the name Cardiaca The Pouder thereof to the quantity of a spoonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help to Women in their Sore Travails as also for the suffocations or risings of the Mother and from these effects it is likely it took the name of Motherwort with us It also provoketh Urine and Womens Courses clenseth the Chest of cold Flegm oppressing it and killeth the Worms in the Belly It is of good use to warm and dry up the cold Humors to digest and dispers them that are setled in the Veins Joynts and Sinews of the Body and to help Cramps and Convulsions Venus owns the Herb and it is under Leo there is no better Herb to drive Melancholly Vapors from the Heart to strengthen it and make a merry cheerful blith soul than this Herb it may be kept in a Syrup or Conserve therfore the Latins called it Cardiaca Besides it makes Women joyful Mothers of Children and settles their Wombs as they should be therfore we call it Motherwort Mousear Description THis is a low Herb creeping upon the ground by small strings like the Strawberry Plant whereby it shooteth forth smal Roots whereat grow upon the Ground many small and somwhat short Leavs set in a round form together hollowish in the middle where they are broadest of an hoary colour all over and very hairy which being broken do give a white Milk From among these Leavs spring up two or three smal hoary Stalks about a span high with a few smaller Leavs thereon At the tops whereof standeth usually but one Flower consisting of many paler yellow Leavs broad at the points and a little dented in set in three or four rows the greater outermost very like a Dandelyon Flower and a little reddish underneath about the edges especially if it grow in a dry ground which after they have stood long in Flower do turn into Down which with the Seed is carryed away with the Wind. Place It groweth on Ditch Banks and somtimes in Ditches if they be dry and in sandy Grounds Time It Flowreth about June and July and abideth green all the Winter Vertues and Use. The Juyce hereof taken in Wine or the Decoction thereof drunk doth help the Jaundice although of long continuance to drink thereof morning and evening and abstain from other drink two or three hours after It is a special Remedy against the Stone and the tormenting pains thereof as also other Tortures and griping pains of the Bowels The Decoction thereof with Succory and Centaury is held very eflectual to help the Dropsie and them that are inclining thereunto and the Diseases of the Spleen It stayeth the Fluxes of Blood either at the Mouth or Nose and inward Bleedings also for it is a singular Wound Herb for Wounds both inward and outward It helpeth the Bloody Flux and stayeth the abundance of Womens Courses There is a Syrup made of the Juyce hereof and Sugar by the Apothecaries of Italy and other places which is of much account with them to be given to those that are troubled with the Cough or Phtisick The same also is singular good for Ruptures or Burstings The green Herb bruised and presently bound to any fresh cut or Wound doth quickly soder the lips thereof And the Juyce Decoction or Pouder of the dried Herb is most singular to stay the Malignity of spreading and fretting Cankers and Ulcers wheresoever yea in the Mouth or secret parts The distilled Water of the Plant is available in all the Diseases aforesaid and to wash outward Wounds and Sores and to apply Tents or Cloaths wet therein The Moon owns the Herb also and though Authors cry out upon Alchymists for attempting to fix Quick Silver by this Herb and Moonwort A Roman would not have judged a thing by the success if it be to be fixed at all 't is by Lunar Influence Mugwort Description THe common Mugwort have divers Leavs lying upon the ground very much devided or cut deeply in about the Brims somwhat like Wormwood but much larger of a dark green colour on the upper side and very hoary white underneath The stalks rise to be four or five foot high having on it such like Leavs as those below but somwhat smaller branching forth very much toward the top whereon are set very smal pale yellowish Flowers like Buttons which fall away and after them come small Seed inclosed in round Heads The Root is long and hard with many smal Fibres growing from it whereby it taketh strong hold in the ground but both Stalk and Leaf do die down every yeer and the Root shooteth anew in the Spring The whol Plant is of a reasonable good scent and is more easily propogated by the Slips than by the Seed Place It groweth plentifully in many places of this Land by the way sides as also by smal Water-Courses and in divers other places Time It Flowreth and Seedeth in the end of Summer Vertues and Use. Mugwort is with good success put among other Herbs that are boyled for Women to fit over the hot Decoction to draw down their Courses to help the Delivery of the Birth and expel the Afterbirth as also for the Obstructions and Inflamations of the Mother It breaketh the Stone and causeth one to make water where it is stopped The Juyce thereof made up with Mirrh and put under as a Pessary worketh the same effect and so doth the Root also being made up with Hogs Greas into an Oyntment it taketh away Wens and hard Knots and Kernels that grow about the Neck and Throat and easeth the pains about the Neck and more effectually if some Field Daisies be put with it The Herb it self being fresh or the Juyce thereof taken is a special Remedy upon the overmuch taking of Opium Three drams of the Pouder of the dried Leavs taken in Wine is a speedy and the best certain help for the Sciatica A Decoction thereof made with Chamomel and Agrimony and the place bathed therewith while it is warm taketh away the pains of the Sinews and the Cramp This is an Herb of Venus therefore maintaineth the parts of the Body she rules and Remedies the Diseases of the parts that are under her Signs Taurus and Libra The Mulberry-Tree THis is so well known in the places where it groweth that it needeth no Description Time It beareth Fruit in the Months of July and August Vertues and Use. The Mulberry is of different parts the ripe Berries by reason of their Sweetness and slippery moisture opening the Belly and the unripe binding it especially when they are dried and then they are good to stay Fluxes Lasks and the abundance of Womens Courses The Bark of the Root killeth the broad Worms in the Body The Juyce or the Syrup made of the Juyce of the Berries helpeth all Inflamations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat and the Pallet of the Mouth when it is fallen down The Juyce of the Leavs is a Remedy against the biting
sire Running sores of the Head Vlceâ—s of the Nose Antidote pains of the Chest Stomach Spleen Belly Obstructions Ruptures Fluxes Running of the Reins Strangury Stone or Gravel Stitches Yellow Jaundice Worms Wounds Defluxions Foul Ulsers Impostums Boyls Swellings Pains of the Head Chops of the Hands or Feet Provoke Urine womens Courses Expel the Dead Child After birth stanch Bleeding Clense Ulcers sores Itching of the Cods Help Conception hinder Miscarriage spitting Blood consumption Pains of the Head Joynts Fallâ—â—gsickness Lethargy Dulness of spirit Palsey Defluxions of Rhewm Impostume behind the Ears Hoarsness cough Bloody Flux Ricing of Serpents Worms in the Ears or Sores Quincken the senses help Memory Sore Mouths Throats Cankers Palsey or cramp Stitch in the side Provokes Urine Womens courses sweat Swellings in the flesh French Pox Vein broken Bursteness Palsey Ulcers Sores Green Wounds Wounds Sores Vomiting Bleeding Fluxes Running of the Reins Knit Joynts broken Bones in man beast Ruptures Bruises Falls black blew Marks Beautifie the Face Helps digestion Opens Obstructions provokes Urin Expel Gravel and the Stone Green Wounds Vlcers Impostums Inward Bleedings Swellings ulcers in the Mouth Throat Privities Womens Courses Fluxes of Blood Lasks Vlcers in the Kidneys Running or the Reins Rupture Obstructions yellow Jaundice Dropsie Vlcers of the Reins Inward Wounds Bruises Pains in the Body Mother Agues Green Wounds Old Sores or Vlcers Vlcers in the Mouth or Throat Sores in the Privy Parts Helps digestion Cough Tough Flegm Wind-Chollick Stone Vlcers in the Legs Expelleth Wind Mother provokes Vrine Womens Courses Tough Flegm Lethargy Dull sights Singing in the Ears Deafness Sciatica Palsey stinging of Bees c. Chollick Illiack passion Clenseth the Reins Stone Gravel provoke Urine Womens Courses Tough Flegm Provoke Vrine Ease Wind Collick Mother Womens Courses Stone Tough Flegm Venom Cramps Convusions Wounds in the Head Freckles spots Coughs shortness of Breath Cold Flegm Inward Vlcers Impostumes Plurisie Infection Carbuncle or Plague sores Pains or stitches in the side Scabs tetters Ring-worms Itch inward Wounds Cold swellings shrunk Sinews Freckles Pimples Morphew Lepry Dandriff Scurf Green Wounds Old sorcs Vlcers Splinters Thorns broken Bones c. Scurvy Liver Spleen flegmatick Humors Foul ulcers sore Mouths Spots Scars in the Skin Inward Wounds Vlcers Bruises Flux of Blood Foul sores Green wounds Headach Sores in the Mouth or Throat secret parts Fluxes Scowrings Casting Bleeding of wounds or at Mouth Nose Liver spleen Vrine womens Courses Yellow Jaundice Agues sore Mouths Throats Vlcers Cankers wind worms stinking Breath Cut Fingers provokes Vrine Expels Gravel Stone Dropsie French Pox. Cooleth Inflamations heat of Blood Agues Quench thirst Provoke Appetite Killworms Womens Courses Fluxes Poyson Jaundice Gravel stone Black Jaundice Inward ulcers Itch Tetters Ring-worms Kernels in the Throat sore Mouth Impostume Boyl or Plague sore Ulcers Inflamations procure Appetite stay Vomiting Pestilential Feavers Hot swellings Canker or Ulcer in the Mouth â— ounds oâ— seabs Destuxions Pains heat of the Stomach short wind Wheesing Gravel Stone stinking Breath speedy Delivery Strangury Milk increased Deafness singing in the Ears Inflamed Eyes Wheals Blisters Hemorrhoids Cleer the Face Bursten Cramps Convulsions Sciaticae Strangury Womens Courses Toyson Agues Inflamed Eyes Pimples Pushes Wheals Worms Splinters Thorns Old Vlcers Sores in the Privities Baldness French pox Stone Spleen Mother Provokes Vrine Womens Courses Strangury pain in the stomach Mother Joynt aches Tough flegm Venemous Creatures Spleen strangury stone yellow Jaundice Running of the Reins Melancholly Diseases Provokes Vrine stone plague fistula french pox Obstructions Agues Cool the Liver spleen stomach Quench Thirst Inflamations Provoke Vrine stay the Bloody flux Womens Courses panting of the heart Yellow Jaundice Vlcers sore Mouths or Vlcers in the privities Loos teeth Cataâ—â—hs Desfluxions Inflamed Eyes pushes Wheals Red face Deformities in the skin films over the Eyes Chollerick flegmatick Humors Obstructions Yellow Jaundice Hot Reins Urin Dropsie Agues passions of the Heart Headach Swellings Inflamations St. Anthonies fires pushes wheals pimples Inflamed Eyes Too much Milk Tough Flegm Worms Meagrim pains in the Bowels Gravel Stone wind Mother toothach Kings Evil Venemous Creature Ague Cramps Aches Sciatica Itch Scabs Vlcers Cankers soul Sores Lice Fresh wound Old sores Impostums hard Swellings Spleen Hemorrhoids spitting Blood womens Courses Jaundice Chollick Venemous Serpents Toothach Pain in the Ears watering Eyes Gangrenes Vâ—â—â—s Nits Lice Spleen Burning Scalding French Pox Lepry Scabs Dropsie Melancholly Black Jaundice Disury Strangury Reins Kidneys wind womb Miscarriage Stone Stomach Worms Cramps Flux Terms stops Spitting Vomiting of Blood Whites Ruptures Belly-ach Sciatica Joynts toothach Loos teeth Gums Ulcers in the Mouth wounds Sore Legs Pimples Freckles Sunbursing Disury Ill smel stinking Breath Stomach Melancholly Agues Plague Obstructions Liver Spleen Stone Dropsie Stitches in the side Liver Blood Binds cools dries Bleeding Flux Bloody Flux gnawings in bowels and stomach Sore Mouth Throat Headach Bruises Wounds Ulcers Ruptures Navils sticking out Flux Bleeding Veins cut terms stops Feavers Pestilence Smal pox Measels Purples Poyson Speen Blood Inflamed Liver Lungs Yellow Jaundice French Pox Miscarriage Diabetes Worms Ruptures toothach Wounds Sores Hurts Gout Srabby Heads Choller Flegm Stons Disury Terms provokes Gout Warts Wens Disjunctures Belly-ach Inflamations Pin Web Eyes Venemous Beast Disury Wounds Scars Whites Swellings Apostums Choller Sciatica Gout Burning Bleeding Wounds Ulcers Disury Strangury Stitch terms provokes Brest Short wind Cough Flegm Pestilence Wind Headach Eyes Pin and Web Wounds Splinters thorn Obstructions Clensing Healing Yellow Jaundice Venemous Beasts Pestilence Agues Worms Cough shortness of Breath Wheesing Stone Gravel Reins Bladder Womb Dropsie Bleeding Wounds Ulcers Fistulaes Headach Frenzie Morphew Freckles Eyes Sore Mouth Inflamations Womens Longing Stone Teeth black Inflamation Eyes Womb Head-ach Watching Quinsie Falling-sickness Swellings Pleuresie Flegm Hoarceness Throat Back Reins Bladder Thirst Heart Venemous Beasts Poyson Heart Sadness Melancholly Agues Milk Loyns Back Kidneys Obstructions Liver Terms provokes Afterbirth Dead Child Spleen Weakness Disjuncture Gout Sinews Apoplexy Palsey Binds Dries Worms Poyson Epidemical Diseases Inflamation in the Throat wounds of the Sinews Gangrenes Carbuncles Flux Terms stops Baldness Quinsie Toothach Mother Chollick Wind Agues Deafness Ears Flegm Humors Tumors Venemous Beasts Pestilence Worms Cold Tetters Ring-worms Ulcers Chops in the Hands Feet Mad Dogs Eyes Kings Evil Sinews Scabs Leprosie Venemous Beasts Cods Hoarceness Stanch Bleeding Spitting of Blood Fluxes of Blood Vomiting Distillations on the Lungs Wind Chollick Heat of Lust Dimness of sight other Diseases in the Eyes Cleer the Face Dry up Humors Warts Corns superfluous flesh Scurf or Dandriff Feaver Bleeding Spleenâ— Ulcers Inflamations St. Anthonies fire defluxions of Blood Lungs afflicted Asthma Spleen provokes Urine speedy Delivery in Childbirth Cramps Convulsions Palseysâ— Freckles and Sunburning Choller Venery Provokes urine Helps Surfets Swellings Appetite lost Yelloow Jaundice Preserve Health Terms provokesâ— Biting of Rats Mice Mushroms Wheals Pushes Black blew Spots Quinsie Eyes Biting or stinging by Venemous Beasts Spleen French Pox Surfet Stinking Breath Dull Brain weak Sight Wounds Inflamations Terms stops Bloody Flux Baldnss Ulcers Fistulaes Retentive Faculty Running of the Reins Whites Diabetes Toothach * Galen's Art of Physick
Seeds cast upon them and taken after meat do strenthen both Stomach and Bowels especially in those that loath or hardly digest their meat or are given to casting or have a Flux or Lask Those that are a little sowr and harsh used in that manner are fittest Sweet Apples loosen the Belly and drive forth Worms Sowr Apples stop the Belly and provoke Urin 3 and Crabs for this purpose are fittest The sweet Apples as the Pippin and Pearmain help to dissolve Melancholly humors and to procure Mirth and therfore are fittest for Confectio Alkerimes and Syrupus de Pomis The Leavs boyled and given to drink in hot Agues where the heat of the Liver and Stomach causeth the Lips to break out and the Throat to grow dry harsh and furred is very good to wash and gargle it withal and to drink down som. This may to good purpose be used when better things are not at hand or cannot be had The Juyce of Crabs either Verjuyce or Cider is of singular good use in the Heat and faintings of the Stomach and against Casting to make a Posset with or taken som of it alone by it self The Juyce of Crabs or Cider applied with wet cloaths therein to scalded or burnt places cooleth healeth and draweth sorih the Fire A rotten Apple applied to Eyes blood-shotten or enflamed with heat or that are black and blue about them by any stroke or fall and bound too all day or night helpeth them quickly The distilled Water of rotten Apples doth cool the heat and inflamations of Sores and is good to bath foul creeping Ulcers and to wash the Face to take away Spots Freckles or other discolorings The distilled Water of good and sound Apples is of special good use to procure Mirth and expel Melancholly The Ointment called Pomatum if sweet and well made helpeth the Chops in the Lips or Hands and maketh smooth and supple the rough Skin of the Hands or Face parched with wind or other accidents Thus my Authors All that I can say of Apples is this 1 That they are extream windy 2 That they provoke Urin being roasted especially Pomwaters and mixed with fair Water and drunk up at night going to bed half a dozen great ones mixed with a quart of Water excellently provokes Urin if there be no material stone in the Body This I had of Gerhard and have often known it proved and alwaies with good success All Apples loosen theâ— Belly and pleasure the Stomach by their coolness Arrach wild stinking ♀ Description THis hath small and almost round Leaves yet a little pointed and without dent or cut of a dusky mealy colour growing on the slender Stalks and Branches that spread on the the Leaves and smal Seeds succeding like the rest perishing yearly and rising again with its own sowing It smels like old rotten Fish or somthing worse Place It grows usually upon Dunghils Time They flower in June and July and their Seed is ripe quickly after Vertues and use Stinking Arrach is used as a remedy to help Women painèd and almost strangled with the Mother by smelling to it But inwardly taken there is not a better Remedy under the Moon for that Disease I would be large in commendation of this Herb were I but Eloquent It is an Herb under the dominion of Venus and under the sign Scorpio It is common almost upon every Dunghil The Works of God are given freely to Man his Medicins are common and cheap and easie to be found t is the Medicines of the Colledg of Physitians that are so dear and scarce to find I commend it for an Universal Medicine for the Womb and such a Medicine as will easily safly and speedily cure any Diseas therof as the fits of the Mother Dislocation or falling our therof it cools the Womb being over-heared And let me tel you this and I wil tel you but the truth Heat of the womb is one of the greatest causes of hard labor in Childbirth It makes barren women fruitful it clenseth the Womb if it be foul and strengthens it exceedingly it provokes the Terms if they be stopped and stops them if they flow immoderatly You can desire no good to your Womb but this Herb will effect it therfore if you love Children if you love Health if you love Ease keep a Syrup alwaies by you made of the Juyce of this Herb and Sugar or Honey if it be to clens the Womb and let such as be rich keep it for their poor neighbors and bestow it as freely as I bestow my studies upon them or els let them look to answer it another day when the Lord shall come to make inquisition for Bloud ♀ Archangel To put a gloss upon their practice the Physitians call an Herb which Country people â—ulgarly know by the name of Dead-Nettles Archangèl wherein whether they savor of more Superstition or Folly I leave to the judicious Reader There is more curiosity than courtesie to my Countrymen used by others in the explaination aswel of the Names as Description of this so wel-known an Herb which that I may not also be guilty of Take this short Description first of the Red-Archangel Descriptions This hath divers square stalks somwhat hairy at the joynts whereof grow two sad green Leaves dented about the edges opposit to one another the lowermost upon long footstalks but without any toward the tops which are somwhat round yet pointed and a little crumpled and hairy Round about the upper Joynts where the Leaves grow thick are sundry gaping Flowers of a pale reddish colour after which com the Seeds three or four in a Husk The Root is smal and thriddy perishing every year the whol Plant hath a strong scent but not stinking White-Archangel hath diverse square stalks not standing streight upright but bending downward wheron stand two Leavs at a Joynt larger and more pointed than the other dented about the edges and greener also more like unto Nettle-Leavs but not stinking yet hairy At the Joynts with the Leavs stand larger and more open gaping white Flowers in Husks round about the Stalks but not with such a bush of Leavs as Flowers set in the top as is on the other wherin stand smal roundish black Seeds The Root is white with many strings at it not growing downward but lying under the upper crust of the Earth and abideth many years encreasing This hath not so strong a scent as the former Tellow-Archangel is like the White in the Stalks and Leavs but that the Stalks are more streight and upright and the Joynts with Leaves are further asunder having longer Leavs than the former and the Flowers a little larger and more gaping of a fair yellow colour in most in som paler The Roots are like the White only they creep not so much under the ground Place They grow almost every where unless it be in the middle of the street the Yellow most usually in the wet grounds of
Cramp Freckles Spots Morphew Wrinkles Stone Dropsie Flux Inward pains Splinters Thorns Inflamations St. Anthonies Fire Tetters Ring-worms Eyes Pin and Web Gout Lechery Wind Cough Jaundice Gall. Choller Flux Chollick Bleeding Worms Earwigs Inflamation Gout Sinews shrunk Inflamation Cods Womens Breasts Gout Sciatica Joynts Watching Deafness Noise in the Ears Chilblains Kibes French-Pox Stone Bleeding Terms stops wounds Vlcers in the Privities Poyson Pestilences Feavers Witchcraft Chollick Wounds Ulcers Swellings in the Groyn Cods and Privities Inflamations Aposthumes Cough shortuess of breath Wheesing Gross Humors Worms yellow Jaundice Dropsie Spleen Inflamations black and blue spots Quinsie Toothach Noise in the Ears Venemous Beasts Lice Itching of the Head Falling-sickness Wounds Obstructions Liver Spleen Blood Reins clenseth French Pox Scabs Itch Tetters Ring-worms Morphen Poyson Worms Terms provokes Disury yellow Jaundice Liver Stomach Agues Difficulty of breath Cough Consumption Flegm Terms provokes Afterbirth Weariness Poyson Venemous Beasts Ulcers Sides Eyes Yellow Jaundice Ears Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Liver Itch Tetters Worms Dogs bitings Womens Breasts Thorns Asthmaes Bleeding Flux Terms stops Pissing Blood Inward ulcers Excoriations of the Bladder Ulcers Wounds Ruptures Disâ—ry Stone Sâ—angury Cough Inflamations Pimples Red Faces Heat Eyes Agues Thirst Salt Rhewms Ears Terms stops Fluxes Inflamations St. Anthonies Fire Burnings Scaldings Tetters Ring-worms Corns on the Hands and Feet Headach Frenzy Watching Bleeding Nettles Bees c. Eyes Nose Stomach Lungs shortness of breath Mad dogs Scaldings Burnings Hemorrhoids Wounds Ulcers French Pox. Wounds Bruises Obstructions Swellings Spitting and Vomiting blood Venemous Beasts Disury Choller Agues Sciatica Falling-sickness Palsey Flux Bloody Flux Jaundice Spitting Blood Worms Drunkenness Pestilence Stone Disury Terms provokes Spleen Stitch Headach Ulcers Wounds Burnings Scaldings salt Flegm Rhewm Sore Ears Inflamations Pimples Redness St. Anthonies fire Kidneys â—urt by the Stone Disury Dropsie Stone Bloodyflux Piles Hemorrhoids Gout Sciatica Cods Kings Evil Kibes Chilblains Fluxes Bleeding Veins broken Phtisick Falls Blows Ruptures Sores Cankers Fistulaes Scabby head Sore throat Voula Jaws Bleeding Heat Flux Bloody Flux Courses stops Disury Gravel Venemous Beasts Rhewm Worms Heat Choller Inflamations Apostums Gangrenes Fistulaes Cankers Ulcers Wounds Ears Inflamations Bleeding Vomiting Fluxes Bruises Ruptures Flagging Breasts Barrenness women with child Head Brains Apoplexie Falling-sickness Lethargy Cramps Convulsions Palsey both dead and shaking Stomach Liver Spleen Terms provokes Chollick Vertigo loss of voyce Trembling Fainting Watching Head-ach Indigestion Thirst Milk encreaseth choller Bowels Lust Venerious Dreams Inflamation Heat of Urire Inflamations Agues Watching Frenzy Flux Belly Running of the Reins Venery Cough Hoarsness Phtisick Consumption Reins Strangury Heat of Urine Eyes Bladder Liver Inflamation yellow Jaundice Spleen Running of the Reins whites Tetters Ring-worms Surfets Bleeding Flux Bloody Flux Terms stops Wounds Sore Mouth Privities Gnats Eyes Blindness Wounds Ulcers Inflamations Quinsie Kings Evil Spots Marks Scars Humors Terms provokes Disury Cold Stomach Indigestion Wind Poyson Epidemical Diseases Agues Belly-ach Quinsie Pleuresie Spots Freckles Boyls Lungues Coughs Wheesings shortness of breath Ulcers in the Privities and elswhere Yellow Jaundice Obstructions of the Liver and Gall Spleen Melancholly Palsey Sciatica Bruises inward and outward Terms provokes Freckles Morphew Scurf Cough shortness of breath the yellow Jaundice Spleen Disury Stone Terms provokes Bleeding Fluxes Lungs Swellings Vlcers Scursf Sores Balâ—lness Agues Choller Gripings in the Belly Milk Excoriation Phtisick Pleuresie Travail in Women Falling sickness Eyes Bees Wasps c. Poyson Hardswelling inflamation Cods Liver Spleen Roughness of the skin Scurff Dandrif Scabby Heads Scalding Burning St. Anthonies Fire sore Mouth Throat Baldness Thorns Belly Stone Reins Kidneys Bladder Coughs Hoarsness shortness of Breath Wheesing Excrriation of the Guts Ruptures Cramps Convulsions The Kings Evil Kernels Chincough Wounds Bruises Falls Blows Muscles Morphew sunburning Head Stomach Breast Obstructions Liver Spleen Womb Wind Dropsie Bellyach Terms provokes Marks of Blows Noise in the Ears Joynts Sinews Swellings Neâ—sing Flegm Heart Vital Spirits Pestilence smal Pox Meazles Hot swellings Feavers Pestilence Cold Griefs Stomach Wind Cold Rhewms Urine Stone Gravel Womens Comses Dead Child Mother Dropsie Cramps Falling-sickness Cold Poysons Sweat Green Wounds Rotten ulcers Gout Fluxes Stayeth Womens Longings Hinders Miscarriage Gargle Womens Courses Piles Loathing of Meat or Casting Bleeding Fresh wounds Sone in the Kidneys Miscarriage Hard Tumors Inflamations in the Eyes or elswhere Ulcers in the Head Stomach pained Hiadach wind Spleen Dimness of sight stupidity of senses strengthen Memory Apoplexy Purgeth Chollerick Humors Womens sickness Mother Womens Courses strangury sore Eyes Agues Flegm Rhewms and Catarrhes Melancolly Humors Yellow Jaundice Warts Scabs Tetters Ring-worms Swellings Inflamations Waterish Melancholly Humors Provokes Venery stayeth Vomiting Allayeth Choller Impostums great Breasts Mad Dogs biting Pains of the Ears Good for the Stomach Pains of the Head Sores Scabs Chops of the Fundament Poyson Helpeth Liver and Stomach stayeth Vomiting and Hiccough provoketh Lust Spleen Gravel Stone and Strangury comforts the Head sore Mouth ill Breath Pallet down Wind Venereal Dreams Nightly pollutions Ears pained biting of Serpents Kings Evil stinking Breath Lepry Dandrif Impostums Spleen Vlcers Falling-sickness Apoplexy Palsey Impostums Fluxes Vlcers Green Wounds Oldulcers Womens Courses Bleedings Vomiting Fluxes Broken disioynted Bones Green Wounds Stone Inflamations Fluxes Vomiting Bleeding Womens Courses Dropsie Headach Sinews Swonnings Sore Travail Mother Urine Womens Courses Flegm Cold Flegm Cramps Convulsions Melancholly Vapors Jaundice Stone Bellyach Dropsie Flux Wounds Bloody Flux Terms stops Cough Phtisick Ruptures Canker ulcers spreading sores Terms provokes Birth Afterbirth Womb Inflamed wens Kings Evil pains in the Neck Opium Sciatica Sinews pained Cramp Binding Fluxes Lasks Terms stops Inflamation Vvula sore Mouth Throat Toothach Bleeding Hemorrhoids Acurious secret Flux Ruptures Cramp Convulsion Cough Toothach Hemorrhoids Bloody Flux Obstrnctions Reins Bladder Sinews Gout Warts Bellyach Chollick Inflamation Thorns Splinters Boyls Groyn Disjunctures Heats Dries Splinters Thorns Terms provokes Falling-sickness Lethargy Sneezing Disury Poyson Mushroms Venemous Beasts Agues Luâ—â— provokes Spleen Vvula Sciatica Toothach Pains Hair Bruises Black and blue spots roughness Leprosie Low e Evil MorFreckles WryNecks Breast Lungs Hoarceness Cough shortness of breath Jaundice Pleuresie Back Loyns Belly Chollick Poyson Sciatica Gout Joynts Fistulaes ulcers Cankers Testicles Womens Breasts Terms provokes Barrenness Womb Wind Mother Cough Rhewms Vertigo Cramp Cold ach Difficulty of breath Bruises Hemorrhoids Scabby Heads Lungs Wheezing shortness of breath Pleuresie Almonds of the Ears Ears Throat Mouth Vvula Terms provokes Mother Disury Gravel Worms Spleen Bleeding Venemous Beasts MadDogs Hemlock Henbane Nightshade Mandrakes Lethargy Morphew Leprosie Bleeeing Polipus ulcers Fistulaes Gangrenes Scabs Itch Wounds Weariness Disjunctures Gout Sciatica Joynts Inflamations Inflamations Eyes Shingles Ring-worms Terms stops Testicles Gouts Ears Dry Bind Spitting Blood Bloody Flux Vomiting Venerious Acts Disury Poyson Venemous Beasts Cantharides Ulcers of the Bladder Mother Wounds Inflamation Flux Pestilences Epidemical Diseases Liver Stone Terms stops Scabs Whites Stitch wind Itch Leprosie
Fistulaes Apostums Freckles Pestilence Poyson Epidemical Diseases Wounds Sinews cut Mad Dogs Worms Cough Lethargy Epidemical Diseases Excoriation of Bowels Phtisick Womb Bloody Flux Wounds Instamation Scalding Burnings Quinsie Ruptures Stomach Disury Terms provokes Liver Spleen Falling-sickness Stone Wind Venemous Beasts Cough Sucking Children Eyes Womens Breasts Curdled Milk Black and blue marks Jaundice Falling-sickness Dropsie Obstructions of the Liver Spleen â—ustâ—â—rovokes â—sisury â—ense â—pen â—enemous â—easts â—bollick â—isury Cough Difficulty of breath Falling-sickness Jaundice Fistula Flegm Liver Mother Lethargy Frenzy Headach Scabs Shingles Worms Open Humors Wounds Dropsie Cough shortness of Breath Vomiting spitting of Blood Stone mind Chollicâ—â— Watching Ears Baldness Mushroms Stomach Inflamations Cool Bind Wounds Old or dry Cough shortness of Breath Stone and Gravel Mother Womens Courses Obstructions Sore Throat Teeth Freckles Hâ—beals Sunbnrn Morphew pain in the Ears Impostums Burnings Scaldings inflamations Ulcers Scabs Falling of the Hair Piles Gout Fistulaes Green Wounds Bruised Tendon or Muscle Tough Flegm Terms provokes Dead Child Afterbirth Vomiting Melancholly Venemous Beasts Fainting and Swouning Gums â—out Marks in the Face Toothach Pains in the Joynts Headach pains of the Belly Breast Falling-sickness Stinking Water Cramps Convulsions Sore Mouth Jaundice Dropsie pains of the Head Sinews Eyesight Lethargy Burnings Falling sicknsess Women not clensed in Cildbirth Mother Ephialtes or the Night-Mare Melanchollick Dreams Sciatica Gout pains in the Joynts Discolourings of the Skin Marks Scars by Burning Speedy Delivery Stanch bleeding Womens Courses Flux of the Belly Chollerick Humors Sciatica Burnings Thorns or Splinters purgeth the Head Wounds Ulcers Clenseth Face Plague Pestilential Feavers Venemous Beasts Mad Dogs biting Obstructions Urine Stone Gravel Wounds Ulcers Clouds or Mists in the Eyes Toothach Hemorrboids Strangury Obstructions Mother Womens Courses Dead Child and Afterbirth Gouts Cramps Palseys Sciatica Aches c. Dropsie poyson of the Aconites Venemous Creatures Cold Cough Palsie Hard Breasts hard Swellings Ulcers old Sores Green Wounds Pains in the Guts Distiilation of Rhewm Fluxes Women Courses spitting Blood or Bleeding at Mouth or Nose or of Wounds phtisick Consumption or Ulcers in the Lungs Tertian Ague Dropsie Falling-sickness Toothach pin and web in the â—yes pains in the Ears Instamations Burning or Scalding Hollow Ulcers Cankers and sore Mouth or privy parts Piles pains of the Head Lunacy phrensie Biting of Serpents or Mad Dogs HotGouts Bones out of Joynt Worms in the Belly or in Ulcers Scabs and Itch Tetters Ring-worms shingles fretting sores Wounds Open the Belly Quench Thirst pind the Belly Procure Appetite Allay Choller Cool the Stomach Rhewin Stone Tetters Ring-worms Piles Ulcers Hoarsness and pains in the Ears Stone and Chollick Dryeth Humors purgeth burnt Choller Flegm Melancholly Quartan Agues Spleen Chollick Troublesom sleeps Cough shortness of Breath and Wheesings Lungs phtisick Member out of Joynt pollipus oâ— Diseas in the Nose Chops in the Fingers or Toes Sciatica Strangury pain in the Ears Dull sight Gout Falling-sickness Warts Pushes Wheals Heat Inflamations Dryeth Womens Milk Procuresleep Catarrhs and defluxions of Rhewmstayeth Hoarsness Flux of the Belly and womens courses Inflamations and St. Anthonies Fire paints in the Head Phrensies Toothach Falling Sickness Plurisie Surfets Agues and Inflamations Cooleth heat of Blood in hot Agues Chollerick Fluxes womens Courses the whites Genorrhea Distillations Phrensie Heat of Urine Lust and Venercoue Dreams worms Vomiting old â—dry cough Short Breath Phtisick Ulcers in the secret parts Redness of the Eyes and Inflamations Crick or pain in the Neck Blastings by Lightning Burning by Gunpouder Sore Breasts Childrens Navils Sore Mouths swollen Gums Fastneth Teeth Toothach Bloody Urine Gout cramp stifness of the Sinews Lotions to wash sore Mouths Throats Cool Inflamations Dry Fluxes Inflamation in wounds Headach Fluxes womens courses Voiding Blood Rhewm in the Eyes Bleedings Fluxes Vemitings Womens Courses and the u bites Quartan Ague Chollick Opens the Belly Old ulcers healeth Sore Mouths or Secrets Raise Blisters Inflamation in the Eyes Fluxes Lasks c. Provoketh Appetite stayeth Vomiting Fainting Spirits choller Flegm Poyson womens Breasts Plague Sores Preserveth Hair Scurvy Worms Sciatica Liver Spleen Stone Disury Sore Mouth or Throat Swellings and Impostumes Quinsie Kings Evil Catarrbs Defluxions Green Wounds ulcers in the privy Parts Running Cankers hollow Fistulaes Aches pains Sciatica Fistulaes hollow Ulcers womens Courses Fluxes Cough Dim sight Urine stopped Stone Fleshy Rupture Toothach Liver Spleen Obstructed Ulcers Increaseth Sperm Venery Helps Digestion Provokes Urine Biting of Serpents c. Cough in Children Increaseth Milk Clenseth the Face Scars Blue spots Marks of smal Pox. Strangury Gravel Stone Scurvy Wounds Ulcers Sores Choller Waterish Humors Headach Pains in the Ears Eyes Throat Gums Fundament Bowels Matrix St Anthonies fire stomach Womens Courses Defluxions fastneth Teeth Lask spitting of Blood Heat Inflamations Rest sleep whites Reds in Women Choller Flegm Redness watering of the Eyes A Purge for Choller Hot Feavers Pains of the Head Heat of the Eyes Jaundice Joynt Aches Distillations Defluxions of Rhewm Fluxes Lasks running of the Reins Faintings swounings trembling of the Heart Helpeth Digestion Stayeth casting Infection Cooleth the Liver Blood resisteth Putrefaction Infection sore Mouths Throats c. Comfort the Heart stomach stay Vomiting Faint spirits Redness of Eyes Procure Sleep Heat of the Liver Back Reir Pushes Wheâ—ls Pimples Fluxes of Humors Weak stomach Purge Choller Bind the Belly Melanchollick Humors Lepry Itch Tetters French Pox Opens the Belly Bind the Belly stay Defluxions Whites in Women Stone provoke urine Chollick Worms Phtisick â— beesings Shortness of breath Cough Ulcers in he Lungs comfort the Heart Raise Blisters Passions of the Heart Cold Diseases Rhewm Swimming of the Head Drowsiness Stupidity DumbPalsey Lethargy Falling-sickness Toothach stinking breath Weak Memory stomach Retention of Meat Wind Liver-grown Dim sight Yellow Jaundice Pestilence Whites in Women Cough Phtisick or Consumption benummed Joynts spots and scars in the Skin Purge Choller Flegm stay Las ks and bloody Flux Scabs ulcerous Sores Running Sores Pains of the Ears Toothach Jaundice pains of the Stomach loathing of Meat Kings Evil Stone Urine Dim sight Liver Blood Choller Flegm Obstructions Jaundice Dropsie Spleen Agues pains of the sides spitting of Blood Running of the Reins Swelling in the Head Sciatica Gout Cramp Clotted Blood Ulcers in the Eyes or Eye-lids swellings Inflamations Black blue spots Purge the Liver Stomach Old sores Open the Body Lice Vermine Plague Jaundice Urine Womens Courses Poysons Plague Abate Venery pains of the chest Sides Cough Hard breathitg Sciatica Joynt aches Agues Wind Chollick Mother Worms Gout Dropsie Bleeding Swelling of the Cods Wheals Pimples Morphew Warts Scab Tetter Ring-worm Pains of the Ears Dimsight St. Anthonies
throughout the Book Alehoof or Ground-Ivy ♀ Description THis well known Herb lieth spreadeth and crcepeth upon the ground shooting forth Roots at the corners of the tender joynted Stalks set all along with two round Leavs at every Joynt somwhat hairy crumpled and unevenly dented about the edges with round dents at the Joynts likewise with the Leaves towards the end of the Branches come forth hollow long Flowers of a blewish Purple colour with small white spots upon the lips that hang down The Root is smal with strings Place It is commonly found under Hedges and on the sides of Ditches under Houses or in shadowed Lanes and other wast grounds in almost every part of the Land Time They Flower somwhat early and abide so a great while the Leaves continue green untill Winter and somtimes abide except the Winter be very sharp and cold Vertues and use It is quick sharp and bitter in tast and is therby found to be hot and dry a singular Herb for all inward Wounds exulcerated Lungs or other parts either by it self or boyled with other the like Herbs And being drunk it in short time easeth all griping Pains Windy and Chollerick Humors in the Stomach Spleen or Belly helps the yellow Jaundice by opening the stoppings of the Gaul and Liver and Melancholly by opening the stoppings of the Spleen expelleth Venom or Poyson and also the Plague it provoketh Urin and Womens Courses The Decoction of it in Wine drunk for some time together procureth case unto them that are troubled with the Sciatica or Hip Gout as also the Gout in the Hands Knees or Feet and if you put to the Decoction some Honey and a little Burnt Allum it is excellent good to gargle any sore mouth or Throat and to wash the Sores and Ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman It speedily healeth green Wounds being bruised and bound therunto The Juyce of it boyled with a little Hony Vardigrees doth wonderfully clens Fistula's Ulcers and stayeth the spreading or eating of Cancers and Ulcers It helpeth the Itch Scabs Wheals and other breakings out in any part of the Body The Juyce of Celondine Field Daysies and Ground-Ivy clarified and a little fine Sugar dissolved therin and dropped into the Eyes is Sovereign Remedy for all the Pains Redness and Watering of them as also for the Pin and Web Skins and Films growing over the Sight It helpeth Beasts as well as Men The Juyce dropped into the Ears doth wonderfully help the noise and singing of them and helpeth the Hearing which is decayed It is good to Tun up with new Drink for it will so clarifie it in a night that it will be the fitter to be drunk the next morning or if any Drink be thick with removing or any other accident it will do the like in a few hours It is an Herb of Venus and therfore cures her Diseases by Sympathy and those of Mars by Antipathy how to preserve it all the yeer you shall find at the latter end of the Book Alexander ♃ Description IT is usually sown in all the Gardens in Europe and so well known that it needs no further Description Time They Flower in June and July and the Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use It warmethâ— a cold Stomach and openeth stoppings of the Liver and Spleen it is good to move Womens Courses to expel the After-birth to break Wind to provoke Urine and help the Strangury and these things the Seeds wil do likewise if either of them be boyled in Wine or being bruised and taken in Wine it is also effectual against the biting of Serpents And now you know what Alexander Porredg which is so familiar in this City is good for that you may no longer cat it out of ignorance but out of knowledg The Black Alder-Tree ♀ Description THis Tree seldom groweth to any great bigness but for the most part abideth like a Hedg Bush or Tree spreading into Branches the Wood of the Body being white and of a dark red Core or Heart the outward Bark is of a blackish colour with many white spots theron but the inner Bark next unto the Wood is yellow which being chewed will turn the Spittle neer unto a Saffron colour The Leaves are somwhat like those of the ordiuary Alder-Tree or the Foemale Cornel or Dogberry-Tree called in Sussex Dog-wood but blacker and not so long The Flowers are white coming forth with the Leaves at the Joynts which turn into smal round Berries first green afterwards red but blackish when they are through ripe divided as it were into two parts wherin is contained two smal round and flat Seeds The Root runneth not deep into the Ground but spreadeth rather under the upper crust of the Earth Place This Tree or Shrub may be found plentifully in St. Johns Wood by Hornsey and in the Woods upon Hamsted Heath as also at a Wood called the old Park in Barcomb in Sussex neer the Brooks side Time It Flowreth in May and the Berries are ripe in September Vertues and use The inner yellow Bark herof purgeth downwards both Choller Flegm the watry humors of such as have the Dropsie and strengtheneth the inward parts again by binding If the Bark hereof be boyled with Agrimony Wormwood Dodder Hops and some Fâ—â—â—â— with Smalledg Endive and Succory Roots and a reasonable draught taken every morning for some time together it is very effectual against the Jaundice Dropsie and the evil disposition of the Body especially if some suitable purging medicine have been when before to avoid the grosser excrements It purgeth and strengtheneth the Liver and Spleen clensing them from such evilhumors and hardness as they are afflicted with It is to be understood that these things are performed by the dryed Bark for the fresh green Bark taken inwardly provoketh strong Vomitings pains in the Stomach and gripings in the Belly Yet if the Decoction may stand and settle two or three daies until the yellow colour be changed black it will not work so strongly as before but will strengthen the Stomach and procure an Appetite to Meat The outer Bark contrarywise doth bind the Body and is helpful for all Lasks and Pluxes therof but this must also be dried first wherby it wil work the better The inner Bark herof boyled in Vineger is an approved remedy to kill Lice to cure the Itch and take away â—â— by drying them up in a short time It is singular good to wash the Teeth to take away the Pains to fasten those that are loos to clens them and keep them sound The Leaves are good Fodder for Kine to make them give more Milk If in the Spring time you use the Herbs before mentioned and will but take a handful of each of them and to them ad a handful of Elder Buds and having bruised them all boyl them in a Gallon of ordinary Beer when 't is new and having boyled them half an hour ad
put into the Nostrils purgeth the Head helpeth the nois in the Ears and the Tooth-ach the Juyce snuffed up the Nose helps a stinking Breath if the caus lies in the Nose as many times it doth if any bruis have been there as also want of smel coming that way Water-Betony ♃ ♋ Description FIrst of the Water-Betony which riseth up with square hard greenish Stalks and somtimes brown set with broad dark green Leavs dented about the edges with notches somwhat resembling the Leavs of the Wood-Betony but much larger two for the most part set at a Joynt The Flowers are many set at the tops of the Stalks and Branches being round bellied and open at the Brims and divided into two parts the uppermost being like a Hood and the lowest like a Lip hanging down of a dark red colour which passing away there comes in their places smal round Heads with smal points in the ends wherin lie smal and brownish Seeds The Root is a thick Bush of strings and threds growing from an Head Place It groweth by Ditchsides Brooks and other Water-courses generally through this Land and is seldom found far from the Waters sides Time It Flowreth about July and the Seed is ripe in August Vertues and Use. It is of a clensing quality the Leavs bruised and applied are effectual for all old and filthy Ulcers and especially if the Juyce of the Leavs be boyled with a little Honey and tents dipped therin and the Sores dressed therwith as also for Bruises or Hurts whether inward or outward The distilled water of the Leaves is used for the same purposes as also to bath the Face or Hands spotted or blemished or discolored by Sunburning I confess I do not much fancy distilled Waters I mean such Waters as are distilled cold some vertue of the Herb they may happliy have it were a strange thing else but this I am confident of that being distilled in a Pewter Stil as the vulgar and apish fashion is both Chymical Oyl and Salt is left behind unless you burn them and then all is spoiled Water and al which was good for as little as can be by such a Distillation You have the best way of Distillation in my Translation of the London Dispensatory The Colledg of Physitians having as much skil in Distillations as an Ass hath reading Hebrew Water-Betony is an Herb of Jupiter in cancer and is apropriated more to Wounds and Hurts in the Breast than Wood-Betony which follows ♃ ♈ Wood-Betony Description THe Common or Wood-Betony hath many Leavs rising from the Root which are somwhat broad and round at the ends roundly dented about the edges standing upon long Footstalks from among which rise up smal square slender but yet upright hairy Stalks with some Leaves thereon two apiece at the Joynts smaller than the lower whereon are set several spiked Heads of Flowers like Lavender but thicker and shorter for the most part and of a reddish or purple colour spotted with white spots both in the upper and lower part The Seeds being contained within the Husks that hold the Flowers are blackish somwhat long and uneven The Roots are many white threddy strings the Stalk perisheth but the Root with some Leavs theron abides al the Winter The whol Plant is somwhat smal Place It groweth frequently in Woods and delighteth in Shady-places Time And it flowreth in July after which the Seed is quickly ripe yet in its prime in May. Vertues and Vse Antonius Musa physitian to the Emperor Augustus caesar wrote a peculiar Book of the Vertues of this Herb and amongst other Vertues saith of it That it preserveth the Lives and Bodies of Men free from the danger of Epidemical Diseases and from Wicchcrafts also It is found by daily experience to be good for many Diseases It helpeth those that loath or cannot digest their Meat those that have weak Stomachs or sower belchings or continual rising in their Stomach using it familiarly either green or dry either the Herb the Root or the Flowers in Broth drunk or Meat or made into Conserve Syrup Water Electuary or Pouder as every one may best frame themselvs unto or as the time or season requireth taken any of the aforesaid waies It helpeth the Jaundice Falling-sickness the Palsie Convulsions or shrinking of the Sinews the Gout and those that are inclined to Dropsies those that have continual Pains in their Head although it turn to Phrensie The Pouder mixed with pure Honey is no less available for al sorts of Coughs or Colds Wheesing or shortness of Breath Distillations of thin Rhewm upon the Lungues which causeth Consumptions The Decoction made with Mead and a little Penyroyal is good for those that are troubled with putrid Agues whether Quotidian Tertian or Quartan and to draw down and evacuate the Blood and humors that by falling into the Eyes do hinder the Sight The Decoction therof made in Wine and taken killeth the Worms in the Belly openeth Obstructions both of the Spleen and Liver careth Stitches and Pains in the Back or Sides the Torments and griping pains of the Bowels and the wind Chollick and mixed with Honey purgeth the Belly helpeth to bring down Womens Courses and is of especial use for those that are troubled with the falling down of the Mother and pains therof and causeth an easie and speedy delivery of Women in Childbirth it helpeth also to break and expel the Stone either in the Bladder or Kidneys The Decoction with Wine gargled in the Mouth easeth the Toothach It is commended against the sting or biting or Venemous Serpents or Mad Dogs Being used inwardly and applied outwardly to the place A dram of the Pouder in Betony taken with a little Honey in some Vinegar doth wonderfully refresh those that are overwearied by travail it staieth bleedings at the Mouth or Nose and helpeth those that pise or spit Blood and those that are Bursten or have a Rupture and is good for such as are bruised by any fall or otherwise The green Herb bruised or the Juyce applied to any inward hurt or outward green Wound in the Head or Body wil quickly heal and close it up as also any Veins or Sinews that are cut and will draw forth any broken Bone or Splinter Thorn or other thing gotten into the Flesh It is no less profitable for old Sores or filthy Ulcers yea though they be Fistulaus and hollow but some do advise to put in a little Salt to this purpose Being applied with a little Hogs Lard it helpeth a Plague-Sore and other Boyls and Pushes The fumes of the Decoction while it is warm received by a Funnel into the Bars caseth the pains of them destroyeth the Worms and cureth the running Sores in them The Juyce dropped into them doth the same The Root of Betony is displeasing both to the tast and Stomach whereas the Leavs and Flowers by their sweet and spicy tast are comfortable both in Meat and Medicine There are some of the many
Herbs in making such Balms as are necessary for the curing of Wounds either green or old and especially if the Nervs of Sinews be hurt ♀ ♈ The Bramble OR Black-Berry-Bush THis is so wel known that it needeth no Descrption The Vertues therof are as followeth Vertues and use The Buds Leavs and Branches while they are green are of a good use in the Ulcers and putrid sores of the Mouth and Throat and for the Quinsie and likewise to heal other fresh Wounds and Sores but the Flowers Fruit unripe are very binding and so profitable for the Bloudy-flux Lasks and are a fit remedy for spitting of Bloud Either the Decoction or Pouder of the Root being taken is good to break or drive forth Gravel and the Stone in the Reins and Kidnies The Leavs and Brambles aswel green as dry are excellent good Lotions for sores in the Mouth or secret parts The Decoction of them of the dried Branches do much bind the Belly and are good for the too much flowing of Womens Courses The Berries or the Flowers are a powerful remady against the Poyson of the most venemous Serpents as wel drunk as outwardly applied helpeth the sores of the Fundament and the Piles The Juyce of the Berries mixed with Juyce of Mulberries do bind more effectually and help fretting and eating sores and Ulcers whersoever The Distilled Water of the Branches Leaves and Flowers or of the Fruit is very pleasant in tast and very effectual in Feavers and hot distempers of the Body Head Eyes and other parts and for al the purposes aforesaid The Leaves boyled in Ly and the Head washed therewith healeth the Itch and the running sores therof and maketh the Hair black The Pouder of the Leaves strewed on cankrous and running Ulcers doth wonderfully help to heal them Some use to condensate the Juyce of the Leaves and some the Juyce of the Berries to keep for their use all the year for the purposes aforesaid It is a Plant of Venus in Aries You shall have som Directions at the latter end of the Book for the gathering of al Herbs and Plants c. If any ask the Reason why Venus is so prickly Tel them 't is because she is in the house of Mars ♀ Blites Description OF these there are two sorts commonly known Viz. White and Red. The White hath Leavs somwhat like unto Beets but smaller rounder and of a whitish green colour every one standing upon a smal long Footstalk The Stalk riseth up two or three foot high with such like Leavs theron The Flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or clusters wherein are contained smal and round Seed The Root is very full of threeds or strings The red Blites is in all things like the white but that his Leavs and tufted heads are exceeding red at first and after turn more Purplish There are other kinds of Blites which grow wild differing from the two former sorts but little only the wild are smaler in every part Place They grow in Gardens and wild in many places of this Land Time They seed in August and September Vertues and use They are all of them cooling drying and binding serving to restrain the Fluxes of Bloud in either man or woman especially the Red which also stayeth the overflowing of women's Reds as the white Blite stayeth the Whites in Women It is an excellent secret you cannot wel fail in the use they are al under the Dominion of Venus There is one other sort of wild Blites like the other wild kinds but having long and spike heads of greenish Seed seeming by the thick setting together to be al Seed This sort the Fishes are delighted with and it is a good and usual Bait for Fishes will bite fast enough at them if you have but wit enough to catch them when they bite ♃ ♌ Borrage Bugloss THese are so wel known to be Inhabitants in every Garden that I â—old it needless to describe them Time They flower in June and July and the Seed is ripe shortly after Vertues and use They are very Cordial The Leaves or Roots are to very good purpose used in putrid and Pestilential Feavers to defend the Heart and hlp to resist and expel the Poyson or the Venom of other Creatures the Seed is of the like effect and the Seed and Leavs are good to encrease Milk in Womens Breasts The Leavs Flowers and Seed all or any of them are good to expel Pensiveness and Melancholly it helpeth to clarifie the Bloud and mitigate heat in Feavers The Juyce made into a Syrup prevaileth much to all the purposes aforesaid and is put with other cooling opening clensing Herbs to open obstructions and help the yellow-Jaundice and mixed with Fumitory to cool clens and temper the Blood therby it helpeth the Itch Ringworms and Tetters or other spreading Scabs or Sores The Flowers candied or made into a Conserve are helping in the former causes but are chiefly used as a Cordial and is good for those that are weak with long sickness and to comfort the Heart and Spirts of those that are in a consumption or troubled w th often swoonings or passions of the Heart The Distilled Water is no less effectual to all the purposes aforesaid and helpeth the redness and inflamation of the Eyes being washed therewith The dried Herb is never used but the green yet the Ashes therof boyled in Mead or Honyed Water is available against Inflamations and Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat to wash and gargle it therewith The Roots of Bugloss are effectual being made into a licking Electuarie for the Cough and to condensate thin flegm and Rhewmatick Distillations upon the Lungs They are both Herbs of Jupiter and under Leo both great Cordials great strengthners of Nature ♄ Bluebottles THese are so wel known generally unto my Country men to grow among their Corn that I suppose it needless to write any Description therof There are other kinds which I purposely omit both in this and others my intent being only to insist most principally upon the vulgarly known and commonly growing Flowers and Herbs Time They Flower and Seed in the Summer Months Vertues and use The Pouder or dried Leavs of the Bluel ottle or Cornflower is given with good success to those that are bruised by a sal or have broken a Vein inwardly and void much Blood at the Mouth being taken in the Water of Plantane Horstail or the greater Comfry It is a Remedy against the Poyson of the Scorpion and resisteth al other Venoms and Poysons The Seed or Leavs taken in Wine is very good against the Plague and al infectious Diseases and is very good in Pestilential Feavers The Juyce put into fresh or green Wounds doth quickly soder up the Lips of them together and is very effectual to heal al Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth The Juyce dropped into the Eyes taketh away the heat and inflamation in
upon a several thick Footstalk very brittle of a grayish green colour From among which riseth up a strong thick stalk two Foot high and better with some Leavs theron to the top where it brancheth forth much and on every Branch standeth a large Bush of pale whitish Flowers consisting of four Leavs apiece The Root is somwhat great and shooteth forth many Branches under ground keeping the green Leavs al the Winter Place They grow in many places upon the Sea Coasts as wel on the Kentish as Essex Shores as at Lidd in Kent Colechester in Essex and divers other places and in other Countries of this Land Time They Flower and Seed about the time that other kinds do Vertues The Broth or first Decoction of the Sea Colewort doth by the sharp nitrous and bitter qualities therin open the Belly and purge the Body it clenseth and digesteth more powerfully than the other kind The Seed herof bruised and drunk killeth Worms The Leavs or the Juyce of them applied to Sores or Ulcers clenseth and healeth them and dissolveth Swellings and taketh away Inflamations Calamint or Mountain ☿ ☽ Mint Description THis is a smal Herb seldom rising above a a Foot high with square hoary and woody Stalks and two smal hoary Leavs set at a Joynt about the bigness of Marjoram or not much cigger a little dented about the edges and of a very fierce or quick scent as the whol Herb is The Flowers stand at several spaces of the Stalks from the middle almost upwards which are smal and gaping like to those Mints and of a pale Blush colour after which follow smal reund blackish Seeds The Root is smal and Woody with divers smal sptigs spreading within the ground and dieth not but abideth many yeers Place It groweth on Heaths and Upland dry grounds in many places of this Land Time They Flower in July and their Seed is ripe quickly after Vertues and vse The Decoction of the Herb being drunk bringeth down Womens Courses and provoketh Urin It is profitable for those that are Bursten or troubled with Convulsions or Cramps with shortness of Breath or Chollerick torments and pains in their Bellies or Stomachs it also helpeth the yellow Jaundice and staieth Vomiting being taken in Wine taken with Salt and Honey it killeth al manner of Worms in the Body It helpeth such as have the Leprosie either taken inwardly drinking Whey after it or the green Herb outwardly applied It hindreth Conception in Women being either burned or strewed in the Chamber it driveth away Venemous Serpents It takes away black and blue marks in the Face and maketh black Scars become wel colored if the green Herb not the dry be boyled in Wine and laid to the place or the place washed therwith Being applied to the Hucklebone by continuance of time it spendeth the humors which caused the pain of the Sciatica The Juyce dropped into the Ears killeth the Worms in them The Leavs boyled in Wine and drunk provoketh sweat and openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen it helpeth them that have a Tertian Ague the Body being first purged by taking away the cold Fits The Decoction herof with some Sugar put therto afterwards is very profitable for those that be troubled with the overflowing of the Gal and that have an old Cough and that are scarce able to breath by the shortness of their wind That have any cold distemper in their Bowels and are troubled with the hardness of the Spleen for al which purposes both the Pouder called Diacalaminthes and the Compound Syrup of Calamint which are to be had at the Apothecaries are most effectual Let not Women be too busy with it for it works very violently upon the Foeminin parts ☉ Chamomel THis is so wel known every where that it is but lost time and labor to describe it The Vertues wherof are as followeth A Decoction made of Chamomel and drunk taketh away al pains and Stitches in the Sides The Flowers of Chamomel beaten and made up into Bals with Oyl driveth away al sorts of Agues if the party grieved be anointed with that Oyl taken from the Flowers from the Crown of the Head to the Soal of the Foot and afterwards laid to sweat in his Bed and that he sweat wel This is Nichessor an Egyptian's Medicine It is profitable for all sorts of Agues that come either from Flegm or Melancholly or from an Inflamation of the Bowels being applied when the Humors causing them shal be concocted and there is nothing more profitable to the sides and Region of the Liver and Spleen than it The bathing with a Deeoction of Chamomel taketh away weariness easeth pains to what part of the Body soever they be applied it comforteth the Sinews that are overstrained mollifieth al Swellings It moderately comforteth al parts that have need of warmth digesteth and dissolveth whatsoever hath need therof by a wonderful speedy property It easeth al the pains of the Chollick and Stone and al pains and torments of the Belly and gently provoketh Urin. The Flowers boyled in Poster Drink provoketh Sweat and helpeth to expel Colds Aches and Pains whersoever and is an excellent help to bring down Womens Courses A Syrup made of the Juyce of Chamomel with the Flowers and white Wine is a Remedy against the Jaundice and Dropsie The Flowers boyled in a Ly are good to wash the Head and comfort both it and the Brain The Oyl made of the Flowers of Chamomel is much used against al hard swellings pains or aches shrinking of the Sinews or Cramps or pains in the Joynts or any other part of the Body being used in Clisters it helpeth to dissolve wind and pains in the Belly anointed also it helpeth Stitches and pains in the Sides Nichessor saith the Egyptians dedicated it to the Sun becaus it cured Agues and they were like enough to do it for they were the arrantest Apes in their Religion that ever I red of Bacchinus Pena and Lobel commend the Syrup made of the Juyce of it and Sugar taken inwardly to be excellent for the Spleen Also this is certain that it most wonderfully breaks the Stone some take it in Syrup or Decoction others inject the Juyce of it into the Bladder with a Syring my Opinion is That the Salt of it taken half a dram in a morning in a little White or Rhehish Wine is better than either that it is excellent for the Stone appears by this which I have seen tried viz. That a Stone that hath been taken out of the Body of a man being wrapped in Chamomel will in time dissolve and in a little time too ♄ Campions wild Descriptions THe white wild Campion hath many long and somwhat broad dark green Leavs lying upon the ground with divers Ribs therin somwhat like Plantane but somwhat hairy broader and not so long The hairy Stalks rise up in the middle of them three or
Summer long and the Seed ripeneth in the mean time Vertues and use The herb or Roots boyled in white-Wine and drunk a few Aniseeds being boyled therwith openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Gall helpeth the yellow Jaundice and the often using it helps the Dropsie and the Itch and those that have old Sores in their Legs or other parts of the Body The Juyce thereof taken fasting is held to be of singular good use against the Pestilence The distilled Water with a little Sugar and a little good Triacle mixed therwith the party upon the taking being laid down to sweat a little hath the same effect The Juyce dropped into the Eyes clenseth them from Films and cloudiness which darken the sight but it is best to allay the sharpnes of the Juyce with a little Breast-milk It is good in old filthy corroding creeping Ulcers whersoever to stay their malignity of fretting and running and to cause them to heal the more speedily The Juyce often applied to Tetters Ring worms or other such like spreading Cancers will quickly heal them and rubbed often upon Warts will take them away The Herb with the Roots bruised and heated with Oyl of Camomel and applied to the Navel taketh away the griping pain in the Belly and Bowels and all the pains of the Mother and applied to Womens Breasts stayeth the overmuch flowing of their Courses The Juyce Decoction of the Herb gargled between the Teeth that ake easeth the pain and the Pouder of the dryed Root laid upon an aching hollow or loos Tooth wil caus it to fal out The Juyce mixed with som Pouder of Brimstone is not only good against the Itch but taketh away al discolourings of the Skin whatsoever And if it chance that in a tender Body it causeth any Itching or Inflamation by bathing the place with a little Vinegar it is helped This is an Herb of the Sum under the Coelestial Lyon and is one of the best cures for the Eyes that is Al that know any thing in Astrologie know as wel as I can tel them That the Eyes are subject to the Luminaries let it then be gathered when the Sun is in Leo and the Moon in Aries applying to his Trine let Leo arise then may you make it into an Oyl or Oyntment which you please to anoint your sore Eyes withal I can prove it both by my own experience and the experience of those to whom I have taught it That most desperat sore Eyes have been cured by this only Medicine Andthen I pray is not this farbetter than endangering the Eyes by the art of the Needle for if this do not absolutly take away the Film it will so facilitate the work that it may be don without danger Another il-favored trick have Physitians got to use to the Eye and that is worse than the Needle which is To eat away the Film by corroding or gnawing Medicines This I absolutly protest against 1 Because the Tunicles of the Eye are very thin and therfore soon eaten asunder 2 The Callus or Film that they would eat away is seldom of an equal thickness in every place and then the Tunicle may be eaten asunder in one place before the Film be consumed in another and so be a readier way to extinguish the sight than to restore it It is called Chelidonium from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a Swallow because they say That if you prick out the Eyes of yong Swallows when they are in the Nest the old ones will recover their Eyes again with this Herb. This I am confident for I have tried it That if you mar the very Apple of their Eyes with a Needle she wil recover them again but whether with this Herb or no I know not Also I have read and it seems to me somwhat probable That the Herb being gathered as I shewed before and the Elements drawn apart from it by the art of the Alchyraist and after they are drawn apart rectified the earthy quality still in rectifying them added to the Terra damnata as Alchymists call it or Terra sacratissima as som Phylosophers call it the Elements so rectified are sufficient for the Cure of al Diseases the humor offending being known and the contrary Element given It is an Experience wurth the trying and can do no harm The Iesser Celondine usually known by the Name of ♄ Pilewort I Wonder what ailed the Antients to give this the name of Celandine which resembles it neither in Nature nor form It acquired the Name of Pilewort from its Vertues and it being no great matter where I set it down so I do set it down at al I humor'd Dr. Tradition so much as to set it down here Description This Celandine then or Pilewort which you please doth spread many round pale green Leavs set on weak and trailing Branches which lie upon the ground and are fat smooth and somwhat shining and in some places though seldom marked with black spots each standing on a long Footstalk among which rise smal yellow Flowers consisting of nine or ten smal narrow Leavs upon slender Footstalks very like unto a Crowfoot wherunto the Seed also is not unlike being many smal ones set together upon a Head The Root is made of many smal Kernels like grain of Corn some twice as long as others of a whitish colour with some Fibres at the end of them Place It groweth for the most part in the moist corners of Fields and places that are neer water Sides yet wil abide in dryer grounds if they be but a little shadowed Time It Flowreth betimes about March or April is quite gone in May so as it cannot be found until it spring again Vertues and use It is certain by good experience that the Decoction of the Leavs and Roots doth wonderfully help the Piles and Hemorrhoids as also Kernels by the Ears and Throat called the Kings evil or any other hard Wens or Tumors Here 's another Secrot for my Country Men and Women a couple of them together Pilewort being made into an Oyl Oyntment or Plaister readily cures both the Piles or Hemorrhoids and the Kings Evil If I may Lawfully cal it the Kings Evil now there is no King the very Herb born about ones Body neâ—â— the Skin helps in such Diseases though it never touch the place grieved let good people make much of it for these uses with this I cured my own Daughter of the Kings Evil broke the Sore drew out a quarter of a pint of Corruption and cured it without any Scar at all and in one Weeks time The Ordinary small ☉ Centaury Description THis groweth up most usually but with one round and somwhat crested stalk about a foot high or better branching forth at the top into many sprigs and some also from the Joynts of the Stalks below The Flowers that stand at the tops as it were in an umbel or tuft are of a pale
red tending to a Carnation colour consisting of five somtimes six small Leavs very like those of St. Johns Wort opening themselvs in the day time and closing at night after which come Seed in little short Husks in form like unto Wheat Corns The Leavs are smal and somwhat round The Root smal and hard perishing every year The whol Plant is of an exceeding bitter tast There is another sort in al things like the former save only it beareth white Flowers Place They grow ordinarily in Fields Pastures and Woods but that with the white Flowers not so frequent as the other Time They Flower in July or there abouts and Seed within a Month after Vertues and use This Herb boyled and drunk purgeth Chollerick and gross humors and helpeth the Sciatica It openeth Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen helping the Jaundice and easing pains in the Sides and hardness of the Spleen used outwardly and is given with very good effect in Agues It helpeth those that have the Dropsie or the green Sickness being much used by the Italians in pouder for that purpose It killeth the Worms in the Belly as is found by experience The Decoction therof viz. the tops of the Stalks with the Leavs and Flowers is good against the Chollick and to bring down Womens Courses helpeth to avoid the dead birth and easeth pains of the Mother and is very effectual in al old pains of the Joynts as the Gout Cramps or Convulsions A dram of the Pouder therof taken in Wine is a wonderful good help against the biting and poyson of the Adder The Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put to it is good to cleer the Eyes from dimness mists and clouds that offend or hinder the Sight It is singular good both for green and fresh Wounds as also for old Ulcers and Sores to close up the one and clens the other and perfectly to cure them both although they be hollow or Fistulous the green Herb especially being bruised and laid therto The Decoction therof dropped into the Ears clenseth them from Worms clenseth the foul Ulcers and spreading Scabs of the Head and taketh away al Freckles Spots and Marks in the Skin being washed therwith The Herb is so safe you cannot fail in the using of it only give inwardly for inward Diseases use it outwardly for outward Diseases 'T is very wholsom but not very toothsom Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience could not agree the last time I spake with them whether the Herb were under the Dominion of the Sun or Mars ♀ The Cherry-Tree I Suppose there are sew but know this Tree for his Fruits sake and therfore shal spare the writing a Description therof Place For the place of its growth it is afforded room in every Orchard Vertues and Vse Cherries as they are of different tasts so they are of divers qualities The sweet pass through the Stomach and Belly more speedily but are of little Nourishment The tart or sowr are more pleasing to an hot Stomach procuring appetite to meat and help to cut tough Flegm and gross humors but when these are dryed they are more binding the belly than when they are fresh being cooling in hot Diseases and welcom to the Stomach and provoke Urin. The Gum of the Cherry-Tree dissolved in Wine is good for a cold Cough and boarsness of the Throat mendeth the colour in the Face sharpneth the Eye-sight provoketh appetite and helpeth to break and expel the Stone The Black Cherries bruised with the Stones and distilled the Water therof is much used to break the Stone expel gravel and break the Wind. ♀ Winter Cherries Description THe Winter Cherry hath a running or creeping Root in the ground of the bigness many times of ones little Finger shooting forth at several Joynts in several places wherby it quickly spreadeth a great compass of gronnd The Stalk riseth not above a yard high wheron are set many broad and long green Leavs somwhat like Night shade but larger at the Joynts wherof come forth whitish Flowers made of five Leavs apiece which after turn into green Berries inclosed with thin Skins which change to be reddish when they grow ripe the Berry likewise being reddish and as large as a Cherry wherin are contained many flat and yellowish Seeds lying within the pulp which being gathered and strung up are kept all the yeer to be used upon occasion Place They grow not naturally in this Land but are cherished in Gardens for their Vertues Time They Flower not until the middle or latter end of July and the Fruit is ripe about the end of August or beginning of September Vertues and use They are of great use in Physick The Leavs being cooling may be used in Inflamations but not opening as the Berries and Fruit are which by drawing down the Urine provoke it to be avoided plentifully when it is stopped or grown hot sharp and painful in the passage it is good also to expel the Stone and Gravel out of the Reins Kidnies and Bladder helping to dissolve the Stone and avoiding it by greet or gravel sent forth in the Urin It also helpeth much to clens inward Impostumes or Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder or in those that avoid a Bloody or foul Urin. The distilled Water of the Fruit or the Leavs together with them or the Berries green or dry distilled with a little Milk and drunk morning and evening with a little Sugar is effectual to al the purposes afore specified and especially against the heat and sharpness of the Urin. I shal only mention one way amongst many others which might be used for ordering the Berries to be helpful for the Urin and the Stone which is thus Take three or four good handfuls of the Berries either green and fresh or dried and having bruised them put them into so many Gallons of Beer or Ale when it is new tunned up This Drink taken daily hath been found to do much good to many both to eas the pains and expel Urin and the Stone and to caus the Stone not to ingender The Decoction of the Berries in Wine or Water is the most usual way but the Pouder of them taken in drink is more effectual ♃ Chervil Description THe Garden Chervil doth at first somwhat resemble Parsly but after it is better grown the Leavs are much cur in and jagged resembling Hemlocks being a little hairy and of a whitish green colour somtimes turning reddish in the Summer with the Stalks also It riseth little above half a Foot high bearing white Flowers in spoked tufts which turn into long and round Seed pointed at the ends and blackish when they are ripe of a sweet tast but no smel though the Herb it self smelleth reasonable wel The Root is smal and long and perisheth every yeer and must be sowen anew in the Spring for Seed and after July for Autumn Sallet The wild Chervil groweth two or three foot high with yellow
Stalks and Joynts set with broader and more hairy Leavs divided into sundry parts nicked about the edges and of a darker green colour which likewise grow reddish with the Stalks at the tops wherof stand smal white tufts of Flowers afterwards smaler and longer seed The Root is white hard and enduring long This hath little or no scent Place The first is sown in Gardens for a Sallet-Herb The second groweth wild in many of the Meadows of this Land and by the Hedg-sides and on Heaths Time They flower and seed early and thereupon are sown again in the end of Summer Vertues and use The Garden Chervil being eaten doth moderately warm the Stomach and is a certain remedy saith Tragus to dissolve congealed or clotted Bloud in the Body or that which is clotted by bruises fals c. The Juyce or distilled Water therof being drunk and the bruised Leavs laid to the place being taken either in meat or drink it is held good to provoke Urin to expel the Stone in the Kidnies to send down Womens Courses and to help the Plurisie and prickings of the Sides The wild Chervil bruised and applied dissolveth Swellings in any part of the Body and taketh away the Spots and Marks of congealed Blood by Bruises or Blows in a little space Sweet Chervil OR ♃ Sweet Cicely Description THis groweth very like the greater Hemlock having large spread Leavs cut into diverse parts but of a fresher green colour than the Hemlock tasting as sweet as the Anniseed The Stalk riseth up a yard high or better being crested or hollow having the like Leavs at the Joynts but lesser and at the tops of the branched Stalks Umbels or Tufts of white Flowers after which com large and long crested black shining Seed pointed at both ends tasting quick yet sweet and pleasant The Root is great and white growing deep in the ground and spreading sundry long Branches therein in tast and smel stronger than the Leavs or Seed and continuing many years Place This groweth in Gardens Vertues This whol Plant besides its pleasantness in Sallets hath also his Physical Vertues The Root boyled and eaten with Oyl and Vinegar or without Oyl doth much pleas and warm an old and cold Stomach oppressed with wind or flegm or those that have the Phtisick or Consumption of the Lungs The same drunk with Wine is a preservative from the Plague it provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the After-birth procureth and appetit to meat and expelleth Wind. The Juyce is good to heal the Ulcers of the Head and Face The candied Roots hereof are held as effectual as Angelica to preserv from Infection in the time of a Plague and to warm and comfort a cold weak Stomach It is so harmless you cannot use it amâ—ss ♀ Chickweed Description THis is generally known to most People I shal therfore not trouble you with the Description therof nor my self with setting fourth the several kinds sith but only two or three are considerable for their usefulness Place These are usually found in moist and watry places by Wood sides and els-where Time They flower about June and their Seed is ripe in July Vertues and use It is found to be as effectual as Purslane to al the purposes whereunto it serveth except for meat only The Herb bruised or the Juyce applied with cloaths or spunges dipped therein to the Region of the Liver and as they dry to have fresh applied doth wonderfully temper the heat of the Liver and is effectual for all Imposthums and Swellings wheresoever for all redness in the Face Wheals Pushes Itch Scabs the Juyce either simply used or boyled with Hogs-Greas and applied the same helpeth Cramps Convulsions and Palsies The Juyce or distilled Water is of much good use for al heat and redness in the Eyes to drop som therof into them as also into the Ears to ease pains in them and is of good effect to ease the pains the heat and sharpness of Blood in the Piles and generally al pains in the Body that arise of heat it is used also in hot and virulent Ulcers and sores in the privy parts of Man or Woman or on the Legs or els-where The Leavs boyled with Marsh-Mallows and made into a Pultis with Fenugreek and Linseed applied to Swellings or Imposthumes ripeneth and breaketh them or swageth the swellings and easeth the pains It helpeth the Sinews when they are shrunk by Cramps or otherwise and to extend and make them pliable again by this Medicine Boyl an handful of Chickweed and a handful of Red-Rose Leavs dryed but not distilled in a Quart of Muscadine until a fourth part be consumed then put to them a pint of the Oyl of Trotters or Sheeps-feet let them boyl a good while still stirring them wel which being strained anoint the grieved place herewith warm against a fire rubbing it wel in with ones hand and bind also some of the Herb if you wil to the place and with Gods blessing it will help in three times dressing Cich-Peas or Cicers ♀ Description THe Garden sorts whether Red Black or White brings forth Stalks a yard long wheron do grow many smal and almost round Leavs dented about the edges set on both sides of a middle Rib at the Joynts come forth one or two Flowers upon short Footstalks Peas fashion either white or whitish or purplish red lighter or deeper according as the Peas that follow will be that are contained in smal thick and short Pods wherin lie one or two Peas more usually a little pointed at the lower end and almost round at the Head yet a little corner'd or sharp The Root is smal and perisheth yeerly Place and Time They are sown in Gardens or the Fields as Peas being sown later than Peas and gathered at the same time with them or presently after Vertues and use They are no less windy than Beans but nourish more they provoke Urine and are thought to encreas Sperm they have a clensing faculty wherby they break the Stones in the Kidneys To drink the cream of them being boyled in Water is the best way it moveth the Belly downwards provoketh Womens Courses and Urin and encreaseth both Milk and Seed One ounce of Cicers two ounces of French Barley and a smal handful of Marsh-Mallow Roots clean washed and cut being boyled in the broth of a Chicken and four ounces taken in the morning and fasting two hours after is a good Medicine for a pain in the Sides The white Cicers are used more for Meat than Medicine yet have they the same effects and are thought more powerful to encreas Milk and Seed The wild Cicers are so much more powerful than the Garden kinds by how much they exceed them in heat and driness whereby they do more open Obstructions break the Stone and have al the properties of cutting opening digesting and dissolving and this more speedily and certainly than the former Cinkfoyl or Five Leaved ♃
success for sore Mouths and Throats Tragus saith That a dram of the Seed taken in Wine with a little Saffron openeth Obstructions of the Liver and is good for the yellow Jaundice if the party after the taking therof be laid to sweat wel in his Bed The Seed also taken in Wine causeth a speedy Delivery of Women in Childbirth if one draught suffice not let her drink a second and it is effectual The Spaniards use to eat a piece of the Root hereof in a morning fasting many daies together to help them being troubled with the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys Coltsfoot or Foalsfoot ♀ Description THis shooteth up a fiender Stalk with small yellowish Flowers somwhat early which fall away quickly and after they are past come up somwhat round Leavs somtimes dented a little about the edges much lesser thicker and greener than those of Butterbur with a little down or Freez over the green Leaf on the upper side which may be rubbed away and whitish or mealy underneath The Root is smal and white spreading much under ground so that where it taketh it whil hardly be driven away again if any little piece be abiding therin and from thence springeth fresh Leavs Place It groweth as well in wet grounds as in drier places Time And Flowreth in the end of February the Leavs beginning to appear in March Vertues and use The fresh Leavs or Juyce or a Syrup made therof is good for a hot dry Cough for wheesings and shortness of breath The dry Leavs are best for those that have thin Rhewms and Distillations upon the Lungs causing a Cough for which also the dried Leavs taken as Tobacco or the Root is very good The distilled water herof simply or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade is a singular remedy against al hot Agues to drink two ounces at a time and apply Cloathes wet therein to the Head and Stomach which also doth much good being applied to any hot Swellings or Inflamations it helpeth St. Anthonies Fire and Burnings and is singular good to take away Wheals and smal Pushes that arise through heat As also the burning heat of the Piles or privy parts cloathes wet therin being therunto applied ♄ Comfry ♑ Description THe common great Comfry hath divers very large and hairy green Leavs lying on the ground so hairy or prickly that if they touch any tender part of the Hands Face or Body it will caus it to itch The Stalk that riseth up from among them being two or three Foot high hollow and cornered is very hairy also having many such like Leavs as grow below but lesser and lesser up to the top At the Joynts of the Stalks it is divided into many branches with some Leavs theron and at the ends stand many Flowers in order one above another which are somwhat long and hollow like the finger of a Glove of a pale whitish colour after which come smal black Seed The Roots are great and long spreading great thick Branches under ground black on the outside and whitish within short or easie to break and ful of a glutinous or clammy Juyce of little or no tast at al. There is another sort in al things like this save only it is somwhat less and beareth Flowers of a pale purple colour Place They grow by Ditches and Water Sides and in divers Fields that are moist for therin they chiefly delight to grow The first generally through al the Land and the other but in some several places By the leave of my Author the first grow often in dry places Time They Flower in June and July and give their Seed in August Vertues and use The great Comfry helpeth those that spit blood or make a Bloody Urin The Root boyled in Water or Wine and the Decoction drunk helpeth al inward Hurts Bruises and Wounds and the Ulcers of the Lungs causing the Flegm that oppresseth them to be easily spit forth It staieth the defluxions of Rhewm from the Head upon the Lungs the Fluxes of Blood or humors by the Belly Womens immoderate Courses as well the Reds as the Whites and the running of the Reins hapning by what caus soever A Syrup made therof is very effectual for all those inward Griefs and Hurts and the distilled Water for the same purpose also and for outward Wounds and Sores in the Fleshy or Sinewy part of the Body whersoever as also to take away the fits of Agues and to allay the sharpness of Humors A Decoction of the Leavs herof is available to all the purposes though not so effectual as of the Roots The Roots being outwardly applied helpeth fresh Wounds or Cuts immediatly being bruised and laid therunto and is especial good for Ruptures and broken Bones yea it is said to be so powerful to consolidate and Knit together that if they be boyled with dissevered pieces of Flesh in a pot it will joyn them together again It is good to be applied to Womens Breasts that grow sore by the abundance of Milk coming into them as also to repress the overmuch bleeding of the Hemorrhoids to cool the Inflamation of the parts therabouts and to give eas of pains The Roots of Comfry taken fresh beaten smal and spread upon Leather and laid upon any place troubled with the Gout do presently give eas of the pains and applied in the same manner giveth eas to pained Joynts and profiteth very much for running and moist Ulcers Gangrenes Mortifications and the like for which it hath by often experience been found helpful This is also an Herb of Saturn and I suppose under the Sign Capricorn cold dry and earthy in quality what was spoken of Clowns Woundwort may be said of this ♃ Costmary or Alecost THis is so frequently known to be an Inhabitant in almost every Garden that I suppose it needless to write a Descriptition therof Time It Flowreth in June and July Vertues and use The ordinary Costmary as well as Maudlin provoketh Urin abundantly and moistneth the hardness of the Mother It gently purgeth Choller and Flegm extenuating that which is gross and cutting that which is tough and gluttenous clenseth that which is foul and hindreth putrefaction and corruption it dissolveth without Attraction openeth Obstructions and healeth their evil effects and is a wonderful help to al sorts of day Agues It is astringent to the Stomach and strengtheneth the Liver and al the other inward parts and taken in Whey worketh the more effectually Taken fasting in the morning it is very profitable for the pains in the Head that are continual and to stay dry up and consume all thin Rhewms or distillations from the Head into the Stomach and helpeth much to digest raw humors that are gathered therein It is very profitable for those that are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the whol Body called Cachexia being taken especially in the beginning of the Diseas It is an
you may see plainly without a pair of Spectakles that Forraign Physitians are not so selfish as ours are but more communicative of the Vertues of Plants to People ♄ Darnel Description THis hath all the Winter long sundry long fat and rough Leavs which when the Stalk riseth which is slender and joynted are narrower but rough stil on the top groweth a long spike composed of many Heads set one above another containing two or three Husks with sharp but short Beards or awns at the ends the Seed is easily shaked out of the Ear the Husk it self being somwhat tough Place The Country Husbandmen do know this too well to grow among their Cornâ— or in the Borders and Pathwaies of other Fields that are fallow Vertues and use As this is not without some Vices so hath it also many Vertues The Meal of Darnel is very good to stay Gangreans and other such like fretting and eating Cankers and putrid Sores It also clenseth the Skin of al Lepries Morphews Ringworms and the like if it be used with Salt and Rhadish Roots And being used with quick Brimstone and Vinegar it dissolveth Knots and Kernels and breaketh those that are hard to be dissolved being boyled in Wine with Pidgeons Dung and Linseed A Decoction therof made with Water and Honey and the place bathed therwith is profitable for the Sciatica Darnel Meal applied in a Pultis draweth forth Splinters and broken Bones in the Flesh The red Darnel boyled in red Wine and taken stayeth the â—ask and all other Fluxes and Womens bloody Issues and restraineth Urin that passeth away too snddenly ☿ Dill. Description THe common Dill groweth up with seldom more than one Stalk neither so high nor so great usually as Fennel being round and with fewer Joynts theron whose Leavs are sadder and somwhat long and so like Fennel that it deceiveth many but harder in handling and somwhat thicker and of a stronger unpleasanter set The tops of the Stalks have four Branches and smaller Umbels of yellow Flowers which turn into smal Seed somwhat flatter and thinner than Fennel Seed The Root is small and woody perishing every year after it hath born Seed and is also unprofitable being never put to any use Place It is most usually sown in Gardens and Grounds for the purpose is also found wild with us in some places Vertues and use The Dill being boyled and drunk is good to eas Swellings pains it also stayeth the Belly and Stomach from casting The Decoction there of helpeth Women that are troubled with the Pains and Windiness of the Mother if they sit therin It stayeth the Hiccough being boyled in Wine and but smelled unto being tied in a Cloth The Seed is of more use than the Leavs and more effectual to digest raw and viscuous humors and is used in Medicines that serve to expel Wind and the pains proceeding therfrom The Seed being toasted or fried and used in Oyls or Plaisters dissolveth the Imposthumes in the Fundament and drieth up all moist Ulcers especially in the secret parts The Oyl made of Dill is effectual to warm to resolve Humors and Imposthumes to eas pains and to procure rest The Decoction of Dill be it Herb or Seed only if you boyl the Seed you must bruis it in white Wine being drunk is a gallant expeller of Wind and provoker of the Terms ♀ Devils-bit Description THis riseth up with a round green smooth Stalk about two soot high set with divers long and somwhat narrow smooth dark green Leavs somwhat snip'd about the edges for the most part being els al whol and not divided at al or but very seldom even to the tops of the Branches which yet are smaller than chose below with one Rib only in the middle At the end of each Branch standeth a round Head of many Flowers set together in the same manner or more nearly than the Scabious and of a more blewish purple colour which being past there followeth Seed that falleth away The Root is somwhat thick but short and blackish with may Strings abiding after Seed time many yeers This Root was longer untillthe Devil as the Fryars say hit away the rest of it for spight envying its usefulness unto Man-kind Foe sure he was not troubled with any Diseas for which it is proper There are two other sorts hereof in nothing unlike the former save that the one beareth White and the other Blush colour'd Flowers Place The first groweth as well in dry Meadows and Fields as moist in many places of this Land But the other two are more rare and hard to meet with yet they are both found growing wild about Appledore neer Rye in Kent Time They Flower not usually untill August Vertues and use The Herb or Root all that the Devil hath left of it being boyled in Wine and drunk is very powerful against the Plague and all Pestilential Diseases or Feavers Poysons also and the bitings of Venemous Beasts It also helpeth those that are inwardly bruised by any casualty ar outwardly by Falls or Blows dissolving the clotted Blood and the Herb or Root beaten and outwardly applied taketh away the black and blue Marks that remain in the Skin The Decoction of the Herb with Honey of Roses put therin is very effectual to help the inveterate tumors and Swellings of the Almonds and Throat by often gargling the Mouth therwith It helpeth also to procure Womens Courses and easeth all pains of the Mother and to break and discuss Winds therein and in the Bowels The Pouder of the Root taken in Drink driveth forth the Worms in the Body The Juyce or distilled Water of the Herb is effectual for green Wounds or old Sores and clenseth the Body inwardly and the Seed outwardly from Sores Scurff Itches Pimples Freekles Morphew or other deformities therof but especially if a little Vitriol be dissolved therin ♃ Dock THese are so wel known many kinds of them that I shall not trouble you with a Description of them my Book grows big too fast Vertues and use All of them have a kind of cooling but not all alike drying quality the Sorrels being most cold and the Bloodworts most drying Of the Bur-Dock I have spoken already by himself The Seed of most of the other kinds whether of the Garden or Field do stay Lasks or Fluxes of all sorts the loathings of the Stomach through Choller and is helpful to those that spit Blood The Roots boyled in Vinegar helpeth the Itch Scabs and breakings out of the Skin if it be bathed therwith The Distilled Water of the Herb and Roots hath the same Vertue and clenseth the Skin of Freckles Morphews and all other Spots and Discolourings therin All Docks being boyled with Meat make it boyled the sooner Beside Bloodwort is exceeding strengthning to the Liver and procures good Blood being as wholsom a Pot Herb as any grows in a Garden yet such is the nicity of our times forsooth
about the Sea Coasts in almost every Country of this Land which bordereth upon the Sea Time It Flowreth in the end of Summer and giveth ripe Seed within a Month after Vertues and use The Decoction of the Root herof in Wine is very effectual to open the Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and helpeth the yellow Jaundice the Dropsie the pains in the Loins and wind Chollick provoketh Urine and expelleth the Stone and procureth Womens Courses The continued use of the Decoction for 15. daies taken fasting and next to Bedward doth help the strangury the pissing by drops the stopping of Urine and Stone and all defects of the Reins or Kidneys and if the said drink be continued longer it is said that it perfectly cureth the Stone and that experience hath found it so It is found good against the French Pox. The Roots bruised and applied outwardly helpeth the Kernels of the Throat commonly called the Kings evil or taken inwardly and applied to the place stung or bitten by any Serpent healeth it speedily If the Roots be bruised and boyled in old Hogs greas or salted Lard and applied to broken Bones Thorns c. remaining in the Flesh doth not only draw them forth but healeth up the place again gathering new Flesh where it was consumed The Juyce of the Leavs dropped into the Ears helpeth Imposthumes therin The Distilled Water of the whol Herb when the Leavs and Stalks are yong is profitably drunk for all the purposes aforesaid and helpeth the Melancholly of the Heart and is available in Quartane and Quotidian Agues as also for them that have their Necks drawn awry and cannot turn them without turning their whol Body The Plant is Venerial and breedeth Seed exceedingly and strengthens the Spirit procreative it is hot and moist and under the Coelestial Ballance ☉ ♌ Eyebright Description THe common Eyebright is a small low Herb rising up usually but with one blackish green Stalk a span high or not much more spread from the bottom into sundry Branches wheron are set smal and and almost round yet pointed dark green Leavs finely snipped about the edges two alwaies set together and very thick At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle upward come forth small white Flowers stryped with purple and yellow Spots or stripes after which follow small round Heads with very small Seed therin The Root is long small and threddy at the end Place It groweth in many Meadows and grassy places in this Land Vertues and Vse If this Herb were but as much used as it is neglected it would half spoil the Spectacle-makers Trade and a man would think that reason should teach people to prefer the prefervation of their Natural before Artificial Spectacles which that they may be instructed how to do take the Vertues of Eyebright as followeth The Juyce or distilled Water of Eyebright taken inwardly in white Wine or Broth or dropped into the Eyes for divers daies together helpeth all infirmities of the Eyes that caus dimness of Sight Some make a Conserv of the Flowers to the same effect Being used any of these waies it also helpeth a weak Brain or Memory This tunned up with strong Beer that it may work together and drunk Or the Pouder of the dried Herb mixed with Sugar a little Mace and Fennel Seeds and drunk or eaten in Broth Or the said Pouder made into an Electuary with Sugar and taken hath the same powerful effect to help and restore the Sight decaied through age And Arnoldus de villa nova saith It hath restored Sight to them that have been blind a long time before It is under the Sign of the Lyon and Sol claims Dominion over it ☿ Fern. Description OF this there are two kinds principally to be noted viz. The Male and Female The Female groweth higher than the Male but the Leavs therof are lesser more divided or dented of as strong a smel as the Male The Vertues of them are both alike and therfore I shall not trouble you with any further Description or distinction of them Place They both grow on Heaths and in shady places neer the Hedg sides in all Countries of this Land Time They flourish and give their Seed at Midsummer The Femal Fern is that plant which is In Sussex called Brakes the Seed of which some Authors hold to be so rare such a thing there is I know and may easily Be had upon Midsummer Eve and for ought yet I know two or three daies before or after if not more Vertues and Vse The Roots of both these sorts of Ferns being bruised and boyled in Mead or Honyed Water and drunk killeth both the broad and long Worms in the Body and abateth the Swelling and hardness of the Spleen The green Leavs eaten purgeth the Belly and Chollerick and waterish humors but it troubles the Stomach They are dangerous for Women with Child to meddle with by reason they caus abortment The Roots bruised and boyled in Oyl or Hogs greas maketh a very profitable Oyntment to heal Wounds or pricks gotten into the Flesh. The Pouder of them used in foul Ulcers drieth up their Malignant moisture and causeth their speedier healing Fern being burned the smoke therof driveth away Serpents Gnats and other noisom Creatures which in the Fenny Countries do in the night time trouble and molest people lying in their Beds with their Faces uncovered it causeth Barrenness Osmond Royal or Water Fern. ♄ Description THis shooteth forth in the Spring time for in the Winter the Leavs perish divers rough hard Stalks half round and hollowish or flat on the other side two Foot high having divers Branches of winged yellowish green Leavs on all sides set one against another longer narrower and not nicked on the edges as the former From the top of some of these Stalks grow forth a long Bush of smal and more yellowish green scaly aglets as it were set in the same manner on the Stalks as the Leavs are which are accounted the Flower and Seeds The Root is rough thick and Scaly with a white pith in the middle which is called the Heart therof Place It groweth on Moors Bogs and Watery places in many parts of this Land Time It is green all the Summer and the Root only abideth in Winter Vertues and Use. This hath all the Vertues mentioned in the former Ferns and is much more effectual than they both for inward and outward Griefs and is accounted singular good in Wounds Bruises or the like the Decoction to be drunk or boyled into an Oyntment or Oyl as a Balsom of Balm and so it is singular good against Bruises and Bones broken or out of joynt and giveth much eas to the Chollick and Splenetick Diseases as also for Ruptures or burstings The Decoction of the Root in white Wine provokes Urine exceedingly and clenseth the Bladder and passages of Urine ♀ Featherfew Description COmmon Featherfew
troubled with the Wind in the Bodyâ— It purgeth the Belly gently helpeth the hardness of the Spleen giveth eas to Women that have sore travall in Childbirth and easeth the pains of the Reins and Bladder and also of the Womb. A little of the Juyce dissolved in Wine and dropped into the Ears easeth much of the pains in them and put into an hollow Tooth easeth the pain therof The Root is less effectual in all the aforesaid Diseases yet the Pouder of the Root clenseth foul Ulcers being put into them and taketh out Splinters of broken Bones or other things in the Flesh and healeth them up perfectly as also it dryeth up old and inveterate running Sores and is of admirable Vertue in all green Wounds Figwort or Throatwort ♀ Description THe common great Figwort sendeth forth divers great strong hard square brown Stalks three or four Foot high wherin grow large hard and dark green Leavs two at a Joynt which are larger and harder than Nettle Leavs but not stinging At the tops of the Stalks stand many purple Elowers set in Husks which are somwhat gaping and open somwhat like those of Water-Betony after which come hard round Heads with a small point in the middle wherin lie small brownish Seed The Root is great white and thick with many branches at it growing aslope under the upper crust of the Ground which abideth many yeers but keepeth not his green Leavs in Winter Place It groweth frequently in moist and shadowy Woods and in the lower parts of Fields and Meadows Time It Flowreth about July and the Seed will be ripe about a Month after the Flowers are fallen Vertues and use The Decoction us the Herb taken inwardly and the bruised Herb applied outwardly dissolveth clotted or congealed Blood within the Body coming by any Wound Bruis or Fall and is no less effectual for the Kings Evil or any other Knots Kernels Bunches or Wens growing in the Flesh whersoever and for the Hemorrhoids or Piles or other Knobs or Kernels which somtimes grow about the Fundament An Oyntment made hereof may be used at all times when the fresh Herb is not to be had The distilled Water of the whol Plant Roots and all is used for the same purposes and drieth up the superfluous virulent moisture of hollow and corroding Ulcers It taketh away all redness Spots and Freckles in the Face as also the Scurff or any foul Deformity therin and the Leprosie likewise Some Latin Authors call it Cervicria be caus 't is apropriated to the Neck and we Throatwort becaus 't is apropriated to the Throat Venus owns the Herb and the Coelestial Bull will not deny it therefore a better Remedy cannot be for the Kings Evil becaus the Moon that rules the Diseas is exalted there nor for any Diseas in the Neck the rest of the Diseases specified you may if you look see a very good reason for their cure by this Herb. Filipendula or Dropwort ♀ Description THis sendeth forth many Leavs some bigger some lesser set on each side of a middle Rib and each of them dented about the edges somwhat resembling wild Tansie or rather Agrimony but harder in handling among which riseth up one or more Stalks two or three Foot high with like Leavs growing theron and somtimes also divided into other Branches spreading at the top into many white sweet smelling Flowers consisting of five Leavs apiece with some threds in the middle of them standing together in a tuft or Umbel each upon a smal Footstalk which after they have been open and blown a good while do fall away and in their places appear final round chaffy heads like Buttons wherein are the chaffy Seed set and placed The Root consists of many smal black tuberous pieces fastned together by many smal long blackish Strings which run from one to another Place It groweth in many places of this Land in the Corners of dry Fields and Meadows and their Hedg Sides Time They Flower in June and July and their Seed is ripe in August Vertues and Vse It is very effectual to open the passages of the Urine and help the Strangury and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins helping mightily to expel the Stone in the Kidnies or Bladder and the Gravel also and these are done by taking the Roots in Pouder or a Decoction of them in white Wine whereunto a little Honey is added The same also helpeth to expel the Afterbirth The Roots made into Pouder and mixed with Honey into the form of an Electuary doth much help them whose Stomachs are swollen dissolving and breaking the Wind which was the cause therof and is also very effectual for all diseases of the Lungs as shortness of breath wheesings hoarsness of the Throat and the Cough and to expectorate cold Flegm or any other parts thereabouts It is called Dropâ—ort becaus it helps such as piss by drops The Yellow VVater-Flag OR Flower-de-luce Description THis groweth like the Flower-de-luces but it hath much longer and narrower sad green Leavs joyned together in that fashion the Stalk also groweth oftentimes as high bearing smal yellow Flowers shaped like the Flower-de-luce with three falling Leavs and other three arched that cover their Bottoms but instead of the three upright Leavs as the Flower-de-luce hath this hath only three short pieces standing in their places after which succeed thick and long three square Heads containing in each part somwhat big and Flat Seed like to those of the Flower-de-luces The Root is long and slender of a pale brownish colour on the outside and of a Hore flesh colour on the inner side with many hard fibres thereat and very harsh in tast Place It usually groweth in watery Ditches Ponds Lakes and More sides which are alwaies overflown with water Time It flowreth in July and the Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use The Root of this Water-Flag is very astringent cooling and drying and therby helpeth all Lasks and Fluxes whether of Blood or Humors as bleeding at Mouth Nose or other parts bloody Fluxes and the immoderate Flux of Womens Courses The distilled water of the whol Herb Flowers and Roots is a Soveraign good Remedy for watering Eyes both to be dropped into them and to have Cloathes or Spunges werted therin and applied to the Forehead It also helpeth the Spots or Blemishes that happen in or about the Eyes or in any other parts The said water fomented on Swellings and hot Inflamations of Womens sore Breasts upon Cankers also and those spreading Ulcers called Noli me Tangere doth much good It helpeth also soul Ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman or elswhere An Oyntment made of the Flowers is better for these external applications Take notice that the Moon rules the Plant and then I have done Flaxweed or Toadflax Description OUr common Flaxweed hath divers Stalks full fraught with long and narrow blue or Ash-colour'd Leavs and from the middle of them almost
upward stored with a number of pale yellow Flowers of a strong unpleasant scent with deeper yellow mouths and blackish flat Seeds in round Heads The Root is somwhat woody and white especially the main downright one with many fibres abiding many yeers shooting forth Roots every way round about and new Branches every yeer Place This groweth throughout this Land both by the way sides in Meadows as also by Hedg sides and upon the sides of Banks and Borders of Fields Time It Flowreth in Summer and the Seed is ripe usually before the end of August Vertues and use This is frequently used to provoke Urine being stopped and to spend the abundance of those watery Humors by Urine which caus the Dropsie The Decoction of the Herb both Leavs and Flowers in Wine taken and drunk doth somwhat move the Belly downwards openeth Obstructions of the Liver and helpeth the yellow Jaundice expelleth Poyson provoketh Womens Courses driveth forth the dead Child and Afterbirth The Distilled water of the Herb and Flowers is effectual for all the same purposes especially being drunk with a dram of the Pouder of the Seeds or Bark of the Root of Walwort and a little Cinnamon for certain daies together is held a singular Remedy for the Dropsie The Juyce of the Herb or the distilled Water dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for all heat Inflamations and redness in them The Juyce or water put into foul Ulcers whither they be Cancrous or Fistulous with tents rouled therin or the parts washed or injected therwith clenseth them throughly from the bottom and healeth them up safely The same Juyce or Water also clenseth the Skin wonderfully of all sorts of deformity thereof as Lepry Morphew Scurff Wheals Pimples or any other Spots or Marks in the Skin applied of it self or used with some Pouder of Lupines Mars owns the Herb in Sussex we call it Gall-wort and lay it in our Chickens water to cure them of the Gall I think I am sure it releevs them when they are drooping Fleawort Description THe ordinary Fleawort riseth up with a Stalk two Foot high or more full of Joynts and Branches on every side up to the top and at every Joynt two small long and narrow whitish green Leavs somwhat hairy At the tops of every Branch stand divers small short scaly or chaffy Heads out of which come forth small whitish yellow threds like to those of the Plantane Herbs which are the Bloomings or Flowers The Seed inclosed in those Heads is smal and shining while it is Fresh very like unto Fleas both for colour and bigness but turning black when it groweth old The Root is not long but white hard and woody perishing every yeer and rising again of its own Seed for divers yeers if it be suffred to shed The whol Plant is somwhat whitish and hairy smelling somwhat like Rozin There is another sort hereof differing not from the former in the manner of growing but only that his Stalk and Branches being somwhat greater do a little more bow down to the ground The Leavs are somwhat larger the Heads somwhat lesser the Seed alike and the Root and Leavs abide all the Winter and perish not as the former Place The first groweth only in Gardens the second plentifully in Fields that are neer the Sea Time They Flower in July or thereabouts Vertues and use The Seed fried and so taken staieth the Flux or Lask of the Belly and the corrosions that come by reason of hot Chollerick Sharp and malignant Humors or by the too much purging of any violent Medicine as Scammony or the like The Muccilage of the Seed made with Rose Water and a little Sugar Candy put therto is very good in all hot Agues and burning Feavers and other Inflamations to cool the thirst and lenify the dryness and roughness of the Tongue and Throat It helpeth also hoarsness of the voice and Diseases of the Breast and Lungs caused by heat or sharp salt humors and the Pluresie also The Muccilage of the Seed made in Plantane Water whereunto the Yolk of an Egg or two and a little Populeon is put is a most safe and sure Remedy to eas the sharpness prickings and pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles if it be laid on a cloath and bound therto It helpeth also all Inflamations in any parts of the Body and the pains that come thereby as the Head-ach and Megrim and all hot Imposthumes or Swellings or breakings out of the Skin as Blains Wheals Pushes Purples and the likes as also the pains of the Joynts and of those that are out of joynt the pains of the Gout and Sciatica the Bursting of yong Children and the swelling of the Navel applied with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar It is also very good to heal the Nipples and Sore Breasts of Women being often applied thereunto The Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put into the Ears helpeth the running of them and the Worms breeding in them The same also mixed with Hogs Greas and applied to corrupt and filthy Ulcers and Sores clenseth and healeth them The Herb is cold and dry Saturnine I suppose it obtained the name Fleawort becaus the Seeds are so like Fleas Flixweed Description THis riseth up with a round upright hard Stalk four or five Foot high spread into sundry Branches wheron grow many grayish green Leavs very finely cut and severed into a number of short and almost round parts The Flowers are very smal and yellow growing Spike fashion after which come very smal long Pods with very smal yellowish Seed in them The Root is long and woody perishing every yeer There is another sort differing in nothing save only it hath somwhat broader Leaves They have a strong evil savor being smelt unto and are of a drying tast Place They grow wild in the Fields by Hedg-sides and High-waies and among rubbish and in many other place Time They Flower and Seed quickly after namely in June and July Vertues and use Both the Herb and Seed of Flixweed is of excellent use to stay the Flux or Lask of the Besly being drunk in Water wherein gads of Steel heated have been often quenched and is no less effectual for the said purpose than Plantane or Comfry and to restrain any other Flux of Blood in man or Woman as also to consolidate Bones broken or out of Joynt The Juyce therof drunk in Wine or the Decoction of the Herb drunk doth kill the Worms in the Stomach or Belly or the Worms that grow in putrid and filthy Ulcers And made into a Salve doth quickly heal all old sores how foul or Malignant soever they be The distilled water of the Herb worketh the same effects although somwhat weaker yet is a fair Medicine and more acceptable to be taken It is called Flixweed becaus it cures the Flux and for its uniting broken Bones c. Paracelsus extols it to the Skies It is fitting Syrups
of Choller which it may well do by a Vomit as daily experience sheweth the Juyce hereof taken in Drink or the Decoction of it in Ale gently performeth the same It is good against the Jaundice and Falling-sickness being taken in Wine as also against difficulty of making Water it provoketh Urin expelleth Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys a dram thereof given in Oximel after some walking or stirring the Body It helpeth also the Sciatica griping of the Belly and the Chollick helpeth the defects of the Liver and provoketh Womens Courses The fresh Herb boyled and made into a Pultis and appled to the Breasts of Women that are swollen with pain and heat as also to the privy parts of Man or Woman the Seat or Fundament or the Arteries Joynts and Sinews when they are inflamed and swoln doth much eas them and used with some Salt helpeth to dissolve Knots or Kernels in any part of the Body The Juyce of the Herb or as Dioscorides saith the Leavs and Flowers with some fine Frankincense in Pouder used in Wounds of the Body Nervs or Sinews doth singularly help to heal them The Distilled Water of the Herb performeth well all the aforesaid Cures but especially for Inflamations or watering of the Eyes by reason of the Defluxion of Rhewm into them This Herb is Venus her Mrs. piece and is as gallant an Universal Medicine for all Diseases coming of heat whatsoever they be or in what part of the Body soever they lie as the Sun shines upon 't is very safe and friendly to the Body of Man yet causeth Vomiting if the Stomach be afflicted if not it purging and it doth it with more gentleness than can be expected 'T is moist and somwhat cold withal thereby causing expulsion and repressing the Heat caused by the motion of the internal parts in Purges and Vomits Lay by your Learned Receipts Take so much Senna so much Scammony so much Colocynthis so much Infusion of Crocus Metallorum c. This Herb alone preserved in a Syrup in a distilled Water in an Oyntment shal do the deed for you in all hot Diseases and it shall do it 1. Safely 2. Speedily Harts-Tongue Description THis hath divers Leavs â—â—ing from the Root every one severally which fold themselvs in their first springing and spreading when they are full grown are about a foot long smooth and green above but hard and with little Sap in them and straked on the back athwart on both sides of the middle Rib with smal and somwhat long brownish marks the bottoms of the Leavs are a little bowed on each side of the middle Rib somwhat narrow with the length and somwhat smal at the end The Root is of many black threds folded or interlaced together Time It is green all the Winter but new Leavs spring every yeer Vertues and Vse Harts-Tongue is much commended against the hardness and stoppings of the Spleen and Liver and against the heat of the Liver and Stomach and against Lasks and the Bloody Flux The Distilled Water therof is also very good against the Passions of the Heart and to stay the Hiccough to help the falling of the Pallat and stay the bleeding of the Gums being gagled in the mouth Dioscorides faith it is good against the stinging or biting of Serpents Jupiter claims Dominion over this Herb therfore is a singular Remedy for the Liver both to strengthen it when weak and eas it when afflicted 't is no matter by what you should do well to keep it in a Syrup all the yeer for though my Author say 't is green all the yeer I scarce beleev it As for the use of it my Directions at latter end will be sufficient and enough for those that are studious in Physick to whet their Brains upon for one year or two The Hazel Nut. THese are so well known to every Boy that they need no Description Vertues and Vse The parched Kernels made into an Electuary or the Milk drawn from the Kernels with Mead or Honeyed Water is very good to help an old Cough and being parched and a little Pepper put to them and drunk digesteth the Distillations of Rhewm from the Head The dried Husks and Shels to the weight of two drams taken in red Wine staieth Lasks and Womens Courses and so doth the red Skin that covers the Kernels which is more effectual to stay Womens Courses And if this be true as it is then why should the Vulgar so familiarly affirm that eating Nuts causeth shortness of Breath than which nothing is falser for how can that which strengthens the Lungues cause shortness of breath I confess the Opinion is far older than I am I knew Tradition was a Friend to Ertors before but never that he was the Father of Slanders or are mens tongues so given to slandering one another that they must slander Nuts too to keep their tongues in â—re If any thing of the Hazel Nut be stopping ' t is the Husks and Shels and no body is so mad to eat them unless Physically and the red Skin which covers the Kernel which you may easily pull off And thus have I made an Apology for Nuts which cannot speak for themselves Hawkweed Description This hath many large hairy leaves lying on the ground much rent or torn on the sides into many gashes like Dandelion but with greater parts more like the smooth sow Thistle from among w th ariseth a hollow rough stalk two or three foot high branched from the middle upward wherin are set at every Joynt longer leaves little or nothing rent or cut in bearing at their top sundrypale yellow Flowers consisting of many small narrow leavs broad pointed and nicked in at the ends set in a double row or more the outermost beeing larger than the inner which form most of the Hawkweeds for there are many kinds of them do hold which turne into down and with the small brownish seeds is blown away with the wind The Roote is long and somwhat greater with many small fibres thereat The whole is full of bitter milke Place It groweth in divers places about Field sides and the path waies in dry grounds Time It flowreth flies away in the SuÌ„merMonths Vertues and use Howkweed saith Dioscorides is cooling somwhat drying and binding and therfore good for the heat of the stomach and gnawings therein for Inflamations and the hot fits of Agues The Juice therof in wine helpeth digestion discusseth wind hindreth crudities abiding in the stomack and helpeth the difficulty of making Water the biting of Venemous Serpents and sting of the Scorpion if the herb be also outwardly applyed to the place and is very good against all other Poysons A scruple of the dryed Juyce given in wine and vinegar is profitable for those that have the Dropsie The decoction of the Herb taken with Honey digeisteth thin flegm in the chest or lungs and with Hysop helpeth the cough The Decoction therof and of wild
or of the Belley but the Roots are most used some chusing the one and some the other to be more effectual to cool bind and restrain all Fluxes in Man or Woman as also the running of the Reins and the passage away of the Seed when one is asleep but the frequent use hereof extinguisheth Venereous actions The Root is likewise very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharp to be boyled in Wine or Water and the Decoction drunk The Distilled water of the Flowers is very effectual for al the Diseases aforesaid both inwardly taken and outwardly applied and is much commended to take away Freckles Spots Sun-burn and Morphew from the Face or other parts of the Body The Oyl made of the Flowers as Oyl of Roses is made is profitably used to cool hot Tumors and the Inflamations of Ulcers and Wounds and to eaâ— the pains and help the Sores The Herb is under the Dominion of the Moon and therefore cools and moistens like the former Liquoris Description OUr English Liquoris riseth up with divers woody Stalks whereon are set at several distances many narrow long green Leavs set together on both sides of the Stalk and an od one at the end very wel resembling a yong Ash-tree sprung up from the Seed This by many yeers continuance in a place without removing and not else will bring forth Flowers many standing together Spike fashion one above another upon the Stalks of the form of Pease Blossoms but of a very pale blue colour which turn into long somwhat flat and smooth Rods wherein is contained smal round hard Seed The Root runneth down exceeding deep into the ground with divers other smaller Roots and Fibres growing with them and shoot out Suckers from the main Roots al about wherby it is much encreased of a brownish colour on the outside and yellow within Place It is planted in Fields and Gardens in divers places of this Land and thereof good profit is made Vertues and use Liquoris boyled in fair Water with some Maidenhair and Figs maketh a good Drink for those that have a dry Cough or Hoarceness Wheesing shortness of breath and for al the Griefs of the Breast and Lungs Phtisick or Consumptions caused by the Distillation of Salt humors on them It is also good in all pains of the Reins the Strangury and heat of Urine The fine Pouder of Liquoris blown through a Quil into the Eyes that have a Pin and Web as they cal it or Rhewmatick Distillations into them doth clens and help them The Juyce of Liquoris is as effectual in al the Diseases of the Breast Lungs the Reins and Bladder as the Decoction The Juyce dissolved in Rose Water with some Guâ—-Tragacanth is a fine licking Medicine for Hoarceness Wheesings c. ♃ ♋ Liverwort Description THe Common Liverwort groweth close and spreadeth much upon the ground in moyst and shadowy places with many sad green leaves or rather as it were sticking flat one to another very unevenly cut in on the edges and crumpled from among which arise smal slender stalks an Inch or two high at most bearing smal Starlike Flowers at the tops The Roots are very fine and smal Vertues and use It is a singular good Herb for all the diseases of the Liver both to cool and clense it and helpeth the Inflamations in any part and the yellow Jaundice likewise Being bruised and boyled in small Beer and drunke it cooleth the heat of the Liver and Kidneys and helpeth the runing of the Reins in men the Whites in Women It is a singular remedy to stay the spreading of Tetters Ringworms and other fretting and running Sores Scabs and is an excellent remedy for such whose Livers are corrupted by sursets which causeth their bodies to break out for it fortifies the Liver exceedingly and make it impregnable It being under the command of Jupiter and under the sign Cancer Loos-strife or WillowHearb Discription THe Common yellow Loos-strife groweth to be four or five foot high or more with great round stalks a little crested diversly branched from the middle of them to the tops into great long Branches on al which at the Joynts ther grow long and narrow Leavs but broader below and usually two at a Joynt yet somtimes three or four somwhat like Willow Leaves smooth on the edges and of a faint green colour from the upper Joynts of the branches and at the tops of them also stand many yellow Flowers of five Leaves a piece with diverse yellow threeds in the middle which turn into small round heads containing small cornered Seeds The Roote creepeth under ground almost like Couchgrass but greater and shooteth up every Spring brownish heads which afterwards grow up into stalks It hath no scent nor tast but only astringent Place It groweth in many places of this Land in moyst Meadowes and by water sides Time It Flowreth from June to August Vertues and use This Hearb is good to stay all manner of Bleeding at Mouth or Nose or Wounds and all Fluxes of the Belly and the bloody Flux given either to drinke or taken by Clyster it stayeth also the abundance of Womens Courses It is a singular good wound Hearb for green wounds to stay the bleeding and quickly to close together the lips of the Wound if the herb be bruised and the Juyce only applyed It is often used in Gargles for sore mouthes as also for the secret parts the smoke herof being burned driveth away Flyes and Gnats which use in the night-time to molest people inhabiting neere Marshes and in the Fenney Countryes Loos-Strife with Spiked Heads of Flowers ☽ ♋ Description THis groweth with many woody square stalkes full of Joynts about three foot high at least at everyone wherof stand two long Leaves shorter narrower and of a deeper green colour than the former and some brownish The stalkes are branched into many long stemmes of spiked Flowers half a foot long growing in Rundles one above another out of smal husks very like the Spiked heads of Lavender each of which Flowers have five round pointed Leaves of a Purple Violet Colour or somwhat inclining to redness in which husks stand small round heads after the Flowers are fallen wherein is contained small seed The Root creepeth under ground like unto the yellow but is greater than it and so is the heads of the Leaves when they first appear out of the ground and more brown than the other Place It groweth usually by Rivers and Ditches sides in wet grounds as about the Ditches at and neer Lambeth and in many other places of this Land Time It Flowreth in the months of June and July Vertues and Use. This Herb is no whit inferior unto the former it having not only all the vertues which the former hath but some particular vertues of its own found out by experience as namely The distilled water is a present remedy for hurts and blows on the eyes and for
wherunto a little Honey and Allum is put is an excellent Gargle to wash clens and heal any sore Mouth or Throat in a short space If the Feet be bathed or washed with the Decoction of the Leavs Roots and Flowers it helpeth much the Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head If the Head be washed therewith it staieth the falling and shedding of the Hair The green Leavs saith Pliny beaten with Nitre and applied draweth out Thorns or Pricks in the Flesh. The Marsh Mallows are more effectual in al the Diseases before mentioned The Leavs are likewise used to loosen the Belly gently and in Decections for Clysters to eas al pains of the Body opening the strait Passages and making them slippery whereby the Stone may descend the more easily and without pain out of the Reins Kidneys and Bladder and to eas the torturing pains thereof But the Roots are of more especial use for those purposes as well as for Coughs Hoarsness shortness of Breath and Wheesings being boyled in Wine or Honeyed Water and drunk The Roots and Seeds hereof boyled in Wine or Water is with good success used by them that have Excoriations in the Guts or the bloody Flux by qualifying the violence of the sharp fretting Humors easing the pains and healing the Soreness It is profitably taken of them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews and boyled in white Wine for the Impostumes of the Throat commonly called the Kings Evil and of those Kernels that rise behind the Ears and inflamations or Swellings in Womens Breasts The dried Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is special good for the Chin-Cough Hippocrates used to give the Decoction of the Roots or the Juyce therof to drink to those that were wounded and ready to faint through loss of Blood and applied the same mixed with Honey and Rozin to the Wounds As also the Roots boyled in Wine to those that had received any Hurt by Bruises Falls or Blows or had any Bone or Member out of Joynt or any Swelling pain or ach in the Muscles Sinews or Arteries The Muccilage of the Roots and of Linseed and of Fennugreek put together is much used in Pultises Oyntments and Plaisters to mollifie and digest all hard Swellings and the Inflamation of them and to eas pains in any part of the Body The Seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar clenseth the Skin of the Morphew and al other discolourings being bathed therewith in the Sun You may remember that not long since there was a raging Diseas called the Bloody Flux the Colledg of Physitians not knowing what to make of it called it the Plague in the Guts for their wits were at ne plus ultra about it My son was taken with the same Diseas and the excoriation of his Bowels was exceeding great my self being in the Country was sent for up the only thing I gave him was Mallows bruised and boyled both in his Milk and Drink in two daies the blessing of God being upon it it cured him and I here to shew my thankfulness to God in communicating it to his Creatures leav it to posterity ☿ ♈ Sweet Marjerom THis is so wel known being an Inhabitant in every Garden that it is needless to write any Description thereof neither of the Winter Sweet Marjerom nor Pot Marjerom Place They grow commonly in Gardens some sorts there are that grow wild in the Borders of Corn Fields and Pastures in sundry places of this Land but it is not my purpose to insist upon them The Garden kinds being most used and useful Time They Flower in the end of Summer Vertues and use Our common Sweet Marjerom is warming and comfertable in cold Diseases of the Head Stomach Sinews and other parts taken inwardly or outwardly applied The Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth al the Diseases of the Chest which hinder the freeness of breathing and is also profitable for the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It helpeth the cold Griefs of the Womb and the windiness thereof and the loss of Speech by resolution of the Tongue The Decoction thereof made with som Pellitory of Spain and long Pepper or with a little Acorus or Origanum being drunk is good for those that are beginning to fall into a Dropsie for those that cannot make Water and against pains and torments in the Belly it provoketh Womens Courses if it be put up as a Pessary Being made into Pouder and mixed with Honey it taketh away the black marks of Blows and Bruises being therto applied It is good for the Inflamations and watering of the Eyes being mixed with fine Flower and laid unto them The Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth the Pains and singing nois in them It is profitably put into those Oyntments and Salves that are made to warm and comfort the outward parts as the Joynts and Sinews for Swellings also and places out of Joynt The Pouder thereof snuffed up into the Nose provoketh neezing and thereby purgeth the Brain and chewed in the Mouth draweth forth much Flegm The Oyl made thereof is very warming and comfortable to the Joynts that are stiff and the Sinews that are hard to mollifie and supple them Marjerom is much used in all odoriferous Waters Pouders c. that are for Ornament or delight It is an Herb of Mercury and under Aries and is therfore an excellent Remedy for the Brain and other parts of the Body and Mind under the Dominion of the same Planet ☉ ♌ Marigolds THese being so pelentifull in every Garden are so well known that they need no Description Time They Flower al the Summer long and somtimes in the Winter if it be mild Vertues and Use The Flowers either green or dryed are used much in Possets broths and drinkes as a comforter of the Heart and spirits and to expell any malignant or pestilential quality which might annoy them It is an Herb of the Sun and under Leo they strengthen the heart exceedingly and are very expulsive and little less Effectual in the smal pox and measles than Saffron The Juyce of Marigold Leaves mixed with Vinegar and any hot swelling bathed with it instantly giveth ease and asswageth it A plaister made with the dry Flowers in pouder hogs greas Turpentine and Rozin and applyed to the breast strengthens and succours the heart infinitly in feavers whether pestilential or not pestileutiall ♂ Masterwort Description Common Masterwort hath divers stalks of winged Leaves devided into sundry parts three for the most part standing together at a small footstalk on both sides of the greater and three likewise at the end of the stalk somwhat broad and cut in on the edges into three or more devisions all of them dented about the brims of a dark green colour somwhat resembling the Leaves of Angelica but that these grow lower to the ground on lesser stalks among which
of Serpents and for those that have taken Aconite The Leavs beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire A Decoction made of the Bark and Leavs is good to wash the Mouth and Teeth when they ach If the Root be a little slit or cut and a smal hole made in the ground next thereunto in the Harvest time it will give out a certain Juyce which being hardned the next day is of good use to help the Toothach to dissolve Knots and purge the Belly The Leavs of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at Mouth or Nose or the Bleeding of the Piles or of a Wound being bound unto the places A Branch of the Tree taken when the Moon is at the full and bound to the Wrist of a Womans Arm whose Courses come down too much doth stay them in a short space Mercury rules the Tree therefore are its effects variable as his are Mullein Description THe common white Mullein hath many fair large woolly white Leavs lying next the ground somwhat longer than broad pointed at the ends and as it were dented about the edges The Stalk riseth up to be four or five Foot high covered over with such like Leavs but lesser so that no Stalk can be seen for the multitude of Leavs thereon up to the Flowers which come forth on all sides of the Stalk without any Branches for the most part and are many set together in a long spike in some of a gold yellow colour in others more pale consisting of five round pointed Leavs which afterwards give smal round Heads wherein is smal brownish Seed contained The Root is long white and Woody perishing after it hath born Seed Place It groweth by the way sides and in Lanes in many places of this Land Time It Flowreth in July or thereabouts Vertues and use A smal quantity of the Root given in Wine is commended by Dioscorides against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly The Decoction thereof drunk is profitable for those that are Bursten and for Cramps and Convulsions and for those that are troubled with an old Cough The Decoction thereof gargled caseth the pains of the Toothach An Oyl made by the often Infusion of the Flowers is of very good effect for the Piles The Decoction of the Root in Red Wine or in Water if there be an Ague wherein red hot Steel hath been often quenched doth stay the Bloody Flux The same also openeth Obstructions of the Bladder and Reins when one cannot make water A Decoction of the Leavs hereof and of Sage Marjetom and Camomil Flowers and the places bathed therewith that have Sinews stark with cold or Cramps doth bring them much eas and comfort Three ounces of the distilled water of the Flowers drunk morning and evening for some daies together is said to be the most excellent Remedy for the hot Gout The Juyce of the Leavs and Flowers being laid upon rough Warts as also the Pouder of the dried Roots rubbed on doth easily take them away but doth no good to smooth Warts The Pouder of the dried Flowers is an especial Remedy for those that are troubled with belly-aches or the pains of the Chollick The Decoction of the Root and so likewise of the Leavs is of great effect to dissolve the Tumors Swellings or Inflamation of the Throat The Seed and Leavs boyled in Wine and applied draweth forth speedily Thorns or Splinters gotten into the Flesh easeth the pains and healeth them also The Leavs bruised and wrapped in double papers and covered with hot Ashes and Embers to bake a while and then taken forth and laid warm on any Botch or Boyl hapning in the Groyn or share doth dissolve and heal them The Seed bruised and boyled in Wine and laid on any Member that hath been out of Joynt and is newly set again taketh away all Swellings and pains thereof Mustard Description THe common Mustard hath large and broad rough Leavs very much jagged with uneven and unorderly gashes somwhat like Turnip Leavs but lesser and rougher The Stalk riseth to be more than a foot high and somtimes two foot high being round rough and branched at the top bearing such like Leavs thereon as grow below but lesser and less devided and divers yellow Flowers one above another at the tops after which come smal rough pods with smal lank flat ends wherein is contained round yellowish Seed sharp hot and biting upon the Tongue The Root is smal long and woody when it beareth Stalks and perisheth every yeer Place This groweth with us in Gardens only and other manured places Time It is an annual Plant Flowring in July and their Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use Mustard Seed hath the Vertue of Heating discussing rarefying and drawing out Splinters of Bones and other things out of the Flesh. It is of good effect to bring down Womens Courses for the Falling sickness or Lethargy drousie forgetful evil to use it both inwardly and outwardly to rub the Nostrils Forehead and Temples to warm and quicken the Spirits for by the fierce sharpness it purgeth the Brain by sneezing and drawing down Rhewm and other Viscuous Humors which by their Distillations upon the Lungs and Chest procure coughing and therefore with some Honey added thereto doth much good therein The Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk provoketh Urine resisteth the force of Poyson the Malignity of Mushroms and the Venom of Scorpions or other Venemous Creatures if it be taken in time and taketh before the cold fits of Agues altereth lesseneth and cureth them The Seed taken either by it self or with other things either in an Electuary or Drink doth mightily stir up Bodily lust and helpeth the Spleen and pains in the sides and gnawing in the Bowels And used as a Gargle draweth up the Pallat of the Mouth being fallen down and also it dissolveth the Swellings abouâ— the Throat if it be outwardly applied Being chewed in the Mouth it oftentimes helpeth the Toothach The outward application hereof upon the pained place of the Sciatica discusseth the Humors and easeth the pains as also of the Gout and other Joynt aches And is much and often used to eas pains in the sides or loyns the shoulders or other parts of the Body upon the applying thereof to rais Blisters and cureth the Diseas by drawing it to the outward part of the Body It is also used to help the falling of the Hair The Seed bruised mixed with Honey and applied or made up with Wax taketh away the Marks and black and blue spots of Bruises or the like the roughness or Scabbedness of the Skin as also the Leprosie and lowsie evil it helpeth also the crick in the Neck The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower is much used to drink inwardly to help in any the Diseases aforesaid or to wash the Mouth when the Pallat is down and for the Diseases of the Throat
the upper crust of the Earth shooting forth in diverse places Place It groweth in moist shadowy and grassy places of Woods in many places of this Land Time It â—â—â—wreth about May and the Berries be â—ipe in June and then quickly perisheth until the next yeer it springeth from the same Root again Vertues and use Half a Dram or a Dram at most in Pouder of the Roots hereof taken in Wine and Vinegar of each equal parts and the party laid presently to sweat thereupon is held to be a Soveraign Remedy for those that are infected with the Plague and have a Sore upon them by expelling the poyson and infection and defending the Heart and Spirits from danger It is a singular good Wound Herb and is therupon used w th other the like effects in making Compound Balms for the curing of Wounds be they fresh and green or old and Malignant and especially if the Sinews be hurt Onions THese are so well known that I need not spend time about writing a Description of them Vertues and Vices Onions are Flatulent or Windy yet they do somwhat provoke appetite encreas thirst eas the Belly and Bowels provoke Womens Courses help the biting of a mad Dog and of other Venemous Creatures to be used with Honey and Rue and encreaseth Sperm especially the Seed of them They also kill the Worms in Children if they drink the Water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night Being roasted under the Embers and eaten with Honey or Sugar and Oyl they much conduce to help an inveterate Cough and expectorate the tough Flegm The Juyce being snuffed up into the Nostrils purgeth the Head and helpeth the Lethargy yet the often eating of them is said to procure pains in the Head It hath been held with divers Country people a good preservative against Infection to eat Onions fasting with Bread and Salt as also to make a great Onion hollow filling the place with good Triacle and after to roast it well under the Embers which after taking away of the outermost skin thereof being beaten together is a Soveraign Salve for either Plague-Sore or any other putrid Ulcer The Juyce of Onions is good for either scalding or burning by fire water or Gunpouder and used with Vinegar taketh away all Blemishes Spots and Marks in the Skin and dropped into the Ears easeth the pains and nois of them Applied also with Figs beaten together heâ—peth to ripen and break Impostumes and other Sores Leeks are as like them in quality as a Pomewater is like an Apple They are a Remedy against a Surfeit of Mushroms being baked under the Embers and taken and being boyled and applied warm helpeth the Piles In other things they have the same property as the Onions although not so effectual Mars owns them and they have gotten this quality to draw any corruption to them for if you pill one and lay him upon a Dunghil you shall find him rotten in half a day by drawing putrifaction to it then being bruised and applied to a Plague-Sore 't is very probable 't will do the like Orpine Description COmmon Orpine riseth up with diverse round brittle Stalks thick set with fat and fleshy Leavs without any order and little or nothing dented about the edges of a pale green colour The Flowers are white or whitish growing in tufts after which come small chaffy Husks with Seed like dust in them The Roots are diverse thick round white tuberous clogs and the Plant groweth not so big in some places as in others where it is found Place It is frequent almost in every Country of this Land and is cherished in Gardens with us where it groweth greater than that which is wild and groweth in the shadowy sides of Fields and Woods Time It Flowreth about July and the Seed is ripe in August Vertues and Use. Orpine is seldom used in inward Medicines with us although Tragus saith from experience in Germany that the distilled water thereof is profitable for gnawings or excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels and for Ulcers in the Lungs Liver or other inward parts as also in the Matrix and helpeth all those Diseases being drunk for certain daies together And that it stayeth the sharpness of Humors in the Bloody Flux and other Fluxes in the Body or in Wounds The Root thereof also performeth the same effect It is used outwardly to cool any heat or Inflamation upon any Hurt or Wound and easeth the pains of them as also to heal Scaldings or Burnings The Juyce thereof beaten with some green Sallet Oyl and anointed The Leaf also bruised and laid to any green Wound in the Hands or Legs doth heal them quickly and being bound to the Throat much helpeth the Quinsie It helpeth also Ruptures and Burstiness If you pleas to make the Juyce into a Syrup with Honey or Sugar you may safely take a spoonful or two at a time let my Author say what he will for a Quinsie and you shall find the Medicine more pleasant and the Cure more speedy than if you took a Dogs-turd which is the Learned Colledges vulgar Cure The Moon owns the Herb and he that knows but her Exaltation knows what I say is true Parsley THis is so well known to be an Inhabitant in every Garden that it is needless to write any Description of it The vertues of it being many are as followeth Vertues and use It is very comfortable to the Stomach and helpeth to provoke Urine and Womens Courses and to break wind both in the Stomach and Bowels and doth a little open the Body but the Root much more and openeth Obstructions both of the Liver and Spleen and is therfore accounted one of the five opening Roots Galen commendeth it against the Falling-sickness and to provoke Urine mightily especially if the Roots be boyled and eaten like Parsnips The Seed is effectual to provoke Urine and Womens Courses to expel wind to break the Stone and eas the pains and torments thereof or of any other part in the Body occasioned by Wind. It is also effectual against the Venom of any poysonfull Creature and the danger that cometh to them that have taken Litharge and is good against the Cough The distilled water of Parsley is a familiar Medicine with Nurses to give their Children when they are troubled with wind in the Stomach or Belly which they call the frets and is also much available to them that are of greater yeers The Leavs of Parsley laid to the Eyes that are inflamed with heat or swoln doth much help them if it be used with Bread or Meal and being fryed with Butter and applied to Womens Breasts that are hard through the curdling of their Milk it abateth the hardness quickly and also it taketh away black and blue marks coming of Bruises or Falls The Juyce thereof dropped into the Ears with a little Wine easeth the pains Tragus setteth down an excellent Medicine to help the Jaundice and Falling-sickness
the Dropsie and Stone in the Kidneys in this manner Take of the Seeds of Parsley Fennel Annis and Caraways of each an ounce of the Roots of Parsley Burnet Saxifrage and Carawaies of each one ounce and an half let the Seeds be bruised and the Roots washed and cut smal Let them lie all night in sleep in a pottle of white Wine and in the morning be boyled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take four ounces thereof morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink after it for three hours This openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and expelleth the Dropsie and Jaundice by Urine Parsnip THe Garden kind hereof is so well known the Root being commonly eaten that I shal not trouble you w th any Description of it But the wild kind being of more Physical use I shall in this place describe unto you Discription The wild Parsnip differeth little from the Garden kind but groweth not so fair and large nor hath so many Leavs and the Root is shorter more woody and not so fit to be eaten and therefore the more Medicinable Place The name of the first sheweth the place of its growth Viz. In Gardens The other groweth wild in divers places as in the Marshes by Rochester and elswhere and flowreth in July the Seed being ripe about the beginning of August the second yeer after the sowing for if they do flower the first yeer the Country people call them Madneps Vertues and use The Garden Parsnep nourisheth much and is good and wholsom Nourishment but a little windy whereby it is thought to procure bodily lust but it fatneth the Body much if much used It is conducible to the Stomach and Reins and provoketh Urine But the wild Parsnep hath a cutting attenuating clensing and opening quality therein It resisteth and helpeth the bitings of Serpents easeth pains and Stitches in the sides and dissolveth wind both in the Stomach and Bowels which is the Chollick and provoketh Urine The Root is often used but the Seed much more The wild being better than the tame shews Dame Nature is the best Physitian Cow-Parsnep Description THis groweth with three or four large spread winged rough Leavs lying often on the Ground or else raised a little from it with long round hairy footstalks under them parted usually into five devisions the two couples standing each against other and one at the end and each Leaf being almost round yet somwhat deeply cut in on the edges in some Leavs and not so deep in others of a whitish green colour smelling somwhat strongly among which ariseth up a round crested hairy Stalk two or three foot high with a few Joynts and Leavs thereon and branched at the top where stand large Umbels of white and somtimes reddish Flowers and after them flat whitish thin winged Seed two alwaies joyned together The Root is long and white with two or three long strings growing down into the ground smelling likewise strongly and unpleasant Place It groweth in moist Meadows and the borders and corners of Fields and neet Ditches generally through this Land Time It Flowreth in July and Seedeth in August Vertues and Use. The Seed hereof as Galen saith is of a sharp and cutting quality and is therefore a fit Medicine for the Cough and shortness of Breath the Falling-sickness and the Jaundice The Root is available to all the purposes aforesaid and is also of great use to take away the hard skin that groweth on a Fistula if it be but scraped upon it The Seed hereof being drunk clenseth the belly from tough Flegmatick matter therein easeth them that are Liver-grown and Womens passions of the Mother as well being drunk as the smoke thereof received underneath and likewise raiseth such as are fallen into a deep sleep or have the Lethargy by burning it under their Nose The Seed and Root boyled in Oyl and the Head rubbed therewith helpeth not only those that are fallen into a Frenzy but also the Lethargy or Drowsie evil and those that have been long troubled with the Headach if it be likewise used with Rue It helpeth also the running Scab and the Shingles The Juyce of the Flowers dropped into the Ears that run and are ful of matter it clenseth and healeth them The Peach-tree Description THe Peach-tree groweth not so great as the Apricock-tree yet spreadeth Branches reasonable well from whence spring smaller reddish twigs whereon are set long and narrow green Leavs dented about the edges The Blosloms are greater than the Plum and of a light Purple colour The Fruit round and somtimes as big as a reasonable Pippin others are smaller as also differing in colours and tasts as russer red or yellow waterish or firm with a frieze or Cotton all over with a cleft therein like an Apricock and a rugged surrowed great Stone within it and a bitter Kernel within the Stone It sooner waxeth old and decayeth than the Apricock by much Place They are nursed up in Gardens and Orchards through this Land Time They Flower in the Spring and Fructifie in Autumn Vertues and use The Leavs of Peaches bruised and laid on the Belly killeth Worms and so they do also being boyled in Ale and drunk and open the Belly likewise and being dried is a safe Medicine to discuss Humors The Pouder of them strewed upon fresh bleeding Wounds stayeth their bleeding and closeth them up The Flowers steeped all night in a little Wine standing warm strained forth in the morning and drunk fasting doth gently open the Belly and move it downwards A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Roses is made worketh more forcibly than that of Roses for it provoketh Vomiting and spendeth waterish and Hydropick Humors by the continuance thereof The Flowers made into a Conserve worketh the same effect The Liquor that droppeth from the Tree being wounded is given in the Decoction of Coltsfoot to those that are troubled with the Cough or shortness of breath by adding thereto some sweet Wine and putting some Saffron also therein it is good for those that are hoarce or have lost their voice helpeth all defects of the Lungs and those that vomit or spit blood Two drams thereof given in the Juyce of Lemmons or of Radish is good for those that are troubled with the Stone The Kernels of the Stones do wonderfully eas the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or sharp Humors and help to make an excellent Medicine for the Stone upon all occasions on this manner Take fifty Kernels of Peach Stones and one hundred of the Kernels of Cherry Stones a handful of Eldor Flowers fresh or dried and three pints of Muscadine set them in a closed pot into a bed of Horse dung for ten daies which after distill in Glass with a gentle fire and keep it for your use you may drink upon occasion three or four ounces at a time The
Milk or Cream of these Kernels being drawn forth with some Vervain Water and applied to the Forehead and Temples doth much help to procure rest and sleep to sick persons wanting it The Oyl drawn from the Kernels the Temples being therewith anointed doth the like The said Oyl put into Clysters easeth the pains of the wind Chollick and anointed on the lower part of the Belly doth the like and dropped into the Ears caseth the pains of them The Juyce of the Leavs doth the like being also anointed on the Forhead and Temples it helpeth the Megrim and all other pains in the Head If the Kernels be bruised and boyled in Vinegar until they become thick and applied to the Head it merveilously procure the Hair to grow again upon bald places or where it is too thin Lady Venus owns this Tree and by it opposeth the ill effects of Mars and indeed for Children and yong people nothing is better to purge Choller and the Jaundice than the Leavs and Flowers of this Tree being made into a Syrup or Conserve let such as delight to please their lust regard the Fruit but such as love their health and their Childrens let them regard what I say they may safely give two spoonfuls of the Syrup at a time 't is as gentle as Venus her self The Pear-tree THese are so well known that they need no Description Vertues and Use. For their Physical use they are best discerned by their tasts All the sweet or lushious sorts whether manured or wild do help to move the Belly downward more or less Those that are harsh and sowr do on the contrary bind the Belly as much and the Leavs do so also Those that are moist do in some sort cool but harsh or wild sorts much more and are very good in repelling Medicines as if the wild sorts be boyled with Mushroms it maketh them the less dangerous The said Pears boyled with a little Honey helpeth much the oppressed Stomach as al sorts of them do some more some less but the harsher sorts do most cool and bind serving well to be bound to green wounds to cool and stay the Blood and heal up the wound without further trouble or Inflamation as Galen saith he hath found by experience And wild Pears do sooner close up the Lips of green Wounds than the others Schola Salerni adviseth to drink much Wine after Pears or els they say they are as bad as poyson nay and they curs the Tree for it too but if a poor man find his Stomach oppressed by eating Pears 't is but working hard and it will do as wel as drinking Wine The Trce belongs to Venus and so doth the Apple-tree Pellitory of the Wall Description THis riseth up with many brownish red tender and weak clear and almost transparent stalks about two foot high upon which grow at the several Joynts two Leavs somwhat broad and long of a dark green colour which afterwards turn brownish smooth on the edges but rough and hairy as the Stalks are also At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle of the stalks upwards wher it spreadeth into some branches stand many smal pale purplish Flowers in hairy rough Heads or Husks after which come smal black and rough Seed which will stick to any cloth or Garment that shall touch it The Root is somwhat long with many smal Fibres thereat of a dark reddish colour which abideth the Winter although the Stalks and Leavs perish and spring afresh every yeer Place It groweth wild generally through this Land about the borders of Fields and by the sides of Walls and among Rubbish It will endure well being brought into Gardens and planted on the shady side where it will spring of its own sowing Time It flowreth in June and July and the Seed is ripe soon after Vertues and Use. The dried Herb Pellitory made up into an Electuary with Honey or the Juyce of the Herb or the Decoction thereof made up with Sagar or Honey is a singular Remedy for any old or dry Cough the shortness of breath and Wheesing in the Throat Three ounces of the Juyce thereof taken at a time doth wonderfully help stopping of the Urine and to expel the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladderâ— and is therfore usually put among other Herbs used in Clisters to mitigate pains in the Back Sides or Bowels proceeding of wind stopping of Urine the Gravel or Stone as aforesaid If the bruised Herb sprinkled with some Muskadine be warmed upon a Tile or in a Dish upon a few quick coals in a Chasing-dish and applied to the Belly it worketh the same effect The Decoction of the Herb being drunk easeth pains of the Mother and bringeth down Womens Courses it also easeth those griefs that arise from Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins The same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargle a sore Throat The Juyce held a while in the Mouth easeth pains in the Teeth The distilled water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar worketh the same effects and clenseth the Skin from Spots Freckles Purples Wheals Sunburn Morphew c. The Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth the noise in them and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains therein The same or the distilled Water asswageth hot and swelling Impostumes Burnings and Scaldings by fire or Water as also all other hot Tumors and Inflamations or breakings out of Heat being bathed often with wet Cloathes dipped therein The said Juyce made into a Liniment with Ceruss and Oyl of Roses and anointed therewith clenseth foul rotten Ulcers and stayeth spreading or creeping Ulcers and the running Scabs or Sores in Childrens Heads and helpeth to stay falling of the Hair from off the Head The said Oyntment or the Herb applied to the Fundament openeth the Piles and easeth their pains and being mixed with Goats Tallow helpeth the Gout The Juyce is very effectual to clens Fistulaes and to heal them up safely or the Herb it self bruised and applied with a little Salt It is likewise so effectual to heal any green Wound that if it be bruised and bound thereto for three daies you shall need no other Medicine to heal it further A Pultis made hereof with Mallows and boyled in Wine with Wheat Bran and Bean Flower and some Oyl put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength taking away the pains of the Bruises and dissolveth the congealed Blood coming of Blows or Falls from high places The Juyce of Pellitory of Wall clarified and boyled into a Syrup with Honey and a spoonful of it drunk every morning by such as are subject to the Dropsie if continuing that cours though but once a week if ever they have the Dropsie let them come but to me and I will cure them gratis Peny-royal Description THis is so well known unto all I
mean the common kind that it needeth no Description There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found wild with us which so abideth being brought into Gardens and differeth not from it but only in the largeness of the Leavs and Stalks in rising higher and not creeping upon the ground so much The Flowers whereof are Purple growing in Rundles about the Stalk like the other Place The first which is common in Gardens groweth also in many moist and watery places of this Land The second is sound wild in Essex in divers places by the High-way from London â—to Colechester and thereabouts more abundantly than in other Countries and is also planted in their Gardens in Essex Time They Flower in the latter end of Summer about August Vertues and Use. Dioscorides saith That Peny-royal maketh thin tough Flegm warmeth the coldness of any part whereto it is apylied and digesteth raw or corrupt matter Being boyled drunk it provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the dead Child and afterbirth and staieth the disposition to Vomit being taken in Water and Vinegar mingled together And being mingled with Honey and Salt it avoideth Flegm out of the Lungs and purgeth Melancholly by the Stool Drunk with Wine it helpeth such as are bitten or stung with Venemous Beasts and applied to the Nostrils with Vinegar reviveth those that are fainting and swouning Being dried and burnt it strengtheneth the Gums It is helpful to those that are troubled with the Gout being applied of it self to the place until it wax red and applied in a Plaister it taketh away spots or marks in the Face Applied with Salt it profiteth those that are Splenetick or Liver-grown The Decoction doth help the Itch if washed therwith Being put into Baths for Women to sit therein it helpeth the Swelling and hardness of the Mother The green Herb bruised and put into Vinegar clenseth foul Ulcers and taketh away the marks and bruises of blows about the Eyes and all discolourings of the Face by fire yea and the Leprosie being drunk and outwardly applied Boyled in Wine with Honey and Salt it helpeth the Toothach It helpeth the cold Griefs of the Joynts taking away the pains and warming the cold parts being fast bound to the place after a bathing or sweating in an hot hous Pliny addeth that Penny-royal and Mints together help faintings or swounings being put into Vinegar and put to the Nostrils to be smelled unto or a little thereof put into the Mouth It easeth the Headach and the pains of the Breast and Belly stayeth the gnawing of the Stomach and inward pains of the Bowels being drunk in Wine it provoketh Womens Courfes and expelleth the dead child and afterbirth Being given in Wine it helpeth the Falling-sickness Put into unwholsom or stinking Water that men must drink as at Sea and where other cannot be had it maketh them the less hurtful It helpeth Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews being applied with Honey Salt and Vinegar It is very effectual for the Cough being boyled in Milk and drunk and for Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth Mathiolus saith The Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth heâ—Jaundice and Dropsie and all pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a cold caus and that it helpeth to clearâ— and quicken the Eye-sight Applied to the Nostrils of those that have the Falling-sicknessâ— or the Lethargy or put into the Mouth it helpeth them much being bruised and with Vinegar applied And applied with Barley Meal it helpeth Burnings by fire and put into the Ears easeth the pains of them The Herb is under Venus Peony Mas. Femina Description THe Male Peony riseth up with many brownish Stalks whereon grow many fair green and somtimes reddish Leavs one set against another upon a Stalk without any particular devision in the Leaf at all The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks consisting of five or six broad Leavs of a fair purplish red colour with many yellow threds in the middle standing about the Head which after riseth to be the Seed Vessels devided into two three or four rough crooked Pods like Horns which being ful ripe open and turn themselves down one edge to another backward shewing within them divers round black shining Seed having also many red or Crimson grains intermixed with the black whereby it maketh a very pretty shew The Roots are great thick and long spreading and running down reasonable deep in the Ground The ordinary Female Peony hath many Stalks and more Leavs on them than the Male the Leavs not so large but nicked diversly on the edges some with great and deep others with smaller cuts and devisions of a dark or dead green colour The Flowers are of a strong heady scent most usually smaller and of a more purple colour than the Male with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath The Seed Vessels are like Horns as in the Male but smaller the Seed also is black but less shining The Roots consist of many thick and short tuberous clogs fastned at the ends of long strings and all from the Head of the Root which is thick and short and of the like scent with the Male. Place and Time They grow in Gardens and Flower usually about May. Vertues and Use. The Root of the Male Peony fresh gathered hath been found by experience to cure the Falling-sickness but the surest way is besides hanging it about the Neck by which Children have been cured to take the Root of the Male Peony washed clean and stamped somwhat smal and lay it to infuse in Sack for twenty four Hours at the least after strain it and take first and last morning and evening a good draught for sundry daies together before and after a full Moon and this will also cure older persons if the Disease be not grown too old and past cure especially if there be a due and orderly preparation of the Body with Posset drink made of Betony c. The Root is also effectual for Women that are not sufficiently clensed after Childbirth and such as are troubled with the Mother for which likewise the black Seed beaten to Pouder and given in Wine is also available The black Seed also taken before bed time and in the morning is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the Diseas called Ephialtes or Incubus but we do commonly cal it the Night-Mare a diseas which Melancholly persons are subject unto It is also good against Melanchollick Dreams The Distilled water or Syrup made of the Flowers worketh the same effects that the Root and the Seed do although more weakly The Female is often used for the purposes aforesaid by reason the Male is so scarce a Plant that it is possessed by few and those great Lovers of Rarities in this kind It is an Herb of the Sun and under the Lyon Physitians say Male Peony Roots are best but Dr. Reason told me male Peony was best for men and
and upon the Lungs causing a continual Cough the Fore-runner of a Consumption It helpeth also Hoarsness of the Throat and when one hath lost their voice which the Oyl of the Seed doth likewise The black Seed boyled in Wine and drunk is said also to stay the Flux of the Belly and Womens Courses The empty thels of the Poppy Heads are usually boyled in water and given to procure rest and sleep so do the Leavs in the same manner as also if the Head and Temples be bathed with the Decoction warm or with the Oyl of Poppies the green Leaves or Heads bruised and applied with a little Vinegar or made into a Pultis with Barley Meal or Hogs Greas it cooleth and tempereth al Inflamations as also the Diseas called St. Anthonies Fire It is generally used in Treacle and Methridate and in all other Medicines that are made to procure rest and sleep and to eas pains in the Head as well as in other parts It is also used to cool Inflamations Agues or Phrensies and to stay Defluxions which caus a Cough or Consumption and also other Fluxes of the Belly or Womens Courses It is also put into hollow Teeth to eas the pain and hath been found by experience to eas the pain of the Gout The Wild Poppy or Corn Rose as Mathiolus saith is good to prevent the Falling-sickness The Syrup made with the Flowers is with good effect given to those that have the Pluresie and the dried Flowers also either boyled in water or made into Pouder and drunk either in the Distilled Water of them or in some other Drink worketh the like effect The Distilled Water of the Flowers is held to be of much good use against Surfets being drunk evening and morning It is also more cooling than any of the other Poppies and therefore cannot but be as effectual in hot Agues Phrensies and other Inflamations either inward or outward the Syrup or Water to be used therein or the green Leavs used outwardly either in an Oyntment as it is in Populeon a cooling Oyntment or any other wales applied Galen saith the Seed is dangerous to be used inwardly The Herb is Lunar and of the Juyce of it is made Opium only for lucre of Money they cheat you and tell you 't is a kind of Tear or some such like thing that drops from Poppies when they weep and that is some where beyond the Sea I know not where beyond the Moon Purslane THe Garden Purslane being used as a Sallet Herb is so well known that it needeth no Description I shal therefore only speak of its Vertues as followeth Vertues and use It is good to cool any heat in the Liver Blood Reins and Stomach and in hot Agues nothing better It stayeth hot and Chollerick Fluxes of the Belly Womens Courses the Whites and Gonorrhea or running of the Reins the Distillations from the Head and pains therein proceeding of heat want of sleep or the Phrensie The Seed is more effectual than the Herb and is of singular good use to cool the heat and sharpness of Urine and the outragious Lust of the Body Venerious Dreams and the like insomuch that the overfrequent use hereof exinguisheth the Heat and Vertue of Natural Procreation The Seed bruised and boyled in Wine and given to Children expelleth the Worms The Juyce of the Herb is held as effectual to all the purposes aforesaid as also to stay Vomitings and taken with some Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry Cough shortness of Breath and the Phtisick and stayeth immoderate Thirst. The Distilled water of the Herb is used by many as the more pleasing with a little Sugar to work the same effects The Juyce also is singular good in the Inflamations and Ulcers of the secret parts in man or woman as â—â— of the Bowels and Hemorrhoids â—hen they are Ulcerous or Excoriations in them The Herb bruised and applied to the Forehead and Temples allayeth excessive heat therein hindring rest and sleep and applied to the Eyes taketh away the redness and Inflamation in them and those other parts where Pushes Wheals Pimples St. Anthonies Fire and the like break forth especially if a little Vinegar be put to it And being laid to the Neck with as much of Galls and Linseed together taketh away the pains therein and the Crick in the Neck The Juyce is used with Oyl of Roses for the said causes or for Blastings by Lightning and Burnings by Gun-Pouder or for Womens sore Breastss and to allay the heat in all other Sores or Hurts applied also to the Navels of Children that stick forth it helpeth them It is also good for sore Mouths and Gums that are swollen to fasten loos Teeth Camerarius saith That the distilled water used by some took away the pain of their Teeth when all other Remedies failed and that the thickned Juyce made in Pills with the Pouder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabick being taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloody water Applied to the Gout it easeth pains thereof and helpeth the hardness of Sinews if it come not of the Cramp or a cold caus 'T is an Herb of the Moon See Lettice Primroses THese are so well known that they need no Description Of the Leavs of Primroses is made as fine a Salve to heal green Wounds as any is that I know you shall be taught to make Salves of any Herb at the latter end of the Book make this as you are taught there and do not you that have any Ingenuity in you see your poor Neighbors go with wounded Limbs when a Halfpenny cost will heal them Privet Description OUr common Privet is carried up with many slender Branches to a reasonable height and breadth to cover Arbours Bowrs and Banquetting Houses and brought wrought and cut into many forms of Men Horses Birds c. which though at first supported groweth afterwards strong of it self It beareth long and narrow green Leavs by couples and sweet smelling white Flowers in tufts at the ends of the Branches which turn into smal black Berries that have a Purplish Juyce within them and some Seeds that are flat on the one side with a hole or dent therein Place It groweth in this Land in divers Woods Time Our Privet Flowreth in June and July The Berries are ripe in August and September Vertues and Use. It is little used in Physick with us in these times more than in Lotions to wash Sores and Sore Mouths and to cool Inflamations and dry up Fluxes Yet Mathiolus saith it serveth to all the uses for which Ciprus or the East Privet is appointed by Dioscorides and Galen He further saith That the Oyl that is made of the Flowers of Privet infused therin and set in the Sun is singular good for the Inflamations of Wounds and for the Headach coming of an hot caus There is a sweet water also distilled from the Flowers that is good for all those Diseases
that need cooling and drying and therefore helpeth all Fluxes of the Belly or Stomach Bloody Fluxes and Womens Courses being either drunk or applied as also for those that void Blood at their Mouth or at any other place and for Distillations of Rhewms into the Eyes especially if it be used with Tutiae Queen of the Meadows Meadow-sweet or Mead-sweet Description THe Stalks of this are reddish rising to be three foot high somtimes four or five foot having at the Joynts there of large winged Leavs standing one above another at distances consisting of many and somwhat broad Leavs set on each side of a middle rib being hard rough or rugged crumpled much like to Elm Leavs having also some smaller Leavs with them as Agrimony hath somewhat deepiy dented about the edges of a sad green colour on the upper side and graish underneath of a pretty sharp scent and tast somwhat like unto Burnet and a Leaf hereof put into a Cup of Claret Wine giveth also a fine rellish to it At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand many tusts of small white Flowers thrust thick together which smel much sweeter than the Leavs and in their places being fallen come crooked and cornered Seed The Root is somwhat woody and blackish on the outside and brownish within with diverse greater strings and lesser Fibres set thercat of a strong scent but nothing so pleasant as the Flowers and Leavs and perisheth not but abideth many yeers shooting forth anew every Spring Place It groweth in moist Meadows that lie much wet or neer the Courses of Water Time It Flowreth in some place or other all the three Summer Months that is June July and August and their Seed is ripe quickly after Vertues and Use. It is used to stay all manner of Bleedings Fluxes Vomitings and Womens Courses and also their Whites It is said to alter and take away the fits of Quartan Agues and to make a merry heart for which purpose some use the Flowers and some the Leavs It helpeth speedily those that are troubled with the Chollick being boyled in Wine and with a little Honey taken warm it openeth the Belly but boyled in red Wine and drunk it stayeth the Flux of the Belly Being outwardly applied it healeth old Ulcers that are Cankrous or eaten or hollow and Fistulous for which it is by many much commended as also for the Sores in the Mouth or secret parts The Leavs when they are full grown being laid upon the Skin will in a short time raise Blisters thereon as Tragus saith The water thereof helpeth the heat and Inflamation in the Eyes Venus claims dominion over the Herb. The Quince-Tree Description THe Ordinary Quince-tree groweth often to the height and bigness of a reasonable Apple-tree but more usually lower and crooked with a rough Bark spreading Arms and Branches far abroad The Leavs are somwhat like those of the Apple-tree but thicker harder and fuller of Veins and white on the under side not dented at all about the edges The Flowers are large and white somtimes dash'd over with a Blush The Fruit that followeth is yellow being neer ripe and covered with a white Freez or Cotton thick set on the yonger and growing less as they grow to be through ripe bunched out often times in some places some being liker an Apple and some a Pear of a strong heady scent and not durable to keep and is sowr harsh and of an unpleasant tast to eat fresh but being scalded roasted baked or preserved becometh more pleasant Place and Time It best likes to grow neer Ponds and Water-sides and is frequent through this Land and Flowreth not until the Leavs be come forth The Fruit is ripe in September or October Vertues and Use. Quinces when they are green helps all sorts of Fluxes in man or Woman and Chollerick Lasks Castings and whatsoever needeth Astriction more than any way prepared by fire Yet the Syrup of the Juyce or the Conserve are much conducible much of the binding quality being consumed by the fire If a little Vinegar be added it stirreth up the languishing Appetite and the Stomach given to casting Some Spices being added it comforteth and strengthneth the decayed and fainting Spirits and helpeth the Liver oppressed that it cannot perfect the digestion and correcteth Choller and Flegm If you would have them Purging put Honey to them instead of Sugar and if more Laxative for Choller Rubarb for Flegm Turbith for warery Humors Scammony but if more forcibly to bind use the unripe Quinces with Roses and Acacia or Hypocistis and some torrefied Rubarb To take of the crude Juyce of Quinces is held a Preservative against the force of deadly poyson for it hath been found most certain true that the very smel of a Quince hath taken away all the strength of the Poyson of White Hellebore If there be need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot Fluxes The Oyl of Quinces or other Medicines that may be made thereof are very available to anoint the Belly or other parts therewith It likewise strengtheneth the Stomach and Belly and the Sinews that are loosned by sharp Humors falling on them and restraineth immoderate sweatings The Muccilage taken from the Seeds of Quinces boyled a little in Water is very good to cool the Heat and heal the Sore Breasts of Women The same with a little Sugar is good to lenefie the harshness and hoarsness of the Throat and roughness of the Tongue The Cotton or Down of Quinces boyled and applied to Plague Sores healeth them up and said as a Playster made up with Wax it bringeth hair to them that are bald and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to shed Radish and Horse-Radish THe Garden Radish is so wel known that it needeth no Description Description The Hors-Radish hath his first Leavs that rise before Winter about a foot and a holf long very much cut in or torn on the edges into many parts of a dark green colour with a great Rib in the middle After these have been up a while others follow which are greater rougher broader and longer whol and not devided as the first but only somwhat roundly dented about the edges The Stalk when it beareth Flowers which is but seldom is great rising up with some few lesser Leavs thereon to three or four foot high spreading at the top many smal Branches of whitish Flowers made of four Leavs apiece after which come smal Pods like those of Shepheards-Purs but seldom with any Seed in them The Root is great long white and rugged shooting up divers Heads of Leavs which may be parted for encreas but it doth not creep within ground nor run above ground and is of a strong sharp and bitter tast almost like Mustard Place It is found wild in some places of this Land but is chiefly planted in Gardens where it joyeth in a moist and shadowy place Time It Flowreth but seldom but when it doth it is in July
Decoction made in Wine taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bathed therwith Agrippa saith That if Women that cannot conceive by reason of the moist slipperiness of their Wombs shall take a quantity of the Juyce of Sage with a little Salt for four daies before they company with their Husbands it will help them not only to Conceive but also to retain the Birth without miscarrying Orpheus saith Three spoonfuls of the Juyce of Sage taken fasting with a little Honey doth presently stay the spitting or casting up of Blood For them that are in a Consumption these Pills are much commended Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drams of the Seed of Sage toasted at the fire eight drams of long Pepper twelve drams all these being brought into fine Pouder put thereto so much Juyce of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pills taking a dram of them every morning fasting and so likewise at night drinking a little pure Water after them Mathiolus saith it is very profitable for all manner of pains of the Head coming of cold and Rhewmatick Humors as also for all pains of the Joynts whether used inwardly or outwardly and therfore helpeth the Falling-sickness the Lethargy such as are dull and heavy of spirit the Palsey and is of much use in an Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head and for the Diseases of the Chest or Preast The Leavs of Sage and Nettles bruised together and laid upon the Impostume that riseth behind the Ears doth aslwage it much The juyce of Sage taken in warm water helpeth a Hoarsness and the Cough The Leavs sodden in Wine and laid upon the place affected with the Palsey helpeth much if the Decoction be drunk also Sage taken with Wormwood is used for the bloody Flux Pliny saith it procureth Womens Courses and stayeth them coming down too fast helpeth the stinging and biting of Serpents and killeth the Worms that breed in the Ears and in Sores Sage is of excellent use to help the Memory warming and quickning the senses and the Conserve made of the Flowers is used to the same purpose and also for all the former recited Diseases The Juyce of Sage drunk with Vinegar hath been of good use in the time of Plague at all times Gargles likewise are made with Sage Rosemary Honeysuckles and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water with some Honey and Allum put thereto to wash sore Mouthes and Throats Cankers or the secret parts of man or woman as need requireth And with other hot and comfortable Herbs Sage is boyled to bath the Body or Legs in the Summer time especially to warm cold Joynts or Sinews troubled with the Palsey or Cramp and to comfort and strengthen the parts It is much commended against the Stitch or pains in the side coming of Wind if the place be fomented warm with the Decoction thereof in Wine and the Herb after the boyling be laid warm also thereunto Jupiter claims this and bid me tell you it is good for the Liver and to breed good Blood VVood-Sage Description VVood-Sage riseth up with square hoary Stalks two foot high at the least with two Leavs set at every Joynt somwhat like other Sage Leavs but smaller softer whiter and rounder and a little dented about the edges and smelling somwhat strongly At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand the Flowers on a slender long Spike turning themselves all one way when they blow and are of a pale and whitish colour smaller than Sage but hooded and gaping like unto them The Seed is blackish and round four usually set in a husk together The Root is long and stringy with diverse Fibres thereat and abideth many yeers Place It groweth in Woods and by Wood-sides as also in diverse Fields and by-Lanes in this Land Time It Flowreth in June July and August Vertues and Use. The Decoction of Wood-Sage provoketh Urine and Womens Courses it also provoketh Sweat digesteth Humors and discusseth Swellings and Nodes in the Flesh and is therefore thought to be good against the French Pox. The Decoction of the green Herb made with Wine is a safe and sure Remedy for those who by falls bruises or Blows doubt some Vein to be inwardly broken to disperse and avoid the congealed blood and to consolidate the Vein It is also good for such as are inwardly or outwardly bursten the drink used inwardly and the Herb applied outwardly The same used in the same manner is found to be a sure Remedy for the Palsey The Juyce of the Herb or the Pouder thereof dried is good for moist Ulcers and sores in the Legs or other parts to dry them and caus them to heal the more speedily It is no less effectual also in green Wounds to be used upon any occasion Solomons Seal Description THe common Solomons Seal riseth up with a round Stalk about half a yard high bowing or bending down to the top set with single Leavs one above another somwhat large and like the Leavs of the LillyConvalley or May Lilly with an eye of blewish upon the green with some ribs therein and more yellowish underneath At the foot of every Leaf almost from the bottom up to the top of the Stalk come forth small long white and hollow pendulous Flowers somwhat like the Flowers of May-Lilly but ending in five long points for the most part two together at the end of a long Footstalk and somtimes but one and sometimes also two Stalks with Flowers at the Foot of a Leaf which are without any scent at all and stand all on one side of the Stalk After they are past come in their places smal round Berries green at the first and blackish green tending to blewness when they are ripe wherein lie smal white hard and stony Seed The Root is of the thickness of ones finger or Thumb white and knobbed in some places with a flat round circle representing a Seal whereof it took the name lying along under the upper crust of the Earth and not growing downward but with many fibres underneath Place It is frequent in diverse places of this Land as namely in a Wood two miles from Canterbury by Fishpool-Hill as also in a bushy Close belonging to the Parsonage of Alderbury neer Clarindon two miles from Salisbury in Chesson Wood on Chesson Hill between Newington and Sittingborn in Kent and in diverse other places in Essex and other Counties Time It Flowreth about May The Root abideth and shooteth anew every yeer Vertues and Use. The Root of Solomons Seal is found by experience to be available in Wounds Hurts and outward Sores to heal and close up the lips of those that are green and to dry up and restrain the Flux of Humors to those that are old It is singular good to stay Vomitings and Bleedings wheresoever as also al Fluxes in man or woman whether the Whites or Reds in Women or the running of the Reins in men also to knit any Joynt
Pipe as is usual but fasting The same helpeth to expel Worms in the Stomach and Belly and to case the pains in the Head or Meagrim and the griping pains in the Bowels It is profitable for those that are troubled with the Stone in the Kidneys both to ease pains and by provoking Urine to expel Gravel and the Stone ingendred therein and hath been found very effectual to expel windiness and other Humors which cause the strangling of the Mother The Seed hereof is very effectual to help the Toothach and the Ashes of the burnt Herb to clense the Gums and make the Teeth white The Herb bruised and applied to the place grieved with the Kings Evil as they call it helpeth it in nine or ten daies effectually Monardus saith it is a Counter-poyson for the biting of any Venemous Creature the Herb also being outwardly applied to the hurt place The distilled water is often given with some Sugar before the Fit of an Ague to lessen them and take them away in three or four times using If the Distilled fieces of the Herb having been bruised before the Distillation and not distilled dry be set in warm dung for fourteen daies and afterwards hung up in a Bag in a Wine Celler that liquor that distilleth therefrom is singular good to use for Cramps Aches the Gout and Sciatica and to heal Itches Scabs and running Ulcers Cankers and foul Sores whatsoever The Juyce is also good for all the said griefs and likewise to kill Lice in Childrens Heads The green Herb bruised and applied to any green Wound cureth any fresh Wound or cut whersoever and the Juyce put into old Sores both clenseth and healeth them There is also made hereof a singular good Salve to help Impostumes hard Tumors and other swellings by blows or falls The Tamarisk-Tree THis is so well known in the places where it grows that it needeth no Description Time It Flowreth about the end of May or in June and the Seed is ripe and blown away in the beginning of September Vertues and Use. If the Root Leaves or yong Branches be boyled in Wine or Vinegar and drunk and applied outwardly it is very powerful against the hardness of the spleen The Leaves boyled in Wine and drunk is good to stay the bleeding of the Hemorrhoidal Veins the spitting of Blood and Womens too abounding Courses and helpeth the Jaundice the Chollick and the bitings of all Venemous Serpents except the â—â—p The Bark is as effectual if not more to all the purposes aforesaid and both it and the Leaves boyled in Wine and the Mouth and Teeth washed therewith helpeth the Toothach being dropped into the Ears easeth the pains and is good for the redness and watering of the Eyes The said Decoction with some Honey put thereto is good to stay Gangrenes and sretting Ulcers and to wash those that are subject to Nits and Lice The Wood is very effectual to consume the Spleen and therefore to drink out of Cups and Cans made thereof is good for Splenetick persons The Ashes of the Wood are used for all the purposes aforesaid and besides doth quickly help the Blisters raised by Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water Alpinus and Veslingius do affirm That the AEgyptians do with as good success use the Wood hereof to cure the French Disease as others do Lignum Vitae or Gujacum and give it also to such as are possessed with Lepry Scabs Pushes Ulcers or the like and is available also to help the Dropsie arising from the hardness and Obstruction of the Spleen as also for Melancholly and the black Jaundice that ariseth thereof Garden Tansie THis also is so well known that it needeth no Description Time It Flowreth in June and July Vertues and Use. Thee Decoction of the common Tansie or the Juyce drunk in Wine is a singular Remedy for all the griefs that come by stopping of the Urine helpeth the Strangury and those that have weak Reins and Kidneys It is also very profitable to dissolve and expel Wind in the Stomach Belly or Bowels to procure Womens Courses and expel windiness in the Matrix If it be bruised and often smelled unto as also applied to the lower part of the Belly it is very profitable for such Women as are given to miscarry in Childbearing to caus them to go out their full time It is used also against the Stone in the Reins especially to men The Herb fried with Eggs as is accustomed in the Spring time which is called a Tansie helpeth to digest and carry downward those bad Humors that trouble the Stomach The Seed is very profitably given to Children for the Worms and the Juyce in Drink is as effectual Being boyled in Oyl it is good for the sinews shrunk by Cramps or pained with cold if thereto applied Dame Venus was minded to pleasure Women with Child by this Herb for there grows not an Herb fitter for their uses than this is it is just as though it were cut out for the purpose the Herb bruised and applied to the Navil staies miscarriage I know no Herb like it for that use boyled in ordinary Beer and the Decoction drunk doth the like and if her Womb be not as she would have this Decoction will make it as she would have it or at least as she should have it let those Women that desire Children love this Herb 't is their best Companion their Husband excepted 〈…〉 Also it consumes the Flegmatick Humors the cold and moist coustitution of Winter most usually infects the Body of Man with and that was the first reason of eating Tansies in the Spring at last the world being over run with Popery a Monster called Superstition perks up his head and as a just Judgment of God obscures the bright beams of Knowledge by his dismal looks Pysitians seeing the Pope and his Imps selfish they began to be so too and now forsooth Tansies must be eaten only on Palm and Easter Sundaies and their neighbor daies as last Superstion being too hot to hold and the selfishness of Physitians walking in the clouds after the Fryars and Monks had made the people ignorant the Superstion of the time was found out but the Vertue of the Herb hidden and now 't is almost if not altogether left off Surely our Physitians are beholding to none so much as they are to Monks and Fryars for want of eating this Herb in Spring make people sickly in Summer and that makes work for the Physitian If it be against any man or womans Conscience to eat a Tansie in the Spring I am as unwilling to burden their consciences as I am that they should burden mine they may boyl it in Wine and drink the Decoction it will work the same effect VVild Tansie or Silver-weed THis also is so well known that it needeth no Description Place It groweth almost in every place Time It Flowreth in June and July Vertues and Use.
Tertain and Quartan Agues Bloody Flux ulcers Cancers Thorns Splinters and Nails in the flesh Members out of joynt Aposthumes Inward Wounds Pains Griping Wind Choller Stomach Spleen Belly stopping in the Liver Gal Plague Poyson Gout Sciatiâ—â— sore Mouth Throat Ulcers in the Privities Itch Scabs Web in the Ejâ— Redness watring of them ulcers noise in the Ears Deafness Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provokes the Terms Afterbirth Wind provokes urin biting of Serpents Choller Flrgm. Jaundice Dropsy Cachâ—â— Liver Spleen Stomach weak Apetite lost Flux Liâ—â— Itch Scabâ— tooth-ach Teeth loos Cooling Drying Binding Swellings Fleas Burnings inflamations Poyson Pestilence Epidemical Diseases Cold â—â—â—â— Pleuresy Cough Lungues Breast Strangâ—â—â— Shortness of Breath Chollick provokes the Terms afterbirth stoppings of the Liver and Spleen Indigestion Surfets Tooth-ach biting of Mad-dogs Ulcers Gout Sciatica Fainting Stomach Loos Bellies Thirst Flegm Stomach Bowels Vomiting Flux â—loâ—sen Worms Melancholly Agues Heats of the Liver and Stomach Scalding Burning Eyes Inflamation ulcers Spots Freckles Chaps in the Lips Hands Mother Womb. Spleen White Red and yellow Flux Melancholy Quartan Agues Bleeding at Nose Swelling Kings-Evil Gout Sciatica Joynts ulcers old sores Bruises Burnings ulcers Cold swellings bruises congeled Blood Toothach Felons or Andicoms worms in the Ears Fleas Tired Horses Impostums Inflamations Wounds Causeth Vomiting Choller Flegm urin Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Dropsy Jaundice Agues Serpents Head Memory Belly Strangury Disury Gout Sciatica Eyes Tooth-ach Reins Bladder Mother Cramp Chollick Convulsion Adders Vipers biting Dropsy Stone Jaundice Leprosie Scabs Scald Heads Stitches Stone Disury Rickets Breast Stitches Wind Belly Stomach Inward Wounds Heart cold Brain Obstructions Chollick Fluxes Ruptures Spots and Marks in the Face Plague Poyson Indigestion Mind Heart Faintings Swonings Melancholy Indigestion Obstruction of the Brain Heart Arteries Venemous-Beasts Mad Dogs Terms provokes Toothach Bloody Flux Mushroms dificulty of breathing Gout Liver Spleen women in Child bed Fainting in travel Boyls Choller Scabs Itch Tetâ—ers Ringworm Yellow-Jaundice Boyls Agues Burning Scaldings Apetit loâ— Hair Feavers Agues Stomach Apostums Inflamations Spleen Ears Throat Neck Kings-Evil Leprosie Flux Gout Irsh Eyes Venemous Beasts Bees Wasps Hornets Stone Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Dropsie Poyson Jaundice Bees Wasps Hornees Terms provokes Cause Delivery After birth Eyes Lungs Coughs Shortnessâ— of Breath Megrim wind Vertigo Disury Mother worms Joynts Nerves Arteries Stomach Belly womb Ears Marks in the Skin Itch Scabs Witchcraft Spots Stone Disury Inflamation Womens Breasts Felons or Andicoms Boils Bruses Ears Eyes Leeches Cods swelled Flux Pain Sinews â— Sciatica Gout Disury Shortness of breath Incite to Venery A gallant shew Stone Dysurey Bleeding Wounds Burnings GauledFeet Weariness Stifness of Joynts Scabs Itch Clens Digest Disury obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Vertigo Venemous Beasts Brning St. Anthonies Fire Wheals Blisters Chilblains Kibes Itch Dandriff Scurff Scabs ulcers Cankers Boldness Flux Terms stops whites Stinking Breath Noise in the Ears Toothach Smell lost Ulcers Bruises Sunburning Epidemical Diseases Witchcraft Apetite indigestion Stomach Belching Jaundice Falling-sickness Palsey Convulsion shrinking of the Sinews Gout Dropsie Frensie Cough Cold shortness of Breath Agues of all sorts Sore Eyes Worms Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Stitches Pains in the Back and Belly Terms provokes Mother Childbirth Stone Toothach Venemous Beasts Mad-dogs Weariness Bleeding at Mouth and Nose Pissing spitting of Blood Ruptures Bruises Wounds Veins and Sinews cut ulcers Fistulaes Boyls Ears Cools Binds Hot swellings Scurff Scabs Tetters Agues Stomach Liver Vomiting Apetit lost Cough Phtisick Fluxes Stone sore Mouths Dry Bind Wounds Stone Ruptures Disury Terms provokes Wind Chollick Venemous Beasts Cantharirides black and blew spots High colour Mother Poyson Plague Smal pocks Meazles Purples Epidemical Diseâ—ses Inward bleeding Flux Vomiting Ruptures Jaundice Venemous Beasts Ulcers Abortion Worms Diabites Running of the Reins Wounds Bleeding Matrix Terms stops Tooth-ach Head Cankers Gums Inflamations Almonds of the Ears Peslilence Wounds Nervs hurt Ulcers Sores Quinsie Wounds Flux Bloodyflux Spitting Bloud Gravel Stone Secrets Poyson Venemous Beasts fundament Piles Terms stops Feavers Head Eyes Itch Scabby Heads Reds and Whites in Women Feavers Pestilence Poyson Venemous Beasts Milk in Nurses Melancholy Ill Bloud Yellow Jandice Itch Ring-worms Tetters Scabs Weakness by long sickness Consumption Swooning Inflamations Ulcers sore Mouths Throat Cough Flegm Bruises Broken Veins Poyson Plague Epidemical Diseases Wounds ulcers Inflamations in the Eyes Falling-sickness Vertigo Flegm Palsies Convulsion Cramp Stitches Dropsies Gravel Stone Obstructions Womb Mother Dead Child After-birth Cough Shortness of Breath Sores Cankers Gangrenes Tetters Ring-worms Black Spots Freckles Morphew Leprosie Broken Bones Splinters Thorns Whitlows or Nail-wheals or Andicoms Blood purgeth Ill Humors Scurvy Disury Stone Terms provokes Dead child Swellings Inflamations Obstructions Disury Gravel Stone Strangury Terms provokes Yellow-Jaundice Headach Flegm Broken Bones Dislocations Flegm Joynts Dropsie Sides Spleen Bladder Kidneys Stone Disury black Jaundice Agues Toothach Wind Stitches Lice Stone Disury Green Wounds Venemous Beasts Stone Stomach Vomiting Bleeding Pissing blood Flux Bloody Flux Agues Eyes Bruises Falls Wounds Scabs Ulcers Liver-grown Gangreans Fistulaes Sore Mouths Gums Sores in the Secrets broken bones Mares Strange Sights in the night Heart Liver Melancholy Pestilence epidemical Diseases Bleeding Stoppeth Terms and Whites Belching Vomiting Wounds Ulcers Cankers Sores Fluxes Plague epidemical Diseases Poyson Mother â—â—â— wheezing Difficulty of breathing Disury Terms provokes Flat and broad worms Blâ—mishes of the skin Cools Dryes Ulcers Sores Flegm Sinews Arteries Venemous Beasts Mad dogs Disury Bladder Sciatica Burning Sores Cankers Consnmption Stone Flux Venemous Beasts Terms provokes Hoarsness Consumption Obstructions Stone Sight Canker Surfets Swellings Gout Sores Scabs Wheals Melancholly Wind. Sores Wounds Ulcers Swellings Inflamations Terms provokes Disury Ruptures Convulsions Cramps Shortness of Breath Jaundice Vomiting Worms Leprosie Serpents Black and blue Marks Scars Sciatica Obstruction of the Liver and Splein Tertion Agues Gall Cough Bowels Spleen Stitches in the Side Agues Liver Spleen Weariness Sinews Swellings Chollick Stone Belly-ach Cold Ach Jaundice Dropsie Brain Cramp Stitch in the Side Bleeding inward outward Disury Gravel Choller Venemous Beasts Plagues Sores ulcers Cankers Fistulaes Wind Stitches provokes Urin and the Terms Stone Dropsie Chollick Barrenness Ulcers Wind Disury IndigestioÌ„ Head Stomach Bowels Mother Black and blue spots Bruises Chollick Obstructions of the Liver and Gall yellow jaundice Dropsie Pestilence Eyes Ulcers Tetters Ring-worms Cancers Warts Belly Buwels Mother Worms Terms stops Topâ—hach Itch Beauty lost Hemorrhoids Kings Evil Choller Sciatica Obstructions Lver Gall Spleen Agues Dropsie green sickness Chollick Terms provokes Joynts Gout Sciatica Cramp Convulsion Venemous Beasts Eyes Wounds ulcers Ears Scabby Heads Freckles Spots Appetite lost Flegm Gross Humors Cool provoke urine Cough Hoarsness Sight Gravel Wind. Inslamations Disury Stone Gravel ulcers in the Reins and Bladder pissing Blood sharpness of urins A precious Receipt Stomach Clotted Blood Bruises Falls Disury Stone Pleuresie Sides Swellings black and blue Spots Cold Stomach Wind Flegm Lungues Phtisick