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Keep thofe Jean and lank that are apt to Stow fat. The diftilled water drank twice 
a day, helpeth the yellow jaundice, and the decoétion of the herb by experience is . 
found to do the fame, and {tayeth the lafks and bloody fluxes. The juice of the 
leaves, or the leaves a little bruifed, and applied to any bleeding wound, ftayeth the 
bleeding ; the juice is alfo very good to clofe up the lips of green wounds; and the. 
powder of the dried herb ftrewed thereupon, doth the fame, and likewife helpeth old 
ulcers. Being boiled with hog’s greafe, it healeth all forts of hard fwellings or ker- 
nels in the throat, being anointed therewith. The juice dropped into the ears, taketh 
away the pains fromthem. It is a good remedy in the {pring, eaten, being firft chop- 
ped imall and boiled well, in water greuel, to cleanfe the blood and ftrengthen the — 
liver, thereby keeping the body in health, and fitting it for that change of feafun 
that is coming. ~ 
Oe ft’ CLOWN’s WOUNDWORT: s 
DescriPrion. IT groweth up fometimes to three or four feet high, but ufually 
~ about two feet, with fquare, green, rough ftalks, but flender, jointed fomewhat far 
afunder, and two very long, and fomewhat narrow, dark green leaves, bluntly dent- 
ed about the edges, thereat ending in a long point. The flowers ftand toward the 
tops compaffing the ftalks at the joints with the leaves and end likewife in a {piked , 
top, having long and much open gaping hoods, of a purpleifh red colour with whitg 
ith fpots in them, ftanding in fomewhat rough hufks, wherein afterwards ftand 
blackifh round feeds. The root is compofed of many long ftrings, with fome tuber- 
ous long knobs growing among them, of a pale yellowifh or whitith colour, yet at 
fome times of the year thefe knobby roots in many places are. not feen in the plant : 
the whole plant fmelleth fomewhat ftrongly, ec: med! 3 ; y 3 
Prace. It groweth in fundry counties of this land, both north and welt, and fre- 
quently by path fides.in the fields near about London, and withjp three or four miles 
diftance about it, yet ufually grows inor near ditches, 
Time. It flowereth in June and July, and the feed is ripe foon after. - 
GOVERNMENT AND Virtues, It is under the dominion of the planet Saturn, >It 
is fingularly effectual in all freth and green wounds, and therefore beareth not this — 
ame for nought. And is very available in ftanching of blood, and to dry up the © 
fluxes of humours in old fretting ulcers, cancers, &c. that hinder the healing of 
them. —A fyrup made of the juice of it is inferior to none for inward wounds, rup- 
tures of veins, bloody flux, veflels broken, fpitting, piffing, or vomicting blood: 
Tuptures are excellently and {peedily, even to admiration, cured by taking nowand — ee 
