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THERE is both garden and wild angelica, fome alfo reckon up a water kind ; 
it groweth up with great hollow ftalks, four or five feet high, having: broad 
‘divided leaves, of a pale green colour, at the top cometh forth large umbells of 
white 
* That is, the angelical or angel-like herb. On what occafion this excellent name was firtt 
given unto it, I know not ; unlefs it were for the excellent virtues thereof, or, for that God made 
it known to man, by the miniftry of an angel. I fuppofe the former cafe rather to be true: 
however, as I am not able to prove the other, fo I think no man can give any good reafon to the 
contrary. For this we know, that God hath made his angels miniftering {pirits, to ferve us for 
the fafeguard of our fouls, and alfo of our bedies. But upon what occafion foever the name was 
—Angelica is hot and dry, at leaftin the 
third degree, All the latter writers agree upon this, and experience proveth the fame, that it is 
good againft poifon, peftilent airs, and the peftilence itfelf. The practitioners of Germany write 
thus of it; If any man be fuddenly taken either with the peftilence, or with any peftilent ague, 
with too much fweating, let him drink of the ‘powder of the root half a dram, mingled with 2 
dram of treacle, in three or four fpoonfuls of the water of angelica, diftilled from the roots, and 
after his going to bed, covering himfelf well, let him faft, at the leaft, three hours after; which 
if he do, he will begin to fweat, and by the help of God, he will be cured of his difeafe. For 
want of treacle one may take a whole dram of the root of angelica in powder, with fo much of the 
diftilled water as aforefaid, and it will have the fame effect. The root of angelica: well 
fteeped in vinegar, and {melt to in time of the peftilence, and the fame liquor being fometimes 
drank fafting, preferveth from infeGion. Butin my judgment, it is better to take an orange 
or a lemon, cut off the top, pick out the meat, prick it full of fmall holes, put into it a piece of 
fponge, or fine linen cloth, dipped in the aforefaid vinegar, and fmell to it.——The water diftilled 
out of the roots of angelica, or the powder of the fame, is good againft gnawing and pains of the 
belly occafioned with cold, if the body be not bound. It is good againft all inward difeafes, as 
pleurify, in the beginning before the heat of the inflammation be come into the body : for that 
it diffolveth and {cattereth abroad fuch humours as ufe to caufe the pleurify. Moreover itis good 
for the difeafes of the lungs, if they come of a cold caufe ; and from the ftrangurian, if froma 
cold caufe, or of a ftopping. It is good for a woman that is in travail. It expelleth wind thatis 
in the body, and eafeth the -painithat cometh from the fame. « The root may be fod in wine or 
water, as the nature of the fick requireth: ‘The root or the juice put into an hollow tooth, taketh 
-away the ach; the fame effec hath the diftilled water, being’ put into the ear, ‘The juice and 
given, it is excellent, and fo are the properties. 
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