x29 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
then a little of the fyrup, and applying an ointment or plaifter of the herb to the 
place; and alfo if any vein be fwelled, or mufcl¢ cut, apply a plaifter of this herb to 
it, and if you add a little comfrey to it, it willnot do amifs. I affure you this herb 
deferves commendation though it have gotten but a clownifh name, and whoever reads 
this, if he try itas I have done, will commend it as well as me.~-—It is of an earthy 
nature.. 
©: O° Gi? se BAD. 
OTHERWISE calied red fitchling, or medick fetch. 
Description. This hath divers. weak but rough ftalks, half a yard long, leaning 
downwards, befet with winged leaves, longer and more pointed than thofe of lentils, 
and whitifh underneath ; from the tops of thofe ftalks arife up other flender ftalks, 
naked without leaves unto the tops, where there grow many {mall flowers in manner - 
of a fpike, of a pale reddifh colour, with fome bluenefs among them; after which 
rife up in their places, round, rough, and fomewhat flat heads. The root is tough and 
fomewhat woody, yet liveth and fhooteth afrefh 
Piace. It groweth under hed 
places of this land. | 
Time. They flower 
the mean while. | 
GovERNMENT anp Virturts, 
every year, 
ges, and fometimes in the open fields, in divers 
all the months of July and Aueutt, na ifie feed ripeneth in 
over It is under the dominion of Venus. Tt hath power to 
ratify and digeft, and therefore the green leaves bruifed and laid as a plaifter, difperf- _ 
eth knots, nodes, or kernels in the flefh: and if when it is dry it be taken in wine, it 
helpeth the ftranguary ; and being anointed with oil, it provoketh fweat. It is a fin- 
gular food for cattle, to caufe them to give ftore of milk, and why then may it not 
do the like being boiled in the ordinary drink of nurfes ? : | 
' 
ce COLUMBINES 
are fo well known, growing inalmoft every garden, that I think I may 
cl | ting adefcription of them, 
moft part when June is paft, 
ot aa Venus. The leaves of colum- 
Ws swith Sood fuccefs, for fore mouths and throats ; 
Bens ‘the feed taken in Wine with a little faffron, openeth 
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