AND COMPLETE HERBAL: 193 
GOOSEBERRY+BUSH 
CALLED alfo feap-berry, and in Suflex ee bufh, and likewife i in thany 
places wineberry. : 
- GovernmeENT and Virtues. They are under the domindis oftVenus. The 
berries whilft they are unripe, being {calded or baked, - are good to ‘procure the re- 
turn of a loft appetite, efpecially if the caufe proceeds from a ftomach afflicted with 
choleric humours, They are exceeding good to {tay the longing of pregnant wo- - 
men. The decottion of the leaves of the tree, cools hot {wellings and inflamnia- , 
tions, as alfo the St, Anthony’s fire. The ripe goofeberries being eaten, are an ex- 
cellent remedy to allay the violent heat of the ftomach and liver : ; and the young 
and tender leaves break the ftone and expel ‘the gravel both from the bladder and ~ 
kidnies. If they are taken immoderately, they are {uppofed to breed prude hu- 
mours, and thefe ingender worms. 
pe: WINTERGREEN 
Descr IPTION, IT thoots forth feven, eight, or niné leaves from 4 final brownith, 
creeping root, each ftanding upon a long footitalk; they are nearly as broad as they 
are long, round pointed, of a fad green colour, hard in handling, and fomewhat like 
the leaf of a pear-tree. From among thefe rifeth upa flender weak ftalk, ftanding 
upright, bearing at the top many fmall, white, and fweet-fmelling flowers, Jaid open 
like a ftar, confifting of five round-pointed leaves; with many yellow threads ftand- 
ing in the middle, furrounding a green head, having a longifh tube witlrthem which 
- intime proveth to be the feed-veffel ; when ripe, it is of | a pein ge fhape, _ a 
imall point, containing feed as {mall as duft, : 
Prace. It groweth but feldom in fields, but ‘euinintaiyt in woods i in | the saaladite 
counties:in this kingdom, as Yorkthire, Lancafhire, &e. °° 
Time. It flowereth in June and July, fhedding its feed foon after. 
Government anp Virtuss.: Winter-green is undéf the dominion of Saturn, 
and is anexcellent wound herb for the fpeedy healing'of green wounds, the leaves | 
_ being bruifed and applied, or the juice of them is equally effeétual. A falve mad¢of 
the bruifed herb, or the juice boiled in hog’s lard, or with fallag-vib, wax, adding 
a little turpentine thereto; is ‘a févereign medicine, afd in high efimation among | 
the Germans, who ufe it to heal all manner of wounds, ulcers, and fores. The herb 
, boiled i in wine. and water, and ‘drank by thofe who are troubled with ulcers in their : pee 
kidnies, or neck of the bladder, wonderfully helpeth them, It ftayeth all 
whether of blood or humours, as the Iafk, bloody flux, immoderate ete; a 
