of Ligusticum Then there are two kindes of Ligusticum the one whiche is the right Ligusticum described by the Auncientes And the other whiche may be a bastarde or wilde kinde of Ligusticum ⧠The Description THE right Ligusticum described by Dioscorides is in his roote lyke to the first kinde of Panax it hath slender stalkes with ioyntes like vnto Dill. The leaues are lyke to the leaues of Melilot but they be softer and of a better sauour whereof the vppermost leaues are tenderest and more iagged or cut At the top of the stalkes groweth the seede in spokie tuffetes the whiche is harde and longe almost like to Fenell seede of an aromaticall or Spycie sauour and in taste sharpe and byting The roote is white and odoriferous much lyke to the roote of the first kinde of Panax Neuerthelesse it is not yet knowen in this Countrie The other herbe whiche is taken in this Countrie for Ligusticum hath great large odoriferous leaues muche iagged and cut almost lyke to the leaues of Angelica but a great deale larger fayrer and of a deeper greene colour deeper cut and more clouen The stalke is smooth rounde holowe and ioyntie of the length of a man or more with spokie rundels or tuffetes at the top of the stalkes bearing a yellow flower and a round flat broade seede larger then Dyll seede and smaller then Angelica seede The roote is long and thicke and bringeth foorth yerely newe Stemmes Ligusticum verum The right Louage Ligusticum vulgare The common Louage †The Place The right Ligusticum groweth in Liguria vppon the mount Apennian neare to the Towne or Citie of Genues and in other mountaynes there about The seconde kinde is planted in our gardens †The Tyme Louage flowreth most commonly in Iuly and August †The Names The first and right kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of Galien 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ligusticum and of some also as Dioscorides writeth Panaces by the which name it is yet knowen in the Shoppes of Genues in the Shoppes of Flaunders they call it Siler Montanum in Englishe Louage in Frenche Liuesche and in Douch Ligusticum The seconde kinde is called in Shoppes Leuisticum and the Apothecaries vse it in steede of the right Ligusticum in Englishe Louage in Frenche Leuesse or Liuesche in Douche Liebstockel in Brabant Lauetse and Leuistock †The Nature Ligusticum is hoate and dry in the thirde degree Louage is also hoate and drye and of qualitie muche like to Ligusticum †The Vertues The roote of Ligusticum is very good for all inwarde diseases driuing away all ventositie or windinesse especially the windinesse of the stomacke and is good agaynst the byting of Serpentes and al other venimous beastes The same roote well dried and dronken with wine prouoketh vrine and the menstruall termes it hath the same vertue if it be applyed to the secrete place in a Pessarie or mother Suppositorie The seede of Ligusticum warmeth the stomacke helpeth digestion and is pleasant to the mouth and taste wherfore in times past the people of Genues dyd vse it in their meates in stede of Pepper as some do yet as witnesseth Antonius Musa The roote and seede of louage dryed and dronke in wine doth drie vp and warme the stomacke easeth trenches or griping payne of the belly driuing away the blastinges and windinesse of the same The same roote and seede do moue vrine and the naturall sicknesse of women whether they take it inwardly or whether they bathe them selues with the decoction thereof in some hollowe seate or stue To conclude the louage in facultie and vertues doth not differ much from Ligusticum and it may be vsed without error in steede thereof The distilled water of louage cleareth the sight and putteth away all spottes lentiles or frecles and rednesse of the face if it be often wasshed therewith Of Angelica Chap. cvij. †The Kyndes ANGELICA is of two sortes that is the garden and wilde Angelica †The Description THE garden Angelica hath great broade leaues diuided agayne into other leaues which are snipt and dented about much like to the highest leaues of Spondilium or Douch Branck vrsine but they be tenderer longer greener and of a stronger sauour Amongst those leaues springeth vp the stalke three yeeres after the sowing of the seede the whiche stalke is thicke and ioyntie hollowe within and smelleth almost like to Petroleum At the top of the stalkes groweth certayne little felmes puffed or bolne vp lyke to small bladders or bagges out of which commeth the spokie toppes or rundels almost like vnto the tops of Fenell bearing white floures afterward great broade double seede muche greater then Dill seede and like to the seede of the thirde kinde of Sesely The roote is great and thicke blacke without white within out of which when it is hurt or cut there floweth a fat or oylie liquor like gomme of a strong smell or taste The wilde Angelica is like to that of the garden sauing that his leaues are not so deepely cut or clouen and they be narrower and blacker The stalkes be muche slenderer and shorter and the floures be whiter The roote is a great deale smaller and hath more threddie stringes and it is not by a great deale of so strong a sauour †The Place The tame Angelica is sowen and planted in the gardens of this Countrie The wilde groweth in darke shadowy places alongest by water sides and wooddes standing lowe †The Tyme The two kindes of Angelica do flower in Iuly and August Angelica Satiua Garden Angelica Angelica Syluestris Wilde Angelica †The Names This herbe is called in Englishe Angelica in Frenche Angelique in high Douch Angelick des heylighen gheistswurtzel oder Brustwurtz in the shoppes of Brabante Angelica There is yet none other name knowen to vs. †The Nature Angelica especially that of the garden is hoate and dry almost in the thirde degree ⧠The Vertues The late writers say that the rootes of Angelica are contrarie to all poyson the Pestilence and all naughtie corruption of euill or infected ayre If any body be infected with the Pestilence or plague or els is poysoned they giue him straightwayes to drinke a Dram of the powder of this roote with wine in the winter and in sommer with the distilled water of Scabiosa Carduus Benedictus or Rosewater then they bring him to bedde and couer him well vntill he haue swet well The same roote being taken fasting in the morning or but only kept or holden in the mouth doth keepe and preserue the body from the infection of the Pestilence and from all euyll ayre and poyson They say also that the leaues of Angelica pounde with the leaues of Rue and honie are very good to be layde vnto the bitinges of mad Dogges Serpentes and Vipers if incontinent after his hurt he drinke of the wine wherin the roote or leaues of Angelica haue boyled Of Horestrange or Sulphurwort Chap. cviij †The
The cause of the Name Peonie tooke his name first of that good old man Paeon a very ancient Physition who first taught the knowledge of of this herbe Paeonia mas Male Peonie Paeonia foemina Female Peonie †The Vertues The roote of Peonie dried and the quantitie of a Beane of the same dronken with Meade called Hydromel bringeth downe womēs flowers scoureth the mother of women brought a bed and appeaseth the griping paynes and tormentes of the belly The same openeth the stopping of the liuer and the kidneyes and sod with red wine stoppeth the belly The roote of the male Peonie hanged about the necke healeth the falling sicknesse as Galen and many other haue proued especially in young children Ten or twelue of the red seedes dronken with thicke and rough red wine doth stop the red issues of women Fiftene or sixtene of the blacke cornes or seedes dronkē in wine or Meade helpeth the strangling and paynes of the Matrix or mother and is a speciall good remedie for them that are troubled with the night Mare which is a disease wherin men seeme to be oppressed in the night as with some great burthē and sometimes to be ouercome with their enimies and it is good against melancholique dreames Of Valerian / Phu or Setwal Chap. xvij †The Kyndes THere be two fortes of Valerian the garden and wilde and the wilde Valerian is of two kindes the great and small Besides all these there is yet a strange kinde the which is nowe called Greeke Valerian 1. Valeriana hortensis Setwall or garden Valerian 2. Valeriana syluestris maior The greater wilde Valerian †The Description SEtwall or garden Valerian at the first hath broade leaues of a whitish greene colour amongst which there commeth vp a round holow plaine and a knottie stalke Vppon the whiche stalkes there groweth leaues spread abroade and cut lyke leaues of the roote called garden Parsenep at the highest of the stalke groweth tuffets of Corones with white flowers of a light blew or carnation colour at the beginning and afterwarde white The roote is as thicke as a finger with little rootes and threddes adioyning therevnto The great wilde Valerian is almost lyke to the garden Valerian it hath also playne round holow stalkes diuided with knottes The leaues are lyke desplayed winges made of many smal leaues set one against another lyke the leaues of Setwall or garden Valerian whiche growe at the vpper part of the stalke but much greater and more clouē or cut The flowers grow and are like to the garden kinde of a colour drawing towardes a light blew or skye colour The roote is tender winding and trayling here and there and putting foorth euery yere newe plantes or springes in sundrie places The little wilde Valerian is very wel like the right great Valerian but it is alwayes lesse The first and neathermost leaues are like the litle leaues of Plantaine the rest which grow about the stalke are very much and deepely cut very wel lyke to the leaues of wilde Valerian or like the leaues which grow about the stalkes of gardē Valerian The stalkes be round with ioyntes about the length of a hande The flowers be like to the flouers of the aforesaid kindes The rootes be smal creeping alongst the grounde The Greekish Valerian hath two or three holow stalkes or moe vpon the which groweth spread leaues almost lyke the leaues of wilde Valerian but longer narrower and more finely cut lyke the leaues of the wylde Fetche but somewhat bigger The flowers grow thicke clustering togither at the top of the stalke of a light Azure or blew color parted into fiue litle leaues hauing in the midle smal white threddes pointed with a litle yellow at the tops The seede is small growing in round huskes The rootes are nothing els like but smal threds †The Place The garden Valerian and Greeke Valerian are sowen planted in gardens The other two kindes grow here in moyst places and in watery medowes lying low ⧠The Tyme The three first kindes of Valerian do flower from May to August The Greeke Valerian doth flower most commonly in Iune and Iuly †The Names The first kinde of these herbes is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phu in Latine Valeriana and Nardus syluestris or Nardus rustica in shoppes Valeriana domestica or Valeriana hortēsis of some in these dayes Marinella Genicularis and Herba benedicta in Frenche Valeriane in high Douche Grosz Baldrian in base Almaigne tāme or groote Valeriā of some S. Ioris cruyt or Speercruyt that is to say Spearwurte or Speare herbe bycause his first leaues at their first comming vp in making are lyke to the Iron or head of a Speare in English Setwal or Sydwall The second kinde is called Valeriana syluestris Phu syluestre and Valeriana syluestris maior in Frenche grande Valerian sauuage in high Douch wilde Baldriā Katzenwurtzel Augenwurtz Wendwurtz Dennenmarcke in base Almaigne wilde Valeriane in English the great wilde Valerian The third is a kinde of wilde Valerian and therefore we do call it Valeriane syluestris minor that is to say the small wilde Valerian and also Phy paruum and Valeriana minor 3. Phu paruum Valeriana syluestris rainor The smal wild Valerian 4. Phu Gręcū Valeriana peregrina Greekish Valerian The fourth is called of the Herboristes of our time Phu Gręcum Valeriana Graeca that is to say Greekish or Greke Valerian it may be wel called Valeriana peregrina or Pseudophu for this is no Valerian but some other strange herbe the which we cannot compare to any of the herbes described by Dioscorides except it be the right Auricula muris for the which it is taken of some †The Nature The roote of Valerian is hoate and drie in the seconde degree †The Vertues The decoction of the rootes of Setwal dronken prouoketh vrine bringeth downe womens flowers and helpeth the ache and paynes of the side and stomacke They be of like vertue being made in powder and dronke in wine And they be put into preseruatiues and medicines made agaynst poyson and the pestilence as Tryacles and Mithridats The leaues rootes of the great wilde Valerian boyled in water do heale the vlceration and blistring of the mouth especially the roughnesse and inflammation of the throte if one washe his mouth or gargarize therewith Men do vse to giue it with great profit in drēches to such as are burstē wtin The two other Valerians be not vsed in medicine English men vse Greeke Valerian against cuttes and woundes Rosesenting Roote Rosesmelling Roote Of Rosewurte or Rhodia Chap. xviij †The Description ROsewurte hath three or foure stalkes growing frō the roote set ful of thicke leaues lyke the leaues of Lyblong or Crassula maior but they are more narrower cut or hackt at the top The roote is thicke hauing many smal hearie threddes whan it is eyther bruysed or bursten it doth sente and sauor like the Rose
herbes as Thyme Sauerie Tithymale is likewise very hoate That which groweth vpon other herbes is not so feruent hoate Neuerthelesse of it selfe it is somwhat hoate and drie †The Vertues Doder or Cuscuta boyled in water or wine and dronke openeth the stoppinges of the liuer the bladder the galle the melt the kidneyes the veynes and purgeth both by siege and vrine the Cholerique humours It is good agaynst olde Agues and agaynst the Iaunders especially that kinde whiche groweth vpon the Hoppes and vpon Brambles The other sortes haue propertie according to the herbes wherevppon they growe Of Hoppes Chap. lix †The Kyndes THere be two sortes of Hoppes the manured or toyled Hop and the wilde hedge Hoppe The husbanded Hoppe beareth his flowers or knoppes ful of scales or litle leaues growing one ouer another clustering or hanging downe togither like belles The wilde is not fruitefull but if by chance they happen to beare it is but little and small †The Description THE tame Hoppe hath rough branches beset with small sharpe prickels it groweth very high and windeth it selfe about poles and perches standing neare wheras they be planted The leaues be rough almost like the leaues of Briony but lesser and nothing so muche nor so deepely cut of a deeper or browne colour About the top of the stalkes amongst the leaues grow rounde and long knoppes or heades of a whitish colour whiche are nothing els but many small leaues betwixt white and yellow or pale growing togither Vnder the sayde small leaues or scales is hidden the seede which is flat The belles or knoppes be of a very strong smell when they be ripe The brewers of Ale and Bier do heape and gather them togither to giue a good relish and pleasant tast vnto their drinke The roote creepeth along in the earth is enterlaced or tangled putting foorth in sundrie places newe shutes and springes The hedge or wilde Hoppe is very much like the manured and tame Hoppe in leaues stalkes but it beareth no knoppes or flouers and if they beare any they be very small and to no purpose The roote of the same doth also trayle or creepe alongst in the grounde and at diuers places putteth foorth also newe shutes and tender springes the whiche are vsed to be eaten in Salades before they bring foorth leaues and are a good and holesome meate †The Place The tame Hoppe is planted in gardens and places fit for the same purpose is also found in the borders of feeldes and about hedges The wild Hoppe groweth in hedges and busshes in the borders of feeldes and herbe gardens †The Tyme The bell knoppes and heades of Hoppes come foorth in August and are rype in September †The Names Some of our tyme do cal the Hoppe in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Lupulus Salictarius or Lupus Salictarius in shoppes Lupulus in high Douche Hopffen in Neather Douchlande Hoppe and Hoppecruyt Lupus Salictarius ¶ The Nature The Hoppe but especially his flowers are hoate and drie in the second degree †The Vertues The Decoction of Hoppes dronken doth open the stoppinges of the liuer the splene or melte and kidneyes and purgeth the blood from all corrupt humours causing the same to come foorth with the vrine Also it is good for them that be troubled with scabbes and scurninesse and suche lyke infirmities whose blood is grosse and corrupted For the same purpose serueth the young springes and tender croppes at their first comming foorth of the grounde in Marche and Aprill to be eaten in Salade The iuyce of Hoppes openeth the belly and driueth foorth the yellowe cholerique humours and purgeth the blood from all filthynesse The same dropped into the eares clenseth them from their filth and taketh away the stinking of the same Of Ferne or Brake Chap. lx †The Kyndes THere be two kindes of Fernes as Dioscorides writeth the male and female the whiche in leaues are very well lyke one another †The Description THE male Ferne hath great long leaues sometimes of two foote in length spread abrode vpon eche side like winges cut in euen to the middle ribbe or sinew and snipt or toothed round about like a sawe vnder whiche leaues ye may see many little spottes or markes the whiche in continuance of time become blacke and after they fall of the roote is thicke and blacke without putting foorth many leaues and small dodkins or springes whiche are the beginning of leaues This kinde of Ferne beareth neither flowers nor seede except we shal take for seede the blacke spottes growing on the backside of the leaues the whiche some do gather thinking to worke wōders but to say the trueth it is nothing els but trumperie and superstition Filix mas Osmunde Royall Filix foemina Brake or common Ferne. The female Ferne also hath neyther flowers nor seede but it hath long greene bare stemmes vpon the whiche growe many leaues on euery syde cut in and toothed rounde about very like to the leaues of male Ferne but somewhat lesse The roote of this Ferne is long and smal blacke without and creeping along in the grounde ¶ The Place Male Ferne groweth almost in al rough and vneuen places in moyst sandy groundes and alongst the borders of feeldes standing lowe or in vallies The female kinde is founde in woods and mountaynes †The Tyme The leaues spring foorth in Aprill and wither or fade in September †The Names The firste kinde of Ferne is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Filix mas that is to say The Male Ferne in Frenche Feuchiere masle in high Douch Waldtfarn mennle in neather Douchland Varen manneken of Mattheolus and Ruellius it is called Osmunde Royall The seconde kinde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Filix foemina in Frenche Feuchiere femelle in Englishe Female Ferne in high Almaigne Waldtfarn Weiblin and of some Grosz Farnkraut in base Almaigne Varen wijfken in English Brake Common Ferne and female Ferne. Both kindes of Ferne are of like temperament or qualitie that is hoate and drie in the seconde degree †The Vertues The roote of male Ferne taken with Mede or honied water to the weight of halfe an ounce driueth foorth and killeth brode wormes The same sodden in wine is very good agaynst the hardnesse and stopping of the Melt or Splene The roote of the female Ferne taken in lyke manner as you take the male bringeth foorth the brode and rounde wormes The leaues of both kindes of Ferne put into the bedstrowe driueth away the stinking punayses and al other suche wormes ⧠The Danger The vse of Ferne is very dangerous for women especially those that are with childe Of Osmunde or Water Ferne. Chap. lxi †The Description THis kinde of Ferne is almost lyke the female Ferne sauing that the leaues be not dented or toothed it hath a triangled straight and small stemme
leaues betwixt whiche the stalkes there riseth small purple floures with seede according The roote is small and of the length of a fingar The whole herbe is full of sape salt like Tragus whereof we shal speake hereafter and of this herbe they make Axsen whiche is vsed for the making of glasses †The Place It groweth in salt sandy grounds as in Zeland alongst the coast where there is store of it †The Tyme It floureth in Iune and the seede is rype in Iuly †The Names The first kinde is called of Dioscorides in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And we haue named it Anthyllis prior as a difference from the second Anthyllis Plinie calleth it in Latine Anthyllon Anthyllion and Anthycellon vnknowen of the Apothecaries Some Arboristes do call it Glaudiola the which worde is deriued from Glaux and some iudge it to be Glaux albeit it is not the right Glaux The second is named in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Anthyllis altera as a difference from the first Anthyllis some of our time do call it Borda †The Nature It is dry and serueth properly to heale and close vp woundes †The Vertues If one drinke halfe an ounce of the first Anthyllis it shall preuayle much against the hoate pisse the Strangury or difficultie to make water and against the payne of the Reynes The same mingled with milke and oyle of Roses is good for the Matrix or Mother being charged and oppressed with colde humors to be applied or layde outwardly to the belly Also it cureth woundes by it self being layde vpoÌ„ them or being mixte with salues oyntments or oyles The other Anthyllis taken with Oximell that is honied Vineger is good for them that haue the falling sickenesse Of the Clote Burre Chap. viij ⧠The Kindes THere be two sortes of Clote Burres in this countrey the one is the great Burre the other the lesser Burre the whiche Dioscorides described aparte Neuerthelesse we haue reduced both into one chapter bycause of the likelihood that is betwixt them both in name fasshion Arcium siue Personata Great Clote Burre Xanthium Louse Burre or the lesser Clote †The Description THe great Clote hath leaues very large and long greater than Gourde leaues of a swarte greene colour but of a grayish colour on the side next the ground The stalke is round hollow of colour somwhat white redde with diuers side bowghes braunches set ful of small leaues vpon the braunches there groweth small bullets or rounde balles garnisshed full of little crookes or hookes wherewithal they take holde or cleaue fast and hang vpon garments at last the sayde bullets or knoppes do open and put forth a fayre purple thromde or veluet floure The roote is single long blacke wâ—thout white within and in taste bitter The lesser Clote Burre hath grayish leaues like vnto Orache iagged or snipte round about the edges The stalke is a foote and half long full of blacke spottes diuiding it selfe into many branches or winges Betwixt the leaues and the sayde branches there groweth three or foure small Burres in a cluster somewhat long like to a small Oliue or Cornell berry prickly and cleauing fast vnto garments In the middell of those small Burres there groweth forth as it were a little Crownet somewhat aboue the Burres vpon whiche groweth small floures the which do perish after their opening and do fall with their Crowne than commeth the little Burres with long seede the which afterward do neuer open nor floure otherwise than is aforesayde The roote is redde and full of small threedes or hearie strings †The Place The Clote Burres delight to grow by the way side about the borders of fieldes in untilled places and dry Diches †The Tyme Theyr season is in Iuly and August †The Names The great Burre called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Personatia Personata and Arcium of Apulcius Dardana in Shoppes Bardana maior and Lappa maior in ItaliaÌ„ Lappola maggiore in Spanish Lampazos yerua dos pegamazos pagamacera mayor in English the great Burre or great Clote Burre in French Bardane la grande Lappe grande grand Glouteron or Gleteron in high Douch Grosz kletten in base Almaigne Groote Clissen The lesser is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Xanthium in Shoppes Lappa minor and Lappa inuersa in Italian Lappola minore in Spanish Pagamacera menor that is to say the small Burre the Burre turned in out in French Le petit Glouteron in high Douch Bettlertsz leusz and Spitz kletten that is to say Rams lyce or Beggers lysse and the poynted or sharpe Burre in base Almaigne cleyn Clissen in English Diche Burre and lowse Burre †The Nature The Clote Burres haue power to dry vp consume or dissolue but the lesser is the hoater †The Vertues The iuyce of the great Burre dronken with Hony prouoketh vryne and swageth the payne of the bladder The same dronken with olde wine healeth the bitings and stingings of venemous beasts The leaues pound with a littell salte is with great profite layd vnto the bitings and stingings of Serpents madde Dogges other venemous beasts The scede made into pouder taken with the best wine that may be gotten by the space of fortie dayes is very profitable for such as haue the Sciatica A dramme which is the eigth parte of an vnce of the roote pound with the kernesses of Pine apple and dronken is a soueraigne medicine for such as spit bloud and corrupt matter It is good for such as haue ache or payne in their ioyntes by reason that the sayde ioyntes or bones haue bene before out of ioynt broken or hurte The greene leaues pounde with the white of Egges cureth burnings and olde sores being layde thereto The iuyce of the lesser Burre dronken with wine is much vsed against the bitings of venemous beasts and also against the grauell and the stone The fruite pounde layde vnto colde swellings called in Greeke Oedema consumeth the same and scattereth or wasteth all colde humors and is specially good against the Kings euell called Strumas and Strofulas Of Mugworte Chap. ix †The Description MUgworte hath broade leaues all iagged torne like the leaues of Mormwood but something smaller specially those whiche grow about that stalke they are of a browne greene colour aboue and white hoare or gray vnderneath The stalke is long and straight full of branches The floures are smal round buttons growing alongst the branches like Mormwood smelling whan they begin to ware ripe somewhat after Marioram The roote is of a wooddy substance hath small hearie strings Of this herbe there be twoo kindes moe differing onely in colour The one hath redde branches floures and is called redde Mugworte The other hath greenish branches changing towardes white and is called white Mugworte in all things els like one to an other †The Place Mugworte
bleeding Of Gastarde Saffron Chap. xxij †The Description WIlde Saffron hath a rounde stalke of three Cubites long or more decked with lōg narrow dented sharp pricking leaues at the toppe of the braunches are small round pricklcy heades or knoppes the whiche at their opening do bring forth a pleasant Orenge colour floure of a good fauour colour like to the threds of right Saffron whan the floure is withered and past there is found within the prickly heads or knoppes a white long cornered seede wrapped in a certayne hearie downe or chaffe †The Place They vse to plante it in gardens †The Tyme It floureth in Iuly and August Cnicus Carthamus †The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cnicus of the Apothecaries and of Mesue of Serapio Cartamus of some Crocus Hortēsis Crocus Saracenicus in Italian Saffrano Sarracinesco in Spanish Alaçor Açfran del huerto y semente de Papagaios in English Bastard Saffron in Frēch Saffran sauuage or Bastard in high Douch Wilden garten Saffron in base Almaigne Wilden Saffraen †The Nature The seede of Bastarde Saffron as Mesue writeth is hoate in the first degree and dry in the second †The Vertues The iuyce of the seede of Saffron brused and pound and dronken with Honied water or the brothe of a Chicken or pullet prouoketh the stoole and purgeth by siege flymie fleumes and sharpe humors Moreouer it is good against the Colike that is to say the payne and stopping of the bowels or guttes and also against the payne in fetching of breath the cough stopping of the breast and it is singuler against the Dropsie Also the iuyce of the same seede put into milke causeth the same milke to congeale and crudde and maketh it of great force to lose and open the belly The floures dronke with Honied water openeth the Liuer and are very good against the Iaundise Also the same floures are very good to be vsed in meates to giue them a yellow colour †The Daunger The seede of Bastard Saffron is very hurtfull to the stomacke causing a desire to vomite and is of harde and slowe operation remayning long in the stomake and entrailles †The Amendement He must put to the same seede somethings comfortable to the stomake as Anise seede Galangall or Mastike or some other good thing to hasten his operation as Gynger Salgemme common salte c. And if it be vsed after this manner it shall not hurte the stomacke at all and his operation shall be more speedy Of Conyza / or Flebane Chap. xxiij ⧠The Kindes THere are two sortes of Conyza as Dioscorides Theophrastus writeth The one called the great or male Conyza the other the small or female Conyza Ouer and bysides these there is a thirde kinde the which is called the middle or meane Conyza †The Description THe greate Conyza hath leaues somewhat large almost like Cowslippe leaues sauing that they are browner and softer The stalke is round couered with a safte Cotton or fine Downe of a foote and halfe long or more towardes the toppe spreading abroade into many small branches vpon which groweth long buddes whiche turne into yellow floures the whiche also do afterward chaunge into Downie heads fleeing away with the wind The roote is somewhat thicke The small Conyza groweth not aboue the heigth of a spanne or foote and differeth not from the first sauing that it is a great deale lesse The floures be of a darke yellow almost like the floures of Tansie or like to the middell of the floures of Cammomill they are both of a strong sauour but the sauour of the greater is more then the small The third and middell kinde of Conyza hath a round white wollish stalke of a foote and a halfe long the leaues be long cottony or wolly The floures at the top of the stalke like to Cammomill but greater not onely of a broune yellow colour in the middell but also round about Conyza maior Great Conyza Conyza media Middell Conyza †The Place The great Conyza for the most parte groweth in dry places The two others grow in valleys that are moyst and grassie and by water sides †The Tyme They floure in the end of Iuly and August †The Names These herbes are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plinie in some place calleth them Cunilagines Theodor Gaza calleth them Policariae and Pulicariae vnknowen in shops one kinde of it is called in English Flebane some call it in high Douch Durwurtz and Donnerwurtz in Spanish Attadegua Theophrast calleth the great Conyza the male and the smaller Conyza the female †The Nature The great and the small Conyzae are hoate and dry in the third degree The third is of the like substaunce but not so hoate †The Vertues The leaues and floures of Conyza boyled in wine and dronken haue great power to prouoke the floures and to expell the dead childe They haue also great power against the hoate pisse and Strangury against the Iaundise and gnawing or gryping paynes of the belly The same taken with vineger is good for the Epilepsie or falling sicknesse The Decoction of Conyza is very profitable to women against the diseases and payne of the Mother if they sitte ouer it in a close vessell or stewe The leaues brused and layde vpon the bitings or stingings of venemouse beasts are very good also they are good to be layde vpō woundes oedemes that is harde lumpes or colde swellings The same mingled with oyle is good to annoynt the body to take away all colde shakings and brusings The same layde strowed or burned in any place driueth away al venemouse beasts and killeth gnattes and flees Of Sterrewurte or Sharewurte Chap. xxiiij †The Description STerrewurte hath a browne hearie and woodish stalke the leaues be lōg thick hearie and of a browne or swartgreene colour At the toppe of the branches groweth three or foure shining floures after the fasshion of Camomill yellow in the middle and set rounde about with small purple leaues in order and fasshion like a Sterre whiche at length do turne into downe or Cotton the plume is carried away with the winde The roote is bearded with hearie strings There is an other kinde of this herbe whose floures are not onely yellow in the middle but the small leaues also growing about the edges in order like the Cammomill floure are also of yellow colour but otherwise like to the first †The Place Sterrewurte groweth vpon small hillockes barrowes or knappes in Mountaynes and high places and sometimes in wooddes and in certaine medowes lying about the riuer of Rheyne †The Tyme It doth most cōmonly floure in August Aster Atticus †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aster Atticus Inguinalis of Vergill Flos Amellus of some Stellaria in Italian Alibio vnknowen in Shoppes in English Sharewurte or
It is in vertue like Telephium wherfore if it be layde with vineger vpō the body it taketh away the white and blacke spottes and Lentils or freckles Also the herbe alone pounde and onely layde vpon such spottes and markes by the space of sixe houres taketh them cleane away but yet those spottes must be playstered afterwardes with Barly meale Of Mulleyne / or Hygtaper Chap. lxxxi †The Kyndes THere be foure sortes of Mulleyne as Dioscorides writeth whereof the two first are white Mulleyne and of them one is Male and the other female The third is blacke Mulleyne The fourth is wilde Mulleyne †The Description THe white male Mulleyn or rather Wolleyn hath great broade long white softe wolly leaues from the lowest parte vpward euen to the middell of the stem or somewhat higher but the higher the smaller are the leaues From the leaues vpwarde euen to the top of the stalke it is thicke set round about with pleasant yellow floures each floure parted into fiue smal leaues the whole top with his pleasant yellow floures sheweth like to a waxe Candell or taper cunningly wrought The roote is long and single of a woddy substance and as thicke as ones thombe The other white Mulleyne called the female Mulleyn hath white leaues frysed with a soft wooll or Cotton the stalkes and roote are like to the aforesayde sauing that the floures be white and parted into sixe littell leaues The third Mulleyn which is also of the female kind is like to the abouesayd in stalkes leaues floures sauing that his leaues be larger his floures are of a pale yellow colour with small redde threedes in the middell fasshioned almost like to a littell Rose The roote is long and thicke like the others Verbascum album mas White male Mulleyne Verbascum album foemina albo flore White female Mulleyne with the white floure The Blacke Mulleyn hath great blacke rough leaues of a strong sauour and not softe or gentill in handeling The floures be yellow in fasshion like the others but a great deale smaller the stalke and roote is like to the others The wilde Mulleyn is very much like Sage aswel in stalkes as in leaues It hath many square twigges and branches of wooddy substance alwayes two growing togither out of a ioynt standing directly one against an other The leaues be soft and whitishe like to the leaues of Sage but much greater and softer The floures grow at the toppe of the branches and are of yellow colour †The Place The Mulleynes grow about the borders of fieldes by the high way sides and vpon bankes The wilde Mulleyn is not common in this countrey but we haue seene it in the pleasant garden of Iames Champaigne the deere friende and louer of Plantes †The Tyme The Mulleyns do floure most commonly in Iuly August and September and the wilde kinde floureth againe more later †The Names Mulleyn is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Verbascum of Apuleius Lychnitis and Pycnitis and of some Candela regis Candelaria and Lunaria in Shoppes Tapsus barbatus in Italian Tassobarbasso in English also Tapsus barbatus Verbascū albū foemina luteo flore White female Mulleyne with yellow floures Verbascum nigrū Wilde Mulleyne Verbascum syluestre Wild Mulleyne Mulleyne or rather Wulleyn Higtaper Torches and Longworte in high Douch Wuulkraut Kertzenkraut Brēkraut Himelkraut Vnholdenkertz and Kunningskertz in base Almaigne Vollecruyt Wollebladeren and Tortsecruyt †The Nature The Mulleyns be dry without any manifest heate †The Vertues The roote of white Mulleyne boyled in redde wine and dronken stoppeth and healeth the dangerous laske and bloudy flixe The same boyled in water dronken is good for them that are broken hurte inwardely and against an old Cough of long continuance The decoction of the roote swageth tooth ache is good against the inflammations and vlcers of the Aulmondes or kernels of the throte to be kept warme in the mouth and the mouth to be wasshed and clensed by often gargeling of the same He do read that if dryed figges be wrapt in the leaues of the white female Mulleyn it shall preserue them a long time from corruption The leaues of Mulleyne are also good against the Hemorrhoides whan they be wiped and clensed therewith and it is good to wasshe the mouth with the decoction of the same The blacke Mulleyn with his pleasant yellow floures boyled in water or wine and drōken is good against the diseases of the brest and the lunges and against all spitting of corrupt and rotten matter The leaues of the same boyled with Rue do appease the payne of the side The leaues of blacke Mulleyn boyled in water are good to be layde vpon colde swellings called Oedema and vpon the vlcers and inflaminations of the eyes The same leaues pounde with hony and wine do cure naughtie and mortified vlcers and with vineger it cureth the inflammation of woundes The golden floures of Mulleyn stiped in lye causeth the heare to waxe yellow being wasshed therewithall The seede of Mulleyne is good to drinke as saith Plinie against the bursting and falling out of ioynte of members for it taketh away the swelling and swageth the payne The wilde Mulleyne stamped is good to be layde vpon burnings and scaldings made with fire or water and otherwise Apuleius saith that Mercury gaue Mulleyn to Vlysses whā he came neare to the inchanteresse Circe to the ende that by the vertue of Mulleyn he might be preserued against all the enchantments or witchings of Circe Of Blattaria / or Mothe Mulleyn Chap. lxxxij †The Description THe leaues of this herbe are greene smooth long iagged or snipt round about and spread abroade vpon the ground somewhat like to the leaues of Veruayne from the middest of those leaues doo spring vp two or three stems bearing fayre yellow floures and sometimes also it beareth purple floures so lyke to the floures of Mulleyn in smel fasshion and quantitie that oftentimes as witnesseth Plinie this herbe hath bene gathered for wilde Mulleyne After the floures there arise small knoppes or bullets in whiche the seede is conteyned smaller than the seede of Mulleyn The roote is shorte and of wooddy substance †The Place This herbe groweth by way sides in Vineyardes and certayne fieldes also about Riuers and is seldome founde in this countrey Blattaria ⧠The Tyme It floureth in Iune and Iuly †The Names Plinie calleth it in Latine Blattaria some call it Verbascum Leptophyllon it maybe called in English Purple or Mothe Mulleyn it is called in French Herbe aux mites Herbe vermineuse and Blattaire in high Douch Schabenkraut Goldtknopflin and of some in base Almaigne Mottencruyt †The Nature As it may be well perceyued by the bitter sauour the herbe is hoate dry almost in the third degree †The Vertues As concerning the vertues of this herbe we finde none other thing wryten of it sauing that the Mothes and Battes do incontinently
frutefull medowes †The Tyme This leafe is founde with his littell tonge in Aprill and May the whole herbe vanissheth away in Iune †The Names Plinie as some learned men iudge calleth this herb Lingua Linguace and Lingulace it is now called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Lingua serpentis in some countries Lancea Christi and in other places Lucciola in English Adders tonge Serpents tonge in French Langue de serpent in highe Douch Naterzunglin in Brabāt On s Heeren speer cruyt and Natertonghesken †The Nature Adders tongue is dry in the third degree and of Nature very like Pyrola Ophioglosson ⧠The Vertues Adders tonge is also good very singuler to heale woundes both inward and outwarde it is also good against burstings or Ruptures to be prepared taken in like sorte as Pyrola The Decoction of the same made with water and dronken is good against hoate feuers the inflammations of the liuer and against all inwarde and outwarde heates The same incorporated or mengled with Swynes grease is good against burning and spreading sores or the disease called the wilde fire also against burnings and all hoate tumors and impostems Of Zunaria Chap. xciiij ⧠The Description THe small Lunarie also bringeth forth but one leafe iagged cut on both sides into fiue or sixe deepe cuttes or natches not much vnlike the leaues of the right Scolopendria but it is longer larger and greener Vpō the sayde leafe groweth a stem of a span long bearing at the top many smal seedes clustering together like grapes The roote is of threedy strings †The Place This herbe groweth vpon high dry and grasie moūtaines or hilles by dales heaths †The Tyme The small Lunarie is founde in May and Iune but afterward it vanisheth away †The Names This herbe is now called in Latine Lunaria Lunaria minor of some in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English Lunarie or Moonewort in Frēch Petite Lunaire in high Douch Monkraut and klein Monkraut in base Almaigne Maencruyt cleyn Maencruyt The people of Sauoy do call it Tore or Taure †The Nature It is colde dry of temperature very like to Pyrola and Adders tonge Lunaria minor ⧠The Vertues This herb is also very good singuler to heale woūdes of vertue facultie like to Pyrola Serpents tonge very conuenient for all such griefes as they do serue vnto the Alchimistes also do make great accōpt of this herbe about their Science Of Thorow waxe / or Thorowleafe Chap. xcv †The Description THorowleafe hath a round slēder stalke ful of branches the branches passing or going thorow the leaues as if they had bene drawē thorough the leaues whiche be rounde bare tender at the top of the branches growe the floures as it were crownes amōgst small little leaues of a pale or faint yelow colour the which do afterwards chāge into a broune seede The roote is single white somwhat threddy †The Place This herbe groweth in many places of Germany and England in the Corne fieldes amongst the wheate rye They do also plant it in gardens Perfoliatum ⧠The Tyme It floureth in Iuly and August †The Names This herbe is now called in Latine Perfoliatum and Perfoliata in English Thorowwaxe and Thorowleafe in French Persefueille in high Douch Durchwachsz in base Almaigne Duerwas It is very doubtful whether this be Cacalia of Dioscorides †The Nature Thorowwaxe is of a dry complexion †The Vertues The decoctiō of Thorowwaxe boyled in water or wine healeth woundes and so doth the greene leaues brused and layde therevpon Thorowwaxe mengled with waxe or with some oyle or oyntment fitte to cure woundes healeth burstings or Harmes of yong Children being layde therevpon The same herbe whan it is yet greene brused and pounde with meale and wine and layde vpon the Nauels of yong Children keepeth vp the bowels drawing them into their naturall place and setleth them that fall too much downe and flaketh the same whan they are blasted vp and swollen And so doth the seede also made into pouder and layde too after the like manner Of Burnet / or Pimpinell Chap. xcvi †The Kyndes PImpinell is of two sortes the great and wilde and the small garden Pimpinell Pimpinella maior Wilde Burnet Sideritis altera Pimpinella minor Garden Burnet †The Description THe great wilde Pimpinell or Burnet hath long round stemmes two or three foote high vpon the whiche groweth leaues somewhat long dented round about and tied by long stemmes tenne or twelue leaues growing by a stemme standing displayed directly one against an other like vnto winges At the top of the stalkes are round knops or heads compact togither as it were of small purles or buttons the which at their opening bring forth small floures of a browne redde colour after them commeth a triangled seede The roote is long and thicke The small or garden Pimpinell is very much like vnto the wilde but it is in all points smaller and of sauour and smell more amiable or pleasant It hath softe and tender stalkes of a foote high or somewhat more set with a softe and fine heare or Cotton The leaues be like vnto the other sauing they be a great deale smaller greene aboue and blewishe vnderneath The floures be not so browne but of an incarnate or liuely redde with small yellow threedes hanging forth of the middest of them The roote is like to the other but a great deale smaller †The Place The wild or great Pimpinell groweth in dry medowes there is stoore of it found growing about Viluorde The small Pimpinell is commonly planted in the gardens of this countrey †The Tyme They do both floure in Iune and sometimes sooner and oftentimes vntill August †The Names Pimpinell is now called in Latine Pimpinella Bipennula Pampinula and of some Sanguisorba Solbastrella in Spanish Frexinna in English Burnet and Pimpinell in high Douch Kolbleskraut Hergotsbartlin Blutkraut and Megelkraut in base Almaigne Pimpinelle This herbe seemeth to be very well like to Sideritis altera of Dioscorides †The Nature Pimpinell is dry in the third degree and colde in the second astringent †The Vertues The decoction of Pimpinell dronken cureth the bloudy flixe the spitting of bloud the pissing of bloud and the naturall issue of women and all other fluxe of bloud The herbe and the seede made into pouder and dronke with wine or water wherein Iron hath bene often quenched doth the like and so doth the herbe alone being but onely holden in a mans hande as some haue writen The greene leaues brused and layde vpon woundes keepe them from inflammation and apostumation Moreouer they are good to be layde vpon phlegmons whiche are hoate tumors swellings and vlcers Pimpinell also is very good to heale woundes and is receyued in drinkes that be made for woundes to put away inflammation and to stanche bleeding to much The leaues of Pimpinell stiped in wine and
should seeme rather to be a kind of Thymum durius or that which is called of Dioscorides in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Saxifranga than Serpyllum Serpillum vulgare †The Nature Pellamountayne is hoate and dry in the thirde degree ⧠The Vertues Wilde Tyme boyled in water or wine and drōken prouoketh and bringeth to women the fluxe Menstruall driueth out the stone and grauell and prouoketh vomit The same taken in the like manner stoppeth the laske and cureth gripings or knawings and is excellent against Crampes and the drawing togither or shrinking of Synewes This herbe taken in meates and drinkes or brothes is a soueraigne medicine against all poyson and against the bytings and stingings of venemous beastes and Serpentes The iuyce of Pellamountayne or Running Tyme dronken to the quantitie of halfe an vuce with Vineger is good agaynst the spetting and vomiting of bloud Running Tyme mengled with Vineger and oyle of Roses and applied to the forehead and temples swageth head ache is very good against rauing and frensie The perfume of the same driueth away all venemous beasts Of Penny Royall / or Podding grasse Chap. lxv ⧠The Description PEnny Royall hath smal brittle stalkes of a foote long somtimes more not vpright but creeping alongst the ground taking new rootes here there in sundrie places The leaues be somwhat round almost like the leaues of Marierom but they be greener browner and of a stronger sauour The floures growe here and there by certayne spaces aboute the stemmes like whorles or garlandes and as the floures of Horchound of a blewishe colour and sometimes very white The roote is threeddie †The Place Penny Royall loueth moyst vntilled places whiche are dry in the Somer and full of water in winter ⧠The Tyme It floureth in Iune and in August †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine in Shoppes Pulegium in Italian Pulegio in Spanish Poleios Poleio in English Penny Royall Pulioll Royall Pudding grasse and Organie in French Pouliot in high Douch Poley in base Almaigne Poley and Paley †The Nature Penny royall is hoate dry in the third degree of subtile partes and cutting †The Vertues Penny royall boyled in wine drōken prouoketh the monethly termes bringeth foorth the Secondine the dead frute and the vnnaturall birth it prouoketh vrine breaketh the stone especially the stone of kidneys Penny royal taken with hony clenseth the Lunges voydeth them the breast from all grosse and thicke humors Pulegium The same taken with Hony and Aloes purgeth by stole the Melancholique humor preuayleth much against crāpes the drawing togither of sinewes The same taken with water and vineger asswageth the inordinate desire to vomit and the gnawing paynes of the stomacke Penny royall taken in wine helpeth the bitings of venemous beastes and with vineger it helpeth them that haue the falling sickenesse If at any time men be constrayned to drinke corrupt naughtie stinking or salte water throw Penny royall into it or strow the pouder thereof into it and it shall not hurte any bodie A garlande made of Penny Royall and worne about the head is of great force against the swymming paynes and giddy turnings of the head The same pounde with Vineger and giuen to smell vpon to people that are much giuen to sounding quickeneth their Senses and causeth them to returne to them selues agayne and is good for them that haue colde and moyst braynes The pouder or axsen of this herbe doth fasten and strengthen the gummes that are rubbed therewith Penny royall pounde asswageth the payne of the Goute and Sciatica being rubbed vpon the greeued parte vntill it waxe redde The same mengled with vineger hony cureth the crampes and is profitable for the disseases of the Splene or Melte being layde therevnto The Decoction thereof is very good against ventositie windinesse and blastings also against the hardnesse and stopping of the Mother whan one sitteth ouer the vapour or breath thereof in a stewe or bathe whereas the sayde Decoction is The same is also good against the itche and manginesse to washe the scabbed parties therein The perfume of the floures of Penny royall being yet fresshe and greene driueth away flees Xenocrates saith that a braunch of Penny royall wrapped in a little wooll and giuen to smell vnto or layde amongst the clothes of the bedde cureth the feuer Tertian Of Poley Chap. lxvi †The Kyndes POley as Dioscorides saith is of two sortes whereof one may be named great Poley or as Dioscorides termeth it Poley of the Mountaine the other may be called small Poley †The Description POley of the Mountayne is a little small tender base and sweete smelling herbe hauing small stemmes and slender branches of a spanne or halfe foote long The leaues bee small narrow and grayish whereof they that grow lowmoste are somewhat larger and a little snipt or iagged aboute the edges and they that growe aboue are narrower and not so much iagged or snipte The floures be white and do grow at the toppe of the branches The roote is threedie The lesse Poley is not muche vnlike the other sauing that his leaues are tenderer smaller narrower and whiter than the other it hath also a great many moe small slender and weake branches But it hath not so great vertue nor so strong a sauour as Poley of the Mountayne †The Place It groweth not of him selfe in this countrie and is not lightly found sauing in the gardens of some Herboristes who do plante and cherishe it with great diligence Polium †The Tyme It floureth at the end of May and Iune whereas it groweth of his owne kinde and in this countrey in Iuly †The Names It is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Polium Polium montanum and Theuthrium in Italian Polio in Spanish Hierua vssa in English Poley Poley mountayne It hath neither French nor Douch name that we know for it is yet vnknowen of the Apothecaries them selues in the Shoppes of this countrey †The Nature Poley is hoate in the second degree and dry in the thirde ⧠The Vertues Poley boyled in water or wine prouoketh the floures and vrine and is very good against the Dropsies and Iaunders It profiteth much against the bytings of venemouse beastes and against poyson taken in maner aforesayde and it driueth away all venemous beasts from the place whereas it is strowen or burnte The same dronken with vineger is good for the diseases of the Mylte and Splene Also it healeth and closeth vp woundes being yet fressh and greene pound and applied or layde therevpon Of Marierom Chap. lxvij †The Description MArierom is a delicate and tender hearbe of sweete sauour very wel knowen in this countrie hauing small weake and brittle stalkes set with softe and tender leaues somewhat round and of grayishe colour it bareth about the toppe and vpper parte of the
blumen that is to say S. Catharines floure of some Waldt schwartz kumich some learned men thinke it to be wilde Comyn whereof we haue written in the lxxxiiij Chapter of this Booke The thirde kinde is now called Melanthium Damascenum and Nigella Damascena that is to say Damaske Nigella in French Nielle de Damas in high Douch Schwartz Coriander †The Nature The seede of Nigella is hoate and dry in the thirde degree †The Vertues The seede of Nigella dronken with wine is a remedie against the shortnesse of breath it dissolueth and scattereth all ventositie and windinesse in the body it prouoketh vrine floures it increaseth womans milke if they drinke it often The same slayeth and driueth out wormes whether it be dronken with wine or water or else layde to the Nauell of the belly The same vertue hath the oyle that is drawen forth of Nigella seede to annoynt the region of the belly and nauell therewith The quantitie of a Dramme of it dronkē with water is very good against all poyson and the biting of venimous beasts The onely fume or smoake of Nigella tosted or burnt driueth away Serpents and other venimous beasts and killeth Flies Bees and Waspes The same mingled with the oyle of Ireos and layde to the forehead cureth the head ache and oftentimes put into the Nose is good against the webbe bloudshotten of the eyes in the beginning of the same The same well dried and pound and wrapped in a piece of Sarsenet or fine linencloath and often smelled vnto cureth all Murres Catharrhes poses drieth the brayne and restoreth the smelling being lost And boyled with water and vineger and holden in the mouth swageth the tootheache and if one chewe it being well dried it cureth the vlcers and sores of the mouth It taketh out Lentils Freckles and other spottes of the face and clenseth foule scuruinesse and itche and doth soften olde colde and harde swellings being pounde with vineger and layde vpon The same stieped in olde wine or stale pisse as Plinie saith causeth the Cornes and Agnayles to fall of from the feete if they be first scarified and scotched rounde aboute †The Daunger Take heede that ye take not to much of this herbe for if ye go beyonde the measure it bringeth death Turner lib. secundo fol. 10. Of libanotis Rosmarie Chap. xcvij. †The Kyndes LIbanotis as Dioscorides writeth is of twoo sortes the one is frutefull the other is barren Of the frutefull sorte there is two or three kindes ⧠The Description THe first frutefull kinde hath leaues as Dioscorides saith very much diuided and cut lyke vnto Fenell leaues sauing they be greater and larger moste commonly spread abroade vpon the grounde amongst them groweth vp a stalke of a cubite that is a foote and halfe long or more vpon whiche grow the floures in spokie tuffets like Dill and it beareth great round cornered seede of a strong sauour and sharpe taste The roote is thicke and hearie aboue and sauoring like Rosin The seconde kinde hath a long stalke with ioyntes like the Fenell stalke on whiche growe leaues almoste like Charuill or Homlocke sauing they be greater broader and thicker At the toppe of the stalkes groweth spokie tuffets bearing white floures the whiche do turne into sweete smelling seede flatte and almost like to the seede of Angelica and Brank vrsine The roote is blacke without and white within hearie aboue and sauereth like to Rosin or Frankencence There is yet an other sorte of these fruteful kindes of Libanotis the which is described by Theophrastus Lib .ix. Chapt .xij. It hath also a straight stalke with knottes and ioyntes and leaues greater than Marche or Smallache The floures grow in tuftes like as in the two other kindes bringe foorth great long and vneuen seede which is sharpe in taste The roote is long great thicke and white with a certayne kinde of great thicke heare aboue and smelleth also of Frankencence or Rosin Libanotidis alterum genus Libanotis Theophrasti The barren Libanotides as Dioscorides writeth are like to the frutefull in leaues rootes sauing they beare neither stalkes floures nor seede The other kinde of Libanotis called Rosmarinum coronarium in English Rosmarie hath bene already described Chap. lxxv of this Booke †The Place The frutefull Libanotides are now founde vpon the high mountaynes hilles and desertes of Germany ⧠The Tyme These herbes do floure most commonly in Iuly †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Libanotis bicause that his roote sauoreth like the Encens which is called in Greke Libanos in Latine Rosmarinus The first kind as Dioscorides writeth is called of some Zea and Campsanema in Shoppes Faeniculus porcinus in high Douche Beerwurtz in base Almaigne Beerwortel that is to say Beers roote The seede therof is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Canchrys or Cachrys The second kinde is called in high Douch Schwartz hirtzwurtz that is to say blacke Harte roote The thirde is described of Theophrastus wherefore we haue named it Libanotis Theophrasti in high Douch weisz Hirtzwurtz that is to say white Hartes roote the seede of this kinde is also called of Theophrastus Canchrys or Cachrys †The Nature These herbes with their seedes and rootes are hoate and dry in the second degree and are proper to digest dissolue and mundifie †The Vertues The rootes of Libanotis dronken with wine prouoketh vrine floures healeth the griping paynes and torment of the belly and are very good against the bytings of Serpents and other venimous beasts The seede of Libanotis is good for the purposes aforesayde Moreouer it is singuler good against the falling sicknesse and the olde and colde diseases of the breast They vse to giue it to drinke with pepper against the Iaūders especially the seede of the seconde kynde of Libanotis for as touching the seede of the first kinde called Cachrys it is not very good to be taken into the bodie seing that by his great heate and sharpnesse it causeth the throote to be rough and grieuouse The leaues of al the Libanotides pounde do stoppe the fluxe of the Hemorrhoides or Pyles and do souple the swellings and inflammations of the tuell or fundement and it mollifieth and ripeth all olde colde and harde swellings being layde therevpon The iuyce of the herbe and rootes put into the eyes with hony doth quicken the sight and cleareth the dimnesse of the same The dry roote mengled with Hony doth scoure and clense rottē vlcers and doth consume and waste all tumors or swellings The seede mengled with oyle is good to annoynt them that haue the Crampe and it prouoketh sweate The same mengled with Yuray meale and vineger swageth the payne of the goute when it is layde thereto It doth also clense and heale the white dry scurffe and manginesse if it be layde on with good strong vineger They lay to the forehead the seede called Cachrys
but not so strong †The Vertues Masterworte is not onely good agaynst al Poyson but also it is singuler agaynst all corrupt and noughtie ayre and infection of the Pestilence if it be dronken with wine and the same roote pounde by it selfe or with his leaues doth dissolue and cure Pestilential Carboncles and Botches and suche other apostumations and swellinges being applyed therto The roote thereof dronken in wine cureth the extreme and rigorous fittes of olde feuers and the Dropsie and it prouoketh swet The same taken in manner aforesayde comforteth and strengtheneth the stomacke helpeth digestion restoreth the appetite and dissolueth the ventositie and blasting of the flankes and belly It helpeth greatly such as haue taken great squattes brusis or falles from aloft and are sore hurt and inwardly bursten for it cureth the hurtes and dissolueth and scattereth the blood that is astonyed and clotted or congeled within the body The same roote pounde with his leaues is very good to be layde to the bytinges of madde Dogges and to all the bytinges and stinginges of Serpentes and suche lyke venimous beastes The wilde Imperatoria or herbe Gerarde pounde and layde vppon suche members or partes of the body as are troubled and vexed with the gowte swageth the payne and taketh away the swelling And as it hath ben proued in sundrie places it cureth the Hemorrhoides if the fundement or siege be fomented or bathed with the decoction thereof Of Ferula Chap. cx ⧠The Description THE leaues of Ferula are great and large and spreade abroade and cut into very small threddes or heares lyke Fenell but a great deale bigger The stalke or stem is thicke ioyntie and very long in the toppes of the stalkes groweth great round spokie tuffetes bearing first yellowe flowres and afterward long broade and blacke seede almost as large as the seede of Melones or Pepones The roote is thicke and white and groweth deepe in the grounde or in the ioyntes or cliftes and Choppes of Cleeffes and Rockes There is also founde an other kinde of this Ferula but his leaues are not so smally cut and vnderneath they be white or of a grayshe colour but otherwyse they be as large as the other the seede is also lesse but in proportion lyke the other †The Place These Ferulas do growe in Grece and Italie and other hoate regions but they are strange in this Countrey and Flaunders Ferula †The Names The first is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Ferula The other is also a kinde of Ferula and is counted of some to be a certayne Ferulago The whiche of Theophrastus is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 †The Nature There is no peculier or special vse of these Ferulas sauing that the liquor or gummes that floweth out of them as Sagapenum Ammoniacum and Galbanum are vsed in medicine wherefore their nature and vertue shal be described in the Chapters folowing To the Reader COnsidering welbeloued Reader that we haue written in the Chapters going before of some herbes out of the whiche flowe very costly sappes or gummes geathered dried and preserued the which are greatly vsed in Medicines and Surgerie especially as the sappe of Panax the whiche is called Opopanax and the sappe of Laserpitium the whiche is named Laser whiche in farre Countries do flowe out of the same herbes and are brought into this Countrey into all partes of Christendome of whose strength and vertue we haue not written therefore haue we in the ende of this part for a conclusion finishing of the same written of the nature and vertue of the same gummes And not onely of the gummes flowing out of the herbes aboue rehearsed but also of gummes and sappes flowing out of herbes or thereof made the whiche commonly we finde at the Apothecaries and are vsed in Medicines although that the herbes bicause they are not knowen in Christendome are not writtē or spoken of by vs omitting the sappes and gummes whiche flowe out of wooddes and trees as Rosin Pitche Turpentine and suche lyke we wyll write of the historie of wooddes and trees And in the description of these gummes and sappes we wyll folowe the learning of the Auncientes as Dioscorides Galen Plinie c. Declaring their names as they are called by the sayd Auncientes in Greeke and in Latine by the whiche they are nowe at this time knowen to the Apothecaries like as we haue yet hitherto done and written in the historie of herbes Of Opopanax Chap. cxi OPopanax is the gumme or sappe of the first kinde of Panaces called Heracleoticum as Dioscorides writeth it floweth out of the roote and stalke of Panaces as they shal be hurt or cut and the sappe when it is yet fresh and first flowen out is white and when it is drie it is altogyther yellowe lyke that which is coloured with Saffron And the best of this sappe or gumme is that same whiche on the outsyde is yelowe and within whitish for that is yet fresh †The Names The gumme is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Opopanax and of the Apothecaries Opopanacum in Englishe Opopanax †The Nature Opopanax is hoate and drie in the thirde degree †The Vertues Opopanax is very good against the colde shiuerings and brusing of Agues the payne and griefe of the syde the gnawing griping payne of the bowelles or guttes the Strangurie and for them that are squatte or bruysed within by occasion of falling if it be dronken with Meade or Honied water And to be taken in the same manner or with wine it cureth the inwarde scuruinesse or hurt of the bladder Opopanax as Mesue writeth taken the waight of two drammes or lesse pourgeth by siege the flegme and colde tough clammie and slymie humours drawing the same from partes farre of as frō the head the sinewes ioyntes Moreouer it is very good against al colde diseases of the brayne and sinewes as the Crampe and Paulsie c. The same taken in the like manner and quantitie doth mundifie and scoure the breast and is good for Asthmatique people and for them that are troubled with the shortnesse of winde or breath and with an olde dangerous cough It cureth also the hardnesse and other mishappes of the melt or splene and Dropsie if it be tempered or fliped in muste and dronken Opopanax doth scatter soften resolue al hard cold swelling or tumours being stieped in vineger and applyed or layde therto It is good to be layde to the Sciatica whiche is the gowt in the hippe or huckle bone and it easeth the payne of the gowt of the legges and feete beyng layde therevpon with the substance or pulpe of dried Raysons The same mingled with Hony and put in vnder in manner of a Pessarie or mother suppositorie prouoketh the flowres driueth foorth the Secondine and dead fruite dispatcheth the ventositie of the Matrix or mother and cureth all hardnesse of the same Opopanax being layde
and leaues is like to the first but his leaues be somewhat rounder The flowres differ onelye in this that they be somewhat longer and narrower and of a faynte yellowishe colour shorter by one side than another and of a blackishe purple colour vpon that syde that turneth backe agayne The fruit of this Aristolochia is also sharpe fashioned lyke to a top or peare sauing it is rounder and fuller and straked or ribbed like the other The seede is like to the seede of the loÌ„g Aristolochia The rootes be round and swollen like to a Puffe or Turnep in taste and sauour like to the long 3. Aristolochia Clematitis Branched Aristolochia 4. Pistolochia Smal Aristolochia 5. Aristolochia Sarracenica Sarasins Aristolochia The thirde kinde of Aristolochia his stalkes and branches are smal and tender his leaues be like to the others but the little stemmes or footstalkes of the leaues are somwhat longer The flowers also belong and holow of a yellow or deepe violet colour The rootes be small and slender dispearsed or growing here and there The fourth Aristolochia in his leaues and stalkes is like to the long and rounde Aristolochias sauing it is smaller and finer or tenderer his leaues be also broade lyke Iuy leaues The flowres be also long and hollowe and blackishe about the toppes or endes The fruit is also round and like to the others his rootes be long and small as russhes or threddes The fifth kinde which is called Sarasins wurt or Sarasins Aristolochia hath longer and higher stalkes than any of the kindes aforesayd his leaues be also larger but otherwise they differ not for they be also lyke Iuy leaues The small flowres growe betwixt the leaues in proportion also long and hollowe of a yellowish colour The fruit also is fashioned lyke to a peare The rootes be long and sometimes thicke and couered with a thicke rinde or barke in sauour and taste lyke the others †The Place The long and rounde Aristolochias growe plentifully in Spayne and in many places of Italie and certayne places of Fraunce it delighteth muche in fertile grounde and good pastures Aristolochia Clematitis as Peter Bellon writeth groweth vppon the mountayne Ida in Crete or Candie Carolus Clusius saith it groweth about Hispalis a Citie in Spayne nowe called Ciuill and that he hath founde it amongst the busshes and briers there The Pistolochia also groweth in certayne places of Fraunce and Spayne The Sarasines Aristolochia delighteth muche in vineyardes and high deserte places and wildernesses and is founde in sundrie places of Germanie and Brabant †The Tyme The Aristolochias do flowre in May Iuly timelier in hoate Countries †The Names They are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aristolochia in English Aristologia and of some Byrthwort Hartwort in Shoppes also Aristolochia The first is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aristolochiam longam bycause of the fashion of the roote it is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dactilis Melocarpon and Teuxinon Aristolochiam marem In Englishe long Aristolochia The seconde is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristolochia rotunda and Aristolochia foemina of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Malum terrÄ™ in Englishe Aristolochia rotunda and rounde Aristologia The thirde is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristolochia Clematitis Branched Aristologia The fourth kinde called of Plinie in the eyght Chapter of his xxv booke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pistolochia and Polyrhizon The fifth Aristolochia is nowe called of some Herba Sarracenica in Frenche Sarrasine in Douche Zarasijn cruyt in Shoppes Aristolochia longa which is in Douche lange Osterlucey in English long Aristolochia in steede whereof it may be vsed We may also name it in Englishe Sarasines herbe Sarasines Aristolochia †The Nature The rootes of Aristolochia are all hoate and dry in the extremitie of the seconde degree †The Vertues The rootes of Aristolochia are excellent against al poyson and agaynst the bitinges stinginges of venimous beastes if it be taken in wine or layd vpon the woundes or bitinges The long Aristolochia moueth the menstrual termes and prouoketh vrine And if it be dronken with Pepper and Myrrhe it expelleth the Secondine dead childe al other superfluities gathered togyther in the Matrix It worketh the same effect to be ministred in a Pessarie or mother Suppositorie The rounde Aristolochia is lykewise good for the same purpose and it is also very good for them that are short winded and troubled with the yeox or hyquet it is profitable against the payne of the syde the hardnesse of the melt or splene the crampe or connultioÌ„ or drawing togyther of the sinewes the falling sicknesse the gowt and the shakinges or shiueringes of Agues and for al such as are hurt or bursten inwardly if it be giuen them to drinke with water The same draweth foorth splinters of broken bones Shaftes and Dartes thornes and shiuers if it be layde to the place with Pitche or Rosen as Plinie writeth It mundifieth and scoureth all corrupt and filthy sores fistulas and viruleÌ„t holowe vlcers and filleth them vp agayne with newe flesh if it be mixt with Ireos and hony especially it cureth the faultes vlcers of the secret partes if ye wash the same with the Decoction of this Aristolochia made in wine Aristolochia rotunda doth beautifie clense and fasten the teeth if they be often frotted or rubde with the powder thereof The thirde kinde is much like to the other in vertue sauing it is not so stroÌ„g as Dioscorides writeth and Galen saith that this kinde is of the sweetest and pleasantest sauor and therfore is much vsed in oyntmentes but it is weaker in operation than the aforesayde Pistolochia or smal Aristolochia is also of the same vertues and operatioÌ„s but not so strong as the others Sarrasines or braunched Aristolochia is also lyke that others it is very hoate and bitter and not inferior to Aristolochia longa wherfore in all compositioÌ„s one may be vsed in steede of the other without errour ⧠The Choice The rounde Aristolochia is of fine and subtile partes and of stronger operatioÌ„ than the rest it mundifieth and clenseth mightily and it soupleth and maketh thinne grosse humours The long Aristolochia is not of suche subtile partes neither doth it clense so mightily but is better to incarnate and ingender flesh in vlcers Aristolochia Clematitis hath the best sauour wherefore it is best to make Oyntmentes Of Holeworte Chap. ij †The Kyndes HOleworte is of two sortes the one hath a rounde roote which is not holowe within And the roote of the other is holowe within but otherwayes they are like one another in their stalkes leaues floures seede ⧠The Description HOleworte hath smal tender â—talkes of a span long his leaues be also small and iagde lyke Rue or Coriander of a light greene or rather a grayishe colour At the top of the stalke it beareth flowers after the
corrupt and fretting vlcers and is good agaynst hoate swellinges and Carboncles It kylleth fishe if it be mixt with any bayte and giuen them to eate †The Danger The iuyce the seede and rootes of Tithymales do worke their effect with violēce and are hurtful to the nature of man troubling the body and ouerturning the stomacke burning and parching the throte and making it rough and sore insomuch that Galen writeth that these herbes ought not to be ministred or taken into the body much lesse the iuyce ought to be dealt with but onely it must be applied outwardly and that with great discretion †The correction or remedie If one lay the barke of the rootes af Tithymales to soke or stiepe in vineger by the space of a whole day then if it be dryed and made into powder putting to it of Annys of Fenell seede gumme Tragagante and Masticke and so ministred altogither with some refreshing or cooling liquor as of Endiue Cicorie or Orenges it wil do his operation without great trouble or payne and will neither chafe nor inflame the throte nor the inwarde partes Of Ezula Chap. xxx †The Kyndes EZula is of two sortes as Mesue saith the great and small wherevnto Dioscorides doth agree where as he writeth that Pityusa is small in one place and great in another Pityusa maior Great Ezula Spourge Giant Pityusa minor Smal Ezula Pyne Spourge †The Description THE great Ezula hath straight high stalkes vpon that which grow great brode leaues greater then the leaues of male Tithymale The flouers and seede growe at the highest of the stalke and sometimes they come foorth at the sides of the stalkes like the seede of Tithymale the roote is great and thicke couered ouer with a thicke barke The small Ezula in stalkes and leaues is much lesse the leaues are narrow lyke the leaues of wilde flaxe the flowers and seede are lyke the first kind but smaller The rootes be small couered with a smooth or fine barke These two kindes be lyke the Tithymales therfore they haue ben reckened of some Auncientes for kindes of Tithymale as Dioscorides writeth and as they be now counted and they do also yeelde a white sappe or liquor like milke whan they be either brused or broken the which liquor is sharpe and biting ¶ The Place The great Ezula in some Countries groweth in wooddes and wildernes and in this Countrie in the gardens of Herboristes The lesser groweth in rough stony places and is found in this Countrie in arable fieldes and bankes but not euerywhere ¶ The Tyme These herbes do flower about Midsomer like the Tithymales †The Names These herbes are called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Pityusa in the Arabian speache of Mesue Alscebran in Shoppes Ezula and Esula and it should seeme that this name Esula was borowed of Pityusa for in leauing out the first two syllables Pity there remaineth usa wherof commeth the diminutiue vsula the whiche is quickly turned into Ezula or Esula †The Nature Ezula is hoate and drie in the thirde degree sharpe byting and burning inwardly of nature much like Tithymale †The Vertues The iuyce seede and roote of Ezula openeth the belly and driueth foorth tough flegme and grosse humours also it pourgeth Cholerique and sharpe humours like the Tithymales To be short both kindes of Ezula are in al thinges like to the Tithymales in facultie and operation agreable to all that wherevnto the others are profitable ⧠The Danger As Ezula is like the Tithymales in nature and working so it is of hurtful qualitie agreable to the same †The Correction The euill qualitie of Ezula is amended in lyke maner as Tithymale Of Spourge Chap. xxxi †The Description SPourge hath a browne stalke of two foote high or more of the bignesse of ones finger The leaues be long and narrow like the leaues of a withie or Almonde tree the stalke breaketh abroade at the top into many other little branches set with little rounde leaues vpon the same little branches groweth the triangled fruit like the fruit of Palma Christi but smaller where in is conteyned little round seedes the which by force of the heate of the Sonne do skip out of their huskes whan the fruite is ripe The roote is of a wooddy substance and not very thicke All the herbe with his stalkes and leaues do yeelde a white milke lyke the Tithymales being bursten or hurt †The Place It is planted in many gardens of this Countrie †The Tyme It hath flowers and seede in Iuly and August †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latine Lathyris in Shoppes Cataputia minor of some as Dioscorides saith Tithymalus in Frenche Espurge in high Douche Springkraut Springkorner and Treikorner in base Almaigne Springcruyt in some places of Flaunders Spurgie in English Spurge †The Nature This herbe is hoate and drie in the thirde degree and in facultie lyke Tithymale †The Vertues If one take syxe or seuen seedes of Spurge it openeth the belly mightily driueth foorth choler fleme and waterish humours Like vertue hath the iuyce but it is of stronger operation To be briefe Spurge and the iuyce thereof are of facultie lyke to the Tithymales Lathyris †The Danger Spurge is as hurtfull to mans body as the Tithymales †The Correction If one take the seede of Spurge with Dates Figges or gumme Tragagante Mastik Annys seede or any cooling or refreshing herbe or if one drinke water straightwayes after the taking of the same seede it wil not stirre vp the inflammation of the inward partes nor much trouble the partie receiuing the same and it shall not be much hurtfull to mans body Of Pety Surge Chap. xxxi †The Description WArtwurt or rather Peplos is a plante fashioned like a little tree not much vnlike the Tithymale that foloweth the Sonne but farre smaller growing of the higth of halfe a spanne with diuers branches set ful of very smal leaues The sede is smal growing in triangled huskes lyke Spurge The roote is long and somwhat threddy all the herbe is full of milke like the Tithymales Bysides this there is yet founde an other kinde described by Hyppocrates and Dioscorides called Peplis the which hath many rounde leaues like the leaues of garden Porcelane red vnderneath the seede groweth amongst the leaues like the seede of Peplos The roote is smal and very tender this herbe is also full of white liquor neither more nor lesse but as the aforesayde †The Place Peplos groweth in this Countrie in gardens amongst pot herbes beanes and in some places amongst vines Peplos Sea Wartwurt or wilde Porcelayne Peplis Peplis as Dioscorides reporteth groweth in salt grounde by the Sea syde ¶ The Tyme Peplos flowreth and deliuereth his seede at Midsomer lyke the Tithymales †The Names Peplos is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Peplus in Shoppes Ezula rotunda ▪ in high
†The Remedie Before ye occupie the seede of Stafisakre ye must stipe it in vineger and drie it and whan it is drie ye may giue it to drinke with Meade or watered honie Meade is honie and water boyled togither and whosoeuer hath receiued of this seede must walke without staying and should drinke Hidromel very oftē when he feeleth any kinde of choking and in this dooing it shall perfourme his operation without any great danger Of the wilde spirting Eueumbre Chap. xl †The Description WIlde Cucumbre hath leaues somewhat rounde and rough but lesser and rougher then the leaues of common Cucumber The stalkes be rounde and rough creeping alongst the grounde without any claspers or holders vpon whiche out of the holownesse of the collaterall branches or winges amongst the leaues grow shorte stemmes bearing a flower of a faynte yellow colour after the flowers there commeth little rough Cucumbers of the bignesse length of ones thombe full of sappe with a browne kernell the which being ripe skippeth forth assoone as one touche the Cucumbers The roote is white thicke and great with many other small rootes hanging by All the herbe is of a very bitter taste but especially the fruite whereof men vse to gather the iuyce and drye it the whiche is vsed in medicine †The Place This herbe is found in the gardens of Herboristes of this Countrie and where as it hath ben once sowen it commeth easily agayne euery yere †The Tyme These Cucumbers do flower in August their seede is ripe in September †The Names This Cucumber is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cucumis Agrestis syluestris erraticus of some Cucumis anguinus in shoppes Cucumis asininus in English Wylde Cucumbre in French Concombre sauuage in high Douche Wilde Cucumer or Esels Cucumer in base Almaigne Wilde Concommeren or Esels Concommeren in Englishe Wilde Cucumber or leaping Cucumber Cucumissyluestris The iuyce of the roote being dry is called Elaterium in shoppes Elacterium †The Nature The iuyce of wilde Cucumbre is hoate and drie in the second degree and of a resoluing and clensing nature The roote is of the same working but not so strong as the iuyce †The Vertues Elaterium whiche is the iuyce of wilde Cucumbers dryed taken in quantitie of halfe a scruple driueth foorth by siege grosse fleme cholerique and especially waterishe humours Moreouer it is good against the Dropsie and for them that be troubled with shortnesse of breath The same delayed with sweete milke and powred into the nose putteth away from the eyes the euyl colour whiche remayneth after the Iaundise swageth headache and clenseth the brayne The same put into the place of conception sodden with honied wine helpeth women to their naturall sicknesse and deliuereth the dead childe Elaterium layd to outwardely with olde Oyle or honie or with the gall of an Oxe or Bull healeth the Squinancie and the swellinges in the throte The iuyce of the barke and roote of wilde Cucumber doth also purge fleme and cholerique and waterish humours is good for such as haue the Dropsie but not of so strong operation as Elaterium The roote of wilde Cucumber made soft or soked in vineger and layde to swageth the payne and taketh away the swelling of the gowte The vineger wherein it hath ben boyled holden in the mouth swageth the tooth ache The same layde to with parched barlie meale dissolueth cold tumours and layde to with Turpentine it breaketh and openeth impostemes The same made into powder and layd to with honie clenseth scoureth and taketh away foule scuruines spreading tetters manginesse pushes or wheales red spottes and all other blemishes and scarres of mans body The iuyce of the leaues dropped into the eares taketh away the payne of the same ⧠The Danger Elaterium taken into the body hurteth the inward partes and openeth the smal vaynes prouoketh gripinges and torments in the belly in doing his operation †The Remedie To cause that it shal do no hurt it must be geuen with Mede or with swete mylke a litle salt and Annys seede or geue it in powder with gumme Tragagante a litle Annys seede and salt Of Coloquintiba Chap. xli †The Description COloquintida creepeth with his branches alongst by the ground with rough hearie leaues of a grayish colour muche clouen or cut almost like the leaues of the Citron Cucumber The flowers are bleake or pale The fruit round of a greene colour at the beginning and after yellowe the barke thereof is neither thicke nor hard the inner part or pulpe is open spōgie full of gray seede in taste very bitter the which men dry kepe to vse in medicine There is yet founde another kind of Coloquintiba nothing lyke the first for this hath long rough stalkes mounting somewhat high and taking holde with his claspers euerywhere like Goordes The leaues be like the leaues of wilde Cucumber The fruite in all thinges is like the Goorde but farre smaller onely of the quantitie of a peare These wilde Goordes haue a very hard vpper barke or pille of a wooddy substance greene the inside is full of iuyce and of a very bitter taste Colocynthis †The Place The first kind groweth in Italie and Spayne from which places the dried fruite is brought vnto vs. The seconde kinde we haue sometime seene in the gardens of certayne Herboristes †The Tyme Coloquintida bringeth foorth his fruite in September Coloquintida is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Colocynthis of Paulus Aegineta Sicyonia in shoppes Coloquintida in Douche Coloquint opffelin and Coloquint appel The seconde kinde may be called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cucurbita syluestris in French Courge sauuage in Douch Wilde Cauwoorden for this is a kinde of the right Goorde ⧠The Nature Coloquintida is hoate and drie in the thirde degree †The Vertues The white and inwarde pith or poulpe of Coloquintida taken about the weight of a scruple openeth the belly mightily and purgeth grosse flemes and cholerique humours and the slymie filthinesse and stinking corruption or scrapinges of the guttes yea sometimes it causeth blood to come foorth if it be taken in to great quantitie Like vertue it hath if it be boyled or layde to soke in honied water or any other liquor and after geuen to be dronken it profiteth muche against all colde dangerous sicknesses as the Ipoplerie falling sickenes giddinesse of the head payne to fetche breath the cholique loosenesse of the sinewes and places out of ioynt For the same purposes it may be put into Clisters and Suppositories that are put into the fundement The Oyle wherein Coloquintida hath ben boyled or whiche hath ben boyled in the Coloquintida dropped into the eares taketh away the noyse and singing of the same ⧠The Danger Coloquintida is exceeding hurtfull to the hart the stomacke and liuer and troubleth and hurteth the bowelles and other partes of the entrayles †The Remedie Ye
about a cubite and a halfe long hauing vppon eche side large leaues spread abrode like winges and cut in like Polipodie At the top of some of the branches grow round about small rough and round graynes which are lyke vnto seede The Roote is great and thicke folded and couered ouer with many small enterlacing rootes hauing in the middle a litle white the whiche men call the Harte of Osmunde †The Place This kinde of Ferne groweth in woods and moyst shadowie places †The Tyme It springeth vp in Aprill with the other Fernes and fadeth at the comming of winter yet the roote abideth stil in the grounde ¶ The Names This herbe is called in Latine of the Herboristes or Herbaries of our tyme Osmunda Filix aquatica and of some Filicastrum of the Alcumistes Lunaria maior in Frenche Osmonde or Feuchiere aquatique in Douche Water Varen or Wildt Varen and of some Sinte Christoffels cruyt We may cal it in English Osmonde the Waterman Waterferne and Saint Christophers herbe †The Nature Osmunde in hoate is the first degree and drie in the seconde Filix aquatica Osmunda †The Vertues The Hart or middle of the roote of Osmonde is good against squattes and bruses heauie and greeuous falles burstinges aswel outwarde as inwarde or what hurt or dislocation soeuer it be And for this purpose many practisers at this day do put it into their brothes and drinkes whiche they make for woundes causing it to boyle with other herbes some do also put it in ther Consolidatiue or healing playsters Of Polypodie / Wall Ferne / or Oke Ferne. Chap. lxij †The Description POlypodie hath leaues of a spanne long diuided into many cuttes or slittes rent and torne euen harde to the middle ribbe or sinewe and yet not snipt about the litle leaues The roote is almost as bigge as a mans finger and very long creeping hard by the ground bringing foorth many litle leaues browne without hauing many small heares and within of a greene herbelike colour It hath neither branche nor flower nor seede †The Place Polypodie groweth in the borders of feeldes standing somewhat high about the rootes of trees especially of Okes. Sometimes also ye shall finde it growing vppon olde wythiese houses and olde walles †The Tyme Polypodie keepeth his leaues bothe sommer and winter but his newe leaues come foorth in Aprill Polypodium †The Names This herbe is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Filicula and Polypodium in Frenche Polypode in high Douche Engelsuz Baumfarn and Dropffwurtz in base Almaigne Boomvaren and of some Eyckenvaren in Englishe Polypodie Wall Ferne and Oke Ferne. ⧠The Nature The roote of Polypodie is drie in the seconde degree †The Vertues The roote of Oke Ferne openeth the belly and purgeth Melancholique grosse and flegmatique humours Moreouer it is very good agaynst the Colique that is the payne or griping in the belly agaynst the hardnesse and stopping of the Splene or Melt and agaynst quartayne agues especially if you ioyne to it Epithymum You must boyle it in mutton brothe or the brothe of a Cocke or Capon or the decoction of Mallowes or Beetes and a little Annys and after drinke thereof or els you may make it in powder and drinke it with honied water or Mede The powder of Polipody often put into the nose healeth and taketh cleane away the superfluous flesh growing in the nosethrilles whiche men call Polypus †The Choise The roote of Polypody which groweth at the foote of the Oke is the best and most fitte to be vsed in medicine and is called in Latine Polypodium quercinum Of Oke Ferne / Petie Ferne / or Pilde Osmunde Chap. lxiij THere is now a dayes found two kindes of Dryopteris or Oke Ferne the one is white the other swarte the which are not much vnlike one another Dryopteris candida White Oke Ferne. Dryopteris nigra Blacke Oke Ferne. †The Description THE white kinde of Dryopteris and the male are not muche vnlyke but it is much smaller and not exceeding a spanne in height and lykewise it beareth neither stalke flowers nor sede The leauâ—… 〈◊〉 white with great and deepe incisions and cuttes snipt rounde about with smaller and thicker snips or iagges then the leaues of malâ— Ferne and it hath also smal spottes or markes vnderneath the leafe The roâ—…s thâ—…e and blackish with many litle rootes twisted pressed and enterlaced one with another The blacke Dryopteris hath the stalke or stemme of his leaues blacke the leaues brownish the whiche are neyther so large nor yet so long neyther so muche creuished or snipt as the leaues of the white Dryopteris but in al other partes like and it is beset also with litle markes or spottes vnderneath The leaues of this kind do not perish nor fade in winter but continue greene all the yere †The Place Both kindes of Dryopteris grow in holowe wayes in shadowy and couered places in the foote or rootes of Okes that be aged and of many yeres continuance but yet they are not to be founde in all places †The Tyme The white Driopteris springeth vp in Aprill as Ferne doth The blacke bringeth foorth his leaues at the same time †The Names This kinde of Ferne is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dryopteris In Latine Filix querna that is in English Oke Ferne Mathiolus and Ruellius both men of great knowledge do call it in Latine Osmunda and Osmunda Arborea Wherefore we considering the propertie of this herbe in taking away heare as also for a difference from the other Oke Fernes and Osmundes do thinke good to name this herbe in our language Osmunde Baldepate or Pylde Osmunde The white is called in shoppes Adianthum and to the great perill and danger of such as be sicke is vsed for Adianthum The blacke is not very well knowen of the Apothecaries but where as it is knowen they do lykewise call it Adianthum This may be very wel called in our tongue Small Osmunde or Petie Ferne. †The Nature The white Dryopteris is hoate sharpe and very abstersiue or clensing The blacke agreeth with the nature or facultie of Saluia vita or Stone Rue †The Vertues White Oke Ferne whiche is the right Dryopteris is of such strong power or vertue that it causeth the heare to fal of and maketh the skinne balde But for the doing of the same the roote must be pounde very small and layde vpon the place whiles a man is in the stoue or hoate house vntill he sweate well then it must be taken away and newe layde on two or three times as witnesseth both Dioscorides and Galen The blacke may be vsed for Adianthum that is to say Venus or Mayden heare Of Stone hartes tongue Chap. lxiiij †The Description HArtes tong hath long narrow leaues about the length of a spanne playne and smothe vppon one side and vpon the side next the ground it is straked ouerthwart with
sort is founde another smal kinde like vnto the aforesayd sauing that it is much lesse The fourth kinde called Rosa Solis hath reddishe leaues somewhat rounde hollowe rough with long stemmes almost fashioned lyke little spoones amongst the whiche commeth vp a short stalke crooked at the toppe and carrying little white flowers This herbe is of a very strange nature and maruelous for although that the Sonne do shine hoate and a long time thereon yet you shall finde it alwayes moyst and bedewed and the small heares thereof alwayes full of little droppes of water and the hoater the Sonne shineth vpon this herbe so muche the moystier it is and the more bedewed and for that cause it was called Ros Solis in Latine whiche is to say in Englishe The dewe of the Sonne or Sonnedewe 5. Lycopodium Woolfs Clawe 6. Muscus Marinus Coralin or Sea Mosse The sixth kinde of Mosse called Mosse of the Sea hath many smal stalkes harde and of a stony substance diuided into many ioyntes and many branches growe foorth togither from one hat or litle stony head by the whiche it is fastened vnto rockes 7. Muscus Marinus Theophrasti Fuci species Dioscoridis Slanke Wrake or Lauer. 8. Fuci marinispecies Wrake or Sea girdell The seuēth kind of Mosse wherof The ophrastus spreaketh is a plante without stalke or stemme hearing greene leaues crimpled full of wrinckles and broade not muche differing in fashion from the leaues of some Lettise but muche more wrinckled and drawen togither the whiche leaues come vp many togither growing vpon rockes The eight which is a kinde of Fucus Marinus hath long narrow leaues almost as narrow as a Leeke the roote is thicke ful of branches and rough heared taking holde vpon rockes †The Place The first kinde of Mosse groweth vpon trees especially there where as the grounde is nought Lungwurt groweth vpon Mossie trees in moyst sandie and shadowie places Golden Maydenheare or Goldylockes Polytrichon the Ros Solis and Woolfes clawe do growe in drie waterie Countries and also in feeldes that lye vnmanured or toyled and in some shadowy wooddes The Golden Polytrichon is very common The Sea Mosse groweth vpon stones and rockes in the Sea †The Names The first kind of these plantes is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Muscus of Serapio and in Shoppes Vsnea of Aetius Dorcadias in Frenche Mousse in high Douche Mosz in base Almaigne Mosch The best and most fittest for medicine is that whiche groweth vpon the Cedar tree and next to that is that whiche groweth vpon the Popler The seconde kinde is nowe called Pulmonaria in Latine in English Lungwort in high Douch Lungenkraut in base Almaigne Longencruyt in Frēch Herbe aux Poulmons The thirde is called in Douche Gulden Widdertodt in base Almaigne Gulden Wederdoot that is to say Golden Polytrichon of some Iung fraw hare Some thinke it to be Polytrichon Ipuleanum albeit there is but small similitude betwixt the one and the other for Apuleius his Polytrichon is the true Trichomanes of Dioscorides we may cal it in English Goldylockes Polytrichon in Frenche Polytrichon doré The fourth kinde is called in this Countrie Ros Solis in Frenche Rosee de Solcil in Douch Sondaw and of some Sindaw and Loopich truyt The fifth is called in high Douche Beerlap Gurtelkraut Seilkraut Harschar Teuffels clawen in Brabant Wolfs clawen and of some Wincruyt in some Shoppes Spica Celtica and is taken for the same of the vnlearned to the great detriment dammage and hurt of the sicke and diseased people What the Greeke or Latine name is I know not and therefore after the common name I do call it in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lycopodion that is Pes Lupi in Latine and Pied de Loup in Frenche in Englishe Woolfes clawe The sixth kind is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Muscus marinus that is to say Mosse of the Sea in Frenche Mousse Marine in Douche Zee Mosch in Shoppes it is called Corallina that is to say Herbe Corall and of the vnlearned Soldanella vnto whiche it beareth no kinde of lykenesse The seuenth is called also of Theophrastus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Muscus marinus that is to say Sea Mosse with the large leaues in Frenche Mousse marine a larges fueilles in Brabant Zee Mosch it is to be thought that this is the first kinde of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Fucus or Alga whereof Dioscorides treateth in his fourth booke The eight is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Fucus and Alga this is the second kind of Fucus in Dioscorides the which Theophrastus nameth also in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say in Latine Porrum bycause the leaues are lyke vnto Leeke blades †The Nature The Mosse is drie and astringent or of a binding qualitie without any manyfest heate or colde Lungworte is lyke to the aforesayde sauing that it cooleth more Golden Maydenheare and Woolfes Clawe are drie and temperate in heate and colde The Ros Solis is hoate and drie almost in the fourth degree The Sea Mosse is colde drie and astringent †The Vertues The decoction of Mosse in water is good for women to washe them selues in whiche haue to muche of their naturall sicknesse and put into the nose it stayeth bleeding to conclude it is very well and profitably put into all oyntmentes and oyles that be astringent The Physitions of our time do muche commend this Pulmonaria or Lungwort for the diseases of the lunges especially for the inflammations and vicers of the same if it be made into powder and dronke with water They say also that the same boyled in wine and dronke stoppeth spitting of blood pissing of blood the flowers of women and the laske or fluxe of the belly The same made into powder and cast into woundes stoppeth the bleeding and cureth them Ros Solis brused with Salt and bounde vppon the fleshe or bare skinne maketh blisters and holes euen as Cantharides as you may proue by experience The common sort of people do esteeme this herbe but especially the yellow water distilled of the same to be a singuler and special remedie for such as begin to drie away or are fallen into consumptions and for them that are troubled with the disease called Asthma whiche is a straightnesse in drawing of breath or with any vlceration in their lunges thinking that it is very consolidatiue and that it hath a special vertue to strengthen and nourish the body but that whiche we haue recited before concerning the vertue of this herbe declareth sufficiently that their opinion is false Men vse not Golden Maydenheare nor Woolfes Clawe in medicine Sea Mosse is af a very astringent and preseruing qualitie Therefore men lay it to the beginning of hoate tunours or swellinges and vpon all kindes of gowtes that require refreshing or cooling The same also is very good agaynst wormes
accounted another purple flower the leaues be much cut the flowers grow along the stalkes and are of a violet colour of fashion like vnto a Knights Spurre with a litle taile hanging behinde the flower The coddes are as the aforesayde The rootes are ioyning three or foure togither The yellow Woolfes bayne is likewise of two sortes the one great and the other small The great yellowe Woolfes bane hath large blackishe leaues slitte and clouen almost lyke to Crowfoote but farre greater The stemmes be roundishe about two foote high or more at the toppe of those stemmes or brāches grow pale flowers almost like the flowers of wilde Lineseede after which flowers there folow small coddes conteyning a blacke and cornered seede The roote is blacke and very threddy The litle yellowe Woolfes bane is a lower herbe his leaues come foorth of the roote the whiche are deepely cut rounde about the flowers growe vpon some of the leaues and they be of a yellowe colour fashioned lyke vnto one of the Ranunculus flowers Thereafter folowe coddes like vnto the Woolfes bane The rootes be thicke and knotty as on the Anemone †The Place These venemous noughtie herbes are founde in this Countrie planted in the gardens of certayne Herboristes and the blew is very common in diuers gardens The two laste kindes are founde in Almaigne other Countries in lowe valleyes and darke wooddes or wilde forestes The yellowe are also founde vpon wilde mountaynes in darke places †The Tyme These herbes do flower in April May and Iune †The Names This herbe is in called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Aconitum lycoctonum and of some Luparia in Frenche Tueloup The first is called in high Douchelande Blowolfwurts Ysenhut and Bloysenhutlin in Neather Douchelande Blauw Wolfs wortele and of some Munckes capkens and therefore they call it in Latine Cucullus Monachi or Cappa Monachi that is to say The Cape or Hoode of the Monke and the second is counted of many learned men to be the right or true Napellus described of Auicen he calleth it Napellus quasi paruus Napus bycause the roote is like to a litle Rape or Nauew called in Latine Napus The yellowe is called of Dioscorides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Lycoctonum Ponticum in Frenche Tueloup iaulne in high Douche Wolffwurtz and Gelbwolffwurtz in Neather Douchlande Geel Wolfe wortell in Englishe Yellowe Woolfes bane playne Woolfes bane and Heath Crowfoote The litle yellowe seemeth well to be that Aconitum the whiche Theophrastus hath spoken of and is nowe called of some Aconitum hyemale bycause it is preserued in the gardens of this Countrie and in the winter it flowreth †The Nature All these Leopardes or Woolfes bane are hoate and drie in the fourth degree and of a venemous qualitie ⧠The Danger Woolfes bane taken into the body inflameth the hart burneth the inwarde partes and killeth the body as it hath ben seene not long sithens in Anwarpe where as some did eate in Salade the roote of blewe Woolfes bane in steede of some other good herbe and died incontinent The kindes of Woolfes bane do not onely kill men but also Woolfes Dogges and suche other beastes if it be giuen them to eate with flesh Of Oleander / or Rose Baye Chap. lxxx †The Description OLeander is a little tree or shrub bearing leaues greater thicker and rougher then the leaues of the Almonde tree the flowers be of a fayre red colour diuided into fiue leaues and not much vnlike a litle Rose The fruite is as long as a finger full of rough hearie seede like the coddes or huskes of Asclepias called in Englishe Swallowe wort †The Place Oleander groweth in some Countries by riuers and the sea syde in pleasant places as Dioscorides writeth in this Countrie in the gardens of some Herboristes Nerium †The Tyme In this Countrie it bringeth foorth his flower in Iune †The Names This plante is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nicander calleth it also Neris in Latine Laurus rosea and Rosea arbor that is to say Rose tree in Shoppes Oleander in Frenche Rosagine or Rosage in Douche Oleander boom in Englishe Rose tree or Rose Baye tree Oleander and Nerium Nerium †The Nature Oleander is also very hoate and drie of Complexion †The Vertues It hath scarse one good propertie It may be compared to a Pharisee who maketh a glorious and beautifull shewe but inwardly is of a corrupt and poysoned nature God graunt all true Christians and Christian Realmes whereas this tree or any branche thereof beginneth to spread and fiorishe to put to their helping handes to destroy it and all the branches thereof as dissimulation Couetousnesse Briberie syr Symonie and maister Vsurie It is high tyme if it be the wyl of God to supplant it For it hath alredy flowred so that I feare it wil shortly seede fil this holsome soyle ful of wicked Nerium ⧠The Danger Oleander or Nerium is very hurtfull to man but most of all to Sheepe Goates Kine Dogges Asses Mules Horses and al foure footed beastes for it is deadly and killeth them Yea if they do but drinke the water wherein Oleander hath ben stieped or soked it causeth them to dye sodaynly as Dioscorides Plinie and Galen do write Of Poppie Chap. lxxxi †The Kindes THere be three sortes of Poppie as Dioscorides sayth wherof the first kind is white and of the garden the two other are blacke and wilde Papauer satiuum Garden Poppie Papauer syluestre Wilde Poppie †The Description THE garden white Poppie beareth a straight stem or straight smoth stalke about the height of foure or fiue foote in length with long leaues therevpon large and white vneuenly iagged and toothed about at the highest of the sayde stemmes groweth a round bud or button the whiche openeth into a large white flower made of foure leaues the whiche flower hath in the middle many smal hearie threddes with little tippes at the eudes and a round head the which head waxeth great and long wherin is the seede which is white and very necessarie in medicine Of this kinde there is yet another whose flowrie leaues be iagged or frenged in all thinges els lyke to the aforesayde The seconde kinde of Poppie hath his stalkes and leaues much lyke to the white but the flowers be of a fayre red colour and the heades are more rounder and not long The seede is blackish Of this sorte there is found another kind whose flowers be snipt iagged the whiche sometimes be very double lyke to the other The thirde kinde of Poppie is lyke to the two other sortes in leaues and stemmes sauing that it is smaller and beareth moe flowers and headdes The flowers be of a colour betwixt white and red changing towarde blacke hauing blacke spottes at the lower part of euery flowers leaues The heades be somewhat long much smaller then the heades of the others wherein there is also blacke seede and
when the sede is ripe the heades do open aboue vnder the shel or scale whiche couereth the sayde heades And afterwarde the seede falleth out easily whiche happeneth not to the other two Poppies whose heades remayne alwayes close There droppeth or runneth out of Poppie a liquor as white as milke when the heades be pearced or hurt the whiche is called Opium and men gather and drie it and is kept of the Apothecaries in their shoppes to serue in medicine †The Place Al these kindes of Poppie are sowen in this Countrie in gardens The third kind is very common insomuch as it is sowen in many feelds for the commoditie and profite which commeth of the seede In Apulia and Spayne and other hoate Countries they gather the iuyce whiche is the Opium that men of this Countrie put in medicines †The Tyme It flowreth most commonly in Iune †The Names Poppie is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine and in shoppes Papauer of some Oxytonon Prosopon Lethe Lethusa and Onitron in high Almaigne Magsamen Moen Magle and Olmag in base Almaigne Huel of some Mancop The iuyce of Poppie is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine in shoppes Opium The first kind is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Papauer satiuum of some Thylacitis in shoppes Papaueralbum in Frenche Pauot cultiué blanc in Almaigne Witten Huel and Tammen Huel in Englishe White Poppie and Garden Poppie The seconde kind Dioscorides calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Papauer syluestre erraticum some also cal it Pithitis in Shoppes Papauer nigrum magnum of the vnlearned Papauer rubrum and according to the same the Frenchmen call it Pauot rouge in Douche Rooden Huel in Englishe Blacke Poppie and Wilde Poppie The thirde sorte is also taken for a kinde of wilde Poppie and is called in Shoppes Papauer commune and Papauer nigrum that is to say Common Poppie and blacke Poppie in Douche Huel This should seeme to be Poppie Rhoeas that is to say Flowing and falling bycause the seede thereof floweth out when it is ripe whiche chanceth to none of the other kindes as is abouesayde †The Nature Al the Poppies be colde and drie almost euen harde to the fourth degree Opium is colde and drie almost harde to the fourth degree †The Vertues The decoction of the leaues and heades of Poppie made in water dronke causeth fleepe It hath the lyke vertue if the head and handes be washed therwith Of the heades boyled in water is made a Syrupe whiche doth also cause sleepe and is very good agaynst the subtil Rheumes and Catharrhes that distill and fal downe from the brayne vpon the lunges and against the cough taking his beginning of such subtil humours The seede of blacke Poppie dronke in wine stoppeth the fluxe of the belly and the vnreasonable course of womens issues if it be mingled with water and layde to the forehead it will cause sleepe also A playster is made with the greene knoppes or heades of Poppie before it is ripe parched barley meale the which is good to be layde vpon the disease named in Latine Ignis sacer and hoate tumours which haue neede of cooling Opium that is the iuyce of Poppie dried taken in quantitie of a fetche swageth all inwarde paynes causeth sleepe cureth the cough and stoppeth the flixe The same layde to with Oyle of Roses swageth headache and with Oyle of sweete Almondes Myrrhe and Saffron it healeth ache or payne of the cares With vineger it is good to be layde to the disease called Erysipelas or Wild fire and all other inflammations and with womans milke and Saffron it swageth the payne of the gowte The same put into the fundement as a Suppositorie bringeth or causeth sleepe To conclude in what manner soeuer Opium be taken eyther inwardly or outwardly it causeth sleepe and taketh away paynes Yet ye must take heede to vse it euer with discretion ⧠The Danger The vse of Poppie is very euill and dangerous and especially Opium the which taken excessiuely or to often applyed vpon the flesh outwardly or otherwise without good consideration and aduisement it wyll cause a man to sleepe to muche as though he had the Lethargie which is the forgetful sicknesse and bringeth foolish and doting fansies it corrupteth the sense and vnderstanding bringeth the Palsie and in fine it killeth the body †The Correction Whan by great necessitie ye are forced to vse Opium mixe Saffron with it for it shall let and somewhat hinder the euill qualitie of Opium in suche sort as it shall not so easily do harme as it woulde if Saffron were not mingled with it See Turners Herbal for the remedie against Opium lib. 2 fol. 76. Of Red Poppie / or Cornerose Chap. lxxxij †The Kindes THere be two sortes of red Poppie or Cornerose the great and the small differing onely in leaues but the flowers are lyke one another †The Description THE smal Cornerose or wild Poppie hath smal rough branches the leaues be somewhat long toothed rounde about not muche differing from the leaues of the other Poppie sauing that they be muche smaller and not smothe but rough The flowers be of a faire red colour not differing in figure from the flowers of the other Poppie with blacke threds in the midle After the falling of the flowers there rise heades muche smaller then the heades of Poppie and in proportion longer wherein is conteyned blacke seede The roote is long and yellowish Papauer Rhoeas Shadowie Poppie or red Poppie Papauer Rhoeas alterum Cornerose or shadding Poppie The great Cornerose hath large leaues very muche iagged or rather rent lyke to the leaues of white Senuey but alwayes longer and rougher The stalkes flowers and knoppes or heades are lyke to the smaller Cornerose The roote is great and whiter then the roote of the lesser Cornerose †The Place The Cornerose groweth amongst the Wheate Rye Otes and Barley The least is most common †The Tyme Cornerose flowreth in May and from that time foorth vntill the ende of sommer †The Names This kinde of wilde Poppie is called in Greke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Papauer erraticum Papauer fluidum and Papauer Rhoeas in some Shoppes Papauer rubrum in Frenche Coquelicoc or Ponceau in high Douch Klapperrosen Kornrosen In base Almaigne Clapperroosen and Rooden Huel or wilden Huel And it is not without cause to be doubted whether the second Cornerose be a kinde of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Argemone or no. ⧠The Nature Corneroses do coole and refreshe also and are of complexion muche lyke Poppie Fiue or sixe heades of wilde Poppie or Cornerose boyled in wine dronke causeth sleepe Like vertue hath the seede taken with hony The leaues with the greene heades brused togither are very good to be layde vpon all euil hoate swellinges and vlcers and vpon Crysipeles or wild fire as the other Poppies are Of Horned
Englishe Sea Holme or Huluer and Sea Holly The other kinde is called in English the Hundred headed Thistel in French Chardon a cent testes in high Douch Manstrew Brachen distel and Rad distel in base Almaigne Cruysdistel in the Shoppes also it is nowe called Iringus This without doubt is a kinde of Eringium the whiche may also very be well called Centumcapita †The Nature Sea Holly is temperate of heate and colde yet of drie and subtil partes The hundred headed Thistell is hoate and drie as one may easyly gather by the taste †The Vertues The first leaues of Eryngium are good to be eaten in Salade and was for that purpose so vsed of the Auncientes as Dioscorides writeth The rootes of the same boyled in wine and dronken are good for them that are troubled with the Colique and gripings of the belly for it cureth them and driueth foorth windinesse The same taken in the same manner bringeth foorth womens natural sicknesse It is good to drinke the wine wherein Sea Holly hath boyled against the stone and grauel and against the payne to make water for it prouoketh vrine driueth foorth the stone cureth the infirmities that chaunce to the kidneyes if it be dronken fiftiene dayes togither one after another The same rootes taken in the same manner are good for suche as be liuer sicke and for those that are bitten of any venemous beastes or haue receiued or dronke poyson especially if it be dronken with the seede of wilde Carrot It doth also helpe those that are troubled with the Crampe and the falling sicknesse The greene herbe is good to be pounde and layde to the bytinges of venemous beastes especially to the bitinges of Frogges The Apothecaries of this Countrie do vse to preserue and comfit the roote of Eringium to be giuen to the aged and olde people and others that are consumed or withered to nourishe and restore them againe The roote of Centumcapita or the Thistel of a hundred heades is likewise comfited to restore nourishe and strengthen albeit it commeth not neare by a great way to the goodnesse of the other Of Starre Thistel / or Caltrop Chap. lix †The Description STarre Thistell hath softe frised leaues deepely cutte or gaysle the stalkes grow of a foote and a halfe high full of branches wherevppon growe small knappes or heades like to other Thistelles but muche smaller and set rounde about with sharpe thornie prickles fashioned lyke a Starre at the beginning either greene or browne redde but afterwarde pale or white when those heades do opeÌ„ they bring foorth a purple flower afterwarde a small flat and round seede the roote is long and somewhat browne without ¶ The Place This Thistell groweth in rude vntoyled places alongst the waies is founde in great quantitie about the Marte Towne of Anwarpe nere to the riuer Scelde and alongst by the newe walles of the Towne †The Tyme This Thistell flowreth from the moneth of Iuly vntill August Carduus stellatus †The Names This herbe is nowe called in Latine Carduus stellatus and Stellaria also Calcitâ—apa and some take it for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polyacanthus of Theophrast the which Gaza calleth in Latine Aculeosa they call it in Frenche Chaussetrape in high Douch Wallen Distell ano Raden Distel in base Almaigne Sterre distel in English Starre Thistel or Caltrop †The Nature This Thistel also is of a hoate nature as the taste of the roote doth shewe †The Vertues They vse greatly to take the powder of the seede of this Thistel in wine to drinke to prouoke vrine and to driue foorth grauel and against the strangury Of the Teasel Chap. lx †The Kindes THe Cardthistel or Teasel is of two sortes the tame the wild The tame Teasel is sowen of Fullers and clothworkers to serue their purposes the wilde groweth without husbanding of it selfe serueth to smal purpose Dipsacum satiuum Fullers Teasel Dipsacum syluestre Wilde Teasel THE Cardthistel his first leaues be long and large hackt round about with natches lyke the teeth of a sawe betwixt those leaues riseth a holowe stalke of three foote long or more with many branches set here and there with diuers hooked sharpe prickles and spaced or seuered by ioyntes at euery of the sayd ioyntes grow two great long leaues the which at the lower endes be so closely ioyned and fastened togither round about the stalke that it holdeth the water falling either by rayne or dewe so sure as a dishe or bason At the top of the branches growe long rough and prickle heades set full of hookes out of the same knops or heades grow smal white flowers placed in Celles and Cabbins like the honie Combe in whiche Chambers or Celles after the falling away of the flower is found a sede like Fenil but bitter in taste The knoppes or heades are holow within and for the most part hauing wormes in them the whiche you shall finde in cleauing the heades The roote is long playne and white The wild Teasel is much like to the other but his leaues be narrower and his flowers purple the hookes of this Teasel be nothing so harde nor sharpe as the other There is yet another wilde kinde of these Carde Thistels the which grow highest of al the other sortes whose knopped heades are no bigger then a nut in all thinges els lyke to the other wilde kindes †The Place The tame Teasel is sowen in this Countrie and in other places of Flaunders to serue Fullers and Clothworkers The wild groweth in moyst places by brookes riuers such other places †The Tyme Carde Thistel flowreth for the most part in Iune and Iuly ¶ The Names This kinde of Thistel is called in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Dipsacum and LabruÌ„ Veneris of some also Chamaeleon Crocodilion Onocardion Cneoron Meleta Cinara rustica Moraria Carduus Veneris Veneris lauacrum Sciaria in Shoppes Virga Pastoris and Carduus Fullonum in French Verge de berger Cardon a Foulon or A Carder in high Douche Karten distel Bubenstrel Weberkarten in base Almaigne Caerden and Volders Caerden in Englishe Fullers Teasel Carde Thistell and Venus bath or Bason The tame Teasel is called Dipsacum satiuum and Dipsacum album The wilde Teasel is called Dipsaca syluestris or Purpurea †The Nature The roote of Carde Thistell as Galen saith is drie in the seconde degree and somwhat scouring †The Vertues The roote of Teasell boyled in wine and afterwarde pounde vntill it come to the substance or thicknesse of an oyntment healeth the chappes riftes and fistulas of the fundement But to preserue this oyntment ye must keepe it in a boxe of Copper The small wormes that are founde within the knoppes or heades of Teaselles do cure and heale the Quartayne ague to be worne or tyed about the necke or arme as Dioscorides writeth Of Artechokes Chap. lxi †The Kyndes There is now found two kindes of Artechokes the one with
hoate and drie almost in the fourth degree †The Vertues Garlyke eaten rawe and fasting nourisheth not but contrariewise it ingendreth euill blood bycause of his exceeding heate Neuerthelesse being boyled vntil it hath lost his sharpnesse it engendreth not so euil blood and although it nourisheth but litle yet it nourisheth more then when it is eaten rawe It is good for suche people as are full of grosse rawe and tough humours for it wasteth and consumeth colde humours It dispatcheth windinesse openeth al stoppinges killeth and driueth foorth brode wormes and prouoketh vrine It is good against all venome poyson taken in meates or boyled in wine and dronken for of his owne nature it withstandeth al poyson in so much that it driueth away all venemous beastes from the place where it is Therefore Galen prince of Physitions called it poore mens Treacle It is layde with great profite to the bitinges of mad Dogges and vpon the bitinges stinginges of venemous beastes as Spiders Scorpions Vipers and suche lyke and for the same purpose it auayleth muche to drinke the decoction or broth of Garlyke sodde in wine It is also good to keepe such from danger of sicknesse as are forced to drinke of diuers sortes of corrupt waters The same eaten raw or boyled cleareth the voyce cureth the old cough and is very good for them that haue the Dropsie for it drieth the stomacke and consumeth the water and doth not much alter nor distemper the body The decoction thereof made with Orygan and wine being dronken killeth lyce and nittes It is very good against the tooth ache for it slaketh the same pounde with vineger laid to the teeth or boyled in water with a litle incence the mouth washed therewith or put into the holownesse of the corrupt teeth It is of the same vertue mixt with goose grease and powred into the eares The same brused betwixt the handes and layde to the temples slaketh the olde headache The same burned into ashes mingled with hony healeth the wild scabbe and scurffe of the head and the falling of the heare being layde therevpon Layde to in the same manner it healeth blacke and blewe scarres that remayne after bruses and stripes It is also good against the fowle white scurffe leprie and running vlcers of the head and all other manginesse pounde with oyle and salte and layde there vpon Also it is good against the hoate inflammation called wilde fier which is a spreading scabbe lyke a tetter With Swines grease in wafteth and dissolueth harde swellinges and layd to with Sulpher and Rosen it draweth foorth the euill qualitie or noughtie humour from fistulas as Plinie writeth It moueth womens natural sicknes driueth foorth the secondine if women sit ouer the decoction thereof or if it be cast vpon the quicke coles and women receiue the fume of it through a fonnel or holow stole They cure the pipe or roupe of Pultrie and Chickens with Garlyke †The Danger Garlyke is hurtfull and nought for cholerique people and suche as be of a hoate complexion it hurteth the eyes and sight the head and kidneyes It is also nought for women with childe and suche as giue sucke to children Of Sauwce alone or Iacke by the hedge Chap. lxxij †The Description THis herbe at his first springing vp hath roundish leaues almost lyke to Marche violettes but much greater and larger of a paler color Amōgst those leaues cōmeth vp the stalke of two foote high with longer and narrower leaues then the first were and creuised or iagged about not much vnlike the Nettle leaues but greater The whiche beyng brused betweene the fingers haue the sauour and smell of Garlyke About the highest of the stalke grow many small white flowers and after them long coddes or huskes wherein is blacke seede The roote is long slender and of wooddy substance ¶ The Place This herbe delighteth to growe in lowe vntoyled places as about the borders of medowes and moyst pasture groundes and somtimes in hedges and vpon walles †The Tyme This herbe flowreth most commonly in May and Iune and afterwarde commeth the seede Alliaria †The Names This herbe is called of the later writers in the Latine tongue Alliaria of some also Scordotis but this is not the true Scordotis the whiche is also called Scordium and is described in the first booke of this historie Pandectarius calleth it Pes Asininus it is named in French Alliaire in high Douch Knoblochkraut Leuchel or Saszkraut in base Almaigne Loock sonder loock in Englishe Sauce alone and Iacke by the hedge †The Nature This herbe is hoate and drie almost in the thirde degree fourth degree †The Vertues This herbe is not much vsed in medicine but some do vse it with meates in steede of garlyke The ignorant Apothecaries doo vse this herbe for Scordium not without errour as it is manifest to all such as are learned in the knowledge of Simples Of Onyons Chap. lxxiij ¶ The Kindes THere be diuers sortes of Onyons some white some red some long some rounde some great and some small but al of one sauour and propertie sauing that the one is a litle stronger then the other Yet they differ not in leaues flowers and seede †The Description THe Onyon hath leaues or blades almost like garlike holow within The stemmes be round vpon whiche grow rounde bawles or heades couered with little fine or tēder white skinnes out of which breake many white flowers lyke starres whiche turne into smal pellettes or buttons in whiche are contayned two or three blacke cornered seedes The roote is rounde or long made of many foldes pylles or coueringes growing one vpon another wherof the vpmost pilles or scales are thinnest In the neather part of the roote is a bearde of hearie rootes or stringes lyke a tassel †The Place They are sowen in euery garden of this Countrie but they loue a soft and gentle grounde †The Tyme They are commonly sowen in Februarie and March and are ful growen in August are then pluckt out of the ground to be kept And if they be plāted againe in December Ianuary or February then they wil blow in Iune and bring foorth in Iuly and August ⧠The Names The Onyon is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cepa and Cepe in high Douche Zwibel in base Almaigne seede Ayeuyn †The Nature The Onyon is almost hoate in the fourth degree and rather of grosse then subtil partes Crommion Cepa Onyons †The Vertues The Onyon engendreth windynesse and causeth appetite and it doth scatter and make thinne grosse and clammie humours without nourishing especially to be eaten raw But being boyled twise or thrise it is nothing so sharpe and it nourisheth somewhat but not muche Onyons eaten in meate open the belly gently and prouoke vrine plentifully They open the Hemorrhoides so called in Greeke layd to the fundement or siege with oyle or vineger and so doth the iuyce or the whole
a kinde of Orobanche and Limodorum The other kinde whiche is like to the aforesayde Naueau is called of Dioscorides in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Orobanche 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Limodorū of some other as of Photion also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Leguminū Leo. It hath no French nor Douche name that I knowe Turner lib. 2. fol. 72. calleth it Orobanche Choke fitche Strāgle tare Strangleweede Orobstrangler Choke weede †The Nature Broome is full hoate in the seconde degree and reacheth almost to the third degree it is scouring and of subtil partes †The Vertues The leaues branches and croppes of Broome boyled in wine or water are good for them that haue the dropsie and for all them that haue any stopping of the liuer the splene or melt the kidneyes or bladder for partly it purgeth driueth out of the belly and partly it purgeth by vrine all waterie tough and superfluous humours The seede is of the same vertue to be taken the quaniitie of a dramme or a dramme and a halfe The same seede is very good to be mixt with all medicines whiche prouoke vrine and breake the stone for by his subtill nature it helpeth the operation of other medicines seruing to the same purpose Broome flowers mingled with swines grease swageth the paynes of the gowte being applyed thereto This Broome hath al the vertues of Spanish Broome and it may be vsed against all such infirmities wherevnto Spanish Broome is required Broome Rape is counted of some Empiriques or practisioners in these dayes for an excellent medicine against the stone to prouoke vrine to be first boyled in wine and giuen to drinke for as they say it openeth the stoppings of the kidneyes prouoketh water breaketh the stone and driueth foorth grauell The freshe and greene iuyce of Broome Rape doth cure and heale al newe woundes and clenseth those that are corrupt rotten it may be lykewise vsed against other vlcers and corrupt sores for it mundifieth and bringeth them to healing And for the better preseruation of the same iuyce after it is pressed or taken out of the greene rootes ye must set it in the Sonne vntil it waxe thicke or ye must put to it a litle hony set it in the Sonne for then it wil be better more apt to mundifie clense woundes and rotten vlcers it may be also takē out of the rootes that be halfe dry with oyle wil serue to al intentes euē as the iuyce The same oyle of Broome Rape doth scoure and driue away al spottes lentiles freckles pimples wheales and pushes as well from the face as the rest of the body being often annoynted therewithall Dioscorides writeth that Orabanche may be eaten either rawe or boyled as the springes of Asparagus Of Spanish Groome Chap. vij †The Description THe Spanish Broome also hath wooddish stemmes from which grow foorth long slender plyant twigges the whiche be bare naked without leaues or at least hauing very few small leaues set here and there farre apart one from another The flowers be yellow not muche vnlyke the flowers of the common Broome after which it hath coddes wherin is the sede browne and flat lyke the other Broome seede There may be wel placed with this Broome a strange plant which beareth also long shutes or smal twigges of aswarte colour straight and vpon them are smal browne greene leaues alwaies three ioyned togither lyke the leaues of Trefoyle but smaller The flowers be yellowe rounde and cut into fiue or sixe partes in fashion not much vnlike the flowers of the common Buglosse afterwarde they do bring foorth graines or berries as bigge as a pease blacke when they be ripe in which is found the seede the which is flat as a Lentil seede The roote is long smal creping hither and thither vnder the earth putteth foorth new springes in sundry places †The Place This Broome groweth in drie places of Spayne and Languedoc and is not founde in this Countrie but in the gardens of Herboristes †The Time This kinde of Broome flowreth in this Countrie in Iune and somewhat after the seede is rype in August Genista Hispanica siue Italica Spanish and Italian Broome Genista peregrina Trifolia Trifolium fruticans †The Names This Broome is lykewise called in Latine Genista and sometime also Genistra of the Herboristes of this Countrie Genistra Hispanica in base Almaigne Spaensche Brem in English Spanish Broome and it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Spartum whereof Dioscorides and Plinius do write The strange plante hath no name that I know for albeit some would haue it to be Cytisus this plant is nothing lyke thereto and is lykewise named Trifolium fruticans †The Nature Spanish Broome is hoate and drie of complexion †The Vertues The flowers and seede of Spanishe Broome are good to be dronken with mede or honyed water in the quantitie of a dram to cause one to vomit strongly euen as white Hellebor or Neesing powder but yet without ieopardie The seede taken alone looseth the belly for the quantitie bringeth foorth great plentie of waterie and tough humours Out of the twigges or litle brāches steeped in water is pressed forth a iuyce the whiche taken in quantie of a Ciat or litle glasse ful fasting is good against the Sqinansie that is a kind of swelling with heate and payne in the throte putting the sicke body in danger of choking also it is good against the Sciatica Of base Groome / or Woodwaxen Chap. viij †The Description THis Broome is not muche vnlyke the common Broom sauing that it is not so high nor so straight but lyeth along almost vpon the grounde with many small branches proceeding frō a wooddy stem and set with litle long small leaues and at the top with many faire yellow flowers not much vnlyke the flowers of the common Broome but smaller after them come narrow huskes or coddes wherein is a flatte seede The roote is harde and of wooddish substance like to the others †The Place This kinde of Broome groweth in vntoyled places that stande lowe and somtimes also in moyst Clay groundes It is founde about Anwarpe †The Tyme It flowreth in Iuly and August and sometimes after shortly after the seede is rype Genista humilis ⧠The Names This plante is doubtlesse a kinde of Broome and therefore it may be wel called in Latine Genista humilis in Italian Cerretta that is lowe and base Broome in base Almaigne Ackerbrem the high Germaynes do make of it Flos tinctorius that is to say the flower to staine or dye withal do terme it in their language Ferbblumen Geel Ferbblumen and Heyden smucke bycause the Dyers do vse of it to dy their clothes yellow in Englishe Woodwaxen and base Broome †The Nature This plante is of complexion hoate and drie †The Vertues Woodwaxen or base Broome in nature operation
Vomite / and cast out easyly slymie flegmes / and cholerique humours / 115. g / 129. c / 211. a / 212. a / 226. a 231. a / 292. i / 319. e / 335. a / 361. a / 372. a / 599. o / 697. a / 759. a. Vomit with great force / 347. a / 666. a / 743. c / 759. a. To cleare the Voyce / 638. g. To take away roughnesse of the Voyce 543. a. Sharpnesse of water or Vrine / 694. d. Fylthy corruption and matter of Vrine 694. d. To stoppe the inuoluntarie running of Vrine / 405. a. To prouoke Vrine or water / 15. a / 38. b / 41. a / 48. a / 64. a / 99. h / 129. d / 152. b / 184. a / e / 187. b / 194. b / 196. a / 206. a / 217. f 229. a / 234. a / 236. a / 241. a / 243. b / 252. a / 261. a / 262. s 265. a / 269. b / 271. a / 281. a / 284. a / 285. a / 289. a / 291. a / 296. b / e / 299. b / 305. q / 319. a / 336. a / 337. a / 341. a / 344. a / 382. a / 409. b 437. a / 448. a / 479. a / 499. f / 501. a / 509. a / 510. b / 521. a / 525. b 528. a / 533. b / 565. a / 577. m / 578. a / 594. d / 597. a / 599. f / 604. b / 605. a / 606. a / 607. a / 608. a / 615. b / 616. b / 618. a / 619. f / 622. b / 625. a / 626. c / 638. c / 640. b / 642. b / 646. b / 649. a / 660. d / 662. h / 665. b / e / 669. a / d / 674. a / 676. d / 689. f / 711. d / 740. b / 749. g / 750. a / 703. a / 765. f / 766. a / 771. a / 775. a / b / 778. b / c. Difficultie or stopping of Vrine / 2. a / 28. b / 50. e. W VVArtes growing about the Iarde and secret places 767. d. Wartes takeÌ„ away / 61. d / g / 229. g / 236. d / 304. e / 361. d / 420. a 719. r / 744. d. The paynefull making of Water / 285. a / 446. b. 613. a. Against drinking of corrupt stiâ—king noughtie Water / 232. f / 638. f. For Weales comming of choler and blood / 551. f / 665. f / 719. r. To refresh Weary members / 540. c / 689. d. That trauelers shall not be Weary / 11. b / 691. i. For the Wilde fyre / 11. a / 19. e / 137. c / vide S. Antonies fyre Biting of wilde beastes / 482. d. For the shortnesse of Winde / vide Breath / 2. a / 18. a / 20. b / 217. b / 243. a / 389. c / 391. a. To dissolue blasting and windinesse of the belly / 285. b / 520. b / 606. c / 608. b / 609. a. For Witching / vide Enchantements For Women with childe giuen to vomit / 651. a. Cause Women to haue easie deliuerance of childe / 299. b 441. e / 676. d. To purge and clense Women after their deliuerance of childe / 616. a. Dangerous for Women with childe / 331. p / 383. p / 389. l / 391. e / 401. e / 628. Kyll or destroy Wormes / 710. d / 745. c / 763. f / 777. k. To cause Women to be fertil and get chyldren / 152. c. To bring downe Womens natural sicknesse / 2â— b To ease Women whiche are to muche graued with hard and perilous trauell in childe bearing / 146. l / 158. d / 307. d / 331. o / 391. b. To confirme the natural place of conceptioÌ„ of Women / and make them apt to receiue children / 524. To keep Woundes from inflammation / 138. b / 144. b / 145. c / 170. d / 178. e / 182. g / 407. b / 411. b / 576. k / 633. a / 693. d. To cure inward Woundes / 134. a / 139. a / 141. a / 144. a / 145. a 253. a / 291. f / 398. b / 443. b / 541. a / 585. a / 702. d / 756. b. To take away the payne and heate of al Woundes inflamed / 140. a / 739. g / k. To close greene Woundes / 86. d / 99. g / 101. c / 111. e / 117. e / 133. d. f / 146. b. 201. h / 234. d / 260. d / 322. g / 327. b / l / 354. d / 443. d. / 496. c / 504. b / 510. c / 555. b / 561. b / 584. d / 633. a / 645. b 665. f / 713. c / d / 726. b / 737. d / 745. b / 752. a / f / 768. g / 771. c 773. a / 775. c. For al kinde of Woundes made with the Glayue / 268. d 388. a. To heale and close Woundes / 9. a / 11. a. / 14. c. / 27. b / 28. c / 36. e / 48. b / 59. b / 68. a / 70. b / 75. c / 79. a / 84. c / 87. a / 103. a / 132. a / 133. a / 134. a / 137. a / 141. a / 142. a / 196. b / 365. c / 540. a / 541. a / 554. k / 571. c / 613. b / 717. c / 776. a. Olde Woundes and corrupt / 57. d / 65. c / 70. b / 93. f / 101. b / 112. e / 492. d / 540. a / 626. b. To keepe newe Woundes from deadly burning apostumation and euyll swelling / 693. d. To destroy Wormes / 2. c / 6. i / 18. a / 21. a / 44. d / 227. b / 276. b / 279. b / 327. h / 344. c / 415. i / 481. a / 491. a / 555. p / 561. b / 573. d / 577. l / 599. o / 624. b / 704. f / 707. c. To kyll the rounde Wormes / 246. c / 402. c / 594. f. To kyll long and flat Wormes in the body / 6. m / 9. c / 61. f 248. f / 646. t / 716. f / 763. f. To kyll brode Wormes / 402. a / c / 517. a / 638. c. Heer endeth this Table concerning the Nature Vertue and Dangers of all the Herbes Trees and Plantes conteyned in this Booke of Herball ⧠Imrinted at Antwerpe / by me Henry Loë Bookeprinter and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde by Gerard Devves