6 CULPEPSER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
wards bathed with wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapped with wool or fkins 
after they have fweat a little, will affuredly cure not only the fame difeafe in the hips, 
huckel-bone, or other of the joints, as gout in the hands or feet, but all other old 
griefs of the head, (as inveterate rheums) and other parts of the body that are hard td 
be cured. And if of the former griefs any parts remain, the fame medicine after 
twenty days is to be applied again, The fame is alfo effectual in the difeafe of the 
fpleen, and applied to the fkin, it taketh away the blemithes thereof, whether they be — 
{cars, leprofy, feabs, or fcurf; which although it ulcerate the part, yet that is to bé 
helped afterwards with a falve made of oil and wax *, Efteem this as a valuable fectet. 
ea penance 
“i AUP WATER-CRESSES, 
_ Description. OUR ordinary water-creffes {preadeth forth with many. weak, hol- 
‘low, fappy ftalks, fhooting out fibres at the joints, and upwards long winged leaves,. 
made of fundry broad, fappy, and almoft round leaves, of a brownith green colour; 
the flowers are many and white, ftanding on long footftalks, after which come fmall 
yellow feed, contained in {mall long pods like horns: the whole plan 
the winter, and tafteth fomewhat hot and tharp. 
~Piace. They grow for the moft 
in fmall rivulets of running water. 
_ Time. They flower and feed in the beginning of fummer. | 
-GovERNMENT and Virtuzs. ‘It is an herb under the dominion of the Moon. 
| Tt is more powerful againft the fcuryy, and to cleanfe the blood and humours than — 
x brooklime, and ferves in all the other ufes in which brooklime is available; as to” 
‘break he ftone, and provoke urine and womens? courfes§, The decoction thereof 
“Cleanfeth ulcers by wafhing them therewith; the leaves bruifed, or the juice, is good 
> torte applied to the face or other parts troubled with freckles, pimples, pots, or thé 
Bs. atnight, and wathed away in the morning. The juice mixed with vinegar, and | 
ore part of the head bathed therewith. is ve ‘and 
have the idtharny SP ear 5 ry Babe 4 for thofe — are du 
plant abideth green in 
part in the {mall ftanding waters, yet fometimes 
» 
? . Be 
oe Pe green ficknefs, and is a certain reftorative 
“rote manner; Chop and boil them in the broth of 
Water-crefs 
