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
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
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
them The distilled Water of the Herb hath the same properties and may be used for all the Effects aforesaid Briony or VVild Vine ♂ Description THe Common white Briony groweth ramping upon the Hedges sending forth many long rough very tender branches at the beginning with many very rough broad Leavs theron cut for the most part into five partitions in form very like a Vine Leaf but smaller rougher aud of a whitish or hoary green colour spreading very far spreading and twining with his smal Claspers that come forth at the Joynts with â—he Leavs very far on whatsoever standeth next it At the several Joynts also especially towards the top of the Branches cometh forth a long Stalk bearing many whitish Flowers together in a long tuft consisting of five smal Leaves apiece laid open like a Star after which come the Berries separated one from another more than a Cluster of Grapes green at the first and very red when they are through ripe of no good sent but of a most loathsom tast provoking Vomit The Root groweth to be exceeding great with many long Twines or Branches growing from it of a pale whitish colour on the outside and more white within and of a sharp bitter loathsom tast Place It groweth on Banks or under Hedges through this Land the Roots lie very deep Time It Flowreth in July and August som earlier and some later than others Vertues and Vse The Roots of the Briony purge the Bell with great Violence troubling the Stomach and hurting the Liver and therfore not rashly to be taken but being corrected is very profitable for the Diseases of the Head as Falling-sickness Giddiness and Swimmings by drawing away much Flegm and Rhewmatick humors that oppress the Head as also the Joynts and Sinews and is therfore good for Palseys Convulsions Cramps and Stitches in the Sides and the Dropsie and in provoking Urin it clenseth the Reins and Kidnies from Gravel and the Stone by opening the Obstructions of the Spleen and consumeth the hardness and swellings therof The Decâ—ction of the Root in Wine drunk once a week at going to bed clenseth the Mother and helpeth the rising therof expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth but is not to be used by Women with Child for fear of abortion a dram of the Root in Pouder taken in white Wine bringeth down their Courses An Electuary made of the Roots and Honey doth mightily clens the Chest of Rotten Flegm and wonderfully help an old strong Cough those that are troubled with shortness of Breath and is very good for them that are brused inwardly to help to expel the clotted or congealed Blood The Leavs Fruit and Root do clens old and filthy Sores are good against al fretting and running Cankers Gangrenes and Tetters and therfore the Berries are by some Country People called TetterBerries The Root clenseth the Skin wonderfully from al black and blow Spots Freckles Morphew Leprosie soul Scars or other deformity whatsoever as also al running Scabs and Manginess are healed by the Pouder of the dried Root or the Juyce therof but especially by the fine white hardned Juyce The distilled water of the Roots worketh the same effects but more weakly The Root bruised and applied of it self to any place where the Bones are broken helpeth to draw them forth as also Splinters and Thorns in the Flesh and being applied with a little Wine mixed therwith it breaketh Boyls and helpeth Whitlows on the Joynts For al these latter beginning at Sores Cankers c. apply it outwardly and take my advice along with you you shal find in my Translation of the London Dispensatory among the Preparations at latter end a Medicin called Foeculae Brioniae take that and use it you have the way there how to make it and mix that with a little Hogs Greas or other convenient Oyntment and use it at your need As for the former Diseases where it must be taken inwardly it purgeth very Violently and needs an abler hand to correct it than most Country people have therfore it is a better way for them in my opinion to let the Simple alone and take the Compound Water of it mentioned in my Dispensatory and that is far more safe being wisely corrected ♂ Brooklime Description THis sendeth forth from a creeping Root that shooteth forth strings at every Joynt as it runneth divers and sundry green Stalks round and sappy with some branches on them somwhat broad round deep green and thick Leavs set by couples theron from the Bosom wherof shoot forth long Footstalks with sundry smal blue Flowers on them that consist of five smal round pointed Leavs apiece There is another sort nothing differing from the former but that it is greater and the Flowers of a paler blue Colour Place They grow in â—mal standing Waters and usually neer Watercresses Time And Flower in June and July giving Seed the next Month after Vertues and use Brooklime and Watercresses are generally used together in Diet Drinks with other things serving to purge the Blood and Body from ill Humors that would destroy health and are helpful for the Scurvy They do also provoke Urin and help to break the Stone and pass it away they procure Womens Courses and expel the dead Child Being fried with Butter and Vinegar and applied warm it helpeth all manner of Tumors or Swellings and Inflamations Such drinks ought to be made of Sundry Herbs according to the Malady offending I shal give a plain and easie Rule at the latter end of the Book ♂ Butchers-Broom Description THe first shoots that sprout from the Root of Butchers-Broom are thick whitish and short somwhat like those of Asparagus but greater these rising up to be a foot and an half high are spread into divers Branches green somwhat crested with the roundness tough and flexible wheron are set somwhat broad and almost round hard Leavs sharp and prickly pointed at the ends of a dark green colour two for the most part set at a place very close or neer together about the middle of the Leaf on the back or lower side from the middle Rib breaketh forth a smal whitish green Flower consisting of four smal round pointed Leavs standing upon little or no Foot-stalk and in the place wherof cometh a smal round Berry green at the first and red when it is ripe wherin are two or three white hard round Seeds contained The Root is thick white and great at the Head and from thence sendeth forth divers thick white long tough strings Place It groweth in Copses and upon Heaths and wast grounds and oftentimes under or neer the Holly-Bushes Time It shooteth forth his yong buds in the Spring and the Berries are ripe in or about September The Branches and Leavs abiding green al the Winter Vertues and use The Decoction of the Roots made with Wine openeth Obstructions provoketh Urin helpeth to expel Gravel and the Stone the Strangury and Womens Courses as also
spring which being ful grown are very large broad being somwhat thin and almost round whose thick red foot stalks about a foot long stand towards the middle of the Leavs The lower parts being divided into two round parts close almost one to another and of a pale green colour and hoary underneath The Root is long and spreading under ground being in some places no bigger than ones Finger in others much bigger blackish on the outside white within of a bitter and unpleasant tast Place and Time They grow in low and wet grounds by Rivers and Waters side their Flower as is said rising and decaying in February and March before the Leavs which appear in April Vertues and use The Roots hereof are by long experience found to be very available against the Plague and Pestilential Feavers by provoking Sweat if the Pouder therof be taken in Wine it also resisteth the force of any other Poyson The Root hereof taken with Zedoà ry and Angelica or without them helps the rising of the Mother The Decoction of the Root in Wine is singular good for those that wheeze much or are short-winded It provoketh Urin also and Womens courses and killeth the flat and broad Worms in the Belly The Pouder of the Root doth wonderfully help to dry up the moisture of sores that are hard to be cured and taketh away all spots and blemishes of the skin It were wel if Gentlewomen would keep this Root preserved to help their poor Neighbors It is fit the Rich should help the Poor for the Poor cannot help themselvs ♀ The Bur-Dock IT is so well known even to the little Boys who pul off the Burs to throw and stick upon one another that I shal spare to write any Description of it Place They grow plentifully by Ditches and Water-sides and by the High-waies almost every where through this Land Vertues and use The Bur Leavs are cooling moderatly drying and discussing withal whereby it is good for old Ulcers and Sores A dram of the Roots taken with Pine Kernels helpeth them that spit foul â—â—â—tery and bloudy Flegm The Leavs applied on the places troubled with the shrinking of the Sinews or Arteries give much case The Juyce of the Leavs or rather the Roots themselvs given to drink with old Wine doth wonderfully help the bitings of any Serpents And the Root beaten with a little Salt and laid on the place suddenly easeth the pain thereof and helpeth those that are bit with a mad-Dog The Juyce of the Leavs taken with Honey provoketh Urin and remedieth the pain of the Bladder The Seed being drunk in Wine forty daies together doth wonderfully help the Sciatica The Leavs bruised with the White of an Egg and applied to any place burnt with Fire taketh out the Fire gives sudden ease and heal s it up afterwards The Decoction of them fomented on any fretting sore or Canker stayeth the corroding quality which must be afterwards anointed with an Ointment made of the same Liquor Hogs-Greas Nitre and Vinegar boyled together The Roots may be preserved with Sugar and taken fasting or at other times for the said purposes and for Consumptions the Ston and the Lask The Seed is much commended to break the Stone and cause it to be expelled by Urin and is often used with other Seeds and things to that purpose Venus challengeth this Herb for her own and by its Leaf or Seed you may draw the Womb whith way you pleas either upward by applying it to the Crown of the Heed if in case it fal out or downward in fits of the Mother by applying it to the Soals of the Feet Or if you would stay it in its place apply it to the Navel and that is one good way to stay the Child in it See more of it in my Guide for Women Cabbages and Coleworts ☽ IShal spare a labor in writing a Description of these sith almost every one that can but write at all may describe them from his own knowledg they being generally so well known that Descriptions are altogether needless Place These are generally planted in Gardens Time Their flowering time is towards the middle or end of July and the Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use The Cabbages or Colewors boyled gently in Broth and eaten do open the Body but the second Decoction doth bind the Body The Juyce therof drunk in Wine helpeth those that are bitten by an Adder and the Decoction of the Flowers bringeth down Womens Courses Being taken with Honey it recovereth hoarsness or loss of the voice The often eating of them wel boyled helpeth those that are â—â—â—ing into a Consumption The Pulp of the middle Ribs of Coleworts boyled in Almond Milk and made up into an Electuary with Honey being taken often is very profitable for those that are pursie and short-winded Being boyled twice and an old Cock boyled in the Broth and drunk it helpeth the pains and obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and the Stone in the Kidnies The Juyce boyled with Honey and dropped into the corner of the Eye cleareth the sight by consuming any Fnâ— or cloud begining to dim it it also consumeth the Canker growing therin They are much commended being eaten before meat to keep one from surfetting as also from being drunk with too much Wine or quickly make a man sober again that is drunk before For as they say there is such an Antipathy or enmity between the Vine and the Colewort that the one will die where the other groweth The Decoction of Coleworts taketh away the pain and ach and allayeth the swellings of swoln and gouty Legs and Knees wherein many gross and watry humors are fallen the place being bathed therwith warm It helpeth also old and fiâ—thy sores being washed therewith and healeth all smal Scabs Pushes and Wheals that break out in the Skin The Ashes of Colewort Stalks mixed with old Hogs-Grease are very effectual to anoint the Sides of those that have had long pains therin or any other place pained with Melancholly and windy humors This was surely Chrysiptus his god and therfore he wrote a whol Volumn of them and their Vertues and that none of the least neither for he would be no smal Fool he apropriates them to every part of the Body and to every Diseas in every part and honest old Cato they say used no other Physick I know not what Mettals their Bodies were made of this I am sure cabbages are extream windy whether you take them as Meat or as Medicine yea as windy Meat as can be eaten unless you eat Bagpipes or Bellows and they are but seldom eaten in our daies and Colâ—wort Flowers are somthing more tollerable and the wholsomer Food of the two The Moon challengeth the Dominion of the Herb. The Sea Colewort ☽ Description THis hath divers somwhat long and broad large thick wrinkled Leavs somwhat crumpled upon the edges growing each
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
is not able to stand upright but bendeth down to the Ground devided at the top into two or three smal Branches with smal yellowish green Heads and Flowers of a whitish colour breaking out of them which being past there cometh smal yellow Seed like Poppy Seed The Root is somwhat long and black with many strings or fibres thereat Place It groweth naturally in many Pastures and Wood sides in Harfordshire wiltshire and Kent and other places of this Land Time It Flowreth in May and June and abideth after Seed time green al the Winter Vertues and Use. Ladies-Mantle is very proper for those Wounds that have Inflamations and is very effectual to stay Bleedings Vomitings Fluxes of al sorts in man or woman and Bruises by Fals or otherwise and helpeth Ruptures and such Women or Maids as have over great Flagging Breasts causing them to grow less and hard being both drunk and outwardly applied The distilled water drunk for twenty daies together helpeth Conception and to retain the Birth if the Woman do somtimes also sit in a Bath made of the Decoction of the Herb. It is one of the most singular Wound Herbs that is and therfore highly prized and praised by the Germans who use in al Wounds inward and outward to drink the Decoction thereof and wash the Wounds therewith or dip Tents therein and put them into the Wounds which wonderfully drieth up al humidity of the Sores and abateth Inflamations therein It quickly healeth al green Wounds not suffering any corruption to remain behind and cureth old Sores though Fistulous and hollow Venus claims the Herb as her own ☿ Lavender THis is so wel known being an Inhabitant in almost every Garden that it needeth no Description Time It flowreth about the end of June and beginning of July Vertues and Use. Lavender is of special good use for all the Griefs and pains of the Head and Brains that proceed of a cold caus as the Apoplexy Falling-sickness the drowsie or sluggish Malady Cramps Convulsions Palseys and often Faintings It strengtheneth the Stomach and freeth the Liver and Spleen from Obstructions provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the dead Child and Afterbirth The Flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine helpeth them to make water that are stopped or are troubled with the Wind or Chollick if the places be bathed therewith A Decoction made with the Flowers of Lavender Horehound Fennel and Asparagus Roots and a little Cinnamon is very profitably used to help the Falling-sickness and the giddiness or turning of the Brain To gargle the Mouth with the Decoction thereof is good against the Toothach Two spoonfuls of the distilled Water of the Flowers taken helpeth them that have lost their voice as also the tremblings and passions of the Heart and faintings and swounings not only being drunk but applied to the Temples or Nostrils to be smelt unto but it is not safe to use it where the Body repleat with Blood and Humors becaus of the hot and subtil spirits wherewith it is possessed The Chimical Oyl drawn from Lavender usually called Oyl of Spike is of so fierce and piercing Spirits that it is cautiously to be used some few drops being sufficient to be given with other things either for inward or outward Griefs Mercury owns the Herb and it carries his effects very potently Lavender Cotten hath the same Vertues with Southernwood which shal be shewed you when I come to speak of it ☽ ♋ Lettice THis is so wel known being generally used as a Sallet Herb that it is altogether needless to write any Description thereof Vertues and Use. The Juyce of Lettice mixed or boyled with Oyl of Roses and applied to the Forehead and Temples procureth Sleep and easeth the Headach proceeding of an hot caus being eaten boyled it helpeth to loosen the Belly It helpeth digestion quencheth thirst encreaseth Milk in Nurses easeth griping pains of the Stomach or Bowels that come of Choller It abateth Bodily lust represseth Venereous Dreams being outwardly applied to the Cods with a little Camphire Applied in the same manner to the Region of the Heart Liver or Reins or by bathing the said place with the Juyce or distilled Water wherein some white Sanders and red Roses are put also it not only represseth the heat and Inflamation therein but comforts and strengthens those parts and also tempereth the heat of Urine Galen adviseth old men to use it with Spices and where Spices are wanting to ad Mints Rocket and such like hot Herbs or els Citron Lemmon or Orange Seeds to abate the cold of one and heat of the other The Seed and distilled Water of the Lettice work the like effects in al things but the use of Lettice is chiefly forbidden to those that are short winded or have any imperfection in their Lungs or spit Blood The Moon owns them and that 's the reason they cool and moisten what heat and driness Mars causeth because Mars hath his fall in Cancer and they cool the Heart becaus the Sun rules it between whom and the Moon is a Reccption in the Generation of Man as you may soe in my Guide for women The VVater-Lilly ☽ Description OF these there are two principally noted kinds Viz. Thewhite and the Yellow The white Lilly hath very large round and thick dark green Leavs lying on the Water sustained by long and thick Footstalks that rise from a great thick round and long tuberous black Root spungy or loos with many Knobs thereon like Eyes and whitish within from amidst the which rise other the like thick and great Stalks sustaining one large white Flower thereon green on the outside but as white as Snow within consisting of divers rows of long and somwhat thick and narrow Leavs smaller and thinner the more inward they be encompassing a head within w th many yellow threds or thrums in the middle where after they are past stand round Poppylike Heads ful of broad Oyly and bitter Seed The yellow kind is little different from the former save only it hath fewer Leavs on the Flowers greater and more shining Seed and a whitish Root both within and without The Roots of both being somwhat sweet in tast Place They are sound growing in great Pools and standing Waters and somtimes in slow running Rivers and lesser Ditches of Water in sundry places of this Land Time They Flower most commonly about the end of May and their Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use The Leavs and Flowers of the Water-Lillies are cold and moist but the Root and Seed is cold and dry The Leavs do cool al Inflamations and both outward and inward heats of Agues and so doth the Flowers also either by the Syrup or Conserve The Syrup helpeth much to procure rest and to settle the Brains of Frantick persons by cooling the hot distemperature of the Head The Seed as wel as the Root is effectual to stay Fluxes of Blood or Humors either of Wounds
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
is a good Remedy against the Plague and other Pestilential Feavers if the Party after taking it warm lie in his bed and sweat for two hours after and use the same twice at least It helpeth also all stingings and bitings of Venemous Beasts or mad Dogs being used inwardly and applied outwardly The same also openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and is very available against the Infirmities of the Reins it provoketh Urine and helpeth to expel the Stone and Gravel out of the Kidneys and Bladder and helpeth much in all inward Wounds and Ulcers The Decoction or distilled Water is no less effectual to be applied to all Wounds that are fresh and green or old filthy fretting and running Ulcers which it very effectually cureth in short spaces A little Honey mixed with the Juyce and dropped into the Eyes clenseth them from cloudy mists or thick Films which grow over them and hinder the sight It helpeth the Toothach being dropped into the Ear on the contrary side of the pain It is also effectual to eas the pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles Ground Pine or Chamepitys Description OUr common Ground Pine groweth low seldom rising above an handbreadth high shooting forth divers smal Branches set with slender smal long narrow grayish or whitish Leavs somwhat hairy and devided into three parts many times many bushing together at a Joynt and somtimes some growing scatteredly upon the Stalks smelling somwhat strong like unto Rozin the Flowers are somwhat smal and of a pale yellow colour growing from the Joynts of the Stalks all along among the Leavs after which come small long and round Husks The Root is smal woody perishing every yeer Place It groweth more plentifully in Kent than in any other Country of this Land as namely in many places from on this side Dartford along to Southfleet Cotham and Rochester and upon Chattam down hard by the Beacon and half a mile from Rochester in a Field nigh a Hous called Salsey Time It Flowreth and giveth Seed in the Summer Months Vertues and Use. The Decoction of Ground Pine drunk doth wonderfully prevail against the Strangury or any inward pains arising from the Diseases of the Reins and Urine and is especial good for all Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and gently openeth the Body for which purpose they were wont in former times to make Pills with the Pouder thereof and the Purple Figs. It marveilously helpeth all the Diseases of the Mother used inwardly or applied outwardly procuring Womens Courses and expelling the dead Child and afterbirth yea it is so powerful upon those Feminine parts that it is utterly forbidden to Women with Child in that it will caus abortment or delivery before the time It is as effectual also in all pains and Diseases of the Joynts as Gouts Cramps Palseys Sciatica and Aches either the Decoction of the Herb in ' Wine taken inwardly or applied outwardly or both for some time together for which purpose the Pills made with the Pouder of Ground Pine and of Hermodactils with Venice Turpentine are very effectual These Pills also are special good for those that have the Dropsie to be continued for some time The same is a special good help for the Jaundice and for griping pains in the Joynts Belly or inward parts It helpeth also all Diseases of the Brain proceeding of cold and Flegmatick Humors and Distillations as also for the Falling-sickness It is an espcial Remedy for the Poyson of the Aconites of all sorts and other poisonful Herbs as also against the stinking of any Venemous Creature It is a good Remedy for a cold Cough especially in the beginning For all this purposes aforesaid the Herb being tunned up in new Drink and drunk is almost as effectual but far more acceptable to weak and dainty Stomachs The Distilled Water of the Herb hath the same effects but more weakly The Conserve of the Flowers doth the like which Mathiolus much commendeth against the Palsey The green Herb or the Decoction thereof being applied dissolveth the hardness of Womens Breasts and all other hard Swellings in any other part of the Body The green Herb also applied or the Juyce thereof with some Honey not only clenseth putrid stinking foul and Malignant Ulcers and Sores of all sorts but healeth and sodereth up the lips of green Wounds in any part also Let Women forbear it if they be with Child for it works violently upon the Foeminine part and Mars owns it I tell them but so Plantane THis groweth so familiarly in Meadows and Fields and by Pathways and is so well known that it needeth no Description Time It is in its beauty about June and the Seed ripeneth shortly after Vertues and Use. The Juyce of Plantane clarified and drunk for divers daies together either of it self or in other drink prevaileth wonderfully against all torments or Excoriations in the Guts or Bowels helpeth the distillations of Rhewm from the Head ond staieth all manner of Fluxes even Womens Courses when they flow too abundantly It is good to stay spitting of Blood and all other Bleedings at the Mouth or the making of foul or bloody water by reason of any Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder and also staveth the too free bleeding of Wounds It is held an especial Remedy for those that are troubled with the Phtisick or Consumption of the Lungs or Ulcers in the Lungs or Coughs that come of heat The Decoction or Pouder of the Roots or Seed is much more binding for all the purposes aforesaid than the Leavs Dioscorides saith That three Roots boyled in Wine and taken helpeth the Tertian Ague and four the Quartan Ague But letting pass the number as Fabulous I conceive the Decoction of divers Roots may be effectual The Herb but especially the Seed is held to be profitable against the Dropsie the Falling-sickness the yellow Jaundice and stoppings of the Liver and Reins The Roots of Plantane and Pellitory of Spain beaten to Pouder and put into hollow Teeth taketh away the pains of them The clarified Juyce or distilled Water dropped into the Eyes cooleth the Inflamations in them and taketh away the Pin and Web and dropped into the Ears easeth pains in them and helpeth and restoreth the Hearing The same also with Juyce of Housleek is profitable against all Inflamations and breakings out in the skin and against Burnings or Scaldings by fire or Water The Juyce or Decoction made either of it self or other things of like nature is of much use and good effect for old and hollow Ulcers that are hard to be cured and for Cankers and Sores in the Mouth or privy parts of Man or Woman and helpeth also the pains of the Piles in the Fundament The Juyce mixed with Oyl of Roses and the Temples and Forhead anointed therewith easeth the pains of the Head proceeding from heat and helpeth Lunatick and Phrenetick persons very much as also the bitings of Serpents or a Mad Dog The same
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.
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
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
extenuate fat corpulent Bodies What an Infamy is cast upon the Ashes of Methridates or Methradates as the Augustanes read his name by unworthy people they that deserve no good report themselves love to give nonâ— to others Viz. That that renowned King of Pontus fortified his Body by Poyson against Poyson He cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils what a sot is he that knows not if he had accustomed his Body to cold Poysons hot Poysons would have dispatch'd him or the contrary if not corrosions would have done it the whol world is at this very time beholding to him for his Studies in Physick and he that useth the quantity of but a Hazel Nut of that Recept every morning to which his name is adjoyned shall to admiration preserve his Body in health if he do but consider that Rue is an Herb of the Sun and under Leo and gather it and the rest accordingly Rupture wort Description THis spreadeth very many threddy Branches round about upon the ground about a span long devided into many other smaller parts full of small Joynts set very thick together whereat come forth two very small Leavs of a fresh yellowish green colour branches and all where groweth forth also a number of exceeding smal yellowish Flowers scarce to be discerned from the Stalks and Leavs which turn into Seed as smal as the very dust The Root is very long and smal thrusting down deep into the ground This hath neither smel nor tast at first but afterward hath a little astringent tast without any manifest heat yet a little bitter and sharp withal Place It groweth in dry sandy and Rockie places Time It is fresh and green all the Summer Vertues and use Rupture wort hath not his name in vain for it is found by experience to cure the Rupture not only in Children but also in Elder Persons if the Diseas be not too inveterate by taking a dram of the Pouder of the dried Herb every day in Wine for certain daies together Or the Decoction made in Wine and drunk Or the Juyce or distilled water of the green Herb taken in the same manner and helpeth all other Fluxes either in men or Women Vomitings also and the Gonorrhea or running of the Reins being taken any of the waies aforesaid It doth also most assuredly help those that have the Strangury or have their Urine stopped or are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in their Reins or Bladder The same also helpeth much all Stitches in the Side all griping pains in the Stomach or Belly the Obstructions of the Liver and cureth the yellow Jaundice likewise It killeth also the Worms in Children Being outwardly applied it conglutineth Wounds notably and helpeth much to stay Defluxions of Rhewm from the Head to the Eyes Nose and Teeth being bruised green and bound thereto Or the Decoction of the dried Herb to bath the Forehead and Temples or the Nape of Neck behind It also drieth up the moisture of Fistulous Ulcers or any others that are foul and spreading They say Saturn causeth Ruptures if he do he doth no more than he can cure if you want wit he will teach you though to your cost this Herb is Saturns own and is a notable Antivenerian Rushes ALthough there are many kinds of Rushes yet I shall only here insist upon those which are best known and most Medicinal as the Bulrushes and other of the soâ—t and smooth kinds which grow so commonly in almost every place of this Land and are so generally noted that I suppose it needless to trouble you with any Description of them Briefly then take the Vertues of them as followeth Vertues and Uices The Seeds of these soft Rushes saith Dioscorides and Galen toasted saith Pliny being drunk in Wine and Water stayeth the Lask and Womens Courses when they come down too abundantly but it causeth Headach It provoketh sleep likewife but must be given with caution lest the party that takes it wake not until the Resurrection Pliny saith The Root boyled in water to the consumption of one third helpeth the Cough Thus you see that Conveniences have their Inconveniences and Vertue is seldom unaccompanied with some Vices What I have written concerning Rushes is to satisfie my Country-mens Question Are our Rushes good for nothing Yes and as good let alone as taken There are Remedies enough without them for every Diseas and therforo as the Proverb is I care not a Rush for them or rather they will do you as much good as if one had given you a Rush. Rye THis is so well known in all the Countries of this Land and especially to the Country people who feed much thereon that if I should describe it they would presently say I might well have spared that Labor Its Vertues follow Vertues and use Rye is more digesting than Wheat The Bread and the Leaven thereof ripeneth and breaketh Impostumes Boyls and other Swellings The Meal of Rye put between a double cloth and moistned with a little Vinegar and heated in a Pewter dish set over a Chafing-dish of coals and bound fast to the Head while it is hot both much eas the continual pains of the Head Mathiolus saith That the ashes of Rye straw put into Water and suffered therein a day and a night and the Chops of the Hands or Feet washed therewith doth heal them Saffron THe Herb needs no Description it being known generally where it grows Place It grows frequently at Walden in Essex and in Cambridg-sbire Vertues and use It is an Herb of the Sun and under the Lion and therfore you need not demand a reason why it strengthens the heart so exceedingly Let not abov ten grains be given at one time for if the Sun which is the Fountain of Life may dazle the Eyes and make them blind a Cordial being taken in an immoderate quantity may hurt the Heart instead of helping it It quicken the Brain for the Sun is exalted in V as well as he hath his House in SL it help Consumption of the Lungs help difficulty of breathing it is an excellent thing in Epidemical Diseases as Pestilences smal Pox and Measles It is a notable expulsive Medicine and a notable Remedy for the yellow Jaundice My own Opinion is but I have no Author for it that Hermodactils is nothing else but the Roots of Saffron dried and my reason is that the Roots of all Crocus both white and yellow purge Flegm as Hermodactils do and if you please to dry the Roots of any Crocus neither your eye nor your tast shal distinguish it from Hermodactils Sage OUr ordinary Garden Sage needeth no Description Time It Flowreth in or about July Vertues and use A Decoction of the Leavs and Branches of Sage made and drunk saith Dioscorides provoketh Urine bringeth down Womens Courses helpeth to expel the dead Child and causeth the hairs to become black It staieth the bleeding of Wounds and clenseth foul Ulcers or Sores The seid