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Wild pears fooner clofe up the lips of green wounds than the others. 
© Schola Salerni advifeth to drink much wine after eating of pears, otherwife (it is 
‘faid) they are as bad as poifon; but, if a poor man find his {tomach oppreffed by eat- 
mig pes, itis but working hard, which will have the fame effect as drinking wine. 
Sg2 PELLITORY:or SPAIN, 
COMMON pellitory of Spain, if planted in gardens, thrives very well in this 
kingdom. There is a fort, growing wild in this country, which is very little, if at 
all, inferior to the other. 
3 Description. Pellitory is a very common plant, yet muft be diligently looked 
after to be brought to perfection. The root goes downright into the ground, bear- 
ing leaves long and finely cut upon the ftalks, lying upon the ground, much larger 
than the leaves of camomile are; at the top it bears one fingle large flower at a place, 
having a border of many leaves, white on the upper fide, and reddifh underneath. 
‘with a yellow thrum in the middle, not ftanding fo clofe'as that of camomile, y 
“The other common pellitory, which groweth here fpontaneoufly, hath a root of a 
‘tharp biting tafte, fcarcely difcernable by the tafte from that before defcribed, from 
whence arife divers brittle ftalks, more than a yard high, with narrow long leaves, 
finely dented about the edges, ftanding one above another up to the top. The 
flowers are many and white, ftanding in tufts like thofe of yarrow, with a fmall yel- 
lowifh thrum in the middle. The feed is very fmall. 
Puace. The laft groweth in fields, by the hedge-fides, and paths, almoft every 
where in Britain. e | 
Time. It flowereth at the latter end of June, and in July... , 
»GoveRNMENT AND Virtues, It is under the government of Mercury, ied: is 
anciof the beft purgers of the brain that grows.. An ounce of the juice taken ina 
draught of mufcade), an hour before the fit of the ague comes, will affuredly drive 
away the ague, at the fecond or third time of taking it at the furtheft: Either the | 
herb or root dried and chewed in the mouth, purgeth the brain of phlegmatic hu- 
‘ours, thereby not only eafing pains in the head and teeth, but alfo hindering the 
iftilling of the brain upon the lungs and eyes, and preventing cough, phthiGicesaid 
Nptions, the apoplexy, and falling 1 ficknefs, It is an excellent approved, reme- 
dyin, the lethargy, . The powder of the herb or root, being fauffed up the.noftrils, 
_ Procureth. {neezing, and eafeth the. head-ach,, Being made into an ointment with 
hog’ sclard, it takes away, black and blue b ins iepraccrationsd PY blows or fallen help 
beth the gout and {ciatica, et pee. 
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