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Time. The garden kinds are ufually fown in the {pring, which then Aower about 
theend of May, and fomewhat earlier, if they are of their own fowing. The wild 
kinds ufually flower from. May until July, and the feed of them i is ripe foon after 
their flowering. _ 
, GOVERNMENT AND. Vonriss. The herb is lunar, and the juice of it is made into 
opium. . The gardenspoppy heads, with the feed, made into a fyrup, are frequently, 
and ‘to good effect, ufed to procure reft and fleep to the fick and weak, and to ftay 
_catarrhs. and defluxions of hot thin rheums from the head into the {tomach, and 
upon the lungs, caufing a continual cough, the fore-runner of aconfumption }*it 
helpeth alfo hoarfenefs.of the throat, and when a perfon hath loft the power of arti- 
culation ; for all which complaints the oil of the feed is alfo a good remedy, ~The 
black feed, boiled in wine and drunk, is aifo faid to ftay the flux of the belly, and 
the menfes. The empty shells of the poppy heads are ufually boiled: in’ water, and 
given to procure fleep ; the leaves likewife, when fo boiled, poffefs the fame virtue. 
_ If the head and temples be bathed with the decoction warm, the oil:of poppies, the 
7 green leaves or heads bruiled and applied with a little vinegar, or made. into a poul- 
tice with barley-meal, or hog’s greafe, it cooleth and tempereth all. inflammations, 
; as alfo the difeafe called St. Anthony’s fire. It is generally ufed in treacle and mi- 
thridate, and in all other medicines that are ufed to procure reft and fleep, and to 
eafe pains in the head, as well as in other parts. It is alfo ufed to cool inflamma- 
: tions, agues, or phrenfies, and to ftay defluxions which caufe a cough or confump- 
tion, and alfo other ftuxes of the belly : it is frequently put into hollow teeth to eafe 
the pain thereof, and hath been found by experience to help gouty pains. , 
_ The wild poppy, or corn rofe, Mathiolus faith, is good to prevent the falling 
ficknefs. The fyrup made with the flowers is given with good effect to thofe that 
have the pleurify ; and the dried fowers alfo, either boiled in water, or made into 
powder, and drunk, either in the diftilled water of them, or in fome other drink, 
work the like effet. The diftilled water of the flowers is held to be of much 
good ufe againft furfeits, being drunk evening and morning; it is alfo more cool- 
ing than any of the other poppies, and therefore: cannot but be as effectual in hot 
agues, phrenfies, and other inflammations, whether external or internal, the fyrup ? 
or water to be ufed inwardly, and the green leaves outwardly, either in an ointment 
Orany other convenient manner in which i it ‘can be canine Galen ait Be feed : 
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