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tues, and being externally applied, draweth out thorns and fplinters ; ; the root taken 
with alittle rhubarb, killeth and driveth forth worms, and is of fingular excellence 
againit their return. ‘ 
- Diofcorides obferves of this plant, as alfo of the former, that it is natural to wild 
goats, when they are {truck with darts or arrows, to eat of this herb, which caufeth 
them to fall out of their bodies ; on which account it is not improbable that this. 
herb came firft to be fubftituted for the right ditamnum. 
AUGGs L MAr Re 
THIS tree is fo well known, growing generally in moft counties of this kingdom, 
that it would be needlefs to defcribe it. 
GovernMENT and Virtues, It isa cold and Saturnine plant. The leaves here- 
of bruifed and applied, healeth green wounds, being bound thereon with its own 
bark ; the leaves, or the bark ufed with vinegar, effectually cureth the fcurf and le- 
profy ; the decoction of the leaves, bark, or root, healeth broken bones by bathing 
the part affected therewith ; the water that is found in the bladders on the leaves, 
while it is frefh, is a good wafh for cleanfing the fkin, and making it fair ; and if 
cloths are often wet therein, and applied to the ruptures of children, it helpeth them, 
if they are afterwards well bound up with a trufs ; the faid water being clofe {topped 
in a glafs veffel, and fet either into the earth or dung for twenty-five days, fetting the 
bottom thereof upon a lay of common falt, fo that the feces my fettle, and water be- 
_ come very clear, is a fingular and fovereign balfam for green wounds, being ufed 
with foft tents ; the decoétion of the bark of the root molifieth hard tumours, and 
the fhrinking of the finews, being fomented therewith ; the roots of the elm boiled - 
for fome confiderable time in water, the fat rifing on the furface being nicely taken 
Off, will prove an excellent~reftorative of fallen hair, the bald places being with it 
anointed ; the bark ground with brine or pickle, until it cometh to the thicknefs of 
a poultice, and laid on the place pained with the gout, giveth great eafe ; and the 
decoétion of the bark in water is exceeding good to bathe fuch places as have been 
| wend with fire. - ; 
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iis iencw. COMMON garden endive beareth a longer and larger leaf than 
_ fuccory, and abideth but one year, quickly running up to ftalk and feed, and then - 
perifhing ; 3 it hath blue flowers, and the feed is fo much like that of ieeiet it is. 2 
hard to diftinguifh them, ee 
VERNMENT AND VIRTUES. Itis is a he cooling, cleanfing st 3 ll decoétion 
“of = eS of the juice, or the diftilled water of endive, ferveth well to cool the ex- 
: : ceflive 
