122 yt eae ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
HUG SWEET CHERVIL, 
CALLED by fome fweet cicely. 
Deseriprion. “It groweth very much like isiee: greater hemlock, having large 
fpread leaves, cut into divers parts, but of a frefher green colour than the hemlock, 
tafting as {weet as the annifeed ; the ftalk rifeth up a yard high, or more, being 
crefted or hollow, having the leaves at the joints, but lefs, and at the tops of the 
branched ftalks, umbels or tufts of white flowers; after which comes large and 
long crefted, black, fhining fezd, pointed at both ends, tafting quick, yet {weet 
and pleafant: the root is great and white, growing deep in the ground, and fpread- 
ing fundry long branches therein, in tafte and fmell ftronger than the leaves or 
_ feed, and continuing many years, 
Pract. It groweth in gardens. 
Government anp Vintuzs. Thefe are all three of them of that natureof Ju- 
piter, and under his dominion, This whole plant, befides its pleafantnefs i in fallads, 
hath alfo its phyfical virtues; the root boiled and eaten with oil and vinegar, or 
without ‘oil, doth much pleafe and warm an old and cold ftomach, oppreffed with 
wind or phlegm, or thofe that have the phthyfic or confumption of the lungs. The 
fame drank with wine, is a preferyatiye from the plague ; , it provoketh women’s 
courles, and expelleth the afterbirth, procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth 
wind: the juice is good to heal the ulcers of the head and face ;_the candied roots 
hereof are held asieffeatual as angelica, to preferye from infection in the time of 4 
plague, and to warm and comfort a cold weak Romach. It is fo harmlefs that 
you cannot make ule of it amifs. 
Be ZAG CHESNUT TREE. pW Gx 
~ Todefcribea tree'fo commonly known, were as needlefs as to tell a man he has _ 
gotter a mouth; therefore take the government and virtues of it thus; 
= tree is abfolucely under the dominion of Jupiter, and therefore the fruit muft 
6 seh blood, and. yield commendable 1 ourifhment to the body, yet if 
“ tl = the head ach, and bind the 
a: covereth the ‘ut, is of fo vinting a quality, that a fcruple 
neve than, Or ten grains by a child, foon ftops any flux tapas fil 
ep enh 8 dried and beaten into powder, and a drachm taken at a time, is 
nels into pom, bth she hee ee ou dy csfouts and eat the ke 
ary with er fa han 3 taken away, and make it up into an ee 
; € you an admirable remedy for the cough and Spitting blood. 
EARTH 
