149 CULPEPER’ $ ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
The water wherein the root hath been boiled, droppéd into the eyes, cleanfeth cheng” 
from any film or fkin, cloud or mift, which begin to hinder the fight, and helpeth the | 
watering and rednefs of them; or when, by accident they become black and blue, 
The root mixed with bean flour, am applied to the throat or jaws that are inflamed, 
helpeth them ; the juice of the berries boiled in oil of rofes, or beaten into powder 
mixed with the oil, and dropped into the ears, eafeth pains in them : the berries or the © 
roots beaten with hot ox-dung and applied, eafeth the pains of the gout: the leaves: 
and roots boiled in wine with a little oil, and applied tothe piles, or the falling down 
of the fundament, eafeth them, and fo doth fitting over the hot fumes thereof: the 
frefh roots bruifed, and diftilled with a little milk, yieldeth a moft fovereign water to 
cleanfe the fkin from f{curf, freckles, fpots, or blemifhes whatfoever therein. ®, 
PMU CUCUMBERS. 
“ACCORDING to the pronunciation of the vulgar, cowcumbers. 
Government and Virtves. There is no difpute to be made, but that they are 
under the dominion of the Moon, though they are fo much rejected’ for their 
_coldnefs, and by fome affirmed, that if they were but one degree colder they would be 
poifon. ‘The beft of Galenifts hold them to be cold and moift but in the fecond de- 
gree, and then not fo hot as lettuce or purflain: they are excellent good for hot fto- 
machs and livers ; the unmeafurable ufe of them fills the body full of raw humours, 
and fo indeed does any thing elfe when ufed to an excefs. The juice of cucumbers, 
the face being wafhed with it, cleanfeth the fkin, and is excellent good for hot rheums 
in the eyes; the feed is excellent to provoke urine, and cleanfe the paffages thereof 
when they are ftopped ; neither do I think there is a better remedy for ulcers in the 
| ‘Bladder growing than cucumbers are; the ufual courfe is to ufé the feeds im emul- 
ons, as they make almond milk, but a better way by far (in my opinion) is this, 
hen the feafon of the year is, take the cucumbers and bruife them well, and diftif 
ater from them, and let fuch as are troubled with ulcers in their bladders, drink 
t drink. The face being wafhed with the fame water, cureth the reddeft 
| I alfo excellent good for funburning, freckles and morphew. 
Pee. Be Re Bs, 
Saeageees' berries, fomewhat fweet, about the bignefs of oe ae 
, Gens a ic d, but more rugged or crefted, being either hollow,. or nav- 
as ftalk ae hot tafte, but not fo fiery as pepper ;. and having each a 
on them IKE a tai a thefe grow on trees lefs than apple trees, with leaves 
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