AND COMPLETE HERBAL: Ry 
neath, with divers veins therein; from among which rife up divers fmall and flen- 
der ftalks, two feet high, and almoft naked and without leaves, or with very few, 
and narrow, bearing a {piky bufh of pale flefh coloured flowers, which being patt, 
there abideth {mall feed, fomewhat like forrel feed, but larger. . 
There are other forts of biftort growing in this land, but fmaller both i in height, 
root, and ftalks, and efpecially in the leaves. The root is blackifh without, and 
fomewhat whitifh within, of an auftere binding tafte, as the former. | 
Prace. They grow. in fhadowy moift woods, and at the foot of hills, but ate 
chiefly nourifhed up in gardens. The narrow leaved biftort groweth in the north ; 
in Lancafhire, Yorkfhire, and Cumberland. 
Time. ‘They flower about the end of May, and the feed is ripe about the be- 
ginning of July. 7 
GOVERNMENT AND Virtugs, It belongs to Saturn, and is in operation cold 
anddry. Both the leaves and roots have a powerful faculty to refitt all poifon: the 
root in powder taken in drink, éxpelleth the venom of the plague, the fmall pox, | 
‘meafles, purples, or any other infectious difeafe, driving it out by {weating; the 
“decoétion of the root ‘being drank in wine, ftayeth all manner of inward bleedings : 
or fpittings of blood, and any fluxes in the body of either man or woman, or vomit- 
ing. It is alfo very available againft ruptures, or burftings, or bruifes, or falls, 
diffolving the congealed blood,. and eafeth the pains that happen thereupon ; it alfo 
helpeth the jaundice, The water diftilled from both leaves and root, is a fingular 
remedy to wafh any place bitten or ftung by any venomous creature; as alfo for any 
of the purpofes before fpoken: of ; and is very good. to wath any. running fores or 
ulcers. The decoétion of the root in wine being drank, hindereth abortion or mif- 
carriage in child bearing. The leaves alfo kill the worms in children, and is a great 
“help for them that cannot’ ‘keep their water; if the} Juice of plantane be added thereto, 
and outwardly applied, it much helpeth the gonorrhea, or running of the reins. A 
dram of the powder of the root taken in the water thereof, wherein. fome red hot 
fron or fteel hath been quenched, is alfo an admirable elp thereto, fo as the body 
be firft prepared and purged from the offenfive humours. The leaves, feed, or 
roots are all very good in decoétions, drinks, or. tions. for inward or outward 
wounds or other fores ; and the powder. f ftrewed ‘up ! 
on any cut or wound in a vein, 
ftayeth the immoderate bleed ; the decoction of the roots in water where- 
with fome pomegranate peels. ‘a flowers are : added, injected i into the matrix, ftayeth 
the accefs of humours to the ulcers thereof, and bringeth it to its right place, being 
_ fallen down, and ftayeth the: erate flux of the courfes. The root hereof with 
beligory of Spain and ay, allum, of each a little ys beaten f wall 
