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is very good for women to bebathed with, or to fit ov at.are troubled with the 
overflowings of their courfes. The fame, being drunk, “ftafeth the ftomach that is 
troubled with cafting, or the hiccough ; and, Avicenna ith, it comforteth the 
_ heart. The powder thereof, taken in drink for fome time together, is thought 
available for the drapfy. The oil of rofes, which has had fome frefh mofs fteeped 
therein for a time, and afterwards boiled and applied to the temples and forehead, 
doth wonderfully eafe the head-ach, arifing from a hot caufe ; as alfo the diftillation 
of hot rheum or humours from the eyes, or other patts. The ancients ufed it much 
in their ointments and other medicines, againft laffitude, and to ftrengthen and 
comfort the finews ; it may, confequently, be applied by the moderns with equal 
fuccefs, 
MOTHER-WORT. 
Description. This hath a hard, fquare, brownifh, rough, {trong, ftalk, rifing 
three or four feet high at leaft, fj preading into many branches, whereon grow leaves 
on each fide, with long foot-ftalks, two at every joint, which are fomewhat broad 
and long, as it were rough or crumpled, withmany great veins thereon, of a fad. 
8reen colour, deeply dented about the edges, and almoft divided. From the middle 
_ of the branches, up to the tops of them (which are very long and {mall), grow the 
flowers round about them, at diftances, in fharp-pointed, rough, hard, hufks, 
ofa more red or purple colour than balm or horehound, but in the fame manner or 
form as horehound ; after which come fmall, round, blackith, feeds, in great 
Plenty. The root fendeth forth a number of long ftrings and {mall fibres, taking 
ftrong hold in the ground, of a dark yellowifh or brownifh colour, and remaineth 
as the horehound doth ; the f{mell of this being not much different from it. 
PLace. Itis only produced in gardens in this kingdom. | 
Government anv Viatuzs. Venus owns this herb, and it is under Leo. 
There is no better herb to drive melancholy vapours from the heart, to ftrengthen 
it, and make the mind cheerful, blithe, and merry. It maybe kept in a fyrup or 
conferve, therefore the Latins call it cordiaca, The powder thereof, to the quantity ‘ 
Of a fpoonful, drunk in cold wine, is a wonderful help to women in fore travail, as 
alfo for fuffocations or rifings of the mother; and from thefe effects it moft likely 
Got the name of mother-wort. It alfo provoketh urine, and women’s courfes; 
cleanfeth the cheft of cold phlegm oppreffing it, and killeth worms in the belly. It 
1S of good ufe to warm and dry up the cold humours ; to digeft and difperfe them 
that are fettled in the veins, joints, and finews, of the body, and to help cramps and 
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