odden in Wine and laid upon the place affected with the Pal&s;ey helpeth much, if the Decoction be drunk al&s;o. Sage taken with Wormwood is good for the Bloody Flux. <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, it procureth Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;tay|eth them coming down too fa&s;t, helpeth the &s;tinging and biting of Serpents, and killeth the Worms that breed in the Ears and in Sores. Sage is of excellent u&s;e to help the Memory, warming and quickntng the &s;en&s;es; and the Con|&s;erve made of the Flowers is u&s;ed to the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and al&s;o for all the former recited Di&s;ea&s;es. The Juyce of Sage drunk with Vinegar hath been of good u&s;e in the time of Plague at all times. Gargles likewi&s;e are made with Sage, Ro&s;emary, Honey &s;uccles, and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water, with &s;ome Honey or Allum put thereto, to wa&s;h &s;ore Mouths and Throats, Cankers, or the &s;ecret parts of Man or Woman as need re|quireth. And with other hot and comfortable Herbs. Sage is boyled to bath the Body and Legs in the Summer time, e&s;pecially to warm cold Joynts or Sinews troubled with the Pal&s;ey or Cramp, and to comfort or &s;trengthen the parts. It is much commended again&s;t the Stitch or pains in the &s;ide com|ing of Wind, if the place be fomented warm with the Decoction therof in Wine, and the Herb al&s;o after the boyling be laid warm al&s;o thereunto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wood-Sage.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>VVood-Sage ri&s;eth up with &s;quare hoary Stalks two foot high at the lea&s;t, with two Leavs &s;et at every Joynt, &s;omwhat like other Sage Leavs, but &s;maller, &s;ofter, whiter and rounder, and a little dented about the edges, and &s;melling &s;omwhat &s;tronger. At the the tops of the Stalks and Branches &s;tand the Flowers on a &s;lender long Spike, turning them&s;elves all one way when they blow, and are of a pale and whiti&s;h colour; &s;maller than Sage, but hooded and gaping like un|to them: The Seed is blacki&s;h and round, four u&s;ually &s;et in a husk together: The Root is long and &s;tringy, with divers Fibres thereat, and abideth ma|ny years.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Woods, and by Wood-&s;ides, as al&s;o in divers Fields and by-Lanes in this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Herb is under <HI>Venus.</HI> The Decoction of Wood-Sage grovoketh Urine and Wo|mens Cour&s;es:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provoks &V;rine and Womens Cour&s;es, and &s;weat, Swel|lings in the fle&s;h, French Pox, Vein bro|ken, bur&s;tenne&s;s Pal&s;ey, Ulcers &amp; Sores, Green Wounds.</NOTE> it al&s;o provoketh Sweat, dige&s;teth Humors and di&s;cu&s;&s;eth Swellings, and Nodes in the fle&s;h, and is therefore thought to be good again&s;t the French Pox. The Decoction of the green Herb made with Wine is a &s;afe and &s;ure Remedy for tho&s;e who by falls, brui&s;es or Blows, doubt &s;ome Vein to be inwardly broken, to di&s;per&s;e and avoid the congealed bloud, and to con&s;olidate the Vein; It is al&s;o good for &s;uch as are inwardly or outwardly bur&s;ten, the drink u&s;ed inwardly and the Herb applyed outwardly: The &s;ame u&s;ed in the &s;ame manner is found to be a &s;ure Reme|dy for the Pal&s;ey: The Juyce of the Herb, or the Pouder thereof dried, is good for moi&s;t Ulcers and Sores in the Legs or other parts to dry them, and cau&s;e them to heal more &s;peedily: It is no le&s;&s;e effectual al&s;o in green Wounds to be u&s;ed upon any occa&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Solomons Seal.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Solomons Seal ri&s;eth up with a round Stalk about half a yard high, bowing or bending down to the top, &s;et with &s;ingle Leavs one above another, &s;omwhat large and like the Leavs of the Lilly-Convalley, or May Lilly, with an eye of blewi&s;h upon the green, with &s;ome ribs therein, and more yellowi&s;h underneath. At the foot of every Leaf almo&s;t from the bottom up to the top of the Stalk come forth &s;mall long white and hollow pendulous Flowers, &s;omwhat like the Flowers of May-Lilly, but ending in five long points, for the mo&s;t part two together at the end of a long Foot&s;talk, and &s;ometimes but one, and &s;omtimes al&s;o two Stalks with Flowers at the Foot of a leaf, which are without any &s;cent at all, and &s;tand all on one &s;ide of the Stalk: After they are pa&s;t come in their places &s;mall round Berries, green at the fir&s;t and blacki&s;h green, tending to blew|ne&s;s when they are ripe, wherein lye &s;mall white hard and &s;tony Seed: The Root is of the thickne&s;&s;e of ones finger or Thumb, white and knobbed in &s;ome places, with a flat round circle repre&s;enting a Seal, wherof it took the name lying along under the upper cru&s;t of the earth, and not growing downward, but with many Fibres underneath.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is frequent in diver&s;e places of this Land, as namely in a Wood two miles from Canterbury, by Fi&s;h-Pool Hill: as al&s;o in a bu&s;hy Clo&s;e belonging to the Per&s;onage of Alderbury near Clarindon, two miles from Salisbury, in Che&s;&s;on Wood, on Che&s;&s;on Hlll, between Newing|ton and Sittingburn in Kent, and in diver&s;e other places, in E&s;&s;ex and o|ther Counties.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth about <HI>May:</HI> The Root abideth and &s;hooteth anew every year.</P>
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<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns the Plant, for he loves his Bones wel. The Root of Solomons Seal is found by experi|ence to be available in Wounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds and &s;ores, Vomiting and blee|ding, Fluxes, Running of the Reins, knit Joynts, &amp; broken Bones in Man and Bea&s;t, Ruptures, Brui&s;es and fals, black and blue Marks, Beautifie the Face.</NOTE> Hurts, and outward Sores, to heal and clo&s;e up the Lips of tho&s;e that are green, and to dry up and re&s;train the Flux of Humors to tho&s;e that are old: It is &s;ingular good to &s;tay Vomitings and Bleedings where&s;oever, as al&s;o al Fluxes in man or woman, whether the Whites or Reds in Women, or the running of the Reins in Men; al&s;o to knit any Joynt, which by weakne&s;s u&s;eth to be often out of place, or wil not &s;tay in long, when it is &s;et: al&s;o to knit and joyn broken bones in any part of the Body, the Roots being brui&s;ed and ap|plied to the place; yea, it hath been found by late experience, that the Decoction of the Root in Wine, or the brui&s;ed Root put in Wine or other drink, and after a nights infu&s;ion &s;trained forth hard and drunk, hath holpen both Man and Bea&s;t who&s;e Bones have been broken by any occa&s;ion, which is the mo&s;t a&s;|&s;ured refuge of help to people of divers Countries of this Land, that they can have: It is no le&s;s effectual to help Ruptures and Bur&s;tings, the Decoction in Wine, or the Pouder in Broth or Drink being inwardly taken and outwardly applied to the place: The &s;ame is al&s;o available for inward or outward Brui&s;es, Fals, or Blows, both to di&s;pel the congealed Blood, and to take away both the pains and the black and blue Marks that abide after the hurt. The &s;ame al&s;o, or the di&s;tilled Water of the whol Plant u&s;ed to the Face or other part of the Skin, clen&s;eth it from Mor|phew, Freckles, Spots, or Marks what&s;oever, leaving the place fre&s;h, fair, and Lovely, for which purpo&s;e it is much u&s;ed by the <HI>Italian</HI> Dames.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sampire.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>ROck Sampire groweth up with a tender green Stalk about half a yard or two foot high at the mo&s;t, branching forth almo&s;t from the very bottom, and &s;tored with &s;undry thick, and almo&s;t round, &s;omwhat long Leavs, of a deep green color, &s;omtimes three together, and &s;omtimes more on a Stalk, and are &s;appy, and of a plea&s;ant, hot, or &s;picy ta&s;t: At the tops of the Stalk and Branches, &s;tand Umbels of white Flowers, and after them come large Seed bigger than Fennel Seed, yet &s;omwhat alike. The Root is great, white, and long, continuing many yeers, and is of an hot &s;picy ta&s;t likewi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on the Rocks that are often moi&s;tened at the lea&s;t, if not overflown with the Sea water.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> And it Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and was in former times wont to be u&s;ed more than now it is, the more is the pity; it is wel known almo&s;t to every Body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Helps di|ge&s;tion, Opens Ob&s;tructi|ons, pro|vokes urin Expel gra|vel and the &s;tone.</NOTE> That il dige&s;tion and ob&s;tructions are the cau&s;es of mo&s;t of the di&s;ea&s;es which the frail Nature of Man is &s;ubject to, both which might be re|medied
<PB N="332" REF="124"> by a more frequent u&s;e of this Herb. If people would have Sawce to their Meat, they may take &s;ome for profit as wel as for plea&s;ure. It is a &s;afe Herb, very plea&s;ant both to the ta&s;t and Stomach, helping dige&s;tion, and in &s;ome &s;ort opening the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, provoking Urine, and helping thereby to wa&s;h away the Gravel and Stone ingendred in the Kidneys or Bladder.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sanicle.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>ORdinary Sanicle &s;endeth forth many great round Leavs &s;tanding upon long browni&s;h Stalks, every one &s;omwhat deeply cut or divided into five or &s;ix parts, and &s;ome of tho&s;e al&s;o cut in, &s;omwhat like the Leaf of a Crow-foot or Doves-foot, and finely dented a|bout the edges, &s;mooth, and of a dark green &s;hining color, and &s;omtimes red|di&s;h about the Brims, from among which ri&s;eth up &s;mal round green Stalks, without any joynt or Leaf thereon, &s;aving at the top, where it brancheth forth into Flowers, having a Leaf divided into three or four parts at that joynt with the Flowers, which are &s;mal and white, &s;tarting out of &s;mal round gree|ni&s;h yellow heads, many &s;tanding together in a tuft; in which afterward are the Seeds contained, which are &s;mal round rough Burs, &s;omwhat like the Seeds of Cleavers, and &s;tick in the &s;ame manner upon any thing that they touch: The Root is compo&s;ed of many black &s;trings of fibres &s;et together, at a little long head, which abideth with the green Leavs al the Winter and pe|ri&s;h not.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found in many &s;hadowy Woods, and other places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is one of <HI>Venus</HI> her Herbs to cure ei|ther Wounds, or what other mi&s;chtef <HI>Mars</HI> inflicteih upon the Body of Man. It is exceeding good to heal al green Wounds &s;peedily; or any Ul|cers, Impo&s;tumes, or Bleedings inwardly: It doth won|derfully help tho&s;e that have any Tumors in any part of their Bodies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Green Wounds, Ulcers, Impo|&s;tumes, inward bleedings, &s;wel|lings, &V;lcers in the Mouth, Throat, &amp; pri|vities, Womens Cour&s;es, Flux|es of Blood, Lasks, &V;lcers in the Kidneys, Running of the Reins, Rupture.</NOTE> for it repre&s;&s;eth and di&s;&s;ipateth the Humors, if the Decoction or Juyce thereof be taken, or the Pouder in drink, and the Juyce u&s;ed outwardly; for there is not found any Herb that can give you &s;uch pre&s;ent help either to Man or Bea&s;t when the Di&s;ea&s;e falleth upon the Lungs or Throat, and to heal up al the putrid malignant Ulcers in the Mouth, Throat, and Privities, by gargling or wa|&s;hing with the Decoction of the Leavs and Root, made in Water, and a little Honey put thereto. It helpeth to &s;tay Womens Cour&s;es, and al other Fluxes of Blood either by the Mouth, Urine, or Stool, and Lasks of the Belly, the Ulceration of the Kidneys al&s;o, and the pains in the Bow|els, and the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins, being boyled in Wine or Water, and drunk: The &s;ame al&s;o is no
<PB N="333" REF="124"> le&s;s powerful to help any Ruptures or Bur&s;tings, u&s;ed both inwardly and outwardly; and briefly, it is effectual in binding, re&s;training, con&s;olida|ting, heating, drying, and healing; as Comfry, Bugle, Self-heal, or any other of the Con&s;ounds, or Vulnerary Herbs what&s;oever.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sara&s;ens Con&s;ound, or Sara&s;ens Wound-wort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth very high &s;omtimes with browni&s;h Stalks, and other whiles with green and hollow to a mans height, having many long and narrow green Leavs &s;nip'd about the edges, &s;omwhat like tho&s;e of the Peach-Tree, or Willow Leavs, but not of &s;uch a white green color: The tops of the Stalks are furni&s;hed with many pale yellow Starlike Flowers &s;tanding in green heads, which when they are fallen, and the Seed ripe, which is &s;omwhat long, &s;mal, and of a yellowi&s;h brown color wrapped in Down, is therewith carried away with the wind: The Root is compo&s;ed of many &s;trings or fibres, &s;et together at a head, which peri&s;h not in Winter, but abide, although the Stalks dry away, and no Leaf appeareth in Winter. The ta&s;t hereof is &s;trong and unplea&s;ant, and &s;o is the &s;mel al&s;o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in moi&s;t and wet Grounds by Wood &s;ides, and &s;om|times in the moi&s;t places of the &s;hady Groves, as al&s;o by the Water &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is &s;oon ripe, and carried away with the wind.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns this Herb, and 'tis of a &s;ober condition like him. Among the Germans, this Wound-Herb is preferred before al others of the &s;ame quality. Being boyled in Wine and drunk,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions, yell. Jaundice, Drep&s;ie, Ulcers of the Reins, in|ward wounds and Brui&s;es, Pains in the Body, Mother, Agues, green wounds, Old &s;ores or ulcers, &V;lcers in the Mouth or throat, &s;ores in the privy parts.</NOTE> it helpeth the indi&s;po&s;ition of the Liver, and freeth the Gal from Ob&s;tructions, whereby it is good for the yellow Jaundice, and for the Drop&s;ie in the beginning of it, for al inward Ulcers of the Reins, or el&s;where, and inward Wounds and Brui&s;es: And being &s;teeped in Wine and then di&s;tilled, the Water thereof drunk is &s;ingu|lar good to ea&s; al gnawings in the Stomach, or other pains of the Body, as al&s;o the pains of the Mother: And being boyled in Water it helpeth continual Agues; and this &s;aid Water, or the &s;imple Water of the Herb di&s;tilled, or the Juyce, or Decoction, are very effectual to heal any green Wound, or old Sore, or Ulcer what&s;oever, clen&s;ing them from corruption, and quickly healing them up: It is no le&s;s effectual for the Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat, be they never &s;o foul or &s;tinking, by wa&s;hing and gargling them therewith; and likewi&s;e for &s;uch &s;ores as happen in the privy parts of Man or Woman: Briefly, what&s;oever hath been &s;aid of Bugle or Sanicle, may be found herein.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
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<HEAD><HI>Sawce alone,</HI> or <HI>Jack by the Hedge.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THe lower Leavs of this are rounder than tho&s;e that grow towards the tops of the &s;talks, and are &s;et &s;ingly one at a joynt, being &s;omwhat round and broad, and pointed at the ends, dented al&s;o about the edges, &s;omwhat re&s;embling Nettle-leavs for the form, but of a fre&s;her green colour, and not rough or pricking: The Flowers are very &s;mal and white, growing at the tops of the Stalks one above another, which be|ing pa&s;t, there follow &s;mal and long round Pods, wherin are contained, &s;mal round &s;eed, &s;omwhat blacki&s;h. The Root is &s;tringy and thriddy, peri&s;hing every year after it hath given &s;eed, and rai&s;eth it &s;elf again of its own &s;ow|ing. The Plant, or any part therof being brui&s;ed, &s;melleth of Garlick, but more plea&s;antly, and ta&s;teth &s;omwhat hot and &s;harp, almo&s;t like unto Rocket.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth under Walls, and by Hedg-&s;ides, and Pathwaies in Fields, in many places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury.</HI> This is eaten by many Country people as Sawce to their Salt-fi&s;h,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Helps di|ge&s;tion, Cough, Tough Flegm, Wind-Chollick, Stone &V;lcers in the Legs.</NOTE> and helpeth wel to dige&s;t the Crudities and other corrupt Hu|mors ingendered therby; it warmeth al&s;o the Stomach, and cau&s;|eth dige&s;tion: The Juyce therof boyled with Honey, is accoun|ted to be as good as hedg-Mu&s;ter for the Cough, to cut and ex|pectorate the tough flegm. The Seed brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine, is a &s;ingular good Remedy for the Wind Chollick, or the Stone, being drunk warm: It is al&s;o given to Women troubled with the Mother, both to drink, and the Seed put into a Cloth and applied while it is warm is of &s;ingular good u&s;e. The Leavs al&s;o or Seed boyled, is good to be u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters to ea&s;e the pains of the Stone. The green Leavs are held to be good to heal the Ulcers in the Legs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Winter, and Summer Savory.</HEAD>
<P>BOth the&s;e are &s;o wel known (being entertained as con&s;tant inhabitants in our Gardens) that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> claims the Dominion over this herb, neither is there a better Remedy again&s;t the Chollick and Illiack pa&s;&s;ions than this Herb; keep it dry by you al the year if you Love your &s;elves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chollick, illiack pa&s;&s;ion, Expel|leth Wind, Mo|ther, provokes Urine, &amp; Wo|mens Cour&s;es. Tough flegm, Lethargy, Dull &s;ight, Singing in the Ears, &amp; deafne&s;s, &s;ciati|ca, and Pal&s;ey, &s;tinging of Bees &amp;c.</NOTE> and your ea&s;e, as 'tis an hundred pound to a penny if you do not: keep it dry, make Con&s;ervs and Sy|rups of it for your u&s;e; and withal, take notice that the Summer kind is the be&s;t. They are both of them hot and dry, e&s;pecially the Summer kind, which is both &s;harp and quick in ta&s;t, expelling Wind in the Stomach and Bowels, and is a pre&s;ent help for the ri&s;ing of the Mother procured by Wind, provoketh Urine and Womens Cour&s;es, and is
<PB N="335" REF="125"> much commended for Women with Child to take inward|ly, and to &s;mel often unto. It cutteth tough Flegm in the Che&s;t and Lungs, and helpeth to expectorate it the more ea&s;ily: It quickneth the dul Spirits in the Lethargy, the Juyce therof being &s;nuffed, or ca&s;t up into the No&s;trils: The juyce dropped into the Eyes, cleereth a dul fight, if it proceed of thin cold Humors di&s;tilling from the Brain. The juyce heated with a little Oyl of Ro&s;es, and dropped into the Ears ea&s;|eth them of the Noi&s;e and Singing in them, and of Deafne&s;s al&s;o: Out|wardly applied with white Flower in manner of a Pultis, it giveth ea&s;e to the Sciatica, and Pal&s;ey'd Members, heating and warming them: and taketh away their pains. It al&s;o taketh away the pain that comes of Stinging by Bees, Wa&s;ps, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Savin.</HEAD>
<P>TO de&s;cribe a Plant &s;o wel known is needle&s;s, it being nur&s;ed up almo&s;t in every Garden, and abiding green al the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> being hot and dry in the third degree, and being of exceeding clean parts;<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;lcers clen&s;eth, Fi&s;tulaes, Car|buncles, plague|&s;ores, Kings E|vil, Worms, &s;cabs, Itch, run|ning &s;ores, Can|kers, Tetters, Ringworms, Venerial &s;ores.</NOTE> is of a very dige&s;ting quality: If you dry the Herb into pouder, and mix it with honey, it is an excel|lent Remedy to clen&s;e old filthy Ulcers, and Fi&s;tulaes; but it hinders them from healing. The &s;ame is excellent good to break Carbuncles and Plague-&s;ores, al&s;o helpeth the Kings-Evil, being applied to the place: being &s;pread upon a piece of Leather and applied to the Navel, kils the Worms in the Belly; helps Scabs and the Itch, running Sores, Cankers, Tetters, and Ringworms; and being applied to the place, may happily cure Venerial Sores. This I thought good to &s;peak of it, as it may &s;afely be u&s;ed out|wardly; for inwardly it cannot be taken, without manife&s;t danger.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The common white Saxifrage.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis hath a few &s;mal reddi&s;h Kernels of Roots, covered with &s;ome skins lying among divers &s;mal blacki&s;h fibres, which &s;end forth divers round, faint, or yellowi&s;h green Leavs, and grayi&s;h under|neath, lying above the ground unevenly dented about the edges, and &s;om|what hairy, every one upon a little foot&s;talk, from whence ri&s;eth up a round browni&s;h hairy green &s;talk, two or three foot high, with a few &s;uch like round Leavs as grow below, but &s;maller, and &s;omwhat branched at the top, wheron &s;tand pretty large white Flowers of five Leavs apiece, with &s;ome yellow thrids in the middle, &s;tanding in long cre&s;ted browni&s;h green husks: After the Flowers are pa&s;t, there ari&s;eth &s;omtimes a round hard head by, forked at the top, wherin is contained &s;mal blacki&s;h &s;eed, but u&s;ually they fal away without any &s;eed; and it is the Kernels or Grains of the Root which are u&s;ually called the White Saxifrage &s;eed, and &s;o u&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of our Land, as wel in the lower
<PB N="336" REF="126"> moi&s;t, as in the upper dry corners of Meadows, and gra&s;&s;y &s;andy places; It u&s;ed to grow neer <HI>Lambs</HI> Conduit, on the back-&s;ide of <HI>Grayes-Inn.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>May,</HI> and is then gathered as wel for that which is called the Seed, as to di&s;til, for it quickly peri&s;heth down to the ground when any hot weather comes.</P>
<P><HI>Goverment and Vertues.]</HI> It is very effectual to clen&s;e the Reins and Bladder, and to di&s;&s;olve the Stone ingendered in them, and to expel it and the Gravel by Urine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clen&s;eth the Reins, Stone, Gravel, provoke &V;rine, Womens Cour&s;es, Tough Flegm.</NOTE> to provoke Urine al&s;o being &s;topped, and to help the Strangury: for which purpo&s;es the De|coction of the Herb or Roots in white Wine, or the Pouder of the &s;mal kernelly Root, which is called the Seed, taken in white Wine, or in the &s;ame Decoction made with white Wine, is mo&s;t u&s;ual. The Di&s;tilled Water of the whole Herb, Roots, and Flowers, is mo&s;t familiar to be taken: It provoketh al&s;o Wo|mens Cour&s;es, and freeth and clen&s;eth the Stomach and Lungs from thick and tough Flegm that troubles them. There is not many better Medicines to break the Stone, than this.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Burnet Saxifrage.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THe greater &s;ort of our Engli&s;h Burnet Saxifrage groweth up with divers long &s;talks of winged Leavs, &s;et directly oppo|&s;ite one to another on both &s;ides, each being &s;omwhat broad, and a little pointed and dented about the edges, of a &s;ad green colour. At the tops of the &s;talks &s;tand umbels of white Flowers, after which comes &s;mal and black|i&s;h Seed: The Root is long and whiti&s;h, abiding long. Our le&s;&s;er Burnet Saxifrage hath much finer Leavs than the former, and very &s;m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l, and &s;et one again&s;t another, deeply jagged about the edges, and of the &s;ame colour as the former. The Umbels of Flowers are white, and the Seed very &s;mal, and &s;o is the Root, being al&s;o &s;omwhat hot and quick in ta&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The&s;e grow in mo&s;t Meadows of this Land, and are ea&s;ie to be found, being wel &s;ought for among the gra&s;s, wherin many times they lie hid &s;carcely to be di&s;cern'd.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower about <HI>July,</HI> and their &s;eed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are both of them Herbs of the <HI>Moon.</HI> The&s;e Saxifrages are as hot as Pepper; and <HI>Tragus</HI> &s;aith by his experience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provoke Urine, Ea&s;e wind &amp; Chollick, Mo|ther, Womens Cour&s;es, Stone, tough Flegm, Venom, Cramps &amp; Convul&s;ions Wounds in the Head, Freckles and spots.</NOTE> They are more whol&s;om: They have the &s;ame prope ties that the Par&s;leys have, but in provoking Urine, and ea&s;ing the pains therof, or of the Wind and Chollick, are much more effectual: The Roots or Seed be|ing u&s;ed either in Pouder, or in Decoction, or any other way; and likewi&s;e helpeth the windy pains of the Mother, and to procure their Cour&s;es, to break and avoid the &s;tone in the Kidneys, to dige&s;t cold, vi&s;cuous, and tough Flegm in the Stomach, and is a mo&s;t e&s;pecial Remedy again&s;t al kind of Venom. Ca&s;toreum being boyled in the Di&s;tilled Water hereof, is &s;ingular good to be given to tho&s;e that are
<PB N="337" REF="126"> troubled with Cramps and Convul&s;ions: &s;ome do u&s;e to make the &s;eed into Comfits (as they do Caraway Seed) which is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore|&s;aid, The Juyce of the Herb dropped into the mo&s;t grievous Wounds of the Head, drieth up their moi&s;ture and healeth them quickly. Some Women u&s;e the di&s;tilled Water, to take away Freckles or Spots in the Skin or Face: and to drink the &s;ame &s;weetned with Sugar for all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Scabious, three &s;orts.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Field Scabious groweth up with many hairy &s;oft whiti&s;h green Leavs, &s;ome whereof are but very little; if at all jagged on the edges, others very much rent and torn on the &s;ides, and have threds in them, which upon the breaking may be plainly &s;een: from a|mong which ri&s;e up diver&s;e hairy green Stalks three or four foot high, with &s;uch like hairy green Leavs on them, but more deeply and finely divided, bran|ched forth a little: At the tops hereof which are naked and bare of Leavs for a good &s;pace, &s;tand round Heads of Flowers, of a pale blewi&s;h colour, &s;et together in a head, the outermo&s;t wherof are larger than the inward, with many threds al&s;o in the middle, &s;omwhat flat at the top, as the Head with Seed is likewi&s;e: The Root is great, white, and thick, growing down deep in the ground, and abideth many years.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort of Field Scabious, different in nothing from the for|mer, but onely it is &s;maller in all re&s;pects.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Corn Scabius, differeth little from the fir&s;t, but that it is greater in all re&s;pects, and the Flowers more declining to Purple: And the Root creepeth under the upper cru&s;t of the Earth, and runneth not deep in the ground as the fir&s;t doth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth mo&s;t u&s;ually in Meadows, e&s;pecially about <HI>London</HI> every where.</P>
<P>The &s;econd in &s;ome of the dry Fields about this City, but not &s;o plenti|full as the former.</P>
<P>The third, in the &s;tanding Corn, or Fallow Fields, and the borders of &s;uch like Fields.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and &s;ome abide Flowering until it be late in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in the mean time.</P>
<P>There are many other &s;orts of Scabious, but I take tho&s;e which I have here de&s;cribed to be mo&s;t familiar with us; The vertues both of the&s;e and the re&s;t being much alike, take them as followeth.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> owns the Plant. Scabious is very effectual for all &s;orts of Cough,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cough &amp; &s;hort, ne&s;s of Breath, Cold Flegm, In|ward &V;lcers and Impo&s;tums Pluri&s;ie, Infe|ction, Carbuncle or Plague Sores; pains or &s;titches in the &s;ide; Scabs, Tetters, Ringworms, Itch, inward Wounds, Cold &s;wellings, &s;hrunk Sinews, Frecles and Pimples Mor|phew &amp; Lepro|&s;ie, Dandriff &amp; Scurf, Green Wounds, Old &s;ores &amp; &V;lcers &s;plinters, thorns and broken Bones, &amp;c.</NOTE> &s;hortne&s;&s;e of Breath, and all other Di&s;ea&s;es of the Brea&s;t and Lungs, ripening and dige&s;ting cold Flegm, and other tough Hu|mors, voiding them forth by Coughing and &s;pitting: It ripeneth al&s;o all &s;orts of inward Ulcers &amp; Impo&s;tumes, the Pluri&s;ie al&s;o, if the Decoction of the Herb dry or green be made in Wine, &amp; drunk for &s;ome time together: four oun|ces of the clarified Juyce of Scabious taken in the morning
<PB N="338" REF="127"> fa&s;ting, with a dram of Methridate, or Venice Treacle, freeth the Heart from any Infection of Pe&s;tilence, if after the taking of it, the party &s;weat two hours in their Beds; and this Medicine be again and again repeated if need re|quire: The green Herb brui&s;ed and applyed to any Car|buncle or Plague &s;ore, is found by certain experience to di&s;|&s;olve or break it in three hours &s;pace. The &s;ame Decoction al&s;o drunk, helpeth the pains and Stitches in the &s;ides. The Decoction of the Roots taken for fourty dayes together, or a dram of the Pouder of them taken at a time in Whey, doth (as <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith) wonderfully help tho&s;e that are troubled with running or &s;preading Scabs, tetters, or Ring|worms, yea though they proceed of the French Pox, which he &s;aith he hath tryed by experience: The Juyce or De|coction drunk, helpeth al&s;o Scabs and breakings ont in Itch and the like: The Juyce al&s;o made up into an Oyntment and u&s;ed, is effectuall for the &s;ame purpo&s;e. The &s;ame al&s;o helpeth all inward Wounds by the drying, clen&s;ing and hea|ling quality therein: A Syrup made of the Juyce and Sugar is very effectuall to all the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and &s;o is the di&s;tilled water of the Herb and Flowers made in due &s;ea&s;on; e&s;pecially to be u&s;ed when the green Herb is not in force to be taken. The Decoction of the Herb and Roots outwardly applyed, doth wonderfully help all &s;orts of hard or cold Swellings in any part of the Body; and is as effectuall for any &s;hrunk Sinew or Vein. The Juyce of Scabious made up with the Pouder of Borax and Camphire, clen&s;eth the skin of the Face or other part of the Body, not only from Freckles and Pimples, but al&s;o from Morphew and Lepro&s;ie. The Head wa&s;hed with the &s;ame Decoction, clen&s;eth it from Dandrif, Scurf, Sores Itches, and the like, being u&s;ed warm. Tents al&s;o dipped in the Juyce or Water thereof, not onely healeth all green Wounds, but old Sores and Ulcers al&s;o: The Herb al&s;o brui&s;ed and applied doth in &s;hort time loo&s;en, and cau&s;e to be drawn forth any Splinter, broken bone, Arrow-head, or o|ther &s;uch like thing lying in the Fle&s;h.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Scurvy-gra&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;R ordinary Engli&s;h Scurvy-gra&s;s hath many thick fat Leavs, more long than broad, and &s;ometimes longer and narrower, &s;ometimes al&s;o &s;mooth on the edges, and &s;omtimes a little waved &s;omtimes plain, &s;mooth, and pointed, &s;omtimes a little hollow in the middle and round pointed, of a &s;ad green, and &s;omtimes blewi&s;h colour, every one &s;tanding by it &s;elf upon a long Foot&s;talk, which is browni&s;h or greeni&s;h al&s;o from among which ri&s;e &s;mall &s;lender Stalks, bearing a few Leavs there|on like the other, but longer and le&s;&s;er for the mo&s;t part: At the tops wherof grow many whiti&s;h Flowers, with yellow threds in the middle, &s;tanding a|bout a green Head which becometh the Seed Ve&s;&s;el, which will be &s;omwhat flat when it is ripe, wherein is contained reddi&s;h Seed ta&s;ting &s;omwhat hot:
<PB N="339" REF="127"> The Root is made of many white &s;trings, which &s;tick deeply in the mud, wherin it chiefly delighteth: yet it will well abide in the more upland and dryer grounds, and ta&s;teth a little bracki&s;h or Salt, even there, but not &s;o much as where it hath the Salt water to feed upon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth all along the Thames &s;ide, both on the <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Kenti&s;h</HI> Shoars, from <HI>Woolwich</HI> round about the Sea Coa&s;ts to <HI>Dover, Port&s;|mouth,</HI> and even to <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> where it is had in plenty: the other with round Leavs groweth in the Mar&s;hes in <HI>Holland</HI> in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire,</HI> and other places of <HI>Lincoln&s;hire</HI> by the Sea &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> There is al&s;o another &s;ort called <HI>Dutch Scurvy-gra&s;s,</HI> which is mo&s;t known and frequent in Gardens, which hath diver&s;e fre&s;h green, and almo&s;t round Leavs ri&s;ing from the Root, nothing &s;o thick as the former, yet in &s;ome rich ground very large, even twice &s;o big as in others, not den|ted about the edges, nor hollow in the middle, every one &s;tanding on a long Foot&s;talk: from among the&s;e ri&s;e up diver&s;e long &s;lender weak Stalks, higher than the former, and with more white Flowers at the tops of them, which turn into &s;maller pods, and &s;maller browni&s;h Seed than the former: The Root is white, &s;mal, and threddy: The ta&s;t of this is nothing Salt at all, but hath an hot Aromatical &s;picy ta&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>April</HI> or <HI>May,</HI> and give their Seed ripe quick|ly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> The Engli&s;h Scur|vy-gra&s;&s;e is more u&s;ed for the Salt ta&s;te it beareth, which doth &s;omwhat o|pen and clen&s;e, but the Dutch Scurvy-gra&s;&s;e is of better effect, and chiefly u&s;ed (if it may be had) by tho&s;e that have the Scurvey, e&s;pecially to purge and clen&s;e the bloud, the Liver and the Spleen, for all which Di&s;ea&s;es it is of &s;ingular good effect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scurvy, Liver and Spleen.</NOTE> by taking the juice in the Spring evry morning fa&s;ting in a cup of drink: The Decoction is good for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and the Herb tunned up in new Drink,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegmatick hu|mors foul Ul|cere, and Sore Morths, Spots, &amp; Scars in the Skin.</NOTE> either by it &s;elf or with other things, for it openeth Ob&s;tructions, evacuateth cold clam|my and Flegmatick Humors both from the Liver and the Spleen, wa&s;ting and con&s;uming both the &s;welling and hardne&s;&s;e thereof, and thereby bringing to the body a more lively colour. The Juyce al&s;o helpeth all foul Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth, if it be often gargled therewith; and u&s;ed outwardly, clen&s;eth the Skin from Spots, marks, or Scars that hap|pen therein.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Self-heal.</HEAD>
<P>It is al&s;o called Prunell, Carpenters Herb, Hook-heal, and Sicklewort.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Self-heal is a &s;mall low creeping Herb, having many &s;mal roundi&s;h pointed Leavs &s;omwhat like the Leavs of Wild Mints, of a dark green colour, without any dents on the edges, from among which ri&s;e divers &s;quare hairy Stalks &s;carce a foot high, which &s;pread &s;omtimes into Branches with diver&s;e &s;uch &s;mall Leavs &s;et theron, up to the
<PB N="340" REF="128"> tops, where &s;tand brown &s;piked Heads, of many &s;mall browni&s;h Leavs like &s;cales and Flowers &s;et together, almo&s;t like the Head of Ca&s;&s;idony, which Flowers are gaping, and of a blewi&s;h purple, ar more pale blew, in &s;ome places &s;weet, but not &s;o in others: The Root con&s;i&s;ts of many &s;trings or fibres down|ward, and &s;preadeth &s;trings al&s;o whereby it encrea&s;eth: The &s;mall Stalks with the Leavs creeping upon the ground, &s;hoot forth Fibres taking hold of the ground, whereby it is made a great tuft in &s;hort time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found in Woods and Fields every where.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>May,</HI> and &s;ometimes in <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Here is another Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> Self-heal, whereby when you are hurt you may heal your &s;elf, 'tis indeed a &s;pecial Herb for inward and outward wounds, take it inwardly in Syrups for inward Wounds, outwardly in Unguents and Plai&s;ters for outward. As Self-heal is like Bugle in form, &s;o al&s;o in the Qualities and Vertues &s;erving for all the purpo&s;es wherto Bugle is applyed with good &s;ucce&s;&s;e ei|ther inwardly or outwardly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inward Wounds and Ulcers, Brui&s;es.</NOTE> for inward Wounds or Ulcers wher&s;oever within the Body, for Brui&s;es and Falls, and &s;uch like hurts; if it be accompanied with Bugle, Sanicle, and other the like Wound Herbs it wil be the more effectu|al,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux of Blood, Foul Sores, Green wounds, Headach, &s;ores in the Mouth or Throat and &s;e|cret parts.</NOTE> and to wa&s;h or inject into Ulcers in the parts outward|ly where there is cau&s;e to repre&s;s the heat and &s;harpne&s;&s;e of Humors flowing to any fore Ulcer, Inflamation, Swelling or the like, or to &s;tay the Flux of blood in any Wound or Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, this is u&s;ed with good &s;ucce&s;s, as al&s;o to clen&s;e the foulne&s;s of &s;ores, and cau&s;e them more &s;peedily to be healed, It is an e&s;peciall Remedy for all green Wounds to &s;odder the lips of them, and to keep the place from any further Incon|veniences: The Juyce hereof u&s;ed with Oyl of Ro&s;es to anoint the Tem|ples and Forehead, is very effectual to remove the Headach: and the &s;ame mixed with Honey of Ro&s;es, clen&s;eth and healeth all Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat, and tho&s;e al&s;o in the &s;ecret parts. And the Proverb of the Germans, French, and others is verified in this, <HI>That he needeth neith<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Phy&s;itian nor Chyrurgion, that hath</HI> Self heal <HI>and</HI> Sanicle <HI>to help him&s;elf.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Service-tree.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o well known in the places where it grows that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth before the end of <HI>May,</HI> and the Fruit is ripe in <HI>October.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Services</HI> when they are mellow are fit to be taken to &s;tay Fluxes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>Fluxes, Scow|rings and Ca|&s;tings.</P>
<P>Bleeding of Wounds or at Mouth &amp; No&s;e</P></NOTE> Scowring, and Ca&s;tings, yet le&s;s than Medlars: if they be dryed before they be mellow, and kept all the year, they may be u&s;ed in Decoction for the &s;aid purpo&s;e, either to drink, or to bath the parts requiring it: and is profitably u&s;ed in that manner to &s;tay the bleeding of Wounds, and at the Mouth or
<PB N="341" REF="128"> No&s;e, to be applied to the Fore-head, and Nape of the Neck: and is un|der the Dominion of <HI>Saturn.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Shepheards-Pur&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>IT is al&s;o called Whoremans-Parmacitty, Shepheards-Scrip, Shepheards-Pouch, Toy-wort, Pick-pur&s;e, and Ca&s;e-weed.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> The Root is &s;mal, white, and peri&s;heth every yeer: The Leavs are &s;mal and long, of a pale green color, and deeply cut on both &s;ides: Among&s;t which &s;pringeth up a Stalk which is &s;mal and round, containing &s;mal Leavs upon it even to the top: The Flowers are white, and very &s;mal: After which come the little ca&s;es which hold the Seed, which are flat, al|mo&s;t in the form of a Heart.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They are frequent in this Nation, almo&s;t by every Paths &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower al the Summer long, nay, &s;ome of them are &s;o fruitful, that they flower twice a year.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stop fluxes, flux of the bel|ly, &s;pitting and pi&s;&s;ing Blood, Terms &s;tops, yell. Jaundice, pains, noi&s;e, &amp; matterings in the Ears, Wounds.</NOTE> and of a cold, dry, and binding Nature like to him. It &s;tops al fluxes of Blood either cau&s;ed by inward or outward Wounds; as al&s;o flux of the Belly and Bloody Flux, &s;pitting and pi&s;&s;ing of Blood, &s;tops the Terms in Women being bound to the Wre&s;ts of the Hands, and the Soals of the Feet, it helps the yellow Jaundice: The Herb being made into a Pulti&s;s helps Inflamations, and St. An|thonies fire; the Juyce being dropped into the Ears, helps the pains, noi&s;es, and matterings thereof. A good Oynt|ment may be made of it for al Wounds, e&s;pecially Wounds in the Head.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Smallage.</HEAD>
<P>THis al&s;o is very wel known, and therfore I &s;hal not trouble the Reader with any De&s;cription thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth naturally in wet and Mar&s;h Grounds, but if it be &s;own in Gardens, it there pro&s;pereth very wel.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It abideth green al the Winter, and Seedeth in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury.</HI> Smallage is hot|ter, dryer, and much more Medicinable than Par&s;ly, for it much more ope|neth ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Spleen, rarifieth thick Flegm,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver &amp; &s;pleen Urine and Wo|mens Cour&s;es, yell. Jaundice, Agues, Sore Mouths and Throats, Ulcers and Cankers, Wind, Worms, &s;tinking breath.</NOTE> and clen&s;eth it and the Blood withal. It provo|keth Urine and Womens Cour&s;es, and is &s;ingular good a|gain&s;t the yellow Jaundice: It is very effectual again&s;t Tertian and Quartan Agues, if the Juyce thereof be taken; but e&s;pecially made into a Syrup. The Juyce al&s;o put to Honey of Ro&s;es, and Barley Water, is very good to gargle the Mouth and Throat of tho&s;e that have Sores and Ulcers in them, and wil quickly heal them: The &s;ame Lotion al|&s;o clen&s;eth and healeth al other foul Ulcers and Cankers
<PB N="342" REF="129"> el&s;where if they be wa&s;hed therwith. The Seed is e&s;peci|ally u&s;ed to break and expel wind, to kil Worms, and to help a &s;tinking breath. The Root is effectual to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and is held to be &s;tronger in operation than the Herb, but e&s;pecially to open Ob&s;tructions, and to rid away an Ague, if the Juyce thereof be taken in Wine, or the Decoction thereof in Wine be u&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sope-wort, or Brui&s;e-wort.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Root creepeth under ground far and neer, with many joynts therein, of a brown color on the out&s;ide and yellowi&s;h within, &s;hooting forth in divers places many weak round Stalks, full of joynts, &s;et with two Leavs apiece at every one of them on the contrary &s;ide, which are ribbed &s;omwhat like unto Plantane, and fa&s;hioned like the common field white Campion Leavs, &s;eldom having any Branches from the &s;ides of the Stalks, but &s;et with divers Flowers at the top &s;tanding in long Husks like the wild Campions, made of five Leavs apiece, round at the ends, and a lit|tle dented in the middle, of a pale Ro&s;e color, almo&s;t white, &s;omtimes deeper, and &s;omtimes paler, of a rea&s;onable good &s;cent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth wild in many low and wet grounds of this Land, by the Brooks, and &s;ides of running Waters.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> flowereth u&s;ually in <HI>July,</HI> and &s;o continueth al <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and part of <HI>September</HI> before they be quite &s;pent.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns it. The Country people in divers places do u&s;e to brui&s;e the Leavs of Sope-wort, and lay it to their Fingers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cut Fingers, provokes Urin, Expels Gravel and Stone, Drop&s;ie, French Pox.</NOTE> Hands, or Legs when they are cut, to heal them up again. Some make great boa&s;t thereof that it is Diuretical to provoke Urine, and thereby to expel Gravel and the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys: and do al|&s;o account it &s;ingular good to avoid Hydropical Waters thereby to cure the Di&s;ea&s;e of the Drop&s;ie; And they no le&s;s extol it to perform an ab&s;olute cure in the French Pox, more than either <HI>Sar&s;aparilla, Gujacum,</HI> or <HI>China</HI> can do, which how true it is, I leave to others to judg.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sorrel.</HEAD>
<P>OUr ordinary Sorrel, which groweth in Gardens, and al&s;o wild in the Fields, is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of <HI>Venus.</HI> Sorrel is prevalent in al hot Di&s;ea&s;es, to cool any Inflamation and heat of Blood in Agues Pe&s;tilential or Chollerick,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cooleth Infla|mations, and heat of Blood, Agues, Quench thir&s;t, provoke Appetite, Kill Worms, Womens Cour&s;es, fluxes, Poy&s;on, Jaun|dice, Inward &V;lcers, Itch, Teteers and Ringworms, Kernels in the Throat, Sore Mouth, Impo|&s;tume, Boyl or Plague-&s;ore.</NOTE> or other &s;ickne&s;s and fainting, ri&s;ing from heat, and to refre&s;h the over&s;pent Spirits with the violence of furious or fiery fits of Agues, to quench thir&s;t, and procure an Appetite in fainting or decayed Stomachs: for it re&s;i&s;teth the putrefa|ction of the Blood, killeth Worms, and is as a Cordial to the Heart, which the Seed doth more effectually being
<PB N="343" REF="129"> more drying and binding, and thereby &s;tayeth the hot Flu|xes of Womens Cour&s;es, or of Humors in the bloody flux, or flux of the Stomach. The Roots al&s;o in a Decoction, or in Pouder, is effectual for al the &s;aid purpo&s;es. Both Roots and Seed as wel as the Herb is held powerful to re|&s;i&s;t the poy&s;on of the Scorpion. The Decoction of the Roots is taken to help the Jaundice, and to expel Gravel and the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys The Decoction of the Flowers made with Wine and drunk helpeth the black Jaundice, as al&s;o the inward Ulcers of the Body or Bowels. A Syrup made with the Juyce of Sorrel and Fu|mitory is a Soveraign help to kil tho&s;e &s;harp humors that cau&s;e the Itch. The Juyce thereof with a little Vinegar &s;erveth wel to be u|&s;ed outwardly for the &s;ame cau&s;e, and is al&s;o profitable for Tetters, Ring|worms, &amp;c. It helpeth al&s;o to di&s;cu&s;s the Kernels in the Throat, and the Juyce gargled in the Mouth, helpeth the Sores therein. The Leavs wrap|ped up in a Colewort Leaf, and roa&s;ted under the Embers, and applied to a hard Impo&s;tume, Botch, Boyl, or Plague-&s;ore, both ripeneth and breaketh it. The Di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is of much good u&s;e for al the pur|po&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wood Sorrel.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> THis groweth low upon the Ground, having a number of Leavs coming from the Root, made of three Leavs like a Trefoyl but broad at the ends and cut in the middle, of a faint yellowi&s;h green color, every one &s;tanding on a long Foot&s;talk, which at their fir&s;t coming up are clo&s;e folded together to the Stalk, but opening them&s;elves af|terwards, and are of a fine &s;owr relli&s;h, and yeilding a Juyce which wil turn red when it is clarified, and maketh a mo&s;t dainty cleer Syrup: A|mong the&s;e Leavs ri&s;eth up divers &s;lender weak Foot&s;talks, with every one of them a Flower at the top, con&s;i&s;ting of five &s;mal pointed Leavs &s;tar fa&s;hion, of a white color in mo&s;t places, and in &s;ome da&s;h'd over with a &s;mal &s;hew of blu&s;h, on the back &s;ide only: After the Flowers are pa&s;t, follow &s;mal round heads, with &s;mal yellowi&s;h Seed in them: The Roots are nothing but &s;mal &s;trings fa&s;tned to the end of a &s;mal long piece, al of them being of a yellowi&s;h color.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in many places of our Land, in Woods and Wood &s;ides, where they be moi&s;t and &s;hadowed, and in other places, not too much open to the Sun.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth in <HI>April</HI> and <HI>May.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns it. Wood-Sorrel &s;erveth to al the purpo&s;es that the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindring the putrefaction of Blood,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ulcers, Infla|mations, pro|cure Appetite, &s;tay Vomiting, Pe&s;tilential Feavers, hot &s;wellings, can|ker or &V;lcer in the Mouth, Wounds, or &s;cabs, defluxi|ons.</NOTE> &amp; ulcers in the Mouth and Body, and in cooling &amp; tempering heats &amp; inflamati|ons, to quench thir&s;t, to &s;trengthen a weak Stomach, to pro|cure an Appetite, to &s;tay Vomiting, and very excellent in
<PB N="344" REF="130"> any contagious &s;ickne&s;s, or Pe&s;tilential Feavers. The Sy|rup made of the Juyce is effectual in al the cau&s;es afore&s;aid, and &s;o is the di&s;tilled Water of the Herb al&s;o. Spunges or Linnen Cloathes wet in the Juyce and applied outwardly to any hot Swellings or Inflamations, doth much cool and help them: The &s;ame Juyce taken and gargled in the Mouth, and after it is &s;pit forth, fre&s;h taken, doth wonder|fully help a foul &s;tinking Canker or Ulcer therein. It is &s;ingular good in Wounds, Thru&s;ts, and Stabs in the Bo|dy, to &s;tay bleeding, and to clen&s;e and heal the Wounds &s;peedily; and helpeth to &s;tay any hot defluxions into the Throat or Lungs.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Sow-Thi&s;tles.</HEAD>
<P>SOw-Thi&s;tles are generally &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in our Gardens and manured Grounds, and &s;om|times by old Wals, the path &s;ides of Fields and High-waies.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This and the former are under the influence of <HI>Venus.</HI> Sow-thi&s;tles are cooling and &s;omwhat binding, and are very fit to cool an hot Stomach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pains and heat of the &s;tomach, &s;hort Wind and Whee|&s;ing, gravel and &s;tone; &s;tinking Breath, &s;peedy De|livery, &s;trangury, Milk in|crea&s;ed, Deafne&s;s &amp; &s;inging in the ears, infla|med Eyes, Wheals &amp; bli&s;ters, Hemor|rhoids, Cleer the Face.</NOTE> and to ea&s; the gnawing pains thereof: The Herb boyled in Wine is very helpful to &s;tay the di&s;&s;olutions of the Stomach; and the Milk that is taken from the Stalks when they are broken, given in drink, is beneficial to tho&s;e that are &s;hort winded, and have a whee&s;ing withal: <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That it hath cau&s;ed the Gravel and Stone to be voided by Urin, and that the eating thereof helpeth a &s;tinking brea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h: Three &s;poonfuls of the Juyce thereof taken in white Wine war|med, and &s;ome Oyl put thereto cau&s;eth Women in Travel to have &s;o ea&s;ie and &s;peedy delivery, that they may be able to walk pre&s;ently after: The &s;aid Juyce taken in warm drink, helpeth the &s;trangury and pains in making water. The Decoction of the Leavs and Stalks, cau&s;eth abundance of Milk in Nur&s;es, and their Children to be wel colored, and is good for tho&s;e who&s;e Milk doth curdle in their Brea&s;ts. The juyce boiled or through|ly heated with a little Oyl of bitter Almonds in the Pill of a Pomegranate, and dropped into the Ears, is a &s;ure Remedy for Deafne&s;s, &s;ingings, and al other Di&s;ea&s;es in them. The Herb brui&s;ed, or the Juyce, is profitably applied to al hot Inflamati|ons in the Eyes, or where&s;oever el&s;e, and for Wheals, Bli&s;ters, or other the like eruptions of heat in the skin; as al&s;o for the heat and itching of the Hemorrhoids, and the heat and &s;harpne&s;s of Humors in the &s;ecret Parts of Man or Woman: The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb, is not only effectual for al the Di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid to be taken inwardly with a little Sugar (which Medicine the daintie&s;t Stomach wil not refu&s;e) but out|wardly, by applying Cloathes or Spunges wetted therein: It is wonderful good for Women to wa&s;h their Faces therewith, to cleer the Skin, and give a lu&s;tre thereto.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="345" REF="130">
<HEAD>Southernwood.</HEAD>
<P>SOuthernwood is &s;o wel known to be an ordinary Inhabitant in our Gar|dens, that I &s;hal not need to trouble you with any De&s;cription thereof. The Vertues are as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth for the mo&s;t part in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a gallant Mercurial Plant, worthy of more e&s;teem than it hath. <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That the Seed brui&s;ed, hea|ted in warm Water and drunk, helpeth tho&s;e that are Bur|&s;ten,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bur&s;ten, cramps &amp; convul&s;ions, Sciatica, &s;tran|gury, womens Cour&s;es, poy|&s;on, Agues, In|flamed Eyes, pimples, pu&s;hes and Wheals, Worms, &s;plin|ters &amp; thorns, old ulcers, &s;ores in the privities balne&s;s, French pox, Stone, &s;pleen and Mother.</NOTE> or troubled with Cramps, or Convul&s;ions of the Si|news, the Sciatica, or difficulty in making water, and brin|geth down Womens Cour&s;es. The &s;ame taken in Wine is an Antidote, or Counter poy&s;on again&s;t al deadly Poy&s;on, and driveth away Serpents, and other Venemous Crea|tures; as al&s;o the &s;mel of the Herb being burnt, doth the &s;ame, The Oyl therof anointed on the Back-bone before the Fits of Agues come, taketh them away: It taketh a|way Inflamations in the Eyes, if it be put with &s;ome part of a roa&s;ted Quince, and boyled with a few crums of bread and applied. Boyled with Barley Meal it taketh away Pimples, Pu&s;hes, or Wheals, that ri&s;e in the Face or other part of the Body. The &s;eed as wel as the dried Herb is often given to kil the Worms in Children: The Herb brui&s;ed and laid to, helpeth to draw forth &s;plinters and thorns out of the fle&s;h. The A&s;hes thereof dryeth up and healeth old Ulcers that are without Inflamation, although by the &s;harpne&s;s thereof it biteth &s;ore, and putteth them to &s;ore pains: as al&s;o the &s;ores in the privy Parts of Man or Woman. The A&s;hes mingled with old Sallet Oyl, helpeth tho&s;e that have their Hair fal|len, and are bald, cau&s;ing the Hair to grow again either on the Head or Beard. <HI>Durantes</HI> &s;aith, That the Oyl made of Southernwood and put a|mong the Oyntments that are u&s;ed again&s;t the French Di&s;ea&s;e, is very effe|ctual, and likewi&s;e killeth Lice in the Head. The di&s;tilled Water of the Herb is &s;aid to help them much that are troubled with the &s;tone, as al&s;o for the di&s;ea&s;es of the &s;pleen and Mother. The Germans commend it for a &s;in|gular Wound Herb, and therefore cal it <HI>Stabwort.</HI> It is held by al Wri|ters, Ancient and Modern to be more offen&s;ive to the &s;tomach than Worm|wood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Spignel.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Roots of common Spignell do &s;pread much and deep in the ground, many &s;trings or branches growing from one Head which is hairy at the top, of a blacki&s;h brown colour on the out&s;ide and white within, &s;melling well, and of an Aromaticall ta&s;te, from whence ri&s;e &s;undry long &s;talks of mo&s;t fine cut Leavs like hairs, &s;maller then Dill, &s;et thick on both &s;ides of the Stalks, and of a good &s;cent. Among the&s;e Leavs
<PB N="346" REF="131"> ri&s;e up round &s;tiff &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ks, with a few Joynts and Leavs at them, and at the tops an &V;mbel of fine pure white Flowers, at the edges whereof &s;ometimes will be &s;een a &s;hew of reddi&s;h blu&s;h colour, e&s;pecially before they be full blown and are &s;ucceeded by &s;mall &s;omewhat round Seed, bigger than the ordinary Fennel, and of a browner colour, divided into two parts, and cre&s;ted on the back, as mo&s;t of the &V;mbelliferous Seeds are.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place,]</HI> It groweth wild in <HI>Lanca&s;hire, York&s;hire,</HI> and other Northern Countries, and is al&s;o planted in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Venus. Galen</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provoks &V;rine and Womens Cour&s;es, Stran|gury, pain in the &s;tomach, Mo|ther, Joynt aches; Tough flegm, Vene|mous Creatures</NOTE> The Roots of Spignel are available to pro|voke Urine and Womens Cour&s;es, but if too much therof be taken it cau&s;eth Headach: The Roots boyled in Wine or Water and drunk, helpeth the Strangury, and &s;toppings of the Urine, the Winde, Swellings and pains in the Sto|mach, pains of the Mother, and all Joynt Aches. If the Pouder of the Roots be mixed with Honey, and the &s;ame taken as a licking Medicine, it breaketh tough flegm, and drieth up the Rhewm that falleth on the Lungs. The Roots are accounted very effectuall again&s;t the &s;tinging or biting of any Venemous Creature, and is one of the Ingredients in <HI>Methridate,</HI> and other Antidotes for the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Spleenwort,</HI> or <HI>Ceterach.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe &s;mooth Spleenwort from a black, threddy and bu&s;hy Root &s;endeth forth many long &s;ingle Leavs, cut in on both &s;ides into round dents, almo&s;t to the middle, which is not &s;o hard as that of Pol|lipody, each divi&s;ion being not alwayes &s;et oppo&s;ite unto the other, but be|tween each &s;mooth, and of a light green on the upper &s;ide, and a dark yello|wi&s;h roughne&s;s on the back, folding or rolling it &s;elf inward at the fir&s;t &s;pringing up.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth as well upon Stone-walls as moi&s;t and and &s;hadowy places about <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> and other the We&s;t parts plentifully; as al&s;o on <HI>Fra|mingham</HI> Ca&s;tle, on <HI>Beckonsfield</HI> Church in <HI>Bark&s;hire,</HI> at <HI>Strowde</HI> in <HI>Kent</HI> and el&s;where, and abideth green all the Winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Saturn</HI> owns it. It is generally u&s;ed again&s;t in|firmities of the Spleen, it helpeth the Strangury, and wa|&s;teth the Stone in the Bladder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen &s;trangu|ry, Stone, yellow Jaundice; Run|ning of the reins Melancholy Di|&s;ea&s;es.</NOTE> and is good again&s;t the yel|low Jaundice and the Hiccough; but the u&s;e of it in Wo|men hindereth Conception. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, That if a dram of the du&s;t that is on the back &s;ide of the Leavs, be mixed with half a dram of Amber in Pouder, and taken with the Juyce of Pur&s;lane or Plantane, it wil help the running of the Reins &s;peedily, and that the Herb or Root being boyled and taken, helpeth all Melancholick Di&s;ea&s;es, and tho&s;e e&s;pecially that ari&s;e from the French Di&s;ea&s;e. <HI>Camerarius</HI> &s;aith, That the Di&s;tilled <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ater thereof being drunk is very effectuall again&s;t the Stone in the Reins
<PB N="347" REF="131"> and Bladder: and that the Ly that is made of the A&s;hes therof being drunk for &s;ome time together, helpeth Splenetick per&s;ons: It is u&s;ed in outward Remedies for the &s;ame purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Star thi&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.]</HI> A Common Star-thi&s;tle hath diver&s;e long and narrow Leavs lying next the ground, cut or torn on the edges, &s;omwhat deeply, into many almo&s;t even parts, &s;oft or a little wooley all over the green among which ri&s;e up diver&s;e weak &s;talks parted into many Branches all lying or leaning down to the ground, that it &s;eemeth a pretty Bu&s;h, &s;et with di|ver&s;e the like divided Leavs up to the tops, where &s;everally do &s;tand long and &s;mall whiti&s;h green heads, &s;et with &s;harp and long white pricks (no part of the Plant being el&s;e prickly) which are &s;omwhat yellowi&s;h: out of the middle whereof ri&s;eth the Flower compo&s;ed of many &s;mall reddi&s;h purple threds; and in the Heads after the Flowers are pa&s;t, come &s;mall whiti&s;h round Seed lying in down as others do. The Root is &s;mall, long, and woody, peri&s;hing every year, and ri&s;ing again of its own &s;owing.</P>
<P>Place.] <HI>It groweth wild in the fields about</HI> London <HI>in many places, as at</HI> Mile-end-green <HI>in</HI> Finsbury <HI>Fields beyond the Wind-mils, and many other places.</HI></P>
<P>Time.] <HI>It Flowreth early, and Seedeth in</HI> July, <HI>and &s;ometimes in</HI> Augu&s;t.</P>
<P>Government and Vertues.] <HI>This, as almo&s;t all Thi&s;tles are under</HI> Mars.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Provoks Urine, &s;tone, plague, fi|&s;tula, french pox, Ob&s;tructi|ons, Agues.</NOTE> <HI>The Seed of this Star-Thi&s;tle made in|to Pouder and drunk in Wine, provoketh Urine, and helpeth to break the Stone, and drive it forth. The Root in Pouder and given in Wine and drunk, is good again&s;t the Plague or Pe&s;tilence, and drunk in the mornings fa&s;ting for &s;ome time together, is very profitable for a Fi&s;tula in any part of the Body.</HI> Bapti&s;ta Sardus <HI>doth much commend the di&s;tilled Water hereof being drunk; to help the French Di&s;ea&s;e, to open Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver, and clen&s;e the Bloud from corrupted Humors, and is pro|fitably given again&s;t Quotidian or Tertian Agues.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Strawberries.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o well known thorough this Land, that they need no De|&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>May</HI> ordinarily, and the Fruit is ripe &s;hortly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Venus</HI> owns the Herb. Straw|berries when they are green,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cool the Liver, Spleen &amp; Sto|mach, Quench Thir&s;t, Infla|mations, Pro|voke &V;rine, &s;tay the Bloudy flux and Womens Cour&s;es, pan|ting of the beart Yellow Jaun|dice, &V;lcers &s;ore Mouths or Ulcers in the privities Loo&s;|teeth, Catarrhs Defluxions, Inflamed Eyes. pu&s;hes and Wheals, Red Face, Deformi|ties in the skin, films over the Eyes.</NOTE> are cold and dry, but when they are ripe they are cold and moi&s;t: The Berries are ex|cellent good to cool the Liver, the Bloud and the Spleen, or an hot Cholerick &s;tomach; to refre&s;h and comfort the fainting &s;pirits, and to quench Thir&s;t: They are good al|&s;o for other Inflamations, yet it is not ami&s;&s;e to refrain
<PB N="348" REF="132"> from them in a Feaver, le&s;t by their putrefying in the &s;to|mach they encrea&s;e the Fits. The Leavs and Roots boiled in Wine and Water and drunk, do likewi&s;e cool the Liver and Bloud, and a&s;&s;wage all Inflamations in the Reins and bladder, provoketh Urine, and allayeth the the heat and &s;harpne&s;s thereof: The &s;ame al&s;o being drunk &s;tayeth the Bloudy Flux, and Womens Cour&s;es, and helpeth the &s;wel|lings of the Spleen. The Water of the Berries carefully di&s;tilled is a Soverrign Remedy and Cordiall in the pant|ing and beating of the Heart, and is good for the yellow Jaundice. The Juyce dropped into foul Ulcers, or they wa&s;hed therewith, or the Decoction of the Herb and Root doth wonderfully clen&s;e, and help to cure them. Lotions and Gargles for &s;ore Mouths, or Ulcers therein, or in the privy Parts, or el&s;ewhere, are made with the Leavs and Roots thereof; which is al&s;o good to fa&s;ten loo&s;e Teeth, and to heal &s;pungy foul Gums: It helpeth al&s;o to &s;tay Ca|tarrhs or Defluxions of Rhewm into the Mouth, Throat, Teeth, or Eyes; The Juyce or Water is &s;ingular good for hot and red Inflamed Eyes, if dropped into them, or they bathed there|with; it is al&s;o of excellent property for all Pu&s;hes, Wheals, and other breakings forth of hot and &s;harp humors in the Face and Hands, or other parts of the Body, to bath them therewith; and to take away any redne&s;s in the face or Spots, or other deformities in the skin, and to make it cleer and &s;mooth. Some u&s;e this Medicine; Take &s;o many Strawberries as you &s;hal think fitting, and put them into a Di&s;tillatory or Body of Gla&s;s fit for them, which being wel clo&s;ed, &s;et it in a bed of Hor&s;-dung for twelve or fourteen daies, and afterwards di&s;til it carefully and keep it for your u&s;e: It is an excellent Water for hot inflamed Eyes, and to take away any film or skin that beginneth to grow over them, and for &s;uch other defects in them as may be helped by any outward Medicine.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Succory.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe Garden Succory hath longer and narrower Leavs than Endive, and more cut in or to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n on the edges, and the Root abideth many years: It beareth al&s;o blew Flowers like End<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve, and the Seed is hardly di&s;tingui&s;hed from the Seed of the &s;mooth or ordinary Endive.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The wild Succory hath diver&s;e long Leavs lying on the ground very much cut in or torn on the edges, on bolh &s;ides even to the middle rib ending in a paint; &s;ometimes it hath a red Rib down the middle of the Leavs, from a|mong which ri&s;eth up a hard, round, woody &s;talk &s;preading into many Bran|ches, &s;et with &s;maller and le&s;&s;er divided Leaves on them up to the tops where &s;tand the Flowres, which are like the Garden kind as the Seed is al&s;o (only take notice that the Flowers of the Garden kind are gone in on Sunny day, they being to cold that they are not able to endure the Beams of the Sun; and therefore mo&s;t delight in the &s;hadow.) The Root is white, but more
<PB N="349" REF="132"> hard and woody than the Garden kind: The whole Plant is exceeding bitter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This groweth in many places of our Land, in wa&s;t, untilled, and barren Fields. The other, only in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Gevernment and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Jupiter.</HI> Garden Succory as it is more dry, and le&s;s cold than Endive, &s;o it openeth more.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chollerick, and flegmatick Hu|mors, ob&s;tructi|ons, yell. Jaun|dice, hot Reins, &amp; urine, drop&s;y Agues, pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart, Headach, &s;wel|lings &amp; infla|mations, S^t An|thonies fire, pu&s;hes, wheals, &amp; pimples, in|flamed Eyes, too much Milk.</NOTE> An handful of the Leavs or Roots boyled in wine or water, and a draught therof drunk fa&s;ting, driveth forth Chollerick and Flegmatick Humors, openeth Ob&s;tructi|ons of the Liver, Gall, and Spleen; helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the heat of the Reins, and of the Urine; the Drop&s;ie al&s;o, and tho&s;e that have an evil di&s;po&s;ition in their Bodies by rea&s;on of long &s;ickne&s;s, evil Diet, &amp;c. which the Creeks cal <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Cachexia.</HI> A Decoction therof made with wine and drunk, is very effectual again&s;t long ling|ring Agues; and a dram of the Seed in Pouder drunk in wine before the Fit of an Ague, helpeth to drive it away: The Di&s;tilled water of the Herb and Flowers (if you can take them in time) hath the properties, and is e&s;pecial good for hot &s;tomachs, and in Agues, either pe&s;tilential, or of long continuance, for &s;woonings, and pa&s;&s;ions of the Heart, for the heat and Headach in Children, and to the Bloud and Liver. The &s;aid water or the juyce, or the brui|&s;ed Leavs applied outwardly, allayeth &s;wellings, inflamations, St. Anthonies Fire, Pu&s;hes, Wheals, and Pimples, e&s;pecially u&s;ed with a little Vinegar, as al&s;o to wa&s;h pe&s;tiferous &s;ores. The &s;aid Water is very effectual for &s;ore Eyes that are inflamed with redne&s;s, and for Nur&s;es Brea&s;ts that are pained by the abundance of Milk.</P>
<P>The wild Succory as it is more bitter, &s;o it is more &s;trengthning to the Stomach and Liver.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Stone-Crop, Prick-Madam,</HI> or <HI>Smal Hou&s;e-Leek.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT groweth with divers trailing branches upon the ground, &s;et with many thick, fat, roundi&s;h, whiti&s;h, green Leavs, pointed at the ends; the Flowers &s;tand many of them together, &s;omwhat loo&s;ly: the Roots are &s;mal, and run creeping under-ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Blace.]</HI> It groweth upon the Stone-wals and Mud-wals, upon the Tiles of Hou&s;es, and Penthou&s;es, and among&s;t Rubbi&s;h, and in other Gravelly places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and the Leavs are green al the winter.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the Dominion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> cold in quality, and &s;omthing binding, and therfore very good to &s;tay Defluxions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Binds, &s;tay de|fluxions, blee|ding &s;tops, Can|kers, &s;ores, ul|cers, Chollor, Chollerick Hu|mors, Poy&s;on, pe&s;tilent fea|vers, tertian a|gues, Kings-E|vil, Knots and Kernels in the fle&s;h, Piles.</NOTE> e&s;pecially &s;uch as fal upon the Eyes; it &s;tops Bleeding both inward and outward, helps Cankers
<PB N="350" REF="133"> and al fretting &s;ores and Ulcers; it abates the heat of Chol|lor, thereby preventing Di&s;ea&s;es thence ari&s;ing from Chol|lerick Humors: It expels Poy&s;on much, re&s;i&s;teth pe&s;tilen|tial Feavers, being exceeding good al&s;o for tertian Agues, you may drink the Decoction of it if you plea&s;e for al the foregoing infirmities: It is &s;o harmle&s;s an Herb, you can &s;carce u&s;e it a mi&s;s, being brui&s;ed and applied to the place it helps the Kings Evil, and any other Knots, or Kernels, in the fle&s;h; as al&s;o the Piles.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Engli&s;h Tobacco.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;eript.] <HI>THis ri&s;eth up with a thick round &s;talk, about two foot high, wheron do grow thick fat green Leavs, nothing &s;o large as the other Indian kinds, &s;omwhat round pointed al&s;o, and nothing dented about the edges: The &s;talk brancheth forth, and beareth at the tops divers Flowers &s;et in green Husks, like the other, but nothing &s;o large; &s;carce &s;tan|ding above the brims of the Husks, round pointed al&s;o, and of a greeni&s;h yel|low colour. The Seed that followeth is not &s;o bright, but larger, contained in the like great heads. The Roots are neither &s;o great, nor woody, and pe|ri&s;hing every year with the hard fro&s;ts in Winter, but ri&s;eth generally of its own &s;owing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> This came from &s;ome parts of <HI>Bra&s;ile,</HI> as is thought, and is more familier in our Country than any of the other &s;orts; early giving ripe &s;eed, which the other &s;eldom do.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth from <HI>June</HI> &s;omtimes to the end of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> or later, and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a <HI>Martial</HI> Plant. It is found by good experience to be available to expectorate tough Flegm from the Stomach,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tough Flegm, Worms, Mea|grim, pains in the Bowels, gravel, &amp; &s;tone Wind, Mother, toothach, Kings Evil, venemous Creature, Ague, cramps, &amp; aches Sciatica, Itch, Scabs, &amp; ulcers cankers &amp; foul &s;ores, lice, fre&s;h Wound, old &s;ores, Impo&s;tu~s &amp; hard &s;wel|lings.</NOTE> Che&s;t, and Lungs. The Juyce therof made into a Syrup, or the di&s;tilled Water of the herb drunk with &s;ome Sugar, or without if you will: Or the &s;moke ta|ken by a Pipe as is u&s;ual, but fa&s;ting. The &s;ame helpeth to expel Worms in the Stomach and Belly, and to ea&s;e the pains in the Head, or Meagrim, and the griping pains in the Bowels: It is profitable for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Stone in the Kidneys, both to ea&s;e pains, and by provoking Urine, to expel Gravel and the Stone ingender|ed therin, and hath been found very effectual to expel win|dine&s;s and other Humors which cau&s;e the &s;trangling of the Mother. The Seed herof is very effectual to help the tooth|ach, and the A&s;hes of the burnt Herb, to clen&s;e the Gums, and make the Teeth white. The Herb brui&s;ed and applied to the place grieved with the Kings-Evil (as they cal it) helpeth it in nine or ten dayes effectually. <HI>Monardus</HI> &s;aith it is a Counter-Poy&s;on for the biting of any Venemous
<PB N="351" REF="133"> Creature; the Herb al&s;o being outwardly applied to the hurt place. The Di&s;tilled Water is often given with &s;ome Sugar before the Fit of an Ague to le&s;&s;en them, and take them away in three or four times u&s;ing. If the di&s;tilled Fecies of the Herb having been brui&s;|ed before the Di&s;tillation, and not Di&s;tilled dry, be &s;et in warm dung for fourteen dayes, and afterwards hung up in a Bag in a Wine Celler; that li|quor that Di&s;tilleth there-from, is &s;ingular good to u&s;e for Cramps, Aches, the Gout, and Sciatica, and to heal Itches, Scabs, and running Ulcers, Can|kers, and foul Sores what&s;oever. The Juyce is al&s;o good for al the &s;aid griefs, and likewi&s;e to kil Lice in Childrens heads. The green Herb brui&s;ed and applied to any green Wound, cureth any fre&s;h Wound or Cut wher&s;oever: and the Juyce put into old Sores, both clen&s;eth and healeth them. There is al&s;o made hereof a &s;ingular good Salve to help Impo&s;tumes, hard Tumors, and other &s;wellings by Blows or Fals.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Tamarisk-Tree.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known in the places where it grows, that it needeth no De|&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth about the end of <HI>May</HI> or in <HI>June,</HI> and the Seed is ripe and blown away in the beginning of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> A gallant <HI>Saturnine</HI> Herb it is. If the Root, Leavs, or yong Branches be boyled in Wine or Vinegar and drunk,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen, Hemor|rhoids, &s;piting Bloud, womens Cour&s;es, Jaun|dice, &amp; Collick Ven. Serpents, Toothach, pain in the Ears, watring Eyes, Gangrenes, &amp; Ulcers, Nits, &amp; lice, spleen, bur|ning &amp; &s;cal|ding, french pox Lepro&s;ie and &s;cabs, drop&s;ie, Melancholly, black jaundice.</NOTE> and applied outwardly, it is very powerful again&s;t the hardne&s;s of the Spleen. The Leavs boyled in Wine and drunk, is good to &s;tay the bleeding of the Hemorrhoidal Veins, the &s;pitting of Bloud, and Womens too abound|ing Cour&s;es, and helpeth the Jaundice, the Chollick, and the bitings of al Venemous Serpents, except the A&s;p. The Bark is as effectual if not more to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid; and both it and the Leavs boyled in Wine, and the mouth and the teeth wa&s;hed therwith, helpeth the Toothach; be|ing dropped into the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains; and is good for the redne&s;s and watering of the Eyes. The &s;aid Deco|ction with &s;ome Honey put therto, is good to &s;tay Gan|grenes and fretting Ulcers, and to wa&s;h tho&s;e that are &s;ub|ject to Nits and Lice. The Wood is very effectual to con|&s;ume the Spleen, and therfore to drink out of Cups and Cans made therof, is good for Splenetick per&s;ons. The A&s;hes of the Wood are u&s;ed for al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid, and be&s;ides, doth quickly help the Bli&s;ters rai&s;ed by bur|nings or &s;caldings, by fire or water. <HI>Alpinus</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;lingius</HI> do affirm, That the Aegyptians do with as good &s;ucce&s;s u&s;e the Wood hereof to cure the French Di&s;ea&s;e, as others do <HI>Lignum Vitae,</HI> or <HI>Guajacum;</HI> and give it al&s;o to &s;uch as are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Lepro&s;ie, Scabs, Pu&s;hes, Ulcers, or the like; and is available al&s;o to help the Drop&s;ie, ari&s;ing from the hardne&s;s and Ob&s;truction of the Spleen, as al&s;o for Melancholly, and the black Jaun|dice that ari&s;eth therof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="352" REF="134">
<HEAD>Garden Tan&s;ie.</HEAD>
<P>GArden Tan&s;ie is &s;o wel known, that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me <HI>Venus</HI> was minded to plea&s;ure Wo|men with Child by this Herb; for there grows not an Herb fitter, for their u&s;es than this is; it is ju&s;t as though it were cut out for the purpo&s;e: The Herb brui&s;ed and applied to the Navel &s;tayes mi&s;carriages, I know no herb like it for that u&s;e; boyled in ordinary Beer, and the Decoction drunk, doth the like; and if her Womb be not as &s;he would have, this Decoction wil make it as &s;he would have it, or at lea&s;t, as &s;he &s;hould have it: Let tho&s;e Women that de&s;ire Children love this Herb, 'tis their be&s;t Compa|nion, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir Husband excepted. Al&s;o, it con&s;umes the Flegmatick Humors, the cold and moi&s;t con&s;titution of Winter mo&s;t u&s;ually infects the Body of man with, and that was the fir&s;t Rea&s;on of eating Tan&s;ies in the Spring; At la&s;t the world being over-run with Popery, a Mon&s;ter called Super&s;titi|on perks up his head, and as a ju&s;t judgment of God, ob&s;cures the bright beams of Knowledge by his di&s;mal looks (Phy&s;itians &s;eeing the Pope and his Imps &s;elvi&s;h, they began to do &s;o too) and now for&s;ooth Tan&s;ies mu&s;t be eaten only on Palm and Ea&s;ter Sundayes, and their neighbor dayes: At la&s;t Super&s;tition being too hot to hold, and the &s;elfi&s;hne&s;s of Phy&s;itians walking in the clouds; after the Fryars and Monks had made the people ig|norant, the Super&s;tition of the time was found out, but the Vertue of the Herb hidden; and now 'tis almo&s;t, if not altogether, left off: Surely our Phy&s;itians are beholding to none &s;o much as they are to Monks and Fryars, for want of eating this Herb in &s;pring, maketh people &s;ickly in &s;ummer, and that makes work for the Phy&s;itian. If it be again&s;t any Man or VVo|mens Con&s;cience to eat a Tan&s;ie in the &s;pring, I am as unwilling to burden their Con&s;ciences as I am that they &s;hould burden mine: They may boyl it in VVine and drink the Decoction, it wil work the &s;ame effect. The De|coction of the Common Tan&s;ie, or the Juyce drunk in wine, is a &s;ingular Remedy for al the griefs that come by &s;topping of the Urine,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Strangury, Reins, Kidneys, Wind, Womb, Mi&s;car|riage, Stone, Stomach, Worms, Cramps,</NOTE> helpeth the Strangury, and tho&s;e that have weak Reins and Kidneys. It is al&s;o very profitable to di&s;&s;olve and expel wind in the &s;tomach, Belly, or Bowels, to procure womens Cour&s;es, and expel windine&s;s in the Matrix. If it be brui&s;ed, and often &s;melled unto, as al&s;o applied to the lower part of the Belly, it is very profitable for &s;uch women as are given to mi&s;|carry in Child-bearing, to cau&s;e them to go out their ful time: It is u&s;ed al&s;o again&s;t the &s;tone in the Reins, e&s;pecially to Men. The Herb fried with Egs (as is accu&s;tomed in the &s;pring time) which is called a Tan&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, helpeth to dige&s;t, and carry downward tho&s;e bad Humors that trouble the &s;tomach: The &s;eed is very profitably given to Children for the worms, and the Juyce in Drink is as effectual. Being boyl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d in Oyl, it is good for the &s;inews &s;hrunk by C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amps, or pained with cold, if therto applied.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="353" REF="134">
<HEAD><HI>Wild Tan&s;ie,</HI> or <HI>Silver-weed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis al&s;o is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth almo&s;t in every place.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Now Dame <HI>Venus</HI> hath fitted Women with two Herbs of one name, one to help Conception, the other to maintain Beauty: and what more can be expected of her? What now remains for you but to love your Husbands, and not to be wanting to your poor Neigh|bors? Wild Tan&s;ie &s;tayeth the Lask, and al the Fluxes of Bloud in men or women,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Terms, &s;tops vomiting of blood, whites Ruptures, belly|ach, Sciaticv, Joynts, tooth|ach, loo&s;-teeth, Gums, &V;lcers, in the Mouth, Wounds, &s;ore Legs, Pimples, Freckles, Sun-burning.</NOTE> which &s;ome &s;ay it wil do if the green Herb be worn in the &s;hoos, &s;o it be next the skin; and 'tis true enough that 'twil &s;top the Terms if worn &s;o, and the Whites too for ought I know. It &s;tayeth al&s;o &s;pit|ting or vomiting of bloud. The Pouder of the dried herb taken in &s;ome of the di&s;tilled water, helpeth the Whites in women, but more e&s;pecially if a little Coral and Ivory in Pouder be put to it: It is al&s;o much commended to help Children that are bur&s;ten, and have a Rupture, being boyl|ed in water and &s;alt. Being boyled in wine and drunk, it ea&s;eth the griping pains of the Bowels, and is good for the Sciatica and Joynt Aches. The &s;ame boyled in Vineger with Honey and Allum, and gargled in the mouth, ea&s;eth the pains of the Toothach, fa&s;teneth loo&s;e teeth, helpeth the Gums that are &s;ore, and &s;etleth the pallat of the mouth in its place when it is fallen down: It clen&s;eth and healeth the Ulcers in the Mouth or &s;ecret Parts, and is very good for inward wounds, and to clo&s;e the lips of green wounds: as al&s;o to heal old, moi&s;t, corrupt running &s;ores in the Legs, or el&s;e where; Being brui&s;ed and applied to the &s;oles of the feet, and the hand-wre&s;ts, it wonderfully cooleth the hot fits of Agues, be they never &s;o violent. The Di&s;tilled water clen&s;eth the skin of al di&s;colourings therein, as Mor|phew, Sun-burning, &amp;c. as al&s;o Pimples, Freckles, and the like; and drop|ped into the Eyes, or cloaths wet therin and applied, taketh away the heat, and inflamations in them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Thi&s;tles.</HEAD>
<P>OF the&s;e are many kinds growing here in <HI>England,</HI> which are &s;o wel known, that they need no De&s;cription: Their difference is ea&s;ily known by the places where they grow: viz.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> Some grow in Fields, &s;ome in Meadows, and &s;ome among the Corn: others, on Heaths, Greens, and wa&s;t Grounds in many places.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They al Flower in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and their Seed is ripe quick|ly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Sure <HI>Mars</HI> rules it, it is &s;uch a prickly bu&s;i|ne&s;s. Al the&s;e Thi&s;tles are good to provoke Urine, and to a|mend the &s;tinking &s;mel thereof;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, ill &s;mel, &s;tinking Breath, Stomach.</NOTE> as al&s;o the rank &s;mel of the
<PB N="354" REF="135"> Armpits, or of the whole Body, being boyled in Wine and drunk; and are &s;aid al&s;o to help a &s;tinking Breath, and to &s;trengthen the Stomach. <HI>Pliny</HI> faith, That the Juyce bathed on the place that wanteth Hair, it being fallen off, wil cau&s;e it to grow again &s;peedily.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Melancholly Thi&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT ri&s;eth up with a tender &s;ingle hoary green &s;talk, bearing ther|on four or five long hoary green Leavs, dented about the ed|ges, the points whereof are little or nothing prickly, and at the top u&s;ually but one head, yet &s;omtimes from the bo&s;om of the uppermo&s;t Leaf there &s;hoo|teth forth another &s;maller head, &s;caly and &s;omwhat prickly, with many red|di&s;h Purple Thrums, or Thrids in the middle, which being gathered fre&s;h, wil keep the colour a long time, and fadeth not from the &s;talk in a long time, while it perfecteth the &s;eed, which is of a mean bigne&s;s lying in the Down: The Root hath many long &s;tringy fa&s;tned to the head, or upper part, which is blacki&s;h and peri&s;h not.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another fort little differing from the former, but that the Leavs are more green above, and more hoary underneath; and the &s;talk being about two foot high, beareth but one large &s;caly head, with thrids and &s;eeds as the the former.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow in many moi&s;t Meadows of this Land, as wel in the&s;e Southern, as in the Northern parts.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower about <HI>July</HI> or <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and their Seed ripeneth quick|ly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis under <HI>Capricorn,</HI> and therfore under both <HI>Saturn</HI> and <HI>Mars,</HI> one rids Melancholly by Sympathy, the other by Antipathy. Their Vertues are but few, but tho&s;e not to be de&s;pi&s;ed; for the Decoction of the Thi&s;tle in Wine being drunk, expels &s;u|perfluous Melancholly out of the Body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Melan|cholly.</NOTE> and make a man as mer|ry as a Cricket, &s;uperfluous Melancholly cau&s;eth care, fear, &s;ad|ne&s;s, de&s;pair, envy, and many evils more be&s;ides; but Religion teacheth to wait upon Gods Providence, and ca&s;t our care upon Him, who careth for us: What a fine thing were it if Men and Women could live &s;o? and yet &s;even years care, and fear, makes a man never the wi&s;er, nor a far|thing the richer. <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, The Root born about one doth the like, and removes al Di&s;ea&s;es of Melancholly. Modern Writers laugh at him, let them laugh that wins; my Opinion is, That 'tis the be&s;t Remedy a|gain&s;t al Melancholly Di&s;ea&s;es that grows: They that plea&s;e, may u&s;e it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Our Ladies Thi&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>O&V;r Ladies Thi&s;tle hath divers very larg and broad Leavs, lying on the ground, cut in, and as it were crumpled, but &s;omwhat hairy on the edges, of a white green &s;hining colour, wherin are ma|ny lines and &s;trakes of a milky white colour, running al over, and &s;et with
<PB N="355" REF="135"> many &s;harp and &s;tiff prickles al about: among which ri&s;eth up one or more &s;trong, round, and prickly &s;talks, &s;et ful of the like Leavs up to the top, where at the end of every branch, cometh forth a great prickly Thi&s;tle-like head, &s;trongly armed with pricks, and with bright purple thrums ri&s;ing out of the middle of them; after they are pa&s;t, the &s;eed groweth in the &s;aid heads, lying in a great deal of &s;oft white Down, which is &s;omwhat flati&s;h and &s;hining, large and brown. The Root is great, &s;preading in the ground, with many &s;trings, and &s;mal fibres fa&s;tned therto. All the whol Plant is bit|ter in ta&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is frequent on the Bank of almo&s;t every Ditch.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth and Seedeth in <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Our Ladies Thi&s;tle is under <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and thought to be as effectual as Cardus Benedictus for Agues, and to prevent and cure infection of the Plague, as al&s;o to open Ob&s;tru|ctions of the Liver and Spleen,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Agues, Plague, Ob&s;tructions, Liver, Spleen, Drop&s;ie, &s;titches in the &s;ide, Li|ver, &s;pleen.</NOTE> and therby is good again&s;t the Jaundice; It provoketh Urine, breaketh and expelleth the Stone, and is good for the Drop&s;ie: It is effectual al|&s;o for the pains in the Sides, and many other inward pains and gripings? The Seed and di&s;tilled Water are held po|werful to al the purpo&s;es afore&s;aid: and be&s;ides, it is often applied both inwardly to drink, and outwardly with cloaths or &s;punges to the Region of the Liver to cool the di&s;temperature therof, and to the Region of the Heart, again&s;t &s;woonings and pa&s;&s;ions of it. It clen|&s;eth the Bloud exceedingly, and in &s;pring if you plea&s;e to boyl the tender Plant, (but cut off the prickles, unle&s;s you have a mind to choak your &s;elf) it wil change your Bloud as the &s;ea&s;on changes, and that's the way to be &s;afe, as to change as the times change, is the way to live &s;ecure; and that flatter|ers and weather-cocks know wel enough.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The Woolley,</HI> or <HI>Cotton Thi&s;tle.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath many large Leavs lying on the ground, &s;omwhat cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, of a green colour on the upper &s;ide, but covered over with a long hairy wood, or Cotto|ny Down, &s;et with mo&s;t &s;harp and cruel pricks; from the middle of who&s;e heads of Flowers come forth many purpli&s;h crim&s;on thrids, and &s;omtimes white, although but &s;eldom: The Seed that followeth in the&s;e white downy heads is &s;omwhat large, long, and round, re&s;embling the &s;eed of Ladies-Thi&s;tle, but paler: The Root is great, and thick, &s;preading much, yet u&s;ually dieth after &s;eed-time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth on divers Ditch Banks, and in the Cornfields, and High-wayes, generally throughout the Land; and is often found growing in Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth and bearreth &s;eed about the end of Summer, when other Thi&s;tles do Flower and Seed.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a Plant of <HI>Mars. Dio&s;corides</HI> and <HI>Pliny</HI> write, That the Leavs and Roots hereof taken in drink, helpeth tho&s;e that
<PB N="356" REF="136"> have a Crick in their Neck,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Crick in the Neck, Spa&s;m, convul&s;ion Rickets.</NOTE> that they cannot turn it unle&s;s they turn their whol Body. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith, That the Root and Leavs hereof are good for &s;uch per&s;ons that have their Bodies drawn together by &s;ome Spa&s;m or Convul&s;ion, or other infirmities, as the Rickets, (or as the Colledg of Phy&s;itians would have it, the <HI>Rachites,</HI> about which name they have quarrel'd &s;ufficiently) in Children; being a di&s;ea&s;e that hindreth their growth, by binding their Nervs, Ligaments, and whol &s;tructure of their Body.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The Fullers Thi&s;tle,</HI> or <HI>Tea&s;el.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription, being u&s;ed with the Cloath-workers.</P>
<P><HI>The wild Tea&s;el is in all things like the former, but that the prickles are &s;mal, &s;oft, and upright, not hooked or &s;tif; and the Flowers of this are of fine blu&s;h or pale Carnation color, but of the manured kind whiti&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth being &s;own in Gardens or Fields for the u&s;e of Cloath-workers: The other neer Ditches and Cils of Water in many places of this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower in <HI>July,</HI> and are ripe in the end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Venus. Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That the Root brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine until it be thick, and kept in a brazen Ve&s;&s;el or Pot, and after &s;pread as a Salve and ap|plied to the Fundament,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Clefts, Cankers, fi&s;tulaes, Warts, Wens, Worms in the Ears, Sight, Redne&s;s in the Face, Inflamations.</NOTE> doth heal the clefts thereof, as al|&s;o Cankers and Fi&s;tulaes therein, as al&s;o taketh away Warts and Wens: The Juyce of the Leavs dropped into the Ears, killeth Worms in them. The di&s;tilled Water of the Leavs dropped into the Eyes, taketh away redne&s;s and mi&s;ts in them that hinder the &s;ight; and is often u&s;ed by Women to pre&s;erve their beauty, and to take away redne&s;s and Infla|mations, and al other heat or di&s;colorings.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Treacle Mu&s;tard.</HEAD>
<P><HI>De&s;cript.] IT</HI> ri&s;eth up with a hard round Stalk about a foot high, parted into &s;ome Branches, having divers &s;oft green Leavs &s;omwhat long and narrow &s;et thereon, waved, but not cut in on the edges, broade&s;t to|wards the ends, and &s;omwhat round pointed: The flowers are white that grow at the tops of the Branches, spike fa&s;hion one above another; after which come large round pouches, parted in the middle with a furrow, having one blacki&s;h brown &s;eed on either &s;ide, &s;omwhat &s;harp in ta&s;t, and &s;melling of Garlick, e&s;pecially in the Fields where it is natural, but not &s;o much in Gar|dens: The Roots are &s;mal and thriddy, peri&s;hing every yeer.</P>
<P><HI>Give me leave here to ad Methridate Mu&s;tard, although it may &s;eem more properly by the name to belong to the Alphabet</HI> M.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="357" REF="136">
<HEAD>Methridate Mu&s;tard.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis groweth higher than the former, spreading more and lon|ger branches, who&s;e Leavs are &s;maller and narrower, &s;om|times unevenly dented about the edges: the Flowers are &s;mal and white, growing on long branches, with much &s;maller and rounder Seed Ve&s;&s;els after them, and parted in the &s;ame manner, having &s;maller brown &s;eeds than the former, and much &s;harper in ta&s;t: The Root peri&s;heth after &s;eed time, but abideth the fir&s;t Winter after the springing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place,]</HI> They grow in &s;undry places of this Land; as half a mile from <HI>Hatfield</HI> by the River &s;ide under a Hedg as you go to <HI>Hatfield,</HI> and in the &s;treet of <HI>Peckham</HI> on Surrey &s;ide.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They flower and &s;eed from <HI>May</HI> to <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Both of them are Herbs of <HI>Mars.</HI> The&s;e Mu&s;tards are &s;aid to purge the Body both upwards and downwards,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Purge the body, terms provokes Impo&s;thumes, Sciatica, poy&s;on venom, putre|faction.</NOTE> and procureth Womens Cour&s;es &s;o abundant|ly, that it &s;uffocateth the Birth: It breaketh inward Impo|&s;tumes being taken inwardly, and u&s;ed in Cly&s;ters, helpeth the Sciatica: the &s;eed applied outwardly doth the &s;ame. It is an e&s;pecial Ingredient unto Methridate and Treacle, being of it &s;elf an Antidote re&s;i&s;ting poy&s;on, venom, and putrefaction: It is al&s;o available in many cau&s;es for which the common Mu&s;tard is u&s;ed, but &s;omwhat weaker.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The Black-Thorn,</HI> or <HI>Sloe-Bu&s;h.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in every Country, in the Hedges and Borders of Fields.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowreth in <HI>April,</HI> and &s;omtimes in <HI>March,</HI> but ripeneth the Fruit after al other Plums what&s;oever, and is not fit to be eaten until the Autumn Fro&s;t have mellowed it.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> All the parts of the Sloe-bu&s;h are binding, cooling, and drying, and al effectual to &s;tay bleeding at the No&s;e and Mouth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Binds, Cools, dries, blee|ding, flux, gnawings in bowels and &s;to|mach, Sore Mouth &amp; Throat, Headach.</NOTE> or any other place; the Lask of the Belly, or &s;to|mach, or the bloody Flux, the too much abounding of Wo|mens Cour&s;es, and helpeth to ea&s;e the pains in the &s;ides, bowels, and guts, that come by over-much &s;cowring, to drink the Deco|ction of the Bark of the Roots, or more u&s;ually the Decoction of the Berries either fre&s;h or dried. The Con&s;erve is al&s;o of very much u&s;e, and mo&s;t familiarly taken for the purpo&s;es afore|&s;aid: But the di&s;tilled Water of the Flowers fir&s;t &s;teeped in Sack for a night, and drawn therfrom by the heat of <HI>Balneum Angliceabatth,</HI> is a mo&s;t certain Remedy, tried and approved to ea&s;e al manner of gnawings in the Stomach, the &s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and Bo|wels, or any griping pains in any of them, to drink a &s;mal quan|tity when the extremity of pain is upon them: The Leavs al&s;o
<PB N="358" REF="137"> are good to make Lotions, to gargle and wa&s;h the Mouth and Throat, wher|in are Swellings, Sores, or Kernels, and to &s;tay the Defluxions of Rhewm to the Eyes or other parts, as al&s;o to cool the heat and inflamations in them, and to ea&s; hot pains of the Head, to bath the Fore-head and Temples there|with. The &s;imple di&s;tilled Water of the Flowers is very effectual for the &s;aid purpo&s;es, and the conden&s;ate Juyce of the Sloes. The di&s;tilled Water of the green Berries is u&s;ed al&s;o for the &s;aid effects.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Thorough-wax,</HI> or <HI>Thorough-leaf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>COmmon Through wax &s;endeth forth one &s;traight round &s;talk, and &s;omtimes more, two foot high and better, who&s;e lower Leavs being of a blui&s;h green color are &s;maller and narrower than tho&s;e up higher, and &s;tand clo&s;e thereto, not compa&s;&s;ing it, but as they grow higher they do more and more encompa&s;s the &s;talk, until it wholly (as it were) pa&s;s through them, branching toward the top into many parts, where the Leavs grow &s;maller again, every one &s;tanding &s;ingly, and never two at any Joynt: The Flowers are very &s;mal and yellow, &s;tanding in tufts at the Heads of the Branches, where afterwards grow the Seed, and blacki&s;h, many thick thru&s;t together: The Root is &s;mal, long, and woody, peri&s;hing every yeer after Seed time, and ri&s;ing again plentifully of its own &s;owing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is found growing in many Corn Fields, and Pa&s;ture grounds in this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth in <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Both this and the former are under the influ|ence of <HI>Saturn.</HI> Thorough wax is of a &s;ingular good u&s;e, for al &s;orts of Brui&s;es and Wounds either inward or outward, and old Ulcers and Sores likewi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Brui&s;es, Wounds, Ulcers, Ruptures, Navils &s;ticking out.</NOTE> if the Decoction of the Herb with Water or Wine be drunk, and the places wa&s;hed therewith, or the Juyce or green Herb brui&s;ed or boyled either by it &s;elf, or with other Herbs in Oyl or Hogs Grea&s;e, to be made into an Oyntment to &s;erve al the yeer: The Decoction of the Herb, or the Pou|der of the dried Herb taken inwardly, and the &s;ame, or the green Leavs brui&s;ed and applied outwardly, is &s;ingular good to cure Ruptures and Bur&s;tings, e&s;pecially in Children, before it be too old. Being al&s;o applied with a little Flower and Wax to Childrens Navels that &s;tick forth, it helpeth them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Time.</HEAD>
<P>IT is in vain to de&s;cribe an Herb &s;o commonly known.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a notable &s;trengthener of the Lungs, as notable a one as grows; neither is there &s;carce a better Remedy growing for that Di&s;ea&s;e in Children which they commonly cal the Chin-cough,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs, Chin-cough, Flegm, &s;hortne&s;s of breath, Worms, Terms provokes, &s;afe and speedy Delivery to Women in travel, Af|terbirth, hot &s;wel|lings, Warts, Sciatica, &s;ight, spleen, Gout, Cods &s;welled, Lyons, and Hips, Stomach, Expels Wind.</NOTE> than it is: It purgeth the Body of flegm, and is an excellent Remedy for &s;hortne&s;s of Breath: It kils Worms in the Belly; and being a notable Herb of <HI>Venus</HI> pro|vokes
<PB N="359" REF="137"> the Terms, gives &s;afe and &s;peedy Delivery to Women in Travel, and brings away the After-birth: It is &s;o harmle&s;s you need not fear the u&s;e of it. An Oyntment made of it takes away hot &s;wellings and Warts, helps the Sciatica, and dulne&s;s of &s;ight, takes away the pains and hardne&s;s of the Spleen; 'tis ex|cellent good for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Gout, as al&s;o to anoint the Cods that are &s;welled; it ea&s;eth pains in the Loyns and Hips: The Herb taken any way inwardly comforts the &s;tomach much, and expels wind.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Wild Time,</HI> or <HI>Mother of Time.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WIld Time al&s;o is &s;o wel known, it needs no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It may be found commonly in Commons, and other barren places throughout the Nation.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is under the Dominion of <HI>Venus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Urin provokes, terms provokes, pain and gripings of the belly, Cramp, Ruptures, in|flamations of Liver, pains of the Head, Frenzies, Lethargies, &s;pitting and pi&s;&s;ing Blood, Coughing, Vo|miting, Head &s;treng|theneth, Stomach, Reins, Womb, Wind, Stone.</NOTE> though under the Sign <HI>Aries,</HI> and therfore chiefly appropriated to the Head: It provoketh Urin and the Terms, and ea&s;eth the gri|ping pains of the Belly, Cramps, Ruptures, and In|flamations of the Liver: If you make a Vinegar of the Herb as Vinegar of Ro&s;es is made, you may find out the way in my Tran&s;lation of the <HI>London Dispen|&s;atory,</HI> and anoint the Head with it pre&s;ently &s;tops the pains thereof: It is excellent good to be given either in a Frenzie or Lethargy, although they are two con|trary Di&s;ea&s;es: It helps &s;pitting and pi&s;&s;ing of blood, Coughing and Vomiting, it comforts and &s;treng|thens both the Head, Stomach, Reins, and Womb, expels wind, and breaks the &s;tone.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Tormentil,</HI> or <HI>Setfoyl.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath many reddi&s;h, &s;lender, weak branches ri&s;ing from the Root, lying upon the ground, or rather leaning than &s;tanding upright, with many &s;hort Leavs that &s;tand clo&s;er to the Stalks than Cinkfoyl doth (which this is very like) with the Foot&s;talk encompa&s;&s;ing the Branches in &s;everal places, but tho&s;e that grow next to the ground are &s;et upon long Foot&s;talks, each whereof are like the Leavs of Cinkfoyl, but &s;om|what longer and le&s;&s;er, and dented about the edges, many of them divided but into five Leavs, but mo&s;t of them into &s;evens, whence it is al&s;o called</HI> Setfoyl; <HI>yet &s;ome may have &s;ix and &s;ome eight, according to the fertility of the Soyl: At the tops of the Branches &s;tand divers &s;mal yellow Flowers con|&s;i&s;ting of five Leavs, like tho&s;e of Cinkfoyl, but &s;maller. The Root is &s;mal|ler than Bi&s;tort, &s;omwhat thick, but blacker without, and not &s;o red within, yet &s;omtimes a little crooked, having many blacki&s;h fibres thereat.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth as wel in Woods and &s;hadowy places, as in the open
<PB N="360" REF="138"> Champion Country, about the Borders of Fields in many places of this Land, and almo&s;t in every Broom Field in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It flowereth al the Summer long.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This is a gallant Herb of the <HI>Sun.</HI> Tor|mentil is mo&s;t excellent to &s;tay al kind of Fluxes of Blood or Humors in man or woman,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flux, Bleeding, Veins cut, Terms &s;tops, Feavers, Pe&s;tilence, Smal pox, Mea&s;les, Purples, Poy&s;on, Spleen, Blood in|flamed, Liver, Lungs, Yellow Jaundice, French Pox, Mi&s;car|riage, Diabetes, Worms, Ruptures, Toothach, Wounds, Sores, Hurts, Gout, Scabby Heads.</NOTE> whether at No&s;e, Mouth, Belly, or any Wound in the Veins or el&s;where: The Juyce of the Herb or Root taken in drink, not only re&s;i&s;teth al Poy&s;on and Venom of any Creature, but of the Plague it &s;elf, and Pe&s;tilential Fea|vers, and contagious Di&s;ea&s;es, as the Pox, Mea&s;les, Purples, &amp;c. expelling the Venom and Infection from the Heart by &s;weating, if the green Root be not at hand to be had, the Pouder of the dry Root is as effectual, a dram thereof being taken every morning: The Decoction likewi&s;e of the Herbs and Roots made in Wine and drunk worketh the &s;ame effect; and &s;o doth the di&s;tilled Water of the Herb and Root being &s;teeped in Wine for a night, and then di&s;tilled in <HI>Balneo Mariae.</HI> This Water thus di&s;tilled taken with &s;ome Venice Treacle, and the party pre&s;ently laid to &s;weat wil certainly (with Gods help) expel any Venom or poy|&s;on, or the Plague, Feaver, &amp;c. for it is an Ingredient of e&s;pecial re&s;pect in al Antidotes or Counterpoy&s;ons. There is not found any Root more effectual to help any Flux of the Belly, Stomach, Spleen, or Blood than this, to be taken inwardly, or applied out|wardly. The Juyce taken doth wonderfully open Ob&s;tructions of the Liver and Lungs, and thereby in &s;hort &s;pace helpeth the yellow Jaundice: Some u&s;e to make Cakes hereof as wel to &s;tay al Fluxes as to re&s;train al Chollerick Belchings, and much Vo|mitings with loathings in the Stomach: The Pouder of the dried Root made up with the white of an Eg, and baked upon a hot Tile wil do it. <HI>Andreus Vale&s;ius</HI> is of Opinion, That the Decoction of this Root is no le&s;s effectual to cure the French Pox than <HI>Guajacum,</HI> or <HI>China;</HI> and 'tis not unlikely, becau&s;e it &s;o mightily re&s;i&s;teth putrefaction. <HI>Lobel</HI> &s;aith, That <HI>Rondeli|tius</HI> u&s;ed it as Hermodactils for Joynt-aches: The Pouder al&s;o, or Decoction to be drunk, or to &s;it therein as a Bath, is an a&s;&s;u|red Remedy again&s;t Abortion in Women, if it proceed from the over fluxibility, or weakne&s;s of the inward retentive faculty: as al&s;o a Plai&s;ter made therewith and Vinegar applied to the Reins of the Back, doth much help, not only this, but al&s;o tho&s;e that can|not hold their Water, the Pouder being taken in the Juyce of Plantane: and it is al&s;o commended again&s;t the Worms in Children. It is very pow|erful in Ruptures and Bur&s;tings: as al&s;o for brui&s;es and Fals, to be u&s;ed as wel outward as inwardly. The Root hereof made up with Pellitory of Spain and Allum, and put into an hollow Tooth, not only a&s;&s;wageth the pain, but &s;tayeth the flux of Humors which cau&s;ed it. Tormentil is no le&s;s effectual and powerful a Remedy for outward Wounds, Sores, and Hurts,
<PB N="361" REF="138"> than for inward, and is therfor a &s;pecial ingredient meet to be u&s;ed in Wound drinks, Lotions, and Injections for foul corrupt rotten Sores and Ulcers of the Mouth, Secrets, or other parts of the Body. And to put either the Juyce or Pouder of the Root into &s;uch Oyntments, Plai&s;ters, and &s;uch things that are to be applied to Wounds and Sores: It al&s;o di&s;&s;olveth all Knots, Kernels, and hardne&s;&s;e gathered about the Ears, and Throat, and Jaws and the Kings Evill if the Leavs and Roots be brui&s;ed and applied thereto: The &s;ame al&s;o ea&s;eth the pains of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout by re&s;training the &s;harp Humors that flow thereto. The Juyce of the Leavs and Roots u&s;ed with a little Vinegar is al&s;o a &s;pecial Remedy again&s;t the running Sores of the Head or other parts, Scabs al&s;o and the Itch, or any &s;uch erupti|ons in the Skin proceeding of Salt and &s;harp Humors: The &s;ame al&s;o is effectual for the Piles or Hemorrhoids if they be wa&s;hed and bathed there|with, or with the Di&s;tilled water of the Herb and Roots: It is found al&s;o helpfull to dry up any &s;harp Rhewm that di&s;tilleth from the Head into the Eyes cau&s;ing, redne&s;s, pain, waterings, Itchings, or the like, if a little prepared <HI>Tutia,</HI> or white <HI>Amber</HI> he u&s;ed with the Di&s;tilled water hereof: Many Women u&s;e this Water as a &s;ecret to help them&s;elves and others when they are troubled with the too much flowing of the Whites or Reds, both to drink it, and inject it with a Syringe. And here's enough, only remem|ber, the <HI>Sun</HI> challengeth the Herb.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Turn&s;ole,</HI> or <HI>Heliotropium</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript. <HI>THe greater Turn&s;ole ri&s;eth up with one upright Stalk about a foot high or more, dividing it &s;elf almo&s;t from the bot|tom into diver&s;e &s;maller Branches of a hoary colour: at each Joynt of the Stalk and Branches grow two &s;mall broad Leavs &s;omwhat white or hoary al|&s;o: At the tops of the Stalks and Branches &s;tand many &s;mall white Flowers con&s;i&s;ting of four and &s;omtimes five very &s;mall Leavs, &s;et in order one above another, upon a &s;mall crooked Spike, which turneth inwards like a bowed finger, opening by degrees as the Flowers blow open; after which in their places come forth &s;mal corner'd, four for the mo&s;t part &s;tanding together. The Root is &s;mal and threddy peri&s;hing every year, and the Seed &s;hedding every year, rai&s;eth it again the next Spring.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in Gardens, and Flowreth and Seedeth with us in <HI>England,</HI> notwith&s;tanding it is not naturall to this Land, but to <HI>Italy Spain</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> where it groweth plentifully.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> 'Tis an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and a good one too.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, Flegm, Stones, Di&s;ury, Terms provokes Gout, Warts, Wens, Disjun|ctures.</NOTE> <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> faith, That a good Hand|ful of this, which is called the greater Turn&s;ole, boyled in Water and drunk, purgeth both Choller and Flegm: And boyled with Cummin and drunk, helpeth the Stone in the Reins, Kidneys or Bladder, provoketh Urine and Wo|mens Cour&s;es, and cau&s;eth an ea&s;ie and &s;peedy delivery in Childbirth. The Leavs brui&s;ed and applyed to places pain|ed with the Gout, or that have been out of joynt and newly &s;et are ful of
<PB N="362" REF="139"> pain, do give much ea&s;e. The Seed and the juyce of the Leaves al&s;o being rubbed with a little Salt upon Warts, Wens, and other hard Kernels in the Face, Eyelids, or any other part of the Body, will by often u&s;ing take them away.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Meadow Trefoyl,</HI> or <HI>Honey&s;uckles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o well known e&s;pecially by the name of Honey&s;uckles, White and Red, that I need not de&s;cribe them.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> They grow almo&s;t every where in this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.] Mercury</HI> hath dominion over the common &s;orts. <HI>Dodoneus</HI> &s;aith, The Leavs and Flowers are good to ea&s;e the gripping pains of the Guts, the Herb being boyled and u&s;ed in a Cly&s;ter:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Belly-ach, Inflamations, Pin and Web, Eyes.</NOTE> if the Herb be made into a Pultis and applied to Inflamations, it will ea&s;e them. The Juyce dropped into the Eyes is a familier Medicine with many Country Peo|ple to take away the Pin and Web (as they call it) in the Eyes, it al&s;o allayeth the Heat and Blood&s;hooting of them: Country people do al&s;o in many places drink the Juyce herof again&s;t the biting of an Adder, and having boiled the Herb in Water, they fir&s;t wa&s;h the place with the Decoction, and then lay &s;ome of the Herb al&s;o to the hurt place. The Herb al&s;o boiled in Swines Grea&s;e and &s;o made into an Oyntment, is good to apply to the biting of any Vene|mous Creature.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;t, Di&s;ury, Wounds, Scars, Whites, Swel|lings, Apo&s;tums</NOTE> The Herb al&s;o brui&s;ed and heated between two Tiles, and applied hot to the &s;hare, cau&s;eth them to make water who had it &s;top'd before: It is held likewi&s;e to be good for Wounds, and to take away Scars. The De|coction of the Herb and Flowers with the Seed and Root taken for &s;ome time, helpeth Women that are troubled with the Whites. The Seed and Flowers boyled in Water, and after made into a Pultis with &s;ome Oyl and applied, helpeth hard &s;wellings and Im|po&s;tumes.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Heart-trefoyl.</HEAD>
<P>Be&s;ides the ordinary &s;orts of Trefoyle here are two more remarkable, and one of which may probably be called Heart-trefoyle, not onely becau&s;e the Leaf is triangular like the iHeart of a man, but al&s;o becau&s;e each Leaf contains the perfect Icon of a Heart, and that in its proper colour, <HI>Viz.</HI> A fle&s;h colour.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth in a Field between <HI>Longford</HI> and <HI>Bow,</HI> as al&s;o be|yond <HI>Southwark</HI> toward <HI>Croyden,</HI> both in the right way and parts adjacent.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under the dominion of the Sun,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heart &s;treng|theneth vitall &s;pirit, fainting, &s;woonings, Poy&s;on, Pe&s;til|ence, evil vapors</NOTE> and if it were u&s;ed it would be found as great a &s;trengthener of the heart, and cheri&s;her of the vi|tall &s;pirit as grows, releiving the Body again&s;t Faintings, and Swoonings, fortifying it again&s;t Poy&s;ons and Pe&s;ti|lence, and defending the Heart again&s;t the noi&s;om vapors of the Spleen.</P>
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<PB N="363" REF="139">
<HEAD>Pearl-trefoyle.</HEAD>
<P>IT differs not from the common &s;ort, &s;ave only in this one particular, that it hath a white &s;pot in the Leaf like a Pearl; it is particularly under the do|minion of the Moon, and its Icon &s;heweth that it is of &s;ingular Vertue again&s;t the Pearl,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pin &amp; Web in the Eye.</NOTE> or pin and Web in the Eye.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>Tut&s;an,</HI> or <HI>Park Leaves.</HI></HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many browni&s;h &s;hining round Stalks, cre&s;ted all the length thereof, ri&s;ing to be two and &s;omtimes three foot high, branching forth even from the bottom, having diver&s;e Joynts, and at each of them two fair large Leavs &s;tanding, of a dark blewi&s;h green colour on the upper &s;ide, and of a yellowi&s;h green underneath, turning reddi&s;h towards</HI> Autumn, <HI>but abiding on the Branches all the Winter: At the tops of the Stalks and Branches &s;tand large yellow Flowers, and Heads with Seed, which being greeni&s;h at the fir&s;t, and afterward reddi&s;h, turn to be of blac|ki&s;h purple colour when they are through ripe, with &s;mal browni&s;h Seed with|in them, and then yeild a reddi&s;h Juyce or Liquor, of a rea&s;onable good &s;cent, &s;omwhat re&s;inous, and of an har&s;h and &s;tiptitch ta&s;te, as the Leavs al&s;o and the Flowers be, although much le&s;s, but do not yeeld &s;uch a cleer Claret Wine Liquor as &s;ome &s;ay it doth: The Root is browni&s;h, &s;omwhat great hard, and woody, &s;preading well in the ground.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.</HI> It groweth in many Woods, Groves, and Woody Grounds, as Parks and Forre&s;ts, and by Hedg &s;ides in many places of this Land, as in <HI>Hamp&s;ted</HI> Wood, by <HI>Ratley</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> in the Wild of <HI>Kent,</HI> and in many other places needle&s;&s;e to recite.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth later than St. Johns, or St. Peters wort.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is an Herb of <HI>Saturn</HI> and a mo&s;t noble Antevenerian. <HI>Tut&s;an</HI> purgeth Chollerick Humors as St.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller Sciati|ca, Gout, Bur|nings, Bleed|ing, Wounds, &V;lcers.</NOTE> Peters wort is &s;aid to do, for therein it worketh the &s;ame effects, both to help the Sciatica and Gout, and to heal burnings by fire: It &s;tayeth al&s;o the bleeding of wounds if either the green herb be brui&s;ed, or the Pouder of the dry be applied thereto. It hath been accounted and certainly is a Soveraign Herb to heal any Wound or Sore either out|wardly or inwardly, and therefore alwayes u&s;ed in Drinks, Lotions, Balms, Oyls, Oyntments for any fort of green Wound, or old Ulcers and Sores, in all which the continuall experience of former Ages hath confirmed the u&s;e therof to be admirable good, though it be not &s;o much in u&s;e now as when Phy&s;itians and Chirurgions were &s;o wi&s;e as to u&s;e Herbs more than now they do.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Garden Valerian.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath a thick &s;hort grayi&s;h Root lying for the mo&s;t part a|bove ground, &s;hooting forth on all &s;ides, other &s;uch like &s;mal
<PB N="364" REF="140"> pieces or Roots, which have all of them many long and great &s;trings or fibres under them, in the ground, whereby it draweth nouri&s;hment. From the Heads of the&s;e Roots &s;pring up many green Leavs, which at fir&s;t are &s;omwhat broad and long without any divi&s;ion at all in them, or denting on the edges, but tho&s;e that ri&s;e up after are more and more divided on each &s;ide, &s;ome to the middle Rib, being winged, as made of many Leavs together on a Stalk, and tho&s;e upon the Stalk in like manner are more divided, but &s;maller to|wards the top then below: The Stalk ri&s;eth to be a yard high or more, &s;om|times branched at the top, with many &s;mal whiti&s;h Flowers, &s;omtimes da&s;h'd over at the edges with a pale purpli&s;h colour, of a little &s;cent: which pa&s;&s;ing away there followeth &s;mall browni&s;h white Seed that is ea&s;ily carried away with the wind. The Root &s;melleth more &s;trong than either Leaf or Flower, and is of more u&s;e in Medicine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It ts generally kept with us in our Gardens.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July,</HI> and continueth Flowring until the Fro&s;ts pull it down.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is under the In|fluence of <HI>Mercury.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Di&s;ury, Stran|gury, Stitch, terms, provoks, Bre&s;t, &s;hort wind, Cough, Flegm, Pe&s;ti|lence, Wind.</NOTE> <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That the Garden Valerian hath a warming Faculty and that being dryed and given to drink, it provoketh Urine and helpeth the Stran|gury: The Decoction thereof taken, doth the like al&s;o, and taketh away pains of the &s;ides, provoketh Womens Cour&s;es and is u&s;ed in Antidotes. <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That the Pouder of the Root given in drink, or the Decoction thereof taken, helpeth all &s;toppings and &s;tranglings in any part of the Body, whether they proceed of pains in the Che&s;t or &s;ides, and taketh them away. The Root of <HI>Valerian</HI> boyled with Liquoris, Rai&s;ons, and Annis Seed, is &s;ingular good for tho&s;e that are &s;hort winded, and for tho&s;e that are troubled with the Cough, and helpeth to open the pa&s;&s;ages, and to expectorate Flegm ea&s;ily. It is given to tho&s;e that are bitten or &s;tung by any Venemous Creature, being boyled in Wine, It is of &s;pecial Vertue again&s;t the Plague, the Decoction thereof being drunk, and the Root being u&s;ed to &s;mell unto; It helpeth al&s;o to expel the wind in the Belly. The green Herb with the Root taken fre&s;h, being brui&s;ed and applied to the Head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Headach, Eyes, Pin and Web, Wounds, Splin|ters, Thorns.</NOTE> taketh away the pains and prickings therein, &s;taieth Rhewms and thin Di&s;tillations, and being boyled in white Wine, and the drop thereof put into the Eye, taketh away the dimne&s;s of the &s;ight, or any Pin or Web therein: It is of excellent property to heal any inward Sores or Wounds, as al&s;o for outward Hurts or Wounds, and draweth any Splinter or Thorn out of the Fle&s;h.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Vervain.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common Vervain, hath &s;omwhat long and broad Leavs next the ground deeply ga&s;h'd about the edges, and &s;ome on|ly deeply dented, or cut all alike, of a blacki&s;h green colour on the upper &s;ide
<PB N="365" REF="140"> and &s;omwhat gray underneath: The Stalk is &s;quare branched into &s;everall parts, ri&s;ing about two foot high, e&s;pecially if you reckon the long Spike of Flowers at the tops of them, which are &s;et on all &s;ides one above another, and &s;omtimes two or three together, being &s;mal and gaping, of a purpli&s;h blew colour, and white intermixt, after which come &s;mal round Seed in &s;mal and &s;omwhat long Heads: The Root is &s;mal and long, but of no u&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth generally throughout this Land in divers places by the Hedges and way &s;ides, and other wa&s;t grounds.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth about <HI>July,</HI> and the Seed is ripe &s;oon after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is an Herb of <HI>Venus,</HI> and an ex|cellent Herb for the Womb, to &s;trengthen it and remedy all the cold griefs of it, as Plantane doth the hot, the Herb brui&s;ed and hung about the Neck helps the Headach. Vervain is hot and dry, bitter, opening Ob&s;tructions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;tructions Clen&s;ing, Hea|ling, yellow Jaundice, Ve|nemous Bea&s;ts, Pe&s;tilence, A|gues, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orms, Cough, &s;hortnes of Breath, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ing, Stone Gravel, Reins Bladder. Womb, Drop&s;ie, Bleeding, Wounds, Ulcers Fi&s;tulaes, bead|ach, Frenzie, Morphew, Freckles, Eyes.</NOTE> clen&s;ing, and healing, It helpeth the yellow Jaundice, the Drop&s;ie, and the Gout, the defects of the Reins and Lungs, and generally, all inward pains and torments of the Body, the Leavs being boyled and drunk; The &s;ame is held to be good again&s;t the bitings of Ser|pents, and other Venemous Bea&s;ts; and again&s;t the Plague and both Tertian and Quartan Agues, killeth and expelleth Worms in the B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly, and cau&s;eth a good colour in the Face and Body, &s;trengtheneth as well as correcteth the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Liver and Spleen, is very effectual in all Di&s;ea&s;es of the Stomach and Lungs, as Coughs, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath and Whee&s;ings, and is &s;ingular good again&s;t the Drop&s;ie, to be drunk with &s;ome Peony Seeds, brui&s;ed and put therto; &amp; is no le&s;s prevalent for the defects of the Reins and blad|der, to clen&s;e them of tho&s;e Humors that ingender the Stone, and helpeth to break the Stone and to expel Gra|vel: It con&s;olidateth and healeth al&s;o all Wounds both in|ward and outward, and &s;taieth bleedings, and u&s;ed with &s;ome Honey, healeth al old Ulcers and Fi&s;tulaes in the Legs or other parts of the Body, as al&s;o tho&s;e Ulcers that happen in the Mouth, or u&s;ed with old Hogs grea&s;e, it helpeth the Swellings and pains of the &s;ecret parts in man or Woman, as al&s;o for the Piles and He|morrhoids: applied with &s;ome Oyl of Ro&s;es and Vinegar unto the Fore|head and Temples, it ea&s;eth the inveterate pains and ach of the Head, and is good for tho&s;e that are Frantick. The Leavs brui&s;ed, or the Juyce of them mixed with &s;ome Vinegar doth wonderfully clen&s;e the Skin, and ta|keth away Morphew, Freckles, Fi&s;tulaes, and other &s;uch like Inflamati|ons and deformities of the Skin in any part of the Body. The di&s;tilled wa|ter of the Herb when it is in his ful &s;trength, dropped into the Eyes, clen&s;eth them from Films, Clouds, or mi&s;t, that darken the &s;ight, and wonderfully &s;trengtheneth the Optick Nerves; The &s;aid Water is very powerfull in all the di&s;ea&s;es afore&s;aid either inward or outward, whether they be old corro|ding Sores, or green Wounds.</P>
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<PB N="366" REF="141">
<HEAD>The Vine.</HEAD>
<P>THe Leavs of the Engli&s;h Vine (I do not intend to &s;end you to the Canaries for a Medicine) being boyled make a good Lotion for &s;ore Mouths, being boyled with Barley Meal into a Pultis, it cools Inflamations of Wounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sore Mouths, Inflamations, Womens Long|ing. Stone,</NOTE> the droppings of the Vine when 'tis cut in the Spring, which Countrey people cal Tears, being boyled into a Syrup with Sugar and taken in|wardly is excellent to &s;tay Womens Longings after every thing they &s;ee, which is a Di&s;ea&s;e many women with Child are &s;ubject too; The Decoction of Vine Leavs in white Wine doth the like: al&s;o the Tears of the Vine drunk, two or three &s;poonfuls at a time, breaks the Stone in the Bladder: This is a very good Remedy, and it is di&s;creetly done to kill a Vine to cure a Man,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Teeth black.</NOTE> but the Salt of the Leavs is held to be better.</P>
<P>The A&s;hes of the burnt Branches will make Teeth that are as black as a coal to be as white as &s;now if you do but every morning rub them with it.</P>
<P>It is a mo&s;t gallant Tree of the Sun very &s;impatheticall with the Body of Man: and that's the rea&s;on &s;pirit of Wine is the greate&s;t Cordial among&s;t all vegetables.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Violets.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e, both Tame and Wild, are &s;o well known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower untill the end of <HI>July,</HI> but are be&s;t in <HI>March</HI> and the beginning of <HI>April.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> They are a fine plea&s;ing Plant of <HI>Venus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Inflamation, Eyes, Womb, Headach, Chol|ler, Quin&s;ie, Falling&s;ickne&s;s, Swellings, Pleure&s;ie, Flegm, Hoarce|ne&s;s, Throat, Back, Reins. Bladder. Thir&s;t, Heart.</NOTE> of a milde nature, no way harmful. All the <HI>Violets</HI> are cold and moi&s;t while they are fre&s;h and green, and are u&s;ed to cool any heat or di&s;temperature of the Body either inwardly or outwardly, as Inflamations in the Eyes, in the Matrix, or Fundament, in Impo&s;tumes al&s;o, and hot Swellings, to drink the Decoction of the Leavs or Flowers made with Water in Wine, or to apyly them Pultis wi&s;e to the grieved place; it likewi&s;e ea&s;eth pains in the Head cau&s;ed through want of-&s;leep; or in any other place ari&s;ing of heat, being applied in the &s;ame manner, or with Oyl of Ro&s;es. A dram weight of the dried Leavs of the Flowers of Violets (but the Leavs more &s;trongly) doth purge the Body of Chollerick Humors, and a&s;&s;wageth the heat being taken in a draught of Wine or any other drink: The Pouder of the Purple Leavs of the Flowers onely pick'd and dried and drunk in Water is &s;aid to help the Quin&s;ie, and the Falling-&s;ickne&s;s in Children, e&s;pecially in the beginning of the Di&s;ea&s;e. The Flowers of the white Violets ripeneth and di&s;&s;olveth Swellings. The Herb or Flowers while they are fre&s;h, or the
<PB N="367" REF="141"> Flowers when they are dry, are effectuall in the Pluri&s;ie, and all di&s;ea&s;es of the Lungs, to lenifie the &s;harpne&s;s of hot Rhewms, and the Hoar&s;ene&s;s of the Throat, the heat al&s;o, and &s;harpne&s;s of Urine, and all pains of the Back, or Reins and the Bladder: It is good al&s;o for the Liver and the Jauncice, and in all hot Agues to cool the heat and quench the Thir&s;t: but the Syrup of Violets is of mo&s;t u&s;e and of better effect, being taken in &s;ome conveni|ent Liquor; and if a little of the Juyce or Syrup of Lemmons be put to it or a few drops of the Oyl of Vitrol, it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and quench the Thir&s;t, and giveth to the drink a Claret Wine colour, and a fine tart reli&s;h, plea&s;ing the ta&s;t. Violets taken, or made up with Honey doth more clen&s;e then cool, and with Sugar contrary|wi&s;e. The dried Flowers of Violets are accounted among the Cordial Drinks, Pouders, and other Medicines e&s;pecially where cooling Cordials are nece&s;&s;ary: The green Leavs are u&s;ed with other Herbs, to make Plai|&s;ters and Pulti&s;ces for Inflamations and Swellings, and to ea&s;e pains where|&s;oever, ari&s;ing of heat, and for the Piles al&s;o, being fried with Yolks of Egs and applied thereto.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Vipers Buglo&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THis hath many loug rough Leavs lying on the ground, from among which ri&s;e up divers hard round Stalks, very rough as if they were thick &s;et with prickles or hairs, wherein are &s;et &s;uch like long rough hairy or prickly &s;ad green Leavs, &s;omwhat narrow; the middle Rib for the mo&s;t part being white. The Flowers &s;tand at the top of the Stalks, branched forth into many long &s;piked Leavs of Flowers, bowing or turning like the Turn&s;ole, all of them opening for the mo&s;t part on the one &s;ide, which are long and hollow, turning up the Brims a little, of a Purpli&s;h Violet colour in them that are fully blown, but more reddi&s;h while they are in the Bud as al&s;o upon their decay and withering; but in &s;ome places of a paler purple co|lour, with a long pointel in the middle, feathered or parted at the top: Af|ter the Flowers a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e fallen the Seeds growing to be ripe, are blacki&s;h, cornered and pointed &s;omwhat like unto the Head of a Viper. The Root is &s;omwhat great and blacki&s;h, and Wooly, when it groweth toward Seed time; and peri&s;heth in the Winter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is another &s;ort little differing from the former, only in that it beareth white Flowers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> The fir&s;t groweth wild almo&s;t every where. That with white Flowers, about the Ca&s;tle Walls in <HI>Lewes</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in Summer, and their Seed is ripe quickly after.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a mo&s;t gallant Herb of the Sun; it is pi|ty it is no more in u&s;e then it is. It is an e&s;peciall Reme|dy again&s;t the biting of the Viper,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Venemous Bea&s;ts, Poy&s;on, Heart, Sadne&s;s, Melancholly, Agues, Milk, Loyns, Back, Kidneys.</NOTE> and all other Veme|mous Bea&s;ts or Serpents, as al&s;o again&s;t poi&s;on and poi&s;on|ful Herbs. <HI>Dio&s;corides</HI> and others &s;ay, That who&s;oever &s;hal take of the Herb or Root before they be bitten, &s;hall not be hurt by the poy&s;on of any Serpent. The Roots or Seed
<PB N="368" REF="142"> are thought to be mo&s;t effectual to comfort the Heart, and expel Sadne&s;s, or cau&s;e le&s;&s;e Melancholly, it tempers the Blood, and allayeth hot fits of Agues: The Seed drunk in Wine procureth abundance of Milk in Womens Brea&s;ts. The &s;ame al&s;o being taken ea&s;eth the pains in the Loyns, Back, and Kidneys: The di|&s;tilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower, or his chiefe&s;t &s;trength, is excellent to be applied either inwardly or outwardly for all the Griefs afore|&s;aid. There is a Syrup made hereof very effectuall for the comforting of the Heart, and expelling Sadne&s;s and Melancholly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Wall-Flowers, or Winter Gilly Flowers.</HEAD>
<P>THe Garden <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inds are &s;o wel known that they need no De&s;cription.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The common &s;ingle Wall-Flowers which grow wilde a|broad, hath &s;undry &s;mal, long, narrow, and dark green Leavs, &s;et without order upon &s;mal round whiti&s;h woody Stalks which bear at the tops divers &s;ingle yellow Flowers one above another, every one having four Leavs apiece and of a very &s;weet &s;cent: after which come long Pods containing reddi&s;h Seed. The Root is white, hard and thriddy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth upon Church Walls, and old Walls of many hou&s;es and other Stone Walls in diver&s;e places. The other &s;orts in Gardens only.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> All the &s;ingle kinds do flower many times in the end of Autumn, and if the Winter be milde all the Winter long, but e&s;pecially in the Months of <HI>February, March</HI> and <HI>April,</HI> and until the heat of the Spring do &s;pend them: But the double kinds continue not Flowring in that manner all the year long, although they Flower very early &s;ometimes, and in &s;ome places very late.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The Moon rules them. <HI>Galen</HI> in his &s;eventh Book of Simple Medicines &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Obructions, Li|ver, Terms pro|vokes, After|birth, Child, &s;pleen, Weaknes Disjuncture, Gout, Sinews, Appoplexy, Pal&s;ey.</NOTE> That the yellow Wall-Flowers worketh more powerfully than any of the other kinds, and is therefore of more u&s;e in Phy|&s;ick; It clen&s;eth the Bloud and freeth the Liver and Reins from Ob&s;tructions, provoketh Womens Cour&s;es, expel|leth the Secondine and dead Child, helpeth the hardne&s;s and pains of the Mother, and of the Spleen al&s;o, &s;tayeth in|flamations and Swellings, comforteth and &s;trengthneth any weak part, or out of Joynt: helpeth to clen&s;e the Eyes from mi&s;tine&s;s and Films on them, and to clen&s;e &s;oul and filthy Ulcers in the Mouth, or any other part, and is a &s;ingular Remedy for the Gout, and all Aches and pains in the Joynts and Sinews. A Con&s;erve made of the Flowers is u&s;ed for a Remedy both for the Appoplexy and Pal&s;ey.</P>
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<HEAD>The Walnut Tree.</HEAD>
<P>IT is &s;o wel known, that it needeth no De&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Blo&s;&s;ometh early, before the Leavs come forth, and the Fruit is ripe in <HI>September.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> This al&s;o is a Plant of the <HI>Sun:</HI> Let the Fruit of it be gathered accordingly, which you &s;hal find to be of mo&s;t Ver|tue whil&s;t they are green before they have &s;hels. The Bark of the Tree, doth bind and dry very much, and the Leavs are much of the &s;ame temperature;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Binds, Driers, Worms, Poy&s;on, Epidemi|cal Di&s;ea|&s;es, Inflamati|on in the Throat, wounds of the Sinews Gangrenes Carbuncles Flux, terms &s;tops Baldne&s;s, Quin&s;ie, Toothach, Mother Chollick, Wind, Agues, Deafne&s;s, Ears.</NOTE> but the Leavs when they are older, are hea|ting and drying in the &s;econd degree, and harder of dige&s;tion than when they are fre&s;h, which by rea&s;on of their &s;weetne&s;s are more plea&s;ing and better dige&s;ting in the Stomach; and taken with &s;weet Wine, they move the Belly downwards: but being old, they grieve the &s;tomach; and in hot Bodies cau&s;e Choller to abound, and the Headach, and are an enemy to tho&s;e that have the Cough; but are le&s;s hurtful to tho&s;e that have colder &s;to|machs, and are &s;aid to kil the broad Worms in the Belly or &s;to|mach. If they be taken with Onions, Salt, and Honey, they help the biting of a Mad Dog, or the Venom or infectious poy|&s;on of any Bea&s;t, &amp;c. <HI>Coneus Pompeius</HI> found in the Trea&s;ury of <HI>Methridates</HI> King of <HI>Pentus,</HI> when he was overthrown, a &s;crowl of his own hand-writing, containing a Medicine again&s;t any Poy&s;on and Infection, which is this, Take two dry Wal|nuts, and as many good Figs, and twenty leavs of Rue, brui&s;ed and beaten together with two or three corns of &s;alt, and twenty Juniper Berries, which taken every morning fa&s;ting, pre&s;erveth from danger of Poy&s;on or Infection, that day it is taken. The Juyce of the outer green Husks, boyled up with Honey, is an ex|cellent gargle for &s;ore Mouths, the Heat and Inflamations in the Throat and &s;tomach: The Kernels when they grow old, are more oyly, and therfore not &s;o fit to be eaten, but are then u&s;ed to heal the Wounds of the Sinews, Gangrenes, and Carbuncles&punc; The &s;aid Kernels being burned, are then very a&s;tringent, and wil then &s;tay Lasks and Womens Cour&s;es: being taken in red wine, and &s;tay the falling of the Hair, and make it fair, being anointed with Oyl and wine: The green Husks wil do the like being u&s;ed in the &s;ame man|ner. The Kernels beaten with Rue and Wine, being applied, helpeth the Quin&s;ie: and brui&s;ed with &s;ome Honey and applied to the Ears, ea&s;eth the pains and inflamations of them: A piece of the green Husk put into a hol|low Tooth, ea&s;eth the pains. The Catkins hereof taken before they fal off; dried, and given a dram therof in Pouder with white Wine, wonderfully helpeth tho&s;e that are troubled with the ri&s;ing of the Mother. The Oyl that is pre&s;&s;ed out of the Kernels, is very profitably taken inward like Oyl of Almonds, to help the Chollick, and to expel wind very effectually, an ounce or two therof may be taken at a time. The yong green Nuts taken before they be half ripe, and pre&s;erved with Sugar, are of good u&s;e for tho&s;e that have weak &s;tomachs, or defluxions thereon. The Di&s;tilled water of the green Husk before they be half ripe, is of excellent u&s;e to cool the heat of Agues, being drunk an ounce or two at a time, as al&s;o to re&s;i&s;t the Infection of the Plague, if &s;ome therof he al&s;o applied to the Sores therof. The &s;ame
<PB N="370" REF="143"> al&s;o cooleth the heat of green wounds and old Ulcers, and healeth them be|ing bathed therwith: The di&s;tilled water of the green Husks being ripe, when they are &s;helled from the Nuts, being drunk with a little Vinegar, is al&s;o found by experience to be good for tho&s;e that are infected with the Plague, &s;o as before the taking therof a vein be opened. The &s;aid water is very vood again&s;t the Quin&s;ie, being gargled and bathed therwith, and won|derfully helpeth Deafne&s;s, the noi&s;e and other pains in the Ears. The Di|&s;tilled water of the yong green Leavs in the end of <HI>May,</HI> performeth a &s;in|gular cure on foul running Ulcers and Sores, to be bathed with wet cloaths or &s;punges, applied to them evening and morning.</P>
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<HEAD>Wold, Weld, or Dyers Weed.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>THe common kind groweth bu&s;hing with many Leavs, long, narrow, and flat upon the ground, of a dark blewi&s;h green colour, &s;omwhat like unto Woad, but nothing &s;o large, a little crumpled and as it were round pointed, which do &s;o abide the fir&s;t year: And the next &s;pring from among them ri&s;e divers round &s;talks two or three foot high, be|&s;et with many &s;uch like Leavs theron, but &s;maller, and &s;hooting forth &s;ome &s;mal Branches, which with the &s;talks carry many &s;mal yellow Flowers, in a long &s;piked head at the tops of them, where afterwards come the Seed, which is &s;mal and black, inclo&s;ed in heads that are divided at the tops into four parts. The Root is long, white, and thick, abiding the Winter: The whole Herb changeth to be yellow after it hath been in flower a whlle.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth every where by the way &s;ides in moi&s;t grounds as wel as dry, in corners of Fields and by-Lanes: and &s;omtimes al over the field: in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Kent</HI> they cal it Greenweed.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It is in Flower about <HI>June.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Goverment and Vertues.] Mathiolus</HI> &s;aith, That the Root hereof,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flegm, Humors, Tumors, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Pe&s;tilence, Worms.</NOTE> cutteth tough Flegm, dige&s;teth raw Flegm, thinneth gro&s;s Humors, di&s;&s;olveth hard Tumors, and openeth Ob&s;tru|ctions. Some do highly commend it again&s;t the bitings of Ve|nemous Creatures, to be taken inwardly and applied outwardly, to the hurt place; as al&s;o for the Plague or Pe&s;tilence. The peo|ple in &s;ome Countries of this Land, do u&s;e to brui&s;e the Herb, and lay it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs to heal them.</P>
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<HEAD>Wheat.</HEAD>
<P>AL the &s;everal kinds hereof are &s;o wel known unto almo&s;t al People, that it is altogether needle&s;s to write any De&s;cription therof.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is under <HI>Venus. Dio&s;corides</HI> &s;aith, That to eat the Corns of green Wheat, is hurtful to the &s;tomach, and breedeth Worms.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cold, Tetters, Ring-Worms, &V;lcers, Chops in the Hands &amp; Feet, Mad Dogs Eyes, Kings-Evil, Sinews; Pe&s;tilence, Seabs, Lepro&s;ie, Venemous Bea&s;ts, Cods, Hoar&s;|ne&s;s.</NOTE> <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, That the Corns of Wheat roa|&s;ted upon an Iron Pan and eaten, is a pre&s;ent Remedy for tho&s;e that are chilled with Cold. The Oyl pre&s;&s;ed from Wheat be|tween two thick plates of Iron or Copper heated, healeth al Tetters and Ringworms being u&s;ed warm, and hereby <HI>Galen</HI>
<PB N="371" REF="143"> &s;aith he hath known many to be cured. <HI>Mathiolus</HI> commendeth the &s;ame Oyl to be put into hollow Ulcers to heal them up, and it is al&s;o good for Chops in the Hands or Feet, and to make a rugged Skin &s;mooth. The green Corns of Wheat being chew|ed, and applied to the place bitten by a Mad Dog, healeth it: Slices of Wheat-bread &s;oaked in Red Ro&s;e-water, and applied to the Eyes that are hot, red, and inflamed, or bloud-&s;hotten, helpeth them. Hot Bread applied for an hour at a time for three dayes together, perfectly healeth the Kernels in the Throat, commonly called the Kings Evil. The Flower of Wheat mixed with the Juyce of Henbane, &s;tayeth the Flux of Humors to the Joynts being laid theron: The &s;aid Meal boyled in Vinegar, helpeth the &s;hrinking of the Sinews &s;aith <HI>Pliny;</HI> and mixed with Vinegar and Honey boyled together, healeth al Freckles, Spots, and Pimples on the Face. Wheat flower, mixed with the yolk of an Eg, Honey, and Turpentine, doth draw, clen&s;e, and heal any Boyl, Plague-&s;ore, or foul Ulcer. The Bran of Wheat-meal &s;teeped in &s;harp Vinegar, and then bound in a linnen Cloth, and rubbed on tho&s;e places that have the Scurf, Morphew, Scabs, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lepro&s;ie, wil take them away; the Body being fir&s;t wel purged and prepared. The Decoction of the Bran of Wheat o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Barley, is of good u&s;e to bath tho&s;e places that are Bur&s;ten by a Rupture: and the &s;aid Bran boyled in good Vinegar, and applied to &s;wollen Brea&s;ts, helpeth them, ond &s;tayeth at inflamations: It helpeth al&s;o the Bitings of Vipers (which I take to be no other but our Engli&s;h Adder) and al other Venemous Creatures. The Leavs of Wheat-meal applied with &s;ome Salt, taketh away hardne&s;s of the skin, Warts, and hard Knots in the Fle&s;h. Starch moi&s;tned with Ro&s;e-water and laid to the Cods, taketh away their Itching. Wafers put in water and drunk, &s;tayeth the Lask and Bloody-Flux, and is profitably u&s;ed both inwardly and outwardly for the Ruptures in Children: Boyled in water unto a thick Gelly and taken, it &s;tayeth &s;pit|ting of Blood: and boyled with Mints and Butter, it helpeth the Hoar&s;ne&s;s of the Throat.</P>
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<HEAD>The Willow Tree.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e are &s;o wel known, that they need no De&s;cription: I &s;hal therfore only &s;hew you the Vertues thereof.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> The <HI>Moon</HI> owns it. Both the Leavs, Bark, and the Seed are u&s;ed to &s;tanch Bleeding of Wounds, and at Mouth and No&s;e, &s;pitting of Blood, and al other Fluxes of Blood in man or woman,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stanch bleeding &s;piting of blood Fluxes of blood vomiting, di&s;ti|lations on the Lungs, wind, chollick, heat of Lu&s;t, dimne&s;s of &s;ight, and other Di&s;ea&s;es in the Eyes, cleer the Face, dry up Humors, Warts, corns &amp; &s;uper|fluous Fle&s;h, Scurf, or Dan|driff, Feaver.</NOTE> and to &s;tay vomiting, and provocation therunto, if the Decoction of them in Wine be drunk. It helpeth al&s;o to &s;tay thin, hot, &s;harp, &s;alt Di&s;tillations from the Head upon the Lungs cau&s;ing a Con&s;umption: The Leavs brui&s;ed with &s;ome Pepper and drunk in Wine, much helpeth the wind Chollick. The Leavs brui&s;ed and boyled in Wine and drunk, &s;tayeth the heat of Lu&s;t in Man or
<PB N="372" REF="144"> Woman, and quite extingui&s;heth it if it be long u&s;ed; the Seed is al&s;o of the &s;ame effect. The Water that is gathered from the Willow when it Flowreth, the Bark being &s;lit, and a fitting Ve&s;&s;el &s;et to receive it, is very good for redne&s;s and dimne&s;s of Sight, for films that grow over the Eyes, and &s;tay the Rhewms that fal into them, to provoke Urine being &s;topped, if it be drunk; and to cleer the Face and Skin from Spots and Di&s;colourings. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;aith, The flo|wers have an admirable Faculty in drying up Humors, be|ing a Medicine without any &s;harpne&s;s or corro&s;ion: You may boyl them in white Wine, and drink as much as you wil (&s;o as you drink not your &s;elf drunk.) The Bark work the &s;ame effects, if u&s;ed in the &s;ame manner; and the Tree hath alwayes Bark upon it, though not alwayes Flowers: The burnt A&s;hes of the Bark, being mixed with Vi|negar, taketh away Warts, Corns, and Superfluous Fle&s;h, being applied to the place. The Decoction of the Leavs or Bark in Wine, takes away Scurf, or Dandriff, by wa&s;hing the place with it: 'Tis a fine cool Tree, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed in the Chamber of one &s;ick of a Feaver.</P>
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<HEAD>Woad.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath divers large Leavs, long, and &s;omwhat broad withal, like to tho&s;e of the greater Plantane, but larger, thicker, of a greeni&s;h colour, and &s;omwhat blue withal: From among which Leavs ri|&s;eth up a lu&s;ty &s;talk three or four foot high, with divers Leavs &s;et theron; the higher the &s;talk ri&s;eth, the &s;maller are the Leavs; at the top it &s;preadeth in|to divers branches, at the end of which appear very pretty little yellow flo|wers, and after they pa&s;s away like other flowers of the Field, come Husks, long, and &s;omwhot flat withal: In form they re&s;emble a tongue; in colour, they are black, and they hang bobbing downwards. The Seed contained with|in the&s;e Husks (if it be a little chewed) gives an Azure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lour. The Root is white and long.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place]</HI> It is &s;owed in Fields for the benefit of it, where tho&s;e that &s;ow it, cut it three times a year.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth in <HI>June,</HI> but is long after before the Seed is ripe.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> It is a cold, and dry Plant of <HI>Saturn.</HI> Some People affirm the Plant to be de&s;tructive to Bees, which if it be, I cannot help it: They &s;ay it po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth Bees with a Flux, but that I can hardly be|leeve, unle&s;s Bees be contrary to all other Creatures, I &s;hould rather think it po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth them with the contrary Di&s;ea&s;e, the Herb being exceeding drying and binding. However, if any Bees be di&s;ea&s;ed therby, the cure is to &s;et Urine by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m, but &s;et it in &s;uch a Ve&s;&s;el that they cannot drown them|&s;elves, which may be Remedied if you put pieces of Cork in it. I told you before the Herb was drying and binding, and &s;o drying and binding, that it is not fir to be given inwardly. An Oyntment made therof &s;tancheth Blee|ding. A Plai&s;ter made therof, and applied to the Region of the Spleen,
<PB N="373" REF="144"> (and I pray you take notice,<NOTE PLACE="marg">bleeding, &s;pleen, &V;lcers, Infla|mtions, St. An|thonies fire, de|fluxions of Blood.</NOTE> that the Spleen lies on the left &s;ide) takes away the hardne&s;s and pains thereof: The Oyntment is excellent good in &s;uch Ulcers as abound with moi&s;ture, and takes away the corroding and fretting Hu|mors: It cools Inflamations, quencheth St. Anthonies fire, and &s;tayeth Defluxions of Blood to any part of the Body.</P>
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<HEAD>Woodbind, or Honey&s;uckles.</HEAD>
<P>IT is a Plant &s;o common, that every one that hath Eyes knows them, and he that hath none cannot read a De&s;cription if I &s;hould write it.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> They Flower in <HI>June,</HI> and the Fruit is ripe in <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Doctor <HI>Tradition,</HI> that grand Introducer of Errors, that Hater of Truth, that Lover of Folly, and that mortal Foe to Doctor <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> hath taught the common People to u&s;e the Leavs and Flo|wers of this Plant in Mouth Waters, and by long continuance of time hath &s;o grounded it in the Brains of the vulgar, that you cannot beat it out with a Beetle: Al Mouth Waters ought to be cooling and drying, but Honey&s;uckles are clen&s;ing, con&s;uming, and dige&s;ting, and therfore no waies fit for Inflama|tions: Thus Doctor <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI> Again, If you plea&s;e we wil leave Doctor <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> a while, and come to Doctor <HI>Experience,</HI> a learned Gentleman, and his Brother: Take a Leaf and chew it in your Mouth, and you wil quickly find it likelier to cau&s;e a &s;ore Mouth or Throat than to cure it. Wel then, if it be not good for this, What is it good for? 'Tis good for &s;omthing, for God and Nature made nothing in vain: It is an Herb of <HI>Mercury,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs af|flicted, A&s;thma, Spleen provokes, Urin and &s;peedy De|livery in Childbirth Cramps, Convul&s;i|ons and Pal&s;eys, Freckles, and Sun-burning.</NOTE> and appropriated to the Lungs; the Coele&s;tial <HI>Crab</HI> claims Dominion over it, neither is it a Foe to the <HI>Lyon:</HI> If the Lungs be afflicted by <HI>Jupiter,</HI> this is your Cure: It is fit|ting a Con&s;erve made of the Flowers of it were kept in every Gentlewomans Hou&s;e; I know no better Cure for an A&s;thma than this: Be&s;ides, It takes away the evil of the Spleen, provokes Urine, procures &s;peedy Delivery to Women in Travel, helps Cramps, Convul&s;ions, and Pal&s;eys, and what&s;oever griefs comes of cold or &s;topping: If you plea&s;e to make u&s;e of it in an Oynt|ment, it wil cleer your Skin of Morphew, Freckles, and Sun-burning, or what&s;oever el&s;e di&s;colors it, and then the Maids wil love it. I have done when I have told you what Authors &s;ay, and cavelled a little with them; they &s;ay, The Flowers are of more effect than the Leavs, and that's true; but they &s;ay, The Seeds are lea&s;t effectual of al: but Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> told me, That there was a Vital Spirit in every Seed to beget its like; and Dr. <HI>Experience</HI> told me, That there was a greater heat in a Seed than there was in any other part of a Plant, and withal, That Heat was the Mother of Action, and then judg of old Dr, <HI>Tradition</HI> (who may wel be honor'd for his Age, but not for his Goodne&s;s) have not &s;o poy&s;oned the World with his Errors before I was born, that it was never wel in its wits &s;ince, and there is great fear it wil die mad.</P>
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<HEAD>Wormwood.</HEAD>
<P>THree Wormwoods are familiar with us; one I &s;hal, not de&s;cribe, a|nother I &s;hal de&s;cribe, and the third be critical at: And I care not greatly if I begin with the la&s;t fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Sea Wormwood hath gotton as many Names as Vertues (and perhaps one more) <HI>Seriphian, Santonicon, Belgicum, Narbonen&s;e, Xantomicum, Mi&s;nen&s;e,</HI> and a matter of twenty more which I wil not blot Paper withal: A Papi&s;t got the Toy by the end, and he called it Holy Wormwood; and in truth I am of Opinion, their giving &s;o much Holine&s;s to Herbs is the rea&s;on there remains &s;o little in them&s;elves. The Seed of this Worm|wood is that which u&s;ually Women give their Children for the Worms: Of al Wormwoods that grow here, this is the weake&s;t; I but Doctors commend it, and Apothecaries &s;el it, the one mu&s;t keep his Credit and the other get Money, and that's the Key of the work. The Herb is good for &s;omthing, becau&s;e God made nothing in vain: Wil you give me leave to weigh things in the Ballance of Rea&s;on? Then thus, The Seeds of the common Wormwood are far more prevalent than the Seed of this to expel worms in Children, or people of ripe age: Of both, &s;ome are weak, &s;ome are &s;trong. The Seriphian Worm&s;eed is the weake&s;t, and happily may prove to be fitte&s;t for weake&s;t Bodies (for it is weak enough in al con&s;ci|ence) Let &s;uch as are &s;trong take the common Worm&s;eed, for the other wil do but little good. Again, neer the Sea many people live, and <HI>Seriphi|um</HI> grows neer them, and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fore is more fitting for their Bodies, becau&s;e nouri&s;hed by the &s;ame Air; and this I had from Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI> In who&s;e Body Dr. <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> dwels not, dwels Dr. <HI>Madne&s;s,</HI> and he brings in his Bre|thren, Dr. <HI>Ignorance,</HI> Dr. <HI>Folly,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Sickne&s;s,</HI> and the&s;e together make way for Dr. <HI>Death,</HI> and the latter end of that man is wor&s;e than the begin|ning. Pride was the cau&s;e of <HI>Adam</HI>'s Fall; Pride begat a Daughter, I do not know the Father of it unle&s;s the Devil, but &s;he Chri&s;tned it, and cal'd it <HI>Appetite,</HI> and &s;ent her Daughter to ta&s;t the&s;e Wormwoods, who finding this the lea&s;t bitter, made the &s;queami&s;h Wench extol it to the Skies, though the Vertues of it never reached to the middle Region of the Air. Its due prai&s;e is this; It is weake&s;t, therfore fitter for weak Bodies, and fitter for tho&s;e Bodies that dwel neer it, than tho&s;e that live far from it: my rea&s;on is, The Sea (as tho&s;e that live far from it, know when they come neer it) ca&s;teth not &s;uch a &s;mel as the Land doth: The tender Mercies of God be|ing over al his Works, hath by his eternal Providence planted <HI>Seriphian</HI> by the Sea &s;ide, as a fit Medicine for the Bodies of tho&s;e that live neer it. La&s;t|ly, It is known to al that know any thing in the Cour&s;e of Nature, That the Liver delights in &s;weet things; if &s;o, it abhors bitter; then if your Liver be weak, it is none of the wi&s;e&s;t cour&s;es to plague it with an Enemy: if the Liver be weak, a Con&s;umption follows; would you know the Rea|&s;on? 'tis this, A Mans Fle&s;h is repaired by Blood, by a third Concoction which tran&s;mutes Blood into Fle&s;h, ('tis wel I &s;aid [Concoction] for if I had &s;aid [Boyling] every Cook would have under&s;tood me.) The Liver
<PB N="375" REF="145"> makes Blood, and if it be weakned that it makes not enough the Fle&s;h wa|&s;teth; and why mu&s;t Fle&s;h alwaies be renewed? Becau&s;e the Eternal God when he made the Creation, made one part of it in continual dependancy upon another. And why did he &s;o? Becau&s;e Him&s;elf is only Permanent, to teach us, That we &s;hould not fix our affections upon what is Tran&s;itory, but upon what endures for ever. The re&s;ult of al is this, If the Liver be weak and cannot make Blood enough (I would have &s;aid [Sanguifie] if I had written only to Scholers.) The <HI>Seriphian</HI> which is the weake&s;t of Wormwoods is better than the be&s;t. I have been Critical enough, if not too much.</P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It grows familiarly in <HI>England</HI> by the Sea &s;ide.</P>
<P>De&s;crip.] <HI>It &s;tarts up out of the Earth with many round woody hoary Stalks from one Root, its height is four fo: high, or three at the lea&s;t. The Leavs in longitude are long, in latitude narrow, in color white, in form hoary, in &s;imililude like Southernwood, only broader and longer, in ta&s;t, rather &s;alt than bitter, becau&s;e it grows &s;o neer the Salt water: At the joynts with the Leavs toward the tops it bears little yellow Flowers. The Root lies deep, and is woody.</HI></P>
<P>Common Wormwood I &s;hal not de&s;cribe, for every Boy that can eat an Egg knows it.</P>
<P>Roman Wormwood: And why Roman, feeing it grows familiarly in <HI>England?</HI> It may be it was &s;o called becau&s;e 'tis good for a &s;tinking breath, which the Romans cannot be very free from maintaining &s;o many Baudy Hou&s;es by Authority of his Holine&s;s.</P>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>The Stalks are &s;lenderer and &s;horter than the common Worm|wood by one foot at lea&s;t; the Leavs are more finely cut and divided than they are, but &s;omthing &s;maller; both Leavs and Stalks are hoary; the Flo|wers of a pale yellow color, it is altogether like the common Wormwood, &s;ave only in bigne&s;s, for 'tis &s;maller; in ta&s;t, for 'tis not &s;o bitter, in &s;mel, for it is &s;picy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It groweth upon the tops of the Mountains (it &s;eems 'tis a&s;pi|ring) there 'tis Natural; but u&s;ually nur&s;ed up in Gardens for the u&s;e of the Apothecaries in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> Al Wormwoods u&s;ually flower in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> a little &s;ooner or later.</P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.]</HI> Wil you give me leave to be Critical a little? I mu&s;t take leave: Wormwood is an Herb of <HI>Mars,</HI> and if <HI>Pontanus</HI> &s;ay otherwi&s;e he is be&s;ide the Bridg: I prove it thus; What delights in Martial places, is a Martial Herb; but Wormwood delights in Martial places (for about Forges and Iron Works you may gather a Cart load of it) <HI>Ergo</HI> it is a Martial Herb. It is hot and dry in the fir&s;t Degree,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Choller, venery, provokes Urin, Helps Surfets, Swellings, Ap|petite lo&s;t, yell. Jaundice,</NOTE> viz. Ju&s;t as hot as your Blood, and no hotter: It remedies the evils Choller can inflict on the Body of Man by Sympathy. It helps the evils <HI>Venus</HI> and he wanton Girls produce by Antipathy: and it doth &s;omthing el&s;e be&s;ides, It clen&s;eth the Body of Choller (and who dares &s;ay <HI>Mars</HI> doth no good?) It provokes Urine, helps
<PB N="376" REF="146"> Surfets, Swellings in the Belly; it cau&s;eth an Appetite to meat, becau&s;e <HI>Mars</HI> rules the attractive faculty in Man: The Sun never &s;hone upon a better Herb for the yellow Jaundice than this is: Why &s;hould men cry out &s;o much upon <HI>Mars</HI> for an Infortune (or <HI>Saturn</HI> either?) Did God make Creatures to do the Creation a mi&s;chief? This Herb te&s;tifies that <HI>Mars</HI> is willing to cure al the Di&s;ea&s;es he cau&s;es; the truth is, <HI>Mars</HI> loves no Co|wards, nor <HI>Saturn</HI> Fools, nor I either. Take of the Flowers of Worm|wood, Ro&s;emary, and Black-Thorn, of each a like quantity, half that quantity of Saffron, boyl this in Reni&s;h Wine, but put not in the Saffron til it is almo&s;t boyled: This is the way to keep a Mans Body in Health,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pre&s;erve Health, Terms provokes, Biting of Rats and Mice, Mu&s;hroms Wheals, Pu&s;hes, black and blue Spots, Quin&s;ie, Eyes,</NOTE> appointed by <HI>Camerarius,</HI> in his Book intituled, <HI>Hor|tus Medicus,</HI> and 'tis a good one too. Be&s;ides al this, Worm|wood provokes the Terms. I would willingly teach A&s;trolo|gers, and make them Phy&s;itians (if I knew how) for they are mo&s;t fitting for the Calling; if you wil not beleeve me, ask Dr. <HI>Hippocrates,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Galen,</HI> a couple of Gentlemen that our Colledg of Phy&s;itians keep to vapor with, not to follow. In this one Herb I &s;hal give the Pattern of a Rule to the Sons of Art, rough ca&s;t, yet as neer the truth as the men of <HI>Benjamin</HI> could throw a &s;tone; whereby my Brethren of the Society of A&s;trologers may know by a Penny how a Shilling is coyned: (as for the Colledg of Phy&s;itians they are too &s;tately to learn, and too proud to continue: They &s;ay a Mou&s;e is under the Do|minion of the <HI>Moon,</HI> and that's the rea&s;on they feed in the night: The Hou&s;e of the <HI>Moon</HI> is <HI>Cancer;</HI> (Rats are of the &s;ame na|ture with Mice, but that they are a little bigger.) <HI>Mars</HI> receives his Fal in <HI>Cancer, Ergo</HI> Wormwood being an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> is a pre&s;ent Remedy for the biting of Rats and Mice. Mu&s;hroms (I cannot give them the title of <HI>Herba, Frutex,</HI> or <HI>Arbor</HI>) are under the Dominion of <HI>Saturn</HI> (and take one time with another they do as much harm as good:) if any have poy&s;on'd him&s;elf by eating them, Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> cures him, becau&s;e <HI>Mars</HI> is exalted in <HI>Capricorn</HI> the Hou&s;e of <HI>Saturn;</HI> and this it doth by Sympathy as it did the other by Antipathy. Wheals Pu&s;hes, black and blue &s;pots coming either by Brui&s;es or Beatings, Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> helps, becau&s;e <HI>Mars</HI> (as bad as you love him, and as il as you hate him) wil not break your Head, but he'l give you a Plai&s;ter. If he do but teach you to know your &s;elves, his Courte&s;ie is greater than his Di&s;courte&s;ie. The greate&s;t Antipathy between the Planets, is between <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Venus;</HI> one is hot, the other cold; one Diurnal, the other No|cturnal; one dry, the other moi&s;t; their Hou&s;es are oppo&s;ite; one Ma&s;|culine, the other Feminine; one publick, the other private; one is vali|ant, the other effeminate; one loves the light, the other hates it; one loves the field, the other the &s;heets: then the Throat is under <HI>Venus,</HI> the Quin|&s;ie lies in the Throat, and is an Inflamation there: <HI>Venus</HI> rules the Throat (it being under <HI>Taurus</HI> her Sign) <HI>Mars</HI> eradicates al Di&s;ea&s;es in the Throat by his Herbs (of which Wormwood is one) and &s;end them to
<PB N="377" REF="146"> <HI>Aegypt</HI> on an errand never to return more: this by Antipathy. The Eyes are under the Luminaries; the right Eye of a Man, and the left Eye of a Woman, the <HI>Sun</HI> claims Dominion over: The left Eye of a Man, and the right Eye of a Woman, are the priviledg of the <HI>Moon,</HI> Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> cures hoth; what belongs to the <HI>Sun</HI> by Sympathy, becau&s;e he is exalted in his Hou&s;e; but what belongs to the <HI>Moon</HI> by Antipathy, becau&s; he hath his Fal in hers. Suppo&s;e a Man be bitten or &s;tung by a Martial Creature, imagin a Wa&s;p, a Hornet, or Scorpion, Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> gives you a pre&s;ent cure:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Biting or &s;tinging by venemous Beea&s;ts.</NOTE> Then <HI>Mars</HI> as Chollerick as he is, hath learned that patience, to pa&s;s by your evil &s;peeches of him, and tels you by my Pen, That he gives you no Affliction but he gives you a Cure; you need not run to <HI>Apollo</HI> not <HI>Ae&s;culapius:</HI> and if he were &s;o Chollerick as you make him to be, he would have drawn his Sword for anger to &s;ee the il con|ditions of tho&s;e people that can &s;py his Vices and not his Vertues. The E|ternal God when he made <HI>Mars,</HI> made him for a publick good, and the Sons of Men &s;hal know it in the latter end of the world. <HI>Et &s;aelum Mars &s;olus habet.</HI> You &s;ay <HI>Mars</HI> is a De&s;troyer, mix a little Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> with your Ink, and neither Rats nor Mice wil touch the Pa|per is written with it, and then <HI>Mars</HI> is a Pre&s;erver. A&s;trologers &s;ay <HI>Mars</HI> cau&s;eth Scabs and Itch, and the Virgins are angry with him, becau&s;e wan|ton <HI>Venus</HI> told them he deforms their Skin: But quoth <HI>Mars,</HI> my only de|&s;ire is, they &s;hould know them&s;elves; my Herb Wormwood wil re&s;tore them to the Beauty they formerly had, and in that I wil not come an inch behind my oppo&s;ite <HI>Venus;</HI> for which doth the greate&s;t evil, he that takes away an innate Beauty, and when he hath done, knows how to re&s;tore it a|gain? or &s;he that teaches a company of wanton La&s;&s;es to paint their Faces? If <HI>Mars</HI> be in the Virgin in a Nativity, they &s;ay he cau&s;es the Chollick, ('tis wel God hath &s;et &s;ome body to pul down the pride of Man) He in the Virgin troubles none with the Chollick but them that know not them&s;elves (for who knows him&s;elf may ea&s;ily know al the World) Wormwood an Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> is a pre&s;ent cure for it: and whether it be mo&s;t like a Chri|&s;tian to love him for his good, or hate him for his evil judg ye. I had al|mo&s;t forgotten that Charity thinks no evil: I was once in the Tower and viewed the Wardrobe, and there was a great many fine Cloathes (I can give them no other titie, for I was never neither Linnen or Woollen Dra|per) yet as brave as they looked, my opinion was, the Moaths might con|&s;ume them (yea <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth his Codpiece.) Moaths are under the Dominion of <HI>Mars,</HI> his Herb Wormwood being laid among&s;t Cloathes wil make a Moath &s;corn to meddle with the Cloath, as much as a Lyon &s;corns to meddle with a Mou&s;e, or an Eagle a Fly. You &s;ay <HI>Mars</HI> is angry, and 'tis true enough, he is angry with my Country men for being &s;uch Fools to be led by the No&s;es by the Colledg of Phy&s;itians as they lead Bears to Pa|ris Garden. Melancholly Men cannot endure to be wrong'd in point of good name, and that hath &s;orely troubled old <HI>Saturn,</HI> becau&s;e they called him the greate&s;t Infortune: In the Body of Man he rules the Spleen, (and
<PB N="378" REF="147"> that makes Covetous men &s;o Splenetick.) The poor old man lyes crying out of his left &s;ide, Father <HI>Saturn</HI>'s angry, <HI>Mars</HI> comes to him, come Brother,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen.</NOTE> I confe&s;s thou art evil &s;poken of, and &s;o am I, thou know&s;t I have my exaltation in my Hou&s;e, I'l give him an Herb of mine, Wormwood, to cure the poor man; <HI>Saturn</HI> con&s;ented, but &s;poke but little, and &s;o <HI>Mars</HI> cured him by Sympathy. When <HI>Mars</HI> was free from War (for he loves to be fighting, and is the be&s;t friend a Soldier hath) I &s;ay, when <HI>Mars</HI> was free from War he called a Councel of War in his own Brain to know how he &s;hould do poor &s;inful man good, (de&s;iring to forget his abu&s;es in being called an Infortune) He mu&s;ters up his own Forces and places them in Battalia, Oh! quoth he, why do I hurt a poor &s;illy Man or Woman? His Angel An&s;wers him, 'Tis becau&s;e they have offended their God. [Look back to Adam] Well, &s;aies <HI>Mars,</HI> though they &s;peak evil of me, I'l do good to them; Death's cold, my Herb &s;hall heat them, They are full of ill Humors (el&s;e they would never have &s;poken il of me) my Herb &s;hal clen&s;e them and dry them: They are poor weak Creatures, my Herb &s;hall &s;trengthen them; they are dull witted, my Herb &s;hall fortifie their Apprehen&s;ions; and yet among&s;t A&s;trologers, al this doth not de&s;erve a good word; Oh! the Patience of <HI>Mars.</HI></P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Faelix qui potuit rerum cogno&s;cere cau&s;as</L>
<L>Inque domus &s;uperum &s;candere cura fu~it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oh! happy he that can the Knowledge gain,</L>
<L>To know th'eternall God made nought in vain.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>To this I add.</P>
<Q><L>I know the rea&s;on cau&s;eth &s;uch a Dearth</L>
<L>Of Knowledge, 'tis becau&s;e men love the Earth.</L></Q>
<P>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> day <HI>Mars</HI> told me he met with <HI>Venus,</HI> and he asked her what the Rea&s;on was that &s;he accu&s;ed him for abu&s;ing Women, he never gave them the Pox, in the Di&s;pute they fel out, and in anger parted, and <HI>Mars</HI> told me that his brother <HI>Saturn</HI> told him, that an Antevenerial Medicine was the be&s;t again&s;t the Pox.<NOTE PLACE="marg">French Pox.</NOTE> Once <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Month he meets with the <HI>Moon, Mars</HI> is quick enough of &s;peech, and the <HI>Moon</HI> not much behind hand (neither are mo&s;t Women) The <HI>Moon</HI> looks much after Children, and Children are much troubled with the worms &s;he de&s;ired a Medicine of him, he bad her take his own Herb Worm-wood: He had no &s;ooner parted with the Moon but he met with <HI>Venus,</HI> and &s;he was as drunk as a Bitch, Alas poor <HI>Venus</HI> quoth he What, thou a For|tune and be drunk? I'l give thee an Ampathetical Cure, take my Herb Wormwood: He had no &s;ooner parted with the Moon, thou &s;halt never get a Surfet by drinking. A poor &s;illy Countrey-man hath got an Ague and cannot go about his bu&s;ine&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Surfet, &s;tinking Breath, Dull Brain, weak Sight.</NOTE> he wi&s;hes he had it not, and &s;o do I, but I'l tel him a Remedy where|by he may prevent it. Take the Herb of <HI>Mars</HI> Worm|wood
<PB N="379" REF="147"> and if Infortunes wil do good what wil Fortunes do? Some &s;ay the Lungs are under <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and if the Lungs then the breath, and yet a man &s;ometimes gets a &s;tinking breath, and yet <HI>Jupiter</HI> is a Fortune for&s;ooth; up comes <HI>Mars</HI> to him, come brother <HI>Ju|piter,</HI> thou knowe&s;t I &s;ent thee a couple of Trines to thy Hou&s;es la&s;t night the one from <HI>Aries</HI> and the other from <HI>Scorpio,</HI> give me thy leave by Sym|pathy to cure the poor man by drinking a draught of Wormwood Beer eve|ry morning. The <HI>Moon</HI> was weak the other day, and &s;he gave a man two terrible mi&s;chiefs, a dul Brain, and a weak &s;ight, <HI>Mars</HI> layes by his &s;word and comes to her, Si&s;ter <HI>Moon</HI> &s;aith he, This Man hath anger'd thee, but I be&s;eech thee take notice he is but a Fool, prethee be patient, I wil with my Herb Wormwood cure him of both Infirmities by Antipathy, for thou know&s;t, thou and I cannot agree; with that the <HI>Moon</HI> began to quarrel; <HI>Mars</HI> (not delighting much in Womens tongues) went away, and did it whether &s;he would or no.</P>
<P>He that reads this and under&s;tands what he reads, he hath a Jewel more worth than a Diamond: He that under&s;tands it not, is as little fit to give Phy&s;ick. There lyes a Key in the&s;e Words, which will unlock (if it be turned by a wi&s;e hand) the <HI>Cabinet of Phy&s;ick:</HI> I have delivered it &s;o plain|ly as I dur&s;t; 'tis not onely upon Wurmwood that I wrote, but upon all Plants Trees and Herbs: He that under&s;tands it not, is unfit in my Opi|nion) to give Phy&s;ick. This &s;hal live when I am dead; and thus I leave it to the World, not caring a halfpenny whether they like or di&s;like it. The Grave equals all men, and therefore &s;hall equal me with the Princes, until which time the eternal Providence is over me; then the il tongue of a prat|ling Prie&s;t, or of one who hath more Tongue then wit, or more Pride than Hone&s;ty, &s;hal never trouble me. Wi&s;dom is ju&s;tified of her Children; and &s;o much for <HI>Wormwood.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Yarrow, called al&s;o No&s;ebleed, Milfoile, and Thou&s;and Leaf.</HEAD>
<P>De&s;cript.] <HI>IT hath many long Leavs &s;pread upon the ground and finely cut and divided into many &s;mal parts: Its Flowers are white but not al of a whitene&s;s, and &s;taied in knots, upon divers green Stalks which ri&s;e, from among the Leavs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Place.]</HI> It is frequent in all Pa&s;tures.</P>
<P><HI>Time.]</HI> It Flowreth late even in the latter end of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Government and Vertues.[</HI> It is under the influence of <HI>Venus.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Wounds, Infla|mations, Terms &s;tops, Bloudy Flux, Baldne&s;s &V;lcers, Fi&s;tu|laes, Retentive, Faculty, Run|ning of the Reins, Whites, Diabetes; Toothach.</NOTE> An Oyntment of them cures Wounds and is mo&s;t fit for &s;uch as have Inflamations, it being an Herb of Dame <HI>Venus;</HI> It &s;tops the Terms in Women being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk, as al&s;o the Bloody Flux; the Oyntment of it is not onely good for green Wounds, but al&s;o for Ulcers and Fi&s;tulaes, e&s;pecially &s;uch as be bound with moi&s;ture; It &s;tayes the &s;hedding off of Hair, the Head being bathed with the Decoction of it; in|wardly
<PB N="380" REF="148"> taken it helps the retentive faculty of the Stomach, it helps the running of the Reins in men, and the whites in Women, and helps &s;uch as cannot hold their Water; and the Leavs chewed in the Mouth ea&s;e the Toothach; and the&s;e Vertues being put together &s;hew the Herb to be drying and binding. <HI>Achilles</HI> is &s;uppo&s;ed to be the fir&s;t that left the Vertues of this Herb to po&s;te|rity, having learned them of his Ma&s;ter <HI>Chyron</HI> the Cenature, and certainly a very profitable Herb it is in the Camp, &amp; perhaps therefore called <HI>Militaris.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>DIRECTIONS.</HEAD>
<P>HAving in divers places of this Treati&s;e promi&s;ed you the way of making Syrups, Con&s;erves, Oyls, Oyntments, &amp;c. of Herbs, Roots, Flowers, &amp;c. wherby you may have them ready for your u&s;e at &s;uch times when otherwi&s;e they cannot be had: I come now to perform what I Promi&s;ed, and you &s;hal find me rather better, than wor&s;e than my word.</P>
<P>That this may be done Methodically I &s;hal divide my Directions into Two grand Sections, and each Section into &s;everal Chapters, and then you &s;hal &s;ee it look with &s;uch a Countenance as this is.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Sect. 1.</LABEL> Of gathering, drying, and keeping Simples and their Juyces.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 1.</HI> Of Leaves of Herbs &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 2.</HI> Of Flowers.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 3.</HI> Of Seeds.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 4.</HI> Of Roots.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 5.</HI> Of Barks.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 6.</HI> Of Juyces.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>Sect. 2.</LABEL> Of making, and keeping Compounds.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 1.</HI> Of Di&s;tilled Waters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 2.</HI> Of Syrups.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 3.</HI> Of Juleps.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 4.</HI> Of Decoctions.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 5.</HI> Of Oyls.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 6.</HI> Of Electuaries.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 7.</HI> Of Con&s;erves.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 8.</HI> Of Pre&s;erves.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 9.</HI> Of L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hochs.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 10.</HI> Of Oyntments.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 11.</HI> Of Plai&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 12.</HI> Of Pulti&s;&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 13.</HI> Of Troches.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 14.</HI> Of Pills.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 15.</HI> The way of fitting Medicines to Compound Di&s;ea&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Of all the&s;e in order.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<PB N="381" REF="148">
<HEAD><HI>SECT. I.</HI> The way of gathering, drying, and pre&s;erving Simples and their Juyces.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 1.</HI> Of Leaves of Herbs, or Trees.</HEAD>
<P>OF Leavs, Chu&s;e only &s;uch as are green and ful of Juyce, pick them carefully, and ca&s;t away &s;uch as are any way declining, for they wil putrifie the re&s;t, &s;o &s;hal one handful be worth ten of tho&s;e you buy in <HI>Cheap &s;ide.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Note in what place they mo&s;t delight to grow in, and ga|ther them there, for Bettony that grows in the &s;hadow is far better than that which grows in the Sun, becau&s;e it delights in the &s;hadow: So al&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch Herbs as delight to grow neer the Water let &s;uch be gathered as grow neer the Water, though happily you may find &s;ome of them upon dry ground: The Treati&s;e wil inform you where every Herb delights to grow.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Leavs of &s;uch Herbs as run up to Seed, are not &s;o good when they are in Flower, as before (&s;ome few excepted, the Leavs of which are &s;eldom or never u&s;ed) In &s;uch ca&s;es, if through ignorance they were not known, or through negligence forgotten, you had better take the top and the Flower than the Leaf.</P>
<P N="4">4. Dry them wel in the Sun, and not in the &s;hadow as the &s;wing of Phy|&s;itians is, for if the Sun draw away the Vertues of Herbs, it mu&s;t needs do the like by Hay by the &s;ame Rule, which the Experience of every Country Farmer wil explode for a notable piece of non-&s;en&s;e.</P>
<P N="5">5. Such as are Arti&s;ts in A&s;trology (and indeed none el&s;e are fit to make Phy&s;itians) &s;uch I advi&s;e, Let the Planet that governs the Herb be Angu|lar, and the &s;tronger the better; if they can in Herbs of <HI>Saturn,</HI> let <HI>Saturn</HI> be in the A&s;cendent; in the Herbs of <HI>Mars,</HI> let <HI>Mars</HI> be in the Mid-hea|ven, for in tho&s;e Hou&s;es they delight; let the <HI>Moon</HI> apply to them by good A&s;pect, and let her not be in the Hou&s;es of their Enemies: if you cannot wel &s;tay til &s;he apply to them, let her apply to a Planet of the &s;ame Triplici|ty; if you cannot weight that time neither, let her be with a fixed Star of their Nature.</P>
<P N="6">6. Having wel dryed them, put them up in brown Papers, &s;ewing the Paper up like a Sack, and pre&s;s them not too hard together, and keep them in a dry place neer the fire.</P>
<P N="7">7. As for the duration of dryed Herbs, a ju&s;t time cannot be given, let Authors prate their plea&s;ures: For,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Such as grow upon dry grounds wil keep better than &s;uch as grow on moi&s;t.</P>
<P>Secondly, Such Herbs as are ful of Juyce wil not keep &s;o long as &s;uch as are dryer.</P>
<PB N="382" REF="149">
<P>Thirdly, &s;uch Herbs as are wel dried will keep longer then &s;uch as are ill dried.</P>
<P>Yet this I &s;ay, by this you may know when they are corrupted, <HI>Viz.</HI> By their lo&s;s of colour, or &s;mel, or both, and if they be corrupted, rea&s;on will tell you that they mu&s;t needs corrupt the Bodies of tho&s;e people that take them.</P>
<P N="8">8. Gather all Leaves in the the hour of that Planet that governs them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 2.</HI> Of Flowers.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe Flower which is the beauty of the Plant, and of none of the lea&s;t u&s;e in Phy&s;ick, groweth yearly, and it is to be gathered when it is in its prime.</P>
<P N="2">2. As for the time of gathering them, let the Planetary hour, and the Plant they come of, be ob&s;erved, as we &s;hewed you in the foregoing Chap|ter; as for the time of the day let it be when the Sun &s;hines upon them that &s;o they may be dry, for if you gather either Flowers when they are wet or dewy, they wil not keep, and this I forgot before.</P>
<P N="3">3. Dry them wel in the Sun, and keep them in Papers near the fire, as I &s;hewed you in the foregoing Chapter.</P>
<P N="4">4. So long as they retain their colour and &s;mel they are good, either of them being gone &s;o is the Vertue al&s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 3.</HI> Of Seeds.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe Seed is that part of the Plant which is endued with a vital faculty to bring forth its like, &amp; it contains potentially the whol Plant in it.</P>
<P N="2">2. As for place let them be gathered from the Plants where they delight to grow.</P>
<P N="3">3. Let them be full ripe when they are gathered, and forget not the Coe|le&s;tiall Harmony before mentioned, for I have found by experience that their Vertues are twice as great at &s;uch times than others: There is an ap|pointed time for every thing under the Sun.</P>
<P N="4">4. when you have gathered them dry them a little, and but a little in the Sun before you lay them up.</P>
<P N="5">5. You need be &s;o carefull of keeping them &s;o near the fire as the other before mentioned, becau&s;e they are fuller of Spirit, and therefore not &s;o &s;ubject to corrupt.</P>
<P N="6">6. As for the time of their duration 'tis palpable they wil keep good many years, yet this I &s;ay, they are be&s;t the fir&s;t year, and this I make appear by a good Argument, They wil grow &s;oone&s;t the fir&s;t year they be &s;et, therfore then are they in their prime, and 'tis an ea&s;ie matter to renew them yearly.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 4.</HI> Of Roots.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. OF Roots chu&s;e &s;uch as are neither rotten nor wormeaten, but proper in their ta&s;te, colour, and &s;mel, &s;uch as exceed neither in &s;o fine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">sr hardne&s;s.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="383" REF="149">2. Give me leave to be a little critical again&s;t the Vulgar received Opini|on, which is, that the &s;ap falls down into the Root in Autumn, and ri&s;es again in Spring, as men go to Bed at night and ri&s;e in the morning; and this idle tale of untruth is &s;o grounded in the Heads not onely of the Vul|gar but al&s;o of the Learned, that a man cannot drive it out by rea&s;on: I pray let &s;uch Sap-mongers an&s;wer me to this Argument, If the Sap fall into Root in the fall of the Leaf, and lye there all the Winter, then mu&s;t the Root grow onely in the Winter, as experience witne&s;&s;eth, but the Root grows not at all in the Winter, as the &s;ame experience teacheth, but onely in the Summer. <HI>Ergo,</HI></P>
<P>If you &s;et an apple Kernel in the Spring, you &s;hal find the Root to grow to a pretty bigne&s;s in that Summer, and be not a whit bigger next Spring: What doth the Sap do in the Root al that while; pick &s;traws? For God's &s;ake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rot|ten Po&s;t.</P>
<P>The truth is, when the <HI>Sun</HI> declines from the Tropick of <HI>Cancer,</HI> the Sap begins to congeal both in Root and branch, when he toucheth the Tropick of <HI>Capricorn</HI> and a&s;cends to us ward, it begins to wax thin again, and by de|grees as it congealed: But to proceed.</P>
<P N="3">3. The dryer time you gather your Roots in, the better they are, for they have the le&s;s excrementions moi&s;ture in them.</P>
<P N="4">4. Such Roots as are &s;oft, your be&s;t way is to dry in the Sun, or el&s;e hang them in the Chimney corner upon a &s;tring; as for &s;uch as are hard you may dry them any where.</P>
<P N="5">5. Such Roots as are great will keep longer then &s;uch as are &s;mall, yet mo&s;t of them will keep a year.</P>
<P N="6">6. Such Roots as are &s;oft it is your be&s;t way to keep them always near the fire, and take this general Rule for it, If in Winter time you find any of your Roots, Herbs or Flowers begin to grow moi&s;t, as many times you &s;hal e&s;pe|cially in the Winter time (for 'tis your be&s;t way to look to them once a month) dry them by a very gentle fire, ot if you can with convenience keep them near the fire, you may &s;ave your &s;elf the labor.</P>
<P N="7">7. It is in vain to dry &s;uch Roots as may commonly be had, as Par&s;ly, Fen|nel, Plantane, &amp;c. but gather them onely for pre&s;ent need.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 5.</HI> Of Barks.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BArks which Phy&s;itians u&s;e in Medicines are the&s;e &s;orts, Of Fruits, of Roots, of Boughs.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Barks of Fruits is to be taken when the Fruit is ful ripe, as Oren|ges, Lemmons, &amp;c. but becau&s;e I have nothing to do with Exoticks here I &s;hal pa&s;s them without any more words.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Barks of Trees are be&s;t gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oakes or the like, becau&s;e then they come ea&s;ie&s;t off, and &s;o you may dry them if you plea&s;e, but indeed your be&s;t way is to gather all Barks only for pre&s;ent u&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4. As for the Bark of Roots, 'tis this, and thus to be gotten, Take the
<PB N="384" REF="150"> Roots of &s;uch Herbs as have a pith in them, as Par&s;ly, Fennel, &amp;c. &s;lit them in the middle, and when you have taken out the pith (which you may ea&s;ily and quickly do) that which remains is called (though &s;omthing improperly) the Bark and indeed is only to be u&s;ed.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 6.</HI> Of Juyces.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. JUyces are to be pre&s;&s;ed out of Herbs when they are young and ten|der, and al&s;o out of &s;ome Stalks, and tender tops of Herbs and Plants, and al&s;o out of &s;ome Flowers.</P>
<P N="2">2. Having gathered your Herb you would pre&s;erve the Juyce of, when it is very dry (for otherwi&s;e your Juyce will not be worth a Button) brui&s;e it very wel in a &s;tone Mortar with a wooden Pe&s;tle, then having put it into a Canvas Bag (the Herb I mean, not the Mortar, for that will yeeld but little Juyce) pre&s;s it hard in a pre&s;s, then take the Juyce and clarifie it.</P>
<P N="3">3. The manner of clarifying of it is this, put it into a Pipkin or skillet, or &s;ome &s;uch thing, and &s;et it over the fire, and when the &s;cum ri&s;eth, take it off let it &s;tand over the fire till no more Scum ri&s;e, then have you your Juyce clarified, ca&s;t away the Scum as a thing of no u&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4. When you have thus clarified it, you have two wayes to pre&s;erve it all the year.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, When it is cold put it into a Gla&s;s, and put &s;o much Oyl on it as wil cover it the thickne&s;s of two fingers, the Oyl wil &s;wim at top, and &s;o keep the Air from coming to it to putrifie it; when you intend to u&s;e it, do no more but &s;o, powr out into a Porrenger, a little more then you intend to u&s;e, and if any Oyl come out with it (as if the Gla&s;s be not ful 'tis a hun|dred to one if there do) you may ea&s;ily &s;cum it off with a Spoon, and put the Juyce you u&s;e not into the Gla&s;s again it wil quickly &s;ink under the Oyl: This is the fir&s;t way.</P>
<P>Secondly, the &s;econd way is a little more difficult, and the Juyce of Fruits is u&s;ually pre&s;erved this way, when you have clarified the Juyce as before, boil it over the fire, til (being cold) it be of the thickne&s;s of Honey, this is mo&s;t commonly u&s;ed for Di&s;ea&s;es of the Mouth, and is called <HI>Rob</HI> and <HI>Sapa.</HI></P>
<P>And thus much for the fir&s;t Section, the Second follows.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>SECT. II.</HI> The way of making and keeping all nece&s;&s;ary Compounds.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 1.</HI> Of Di&s;tilled waters.</HEAD>
<P>HItherto we have &s;poken of Medicines which con&s;i&s;t in their own Nature, which Authors vulgarly cal Simples, though &s;omthing improperly, for indeed and in truth, nothing is &s;imple but the
<PB N="385" REF="150"> pure Elements; all things el&s;e are compounded of them: We come now to treat of the Artificial Medicines, in the front of which (becau&s;e we mu&s;t begin &s;omwhere) we place Di&s;tilled Waters; in which con&s;ider.</P>
<P N="1">1. Waters are di&s;tilled our of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.</P>
<P N="2">2. We treat not of &s;trong Waters but of cold, as being to Act <HI>Galen</HI>'s Part and not <HI>Paracel&s;us.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The Herbs ought to be di&s;tilled when they are in their greate&s;t vigor and &s;o ought the Flowers al&s;o.</P>
<P N="3">3. The vulgar way of Di&s;tillation which people u&s;e, becau&s;e they know no better, is in a Peuter Still, and although Di&s;tilled Waters are the weak|e&s;t of al Artificial Medicines, &amp; good for little unle&s;s for mixtures of other Medicines, yet this way di&s;tilled they are weaker by many degrees than they would be, were they di&s;tilled in Sand: If I thought it not impo&s;&s;ible to teach you the way of di&s;tilling in Sand by writing, I would attempt it.</P>
<P N="5">5. When you have di&s;tilled your Water put it into a Gla&s;s, &amp; having bound the top of it over with a Paper pricked full of holes, that &s;o the excrementi|tious and fiery vapors may exhale (which indeed are they that cau&s;e that &s;etling in di&s;tilled Waters called the Mother, which corrupts the Waters and might this way be prevented) cover it clo&s;e and keep it for your u&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. Stopping di&s;tilled Waters with a Cork makes them mu&s;ty, and &s;o will a Paper al&s;o if it do but touch the Water, your be&s;t way then is to &s;top them with a Bladder, being fir&s;t wet in Water, and bound over the top of the Gla&s;s.</P>
<P>Such cold Waters as are di&s;tilled in a Peuter Still (if well kept) wil en|dure a year, &s;uch as are di&s;tilled in Sand, as they are twice as &s;trong, &s;o wil they endure twice as long.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 2.</HI> Of Syrups.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid form, compo&s;ed of Infu&s;ion, Decoction and Juyce: And 1. for the more grateful ta&s;t. 2. For the better keeping of it, with a certain quantity of Honey or Sugar; here|after mentioned boiled to the thickne&s;&s;e of new Honey.</P>
<P N="2">2. You &s;ee at the fir&s;t view that this Aphori&s;me divides it &s;elf into three Branches, which de&s;erves &s;everally to be treated of, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Syrups made by Infu&s;ion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Syrups made by Decoction.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Syrups made by Juyce.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Of each of the&s;e (for your In&s;tructions &s;ake kind Country men and wo|men) I &s;peak a word, or two or three apart.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Syrups made by Infu&s;ion are u&s;ually made of Flowers, and of &s;uch Flowers, as &s;oon loo&s;e both colour and &s;trength by boyling, as Ro&s;es Vio|lets, Peach-Flower-&amp;c. My Tran&s;lation of the <HI>London Dispen&s;atory</HI> wil in&s;truct you in the re&s;t: They are thus made, having picked your Flowers clean, to every pound of them ad three pound (or three pints, which you will for it is all one) of Spring Water made boyling hot by the fire, fir&s;t put your Flowers in a Peuter Pot with a cover, then pour the Water to them,
<PB N="386" REF="151"> then &s;hutting the Pot, let it &s;tand by the fire to keep hot twelve hours, then &s;train it out (in &s;uch Syrups as purge, as Damask Ro&s;es, Peach-Flowers, &amp;c. The u&s;uall and indeed the be&s;t way is to repeat this Infu&s;ion, adding fre&s;h Flowers to the &s;ame Liquor diver&s;e times that &s;o it may be the &s;trong|er) having &s;trained it out put the Infu&s;ion into a Peuter Ba&s;on, or an Ear|then one well gla&s;&s;ed, and to every pint of it, ad two pound of fine Sugar, which being only melted over the fire without boiling, and &s;cummed, will produce you the Syrup you de&s;ire.</P>
<P>Secondly, Syrups made by Decoction are u&s;ually u&s;ed of Compounds, yet may any Simple Herb be thus converted into Syrup; Take the Herb, Root or Flower you would make into Syrup and brui&s;e it a little, then boyl it in a convenient quantity of Spring Water, the more water you boyl in it the weaker wil it be, a handful of the Herb, Root, &amp;c. is a convenient quanti|ty for a pint of Water; boyl it till half the Water be con&s;umed, then let it &s;tand til it be almo&s;t cold, and &s;train it (being almo&s;t cold) through a woolen cloath, letting it run out at lei&s;ure without pre&s;&s;ing, to every pint of this De|coction ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it over the fire til it come to a Sy|rup, which you may know if you now and then cool a little of it in a Spoon &s;cum it all the while it boyls, and when it is &s;ufficiently boyled: whil&s;t it is hot &s;train it again through a Woolen cloth, but pre&s;&s;e it not; thus have you the Syrup perfected.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Syrups made of Juyces are u&s;ually made of &s;uch Herbs as are ful of Juyce, and indeed they are better made into a Syrup this way than any other; the Operation is thus, having beaten the Herb in a &s;tone Morter with a wooden Pe&s;tle, pre&s;&s;e out the Juyce and clarifie it as you were taught before in the Juyces, then let the Juyce boyl away til a quarter of it (or neer upon) be con&s;umed, to a pint of this ad a pound of Sugar, and boyl it to a Syrup, always &s;cumming it, and when it is boyled enough, &s;train it through a woolen cloath as we taught you before, and keep it for your u&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. If you make Syrups of Roots that are any thing hard, as Par&s;ley, Fen|nel, and gra&s;&s;e Roots, &amp;c. when you have brui&s;ed them, lay them in &s;teep &s;omtime in that Water which you intend to boyl them in, hot, &s;o will the Vertue the better come out.</P>
<P N="4">4. Keep your Syrups either in Gla&s;&s;es or &s;tone Pots, and &s;top them not with Cork, nor Bladder, unle&s;s you would have the Gla&s;s break and the Syrup lo&s;t; and as many Opinions as there are in this Nation, I &s;uppo&s;e there are but few or none of this, only bind a Paper about the mouth.</P>
<P N="5">5. All Syrups if well made will continue a year, with &s;ome advantage yet of all, &s;uch as are made by Infu&s;ion keep the lea&s;t while.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 3.</HI> Of Juleps.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. JUleps were fir&s;t invented as I &s;uppo&s;e in <HI>Arabia,</HI> and my rea&s;on is, be|cau&s;e the word <HI>Juleb</HI> is an Arabick word.</P>
<P N="2">2. It &s;ignifies only a plea&s;ant Potion, and was vulgarly u&s;ed (by &s;uch as were &s;ick and wanted help, or &s;uch as were in health, and wanted no money) to quench thir&s;t.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="387" REF="151">3. Now a daies 'tis commonly u&s;ed,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>To prepare the Body for Purgation</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>To open Ob&s;tructions, and the Pores.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>To dige&s;t tough Humors.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>To qualifie hot di&s;tempers, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="4">4. It is thus made (I mean Simple Juleps, for I have nothing to &s;ay to Compounds here; al Compounds have as many &s;everal Idea's as men have Crotchets in their Brain) I &s;ay Simple Juleps are thus made: Take a pint of &s;uch di&s;tilled Water as conduceth to the Cure of your di&s;temper, which this Treati&s;e wil plentifully furni&s;h you withal, to which ad two Ounces of Syrup conducing to the &s;ame effect (I &s;hal give you Rules for it in the la&s;t Chapter) mix them together, and drink a draught of it at your plea&s;ure; If you love tart things, ad ten drops of Oyl of Vitrol to your pint, and &s;hake it together, and it wil have a fine grateful ta&s;t.</P>
<P N="5">5. Al Juleps are made for pre&s;ent u&s;e, and therfore it is in vain to &s;peak of their duration.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap 4.</HI> Of Decoctions.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. AL the difference between Decoctions, and Syrups made by Deco|ction, is this, Syrups are made to keep, Decoctions only for pre|&s;ent u&s;e; for you can hardly keep a Decoction a week any time, if the wea|ther be hot, not half &s;o long.</P>
<P N="2">2. Decoctions are made of Leavs, Roots, Flowers, Seeds, Fruits, or Barks, conducing to the Cure of the Di&s;ea&s;e you make them for; in the &s;ame man|ner are they made as we &s;hewed you in Syrups.</P>
<P N="3">3. Decoctions made with Wine la&s;t longer than &s;uch as are made with Water, and if you take your Decoction to clen&s;e the Pa&s;&s;ages of Urine, or open Ob&s;tructions, your be&s;t way is to make it with white Wine in&s;tead of Water, becau&s;e this is mo&s;t penetrating.</P>
<P N="4">4. Decoctions are of mo&s;t u&s;e in &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es as lie in the Pa&s;&s;ages of the Body, as the Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys, Pa&s;&s;ages of Urine, and Blad|der, becau&s;e Decoctions pa&s;s quicker to tho&s;e places than any other form of Medicines.</P>
<P N="5">5. If you wil &s;weeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup, fit for the occa&s;ion you take it for, which is bitter, you may and no harm done.</P>
<P N="6">6. If in a Decoction you boyl both Roots, Herbs, Flowers, and Seeds together, let the Roots boyl a good while fir&s;t, becau&s;e they retain their ver|tue longe&s;t; then the next in order by the &s;ame Rule, viz. 1. Barks, 2. the Herbs, 3. the Seeds, 4. the Flowers, 5. the Spices if you put any in, be|cau&s;e their vertues comes &s;oone&s;t out.</P>
<P N="7">7. Such things as by boyling cau&s;e &s;limine&s;s to a Decoction, as Figs, Quince-&s;eeds, Lin&s;eed, &amp;c. your be&s;t way is, after you have brui&s;ed them, to tie them up in a linnen rag, as you tie up a Calves Brains, and &s;o boyl them.</P>
<P N="8">8. Keep al Decoctions in a Gla&s;s clo&s;e &s;topped, and in the cooler place you keep them, the longer wil they la&s;t ere they be &s;owr.</P>
<PB N="388" REF="152">
<P>La&s;tly, The u&s;ual Do&s;e to be given at one time, is u&s;ually two, three, four, or five ounces, according to the age and &s;trength of the Patient, the &s;ea&s;on of the year, the &s;trength of the Medicine, and the quality of the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 5.</HI> Of Oyls.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. OYL Olive, which is commonly known by the name of Sallet Oyl, I &s;uppo&s;e becau&s;e it is u&s;ually eaten with Sallets by them that love it; If it be pre&s;&s;ed out of ripe Olives, according to <HI>Galen</HI> is temperate, and exceeds in no one quality.</P>
<P N="2">2. Of Oyls, &s;ome are Simple, and &s;ome are Compounds.</P>
<P N="3">3. Simple Oyles are &s;uch as are made of Fruits or Seeds, by expre&s;&s;ion, as Oyl of &s;weet and bitter Almonds, Lin&s;eed, and Rape&s;eed Oyl, &amp;c. of which &s;ee my <HI>Dispen&s;atory.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Compound Oyls are made of Oyl of Olives and other Simples, ima|gine Herbs, Flowers, Roots, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="5">5. The way of making them is this, Having brui&s;ed the Herbs or Flo|wers you would make your Oyl of, put them in an earthen pot, and to two or three handfuls of them powr a pint of Oyl, cover the pot with a paper, and &s;et it in the Sun, about a fortnight or le&s;s according as the Sun is in hot|ne&s;s; then having warmed it very wel by the fire, pre&s;s out the Herbs, &amp;c. very hard in a pre&s;s, and ad as many more Herbs to the &s;ame Oyl, brui&s;ed (the Herbs I mean not the Oyl) in like manner, &s;et them in the Sun as be|fore, the oftner you repeat this, the &s;tronger wil your Oyl be; at la&s;t when you conceive it &s;trong enough, boyl both Herbs and Oyl together til the Juyce be con&s;umed, which you may know by its leaving its bubling, and the Herbs wil be cri&s;p, then &s;train it, whil&s;t it is hot, and keep it in a &s;tone or gla&s;s Ve&s;&s;el for your u&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. As for Chymical Oyls, I have nothing to &s;ay in this Treati&s;e.</P>
<P N="7">7. The General u&s;e of the&s;e Oyls is for pain in the Limbs, roughne&s;s of the skin, the itch, &amp;c. as al&s;o for Oyntments and Plai&s;ters.</P>
<P N="8">8. If you have occa&s;ion to u&s;e it for Wounds or Ulcers, in two ounces of Oyl, di&s;&s;olve half an once of Turpentine, the heat of the fire wil quickly do it, for Oyl it &s;elf is offen&s;ive to Wounds, and the Turpentine quali|fies it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 6.</HI> Of Electuaries.</HEAD>
<P>PHy&s;itians makes more a quoil then needs behalf about Electuaries: I &s;hal pre&s;cribe but one general way of making them up; as for the in|gredients you may vary them as you plea&s;e, and according as you find occa|&s;ion by the la&s;t Chapter.</P>
<P N="1">1. That you may make Electuaries when you need them, it is requi&s;ite that you keep alwayes Herbs, Roots, Seeds, Flowers, &amp;c. ready dried in your Hou&s;e, that &s;o you may be in readine&s;s to beat them into pouder when you need them.</P>
<P N="2">2. Your better way is to keep them whole than beaten, for being beaten
<PB N="389" REF="152"> they are the more &s;ubject to lo&s;e their &s;trength, becau&s;e the Air &s;oon pene|trates them.</P>
<P N="3">3 If they be not dry enough to beat into Pouder when you need them, dry them by a gentle fire til they are &s;o.</P>
<P N="4">4 Having beaten them, &s;ift them through a fine Tiffany Searce, that &s;o there may be no great pieces found in your Electuary.</P>
<P N="5">5 To one ounce of your Pouder, ad three ounces of clarified Honey; this quantity I hold to be &s;ufficient: I confe&s;s Authors differ about it. If you would make more or le&s;s Electuary, vary your proportions accordingly.</P>
<P N="6">6 Mix them wel together in a Mortar, and take this for a truth, You cannot mix them too much.</P>
<P N="7">7 The way to clarifie Honey, is to &s;et it over the fire in a convenient ve&s;&s;el til the &s;cum ari&s;e, and when the &s;cum is taken off, it is clarified.</P>
<P N="8">8 The u&s;ual do&s;e of Cordial Electuaries, is from half a dram to two drams; of Purging Electuaries, from half an ounce to an ounce.</P>
<P N="9">9 The manner of keeping them is in a Pot.</P>
<P N="10">10 The time of taking them, is either in the morning fa&s;ting, and fa|&s;ting an hour after them; or at night going to bed, three or four hours af|ter Supper.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 7.</HI> Of Con&s;erves.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe way of making Con&s;erves is Two-fold, one of Herbs and Flo|wers, and the other of Fruits.</P>
<P N="2">2. Con&s;erves of Herbs and Flowers are thus made: If you make your Con&s;erves of Herbs, as of Scurvy-gra&s;s, Wormwood, Rue, or the like take only the Leaves and tender tops (for you may beat your heart out be|fore you can beat the Stalks &s;mal) and having beaten them, weigh them-and to every pound of them ad three pound of Sugar, beat them very wel, together in a Mortar, you cannot beat them too much.</P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;erves of Fruits, as of Barberries, Sloes, and the like, is thus made: Fir&s;t &s;cald the Fruit, then rub the Pulp through a thick hair Sieve made for the purpo&s;e, called a Pulping Sieve; you may do it for a need with the back of a Spoon, then take this Pulp thus drawn, and ad to it its weight of Su|gar and no more, put it in a Peuter Ve&s;&s;el, and over a Charcoal fire &s;tir it up and down til the Sugar be melted, and your Con&s;erve is made.</P>
<P N="4">4. Thus have you the way of making Con&s;erves; the way of keeping of them, is in Eatrhen Pots.</P>
<P N="5">5. The Do&s;e is u&s;ually the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening, or (unle&s;s they be purging) when you plea&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. Of Con&s;erves, &s;ome keep many yeers, as Con&s;erves of Ro&s;es; others but a yeer, as Con&s;erves of Borrage, Buglo&s;s, Cow&s;lips, and the like.</P>
<P N="7">7. Have a care of the working of &s;ome Con&s;erves pre&s;ently after they are made, look to them once a day, and &s;tir them about; Con&s;erves of Borrage, Buglo&s;s, and Wormwood have gotten an excellent faculty at that &s;port.</P>
<P N="8">8. You may know when your Con&s;erves are almo&s;t &s;poiled by this, You &s;hal find a hard cru&s;t at top with little holes in it, as though Worms had been eating there.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="390" REF="153">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 8.</HI> Of Pre&s;erves.</HEAD>
<P>OF Pre&s;erves are &s;undry &s;orts, and the Operations of al being &s;om|thing different we wil handle them al apart.</P>
<P>There are pre&s;erved with Sugar,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Flowers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Fruits,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Roots.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Barks.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Flowers are but very &s;eldom pre&s;erved, I never &s;aw any that I remem|ber, &s;ave only Cow&s;lip Flowers, and that was a great fa&s;hion in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> when I was a Boy: It is thus done, fir&s;t, Take a flat Gla&s;s, we cal them Jar Gla&s;&s;es, &s;trew in a lain of fine Sugar, on that a lain of Flowers, on that another lain of Sugar, on that another lain of Flowers, do &s;o til your Gla&s;s be ful; then tie it over with a Paper, and in a little time you &s;hal have very excellent and plea&s;ant Pre&s;erves.</P>
<P>There is another way of Pre&s;erving Flowers, namely with Vinegar and Salt, as they pickle Capers and Broom Buds, but becau&s;e I have little skil in it my &s;elf I cannot teach you.</P>
<P N="2">2. Fruits, as Quinces and the like, are pre&s;erved two waies.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Boyl them wel in Water, and then pulp them through a Sieve as we &s;hewed you before; then with the like quantity of Sugar boyl the Water they were boyled in to a Syrup, viz. A pound of Suga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to a pint of Liquor; to every pound of this Syrup ad four ounces of the Pulp, then boyl it with a very gentle fire to the right con&s;i&s;tence, which you may ea&s;ily know if you drop a drop of it upon a Trencher, if it be enough it wil not &s;tick to your fingers when it is cold.</P>
<P>Secondly, Another way to pre&s;erve Fruits is this: Fir&s;t, pare off the rind, then cut them in halves and take out the Core; then boyl them in Water til they are &s;oft, if you know when Beef is boyled enough, you may ea&s;ily know when they are; then boyl the Water with its like weight of Su|gar into a Syrup, put the Syrup into a Pot, and put the boyled Fruit as whol as you left it when you cut it into it, and let it &s;o remain til you have oc|ca&s;ion to u&s;e it.</P>
<P N="3">3. Roots are thus pre&s;erved: Fir&s;t, &s;crape them very clean, and clen&s;e them from the Pith if they have any, for &s;ome Roots have not, as Eringo and the like; boyl them in Water til they be &s;oft, as we &s;hew you before in the Fruits, then boyl the Water you boyled the Roots in into a Syrup as we &s;hewed you before, then keep the Root: whol in the Syrup til you u&s;e them.</P>
<P N="4">4. As for Barks we have but few come to our hands to be done, and tho&s;e of tho&s;e few that I can remember, are Orranges, Lemmons, Citrons, and the outer Bark of Walnuts which grows without the Shel, for the Shels them&s;elves would make but &s;curvy Pre&s;erves: the&s;e be they I can remember, if there be any more put them into the Number.</P>
<P>The way of pre&s;erving the&s;e is not al one in Authors, for &s;ome are bitter, &s;ome are not; &s;uch as are bitter, &s;ay Authors, mu&s;t be &s;oaked in warm Wa|ter,
<PB N="391" REF="153"> often times changed til their bitter ta&s;t be fled; but I like not this way, and my rea&s;on is this, becau&s;e I dout when their bitterne&s;s is gone, &s;o is the Vertue al&s;o: I &s;hal then pre&s;cribe one common way, namely the &s;ame with the former, viz Fir&s;t boyl them whol til they be &s;oft, then make a Syrup with Sugar and the Liquor you boyled them in, and keep the Barks in the Syrup.</P>
<P N="5">5. They are kept in Gla&s;&s;es, or gla&s;&s;ed Pots.</P>
<P N="6">6. The pre&s;erved Flowers wil keep a year if you can forbear eating of them; the Roots and Barks much longer.</P>
<P N="7">7. This A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t was plainly and cleerly at fir&s;t invented for delicacy, yet came afterwards to be of excellent u&s;e in Phy&s;ick: For,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Hereby Medicines are made plea&s;ant for &s;ick and queazy Stomachs, which el&s;e would loath them.</P>
<P>Secondly, Hereby they are pre&s;erved from decaying a long time.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 9.</HI> Of Lohochs.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THat which the Arabians cal <HI>Lohoch,</HI> and the Greeks <HI>Eclegma,</HI> the Latins cal <HI>Linctus,</HI> and in plain Engli&s;h, &s;ignifies nothing el&s;e, but a thing to be licked up.</P>
<P N="2">2 Their fir&s;t invention was, to prevent and remedy afflictions of the Brea&s;t and Lungs, to clen&s;e the Lungs of flegm, and make it fit to be ca&s;t out.</P>
<P N="3">3 They are in Body thicker than a Syrup, and not &s;o thick as an Electua|ry.</P>
<P N="4">4 The manner of taking them, is often to take a little with a Liquoris &s;tick, and let it go down at lei&s;ure.</P>
<P N="5">5 They are ea&s;ily thus made: Make a Decoction of any Pectoral Herbs, the Treati&s;e wil furni&s;h you with enough, and when you have &s;trained it, with twice its weight of Honey or Sugar, boyl it to a Lohoch: If you are mole&s;ted with tough flegm, Honey is better than Sugar, and if you ad a little Vinegar to it you wil do wel, if not, I hold Sugar to be better than Honey.</P>
<P N="6">6 It is kept in Pots, and may be kept a yeer and longer.</P>
<P N="7">7 Its u&s;e is excellent for roughne&s;s of the Windpipe, Inflamations of the Lungs, Ulcers in the Lungs, difficulty of Breath, A&s;thmaes, Coughs and di&s;tillation of Humors.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 10.</HI> Of Oyntments.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 VArious are the waies of making Oyntments which Authors have left to po&s;terity, which I &s;hal omit, and quote one which is ea&s;ie&s;t to be made, and therfore mo&s;t beneficial to people that are ignorant in Phy|&s;ick, for who&s;e &s;akes I write this: It is thus done,</P>
<P>Brui&s;e tho&s;e Herbs, Flowers, or Roots you would make an Oyntment of, and to two handfuls of your brui&s;ed Herbs ad a pound of Hogs Grea&s; tried, or clen&s;ed from the Skins, beat them very wel together in a &s;tone Mortar with a wooden Pe&s;tle, then put it in a &s;tone Pot (the Herbs and Grea&s;e I
<PB N="392" REF="154"> mean, not the Mortar) cover it with a paper, and &s;et it either in the Sun, or &s;ome other warm place, three, four, or five daies, that it may melt; then take it out and boyl it a little, then whil&s;t it is hot, &s;train it out, pre&s;&s;ing it out very hard in a Pre&s;s, to this Grea&s;e ad as many more Herbs brui&s;ed as before, let them &s;tand in like manner as long, then boyl them as you did the former; if you think your Oyntment be not &s;trong enough you may do it the third and fourth time; yet this I tel you, the fuller of Juyce your Herbs are, the &s;ooner wil your Oyntment be &s;trong: the la&s;t time you boyl it, boyl it &s;o long til your Herbs be cri&s;p and the Juyce con&s;umed, then &s;train it, pre&s;&s;ing it hard in a Pre&s;s, and to every pound of Oyntment ad two ounces of Turpentine, and as much Wax, becau&s;e Grea&s;e is offen&s;ive to Wounds as wel as Oyl.</P>
<P N="2">2 Oyntments are vulgarly known to be kept in Pots, and wil la&s;t above a yeer, above two yeer.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 11.</HI> Of Plai&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THe Greeks made their Plai&s;ters of divers Simples, and put Mettals in mo&s;t of them, if not in al; for having reduced their Mettals in|to Pouder, they mixed them with that fatty &s;ub&s;tance whereof the re&s;t of the Plai&s;ter con&s;i&s;ted, whil&s;t it was yet hot, continually &s;tirring it up and down le&s;t it &s;hould &s;ink to the bottom; &s;o they continually &s;tirred it til it was &s;tiff; then they made it up in Rols, which when they need for u&s;e they could melt by the fire again.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Arabians made up theirs with Meals, Oyl, and Fat, which needed not &s;o long boyling.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Greeks Emplai&s;ters con&s;i&s;ted of the&s;e Ingredients: Mettals, Stones, divers &s;orts of Earth, Feces, Juyces, Liquoris, Seeds, Roots, Herbs, Excrements of Creatures, Wax, Rozin, Gums.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 12.</HI> Of Pulti&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 PUlti&s;&s;es are tho&s;e kind of things which the Latins call <HI>Catapla&s;ma|ta,</HI> and our learned Fellows, that if they can read Engli&s;h that's all, cal them <HI>Catapla&s;ms,</HI> becau&s;e 'tis a crabbed word few under&s;tand; it is in|deed a very fine kind of Medicine to ripen Sores.</P>
<P N="2">2 They are made of Herbs and Roots fitted to the Di&s;ea&s;e and Member afflicted, being chopped &s;mal and boyled in Water almo&s;t to a Jelly, then by adding a little Barley Meal, or Meal of Lupines, and a little Oyl, or rough Sheep Suet, which I hold to be better, &s;pread upon a cloath and ap|plied to the grieved place.</P>
<P N="3">3 Their u&s;e is to ea&s;e pains, to break Sores, to cool Inflamations, to di&s;|&s;olve hardne&s;s, to ea&s;e the Spleen, to concoct Humors, to di&s;&s;ipate &s;wel|lings.</P>
<P N="4">4 I be&s;eech you take this Caution along with you, U&s;e no Pulti&s;&s;es (if you can help it) that are of a heating Nature, before you have fir&s;t clen&s;ed the Body, becau&s;e they are &s;ubject to draw the Humors to them from every part of the Body.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="393" REF="154">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 13.</HI> Of Troches.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THe Latins cal them <HI>Placentulae,</HI> or little Cakes (and you might have &s;een what the Greeks cal them too, had not the la&s;t Edition of my <HI>London Dispen&s;atory</HI> been &s;o helli&s;hly printed; that's al the Common|wealth get by one Stationers printing anothers Copies, viz. To plague the Country with fal&s;e Prints, and di&s;grace the Author) the Greeks <GAP DESC="foreign">, and <GAP DESC="foreign">; they are u&s;ually little, round, flat Cakes, or you may make them &s;quare if you wil.</P>
<P N="2">2 Their fir&s;t invention was, that Pouders being &s;o kept might re&s;i&s;t the intromi&s;&s;ion of Air, and &s;o endure pure the longer.</P>
<P N="3">3 Be&s;ides, They are the ea&s;ier carried in the pockets of &s;uch as travel: Many a man (for example) is forced to travel who&s;e Stomach is too cold, or at lea&s;t not &s;o hot as it &s;hould be, which is mo&s;t proper, for the Stomach is never cold til a man be dead; in &s;uch a ca&s;e 'tis better to carry Troches of Wormwood, or of Galanga, in a paper in his pocket, and more convenient behalf than to lug a Galli-pot along with him.</P>
<P N="4">4 They are thus made: At night when you go to bed, Take two drams of fine Gum Tragacanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any di&s;tilled Water fitting the purpo&s;e you would make your Tro|ches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you &s;hal find it in &s;uch Gelly as Phy&s;itians cal Mu&s;&s;ilage; with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Pa&s;t, and that Pa&s;t into little Cakes called Troches.</P>
<P N="5">5 Having made them, dry them wel in the &s;hadow, and keep them in a Pot for your u&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. 14.</HI> Of Pills.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THey are called <HI>Pilulae,</HI> becau&s;e they re&s;emble little Bals; the Greeks cal them <HI>Catapotia.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 It is the Opinion of Modern Phy&s;itians, That this way of making up Medicines, was invented only to deceive the Pallat, that &s;o by &s;wallowing them down whol, the bitterne&s;s of the Medicine might not be perceived, or at lea&s;t it might not be un&s;ufferable; and indeed mo&s;t of their Pils, though not al, are very bitter.</P>
<P N="3">3 I am of a clean contrary Opinion to this: I rather think they were done up in this hard form, that &s;o they might be the longer in dige&s;ting, and my Opinion is grounded upon Rea&s;on too, not upon Fancy nor Hear|&s;ay. The fir&s;t invention of Pils was to purge the Head: now as I told you before, &s;uch imfirmities as lay neer the pa&s;&s;ages were be&s;t removed by De|coctions, becau&s;e they pa&s;s to the grieved part &s;oone&s;t; &s;o here, If the in|firmity lie in the Head or any other remote part, the be&s;t way is to u&s;e Pils, becau&s;e they are longer in dige&s;tion, and therfore the better able to cal the offending Humor to them.</P>
<P N="4">4 I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> I &s;hould tel you here a long Tale of Medicines working by Sympa|thy and Antipathy, you would not under&s;tand a word of it, they that are fit to make Phy&s;itians may find it in the Treati&s;e: All Modern Phy&s;itians
<PB N="394" REF="155"> know not what belonged to a Sympathetical Cure, no more than a Cuckoo knows what belongs to Flats and Sharps in Mu&s;ick, but follow the vulgar road, and cal it, a Hidden Quality, becau&s;e 'tis hid from the Eyes of Dun|ces; and indeed none but A&s;trologers can give a rea&s;on of it, and Phy&s;ick without Rea&s;on is like a Pudding without Fat.</P>
<P N="5">5 The way to make Pils is very ea&s;ie, for with the help of a Pe&s;tle and Morter, and a little diligence, you may make any Pouder into Pils, either with Syrup or the Jelly I told you of before.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>Chap. ult.</HI> The way of mixing Medicines according to the Cau&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e and part of the Body afflicted.</HEAD>
<P>THis being indeed the Key of the Work, I &s;hal be &s;omthing the more diligent in it: I &s;hal deliver my &s;elf thus,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 <HI>To the Vuglar.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>To &s;uch as &s;tudy A&s;trologie, or &s;uch as &s;tudy Phy&s;ick A&s;trologically.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to the Vulgar: Kind Souls, I am &s;orry it hath been your hard mi&s;hap to have been &s;o long trained in &s;uch Egyptian darkne&s;s, even dark|ne&s;s which to your &s;orrows may be felt: The vulgar Road of Phy&s;ick is not my Practice, and I am therfore the more unfit to give you ad|vice; and I have now puli&s;hed a little<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Galen's Art of Phy&s;ick.</NOTE> Book which wil ful|ly in&s;truct you, not only in the knowledg of your own Bodies, but al&s;o in fit Medicines to remedy each part of it when affli|cted; mean &s;ea&s;on take the&s;e few Rules to &s;tay your Stomachs.</P>
<P N="1">1 With the Di&s;ea&s;e, regard the Cau&s;e, and Part of the Body afflicted: for example, Suppo&s;e a Woman be &s;ubject to mi&s;carry through Wind, thus do,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 Look <HI>[Abortion]</HI> in the Table of Di&s;ea&s;es, and you &s;hal be directed by that how many Herbs prevent Mi&s;carriage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Look <HI>[Wind]</HI> in the &s;ame Table, and you &s;hal &s;ee how many of tho&s;e Herbs expel Wind.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The&s;e are the Herbs Medicinal for your G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ief.</P>
<P N="2">2 In al Di&s;ea&s;es &s;trengthen the part of the Body afflicted.</P>
<P N="3">3 In mixed Di&s;ea&s;es there lies &s;ome difficulty, for &s;omtimes two parts of the Body are afflicted with contrary Humors the one to the other; &s;om|times one part is afflicted with two contrary Humors, as &s;omtimes the Li|ver is afflicted with Choller and Water, as when a man hath both a Drop&s;ie and the yellow Jaundice, and this is u&s;ually mortal.</P>
<P>In the former, &s;uppo&s;e the Brain be too cold and moi&s;t, and the Liver too hot and dry, thus do,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1 Keep your Head outwardly warm.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Accu&s;tom your &s;elf to &s;mel of hot Herbs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 Take a Pil that heats the Head at night going to Bed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 In the morning take a Decoction that cools the Liver, for that quick|ly pa&s;&s;eth the Stomach, and is at the Liver immediately.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>You mu&s;t not think (Courteous People) that I can &s;pend time to give you examples of al Di&s;ea&s;es; the&s;e are enough to let you &s;ee &s;o much light as you without Art are able to receive: If I &s;hould &s;et you to look upon the Sun I &s;hould dazle your Eyes, and make you blind.</P>
<PB N="395" REF="155">
<P>Secondly, To &s;uch as &s;tudy A&s;trology (who are the only men I know that are fit to &s;tudy Phy&s;ick, Phy&s;ick without A&s;trology, being like a Lamp without Oyl) You are the Men I exceedingly re&s;pect, and &s;uch Documents as my Brain can give you at pre&s;ent (being ab&s;ent from my &s;tudy) I &s;hal give you, and an Example to &s;hew the proof of them.</P>
<P N="1">1 Fortifie the Body with Herbs of the Nature of the lord of the A&s;cen|dent, 'tis no matter whether he be a Fortune or an Infortune in this ca&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2 Let your Medicin be &s;omthing Antipathetical to the lord of the Sixth.</P>
<P N="3">3 Let your Medicin be &s;omthing of the Nature of the Sign a&s;cending.</P>
<P N="4">4 If the lord of the Tenth be &s;trong, make u&s;e of his Medicines.</P>
<P N="5">5 If this cannot wel be, make u&s;e of the Medicines of the light of time.</P>
<P N="6">6 Be &s;ure alwaies fortifie the grieved part of the Body by Sympathetical Remedies.</P>
<P N="7">7. Regard the Heart, keep that upon the Wheels becau&s;e the Sun is the Fountain of Life, and therefore tho&s;e univer&s;al Remedies <HI>Aurum potabile,</HI> and the Phylo&s;ophers Stone, cure al Di&s;ea&s;es by only fortifying the Heart.</P>
<P>But that this may appear unto you as cleer as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian, I here quote you an example, which I performed when I was as far off from my Study as I am now, yet am I not a&s;hamed the World &s;hould &s;ee how much or little of my Le&s;&s;on I have learned without Book.</P>
<P>On <HI>July,</HI> 25. 1651. there came a Letter to me out of <HI>Bedford&s;hire,</HI> from a Gentleman (at that time) altoge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her to me unknown, though &s;ince wel known, who was a Student both in <HI>A&s;trology</HI> &amp; <HI>Phy&s;ick:</HI> the words are the&s;e,</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>M^r.</HI> Culpeper,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY Love remembred unto you, although I know you not by face, yet be|cau&s;e I do much respect that pretty little Lark you &s;o lately let fly into the World, which you cal <HI>Semiotica Uranica,</HI> which I have lately taken in|to my Cage; I am therfore imboldened to write unto you in the behalf of a Neighbors Wife, who is taken with a violent Di&s;ea&s;e which began in the lo|wer parts of her Body, but is now a&s;cended upwards, and tormenteth her in her Brea&s;t, Throat, Tongue, and Lips: This Di&s;ea&s;e took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of her (as &s;he relateth to me) about a fortnight before <HI>Michaelmas</HI> la&s;t, but the certain day and hour &s;he is not able to nominate; &s;he &s;ent for me, and enquired whe|ther &s;he were not under an ill Tongue or not, or of what nature the Di&s;ea&s;e was? I have &s;ent you the inclo&s;ed Scheam, I could find but one te&s;timony of Fa&s;cination or Witchcraft, which was one Sign po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the Cu&s;ps of the Twelfth and Fir&s;t Hou&s;es, which to me holds forth no more than a &s;trong &s;u|&s;pition of the Querent: However I am confident there is a Natural Di&s;ea&s;e which hurts much, becau&s;e the Lord of the Sixt, which u&s;ually gives &s;ignifi|cation of Natural Di&s;ea&s;es, is now placed in the A&s;cendent; but at pre&s;ent I forbear to make any large di&s;cour&s;e of my own Opinions, being de&s;irous that you would endeavor your Skil in this Cure, for there is not a Doctor of them all far or neer that have been &s;o skilful to find out the Di&s;ea&s;e, much le&s;s to effect the Cure. Sir, I expect your An&s;wer; mean time bid you farewel, and remain yours in Affection, &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="396" REF="156">
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<P>The inclo&s;ed Scheam.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>My An&s;wer to the Letter, was to this effect:</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Received yours, <HI>July 25.</HI> wherin I find your enclo&s;ed Scheam, and (I &s;uppo&s;e) the Nature of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and have &s;ent you &s;uch an An&s;wer as I could, being far from my Study, which I entreat you to take in good part, being <HI>Fe&s;tinanti calamo Con&s;cripta.</HI> As for the ignorance of your Country Doctors, they wanting the true Judgment of A&s;trologie, is to me no wayes admirable; I perceive you to be a yong man by the time of your Gene&s;is, which you al&s;o &s;ent me, beware whom ye tru&s;t with that, he that knows your Nati|vity knows when ill Directions operate, and if he be an enemy, knows when to do you a mi&s;chief; If <HI>Cecil</HI> had not had <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> his Nativity, he had ne|ver gotten his Head off, but to in&s;truct you being a yong Student, I &s;hal give you my Judgment Methodically.</P>
<P><HI>Diacritica.]</HI> You &s;ay you can find no Arguments of Witchcraft, but only one Sign po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the Cu&s;ps of both Twelfth and A&s;cendent, but if you had re|garded the Propinquity of <HI>Venus</HI> to <HI>Saturn,</HI> you would have made another of that, yet do not <HI>I</HI> think &s;he is bewitched, becau&s;e of other more prevalent te|&s;timonies;
<PB N="397" REF="156"> the <HI>Moon</HI> pa&s;&s;ing from the beams of <HI>Mars</HI> to the beams of <HI>Venus,</HI> may &s;eem to give &s;ome &s;uspition of Hone&s;ty, and the Di&s;ea&s;e to come that way, which is encrea&s;ed by <HI>Mars</HI> his being in the A&s;cendent in <HI>Scorpio,</HI> and the Dragons Tayl upon the Cusp, yet I can hardly beleeve this, for <HI>Cauda</HI> in a humane Sign u&s;ually gives &s;landers and not tales of Truth; 'tis a hundred to one if &s;he &s;uffer not in point of good name by the vulgar [this was too true] Be&s;ides, the nearne&s;s of <HI>Venus</HI> to <HI>Saturn</HI> may wel &s;hew trouble of Mind, and it being in the Ninth Hou&s;e, pray enquire whether &s;he have not been troubled about fome Tenents in Religion [the trouble of mind was true, but it was about a &s;tranger, which the Ninth Hou&s;e al&s;o &s;ignifies.]</P>
<P><HI>Diagno&s;tica.] Venus,</HI> Lady of the Twelfth, and A&s;cendent, and Eighth, &s;hews her alwayes to be her own foe in respect of Health; and truly I beleeve the originol of the Di&s;ea&s;e was a Surfet either by eating moi&s;t Fruits, or el&s;e by catching wet in travelling; <HI>Venus</HI> with <HI>Saturn</HI> who is in &s;quare to the A&s;cendent troubles her Brea&s;ts with tough Flegm and Melancholly: Be&s;ides, there being a mo&s;t forcible reception betwen the <HI>Moon</HI> and <HI>Venus</HI> from fruit|ful &s;igns, I que&s;tion whether &s;he be not with Child or not, the <HI>Moon</HI> being in the Fifth Hou&s;e, <HI>Mars</HI> is Lord of the Di&s;ea&s;e, really in the <HI>Scorpion,</HI> and ac|cidentally in the A&s;cendent, together with <HI>Aries</HI> on the Sixt, &s;hew the Di&s;|ea&s;e keeps his Court in the Womb, and accidentally afflicts the Head from thence, &s;o that heat of the Womb mu&s;t needs be cau&s;e of the pre&s;ent di&s;tem|per, and <HI>Mars</HI> in a moi&s;t Sign in the fir&s;t neer the &s;econd, may wel denote heat, and breaking out about her Face and Throat.</P>
<P><HI>Progno&s;tica.]</HI> Whether &s;he wil be Curable or not, or how, or when the Di&s;ea&s;e wil End, is our next Point? Truly I can &s;ee no danger of Death, the <HI>Moon</HI> being &s;trong in her Hain, and applying by Trine with a &s;trong recepti|on to the Lady of the A&s;cendent; yet this is certain, <HI>Mars</HI> &s;trong in a fixed &s;ign wil maintain the Di&s;ea&s;e &s;toutly, her hopes wil be but &s;mal when <HI>Venus</HI> comes to the Body of <HI>Saturn, viz. Augu&s;t. 2.</HI> for &s;he wil be overpre&s;&s;ed with Melancholly, the time I &s;uppo&s;e of her Cure may be (if good cour&s;es be taken) when <HI>Mars</HI> leavs the Sign he is in, and comes to the place where the Body of <HI>Jupiter</HI> is, or at lea&s;t then it may turn to another Di&s;ea&s;e more propitious: the <HI>Sun</HI> &s;trong in the Tenth &s;hews &s;he may be Cured by Medicine, and he being exalted in the Seventh, and caput there, I do not know but you are as likely a man to do it, as any.</P>
<P><HI>Indicationes Curativae.]</HI> It is confe&s;&s;ed here that the Sun being exceeding &s;trong in the tenth Hou&s;e, &s;hould naturally &s;ignifie the curative Medicine, and as true that the evill of <HI>Mars, viz.</HI> Heat of the Womb, and a &s;alt hu|mor in the bloud ought to be removed before you meddle with the tough Flegm in the Brea&s;t, but yet &s;eeing the Di&s;ea&s;e &s;eems rather to participate of offen|ding heat than any other Simple quality, you mu&s;t have a care of hot Medi|cines le&s;t you go about <HI>ignem olea extinguere,</HI> the Medicines mu&s;t fir&s;t be cool, Secondly, &s;trengthening the Womb, Thirdly, repre&s;&s;ing the vapors, Fourthly, of the nature of <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Venus.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Therapeutice.]</HI> To this intent I fir&s;t commend unto you &s;tinking Arrach, a patern whereof I have &s;ent you here inclo&s;ed, you may find it upon Dung|hils,
<PB N="398" REF="157"> e&s;pecially &s;uch as are made of Hor&s;-dung: It is cold and moi&s;t, an Herb of <HI>Venus</HI> in the Scorpion; al&s;o <HI>Ros Solis</HI> an Herb of the <HI>Sun,</HI> and un|der the Coele&s;tial Crab, may do very wel, and the better becau&s;e <HI>Venus</HI> is in <HI>Cancer:</HI> It grows upon bogs in untilled places, and is in flower about this time: It grows very low, with roundi&s;h green Leavs full of red hairs, and is fulle&s;t of dew when the Sun is hote&s;t, whence it took its name; to the&s;e you may ad Tan&s;ie, which I take to be an Herb of <HI>Venus</HI> in <HI>Libra,</HI> and Let|tice if you plea&s;e which is an Herb of the <HI>Moon, Mars</HI> having his fall in <HI>Cancer</HI> they are all harmle&s;&s;e, you may u&s;e them according to your own di&s;|cretion: al&s;o Orpine, another Herb of the <HI>Moon</HI> is very good in this ca&s;e.</P>
<P>Sir, I wi&s;h you wel, and if you e&s;teem of my Lark above his de&s;erts, I pray trim his Feathers from him (correct the Errors by the Errata) el&s;e will he make but unplea&s;ing mu&s;ick. Thus remains yours, &amp;c.</P>
<P>I the rather cho&s;e this Figure to judg of, becau&s;e none &s;hould have ju&s;t occa&s;ion to &s;ay of us A&s;trologers that we do as Phy&s;itians vulgar practice is, when they judg of Pi&s;s; pump what they can out of the Querent, and then judg by his words; of which I will rehears you one merry &s;tory, and &s;o I will conclude the Book.</P>
<P>A Woman who&s;e Husband had brui&s;ed him&s;elf, took his water and away to the Doctor trots &s;he; the Doctor takes the Water and &s;hakes it about, <HI>How long hath this party been ill</HI> (&s;aith he) Sr. &s;aith the Woman, <HI>He</HI> hath been ill the&s;e two dayes, This is a mans water quoth the Doctor pre&s;ently, this he learned by the word <HI>HE;</HI> then looking on the water he spied bloud in it, the man hath had a brui&s;e &s;aith he, I indeed &s;aith the Woman, my Husband fell down a pair of &s;tairs backwards, then the Doctor knew wel enough that what came fir&s;t to danger mu&s;t needs be his back and &s;houlders, &s;aid, the brui&s;e lay there; the woman &s;he admired at the Doctors skill, and told him, that if he could tel her one thing more &s;he would account him the able&s;t Phy&s;itian in <HI>Europe;</HI> wel, what was that? How many &s;tairs her Husband fell down this was a hard Que&s;tion indeed, able to puzle a &s;tronger Brain than Mr. Doctor had, to pumping goes he, and having taken the Urinell and given it a &s;hake or two, enquires whereabout &s;he lived, and knowing wel the place, and that the Hou&s;es thereabouts were but low built Hou&s;es, made an&s;wer (af|ter another view of the Urine for fa&s;hions &s;ake) that probably he might fall down &s;even or eight &s;tairs, ah, quoth the woman, now I &s;ee you know no|thing, my Husband fell down thirty; thirty I quoth the Doctor, and &s;nat|ching up the &V;rinell, is here all the Water &s;aith he? no &s;aith the Woman, I spilt &s;ome of it in putting of it in, look you there quoth Mr. Doctor, there were all the other &s;tairs &s;pilt.</P>
<P>Yet mi&s;take me not, I do not deny but &s;uch who&s;e daily experience is to judg waters, and u&s;ually judg a hundred in a day may know &s;omthing by them: If any thing may be known by Urine, I am &s;ure it may by Art, put them both together, <HI>vis unita fortior.</HI> Thus I take my leave of you; be diligent and I am yours.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nich. Culpeper.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="index">
<PB REF="157">
<HEAD>The TABLE of DISEASES.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="A" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>ABortion, 36 328 352.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Adders, 70 362.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Afterbirth, 23 25 42 64 69 82 98 104 130 144 166 294 299 328 359 368.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Aconitum. 300.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agues, 6 7 13 17 19 23 23 31 33 45 46 60 67 73 84 94 96 99 105 106 112 113 121 130 131 134 136 142 147 150 158 169 192 307 307 323 325 333 341 345 347 349 350 353 355 365 367 368 369 378.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ague in the Brea&s;t, 11.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Andicomes, 42 170.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Apo&s;thumes, 65 86 96 105 111 128 139 174 362.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Appetite procure, 10 23 31 33 61 64 136 153 302 310 317 343.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Appetite lo&s;t, 112 117 141 342.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arteries, 26 28 50 119.</ITEM>
<ITEM>St. Anthonies fire. 4 29 67 73 77 90 117 122 123 137 151 306 307 316 325 349 373.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Almonds of the Ears, 36 54 171.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ach, 300 312 350 368.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Adu&s;t Choller, 56 88.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Adu&s;t Melancholl, 110.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;thma, 141 373.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Apoplexy, 140 143 157 161 192 368.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arm-pits ill &s;cent, 314 354.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="B" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Blindne&s;s, 146 324</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blows, 152 154.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Belly-ach, 153 168 353 362</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bones out of Joynt, 301.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bla&s;tings by Lightning, 307.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Burning by gun-powder, 307</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bloodie Urine, 308.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Biting of Rats and Mice, 376</ITEM>
<ITEM>Baldne&s;s, 29 93 151 191 369 379.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Barrenne&s;s, 15 56 140 171.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Belly, 22 26 53 114 136 143 147 150 151 165 170 194 300 302.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Belly openeth, 20 309 318.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Belly binding, 318 318 322</ITEM>
<ITEM>Belching, 48.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breath difficult, 2 325.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Biting of mad dogs, 3 13 22 31 50 102 112 131 299 301.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Venemous bea&s;ts, 3 4 13 20 24 31 35 50 56.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Serpents, 6 9 19 20 22 301 314 329.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ea&s;eth pains of the back, 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Strengthens the back. 4.</ITEM>
<PB REF="158">
<ITEM>Brui&s;es inward, 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brea&s;t clen&s;eth, 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cut and clen&s;e tough Hu|mors of the Brea&s;t, 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breakings-out in any part of the bodie, 9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bur&s;ten, 22 330 345 358.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blains, 105.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Binding, 10 11 32 34 76 103 121 166 173 191 302 349 357 369.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Beauty, 58 76 77 93 115 331.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breath, 160 160.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breath &s;hort, 12 22 25 27 42 94.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breath &s;tinking 29 320 342 344 354 379</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bleeding 5 14 17 28 31 36 46 46 48 55 67 70 76 103 106 124 127 131 132 138 140 145 149 156 163 163 167 172 172 191 297 309 325 328 330 332 340 349 360 363 365 372</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bleeding in the Mouth, 5 14 17 32 301 308 357 371</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bleeding at the No&s;e, 5 14 17 31 301 357 371</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bleeding by Leeches &s;taies, 26</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bleeding inward 27 28 36 55</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blood 129 308 323 323 360</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blood cooleth 23 71 307 317</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blood ill 39</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blood purgeth 43 368</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bloody Flux 6 22 23 37 41 46 67 70 71 102 103 106 108 115 117 120 134 135 137 138 139 145 165 167 187 308 313 323 329 332 348 357 371 379</ITEM>
<ITEM>Black and blue &s;pots 2 35 52 57 63 169 192 331 376</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bowels 57 75 80 141 316</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bees 132 151</ITEM>
<ITEM>Black Jaundice 45 343 351</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bladder 44 50 77 83 98 100 102 117 121 144 151 365 367</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bli&s;ters 29 80 309 344</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bli&s;ters to draw 80</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brea&s;t 75 83 103 107 153 194 364</ITEM>
<ITEM>Back 69 77 170 317 367 368</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brain 19 21 53 68 78 92 96 113 132 136 140 143 292 292 300</ITEM>
<ITEM>Burning 4 11 17 23 28 29 41 73 83 93 93 122 133 135 141 144 187 293 295 298 301 328 351 363</ITEM>
<ITEM>Blemi&s;hes 103</ITEM>
<ITEM>Births 166</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brui&s;es 2 3 17 30 40 47 57 63 67 83 86 98 112 134 140 148 152 169 171 187 193 331 333 340 358 360</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bots 112</ITEM>
<ITEM>Boyls 23 31 32 68 147 168 327 343</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bees &s;tinging 335</ITEM>
<PB REF="158">
<ITEM>Brea&s;ts 74 105 159 300</ITEM>
<ITEM>Broken bones 42 44 47 74 85 96 98 100 106 114 134 163 331 338</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="C" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Carbuncles, 335 338 369.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ca&s;ting 5 317 340.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conception helpeth, 56 328.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chollerick Pu&s;hes, 73.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Fluxes, 307.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Corruption, 75</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chollerick humors, 105 298 350.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Counter poy&s;on, 136 345 360.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;umption of the Lungs, 153 327.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Catarrhs, 158 306 312 348.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Che&s;t, 170.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cachexia 7 1075 84.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cancers, 6 19 58 71 104.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cantharides, 35 174.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cankers, 9 29 36 42 48 50 51 54 55 67 85 91 95 103 107 108 118 138 139 165 170 301 312 329 335 335 341 350 350 356.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Child birth, 31 100.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chops, 303 327 370.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clen&s;ing, 29 84 87 109 189 365.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clen&s;e the blood, 70.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clen&s;e the body of &s;harp hu|mors that cau&s;e the itch and &s;cabs, 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chincough, 152 358.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chollick, 6 12 20 22 34 53 57 61 89 93 96 98 99 107 118 121 124 128 133 136 140 168 170 189 390 302 303 309 319 334 336 351 369.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wind Chollick, 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cough, 6 12 25 31 33 39 42 61 64 67 73 78 98 100 102 103 107 113 120 123 129 130 132 136 144 147 149 151 153 165 167 170 171 186 187 189 190 292 293 300 303 307 313 320 325 329 334 337 359 364 365 369.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cough in children, 314.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cattel poy&s;oned, 127.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Choller in the &s;tomach. 118.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Choller, 10 23 23 34 60 75 83 92 97 99 106 110 114 124 126 134 139 142 150 153 159 302 310 315 316 323 350 361 363 369 375.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Choller black, 22.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Choller purgeth, 3</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cold, 31 53 47 155 164 171 300 337 370.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chilblains, 29 102 125 137.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cods, 26 125 137 151 128 359 371.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Congealed blood, 2 17 69 90 101 102.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cools, 11 32 50 61 103 121 357.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cools the Liver, 307.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Convul&s;ion, 3 20 26 31 42
<PB REF="159"> 52 61 65 77 91 95 106 111 112 113 114 119 122 136 140 152 164 167 194 336 345 356 373.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cramp, 3 20 26 41 42 52 53 61 65 77 95 100 106 111 112 113 114 122 136 140 152 155 164 166 167 171 294 300 308 323 329 336 345 350 352 359 378.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;umption, 39 41 42 50 50 84 113 130 136 144 192 301 320 328.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Corns, 132 172.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clotted blood 63 86 323.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Co&s;tivene&s;s, 66.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Corrosion, 105.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Curdled milk, 26 187.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cut fingers, 342.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="D" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Drousine&s;s, 320.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All &s;udden Di&s;ea&s;es, 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;&s;ine&s;s of the head, 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Draw forth the dead child, 4.</ITEM>
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<LIST>
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<ITEM>Expel the plague 8</ITEM>
<ITEM>Expel venom or poy&s;on 8</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Eyes watering 9</ITEM>
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<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Flies to keep them from &s;ores of Cattel 18</ITEM>
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<PB REF="160">
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<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Gout in the knees 8</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gout in the feet 8</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Green &s;ickne&s;s 60</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Guts 301</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Groyn 168</ITEM>
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<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Hair, to turn it yellow 23</ITEM>
<ITEM>High color 35</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hectick Feaver 41</ITEM>
<ITEM>Heat 84 108 122 132 139 139 305 316</ITEM>
<ITEM>Head &s;ore 102 160</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Head 19 36 38 57 68 77 114
<PB REF="160"> 140 153 153 159 292 295 298 320 325</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Hemlock 111 172</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Hips 359</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hurts 360</ITEM>
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<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Infection, to pre&s;erve from it 12 317 338 369</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Inflamations in wounds 308</ITEM>
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<HEAD>K</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>M</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<PB REF="161">
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<ITEM>Mandrakes 172</ITEM>
<ITEM>Matrix 36 316</ITEM>
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<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Nettles 132</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neck 356</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Noli me tangere 103</ITEM>
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<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<PB REF="162">
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<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<LIST>
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<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Radical moi&s;ture 41</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Rai&s;e bli&s;ters 31</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Running &s;ores 335</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Red Faces 65 83 132 348</ITEM>
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<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<LIST>
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<ITEM>Sadne&s;s 99 368</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sore Brea&s;ts 103 307</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stinking waters 111 194</ITEM>
<ITEM>Strengthens Nature 113</ITEM>
<ITEM>Speech lo&s;t 143</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Sucking Children 187</ITEM>
<ITEM>Swollen Gums 308</ITEM>
<PB REF="163">
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<ITEM>Short winded 364</ITEM>
<ITEM>Superfluous fle&s;h 372</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Sneezing 107 154 169 192</ITEM>
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<PB REF="163">
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<ITEM>Griping pains in the &s;tomach 8</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Stomach cooleth 23</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stoppings 9 19 89</ITEM>
<ITEM>Surfets 13 51 145 306 376</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Stone 3 20 20 24 26 31 34 37 43 44 45 46 50 50 52 62 66 66 69 89 99 102 106 112 115 116 117 122 127 131 135 136 137 141 149 151 155 160 163 165 172 184 187 188 188 190 293 299 302 302 311 313 315 318 323 326 333 334 335 342 343 344 345 346 350 352 355</ITEM>
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