go «=©60CSO CULPEPER’ ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
tain, and are fo generally noted, that it is needlefs to write ae pasrioreg of hem, bad 
Briefly then take the virtues of them, as followeth : / 
Government anp Virtuss.. The feeds of thefe foft bihihied. fay’ Disieordds | : 
and Galen, toafted, and drunk in wine and water, ftay the lafk and the mare’, q 
when they come down too abundantly ; but it caufeth head-ach. It likewife p f. 
voketh fleep, but muft be given with caution.- Pliny faith, the root, boiled i in a4! ul 
ter to the confumption of 0 one third, helpeth the eee ; eae 
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- Governmeyt ann Virtuss. RYE is more digefting than wheat. The bread 
and the leaven thereof ripeneth and breaketh impofthumes, biles, and other fwellings : 
the meal of rye, put between a double cloth, moiftened with a little vinegar, and 
_ heated in a pewter difh, and: bound fatto the head while it is hot, doth:much eafe 
« the continual pains of the head. Mathiolus faith, that the afhes of rye-ftraw, put 
__ into water, and fuffered ere any and ney will heal the sang: the tana a 
fi uyece: te! 7 ay 
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a sar t ta yard high, mish he Siedc¥ § Solara, anda darge thick leaf at cach of they tite 14 
ve “thes reed + at the top it beareth a fpiked tuf -fpread into Me, 
is faid to be purplifh,, with the feed ftanding fever ally “on, > inclofed in a hard ¥ 
r "brown. flraked husk, and an.armat the head of every. one of them; which, being” 
hulled, is very white, of the bignefs almoft of wheat-corns. blunt at both ends, ; | 
a Names. Rice is called in Latin oriza, and the Italians call it rizo, the eichitie 
: LACE AND Tims, This rain originally was brought out of the Eaft Indies, 
rein many places it yieldeth twocrops in a year, being the chiefeft corn they live - 
and not with them only, but through all ZEthiopia and Africas and | 
brought into Syria, Egypt, Italy, &c.. It Helighees to gt 
> andi is Tipe about.the middle of autumn, a * 
RN ME: yes, It isa folar grain. The phy 
chigty: to ftay the lasks and Bluxes of the ftomach and belly, e ¢ f pe i 
parched before it be ufed, and pet eats in the milk w 
