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white flowers, after which fucceedeth flat feeds, fomewhat whitith ; the root pee 
rifheth every year if it be fuffered to feed. 
Piace anp Time, Angelica is Latin and Englifh, it grows commonly in our 
gardens, and wild alfo in many places, flowers about July, and the feed is ripe 
foon after, —- on 
—GoveRNMENT AND Virturs. It is an herb of the Sun in Leo, let it be gathered 
when he is there, the Moon applying to his good afpect ; let it be gathered either in 
his hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular. Obferve the like in ga- : 
thering the herbs of other planets, and you may happen to do wonders. In all epi- j 
demical difeafes caufed by Saturn, this is as good a prefervative as grows; it refifts : 
poifon by defending and comforting the hearr, blood, and {pirits; it doth the like 
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cover the bones with flefh. The water of the fame, in a cold caufe, is gbod to be laid on places 
difeafed with the gout and {ciatica, For it ftancheth the pain, and melteth away the tough hu- 
mee that are gathered together. The feed is of like virtue with the root. The wild angelica 
: Gat groweth here in the low woods, and by the water fide, is not of fuch virtue as the other; 
howbeit the furgeons {eethe the root of it in wine, to heal green wounds. ‘Thefe properties I 
have gathered out of German writers. 1 have not as yet proved them all myfelf, but divers of 
them I have proved, and have found them to be true. I have fet down the shat : noe ae 
7 beseian for sabe micncathechons is alfo commended by phyficians, to be a good prefervative both againft , 
he tk wae infeSticin of peftilence.wer- Late writers affirm, that the roots of angelica are op= 
_ f.all goifon and infeétion. If any be infeéted with the plague, or poifoned, they give him 
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