6  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
and diffolveth the congealed blood of bruifes by ftrokes, falls, Occ. A piece of the 
root, or fome of the feed bruifed, and held to an aching tooth, taketa away the pain, 
The leaves bruifed, and laid to the joint that hath a fellon thereon, taketh it away, 
The juice deftroyeth worms in the ears, being dropped into them : if the hot arfe- 
fmart be ftrewed in a chamber, it will foon kill all the fleas; and the herb or juice - 
of the cold arfefmart put to a horfe or other cattle’s fores will drive away the flies in 
the hotteft time of fummer; a good handful of the hot biting arfe{mart, put under 
a horfes faddle, will make him travel the better, although he were half tired before: 
the mild arfefmart is good againft hot impoftumes and inflammations at the begin- 
ing, and to heal green wounds. | 
All authors chop the virtues of both forts of arfefmart together, as men chop 
herbs for the pot, when both of them are of quite contrary qualities. ‘The hot arle- 
{mart groweth not fo high, or tall, as the mild doth, but hath many leaves of the co- 
lour of peach leaves, very feldom or never fpotted, in other particulars it is like the 
former, but may eafily be known from it, if you will be but pleafed to break a leaf of 
it acrofs your tongue, for the hot will make your tongue to fmart, but the cold will 
not. If you feethem both together, you may eafily diftinguifh them, becaufe the ~ 
mild hath far broader leaves : and our college of phyficians out of their learned care 
for the public good, anglicé, their own gain, miftake the one for the other in their 
New Majterpiece, whereby they difcover, 17 Their ignorance. 2. Their carelefs- 
3 — na ee hath but half an eye, may fee their pride without a pair of {pecta- 
| iss . en aah what I could to diftinguifh them in their virtues, and when you 
find hot the contrary named, ufe the cold. ; | 
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