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two or three drops, for all the difeafes of the head and braia fpoken of before; as. 
alfo to take.a-drop, two, or three, as the caufe requireth, for the inward griefs: yet 
mutt it be done with difcretion, for it is very quick and piercing, and therefore but 
a very little mutt be taken-at a time, There is alfo another oil made in this manner » 
take what quantity you will of the flowers, and put them into a ftrong glafs clofe 
ftopped, tie a fine linen cloth over the mouth, and turn the mouth down into another 
ftrong glafs, which being fet in the fun, an oil will diftil down into the lower glafs, 
to be preferved as precious for divers ufes, both inward and outward, as a fovereign? 
balm to heal the difeafes before-mentioned, to clear a dim fight, and to take away 
{pots, marks, and fcars, in the fkin. This herb is good for a dull and melancholy 
man to make ufe of ; for, if they take the flowers, and make them into powder, and 
bind them on the right arm in a linen cloth, this powder, by working on the veins, 
will:makea man more merry than ordinary, Roa 
| a RHUBARB, or RHAPONTIC, Z/ 
THOUGH the name may fpeak it foreign, yet it grows with us in England, 
and that frequently enough, in our gardens s and is nothing inferior to that which 
is brought us out of China ; take therefore adefcription at large of it, as followeth. 
_Dascription. : At the firlt appearing out of the ground, when the winter is paft, 
it hath a great round brownith head, rifing from the middle or fides of the root, which 
openeth itfelf into fundry leaves one after another, very much crumpled. or folded 
together at the firft, and brownith but afterwards it {preadeth itfelf, and becometh 
imooth, very large, and almoft round, every one ftanding on a brownith ftalk, of 
the thicknefs of a man’s thumb when they are grown to their fulnefs, and molt of 
them two feet and more in length, efpecially when they grow in any moift or good 
at ground 3 and the {talk of the leaf alfo, from the bottom thereof to the leaf itfelf, ts 
about two feet; the Breadth thereof from edge to edge, in the broadeft place, is alfo 
to #eet 5 of a fad or dark green colour, of a. fine.tart or fourith tafte, much more 
; a the Barden or wood forrel. From among thefe rifeth up fometimes, but 
