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ground_n	flower_n	seed_n	small_a	3,159	5	5.9464	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01831	The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children, newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayre; Sommaire et entretènement de vie. English	Goeurot, Jean.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523. Régime contre la peste.	1550 (1550)	STC 11970; ESTC S109504	120,493	394

Clout● wette in the sayde decoccion and la● about the members helpeth Of bloude shotten eyes and other infyrmityes SOmetyme the eyes a● bloudeshotten and oth● whiles encreasing a fil● and white humour cou●ring the sight the cause● often of to much crying for the whi● it is good to drop in the eyes a litle the iuyce of nighteshade other w● called morel and to annoint the for head with the same and if the iye sw● to wette a cloute in the i●ice and 〈◊〉 white of egges and lay it to the gre● If the humoure bee clammyshe a● tough and cleueth to the corners o● eyes so that the chylde can not open them after his slepe it shalbe remoued with the iuyce of housleke dropped on the eye with a fether When the eye is bloudeshotten and ●edde it is a singuler remedye to putte in it the bloude of a yonge pigion or a doue or a partriche eyther hoate from the bird or els dried and made in pouder as subtyl as maye be possible A playster for swellyng and payne of the eyes Take quinces and cromes of white head and seeth them in water tyl thei be softe then stampe them and with a litle saffron and the yolkes of twoo egges make a playster to the childes ●yes and forehead Ye may let him al● receiue the fume of that decoction It is also good in the meigrim yf ye ●il haue further loke in the regiment of lyfe in the declaracion of paynes of ●he heade Of watryng eyes IF the chyldes eyes water ouermuche without● crying by reason of a distillacion comming from the head Manardus teacheth a goodlye playster to restrayne the reumes and is made thus Hartes horne brent to pouder and washed twise guaiacū otherwise called lignum sanctum corticum thuris antimonie of eche one part muske the iii. part of one parte make a fine pouder and vse it with the iuyce or water of fenel These thinges haue vertue to staunche the running of the eyes Th● shelles of snayles brent the ticke tha● is found in the dugges of kyne phily● pendula frankensence the white o● an egge laied vpon y e forehead flewor● or the water wherin it is steped tutie y e water of duddes of oke stilled bea● floure finely sisted and with the gūm● of a cheritree steped in vineger lay● ouer al the temples ¶ Of scabbynesse and ytche SOmetyme by reason of excesse of heate or sharpenesse in the milke throughe the nourses eatyng of salt eygre meates it happenethe that a chylde is sene full of ytche by rubbing fretyng and chafyng of it selfe encresyng a scabbe called of the Grekes Psora whyche thynge also chaunceth vnto many after they be weaned procedinge of salte and aduste humoures the cure wherof dyfferethe in none other but according to the difference of age for in a sucking babe y e medicines may not be so sharpe as it may be suffered in one that is alredye weaned Against suche vnkinde ytche ye maye make an oyntment thus Take water of betony .ii. good handfulles daysye leaues alehofe otherwyse called tūnour or ground yuye of eche one handfull the red docke rotes two or thre stampe them al togyther and grinde them wel then mingle thē with fresshe grese and againe stampe them Let them so stande .viii. daies to putrifye tyll it be hore then frye them out and strayne them and kepe it for the same entent Thys oyntment hath a greate effecte both in yong and olde and that without repercussion or dryuing backe of the matter whyche shoulde be a peryllouse thyng for a yong chld The herbe water betonye alone is a greate medicyne to quenche al vnkind heates without daūger or the sething of it in cleare well water to annoynte the membres It is a commen herbe groweth by ryuers sydes smal renning waters and wette places arysīg many tymes the heygth of a mā out of the grounde where he reioyseth with a stalke foure square and many braūches on euery syde and also it beareth a whytysh blewe flowre very smal in haruest it hath innumerable seedes blacke and as fyne as the seed of tutsone or lesse the leues bygge and lōg accordyng to the ground ful of iuyce iagged on the sides lyke a sawe euen as other betonye to whom it approcheth in figure obtemeth his name of water betony The sauoure of the leafe is somwhat heauye moste lyke to y e sauoure of elders or walwort but when it is brused it is more pleasaūt whych thyng induceth me to vary frō the myndes of them that thynke this herbe to be Galiopsis in Dioscorides wrytten of hym that it shulde stynke when it is stamped but the more this herbe is stamped the more swete and herbelyke it sauoureth therfore it can not be galeopsis and besides that it is neuer founde in drye and stony groūd as the Galiopsis is Neyther is thys herbe mencyoned of the newe or olde authours as farre as I can see but of only Vigo y e famous surgion of oure tyme in Italye whych wryteth on it that this herbe exceadeth al other in a malo mortuo so calleth he a kynde of ●eprye elephantyk or an vniuersal fylthy scabbe of all the body and in lyke maner he sayeth it is good for to cure a canker in the breastes Ye maye reade these thīges in his second boke Capitul .iii. and his fifte booke of the Frenche pockes in the thyrd chapter where he doth describe thys aforesaid herbe with so manyfeste tokens that no mā wil doubt it to be water betony conferryng the boke and the herbe duly togither Moreouer he nameth in Italye a brydge where it growethe in the water in greate aboundaunce and is called of y t nacion Alabeueratore which in dede the Italtons that come hyther and knowe both the place and the herbe doe affyrme playnely it is our water betony And where as he allegeth Dioscorides in climeno which by cōtemplaciō of both hath but smal affiniti or none with this herbe it was for nothinge els but lack of the tōges which faute is not to be so highly rebuked in a mā of his study applying him selfe more in the practyse of surgery to handye operaciō wherin in dede he was nere incomparable then he did to search y e variaūce of tonges rather regarded to declare y e operaciō of thinges with truthe then to dispute vpon the propertyes or names with eloquence Thus haue I declyned agayne from my matter partly to shewe y e descripcion of thys holesome herbe partelye to satisfie the mindes of y e surgions in Vigo whiche haue hitherto redde the sayd places in vayne and furthermore bicause ther is yet none that declareth manyfestly the same herbe ¶ An other remedye for scabbes and ytche Take the rootes of dockes and frye thē in fresh grese then put to it a quātitie of brimstone in pouder and vse to rubbe the places twise or thrise a day Brimstone poudred souped in a rere