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wounds; and therefore you may make a falt of this for the ftone, the way to prepare Z 
it will be given in plainer terms in the Di/pen/atory, at the latter end of this book, 
at ae re ee 
_ BESIDES the common name Bifhop’s weed, it is ufually known by the Greek 
name, ammi, and amios; fome call it AEthiopian cummin feed, and others cummin 
royal; as alfo herb william, and bulwort. | 
Description. Common bifhop’s weed rifeth up with a round ftalk, fometimes as — 
high as a man, but ufually three or four feet high, befet with divers fmall, long, and — 
fomewhat broad leaves, cut in fome places and dented about the edges, growing one — 
-againft another, of adark green colour, having fundry branches on them, and at. 
the top fmall umbels of white flowers, which turn into fmall round brown feed, litle — 
bigger than parfley feed, of a quick hot feent and tafte. The root is white and — 
ftringy, perifhing yearly after it hath feeded, and ufually rifeth again of itsown — 
fowing. ; 
Prace. It groweth wild in many places in England’ and Wales, as betweeh 
- Greenheath and Gravefend. ‘3 
_GoveRNMENT AnD Virtues. It is hot and dry in the third degree, of a bittet s 
tafte, and fomewhat tharp withal, it provokes luft, (I fappofe Venus owns it) 
it digefteth humours, provoketh urine and womens? courfes, expelleth wind, and bee 
“ing taken in wine, eafeth pains and Stipings in the bowels, and is good againft the — 
_bitings of ferpents ; it is ufed to good effett in thofe medicines which are yiven 0 
hinder the poifonous operation of cantharides upon the paffage of the urine: being 
< mixed with honey, and applied to black or blue marks coming of blows or bruifes, : 
it takes them away : and being drank or outwardly applied, it abateth high colout 
Sad makes it pale, and the fumes thereof taken with rofin or raifins, cleanl- 
the mother, 
ceca pin Sper, ‘dragon wort, ofterich, a0 : 
fear hath a thick, hort, knobbed root, blackith without, a 
» alittle crooked or turned together, of an harfh aftringe 
Sih ae, thereto, from whence {pring up every 
footttalks, being fomewhat broad and long lis 
ends, but thar it is of a bluith green colout 
wok Stey Somewhat tinged with purple per 
