AND COMPLETE HERBAL: 155 
Tims. They flower ufually about Auguft, and the feed is ripe in September, 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. The plant is venereal, pleafing, and harmlefs. 
The herb or root, being boiled in wine and drank, is very powerful againft the 
plague, and all peltilential difeafes or fevers, poifons alfo, and the bitings of venom- 
ous beatts ; it alfo helpeth thofe that are inwardly bruifed by any cafualty, or out- 
wardly by falls or blows, diffolving the clotted blood; and the herb or-root beaten 
and outwardly applied, taketh away the black and blue marks that remain in the 
fkin. The decoétion of the herb, with honey of rofes put therein, is very effectual 
to help the inveterate tumours and {wellings of the almonds and throat, by often 
gareling the mouth therewith. Ithelpeth alfo to procure womens’ courfes, and eaf- 
ethall pains of the mother, and to break and difculs wind therein, and in the bowels, 
_ The powder of the root taken in drink, driveth forth the worms in the body. ~ The 
juice or diftilled water of the herb, is effectual for green wounds, or old fores, and. . 
cleanfeth the body inwardly, and the feed outwardly from fores, fcurf, itch, pimples,, 
freckles, morphew, efpecially if a little vitriol be diffolved therein. Geo 
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_ - MANY kinds of thefe are fo well known, that I fhall not trouble you with a-de- 
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_ Government anp Virtus, All docks are under Jupiter; of which the red: 
— dock, commonly called bloodwort, cleanfeth the blood and ftrengthens the liver ; 
but the yellow dock root is beft to-be taken when either the blood or liver is afflicted: 
by choler. Allof them-have a kind of cooling (but not alike) drying quality, the 
forrels.being. moft cold, and. the bloodworts moft drying ;. of the burdock’ I have 
fpoken already by itfelf. The feed of moft of the kinds, whether of the garden or 
field, do ftay lafks.or fluxes of all forts, the loathings of the ftomach through cho- 
ler, and is helpful to thofe who fpit blood. The roots boiled in vinegar, helpeth the 
- itch, fcabs, and breaking out of the fkin, if it be bathed therewith. The diftilled 
water of the herb and roots hath the fame virtue, and cleanfeth the fkin of freckles, . 
morphews, and all other {pots and difcolourings therein. oF soles 
All docks being boiled with meat, make it boil the fooner 5 befides bloodwort is Z 
exceeding ftrengthening to the liver, and procures good blood, being as wholefome: 
- 4 pot-herb as any that grows inagarden. ” 2 ee. 
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oe ee 729% DODDER oF T HY MLE. 
CALLED alfo epithimum, alfo other dodders. re 
Description. This firft from feed giveth roots in the ground, which fhooteth : 
3 forth threads or ftrings, grofler or finer, according to the property of the plant where- 
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