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water, affwageth hot and fwelling impofthumes, burnings and {caldings by fire or 
water ; alfo hot tumours and inflammations, or breakings out, &c. The faid juice 
made i into a liniment, with cerufe and oil of rofes, and anointed therewith, cleanfeth 
rotten ulcers, and -ftops the running fores in childrens heads, and prevents the hair 
from coming off; it is likewife of great fervice to perfons afflicted with the piles, 
as it immediately eafeth their pain, and, being mixed with goats tallow, relieveth the’ 
gout. Thej juice, or herb itfelf, bruifed, with a little falt, is very effectual to cleanfe 
-fiftulas and to heal them up fafely: it is alfo of great benefit to any green wound. ’ 
A poultice made thereof with mallows, and boiled in wine, mixed with wheat, bran,’ 
“ bean-flowers, and fome oil, being applied warm to any bruifed finew, tendon or muf- 
| cle, doth, ina very fhort time, reftore it to its original ftrength. 
The juice of pellitory of the wall, clarified and boiled i into a fyrup with honey, 
and a {poonful of it drunk every morning, is very good for the dropfy. 
~ UG PENNY- RO YA Hees 0 Hoon pads, 
Description. THE common penny-royal i is. fo well known, that i it needeth 1 no 
defcription. 
There is another kind of penny-royal, habacioe to the above, which differeth only 
in the largenefs of the leaves and ftalks; in rifing higher, and drooping upon the 
ground fo much. The flowers of which are purple, growing in rundles about the 
ftalk like the other. 
Pracz. The firft, which is common in gardens, groweth alfo in many moift and 
watery places in this kingdom. .The fecond is found wild in Effex, and divers pla- 
ces on the road from London to Colchetter, and places adjacent. 
- Time. They flower in the latter end of fummer. 
~GoveRNMENT AND Virtugs. This herb is under Venus. Te oioiics faith, . 
that penny-royal maketh tough phlegm thin, warmeth the coldnels of any part that 
‘itisappliedto, and digefteth raw ot corrupt matter: being boiled and drunk, it re- 
moveth the courfes, and expellech the dead child and after-birth ; béing mixed with 
honey and falt, it voideth phlegm out of the lungs. Drunk with wine, itis of fingular 
fervice to thofe who are {tung or bit by any venomous beaft ; applied to the noftrils, 
-with vinegar, i it is very reviving to “perfons fainting and {wooning ; being dried and. 
burnt, -it ‘ftrengtheneth the gums, and is helpful to thofe that are troubled: with the | 
Sout; being applied as’a plafter, it taketh away carbuncles and blotches from the igs 
face; applied with falt, it helpeth thofe that are fplenetic, or livet-grown. : The de. 
