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fuccels unto thofe who are troubled with cafting, vomiting, or bleeding at the mouth , 
or nofe, or otherwife downwards. The faid- ‘Juice given in the diftilled water of 
oaken buds, is very good for women who have their ufual courfes, or the whites _ 
flowing down too abundantly. It helps foreeyes, The leaves infufed or boiled in 
oil omphacine, or unripe olives fet in the fun for certain days, or the green leaves 
fufficiently boiled in the faid oi], is made an excellent green balfam, not only for 
green and frefh wounds, but alfo for old and inveterate ulcers ; efpecially if a Jittle 
fine clear turpentine be diffolved therein. It alfo ftayeth and Spiny all inflam- - 
mations that arife upon pains, by hurts or wounds *, 
BF xGRIMONY. 
Description. THIS hath divers long leaves, fome greater, fome fmaller, fet up- 
on a ftalk, all of them dented about the edges, green above, and greyith underneath, 
and a little hairy withal. Among which rifeth up ufually but one ftrong, round, 
hairy, brown ftalk, two or three feet high, with fmailer leaves fet here and there: 
upon it ; at the top whereof grow many yellow flowers one above another in long) 
fpikes, after which come rough heads of feeds hanging downwards, which will 
cleave to and ftick upon garments, or any thing that fhall rub againft them. The, 
root is black, long, and fomewhat woody, abiding many years, and a 
every {pring ; which root, though fmall, hath a reafonable good {cent. 
_ Prace. It grows upon banks, near the fides of hedges or rails. 
Time. It flowereth in July and Auguft, the feed. being ripe fhortly after. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. Moderately hot and moift, according to the nature 
of Jupiter. It is an herb under Jupiter and the fign Cancer; and {trengthens thofe 
parts under that planet and fign, and removes difeafes i in them by fympathy, and thofe 
-under Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, by antipathy. If happen in any part of 
the body governed by Jupiter, or under the figns Cancer, Sagittarius, or Pifces, 
and therefore muft needs be good for the gout, either ufed Qutwardly in an oil or 
: _ *Tis an excellent wound herb, either taken inwardly, or outwardly applied. For ruptures 
or burften bellies, take as much of the powder of the dried leaves as will li off : 
according to the age of the party, in two ounces of horfe- |, or oak-bud water, fweetened with 
fyrup of quinces. Ufe it every morning for the {pace of fifteen days. But before you enter up 
the ufe of this, or any other medicine, the gut, if it fall into the fcrotum, muft be reduced by — 
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