excellent Lithontripick being powder'd and taken in Small Beer or Posset-drink The Leaves are applied outwardly to old Sores and to Burns The Seed powder'd and taken forty Days together cures the Hip-Gout 'T is said it provokes Venery Take of the Seeds of Bur-dock two Drams of Wild-Carrot-Seeds one Dram of Salt of Amber one Dram of Oyl of Nutmegs half a Scruple Balsamum Capivii a sufficient quantity make small Pills take four Morning and Evening This is a good Diuretick Medicine But the Root is chiefly us'd Take of the Roots of Bur-dock three Ounces of Sarsaparilla six Ounces of the Wood of Guaiacum three Ounces of the Bark of the same one Ounce of the Roots of Notty China three Ounces of Sassaphras one Ounce and an half of Harts-horn and Ivory rasp'd each one Ounce of Red and White Sanders and of the sweet-smelling Flag each six Drams of Raisins of the Sun ston'd one Handful of the Seeds of Anise and Fennel each half an Ounce Infuse them in eight Quarts of Fountain-water for twenty four Hours in B. M. and cover the Vessel close then boyl it with a gentle Fire till a third part of the Liquor is is consum'd towards the latter end of Boyling add of the Tops of Eye-bright Betony dried Sage and of the Cordial-Flowers each one Pugil of Woody Cassia half an Ounce of Nutmegs number two strain it for use Take half a Pint four times a Day Burnet in Latin Pimpinella vulgaris sive minor It has a long slender brown Root with some Fibres The Stalks are a Foot or two Foot high angl'd branchy and of a light red Colour At the top of the Branches are small Heads from whence arise small purplish Flowers The Seeds are short and four-square It has many long wing'd Leaves that lie on the Ground which consist of several small roundish Leaves green above and grayish underneath finely indented about the edges and set on each side of a Middle-rib It grows commonly on chalky Ground and in hilly Pastures 'T is Cordial and Alexipharmick The green Herb is put into Wine to chear the Heart and it renders it very pleasant by imparting an Aromatick Smell and Taste to it 'T is a good Preservative against the Plague and other contagious Diseases 'T is also astringent Of excellent use in immoderate Fluxes of the Courses and Belly and in all Hemorrhages and to dry and heal Wounds and Ulcers and the Biting of a Mad Dog The following Water was much us'd in the last London-Plague Take of the Tops of Burnet Rosemary Wormwood Sun-Dew Mugwort Dragon's Scabious Agrimony Balm Carduus Betony the Lesser Centory one Handful each of the Roots of Tormentil Angelica Peony Zedoary Liquorish and Elecampane each half an Ounce of the Leaves of Sage Celandine and Rue of the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds each one Handful cut them and infuse them three Days in four Quarts of the best White-wine then distil them carefully and keep the Water for use The Dose was four Spoonfuls Butter-bur or Pestilent-wort in Latin Petasitis First it sends forth a Stalk about nine Inches high that is concave and downy with narrow sharp Leaves on it At the top is a long spiked Head of Flowers of a purplish Colour When the Flowers fade and the Stalks die large Leaves succeed like the Leaves of Colts-foot but twice or thrice as large or larger hook'd near the Foot-stalk they are almost round and indented about the Edges The Root is thick and bitter and creeps much It grows in moist places and near the Banks of Rivers the Spike and Flower flourish in April 'T is much us'd in Pestilential Fevers 'T is also reckon'd good in Coughs and for an Asthma It expels the broad Worms of the Belly and provokes Urine and the Courses 'T is outwardly applied to Bubo's and Malignant Ulcers 'T is us'd also to provoke Sweat and to expel Malignity Take of the Root of Bur-dock Virginian Snake-weed and Contrayerva each one Dram of Cochinell and Saffron each half a Dram make a Powder The Dose is half a Dram to be taken in a proper Water Butterwort or Yorkshire-Sanicle in Latin Pinguicula The Root has some white Fibres that are pretty large considering the smalness of the Plant. It does not grow deep Six or seven of the Leaves lie on the Earth and sometimes more of a pale yellow Green they look greasie and shine as if they were besmear'd in length two Inches and in breadth about one they are somewhat blunt at the Ends the Edges are smooth the upper part of the Leaf is cover'd with a very short Down which is scarcely seen Some Foot-stalks about an Hand high arise amongst the Leaves at the top of each is plac'd one purplish Flower of one Leaf divided into five parts It grows in marshy Places and on moist Hills The Leaves bruis'd and applied cure fresh Wounds Country-People cure Chaps in Cows Dugs and Chaps and Swellings on their Hands by anointing them with the fat Juice of this Herb. The Welsh make a Syrup of it wherewith they purge themselves They also boyl the Herb in Broth for the same purpose for it purges Flegm very briskly They also make an Ointment of it which is of excellent use for Obstruction of the Liver The Leaves beat and applied to Parts affected with Pain ease the Pain 'T is reckon'd Vulnerary and very good for Ruptures in Children C. CAbbage in Latin Brasica Warts anointed with the Juice of it are taken off in the space of fourteen Days The Leaves boil'd in Wine and applied to Ulcers and the Leprosie do much good And so great is the Virtue of it that the Urine of those that feed on it is very useful and proper for curing the Fistula Cancer Tetters and such like Diseases At the Beginning of an Inflammation of the Jaws when we design to cool and repel we make use of the Liquor of it A Person so over-run with the Scurvy that he could scarce go or stand and had Spots all over his Breast and Legs was cured by drinking daily three Pints of Wine wherein four handfuls of Red Cabbage had been infus'd with half a Dram of Ginger and two Drams of Cinnamon For a Pain in the Side apply a Leaf of it besmear'd with Butter hot to the Part affected having first sprinkl'd Powder of Cumin-seed upon it 'T is said Cabbage prevents Drunkenness Sea Cabbage or Colewort in Latin Brasica Marina It grows every where almost on the Sea-shore in England Our People in such places eat it preferring it before Garden-Cabbage Field Calamint in Latin Calamintha It springs up yearly with many Stalks which are two Foot high small four-square stiff and hairy they look reddish in Sunny Places they are branchy and bend downward The Leaves by Intervals are opposite one to the other small hairy with here and there a Jag they smell as strong as Penny-royal and almost as strong as Water-mint they are for the most part triangular
Common-Garden Clary in Latin Horminum The Stalk is two Foot high and higher about the bigness of the Little Finger four-square stiff and hairy and full of white Pith. The Leaves are large hairy and whitish very much wrinkled from a large Basis they end by degrees in a blunt Point they are somewhat indented about the Edges They are plac'd on long Foot-stalks especially the lower which come out of the Earth those of the Stalks are placed by Pairs opposite to one another The Flowers are set upon long Spikes on the top of the Stalks and Branches they are compos'd of many Whirls they are of a light blue Colour The Seed is pretty large and smooth and of a brownish Colour The Root is single and woody and consists of many Fibres The Smell of the whole Plant is very strong the Taste is bitter It grows in Gardens It flowers in June or July Wine fermented with it is very agreeable to a cold Stomach 'T is also good for barren Women and for those that are troubl'd with the Whites The Herb powder'd and applied to the Nostrils provokes Sneazing and cures a Catarrh and purges the Head A Decoction of it in Water provokes the Courses and expels the After-birth Cakes made of it are reckon'd good to strengthen the Reins and to stimulate Venery The Musilage of the Seeds is proper for Diseases of the Eyes 'T is also said to be good for the Falling-sickness and Mother-fits The Seed put into the Eyes takes away Motes Cloud-berry Knot-berry or Knout-berry in Latin Chamamorus It rises up with slender brownish Stalks not a Foot high set with four or five large Leaves one above another at several winged winged Joints each of them divided into five parts and each of them pretty much indented and jagg'd rough and as it were crumpled Each of them is plac'd on a long Foot-stalk which at the Joints have two small pieces like Ears set thereat Every Stalk has one Flower set at the top of it consisting of five roundish pointed Leaves of a dark purple Colour after which follows a large Berry like a Mulberry of a reddish Colour when ripe and is of a sowrish sweet Taste The Root creeps much and far shooting forth small Fibres at the knotty Joints whereby it is fastned in the Ground and from thence divers new Stalks shoot 'T is said that in Norway they have so great an Opinion of the Virtues of Knot-berry for curing the Scurvy and such like Diseases that they remove their Scorbutick People to a neighbouring Island where only such inhabit and there they are forc'd to abide till they recover their Health and having no other Provision allow'd them they feed on these Berries whereby they are infallibly cur'd within a few Days But this sort of Remedy can be only us'd in Summer-time Clowns-all-heal in Latin Panax Coloni It has a jointed creeping Root it bunches out The Stalks are five or six Foot high somewhat reddish hairy rough and four-square and empty The Leaves are placed at the Joints by Pairs opposite to one another they are sharp hairy soft except the Rib of the Under-side which is reddish and a little rough they are indented about the Edges they have a strong Smell and bitterish Taste The Flowers are spiked and consist of several Whirls each of them is hooded and purplish The Lip is of several Colours in the Cup of the Flower which is short and divided into five acute Pieces The Seeds grow four by four black shining and triangular It grows in watery Places and near Rivers Our Gerard wonderfully extols the Efficacy of this Herb in curing Wounds He beats it up with Lard and applies it to the fresh Wound A Syrup made of it is an excellent Remedy for Hoarsness Colâ—y-flower in Latin Brasica florida This has the same Virtues with the Common Cabbage Common Colts-foot in Latin Tussilago The Leaves are roundish have many Angles and are like Butter-Bur-leaves but much lesser under whitish above green with a little Cotton upon them which may be easily rub'd off with the Fingers From the same come several Stalks an Hand and sometimes nine Inches high concave reddish and have Cotton on them and little Leaves much unlike those that come from the Root namely long sharp thin and without Foot-stalks plac'd alternately and press'd to the Stalk Each of them sustain a yellow Flower consisting of abundance of small Leaves The Roots are small and white and creep much The Flowers and Stalks wither soon but not in a Day or two as some have said upon which Account it has been supposed to have neither Flower nor Cup. It grows in watery Places The fresh Leaves are applied outwardly to hot Ulcers and Inflammations but being dried are pretty acrid and hot The Fume of them receiv'd into the Mouth through a Tunnel and swallow'd down or smoak'd in a Tobacco-pipe is good for a Cough Difficulty of Breathing and an Ulcer of the Lungs A Syrup prepar'd of the Leaves is good for the same Use Mr. Boyle says That the Leaves powder'd with Saffron and Amber and smoak'd in a Pipe have cur'd a Consumption The whitish Down which grows to the Root being cleans'd from it and wrapped in a Rag and boyl'd a little in Lee adding a little Salt-Petre and after dried in the Sun makes the best Tinder Take of the Leaves of Colts-foot Ground-Ivy Maiden-hair Harts-horn rasp'd Water-Hemp Agrimony of each one Handful of the Roots of Charvil and Butcher's Broom each one Ounce of the Seeds of Bastard Saffron of Sweet Fennel-Seed each half an Ounce boyl them in three Quarts of Fountain-water to the Consumption of half adding towards the End three Drams of Liquorish and two Ounces of Raisins of the Sun ston'd and six Jujubes or three Ounces of the best Hony clarified Make an Apozem The Dose is four Ounces hot twice or thrice in a Day This is good for Coughs Columbine in Latin Aquilegia The Seed candied is commended for Obstructions of the Bowels and for Giddiness One Dram of the Seed powder'd and taken in Wine with Saffron cures the Jaundice if the Sick keep in Bed and sweat The distill'd Water of it discusses inward Tumours expels Poison and eases the Gripes The Seed of it finely powder'd and taken in Wine helps Delivery If the first Draught does not do the Business repeat it But it is most frequently us'd in Gargarisms to cleanse the Teeth and to cure the Scurvy and Ulcers of the Mouth and Jaws Take of the Leaves of Columbine two Handfuls of White-Pepper one Dram boyl them in a Quart of Posset-drink till half is wasted Make a Gargarism Great Comfrey in Latin Consâ—lida major It grows in moist and good Ground The Root is thick and full of Sprigs and very clammy and taste insipid The Stalks are two Foot and an half high and higher a Finger thick empty hairy and rough The Flowers are many together upon the Tops of the Stalks and Branches of a
The Flowers are of a pale-yellow Colour Its Seeds are small round and blackish four most commonly in every Husk The Root is very small and full of Fibres or Threads which spread much in the Ground It grows amongst Bushes and in Hedges It dries is astringent and one of the chief Vulneraries inwardly taken or outwardly applied Drunk in Wine it is good for Ruptures It also expectorates Viscous Humours The Common Creeping Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus pratensis The Root has many white Fibres The Leaves are placed upon very long foot-Foot-stalks and have three Divisions and are most like the Leaves of Smallage they are cut in deep and indented about the Edges hairy on both sides of a dark-green Colour and sometimes spotted with white It has many small Stalks round hairy and concave that creep on the Ground and send down Roots from the Joints by Intervals The Flowers are placed upon long foot-Foot-stalks they have five Leaves are yellow and shine as if they were varnish'd Many Seeds succeed the Flowers all joyn'd together make a a Bur They are black when they are ripe It grows in moist Grounds This Sort is not at all acrid and therefore may be applied to the Body without Danger The German-Women eat them in April when they are tender with other Herbs Round-rooted or Bulbous Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus bulbosus The Leaves and Flowers are like the former It differs from it in these six Things 1. The Root is bulbous 2. The Stalks are upright and do not creep at all 3. The Leaves upon the upper Stalks are cut into smaller and longer Jags 4. The Leaves of the Cup when the Flower opens are turn'd back to the Foot-stalk 5. It flowers earlier Lastly The Heads of the Seeds are a little longer and each Seed not prickly at the top as is every Seed of the Creeping Crow-foot There are other Differences but these may suffice for the Distinction of them This grows every where in Pastures and is too frequent there This is called Devil's Crow-foot by Tragus Beggars make Soars upon their Flesh with this Plant to move Compassion The Water of the Root or the Infusion made in Spirit of Wine is praised in the Plague The Root of it burns violently and therefore must be used only externally 'T is of excellent Use for eating down and drying up hard Tumours It takes off long Warts and the like Camerarius says That if the Root be kept dry a Month it becomes sweet Nicholas Chesneaw commends the Juice of Crowfoot I suppose he means the Bulbous in Head-aches which says he wonderfully moves the Pain when it possesses a little Space Chuse that Sort whose Leaves are like the Leaves of Anemony and bites the Tongue when chewed beat the Leaves of it in a Marble Mortar and having applied a Plaster with an Hole in it as is made use of in the Application of a Caustick put it on the pain'd Part and apply the Leaves beaten with the Juice in them in the Hole of the Plaster and then put another Plaster over to keep them in and in the spaee of two Hours it will open the Skin especially if the Herb be gather'd in a Place where the Sun shines Note The Hair must be shaved and you must take care not to apply it near the Eyes He mentions many Observations of the Cure of the Head-ach by this Medicine He used it in the Gout with the same Success A Priest says he that had kept his Bed three Years with the Gout and was not able to walk was cured by applying Crowfoot to the Part most pained after the Manner above-mention'd One that was seized with the Plague and was in great danger was cured by two Issues made in the Groin with the Leaves of Crow-foot he having a Bubo there Ivy-leav'd Water Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus aquaticus or Hederaceus albus The Stalks of it are round solid lie along and are jointed from the Joints whereof the Plant spreads it self much by many white Fibres The Leaves are placed at the Joints with pretty long Foot-stalks they are triangular and somewhat like Ivy-leaves they are smooth shining and sometimes have a black Spot upon them The Flowers grow on the Stalks opposite to the Leaves they are small and have five sharp Leaves The Cup is divided into five parts and is white An Head of Seeds succeed the Flowers of the bigness of the common Vetch The Seeds are not sharp It grows plentifully in Brooks and Ditches that have Water in them especially on Sandy Ground The following Medicine is excellent for the Scurvy and Dropsie Take of the Tops of Alder Ivy-leav'd-Water-Crow-foot and Sage each one Handful infuse them one Night in White-wine and drink the Infusion Cuckow-pintle in Latin Arum It has a Tuberous Root and sends its Fibres every way into the Earth The Leaves are oblong triangular smooth at top and shining below and have sometimes black Spots upon them The Taste of the Root and Leaf is very biting The Stalk is about an Hand high on the top whereof the naked Pestel comes out from a long membranaceous Sheath and is oblong and of a dark-purple Colour The Berries are of a Vermilion Colour The Roots when they are young yield a Milky Juice The Root especially of that which is spotted green or dry taken to the quantity of a Dram is an excellent Remedy for Poyson and in the Plague Some add to it the like quantity of Treacle The Root boyl'd and mix'd with Hony cures all Flegmatick Humours of the Breast and is good for an Asthma It cures Ruptures and provokes Urine Women use the distill'd Water of the Root to beautifie their Faces but the Juice of the Root set in the Sun is much better The dried Root is an excellent Medicine for the Scurvy and is full as effectual in cold Diseases of the Spleen and Stomach especially for Wind. The Country-People about Maidstone in Kent use the Herb and Root instead of Soap The Compound-Powder of Wake-Robin is as follows Take of the Roots of Wake-Robin powder'd two Ounces of the Roots of Sweet-smelling Flag Pimpernel and Saxifrage each one Ounce of Crabs-eyes half an Ounce of Cinnamon three Drams of Salt of Wormwood and Juniper each one Dram Make a Powder Cucumber in Latin Cucumis The Seed of it is one of the four greater cold Seeds It cleanses opens and provokes Urine 'T is frequently used in Emulsions for Pleurisies and the Stone in the Kidnies The Flower of it is reckon'd good to clear the Skin 'T is generally reckon'd that the Substance of Cucumber is cold and moist and of an Excrementitious Juice and therefore to be used only by those whose Stomachs are strong But I says Schroder tho' my Stomach is not very strong having liv'd a Sedentary Life have eaten plentifully of Cucumbers for many Years as long as they are in Season and fit to eat yet never received the least Injury or Inconvenience by them though I
Week and is clear drink of it for your ordinary Drink This is frequently used for the Scurvy and is an excellent Diet-drink The Dock called Monk's-Rubarb or Garden-patience in Latin Hippo-lapathum 'T is sometimes as high as a Man The Stalk is channel'd and reddish above it is divided into many Sprigs The Leaves are a Foot or a Foot and an half broad and pointed of a dull green Colour The Root is thick long and has many Fibres and of a Saffron-colour The Leaves come out in March and it flowers about June The Root purges Choler and watery-Humours Take of the dried Root one Dram of Ginger one Scruple Those that use it for Rubarb take a double quantity The Root expels Gravel Take Dock-roots prepar'd and Polypody each one Ounce Sena ten Drams Rubarb six Drams Monks-Rubarb five Drams Yellow Sanders two Drams Salt of Wormwood and Scurvy-grass each one Dram cut and bruise them and put them into a Glass with Snail-water and White-wine each one Pint and an half stop the Glass and set it in a Cellar twenty four Hours Take six Ounces of it or more according as it works every Morning This is good for the Itch. Dodder in Latin Cuscuta This fawning Parasite and ungrateful Guest hugs the Herb it hangs upon with its long Threads and reddish Twigs and so closely embraces it that at length it defrauds the hospitable Herb of its Nourishment and destroys it by its treacherous Embraces It has no Leaves The Flowers are placed thick at several Distances or Intervals Each of them consists of four small acute Leaves that are thick and full of Juice This Plant has no need of a large Description for it is distinguish'd from all other Plants by having no Leaves nor Root when it is grown up consisting only of long Threads by which it encompasses the neighbouring Plants and sucks away their Nourishment Upon which Account the Country-people in Sussex call it Hell-weed or The Devil's Guts And so much for the Vices of this Plant. 'T is suppos'd to participate of the Plant it adheres to So that which grows to Broom is reckon'd Diuretick that is counted moist which sticks to Flax that astringent which climbs Madder that which grows on Nettles is very Diuretick 'T is hot dry and cleansing It opens Obstructions and purges Melancholy is of good use in the Itch for the Black Jaundice and Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen But that which grows on Nettles is prefer'd before all the other in Physick Take of Dodder of Thime and of Rubarb each one Dram and an half of Sena three Drams of Yellow Sanders half a Dram of Coriander-seeds two Scruples of Salt of Wormwood half a Dram of Celtick Spike one Scruple infuse them in a close Vessel all Night in four Ounces of White-wine and Water of Apples To five Ounces of the strain'd Liquor add six Drams of Syrup of Dodder of Thyme and two Drams of Aqua-mirabilis mingle them and make a Potion For those that are difficult to purge add a Dram or two Drams of the Fibres of Black Hellebore infus'd in Vinegar This is an excellent Purge for melancholy People Common Drop-wort or Filipendula in Latin Filipendula It has many Roots black without and white within The Fibres of it are bulbous It has many Leaves at the Roots they are long wing'd and indented almost like Burnet-Saxifrage The Stalk is most commonly single upright nine Inches or a Foot high or higher channell'd branchy with a few Leaves on it The Flowers are placed on the top of the Stalk in a Tuft they smell sweet and are white they consist of seven Leaves Eleven or twelve Seeds more or less are placed in the form of a Star It grows in Meadows and Hilly Pastures The Root attenuates and is somewhat astringent A Decoction of it provokes Urine and expels Gravel It cures the Heat of Urine and takes off the Difficulty of it The Powder of the Root and the Juice of it is commended by some in the Falling-Sickness 'T is excellent for the Whites and the immoderate Flux of the Child-bed-Purgations The Dose is one Dram of the Root in Wine It also cures the Bloody Flux and Ruptures Common Dove's-foot or Crane's-bill in Latin Geranium Columbinum vulgare It has several small round pale-green Leaves cut in about the Edges like Mallows They are placed upon long reddish hairy Stalks lying on the Ground among which rise up two or three or more reddish jointed slender weak and hairy Stalks with some such like Leaves thereon but smaller and more cut in It has many very small bright red Flowers of five Leaves a-piece after which follow small Heads with small short Beaks pointing forth as all other Sorts of this Kind of Herbs have 'T is very Vulnerary either outwardly applied or taken inwardly It stops a Flux of Blood and resolves coagulated Blood It cleanses Wounds and Ulcers It expels Gravel and eases the Pain of the Cholick The Powder of the Root and Leaves taken in Wine is very effectual for curing Ruptures The Dove's-foot callet Herb-Robert and in Latin Geranium Robertianum has the same Virtues with this above-describ'd Dragons in Latin Dracontium 'T is easily known being speckl'd like a Snake It flowers in July 'T is hot and dry astringent and of an acrid Taste 'T is something of the Nature of Cuckow-pint 'T is good in Coughs Catarrhs and Convulsions The Leaves are good for Ulcers and Venomous Bitings The distill'd Water is good in the Plague and Pestilential Fevers Take of Dragon-water and Wood-Sorrel-water each four Ounces of Compound-Scordium-water two Ounces of Treacle-water and Bezoartick-water each one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearl one Dram of Syrup of Gillyflowers two Ounces of Spirit of Vitriol twelve Drops make a Julep The Dose is three Ounces often in a Day This is used in the Plague Duck's-meat in Latin Lenticula palustris This grows in Standing-waters and is full of shining round Leaves green above and black below They are joyn'd together with white small Threads It often covers all the Water it grows in 'T is Cooling and good in Inflammations It also cures Children's Ruptures An Infusion of it in White-wine cures the Jaundice infallibly six Ounces of it being taken every Morning for nine Days Ducks feed upon it very much E. EArth-nut in Latin Bulbocastanum The Root is Tuberous white and solid with small Fibres at the Bottom and Sides It has a sweetish and pleasant Taste It grows deep in the Ground The Leaves are cut more sharp than the Leaves of Parsley The Stalk is single round channel'd with one Leaf growing to it Most commonly before it divides it self into Branches at every Division of the Stalk a Leaf is plac'd much more cut than those that rise from the Root The Flowers are white and very small This is one of the Umbeliferous Plants so called because they sustain their Flowers by long foot-Foot-stalks in a Circle The Seeds are small and somewhat long
the edges and of a dull green Colour The Flowers are placed on long Spikes that come from the Wings of the Leaves they are small and yellow Short hanging wrinkl'd Cods succeed them that are black when they are ripe The Seed is yellowish It flowers in June and July and grows amongst Bushes and sometimes with Corn. It digests mollifies and eases Pain for which purposes it is commonly used in Plasters and Cataplasms To ease the Pain in a Pleurifie the following Fomentation has been used with good Success Take of the Herb Melilot and true Pellitory each two Handfuls of Betony one Handful make a Decoction and apply it to the Breast often Melon in Latin Melo They are cold and moist and apt to putrifie in the Stomach and to occasion Fevers and Gripes The Seed is one of the Great Cold Seeds Take of Seeds of Melons and Pumpions each half an Ounce of the Seeds of White-Poppy two Drams eight Sweet Almonds blanch'd beat them in a Marble-Mortar and pour on them gradually a Pint and an half of Barly-water strain it and sweeten it with Fine Sugar make an Emulsion This is used to cure Heat of Urine Common English Mercury or All-good in Latin Bonus Henericus The Root is thick and yellowish and has some Fibres 't is acrid and bitter It sends forth many Stalks that are channel'd partly erect and partly supine they have a small Down on them and are a Foot or two Foot high The Leaves are triangular like Orache or Cuckow-pint above they are smooth under sprinkl'd with fine Flower they are placed upon long Foot-stalks joyn'd alternately to the Stalks they taste somewhat nitrous The little Flowers are placed on the Top-branches in Clusters on an Ear they are yellow and have Threads the come out of a five-leav'd Cup they are so very small that the Parts of them can scarce be discern'd The Seeds are small and black when they are ripe and in Figure like a Kidny they are either included in Membranaceous Bladders or in the Flowers It grows in Courts and Cross-ways and amongst Rubbish and also frequently with Pot-herbs It flowers in April and May. 'T is excellent for cleansing and healing sordid Ulcers The Leaves boyl'd with Pot-herbs and eaten render the Body loose It kills the Worms that are in the putrid Ulcers of Four-footed Beasts being bruised and applied to the Ulcers The whole Herb used in form of a Cataplasm mitigates the Pain of the Gout and there is no Danger to be fear'd from the Use of it in this Case for it does not repel but discusses and digests and besides is Anodine Which Qualities are rarely found in one Simple Take of Common English Mercury green without the Flowers four Handfuls of Camomile and Elder-flowers dried two Handfuls beat them grosly and boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Elder-water till they are very tender then mix with them of Gum-Caranna and Camphor each half an Ounce make a Cataplasm for the Gout Take of the Leaves of Mercury Marsh-mallows and Pellitory each one Handful of the Flowers of Camomile one Pugil of Carraway Cumin-seeds and Laurel-berries each one Ounce boyl them in clear Posset-drink to twelve Ounces of the strain'd Liquor add three Ounces of Hony of Mercury and two Drams of Hierapicra mingle them and make a Carminative Clyster This is useful in the Cholick Dog 's Mercury in Latin Cynocrambe It has many small fibrous Roots that are Perennial and pliant of a nauseous sweetish Taste both the Male and Female creep in the Ground they are fill'd with an hard Nerve like the Fibres of Hellebore It has many Stalks round and jointed they have large Spaces betwixt the Joints they are a Foot high and without Branches near the Earth they are of a purple Colour The Leaves are placed by Pairs upon the Joints one opposite to another and are two or three Inches long those that are below are much less and are sharp-pointed and indented about the Edges they have short Foot-stalks they have a nauseous Taste The Foot-stalks come from the Wings of the Leaves The little Flowers are of a greenish Colour and consist of three Leaves It grows commonly in Woods and Hedges and other shady Places Prevotius in his Book of Medicines for the Poor ranks it amongst those things that evacuate Serosities gently Milfoil in Latin Millefolium The Stalks are sometimes two Foot high and higher they are small stiff round channel'd hairy and full of Pith and divided at top into Twigs Many long Leaves lie on the Ground which are finely cut into many small Parts finer than Tansie they are a little indented about the edges The Leaves on the Stalks are smaller and finer near the tops where stand Tufts of small white Flowers with a yellowish Thrum in the middle of a strong Smell but not unpleasant The Root is woody fibrous and blackish It stops Blood 'T is used for Bleeding at the Nose and for all Fluxes 'T is outwardly applied for Bleeding at the Nose and for the Head-ach and to heal Wounds and Ruptures Milk-wort in Latin Polygala The Root is woody white of a bitterish Taste and somewhat Aromatick It has many Stalks some upright and some creeping they are about an Hand in length and somewhat reddish It has many Leaves that grow alternately The little Flowers are placed on a Spike and are of a Sky-colour and sometimes white and of other Colours The Leaves that grow on the Stalks are oblong and sharp those that lie on the Ground are roundish It grows commonly in dry Pastures An Handful of it infus'd in Wine all Night purges Choler by Stool very much Mint in Latin Mentha It strengthens the Stomach takes off Crudities and the Hickops stops Vomiting and expels Wind. Two Ounces of the Water taken often stops Vomiting Outwardly applied it takes off the Hardness of the Breasts and dissolves Curdl'd Milk and prevents the Breeding of it The distill'd Water cures the Gripes in Children The Smell of it strengthens the Brain and preserves the Memory Take of Black-Cherry-water and Balm-water each three Ounces Dr. Stephens's Water one Ounce and an half Spirit of Mint three Drams Confection of Alkermes two Drams of Syrup of Mint a sufficient quantity make a Julep The Dose is five Spoonfuls This is good for Pains of the Stomach and for Fainting Misleto in Latin Viscus It grows on Apple-trees Pear-trees and Crab-trees on Ashes and Oaks that which grows on the Oaks is most esteem'd It grows also on the Barberry-tree and the Hasel Bird-lime is made of the Berries The Wood is chiefly used for the Falling-sickness and is counted a Specifick for it 'T is also used for Apoplexies and Giddiness 'T is taken inwardly or hang'd about the Neck In all which Diseases 't is reckon'd very prevalent by Ancient and Modern Physicians The Powder of it also cures a Pleurisie and forces the Courses Some think that the Misleto that grows on the Hasel-tree is better for the
with a gray Powder that is easily rub'd off The Leaves are long broad and end sharp they are smooth fat and of a dull green Colour they are plac'd alternately and are indented about the Edges Those that come from the Root and are at the bottom of the Stalks have long Foot-stalks The Flowers are very small they are white and consist of four Leaves they are placed on very small Foot-stalks It grows near the Banks of Rivers but it is rare The Leaf is acrid and hot The Herb bruised and applied cures the Hip-Gout Boyl'd in Beer it hastens Delivery 'T is commended for a Leprosie Take of Garden-Scurvy-grass-leaves and of the Leaves of Rocket and Pepperwort each six Handfuls of the Roots of Sweet-smelling Flag the Lesser Galangal Zedoary Florentine Iris Elder and Wake-Robin each four Ounces of the Winteran-Bark and Jamaica-Pepper each three Ounces of Juniper-berries four Ounces of Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs each one Ounce bruise and cut them and pour on them four Quarts of Rhenish-wine distil them in a common Still and mix all the Water together Take three Ounces Night and Morning This is commended in an Anasarca Periwinele in Latin Vinca per vinca It spreads it self much by its Twigs that creep on the Ground The Root is fibrous many small round green and jointed Twigs root again by Fibres that come from the Joints The Leaves grow out of the Joints by Pairs opposite to one another like the Leaves of Lawrel but much less they are sharp stiff and smooth and hang on short foot-Foot-stalks above they shine and are of a deep green Colour they taste astringent and bitterish below they are of a lighter Colour The Flower is placed on a Foot-stalk that comes from the Joints two Inches long one Flower on one Foot-stalk 'T is like the Jessamine-flower in shape and is of a Violet-colour A Milky Line runs from Bottom to Top through all the Jags A forked Cod succeeds the Flower and contains oblong Seeds It grows in Hedges and Ditches 'T is a famous Vulnerary 'T is used in Fluxes of the Belly for Dysenteries the Piles Bleeding at Nose and for Wounds with Fluxion 'T is used outwardly for Overslowing of the Courses for Loosness and Pains of the Teeth The Leaves of this Herb put upon Paper that will easily receive Moisture and sowed to it with fine Flax betwixt and perfum'd with Frankincense cured a Scrophulous Tumour in a short time which continued obstinate under the Use of other Remedies for the space of a whole Year Male Pimpernel in Latin Anagallis mas It has a white single Root with small Fibres The Stalks are an Hand or half an Hind high four-square smooth encompass'd by two Leaves opposite to one another they are placed by Intervals and without Foot-stalks the Underside of the Leaf is spotted with many dark-brown Specks The Flowers come out singly from the Wings of the Leaves and are placed upon oblong Foot-stalks and are divided almost to the bottom into five sharp Pieces resembling so many Leaves The Cup is also compounded of five acute Pieces The Seminal Vessels are almost spherically round they are pretty large and full of Seeds The whole Plant has an acrid Taste It grows in Gardens and Fields It flowers late about the midst of Summer 'T is moderately hot and dry 'T is counted Vulnerary and is used inwardly and outwardly It does much good in the Plague being boyl'd in Wine But the Sick must go to bed and must be well cover'd as soon as he has drank a moderate Draught of it that he may sweat A Woman cured many that were troubl'd with a Pin and Web in their Eyes with the distill'd Water of it In a Consumption and for Purulent Spitting let the Sick drink every Day Morning and Evening twelve Spoonfuls of the distill'd Water mix'd with an equal quantity of Red Cows Milk and sweeten'd with Fine Sugar This is an approv'd Remedy 'T is frequently used for the Gripes of New-born Children It also moves the Courses Willis commends the Decoction of it as a Specifick for Madness The Pine-tree in Latin Pinus The Bark and Leaves cool and bind wherefore they are good in Dysenteries and Fluxes of the Courses A Decoction or Infusion of the Tops in Beer or some other proper Liquor is reckon'd very good for the Stone of the Kidnies and Bladder and for the Scurvy and Diseases of the Breast The Nuts have a delicate Taste and are good for Coughs and Consumptions and for Heat of Urine They increase Milk and provoke Venery Plantain in Latin Plantago 'T is a Vulnerary Herb. 'T is used in Fluxes of the Belly for Spitting of Blood Running of the Reins involuntary Urine and for immoderate Fluxes of the Courses 'T is outwardly used to cleanse and heal Wounds and Ulcers The Juice by it self or mix'd with the Juice of Limon is an excellent Diuretick Half a Dram of the Seeds taken daily in Broth or in an Egg is good to prevent Miscarriage Take twelve Handfuls of Plantain-leaves six Ounces of the fresh Roots of Comfrey press out the Juice of the Leaves and beat the Roots in a Stone-Mortar mix the Roots and the Juice and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg Night and Morning This is an excellent Remedy for Spitting and Vomiting Blood Take of Plantain-water two Ounces of Rubarb powder'd two Scruples of yellow Myrobalans powder'd one Scruple Syrup of dried Roses half an Ounce mix them and give it in the Morning two Hours after let some Broth be taken This is excellent for an immoderate Flux of the Courses Plum-tree in Latin Prunus There are several Kinds of them the Sowre bind the Sweet move the Belly The Electuary of Plums called Electuarium Diaprunum is made of Damascenes in the following manner Take of fresh and ripe Damascenes one Hundred boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water till they are soft then pulp them through a Sieve boyl an Ounce of Violet-flowers in the Liquor gently then strain it and add two Pounds of Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup then add a Pound and an half of the Pulp above-mention'd of the Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds strain'd and dissolv'd in a small quantity of the Liquor each one Ounce boyl it again stir it continually adding the following Powders Sanders Red and White Rubarb of each three Drams of Red Roses Violets of the Seeds of Purslain of Endive and Barberries of Gum-Tragacanth and the Juice of Liquorish each two Drams of the Greater Cold Seeds each one Dram Make an Electuary according to Art This Medicine is cold and moistening and good in Fevers Polypody in Latin Polypodium The Root is reckon'd among Purging Medicines but it purges very gently 'T is very proper in Obstructions of the Mesentery Liver and Spleen for the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Diseases 'T is generally used in Decoctions with other purging Medicines Take of the Root of Polypody of the Oak
last the Lammas-Plum the White Pear-Plum and Damascens Pumpion in Latin Pepo 'T is cold and very moist It provokes Urine the Nourishment of it is very small The Seed is one of the four greater Cold Seeds Purflain in Latin Portulaca 'T is cold and moist It provokes Appetite It cures Heat of Urine and Running of the Reins The Juice mix'd with Oyl of Roses cures Burns and Inflammations 'T is good for Coughs and Shortness of Breath Q. QVince-tree in Latin Malus Cydonia The Fruit is very agreeable to the Stomach 'T is astringent and cures Spitting of Blood the Bloody-Flux and all other Fluxes The Mucilage of the Seeds extracted with Spawn of Frog's-water is an excellent Gargarism in Fevers The Syrup of Quinces is made in the following manner Take of the Juice six Pints boyl half away add three Pounds of Sugar and make a Syrup The Dose is one Ounce in some proper Water Marmalade of Quinces is made in the following manner Pare the Quinces cut them and take out the Core weigh them and put them into cold Water take the same quantity of Sugar and dissolve it with a little Water boyl it and take off the Scum then put in the Quinces and set them on a gentle Fire close cover'd till they are of a good Colour then uncover them then increase the Fire and boyl them to a Jelly R. RAdish in Latin Raphanus sativus 'T is oftner used in the Kitchin than for Medicine but it is good for the Stone and to force Urine It strengthens the Stomach and helps Concoction Horse Radish in Latin Raphanus Rusticanus It provokes Appetite but it hurts the Head It expels Gravel and forces Urine and is commended for Coughs and is reckon'd a Specifick in the Scurvy The Compounded Water of it is much in use and is made in the following manner Take of the Leaves of Garden and Sea-Scurvy-grass gather'd in the Spring-time each six Pounds beat them and press out the Juice mingle with it the Juice of Water-cresses and Brook-lime each a Pint and an half of the best White-wine four Quarts twelve Limons sliced of the fresh Roots of Briony four Pounds of Horse-Radish-roots two Pounds of Wake-Robin-roots half an Ounce of Winteran Bark and Nutmegs each four Ounces infuse them three Days and then distil them The Dose is two Ounces Take one Spoonful of the Shavings of Horse-Radish-roots twelve Leaves of Scurvy-grass twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned put them into a Quart of Beer let them stand close stop'd all Night drink of it the next Day at Meals and at any other time This has done much good in the Scurvy Common Rag-wort in Latin Jacobaea vulgaris The Root has many large white Fibres that stick fast in the Ground It has many times several Stalks and sometimes but one they are round channel'd sometimes smooth sometimes downy three Foot high and sometimes higher divided at the top into Branches It has many long and large green Leaves lying on the Ground of a dark-green Colour rent and torn in the Sides into many Pieces The Leaves on the Stalks are the same The Flowers are yellow and consist of many Leaves when they are ripe they turn into Down The Seed is very small It cures Ulcers Inflammations and a Fistula Being applied hot to the Belly in form of a Cataplasm it cures the Gripes Raspberry-bush in Latin Rubus Idaeus The Berries are very cordial and taste very well The Syrup of it is very good in Fevers and is made in the following manner Take of the Clarified Juice and of Sugar equal Parts make a Syrup Take of the Syrup of Rasp-berries and July flowers each two Ounces of the Juice of Kermes one Ounce make a Mixture Take a Spoonful every Morning This is a Cordial for Women before Delivery Rest-harrow or Camock in Latin Anonis It spreads its Root far and near they are white and hard to break The Stalks are woody and three or four Foot high round hairy and reddish sometimes it has Prickles and sometimes not The Flowers grow at the top like Pease-blossoms Small round Cods contain the Seeds The Bark of the Root and the Root it self provokes Urine and expels Gravel and eases the Pain of the Teeth and opens Obstructions of the Liver being infus'd in Wine or boyl'd in Posset-drink and taken inwardly for some time Rie in Latin Secale 'T is the next Corn in goodness to Wheat Bread made of it is black and heavy and hard to digest and it purges and gripes those that are not used to it but it keeps moist longer than Wheaten Bread The course Flower of it put into a Cloth and applied to the Head cures inveterate Head-aches and so applied is good for Mad People Rocket or Winter-Cresses in Latin Barbarea It has an oblong white thick Perennial Root of an acrid Taste The Stalks are a Cubit high channel'd strong and full of Pith with many Wings wherein the Leaves are lesser than those of Radish and resembling the Leaf of Cresses at the Extremity of it by extream Jags they are of a dark-green Colour and shine they do not taste so quick as the Root From the Wings of the Leaves towards the Top-stalks come many small Branches whereon as also on the Top-stalk small yellow Flowers consisting of four Leaves run up into long Ears The Cods are small round and about an Inch long pressed to the Stalks wherein are small Seeds of a brown Colour The whole Plant is smooth The Flowers are placed on short Foot-stalks It grows near Ditches and Rivers and Running-waters and sometimes also on plow'd Grounds It flowers in May and June 'T is acrid and hot and much of the same Virtue with Cresses 'T is mix'd with Sallets especially in the Winter-time when Cresses are scarce wherefore 't is called Winter-Cress 'T is good in the Scurvy The Juice of it is mix'd with Ointments to cleanse sordid and impure Ulcers The Seed is Lithontriptick and Diuretick Wild Rocket in Latin Eruca sylvestris The Root is white thick and long and has many Stalks with many Wings they are channel'd and a little hairy The Leaves are cut in like Dandelion they are smooth and of a deep green Colour and taste hot The Flowers are yellow It has long angled upright Cods The Seeds are like the Seeds of Wild Mustard they are acrid and bitterish It grows upon and about Walls and among Rubbish 'T is hot and dry 'T is chiefly used to stimulate Venery and for Preservation against Apoplexies Outwardly applied it extracts Splinters of Bones The Rose in Latin Rosa There are several sorts of Roses The Red Rose the Damask-Rose the Damask-Province-Rose the Dog-Rose the Pimpernel-Rose the Greater Apple-Rose the Single Cinnamon-Rose the Double Cinnamon-Rose the Wild Briar or Muscovy the Virginian Briar-Rose the White Rose the Musk-Rose the Ever-green Rose the Single Yellow Rose the Double Yellow Rose the Monthly Rose the Monday-Rose the Franc-fort-Rose the Hungarian Rose the York and Lancaster
they taste sweet and are as pleasant as Parsnips Hogs dig them up and eat them greedily 'T is affirm'd that being worn in the Shooes it will cure the Bloody-Flux Bleeding at Nose and all immoderate Fluxes of the Belly Hartman says That having used it this way it has done good when all other Means signified nothing Smallage in Latin Apium 'T is hot and dry It incides and opens upon which Account it is reckon'd among the five Opening Roots It provokes Urine and the Courses and expels Gravel It cures the Jaundice The Seed is reckon'd among the Lesser Hot Seeds The use of this Herb certainly injures those that are afflicted with the Falling-sickness But being translated into Gardens it becomes more gentle and less ungrateful for in Italy and Spain they eat the tender Leaves of it and the upper part of the Root with Oyl and Pepper Sneez-wort in Latin Ptarmica The Root grows awry and is as it were jointed and has many long Fibres that are pretty large it tastes acrid and hot It has several brittle Stalks a Yard high or more and sometime not near so high they are divided into several Branches whereon are placed narrow long Leaves pointed and finely indented about the Edges At the top grow many white Flowers in a Tuft with a yellowish Thrum in the middle It grows in moist places and flowers in July It tastes hot and acrid The Powder of it provokes Sneezing The Root chewed cases the Pain in the Teeth by evacuating Flegm The Herb is mix'd with Sallets to correct cold Herbs Solomon's-seal in Latin Polygomaton The Root is a Finger thick unequal and tuberous with a great many Fibres and of a sweetish Taste The Stalk is two or three Foot high round and smells ill if it be rub'd or cut it is bent like a Bow The Leaves are placed one above another they are large and like the Leaves of the Lilly of the Vallies they are nervous and of a shining dark Green above of a grayish Colour underneath At the Foot of every Leaf almost from the bottom to the top hang long white and hollow Flowers and after them small round Berries green at first and bluish when they are ripe wherein are small stony Seeds they are white 'T is Astringent and Vulnerary It stops all Fluxes it cements broken Bones And the Root boyl'd in Wine and drank is excellent for Contusions and Ruptures Used outwardly it takes off Spots and whitens the Skin Fourteen or fifteen of the Berries purge Flegm upwards and downwards For the Whites take Candied Roots of Solomon's-seal and it is an excellent Remedy 'T is also counted good for the Falling-sickness Sope-wort in Latin Saponaria It creeps in the Ground with small-jointed Roots The Bark of the Root is reddish The Stalks are three Foot high or higher round smooth and reddish they have many Joints are full of Pith and can scarce sustain themselves The Leaves are placed by Pairs at the Joints opposite to one another three large Nerves running all along them they are like Plantain-leaves they are smooth have a nitrous Taste and short or no Foot-stalks at all The Flowers are placed in Tufts on the top of the Stalks every one on a short Foot-stalk they are of a pale-red Colour sweet and compos'd of five Leaves The small roundish Seeds are contain'd in an oblong Vessel that is thick about the Middle It grows near Rivers and Standing-waters It flowers in June July August and September The Root and Leaves are used in Physick but it is but seldom 'T is used for an Asthma and to provoke the Courses And a Decoction of it is much commended for the French-Pox Outwardly applied it discusses Tumours Clothes are cleansed from Greasie Spots by washing them with this Herb. The Sorbe or Quicken-tree in Latin Sorbus sylvestris 'T is a Tree of a middle stature The Bark is of a light Red and spotted The Leaves are sharp indented and smooth above green below whitish The Flowers are many white and sweet and are placed in Umbels The Berries are green at first when they are ripe of a darke Red they taste ill The Berries yield an acid Juice which purges Water excellently well and is very good for the Scurvy The Liquor which drops from the wounded Tree in the Spring cures the Scurvy and Diseases of the Spleen Common Sorrel in Latin Acetosa vulgaris It grows in Pastures and Meadows 'T is cold and dry It provokes Appetite suppresses Choler and quenches Thirst wherefore 't is frequently used in Fevers The Juice may be mix'd with Broths or the Leaves boyl'd in them In Summer 't is good Sauce for most Meats The Roots of it dried and boyl'd give a delicate Tincture to the Water Sheep's Sorrel in Latin Acetosa arvensis lanceolata It grows in Sandy and dry Grounds It has the same Virtues with Common Sorrel Roman or French Sorrel in Latin Acetosa rotundifolia The form of the Leaf sometimes varies being sometimes round like Scurvy-grass or the Lesser Celandine sometimes like Spinache pointed like an Arrow of a Sky or pale Colour and of a delicate sharp Taste The Stalks are bare and above two Foot high The little Flowers are compos'd of yellow and red Threads The Root is small and creeps and is less acid and drier than the Leaves 'T is common in Gardens It has the same Virtues with the former Wood Sorrel in Latin Trifolium acetosum vulgare It grows commonly in shady places in Woods and Hedges It has the same Virtues with the former The Syrup the Conserve and the distill'd Water of it are in use The distill'd Water is used to wash the Mouth in the St. Anthony's Fire and to cleanse Sordid Ulcers 'T is observ'd that when it bears a great many Flowers the Year will be very rainy but dry when there is a few Sothernwood in Latin Abrotanum 'T is somewhat astringent and discusses much It resists Putrefaction and Poyson It cures the Biting of Venomous Creatures kills Worms and forces Urine It cures Hysterick Fits and the Jaundice The Tops of it boyl'd in Wine or Water and sweeten'd with Hony or Sugar do much good in an Asthma and Difficulty of Breathing and helps Expectoration 'T is used outwardly to strengthen Bones Marsh Sparagus in Latin Asparagus palustris 'T is found in many places As in the Marishes near Bristol and about Harwich in Essex c. It differs only from the Garden-Sparagus by the Place of its Growth and the Accidents that proceed from thence for the saltness of it and the thickness of the Leaves and the largeness of the Berries are to be imputed to the Sea for the like is wont to happen to other Plants that grow near the Sea The Root is Diuretick and Lithontriptick and is one of the five Opening Roots It opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and especially of the Kidnies and therefore it is frequently used in Diuretick Decoctions The Stalks boyl'd gently according to
Custom and eaten loosen the Belly and provoke Urine but they make it smell ill A Decoction of the Root drunk relieves those that make Water difficultly and those that have the Jaundice and others that are afflicted with Nephritick Pains or the Hip Gout But the frequent use of Diureticks occasions Ulcers in the Bladder Spatling or White Poppy in Latin Behen album The Root is woody thick and white The Stalks are two or three Foot high or more small round smooth and jointed and divided into Wings at the top At every Joint are two Leaves opposite to one another like Campian but smooth very acrid and bitterish with a certain Sweetness The Flowers are white or of a light Purple Colour It grows amongst Corn. 'T is commended for Fomentations and Sweating-baths The Juice takes off Inflammations of the Eyes and eases the Pain of them The Seed purges Flegm and is used in the Falling-sickness Male Speed-well in Latin Veronica mas supina vulgatissima It creeps upon the Ground and sends down Roots from the Joints The Stalks are small round long hairy and jointed The Leaves are set by Pairs at the Joints they are hairy and indented about the Edges they taste bitterish and acrid The Flowers are placed upon a Spike they are compos'd of four light purple Leaves The Seed is contain'd in small Husks like Shepherd's-purse It grows plentifully in dry Pastures and amongst Heath 'T is Vulnerary and Sudorifick 'T is used in Obstructions of the Lungs and Spleen for the Cholick Consumption Plague Wounds and Itch. A large Dose of the Decoction taken for some time expell'd a Stone from the Kidny of a Woman that had been there sixteen Years A Woman that had been barren seven Years conceiv'd by taking the Powder of it in the distill'd Water of the Herb for many Days The Syrup of it is of great use in Diseases of the Lungs One that had an incurable Ulcer in his Leg found present Ease by dipping Rags in the Water and applying them for it took off the Inflammation and all the Symptoms that accompanied it One that had a Fistula in the Breast and had used several Medicines in vain was cured by the inward use of this Water Scabby Children have been cured by Rags dip'd in this Water and press'd out and applied over the Scabs when other Medicines would do no good But it is convenient for the Nurse to take Fumatory in Whey at the same time Common Spignel in Latin Meum It has sometimes one sometimes many Roots above nine Inches long From the Sides of which grow most commonly oblique Roots which are pretty long of a dark brown Colour without white within it smells like a Parsnip but more Aromatick It has several long Stalks of Leaves as small as an Hair they are placed thick on both sides of the Stalk they smell well It has also round stiff Stalks like those of Fennel but much less they are channel'd empty and branchy and have Umbels of white Flowers on them like Dill. The Seeds are large great and channel'd It grows plentifully in Westmorland near Sidleberg It expels Wind and forces Urine and the Courses and is used for Mother-fits for the Gripes Catarrhs and to help Expectoration 'T is an Ingredient in several Compositions in Treacle and many other Those that have vow'd Chastity must not use it for it is a great Provocative to Venery And it causes the Head-ach Spinache in Latin Spinachia 'T is much used in the Kitchin 'T is good in Fevers and it loosens the Belly It cools and moistens and is good in a dry Cough Spindle-tree in Latin Euonimus 'T is a little branchy Tree or rather Shrub eight or ten Foot high The Suckers are of a pleasant green Colour and the young Branches are four-square the Wood is whitish it has divers Branches The Leaves are oblong sharp and indented Soon after the Beginning of Spring the pale Flowers come forth they are compos'd of four Leaves After the Flowers come forth red Berries divided into four parts and in each is a white hard Seed The whole Tree has a strong and unpleasant Smell 'T is common in Hedges Three or four of the Berries vomit and purge Women use the Powder of the Berries to kill Lice Spleen-wort in Latin Asplenium The Root consists of Capillary Threads that are blackish and Perennial The Leaves are many but not a Finger long they are placed upon short Foot-stalks they are somewhat fat above and downy under and cleft like Polypody they are seldom an Inch broad It grows frequently in the West upon old Walls viz. about Bristol and the Stones at St. Vincent's Rock c. 'T is called Spleen-wort because it is effectual in curing Diseases of the Spleen 'T is chiefly used for Swellings of the Spleen for Spitting of Blood and a Loosness Outwardly used it cleanses Wounds and Ulcers One Dram of the Golden Powder on the Under-side of the Leaves with half a Dram of White Amber powder'd drunk in the Juice of Purslain or Plantain relieves those wonderfully that have a Gonorrhaea Straw-berry in Latin Fragraria The Fruit cools and moistens The distill'd Water of it comforts the Heart purges the Blood and cures Ulcers of the Mouth and is good in a Quinsie the Mouth being gargled with it 'T is Diuretick and expectorates Those that are troubled with hot Pushes in the Face or a dry Itch in the Body should take two Spoonfuls of the Water every Morning The same quantity at the same time is good for those that have the Stone for it cools the Reins and expels Gravel A Decoction of the whole Herb is very good for the Jaundice Take of the Waters of Wood-Sorrel of the whole Citron of Strawberries each four Ounces of the Syrup of the Juice of Citron one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearls one Dram make a Julap Take four Spoonfuls three or four times a Day This is good in Fevers to attemperate the Blood Succory in Latin Cichoreum The Root is as thick as the Thumb and full of Milk It has many Stalks which are round and hairy The Stalks of the Wild Succory are crooked and sometimes four Foot high The Branches at top are much divided Some of the Leaves are cut deep like Dandelion others are whole or but little indented Those on the Stalks are placed alternately without Foot-stalks they are long and end acute and are hairy on both sides The Flowers are blue sometimes white and reddish many come out together from the Wings of the upper Leaves The whole Plant is very bitter 'T is counted cold by some Authors but its bitter Taste argues Heat 'T is Diuretick It attenuates and cleanses 'T is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and for Fevers The Water distill'd from the blue Flowers is an excellent Remedy for Inflammations and Dimness of the Eyes The Leaves boyl'd and eaten with Vinegar cure a Gonorrhaea The Flowers of this Plant open and shut at Sun-rising
the Bark on gently move the Belly two or three being taken at Bed-time The Tree tap'd in the Spring yields a great quantity of Liquor but it is not so pleasant as that of the Birch-tree 'T is said to be peculiarly proper for Obstructions of the Courses The Nuts being infus'd in Water till the Skin of the Kernels comes off then infuse them two Days in Aqua vitae Take two or three of them daily in the Morning fasting for ten Days before the usual time of their Flowing The Oyl of the Nut mix'd with Oyl of Almonds is excellent in the Stone two or three Ounces of it may be taken inwardly at a time See Mr. Boyl of Specifick Remedies pag. 163. Wall-flower in Latin Leucoium luteum It grows every where on Walls The Flowers are cordial and good for the Nerves They ease Pain provoke the Courses expel the Secundine and a dead Child The Conserve of the Flowers the distil'd Water and the Oyl made of the Flowers by Infusion are in use for Apoplexies and Palsies The Oyl is very Anodine in Wounds and Inflammations of the Nervous Parts Way-faring-tree in Latin Viburnum It sometimes spreads much tho' it is not high The Wood of it is fungous and pithy The Branches are about a Finger thick and four Foot long or longer The Bark is of a dark-gray Colour but the Bark of the Branches is whitish The Leaves are somewhat like the Leaves of the Alder they are broad longish and thickish and indented about the Edges they are hairy and white like Meal especially below The Flowers are placed in Umbels and smell like the Flowers of Elder they are white and consist of five Leaves The Berries are first green then red and lastly black they are sweet and clammy Some Country-people eat them It grows commonly in Hedges The Leaves and Berries are dry and astringent They are used for Inflammations of the Throat and Almonds and for the Relaxation of the Vvula and to settle the Teeth when they are loose and also for Fluxes of the Belly A Decoction of the Leaves makes the Hairs black and prevents their falling Wheat in Latin Triticum The Juice of it is good to take off Spots The Flower mix'd with Bean-shell-water takes out Wrinkles from the Face A Cataplasm made with Water and Oyl and the Flower takes off the Hardness of the Breast and ripens Swellings The Bran cleanses the Hands and makes them soft and white Common Whitlow-grass in Latin Paronychia vulgaris It has a small fibrous Root and many Leaves that lie on the Ground they are scarce an Inch long they are pointed hairy sometimes green sometimes reddish and a little indented and taste somewhat astringent at first afterwards acrid It has sometimes one sometimes two or three Stalks or more they are round and about an Hand high and sometimes not so much they have no Leaves on them but they have many little white Flowers which consist of four Leaves they have small flat Pouches It grows on Walls and Houses Rue Whitlow-grass infus'd in Small Beer and drank for some Days cures King's-Evil-Swellings without any sensible Evacuation See Mr. Boyl of Specifick Remedies pag. 155. Take of Whitlow-grass half an Handful fry it with Flower and an Egg Take it in a Morning fasting for two Days This cures the Whites Winter-cherry in Latin Alkekengi The Berries are Diuretick Nephritick and Lithontriptick They are also good for the Jaundice they may be either infus'd in Wine or boylâ—d in Posset-drink or powder'd and taken in any Liquor One that took eight of the Cherries every Change of the Moon was cured of the Gout tho' before he was miserably afflicted with it Take of Chios-Turpentine two Drams of the Balsam of Tolu half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of the Troches of Alkakengi make Midling Pills Take four at Bed-time These Pills are good for the Stone in the Kidnies Winter-green in Latin Pyrola Five or six of its Leaves lie on the Ground they are like the Leaves of a Pear they are thick of a dark Green smooth and shining above The foot-Foot-stalks are near an Hand long The Stalk is nine Inches high and angled and has on it some small sharp Leaves and a Spike of fine white Flowers consisting of five Leaves The whole Plant tastes bitter It grows in the North near Halifax 'T is an excellent Vulnerary Herb either taken inwardly or outwardly applied Woodroof in Latin Asperula 'T is divided into many Joints The Root is small and creeps on the top of the Earth sending down Capillary Fibres The Stalks are small four-square an Hand or nine Inches high The Leaves are placed on the Joints like those of Madder they are larger than Cleaver-leaves and of a lighter Green they shine a little and are a little hairy The Stalk is divided at the top into two or three Branches upon which the Foot-stalks sustain the little Flowers that smell sweet and are compos'd of four small Leaves The Seeds are small and very hairy and in shape like a Kidny they stick to the Clothes as the Seeds of Clevers do It grows in hilly Woods and among Bushes It flowers in May. 'T is used for Obstructions of the Liver and Gall-bladder and to cool an hot Liver It procures Mirth as they say being put into Wine and gives it a pleasant Taste for which Reason 't is frequently used among the Germans Common Wormwood in Latin Absinthium vulgare It strengthens the Stomach and Liver excites Appetite opens Obstructions and cures Diseases that are occasion'd by them as the Jaundice Dropsie and the like 'T is good in long putrid Fevers it carries off vitious Humours by Urine it expels Worms from the Bowels and preserves Clothes from Moths The Juice the distill'd Water the Syrup the fixed Salt and the Oyl of it are used but the Wine or Beer seems to be the best It strengthens the Stomach creates an Appetite opens Obstructions and provokes Urine The Simple Water is more Languid and of less Virtue The fixed Salt if it be wholly separated from the other Parts by the force of the Fire differs nothing in my Opinion neither in Taste nor Virtue from the Fixed Salt of any other Plant. A Scruple or half a Dram of the Salt according to the Strength and Age of the Sick taken in a Spoonful of the Juice of Limon scarce ever fails to cure Vomiting Green Wormwood bruis'd and mix'd with Lard and applied cures Tumors of the Kernels of the Throat and the Quinsie THE Exotick or Foreign PHYSICAL PLANTS AC ACacia It grows in Egypt The Juice of it press'd from the Cods before they are ripe or from the Flowers or Leaves is used to strengthen the Eyes and to take off the Inflammation of them and to cure Ulcers of the Mouth and Ears and for Chaps of the Lips The Juice reduc'd to a Powder after it has been wash'd in a Decoction made with the Juice or the Leaves or Flowers and sprinkl'd on
of this Drink for a pretty while he seldom heard of them any more Mr. Boyle prescrib'd one Ounce and an half of this Seed to a Gallon of Ale Celandine in Latin Chelidonium majus It has divers tender round light-green Stalks with greater Joints than ordinary in other Herbs they are very brittle branchy and have large tender long Leaves divided into many Parts and each of them cut in the Edges they are placed at the Joynts on both sides of the Branches of a dark-bluish green Colour above like Columbines of a pale bluish Green underneath They are full of yellow Sap which is of a bitter Taste and strong Smell At the tops of their Branches which are much divided grow yellow Flowers consisting of four Leaves After which come small long Pods with blackish Seeds therein The Root is pretty large at the Head shooting forth divers other long Roots and small Fibres reddish on the outside and full of yellow Sap within 'T is hot and dry It evacuates Choler by Urine and Stool and clears the Sight A Syrup made of the whole Herb is good in the Jaundice for Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Kidnies It cures a Tetter called in Latin Herpes Miliaris effectually it being anointed with the Juice The Juice or distill'd Water of it outwardly applied strengthens the Eyes and cures Ulcers But because the Juice is very acrid it must be mix'd with those things that will abate its Acrimony A great quantity of the Juice is made use of in the Composition of Aqua Mirabilis which is made in the following manner Take of Cloves Galangal Cubeds Mace Cardamoms Nutmeg Ginger each one Dram of the Juice of Celendine half a Pint of Brandy one Pint of White-wine three Pints infuse them twenty four Hours and then distil a Quart in B. M. Celendine grows in shady and rough Places and amongst Rubbish The Lesser Celandine or Pile-wort in Latin Chelidonium minus 'T is a little Plant about an Hand 's breadth which has yearly a new Root Leaf and Flower The Root is inspid and partly round as an Onion and partly consisting of many white Fibres from whence arises a small Stalk near the Earth white above of a light Purple and at the bottom is a Joint from whence arise two Leaves opposite one to another with long Stalks that have a broad Beginning and are of a fleshy Colour and end narrow and green They are somewhat like Ivy-leaves but softer less and rounder they shine and are nervous and have sometimes white Spots as also those two that arise from the Root The Leaves upon the Stalks are much indented like the Leaves of Creeping-Ivy and they are commonly plac'd alternately and hang upon short green Foot-stalks At the top of the Branches is plac'd one Flower resembling that of Crowfoot consisting of eight or nine small Leaves of a Golden shining Colour The Cup consists of three little short Leaves and has in the middle many yellow Threads A little Head cover'd with Pricks succeeds the Flower of a yellowish green Colour compos'd of the Seeds It flowers at the Latter End of March or the Beginning of April in May the Leaves and Flowers vanish the Roots shoot forth the next Spring It grows in Meadows near Ditches and chiefly in wet Grounds It cools and moistens and is chiefly us'd for the Jaundice Scurvy and Bleeding of the Hemorrhoids Outwardly applied 't is a Specifick for Excrescencies in the Fundament and is much commended for Cleansing the Teeth and for preserving them from Putrefaction The Lesser Centory in Latin Centaurium minus The Root is small white and woody it creeps awry 'tis full of Twigs without Juice and insipid It has most commonly but one Stalk nine Inches or one Foot high smooth and firm Some of the Leaves lie on the Ground others are plac'd on the Stalk by Pairs one opposite to another larger than the Leaves of St. John's-wort smooth and green They have three great Nerves very conspicuous on the Underside running according to their Longitude There are many Flowers joyn'd together at the top of the Stalk and Branches but they have no Foot-stalk they are expanded from a long Tube into five sharp pieces resembling so many Leaves and they have five yellow Tops The Cup of the Flower is compos'd of five narrow acute small Leaves Long starvling little Heads succeed the Flowers full of Seeds like Sand. It flowers in July and is common in dry Pastures Gallen by reason of the wonderful and great Virtue of this Plant wrote a whole Book of it 'T is Splenetick and Hepatick bitter without Biting 't is Cleansing Opening and Vulnerary 'T is good in the Jaundice in Suppression of the Courses in the Gout and for Worms and is a Specifick for the Biting of a Mad Dog The Decoction of it is us'd with Success in Tertian-Agues wherefore 't is called by some the Febrifuge-Plant 'T is one of the Ingredients of the Bitter Drink so much us'd by the London-Physicians which is made in the following manner Take of the Tops of the Lesser Centory of the Flowers of Camomile each one Pugil of the Roots of Gentian half a Scruple of the Leaves of Sena and Carduus-seed each one Dram of Salt of Worm-wood ten Grains boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water to four Ounces A Decoction of the Tops of it takes off Pimples Spots Morphew and other Diseases of the Skin A Lee made of it cleanses the Hair and makes it white A Man almost destroy'd by the Jaundice was cured by drinking every Morning a strong Decoction of this Herb. It will not grow in Gardens Common Wild Charvil in Latin Cerefolium Silvestre It has a woody single white Root and very small Fibres 't is as thick as the Little Finger The Taste of it is somewhat acrid It has sometimes one sometimes more Stalks They are a Cubit and an half high or higher round channel'd smooth and empty and knotted with joints plac'd at a great distance and they belly out under the Joints The Branches come out alternately at each Joint from the Wings of the Leaves This is one of the Plants that are called Umbelliferous The Flowers are small and white and consist of five Leaves and so many white Threads The Seeds are oblong smooth and blackish when they are ripe of a sweet and Aromatick Taste The Leaves are softer and cut sharper than the Leaves of Parsly of an Aromatick Smell and Taste and of a pale-green Colour and sometimes a little red The Foot-stalks are often red and somewhat hairy Tho' we said the Leaves grow alternately upon the Stalks yet at the top they are plac'd by Pairs And from the Wings of these two Branches rise which is common to most other Umbelliferous Plants It flowers in May Soon after the Seed is ripe it withers away It springs again in the Autumn and is green all the Winter Charvil especially that which grows in Gardens is hot and dry and
God who has dealt so bountifully with this Nation in giving the Kings of it at least from Edward the Confessor downwards if not for a longer Time an extraordinary Power in the miraculous Cures thereof This our Chronicle has all along testified and the Personal Experience of many Thousands now living can witness the same 'T is also useful in Cancers and Eating Ulcers The Powder of the dried Root applied to the Piles dries them up A Dram of it taken inwardly expels Worms The Water distill'd from the Root cures a Red Face An excellent Ointment is made of this Herb for curing the Itch It is composed as follows In May take the Herb with the Root and well wash'd and cleans'd beat them in a Mortar keep the Juice in a Glass well stop'd for a Year and when you would prepare the Ointment take of the Juice of Wax and Oyl equal parts and boyl them to an Ointment For the King's-Evil make the following Plaster Take one Pound of Lard melted over a moderate Fire then take of the Leaves of Fig-wort Hound's-tongue the Flowers of White Arch-Angel and Fox-glove cut them small and boyl them in the Lard Do the same three or four times till the Ointment be of a deep green Colour then add two Ounces of Turpentine and an Ounce of Verdigrease and a sufficient quantity of Wax and Rosin strain it and make a Plaster spread on Leather and apply it to the Part affected Filberd in Latin Corylus sativa The Nut is very pleasant but if many of them are eaten they occasion the Head-ach Wind in the Stomach Loosness and the Bloody-Flux Hoops are made of the Branches And Painters use the Coal of it to delineate Gun-powder was made of the Coals before the Coals of Alder were found more commodious for that Use Firr-tree in Latin Abies They say it grows plentifully on the Mountains in Scotland But I suppose the Tree that grows commonly there is that which is called by skilful Botanists Picea for that which we plant in our Gardens for the Firr-tree is the Picea as appears by the Characteristick Notes of the Picea for the Cone is slender and long and hangs downward and the rigid and prickly Leaves encompass the Branches disorderly Theophrastus says 't is propagated only by the Seed and that the Cutting off the Tops causes it to wither and die the same Year But we find by Experience that the Branches do not only grow but take Root and in time become Trees The Rosin of it is twofold First Liquid which comes from young Firr-trees This the Shops fasly call Venice-Turpentine Secondly Dry it is like Frankincense Thirty three stately Trees of this Kind make a fair Appearance on a little Hill near Waryton in Staffordshire two Miles from Newport The Branches and Tops are infus'd in Diet-drinks for the Scurvy with very good Success Sweet-smelling Flag in Latin Calamus aromaticus Officinarum It was first observ'd by Doctor Thomas Brown in the River Yare near Norwich It grows also spontaneously in other Parts of England viz. near Hedley in Surrey and in Cheshire 'T is easily known by its sweet Smell 'T is hot and dry 'T is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Courses Liver and Spleen and in the Cholick it also provokes Urine The Root of it candied tastes very pleasantly and is grateful to the Stomach The Turks usually chew it in a Morning to prevent Contagion of corrupted Air. The Tartars carry it about with them and will not drink Water unless this Root has been infus'd in it Flax in Latin Linum sativum 'T is sown in the Fields The Oyl is chiefly in use for Medicine 'T is taken inwardly in a Quinsie Pleurisie Consumption and Cholick Outwardly used it mollifies hard Swellings and eases Pains it asswages the Swellings of the Belly Printers Ink is made of this Oyl and Lamb-black Purging or Wild Dwarf Flax or Mill-mountain in Latin Linum silvestre catharticum It has a small white woody Root and some Fibres It sends forth little Stalks that creep a little and then rise an Hand high or higher they are small jointed and reddish branchy at the top and bending downward The lower Leaves are roundish and have an obtuse Point the upper on the Stalks are plac'd by Pairs opposite to one another there are many of them they are small and half an Inch long smooth and without Foot-stalks The Flowers have five white Leaves and are placed on small Foot-stalks The Taste of the whole Plant is bitter and nauseous It flowers at the Beginning of June It grows commonly in dry and hilly Pastures The whole Herb infus'd in Whitewine for a whole Night over hot Ashes purges strongly Watery Humours Take of Purging-Flax one Handful of Sweet-Fennel-seeds two Drams boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water to six Ounces add two Ounces of White-wine make a purging Potion Marsh-Flea-bane or Bird's-tongue in Latin Coniza palustris The Root is thick and spreads much sending forth hollow and crested Stalks three Foot high with many Joints and Branches bearing two long Leaves at each Joint which are indented about the Edges green on the upper side and grey or woolly underneath At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand many small yellow Flowers together like those of Rag-wort The Seeds when ripe fly away with the Wind. It grows in the Fen-ditches and on the Banks in the Isle of Ely but not very common It grows chiefly near Stretbam-Ferry The Herb being spread under-foot or burnt in any Place will as it is believ'd drive away venomous Creatures and Fleas and kill Gnats wherefore 't is called Flea-bane Some prepare an Ointment of the Root and Leaves for the Itch. Flix-weed in Latin Sophia Chirurgorum It is two or three Foot high It has many hard woody Branches they are round and a little hairy The Leaves are cut small like Roman-Wormwood it tastes somewhat acrid The Flowers are many small and yellowish The Pods succeed the Flower they are about an Inch long and very small The Seed is very small and brown The Root is white It grows in stony and gravelly Places and on Stone-Walls and in untill'd Grounds A Dram of the Seed is very good for a Loosness And not only the Seed but the whole Herb is commended for the Fluxes of the Belly and the Bloody Flux 'T is used in Plasters for Wounds and sordid Ulcers In Yorkshire they use the Seed to expel Gravel with good Success Common Purple Flower-de-luce in Latin Iris vulgaris The Root hang'd in Wine or Beer preserves the Beer sweet and imparts a pleasant Taste and Smell to the Wine like Rasberries 'T is much us'd by Bakers to prepare Leaven for Wheaten Bread Many Virtues are attributed to the Root of this Plant by the Ancient and Modern Writers they are briefly describ'd as follows By Schroder 't is chiefly us'd for Coughs Difficulty of Breathing Obstructions of the Courses and Children's Gripes Being outwardly applied it
and Sun-setting whether the Heavens are clear or cloudy The Roots of Succory the middle Bark of the Elder the Twigs of Bitter-sweet Wormwood and the Roots of Sharp-pointed Dock cure a Dropsie and Obstructions with expedition and expel Wind. Syrup of Succory with Rubarb is much in use and is an excellent Purge for Children and is made in the following manner Take of Whole Barly of the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Sparagus each two Ounces of Succory Dandelion Smooth South-thistle and Endive each two Handfuls of Garden-Lettice Liverwort Fumatory and the Tops of Hops each one Handful of Venus-hair White Maiden-hair Spleen-wort Liquorish the Seed of Winter-Cherry and Dodder each six Drams boyl these in six Quarts of Fountain-water till two Quarts be consum'd strain the Liquor and put in six Pounds of White Sugar boyl it a while then add six Ounces of Rubarb and six Drams of Spikenard put into a Bag which must be infus'd a while in the hot Liquor then strain it and boyl it to the Consistence of a Syrup Succory-water is also in use Sun-dew in Latin Ros solis Many Leaves come from a small fibrous Root they are placed on long Foot-stalks that are hairy above they are almost round like an Ear-picker a little concave and of a pale-green Colour with a small red Fringe round them they have always a Dew on them in the hottest Day From the middle of the Leaves rise up two or three round small reddish Stalks of an Hand or half a Foot high they have no Leaves on them It has many whitish Flowers placed one above another on short Foot-stalks Oblong Seminal Vessels in shape and bigness like Wheat succeed the Flowers they are full of Seeds It grows plentifully in Sir William Goring's Park near Petworth in Sussex and in many other places Botanists differ about the Virtue of this Plant Some commend it for a Consumption the Plague-wounds and the Falling-sickness But others with good Reason forbid the inward use of it for it is so Caustick that being put on the Skin it will cause Ulcers 'T is very injurious to Sheep for it burns up their Lungs and gives them a deadly Cough Upon which Account it is called the Red-Rot A Strong-water made with it was formerly much in use Many superstitious Things are reported of this Plant which I designedly omit T. TAmarisk in Latin Tamariscus 'T is excellent for Diseases of the Spleen A Decoction of the Bark stops the Courses and an immoderate Flux of the Hemorrhoids It settles the Teeth when they are loose and eases the Pain of them and is good for Ulcers of the Mouth for the Leprosie Itch and other Ulcers for Melancholy the Black-Jaundice and a Dropsie occasion'd by an hard and obstructed Spleen Take of Steel one Ounce of the Middle-bark of the Ash Tamarisk Roots of Capers each half an Ounce of Sassafras and Juniper each six Drams of the Roots of Elecampane Angelica Galangal Sweet-smelling Flag each two Drams Shavings of Harts-horn Ivory Yellow Sanders each three Drams the Leaves of Wormwood Ground-pine Spleen-wort Dodder Balm Germander each two Pugils the Flowers of Bugloss Borage Scabious Broom each one Pugil of Cinnamon half an Ounce Cloves Ginger Mace Nutmegs each two Drams beat them grosly and pour on them two Quarts of White-wine and infuse them in a Glass well stopped in B. M. three or four Days strain it and take four Spoonfuls every Morning This is good for Melancholy and Pains in the Stomach Common Tansie in Latin Tanacetum 'T is Vulnerary Uterine and Nephritick 'T is used for the Worms the Gripes and the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder for Obstruction of the Courses Wind and a Dropsie The Juice of it applied to the Hands and Feet cure the Chaps of them Scabby Ulcers and the Itch. A Conserve of the Leaves and Tops resists Putrefaction purifies the Blood and opens Obstructions One was cured of an Obstinate Dropsie by the Decoction of it Take of the Conserve of Tansie Fumatory Wood-Sorrel each two Ounces of the Compounded Powder of Wake-Robin three Drams of Ivory Crabs-eyes and Coral prepar'd each one Dram of Yellow Sanders powder'd and of the Wood of Aloes each half a Dram of Salt of Steel one Dram of Salt of Wormwood one Dram and an half of the Syrup of the Five Opening Roots a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Chesnut Night and Morning This is good for the Scurvy and to strengthen the Blood Tarragon in Latin Dracunculus hortensis 'T is used frequently in Sallets to correct cold Herbs and the Crudities of them 'T is good for those that have cold Stomachs It procures Appetite and expels Wind. It provokes Urine and the Courses and opens Obstructions Being chew'd it evacuates Flegm and so eases the Pain of the Teeth 'T is also Sudorifick Teasel Fuller's-Thistle or Venus's Basin in Latin Dipsacus The Roots of it boyl'd in Wine cure Ulcers of the Fundament called Rhagades and Warts The Water that is receiv'd in the hollowness of the Leaves is good for Inflammations of the Eyes It also takes off Spots from the Face and beautifies it Boyl'd in Wine it purges by Urine But Cloth-workers use it chiefly Dwarf-Carline Thistle in Latin Carduus acaulis The Leaves lie on the Ground in a Circle they are of a green Colour and very prickly they are cut in deep and are hairy they have either no Stalks at all or but one an Inch or an Inch and an half high The little Heads are oblong and not at all prickly The Flowers are purple The Root is as long as the Little Finger and has some thickish Fibres and grows awry 'T is of a reddish Colour especially within and tastes somewhat Aromatick It grows commonly on Hills and in dry Places and on Stony Grounds on the Downs in Sussex 'T is Alexipharmick and Sudorifick It prevents and cures the Plague if it be taken in time 'T is Diuretick and good in a Dropsie Philip Melancton when he was afflicted with Hypochondriack Pains used this Herb and commended it much Milk Thistle or Ladies-Thistle in Latin Carduus Mariae The Leaves have white Spots they are long and broad and very prickly The Stalk is channel'd downy and five or six Foot high and is divided into many Branches The Brush is so prickly that it cannot be handled The Root is long and thick It grows frequently in Hedges and Ditches 'T is supposed to have the same Virtue with the Blessed Thistle called commonly Carduus But it is oftner used in the Kitchin than for Medicine The Decoction of it is used with good Success in Obstructions of the Liver of the Bowels and of Urine wherefore it is good in the Jaundice for the Dropsie and the Stone in the Kidnies The distill'd Water of it cures the Diseases of the Sides 'T is chiefly used outwardly in Eating Ulcers Rags being dip'd in the Water and applied to the Sores The Seed is frequently used
are full of Juice that is well concocted and before the Fibres grow woody Chuse a clear Day and do not gather them till the Dew is gone off Flowers are best gather'd when they are full blown Seeds when they are ripe and begin to dry Fruits should not be gather'd till they are quite ripe Roots are best gather'd in the Spring just before they begin to spring 'T is best to dry Herbs in the Sun tho' Physicians generally order that they should be dried in the Shade The Explanatory Table A. ACid Sharp Acrimony is a Quality that bites the Tongue and heats it as Pepper does Agglutinate Glue together Alexipharmick Resisting Poison Alternately By Turns Anodine Gives Ease Aperetive Opening Apozem A Decoction Aqueous Watery Aromatick Odoriferous having a Spicy Smell Asthma Difficulty of Breathing Astringent Binding Attenuate To thin B. BItuminous Of the nature of Pitch B. M. Hot Water Bulbous Round-rooted C. CApiliary Hairy Cardiack Cordial Caries Rottenness Carminative Expelling Wind. Cataplasm Pultis Cephalick Proper for the Head Cicatrices Skins Cholera A plentiful Evacuation of Choler upward and downward Concreted Thickned Consolidates Makes sound Cosmetick Beautifying D. DEcant To pour gently off leaving the Setling behind Diabetes A vast Evacuation of Vrine Diaphoretick Sweating Dilute Made thin Discuss Drive away Diuretick Force Vrine E. EBullition Boyling Effervency Working Emollient Softening Empyema A Collection of Matter in the Breast Epatick Proper for the Liver Epithem An outward Application to the more noble Parts of the Body Erotions A Gnawing Errhine A Medicine drawn up the Nostrils Expectorate Bring up Matter from the Lungs F. Faeces Dregs Fibre String Filtrate To strain thro' a Paper Flegmagoges Things that purge Flegm Frontals An Application to the Fore-head Fungous Resembling a Spunge H. HYsterick Vaporous I. INcide To cut Incarnes Breeds Flesh Inspissated Thickned L. LIthontriptick Breaking the Stone Linctus A Medicine for the Lungs Lotion A particular Bath Lubricating Smoothening Luxations Members out of joint M. A Mascatory To provoke Spitting Membranaceous Fibrous Millepedes Hog Lice Mucilaginous Slimy N. NArcotick Occasioning Sleep Nephritick Belonging to the Reins Nerve A porous Substance like an Indian Caâ—e O. OBlong Longer than it is broad Obtuse Blunt Oedematous Flegmatick P. PAlpitation Beating of the Heart Paralitick Subject to the Palsie Paregorick Disposing to Sleep Perennial Lasting Pugil As much as may be held between the Thumb and two Fingers Pulmonick Proper for the Lungs R. REsinous Of the nature of Rosin Rupture Bursten Belly S. SCirrhus Hard Tumors Sextary Somewhat more than a Pint. Siccity Driness Soporifick Gives Rest. Specifick A peculiar Remedy for some Disease Splenetick Proper for the Spleen Spontaneously Of its own accord Stagnate Stand. Stomachick Proper for the Stomach Styptick Astringent Sublimed Raised to the Neck of the Vessel Succulent Juicy Sudorifick Procuring Sweat Suppurating Bringing to Matter T. TAblets The same with Lozenges Thoracick Proper for the Breast Torrification Roasting Triangular Three-corner'd Tumor A Swelling V. VEgetable An Herb. Vehicle Some proper Water Viscous Slimy Umbels Tufts Uterine Proper for the Womb. Vulnerary Healing ERRATA PAge 8. line 16. read Lamium p. 28. l. 9. d. Vterine p. 39. l. 12. r. Officinarum p. 96 r. Gromwel p. 106. l. 16. r. Miâ—us p. 171. r. Polygonatum p. 203. l. 30. r. Gum Ammoniaâ—um p. 278. l. 24. r. Tacamahaca p. 284. l. 36. r. Vse p. 310. l. 1. r. Opium see White Poppies p. 315. l. 2. r. Pyrethrum THE English Herbal OF PHYSICAL PLANTS A ABele-tree See Poplar Adders-tongue in Latin Ophioglosum The Root has many thick Fibres bound together especially if it grows in good Ground It tastes at first sweet but leaves an Acrimony and Bitterness on the Palate It has a tender Stalk about an Hand high which sustains one Leaf that is Oyly and without Nerves sometimes narrow and somewhat long sometimes broad somewhat round and erect of a sweetish and clammy taste A two-fork'd Tongue rises from the Leaf where 't is joyn'd to the Stalk which grows sharp by degrees and is a little indented 'T is common in Meadows and moist Pastures It springs in April and fades in July 'T is an excellent Wound-Herb either taken inwardly or outwardly applied For Ruptures or Bursten Bellies Take as much of the Powder of the dry'd Leaves as will lye on a Six-pence or less according to the Age of the Party in two Ounces of Horse-tail or Oak-bud-water sweetned with Syrup of Quinces Use it every Morning for the space of fifteen Days But before you enter upon the Use of this or any other Medicine the Gut if it fall into the Cod must be reduc'd by a Chirurgeon and a Truss must be worn to keep it up and the Party must avoid all violent Motions and lie as much as may be in Bed or on a Couch Fabritius Hildanus says That some have been cured of great Ruptures by lying in Bed when they could be cured no other way The Oyl of it made in the following manner is full as good for Wounds and Ulcers as that of St. John's-wort Take one handful of the Leaves pound them in a Stone-Mortar and boil them in a Pint of Oyl of Olives 'till they are dry strain it and keep it for use Common Agrimony in Latin Agrimonia Most commonly it has but one Stalk two or three Foot high and sometimes much higher 'T is round hairy full of Pith surrounded with Leaves plac'd at a distance alternately above an Hand in length The Leaves consist for the most part of four little Leaves wing'd on both sides and much indented all about they have Veins and are hairy but the Down is not very conspicuous they taste a little acrid and are somewhat styptick The Flowers smell sweet they grow alternately to the Shaft in a long Series and upon the Top-branches like an Ear of Corn. They are of a Saffron-colour and are compos'd of five Leaves at the Basis of every Leaf there are two Ears that embrace the Stalk The Root is blackish thick and of an astringent Taste It cleanses and strengthens the Blood and opens Obstructions of the Liver wherefore 't is good in Dropsies for an ill Habit of Body and the Jaundice Let those that are afflicted with these Diseases use for their ordinary Drink Ale or Beer wherein the Leaves of Agrimony have been infus'd For instance Put eight handfuls of the Leaves into a Vessel containing four Gallons drink of it when it is clear 'T is used outwardly in Baths and Lotions The Powder of the dried Leaves is much commended by Riverius to prevent involuntary Urine Take of the Powder half a Dram of Conserve of Roses a sufficient quantity make a Bolus to be taken at Bed-time for the space of three Weeks Alder-tree in Latin Alnus 'T is large and spreads much if it like the place it grows in The Bark is brown and the Wood redder than Elm or Yew the Branches are very easily broken the Bark of
the Light of this Bark They put it into a cleft Stick which serves for a Candle-stick and so they see how to use their Three-teeth'd Spear for killing Fish In Alsatia the best Hoops are made of Birch The Leaves are hot and dry cleansing resolving opening and bitter For which Reason they are of no small use in a Dropsie and the Itch and the like The Bark is Bituminous and is therefore mix'd with Perfumes that are to correct the Air. The Fungus of it has an astringent Quality upon which Account it stops Blood miraculously This Tree in the Beginning of Spring before the Leaves come forth being pierced yields plentifully a sweet and potulent Juice which Shepherds when they are thirsty often drink in the Woods Tragus Helmont Charleton and others commend the Virtue and Efficacy of this Liquor and not undeservedly for the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder for Bloody Urine and the Strangury This Tree begins to yield its Juice about the Middle of February and sometimes not till the Beginning of March. Tragus also commends it for the Jaundice Some wash their Faces with it to take off Spots and to beautifie Dr. Needham cured Scorbutick Consumptions with it He used to mix with it good Wine and Honey Rennet infused in the Juice preserves the Cheese from Worms says Tragus The Juice of Birch cures Warts and Pimples in the Face if it be washed with it in the Day time Morning and Evening and permitted to dry on The Greater Bistort or Snake-weed in Latin Bistorta major The Stalks are sometimes more than two Foot high small smooth and jointed at the Top whereon are Ears of Flowers of a Flesh-colour and being unfolded they consist of five small Leaves with Tufts of the same Colour in the middle The Seed is brown or almost black and triangular The Leaves are smaller than those of sharp-pointed Dock above of a dark-green Colour below gray The Root represents a crooked Finger is red and very astringent 'T is common in the Meadows and Pastures about Sheffeild in Yorkshire and in several other Places of that County It grows also plentifully in some Meadows about Tamworth and Fasely in Warwickshire It cools and dries The Root of it is very astringent harsh alexipharmick and Sudorifick 'T is chiefly used to take off Vomiting and to prevent Abortion and the like The Powder of the Root mixed with Conserve of Roses does wonderfully stop Spitting of Blood and the Bloody Flux and other Fluxes It stops the Courses when they are immoderate The Powder sprinkled upon Wounds stops the Blood Take of the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil each one Ounce of the Leaves of Meadow-sweet Burnet Wood-Sorrel each one handful of Burnt Harts-horn two Drams of Shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory each two Drams Boyl them in three Pints of Fountain-water to two add towards the End three Ounces of Red Roses strain them The Dose is six Spoonfuls often in a Day Vpright Blite in Latin Blitum erectius It has a red and single Root with some small Fibres It roots deep in the Earth if the Place be agreeable to it otherwise it is fibrous The Stalk is nine Inches high channell'd smooth solid sending forth many Branches near the Earth longer than the very Stalks The Leaves are plac'd sometimes opposite to one another but oftner alternately Their Foot-stalks are an Inch long smooth and not so frequent as in other Blites The Leaves resemble the Leaves of Wild-Marjoram but they are somewhat bigger from the Wings whereof and from the Extremities of the Branches come forth small purple Flowers in Clusters The Seed is small and black It grows plentifully upon Dung-hills in hop-Hop-grounds and upon fat Earth It mollifies cools and tastes insipid Blue-Bottles in Latin Cyanus The Root is woody and fibrous It has many Stalks a Foot and an half or two Foot high they have Angles are hoary and divided into Branches The lowermost Leaves have sharp Jags like Scabious or Dandelion the other are long and as broad as a Blade of Grass and have Nerves that run along them They are Sky-colour'd or whitish The Flowers come from little Heads that are compos'd of Scales they consist of little jagged Horns and are commonly of a Sky-colour sometimes white or of a light red or purple The Seed is contain'd in the little Head of the Flower The whole Plant tastes dry and somewhat nauseous and has no good Smell It grows commonly among Corn. The Flowers and the distill'd Water are useful for Inflammations of the Eyes and for the Blearedness of them The Juice of the Flowers distill'd is good for putrid Ulcers The Powder of it taken inwardly is very effectual in the Jaundice The Flowers infus'd in Spirit of Wine or in common Water impart their Colour to the Liquor and they also colour Sugar very curiously as do the Flowers of Succory and the like Borrage in Latin Borrago 'T is very cordial and the Flower is one of the four Cordial-Flowers The distill'd Water and the Conserve of the Flowers comfort the Heart relieve the Faint chear the Melancholy and purifie the Blood This Herb is suppos'd to be Homer's Nepenthe by the Juice whereof mix'd with Wine he was wont to expel Sorrow The Water of it is good for Inflammations of the Eyes and for all Fevers as is also the Conserve of the Flowers The Conserve of the Flowers mix'd with Wine is said to open Women's Obstructions To chear the Heart Take of the Conserve of Borrage-Flowers one Ounce of the Confection of Alkermes two Drams mix them The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg two Hours after Meals drinking a Glass of Canary presently after it Box-tree in Latin Buxus This Tree is always green and full of Branches The Bark is white and rough The Substance of it is very hard and yellow and very heavy and without Pith. It has many Leaves they are smooth more obtuse than the Leaves of the Myrtle firm and sometimes concave and which is worth Observation they are double They smell pretty well but taste ill A great many of these Trees grow on Box-hill near Darking in Surrey 'T is seldom used in Physick The Oyl drawn from the Wood is much commended for the Falling-Sickness and Pains in the Teeth 'T is said the Decoction of the Wood cures the French-Pox as well as Guiacum 'T is chiefly used by Turners For the Pain of the Teeth drop two or three Drops of the Oyl upon a little Lint and stop the hollow Tooth with it and it will soon give Ease Bramble in Latin Rubus The Ancients attributed many Virtues to almost every part of this Plant. The Leaves the Buds the Flowers and the Fruit are astringent but the Fruit before it is ripe is very astringent wherefore it is good for Vomiting and all Fluxes 'T is good for Sore Mouths and is commended by some for the Scurvy and not without Reason for in quality and figure 't is like the Cloud-Berry of
am now Sixty Years of Age. And when I was at Florence and had a Fever there an English Physician prescribed the Pulp of Cucumber in Broth for me whereby I was much refreshed and relieved But when they are eaten raw they must be cut into thin Slices and sprinkled with Salt and beat betwixt two Dishes so that the Watery Humour may be drained from them After add Vinegar Pepper and Oyl to them And being so order'd they are very grateful to the Palate and Stomach and undoubtedly not unwholsom The small ones pickled with Salt Pepper and Vinegar Dill and Cloves are kept all the Year and are very good to provoke Appetite and cool an hot Stomach Wild Cucumber in Latin Cucumis silvestris Elaterium is made of the Juice of it pressed out and inspissated It purges Flegm and Watery Humours upwards and downwards It moves the Courses and kills the Child in the Womb wherefore it is seldom used especially for that it is accompanied with Malignity 'T is the most durable of all Juices for it is supposed to continue good above an hundred Years A certain Emperick cured several People of Dropsies by giving them two Pills of the bigness of a Vetch made of Wheaten Flower and this Juice Afterwards he washed their Legs with a Lotion made of the Stalks and then he gave the Pills again and so perfected the Cure Common Cudweed in Latin Gnaphalium vulgare majus Many small Stalks arise from the same Root about half a Foot or nine Inches high upright hoary downy branchy at top It has many Leaves disorderly placed downy narrow and oblong much less than the Leaves of Lavender press'd to the Stalks for the most part whereunto they grow without Foot-stalks Among the Leaves grow small Flowers of a brownish yellow Colour After the Flowers come small Seeds wrap'd in Down It grows every where in dry and barren Grounds The distill'd Water of it is of excellent use for Cancers especially of the Breast for it hinders their Growth and prevents their Breaking Rags being dipped in it and applied to them But some dip the Leaves of Asarabacca in the Water and apply them to Cancers 'T is of a drying and astringent Nature The Country-people in the West of England use the Herb infus'd in Oyl to take off Black and Blue Bruises and Stripes It also stops the Courses Currant-bush in Latin Ribes Currants are cold and moist and provoke Appetite allay the Heat of the Stomach quench Thirst and therefore are good in Fevers They temper the Heat of the Liver and Choler and resist Putrefaction Cypress-trees in Latin Cupressus The Wood of Cypress is very lasting The Doors of the Temple of Ephesus were made of it and lasted four Ages And the Gates of St. Peter at Rome were made of this Wood and continued sound and fresh from the Time of Constantine the Great to Eugenius the fourth Pope which was about Six hundred Years 'T is used in making Tables and Chests and Musical Instruments and the like It has a very curious Smell which continues to many Ages The Fruit and Leaves are dry and astringent The Decoction of the Leaves in sweet Wine helps the Strangury and a Cough Short-windedness Fluxes of the Belly Spitting of Blood and Ruptures The Powder of the Leaves provokes Urine The Leaves beaten with Figs soften Tumours and are good in the King's-Evil applied outwardly Take of the Tops of Cypress eight Handfuls of the Whites of Eggs beaten two Pints of Cinnamon half an Ounce cut them small and pour upon them four Quarts of New Milk distil them carefully in a common Still Take six Ounces of the Water thrice a Day This is used in a Diabetes D. WIld English Dâ—ffadil in Latin Narcissus Anglicus The Root is bulbous composed of many Coats of a moderate Bigness it tastes and feels clammy 't is sweetish but leaves behind it some Bitterness The Leaves are long of a Light-green The Stalk is an Hand or nine Inches high channel'd and hollow upon the top of which is one Flower bending downward about two Inches long consisting of six pale Leaves The Seed is at first broadish and afterwards round It grows in several Places near Hedges especially in moist Ground and in Woods The Root is Vomitive The Leaves bruised are proper in an Erisipelas The Greater Wild White Daisies in Latin Bellis major The Root is fibrous and creeping of an acrid Taste sending forth many Stalks nine Inches high or higher five-angled solid branching and it has many oblong fat and indented Leaves with obtuse Points The Flowers cast forth Beams of Brightness they are white in the Circumference in the middle yellow and large composed of many small yellow Flowers divided into five little Pieces with a small Pillar in the middle of each The Leaves of the Cups have a blackish Fringe It flowers in May and June It grows frequently in Pastures The whole Herb Stalks Leaves and Flowers boyl'd in Posset-drink and drunk is accounted an excellent Remedy for an Asthma Consumption and Difficulty of Breathing 'T is very good in Wounds and Ulcers taken inwardly or outwardly applied A Decoction of the Herb cures all Diseases that are occasion'd by drinking cold Beer when the Body is hot The Lesser Daisie or Common Wild Daisie in Latin Bellis minor It grows in Meadows and Pastures There is some Difference amongst Writers about the Temperament of this Plant. Some say it is hot and dry Others say it is cold and moist But it s sharp Taste argues Frigidity and the Effects of it Siccity Both the Greater and the Lesser are excellent Wound-herbs 'T is used outwardly in Plasters and Fomentations and inwardly in Vulnerary Potions and upon that Account it is called in the Shops the Lesser Comfrey Women usually give the Herb and the Flower to Children to loosen their Bellies The Roots are used outwardly with very good Success in the King's-Evil 'T is commonly reported that the Roots of the Lesser Daisie boyl'd in Milk and given to Whelps hinder their Growth Take of the Lesser Daisie Comfrey Marshmallows each three Handfuls Clivers two Handfuls Liquorish one Ounce half an Ounce of Anniseeds four Nutmegs boyl all being shred sliced and bruis'd in six Pints of Water till half is wasted after strain it and dissolve in it four Ounces of Sugar and clarifie it This is good in Ulcers of the Bladder Dandalyon in Latin Dens-leonis It has many long Leaves much jagged lying on the Ground the Middle-rib is white and full of bitter Milk The Root is as thick as a Little Finger and is full of Milk The Stalks are naked and empty and sometimes hairy Each of them bears at the top a large yellow Flower The Down at the top is as round as a Ball and is soon blown away by the Wind or Breath It grows commonly in Gardens Courts and Meadows 'T is Epatick and much of the same Virtue with Endive and is also Diuretick Take of fresh Horse-dung four
of a Chesnut-colour It flowers at the Latter End of May or Beginning of June and grows frequently in Sandy and Gravelly Pastures When the Seed is ripe the Superficies withers immediately the Root remaining in the Ground Our Country-people eat the Root raw but when it is pill'd and boyl'd in fresh Broth with a little Peper it is pleasant Food and very nourishing and stimulates Venery Being mix'd with Medicines it helps those that spit Blood and void a Bloody Urine Egglentine or Sweet-Bryer in Latin Rosa silvestris odora It needs no Description its curious Smell will not let it be unknown The Virtues of the Flowers are much the same with Garden-Roses but more astringent wherefore they are of excellent use in Fluxes of the Womb. The Fruit of it is much commended for its Lithontriptick Virtue The Heads when they are ripe contain a Pulp of a pleasant acid Taste which without doubt is very useful in Fevers and to provoke Appetite The Conserve of it is commonly kept in the Shops and is very good for the hot Scurvy and for Spitting of Blood The Root is good for the Biting of a Mad Dog a sort of a Sponge grows from the Branches when they are broken or hurt which is of a reddish Colour which laid on the Pillow disposes to Sleep The Ashes of it cure the Heat of Urine and kill Worms Take of the Conserve of Hips and Wood-Sorrel each one Ounce Conserve of Berberies half an Ounce Cream of Tartar one Dram make an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Limons Take the quantity of a Nutmeg thrice a Day This is good in Fevers Elder in Latin Sambucus Martin Blockwitz wrote a whole Book of the Virtues and Use of the Elder the Title of it is The Anatomy of the Elder The inner Bark of the Elder purges watery Humours wherefore it is good in Dropsies The tender Leaves boyl'd in Wine is likewise very good for the same purpose and more convenient for weakly People The inner Bark applied to Burns takes out the Fire The Flowers discuss mollifie and dissolve and are Sudorifick and Anodine Vinegar wherein the Flowers have been infus'd is very agreeable to the Stomach and excites Appetite and it cuts and attenuates gross and crude Humours The Berries are Alexipharmick and Sudorifick The Spirit drawn from the Berries provokes Sweat and therefore good in Fevers The Wine made of the Juice of them or the Juice mix'd with White or Rhenish-Wine does much Good in Dropsies The Seeds cleanse and purge violently by Vomit and Stool A Decoction of the middle Bark with Syrup of Poppies promotes Sweat But note That Narcoticks mix'd with Sweating Medicines do much provoke Sweating For Swellings in the Feet take of the Leaves as much as is sufficient boyl them in Oyl with Salt and foment them with it In St. Anthony's Fire a Fomentation is frequently used made of two Parts of Elder-water and one of Spirit of Wine This is commonly us'd in London with good Success My Father makes an Ointment of the Red-Lead-Plaster and Oyl of Elder which he frequently uses for Burns And I have found it very successful also in other Inflammations Elecampane in Latin Helenium Many Leaves long and broad come from the Root and bend towards the Earth they are acute at both Ends above of a pale Green under hoary indented about the Edges They have short Foot-stalks from the Centre whereof the Stalks rise sometimes one sometimes more they are streight hairy and reddish five or six Foot high with some Leaves thereon compassing them about at the Lower Ends they are branched towards the tops and bear great large Flowers like those of our Marigold of a Golden Colour The Root is very thick without brown within white and of an Aromatick Taste and smells sweet and pleasantly especially when dried It grows in moist Meadows and Pastures but it is not common It flowers in June and July The fresh Root being candied or dried and powder'd mix'd with Hony or Sugar is very good in a Difficulty of Breathing an Asthma and an old Cough Being taken after Supper it helps Concoction It is also commended as an excellent Preservative against the Plague Being taken in the Morning it forces Urine and the Courses Half a Pint of White-wine wherein the slic'd Roots have been infus'd three Days taken in the Morning fasting cures the Green-sickness A Decoction of the Root taken inwardly or outwardly applied is commended by some for Convulsions Contusions and the Hip-Gout The Roots boyl'd in Wine or the fresh Juice infus'd in it and drunk kills and expels Worms Wine that is every where prepar'd with this Root in Germany and often drunk wonderfully quickens the Sight Elecampane distill'd in common Water yields a Volatile Salt that smells and has the same Virtue with Salt of Harts-horn Take of the Roots of Elecampane well cleans'd from the Fibres as much as you please boyl them in Water till they are salt and pulp them through a Sieve whereof take one Part and of Hony two Parts boyl them to the Consumption of the Moisture This is a Preservative against the Plague Take of the Roots of Elecampane Oris and Liquorish each one Dram of the Flowers of Sulphure two Drams Hony a sufficient quantity to make an Electuary Oyl of Sulphure ten Drops make a Linctus This is good for an inveterate Cough Elm in Latin Vlmus The Leaves the Branches and the Bark are astringent The Leaves cure Wounds And rub'd with Vinegar they are good for a Leprosie The Bark boiled in Fountain-water almost to the Consistence of a Syrup and the third part of Aquavitae mix'd with it is an excellent Remedy for the Hip-Gout if the Part affected be fomented with it before the Fire The Water in the Bladders upon the Leaves clears the Skin it being wash'd with it and it betters the Complexion It helps Burstenness in Children Clothes being wet in the Water and applied but a Truss must be kept on also Take of the Bark of Elm six Drams of the Root of Liquorish half a Dram of Raisins of the Sun ston'd number twenty of Red Roses two Pugils boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half dissolve in it of Hony of Roses and Simple Oxymel each two Ounces make a Gargarism Endive in Latin Endivia The Root is fibrous and full of Milk The long broad Leaves like on the Earth they are like the Leaves of Lettice sometimes indented about the Edges The Stalk is two or three Foot high smooth channel'd empty and has many Branches and is crooked being cut it yields a Milk The Flowers come from the Wings of the Leaves they are Sky-colour'd and like the Leaves of Wild-Succory It grows in Gardens 'T is Cooling and the Water of it is used in Fevers and Inflammations Eringo or Sea-Holly in Latin Eringium marinum The Roots are very long and spread much they have an Aromatick Taste The Leaves are placed
Musilaginous Substance blunts the Acrimony of the Humours and keeps the Guts from Erosion Take of the Seeds of Fenugreek as much as you please boyl them in Water and Hony till they are soft then beat them and boyl them again with Hony Spread it on a Cloth and apply it for the Hip-Gout it presently gives Ease 'T is very good also for the Eyes Take of the Pulp of Sweet Apples boyl'd to the Consistence of a Poultis in a sufficient quantity of Fennel and Vervain-water strain it through a Sieve then add of the Musilage of Fenugreek-seeds extracted in Rose-water of the Blood-stone finely powder'd each one Dram of Camphire and Prepar'd Tutty one Scruple of Bole-Almoniack a little of Rose-water a sufficient quantity Make an Epithem for the Eyes For Cold Swellings of the Paps apply the Flower of Fenugreek-seed mix'd with Juice of Smallage Take of Flax and Fenugreek-seeds beaten each one Ounce of ordinary Barley one Pugil of the Flowers of Camomile and Melilot each one Pugil of Rye-Bran two Pugils Make a Decoction of all in Water to half a Pint in the strain'd Liquor dissolve the Yolks of two Eggs Hony of Roses three Ounces Brown Sugar two Ounces mix them and make a Clyster This is good in the Bloody-Flux Common Male Fern in Latin Filix mas vulgaris It grows every where near Hedges and in shady Places The Root is reckon'd injurious to Women and occasions Barrenness hinders Conception and causes Abortion 'T is peculiarly good for the Rickets Female Fern in Latin Filix foemina It grows every where on barren Grounds 'T is the largest of all that grows in England The Root is branchy and creeping 'T is very injurious to Husbandmen Of the Ashes of this and the Male-Fern are made with Water Balls especially in Warwickshire and Staffordshire and being dried in the Sun they wash their Clothes with them instead of Soap But before they use them they put them into a light Fire till they are red hot and then they will easily powder This Fern is used in Sussex to burn Lime for the Flame of it is very violent and therefore very fit for that Use The Root of it reduc'd into Powder and one Dram of it taken in Water and Hony kills the broad and long Worms of the Belly Mounte-banks keep this as a great Secret and use it to kill Worms The Juice of the Root is good for Burns Some poor People have been forc'd in great Scarcity of Corn to make Bread of this Root The Ashes cast upon Stones instead of Nitre make Glass of a green Colour Flowering Fern or Osmond-royal in Latin Filix florida or Osmonda regalis It shoots forth in the Spring divers rough hard Stalks half round and hollowish flat on the other side two Foot high having several Branches of winged yellowish green Leaves on all sides somewhat like the Leaves of Polypody From the top of some of the Stalks grows a long Bush of small green scaly Aglets which are counted the Flowers and Seeds The Root is rough thick and scaly with a white Pith. It grows in Marshy Places and amongst Woods in many Parts of England The Root cures Bursten Bellies and Ulcers It does good in the Cholick and Diseases of the Spleen The whitish part of the Root is very effectual for Bruises and those that are wounded it being boyl'd in some Liquor 'T is excellent in the Rickets a Conserve being made of the tender Buds of it and of Asparagus Spleen-wort and Harts-tongue Feverfew in Latin Matricaria It has a white Root and many Fibres It has many Stalks about three Foot high rigid channel'd smooth pretty large and full of a fungous Pith. It has many Leaves but they are not plac'd orderly Towards the top of the Stalks come forth small Branches from the Wings of the Leaves whereon as also on the tops of the Stalks many Flowers are placed upon oblong Foot-stalks as it were in a Tuft they are not very large white short marginal Leaves encompass the middle yellow Dish when the marginal Leaves wither the Dish grows large The Colour of the Leaves is of a yellowish Green The whole Plant smells strong It flowers in June or July and grows in Hedges and amongst Rubbish The Leaves are very much cut about the Edges 'T is much used in Diseases of the Womb A Decoction of it forces the Courses and expels the After-birth It cures the Suffocation of the Womb It does all a bitter Herb can do It cures Fevers Bees cannot endure it wherefore those that abound with good Humours in the Body and are most apt to be stung with Bees may secure themselves when they walk in Gardens where Bees are by carrying Feverfew in their Hands Take of Feverfew one Handful warm it in a Frying-pan apply it twice or thrice hot this cures an Hemicrania And the crude Herb applied to the Top of the Head cures the Head-ach A Decoction of it with the Flowers of Camomile cures Histerical Symptoms and forces the Child-bed Purgations in great Abundance Fig-tree in Latin Ficus Fresh Figs if they are ripe are very soon concocted Galen eat no other Fruit after Twenty eight Years of Age than Figs and Raisins They are Pectoral and are used by Physicians in Diseases of the Lungs Some Women eat them to facilitate Delivery And Brandy burnt on Figs is freqently used to cure a Cough Figs outwardly applied ripen mollifie and attract Being beat with Leaven and Salt they break Pestilential Buboes and other Tumours in a few Days King Hezekiah used the same Medicine with Advice of the Prophet 2 King 20. 7. 'T is said that Figs frequently eaten breed Lice The Juice of the Fig-tree is very biting and may be reckon'd amongst the Causticks and may be used to cure Warts and other sordid Excrescencies of the Skin Take of Raisins of the Sun stoned one Ounce of Sebestens and Jujubes each fifteen Dates six fat Figs eight French-Barley one Ounce Liquorish half an Ounce of the Leaves of Maiden-hair Hyssop Seabious and Colt's-foot each one Handful boyl them in three Pints of Fountain-water till a third part be consumed The Dose is eight Spoonfuls thrice a Day This is the Pectoral Decoction of the London-Dispensatory Fig-wort in Latin Scrophularia major It has a stinking Smell like Elder The Root creeps awry is white and pretty thick and branches out unequally The Stalk is firm streight four-square hollow and Purplish about four Foot high and is divided into Wings The Leaf is large sharp indented and of a dark-green Colour The Flowers are placed on hairy Foot-stalks in a Five-leav'd Cup and they are of a purple Colour It grows in Hedges and amongst Bushes frequently This and some other Herbs do good in the King's-Evil but nothing has been found so effectual as Touching And he that on Trial shall find the Contumaciousness of this Disease which frequently deludes the best Care and Industry will find Reason of Acknowledging the Goodness of
takes off Spots from the Skin Mix'd with Hellebore and Hony 't is much used in Powders for the Hair It cures the Dropsie and Jaundice Take from half an Ounce to one Ounce and an half of the Juice this is commended in a Dropsie to purge away the Water A Gentlewoman cured many Hydropical People by this Juice alone She gave four Spoonfuls of it daily in the Morning fasting in six Spoonfuls of White-wine The Yellow Water Flower-de-luce in Latin Iris palustris lutea It grows almost every where in Marshy Places and upon the Banks of Rivers Whether it be hot or cold Botanists do not agree but almost all allow it very astringent and the Taste of it confirms as much wherefore it is commended for the Bloody-Flux and other Fluxes of the Belly and Womb And it stops Blood and therefore is useful to prevent the Bloody-Flux and Bleeding The Sick must have it hang'd about him So that it is plain that the Apothecaries were in a great Errour formerly when they used this Root which has quite contrary Faculties for the Root of the Sweet-smelling Flag The Highlanders in Scotland make excellent Ink with this Root infus'd or a little boyl'd in Water twenty four Hours by rubbing a white rough Stone upon a Knife or a piece of good Steel in it for some Hours Fluellin or Male-Speed-well in Latin Veronica maâ— It creeps with Twigs on the Superficies of the Earâ—h and sends down Roots from the Joints These little Stalks or Twigs are small round long hairy and jointed The Leaves are placed by Pairs one opposite to another at the Joints they are hairy and indented about the Edges they taste bitter and acrid The Flowers come forth spiked from the Wings of the Leaves compos'd of four small Leaves of a deep Sky-colour with Threads of the same Colour in the middle The Seeds are contain'd in small Receptacles like Shepherd's-purse The Flowers consist really of one Leaf only for tho' they seem several yet they are all entire at the bottom It grows plentifully on dry Places and on Heaths in Gravelly Sandy and Sunny Places A large quantity of the Decoction of it used for some Time cured a Woman of the Stone in the Kidnies which she had been troubled with sixteen Years The Lesser Spiked Fluellin or Speed-well in Latin Veronica spicata minor The Root grows awry and is fibrous The Stalk is upright sometimes four Inches sometimes a Foot sometimes two Foot high or higher Those Leaves that are placed at the Joints are narrow and sharp hairy and a little indented they are larger at the Root The Stalk ends in a long Spike full of Sky-colour'd Flowers flowering by degrees first the Lower then those that are at top when they are faded little long Threads remain 'T is Vulnerary and Sudorisick 'T is chiefly used in Erosions and Obstructions of the Lungs and Spleen in the Cholick and Consumption for the Plague and the Itch. 'T is of excellent use in Cleansing Wounds being outwardly applied and for hard Swellings of the Spleen Purple Fox-gloves in Latin Digiâ—alis purpurea vulgaris 'T is sometimes four Foot high The Stalk is as thick as the Thumb angled hairy reddish and concave The Root is fibrous and bitter The Flowers are placed on a long Spike they are placed on short hairy Foot-stalks and hang downwards each of them has a little sharp Leaf joyn'd to it they are like a Taylor 's Thimble without they are of a Crimson Colour except in the lower Part which by the mixture of some White is of a Flesh-colour they are purple also within but in the lower Part they have some white Spots To the Basis of the Flowers grow white or purple Threads The Leaf is oblong and ends sharp hairy and indented about the Edges above of a dark Green below hoary Those that are at the Root are placed on long Foot-stalks those on the Stalks are set disorderly and there are many of them The Cup of the Flower consists most commonly of five Leaves The Margin of the Flower is divided into five pieces It delights in Sandy Ground It varies the Flower and is sometimes white but very rarely 'T is Vomitive The Country-people in Somersetshire purge and vomit the Sick in Fevers with it 'T is very good in the Falling-sickness if you take two Handfuls of it with four Ounces of Polypody of the Oak and boyl them in Beer and then drink it For some have been cured by this Decoction that have had the Falling-sickness above twenty Years and that use to have two or three Fits every Month. But this Medicine must be given only to strong People for it purges and vomits violently Being bruised and applied to the King's-Evil or the Juice of it made into an Ointment does much good Some confide very much in the Flowers in King's-Evil-Swellings They put a great many into May-Butter and set them in the Sun Others mingle them with Lard and put them under Ground for forty Days they spread the Ointment on a Cloth and apply them to the Swellings and purge every sixth Day and in the mean while use continually a Decoction of the Herb Robert With the thinner part of the Ointment they anoint the Red Part of the Swelling the thicker they use on Cloth A large quantity of this Ointment ought to be provided for sometimes it is a Year and more before the Cure is perfected Tho' the Ulcers should grow larger at first you need not be discourag'd for when the Ointment has dried up all the Humour the Ulcers will heal and skin This Ointment is chiefly of use in moist Ulcers of the King's-Evil Fumetory in Latin Fumaria It purges Choler and purifies the Blood and is much used for a Leprosie the Itch and other Diseases of the Skin 'T is likewise commended for the French-Pox It opens Obstructions of the Liver and cures the Jaundice It is much used in Whey in the Spring-time 'T is also good for the Scurvy The Juice or Water of it dropped into the Eyes cures Dimness of Sight Being mix'd with Treacle it is good for the Plague An Ointment made of the Juice of Fumetory and of sharp-pointed Dock and a little Vinegar and Hony cures the Itch. Take of the Conserve of Fumetory and Wormwood each one Ounce of the Conserve of the yellow Peel of Oranges and Limons each two Ounces of the simple Powder of the Root of Wake-Robin of Yellow Sanders of Alloes-wood of the Root of Capers each one Dram and an half of Crabs-eyes one Dram of Salt of Wormwood two Drams of Syrup of Fumetory a sufficient quantity make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut twice a Day This is good for the Scurvy G. GArlick in Latin Allium 'T is hot and dry and Alexipharmick 'T is used outwardly and inwardly in the Flatulent Cholick the Worms for the Plague with Vinegar and for the Stone and for the Cough The Common People use it frequently boyl'd in
applied it cleanses Wounds and Ulcers The Powder of it is of excellent use for the Palpitation of the Heart for Mother-fits and Convulsions being taken in Small Beer and Posset-drink A Conserve made of the green Leaves is used for the same purpose Hemlock in Latin Cicuta 'T is very cold and supposed to be poysonous yet it is frequently used now-a-days for Tumours and Inflammations of the Spleen Some Physicians say it is hot Outwardly used it is Anodine A Cataplasm or the Plaster of Hemlock with Ammoniacum discusses powerfully hard Swellings and a Ganglion Twenty Grains of the Powder of the Root is an excellent Diaphoretick in Malignant Fevers Common Hemlock Wild-Ciceley or Cow-weed in Latin Ciâ—utaria vulgaris The Root is thick long and white especially within It has an acrid and Aromatick Taste The Stalks are three or four Foot high or higher as thick as the Thumb empty hairy and reddish The Leaves are like the Hemlock above-mention'd but they are broader and of a paler Green they shine and have a short Down but it is scarce visible The white Flowers are placed in a Circle and each of them consists of five Leaves the uppermost are larger than the rest A Pair of Seeds succeed each Flower they are long smooth and black when they are ripe It grows every where in Hedges and in Orchards and under Trees It springs in the Beginning of the Spring and flowers in May. In the Spring when the Leaves are tender Cows eat them greedily wherefore our Country-people call it Cow-weed J. Bauhinus says he knew two Families who thinking they had gather'd Parsnips by chance found these Roots in the Winter without Leaves for they are more like Parsnips than the Roots of the above-mention'd Hemlock and having eaten a few of them they were like to be suffocated and were senseless and mad and just like Anticks He cured them with Vomits And I remember a whole Family several Years ago was strangely surpriz'd at a Village called Huntington about two Miles from the City of Chichester in Sussex upon the like Occasion But some affirm that old Parsnips will cause the same Symptoms wherefore they call them Madnips Hemp in Latin Cannabis sativa The Seed of it boyl'd in Milk is good for a Cough And five or six Ounces of it taken cures the Jaundice An Emulsion of the Seeds does the same The Juice of the Herb and of the green Seed cures Pains and Obstructions of the Ears 'T is suppos'd by some that it extinguishes Venery but the Persians use it now-a-days fried and mix'd with Salt to provoke the same The Oyl of the Seeds mix'd with a little Wax is excellent to take out the Pain and Fire in Burns Galen reckons that the Virtues of Hemlock and Hemp are much the same Common Hemp-Agrimonr in Latin Eupatorium cannabinum The Root grows awry and has large whitish Fibres The Stalk is five or six Foot high streight round has Cotton on it and is purplish and full of white Pith it has an Aromatick Smell when it is cut and has many Wings There are many Leaves upon the Stalks three upon one Foot-stalk something like the Leaves of Hemp oblong pointed and indented about the Edges and of a bitter Taste The Flowers are placed on tufts compos'd of five or six small purple Flowers The Seeds when ripe fly away with the Down It grows on the Banks of Rivers and Brooks and near Standing-waters It flowers in July 'T is Epatick and Vulnerary 'T is chiefly used for an ill Habit of Body for Catarrhs and Coughs for Obstructions of Urine and the Courses It cures the Jaundice Take of the Leaves of Hemp Agrimony Hart's-tongue Speed-well Colt's-foot Mouse-ear and Sanicle each one Handful of the Roots of Madder and Charvil each one Ounce of Barley half an Ounce of Red Vetches half an Ounce of Raisins of the Sun one Ounce and an half boyl them in two Quarts of Fountain-water till half is consum'd sweeten it with Hony This is used in an Empyema Common Hen-bane in Latin Hyoscyamus vulgaris 'T is easily known by its stinking Smell The Leaves are soft downy fat and cut deep about the edges and are plac'd disorderly upon the Stalks which are two Foot high branchy thick and cover'd with a thick Down The Flowers scarce appear above the Husk they end in five round Points they grow one above another are of a dull yellow Colour somewhat pale towards the Edges they have many purplish Veins The Seed is of a greyish Colour and contain'd in an hard close Husk The Root is thick wrinkly white within and brown without and doth not stink so much as the Leaves It grows near most High-ways in untill'd Grounds amongst Rubbish and on fat Earth It cools and mollifies very much It disposes to Sleep eases Pain and mitigates Acrimony 'T is good for hot and sharp Defluxions of the Eyes It stops Eruptions of Blood and Overflowing of the Courses 'T is applied for Inflammation of the Testicles and other Parts Take of the Seeds of Hen-bane and White-Poppy each two Drams Conserve of Red Roses two Ounces make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg This stops any Hemorrhage Take of the Seeds of Henbane and White-Poppy each half a Dram of Sugar of Roses three Drams of Syrup of Comfrey a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Take the quantity of a small Nutmeg drinking upon it a Draught of Tincture of Roses This is good for Bleeding at the Nose and Spitting of Blood Herb-Robert in Latin Geranium Robertianum It grows commonly in Hedges It has a small Root The Stalks are sometimes nine Inches sometimes two Foot high they are hairy knotted reddish especially about the Joints they branch out The Leaves come partly from the Root and partly from the Joints they are hairy and are plac'd on reddish hairy Foot-stalks and are divided almost like the Leaves of Feverfew they smell like Parsnips when they are rub'd and taste astringent The Flowers are purple and consist of five Leaves they come from a Cup that is hairy of a deep red Colour and divided into five Parts The Beaks are sharp-pointed 'T is Vulnerary Inwardly taken or outwardly applied it stops Fluxes of Blood and resolves coagulated Blood It cleanses Wounds and Ulcers It expels Gravel and cures Cholical Pains 'T is also commended for Ruptures 'T is used outwardly in an Erisipelas and for Ulcers of the Mouth and Paps Country-people make a Decoction of it for Cattle when they void Blood by Urine Holly in Latin Agrifolium The Berries are useful in the Cholick for they purge gross and pituitous Humours by Stool ten or twelve being taken at a time This Tree is fittest to make Arbours in the Northern Parts especially for it will endure Cold very well it continues always green is very pleasant to the Sight and will bear Sheering It grows very slowly so that it will not be injurious to a Garden either by reason of its Luxuriant Branches
in Emulsions with other Seeds for a Pleurisie The tender Leaves the Prickles being cut off are boyl'd with Pot-herbs and eat very well 'T is kept in Gardens and is used in Sallets and the like Take of the Water of Ladies-Thistle ten Ounces of Eratick Poppy-water three Ounces of the Syrup of the same one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearl one Dram mix them Take six Spoonfuls every fourth Hour This Julap is used in a Peripneumonia or Inflammation of the Lungs The Blessed Thistle in Latin Carduus Benedictus The whole Plant is very bitter except the Root This Thistle was called Blessed or Holy for its excellent Virtues It was sent out of India to Frederick III. Emperor tho' it was afterwards found to grow of its own accord in Europe The Decoction of it is best 'T is commended for the Falling-sickness for Giddiness in the Head and Deafness also for the Cholick for the Stone in the Kidnies and for the Hip-Gout But it is chiefly prais'd for its Virtue against the Plague either taken inwardly for Prevention or to cure it by provoking Sweat or outwardly applied to break the Buboes Our People use it commonly in Posset-drink to promote Sweating And by taking a large quantity of it they cleanse the Stomach by Vomiting There is scarce any thing better for curing Putrid Ulcers A Woman whose Breasts were quite consum'd by a Cancer was restor'd to Health by the distill'd Water of it and by sprinkling the Powder of the Leaves on the Ulcers A Girl that took Poyson was cured by the use of this Water when Treacle and other Alexipharmicks would do no good 'T is also much commended for the Scurvy Take of Carduus-water compounded and Scordium-water each three Ounces Treacle-water two Ounces make a Julap Take six Spoonfuls every sixth Hour This is good in the Plague Thorn-Apple in Latin Stramonium An Ointment made of the Juice of the Leaves and Lard is very good for Burns and Scalds The Seed powder'd and taken in Beer occasions Madness for twenty four Hours Thieves give it to those they intend to rob And Wenches give half a Dram of it to their Lovers in Beer or Wine Some are so well skill'd in Dosing of it that they can make Men mad for as many Hours as they please Thorow-wax in Latin Perfoliata The Root is single white and woody and tastes sweet It has one small stiff smooth round channel'd concave jointed Stalk a Foot or two Foot high of an Aromatick Smell when it is cut or broken The Leaves are almost oval smooth and bluish Little Nerves run obliquely from the Centre of the Leaf to the Circumference of it The Stalk passes through the Leaf which is divided into Branches at top whereon stand Tufts of small yellow Flowers The Seed is small and blackish The Decoction of the Herb in Wine or the Leaves powder'd are given for Ruptures and Contusions 'T is also used for the King's-Evil for Fractures and an Erysipelas Throat-wort in Latin Trachelium The Root is white and sweet The Stalks are three or four Foot high or higher about the thickness of the Little Finger they are channel'd hairy and purplish The Leaves are placed alternately on the Stalks they are hairy and like the Leaves of Nettles the Under are placed on long Foot-stalks the Upper on short ones The Flowers are like a Bell and of a bluish Colour The whole Plant especially the Root is astringent and drying and therefore the Decoction of it is good to be used at the Beginning of Ulcers and Inflammations of the Mouth and Tonsils and for other Diseases that require astringent Remedies Wild Thyme in Latin Serpyllum It grows on Hills and dry Grounds 'T is hot and dry It forces the Courses and Urine 'T is Cephalick Uterine and Stomachick 'T is good for Spitting of Blood and Convulsions and for Gripes Outwardly applied it cures Head-aches and Giddiness and disposes to Sleep Toad-flax in Latin Linaria lutea vulgaris It creeps much with white hard woody Roots It has many Stalks a Foot or two Foot high they are smooth and bluish they have many sharp narrow Leaves plac'd disorderly they are branchy at top The yellow Flowers are placed on a Spike at the top of the Branches each on a short Foot-stalk The Seed is round The whole Plant tastes bitterish and a little acrid A small Glass of the distill'd Water with a Dram of the Powder of Ground-Elder mix'd with it evacuates Urine powerfully in a Dropsie The Water also purges by Stool and cures the Jaundice but especially the Decoction of the Herb in Wine which also opens Obstructions of the Liver The Water or the Juice drop'd into the Eyes cure Inflammations and Redness of them Rags dip'd in the Water cleanse Ulcers And the Juice takes off Spots from the Face Take of the Herb and Flowers a sufficient quantity boyl them with Lard till it is very green and make an Ointment When you use it mix a Yolk of an Egg with it This is good to take off the Pain of the Piles Tobacco in Latin Nicotiana It resists Putrefaction provokes Sneezing is Anodyne Vulnerary and vomits Being smoak'd it stops Catarrhs disposes to Rest takes off Weariness and suppresses Mother-fits and is a good Preservative against the Plague A Gargarism of it cures the Tooth-ach and dissolves Tumours of the Uvula A Bath of it or the green Leaves applied cure a Leprosie the Itch and Lice It heals Wounds and cleanses Ulcers and cures Burns The Smoaking of Tobacco strengthens the Stomach helps Concoction and gently moves the Belly But it is not good for People of an hot Constitution The Pain of the Teeth is cured by stopping those that are hollow with Calcin'd Tobacco For the Palsie Take the green Leaves and infuse them in Malaga-Wine and rub the Parts well with it after Sweating This is the best outward Remedy for a Palsie A Nobleman that was extreamly fat was reduc'd to an ordinary Size by chewing Tobacco which also does good in an Asthma 'T is of great use in Camps where there is many times Scarcity of Victuals and Cholicks and the like The Fume of Tobacco blown up into the Bowels is a most effectual Clyster in the Cholick It also cures Mother-fits and Fainting being blown upon the Matrix The Greater Tooth-wort in Latin Dentaria major The Root is soft white and juicy and consists of many Scales The Stalk is about as thick as the Little Finger nine Inches high or higher round and juicy easily broken cover'd with a thin Membrane and full of a juicy Pulp It has some Membranaceous Ears like Leaves placed by Intervals It has many gaping light purplish Flowers that hang on short Foot-stalks The Seed is round 'T is excellent for Ruptures for inward Wounds and for Diseases rising from Defluxions two Drams of the Powder being taken in Broth for forty Days together Tormentil in Latin Tormentilla The Root is sometimes as thick as the Thumb sometimes it grows streight sometimes
awry it has reddish Fibres and is of an astringent Taste The Stalks lie on the Ground having many short Leaves sometimes they grow upright and are two Foot high they are small hairy and reddish The Flowers are small and yellowish and consist of four Leaves Note the Leaves are like the Leaves of Cinquefoil but longer and less dented It dries and is very astringent wherefore there is no Remedy more proper for Fluxes of the Belly and Womb than the Roots of Tormentil Besides they are Diaphoretick and Alexipharmick wherefore they are used in all Medicines for the Plague and Malignant Diseases especially when Fluxes of the Belly accompany them Moreover they are mix'd with Vulnerary Potions Ointments and Plasters for they cure old and putrid Ulcers Half a Dram or a Dram of the Extract of Tormentil is much commended for curing an Epidemick Dysentery Rubarb being used before if there be occasion A Woman that was wont to miscarry after the Second Month was cured in the following manner She was purg'd and took Sage with her Meat and Drink and as much of the following Powder as would lie on a Groat was given at a time Take of Cochinele Prepar'd Pearl and Tormentil-roots each one Dram of Mastick half a Dram mingle them and make a Powder The following Plaster was applied to the Loins and the Os sacrum Take of the purest Labdanum one Ounce and an half of Galls Oak-Moss Bole-Armoniack Cypress-Nuts Seal'd-Earth Mirtles Red Roses Dragon's-blood and Balaustians each half an Ounce of Ship-Pitch two Ounces of Turpentine six Ounces make a Plaster After the use of these things she went out her Time and had a lusty Child and after that more Marsh Trefoil or Buckbeans in Latin Trifolium palustre It grows commonly in Marishes and watery Places and is much commended in the Scurvy and for Pains in the Limbs The Leaves are boyl'd in Beer and it is taken twice or thrice a Day but because it is very bitter 't is best taken in a Syrup Turnep in Latin Rapum It forces Urine and is a Provocative to Venery The Juice and Broth wherein they are boyl'd cure Quartan-Agues Raw Turneps cure the Scurvy-Roasted under Ashes and applied behind the Ears they cure the Head-ach and the Pain of the Teeth They are applied to Ulcers of the Legs and to Swellings of the Breast and for Scrophulous and Scorbutick Tumours with good Success The Broth of them makes a good Gargarism for Sore Mouths Half a Dram of the Seed is used at a time to excite Venery and in Malignant Diseases to expel Venom Take of sliced Turneps and of White Sugar each half a Pound put them into an Earthen Pot making a Lay of one and a Lay of the other cover it with Paper and bake it with Bread when it is drawn press out the Juice and keep it for use Take a Spoonful Morning and Evening This is good for Coughs and at the Beginning of Consumptions Tutsan in Latin Androsaemum vulgare The Root is thick woody reddish and has long Fibres The Stalks are woody three or four Foot high round reddish smooth and crested They have two large Leaves at every Joint green above whitish below The Flowers are yellow and consist of five Leaves they are placed on long Foot-stalks After the Flowers come Heads of Seeds first greenish then reddish and last of a purple Colour The Juice is reddish It stops Blood and is an excellent Vulnerary Plant taken inwardly or outwardly applied V. GArden Valerian in Latin Valeriana hortensis The Root and Herb are very Diuretick Half a Spoonful of the Powder of the Root before the Stalk springs taken once or twice in Wine Water or Milk relieves those that are seiz'd with the Falling-sickness And Sylvius reckons it more effectual in this Case than the Roots of Male-Peony The Leaves bruis'd are commonly applied to slight Wounds upon which Account it is called Cut-finger It purges upwards and downwards Common Vervain in Latin Verbena vulgaris So many Virtues are attributed by Authors to this Plant that it would tire one to reckon them up 'T is Cephalick and Vulnerary 'T is used for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and in the Stone for Diseases of the Eyes and Breast for the Gripes the Bloody-Flux a Tertian Ague to heal Wounds and to hasten Delivery 'T is outwardly used for the Head-ach Pain of the Teeth Redness and Weakness of the Eyes for a Quinsie and for Swellings of the Glandules of the Jaws for the Falling of the Fundament for cleansing Ulcers and for Pains of the Spleen 'T is reckon'd a Specifick for Pains of the Head from whatever Cause they proceed The distill'd Water is applied outwardly to the Head and four Ounces are taken inwardly with four Drops of Spirit of Salt Forestus says he knew Two who were cured of the Head-ach only by hanging the green Herb about their Necks when many other Medicines were used to no purpose Violet in Latin Viola The Leaves are cooling The Flowers moisten cool and mollifie They are reckon'd among the Cordial-Flowers They are chiefly used in Fevers to abate the Heat and to ease the Pain of the Head occasion'd by it and for Coughs and Pleurises The Seed is Lithontriptick The Syrup is most in use and is made in the following manner Take of the Flowers of fresh Violets one Pound of clear hot Water two Pints and an half keep it close cover'd in an Earthen Glaz'd Pot a Day then press it out and add to two Pints of the strain'd Liquor four Pounds of Sugar take off the Scum as it rises and make a Syrup without boyling Viper's-grass in Latin Scorzonera The Root is eaten with Meat and is as sweet as Parsnips 'T is much used for the Biting of Venomous Creatures in Pestilential Fevers for Melancholy Palpitation of the Heart the Falling-sickness Giddiness Obstructions of the Bowels Diseases of the Womb for the Jaundice and at the Beginning of a Dropsie Take of the Roots of Scorzonera and Angelica each six Drams of the Leaves of Wood-Sorrel with the Roots two Handfuls of Rasp'd Hart's-horn and Ivory each half an Ounce of Liquorish two Drams boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Barly-water to one Pint and an half to the strain'd Liquor add of Compounded Scordium-water and of the cold Cordial-water of Saxony each three Ounces of Syrup of Rasberries three Ounces mingle them make an Apozem of which take three Ounces or four at pleasure This is much used in Fevers W. WAlnut-tree in Latin Juglans The outward Bark dried vomits strongly The Catkins are a gentler Vomit The fresh Nuts move the Belly The Dry are hot and hard to digest they increase Choler and cause a Cough The Juice of the outward Bark gargl'd in the Mouth is very useful in a Relaxation of the Almonds and for an Inflammation of the Throat A Decoction of the outward Bark of the green Nut forces Worms out of their Holes The green and unripe Nuts candied with