32 CULPEPER ENGLISH PAYSICIAN, 
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GOVERNMENT AND V IRTUES. THE moon owns it. The juice of lettuce mie 
or boiled with oil of roles, and applied to the forehead and temples; procureth fleep 
and eafeth the head-ach proceeding from a hot caufe; being.boiled and eaten, it 
helpeth to loofen the belly: it helpeth digeftion, quencheth thirft, increafeth milk 
in nurfes, eafeth griping pains of the ftomach or bowels that come of choler, It 
abateth bodily luft, being outwardly applied with alittle camphire: applied in» the 
fame manner to the region of the heart, liver, or reins, or by bathing the faid place 
with the juice or diftilled water, wherein fome white fanders or red rofes are put alfo, . 
it not only repreffeth the heat and inflammation therein, but comforts and ftrengthens 
thofe parts, and alfo tempereth the heat of urine. Galen advifeth old men.to ufe.it 
with fpices, and, where {pices are wanting, to add mint, rocket, and fuch-like hot 
herbs, or elfe citron, lemon, or orange, feeds, to abate the cold of one and heat of 
theother. The feed and diftilled water of the lettuce work the like effects in all 
things: but the ufe of lettuce. is chiefly forbidden to thofe. that are fhort-winded, « or 
have any imperfection: in theirlungs,- or {pit blood. 
LL0 WATER-LILLY. 
OF this there are two principal noted kinds, viz. the white and the ee 
Description. The white lilly hath very large-and thick datk greén leaves lying 
-onthe water, fuftained'by long and thick foot-ftalks, that rife from a great, thick, 
round, and long, tuberous black root, fpungy or loofe, with many knobs thereon, 
like eyes, and whitifh within, from the midft of which rife other the like thick and 
great ftalks, fuftaining one large white flower thereon, green on the outfide, but as 
- white as {now within, confifting of divers rows of long and fomewhat thick and nar- 
tow leaves, fmaller and thinner the more inward they be, encompaffing a head 
- within, with many yellow threads or thrums in the middle, where, after they are palts 
ftand round poppy-like heads, full of broad, oily, and bitter, feed. 
The yellow kind is little different from the former, only. it hath fewer leaves on the 
flowers, greater and more fhining feed, and a whitifh root both within and without: — 
the roots of both being fomewhat {weet in tafte. | 
Puace. They are found growing in great pools and ftanding waters, and fome- 
a in flow maBhipEers, and ditches of running water, in fundry places of this 
Time. They flower moft commonly about the end of May, =a their feed is ripe 
in Auguft. 
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