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helpeth the gout andthe cramp. The powder of rhubarb, taken with a little mum- 
mia and madder- roots, in fome red wine, diffolveth clotted blood in the body, happen- 
ing by any fall or beuite, and healeth barftings'and broken parts as ‘well inward as 
outward ; the oil; likewife, wherein it hath been boiled, worketh the like effeéts’; it 
is ufed to heal thofe ulcers that happen in the eyes and eye-lids, being fteeped and 
{trained ; as alfo to.affuage fwellings and inflammations 3 and, applied with honey, 
or boiled in wine, it taketh away all black and blue fpots or marks. Whey or white 
wine are the beft liquors to fteep it in, and thereby it worketh more effectually i in 
opening obftrudtions, and purging: the ftomach and liver, 
Wel MEADOW R U E?. je 
er chia: MEADOW RUE rifeth up with a yellow ftringy root, much 
{preading in the ground, and hooting forth new: fprouts round about, with many 
herby green ftalks, two feet high, crefted, fet with joints here and there, and many 
large leaves on them below, being divided into {mailer leaves, nicked or dented in 
the fore part, of a fad green colour on the upper fide, and pale green underneath. 
Toward the top of the ftalk there fhooteth forth divers fhort branches, ‘on every one 
whereof there ftand two, three, or four, finall round heads or. buttons, whichibreak- 
ing, the fkin thatinclofeth them fhows forth atuft of pale greenifh-yellow threads ; 
which falling away, there come in their plates {mall three-cornered cods, wherein is 
contained final], long, and round, feed. The plant hath a ftrong unpleafant fmell. 
~Puace. It groweth in many apse in England, in the poate of miollttneadtows, 
and by ditch fides: 
Time. It foweréth about July, ot the beginning of incite 
Government anp Virtues. Diofcorides faith, that this herb, braifed 4 and ap- 
plied, perfectly healeth old fores: and the diftilled water of the herb and flowers doth 
the like. It is ufed by fome, among other pot-herbs, toopen the body; but the roots 
wathed clean, boiled in ale, and drunk, are more opening than the leaves.’ The root, 
boiled in water, and the places of the body moft troubled with vermin or lice wath- 
éd therewith, while it is warm, deftroyeth them utterly. In Italy it is ufed againtt 
the se and i in ascii seit the eee 
¢ “eit ws dui ‘Keke j is fuch friendihip between it i and the fig-tree, tliat it profpereth n no where. fo 
well as under that tree, and delighteth to grow in furnny places. It is an enemy to the toad, as being a great 
enemy to poifon. | The ancient sii a ih herb HRS SCPE RY ‘ang ae but a 
Wwomnaa it fills with Patt? . ae 
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