296 CULPEPER’s’ ENGLISH’ PHYSICIAN, 
faith, thatit'drieth up thin ‘humours, digefteth thitk-and tough, “dnd purgeth burnt 
choler, and efpecially thick and tough phlegm, andsthin phlegm‘ alfo,;:even from 
the joints ; and is therefore good for thofe that ‘are troubled with melancholy, of. 
quartan agues, efpecially if it be taken in whey or ‘honeyed water, in -barley-water,.. 
or the broth of a chicken, with epithimum, or_with beéts and mallows. Ateis, alfe’ 
good for the hardnefs of the fpleen, and for prickings ‘or flitches im the fideSo.as- 
aliofor the cholic.; fome chufe to put to it fome fennel, annifeed,-or ginger, to 
correct the loathing it caufeth to the ftomach, which is not at all neceflary, it -being) 
afafeand gentle medicine, fit for all perfons at-all feafons, which daily experience 
confirmeth +; and ah ounce of it may be given at a time in a decoétion, if there be 
not fena, or fome other ftrong purgermixed with it. A dram or twovof thepowder. 
ofthe dried roots, taken fafting in a cup of ‘honeyed water, worketh gently, for-all 
the purpofes aforefaid. The diftilled water, both from the roots and leaves, is much’ 
commended for the quartan ague, if taken for feveral days together; as alfo againft 
melancholy, or fearful or troublefome -fleeps or dreams ; and with fome fugar-candy 
diffolved therein, is. good againft the, cough, fhortnefs of breath, and wheefing, 
and. thofe diftillations of thin rheum upon the lungs which caufe phthifics, and often. 
times confumptions. The frefh roots beaten fmall, or the powder of the dried roots 
mixed with honey, and applied to any of the limbs out of j joint, doth much help 
them. - Applied to the nofe, it cureth the difeafe called polypus, which is apiece 
of fungous fiefh growing; therein, which in_ time ftoppeth the. paflage of breath 
through that noftril ;, and it phe thofeclefts-or ais that come between the fin- 
Tue POPLAR TREE. MS pee 
Der: eiption. THERE are two forts of poplars'which are very familiar ’ with 
us, viz. the white and the black : The white fort groweth’large, and tolerably high, 
ered. with a fmooth, thick, white, bark, efpecially the branches, having large 
eaves cut into feveral divifions, almoft like a vine-leaf, but not of fo deep a green 
‘on the upper fide, and hoary white underneath, of a good ‘fcent, the whole repre- 
‘fenting the form of coltsfoot. The catkins, which ‘it’bringeth forth before the 
_ leaves, are long, of a faint reddifh colour, which fall away, and but feldom bear 
od them, ‘The wood thereof i is {mooth, fof, and piv pat 22 very finely 
aivek. whereby RG much efteemed. a 
The black poplar Zroweth higher and ftraiter than the white, with a zrejith a 
‘bearing broad and green leaves feat ike ivy leaves, not Cut in on ‘the’ oe 
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