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obftructions of the liver, and is good for the yellow jaundice, if the party after the tak 
ing thereof be laid to fweat well in his bed: the feed alfo taken in wine caufeth a 
fpeedy delivery of women in child-birth; if one draught fuffice not, let her drin k a 
fecond, and it will be effeCtual. The Spaniards ufed to eat a piece of the root hereof 
fafting, many days together, to help them when troubled with the ftone in the reins 
or kidnies. 
WU COL Ts Fo or 
‘ CALLED alfo cough-wort, foal’s foot, horfe-hoof, and bull’s foot. 
Description. This fhooteth up a flender ftalk with fmall yellowith ower: 
fomewhat early, which fall away quickly ; after they are paft come up fomewhat 
round leaves, fometimes dented a little about the edges, much Jefs, thicker, and 
greener than thofe of butter-bur, with a little down or freeze over the green leaf on 
the upper fide, which may be rubbed away, and whitifh or mealy underneath. The 
root is {mall and white, fpreading much under ground, fo that where it taketh it will 
hardly be driven away again, if any little piece be abiding therein; and from thence’ 
fpringeth frefh leaves. 
Prace. It groweth as well in wet grounds as in drier places. 
Time. And flowereth in the end of February, the leaves beginning to appear im 
March. 7 ? 
Government anv Virtuts. The plant is under Venus. The freth leaves, or 
juice, or a fyrup made thereof, is good fora hot, dry cough, for wheezings and 
fhortnefs of breath : the dry leaves are beft for thofe that have thin rheums, and dif- 
tillations upon their lungs, caufing a cough, for which alfo the dried leaves taken as 
tobacco, or the root, is very good. The diftilled water hereof fimply, or with elder 
flowers and nightfhade, is a fingular remedy againft all hot agues, to drink two 
ounces at a time, and apply cloaths wet therein to the head and ftomach; which alfo 
doth much good being applied to any hot fwellings or inflammations ; it helpeth St. 
Anthony’s fire and burnings, and is fingular good to take away wheals and fmalt 
puthes that arife through. heat; as alfo the burning heat of the og Or privy feck 
| ee wet therein being thereunto applied, . ag 
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Decieeae THE common great comfry hath nai very large and hairy green. 
leaves, lying on the ground, fo. hairy or prickly that if they touch any tender part of 
the hands, face, or body, it will caufe it to itch: the ftalk that rifeth up from a mon 2 ae 
