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ning of the reins ;_ and that the herb or root, being boiled and taken, helpeth all. 
melancholic difeafes and thofe-efpecially that arife from the French difeafe... Came- 
rarius faith, that the diftilled water thereof, being drunk, is very effectual againft 
the ftone ; and that the lye, made of the afhes thereof, being drunk for fome time 
together, helpeth fj plenetic perfons,; it is ufed in outward remedies for the fame 
‘purpofe. 
8 ON §$ T.AR-T HAST, LE, 
Description. A COMMON ftar-thiftle hath divers long and ‘narrow leaves: 
lying next the ground, cutor toth onthe edges, fomewhat deeply, into many al- 
mofteven parts, foft or alittle woolly allover the green, among which rife up 
divérs weak ftalks parted into many branches, all lying or leaning’ down to the 
ground, tharit feemeth a pretty buth, fet with many divided léaves upto the tops, 
whefe feverally ftand tong and fmall whitifh ‘green heads, fet with fharp and 
long white pricks, (no part of the plant’ being‘elfe prickly,) which’ are fomewhat 
yellowifh: outof the middle whereof rifeth the flower’ comipofed ‘of fmany {mall 
reddifh purple threads ; ‘arid'in the heads, after ‘the flowers are paft, come fihall 
whitifh round feed, lying in down as the others do. The root’ is fmall, tong, and 
woody, perifhing every year, and rifing again of its own fowing. 
Puacz. It groweth wild in the fields about London in many places. .” ee 
‘Time. Tt flowereth early, and feedeth in July, and fometimes i in Aug oft ( 
“Govern MEnt AND Virtues. This, like almoft all thiftles, is unc “Mats. 
The feed'of this ftar-thiftle made into powder, “and drunk in wine, provoketh 
‘ virine, and helpeth to’break the ftone, and expel it.. The root in powder, given in 
wine, -i8 good againft the plague, or peftilence, and, drunk in the morning fafting. 
for fome time togetherpn’ very profitable for a. fiftula in any part of the body. 
Baptifta Sardus doth much commend the diftilled water, to help the French dif. 
eale, to open obftru€tions of the liver, and cleanfe sient don corrapted ey 
A ‘burs and ie ae" is iSonic ee agiinks quotidian or tertian ages. 
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