274 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Src in Fes. 
_ IT hath a great variety of names, though moft generally known by this. 
Description. Toenumerateall the different forts of it is needlefs; a defcription 
of the roots will be fufficient, which areto be ufed with fome difcretion, They _ 
have each of them a double root within, fome of them round, others like a hand; 
thefe roots alter every year alternately; when the one rifeth and waxeth full, the 
other groweth lank and perifheth; now it is thofe which are full-grown that areto — 
be ufed in medicine, the other being either of no ufe-at all, or elfe, according to 
fome, thwarting the operation of the full-grown root, and undoing what otherwife 
it might have effected. 7 ; 
Time. One or other of them may be found in Rewer from the beginning of 
April to the latter end of Auguft, — 
GovEeRNMENT AND Virtues. They are hot and moift in operation; under the 
dominion of Venus, and provoke Juft exceedingly ; which, it is faid, the dry and 
withered roots reftrain again; they are held to kill worms in children; alfo, being 
bruifed and applied to the place, tohelp the king’ s evil. 
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THEY are fo well known that their defcription is unneceffary. 
- GovenNMENT AND Virtues. Mars owns them. They poffefs the quality of 
drawing corruption to them, for, if you peel one and lay it upon a dunghili, you 
will find ft rotten in half a day, by drawing putrefaétion to it; it is theretore natural 
to fuppofe they would have the fame attraétive power if applied to a plague-fore. . 
Onions are Alatulent, or windy, yet do they whet the appetite, increafe thirit, and 
eafe the belly and bowels; provoke the menfes; help the bite of a mad dog, and 
other venomous creatures, when ufed with honey and rue, and increafe fperms 
efpecially the feed of them; they alfo kill the worms in children, if they drink the 
water fafting wherein they have been fteeped all night. Being roafted under the 
embers, and eaten with honey, or fugar and oil, they conduce much to help an in- 
_veterate cough, and expeétorate the tough phlegm. The juice, being {fnuffed up into 
the noftrils, purgeth the head, and helpeth the lethargy; yet the eating them t00 
frequently occafions the head-ach. The eating of onions, fafting, with bread and 
| = is Beet to be a good prefervative againft infection. If a great onion js made 
: I ‘ hollow, 
