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hot choleric ftomach ; to refreth and comfort the fainting fpifits, and to quenck” 
thirft. They are good alfo for other inflammations, yet it is not amifs to reffain 
from them in a fever, left by their putrifying in the: ftomach they ihcreafe thé fits: 
The leaves and roots boiled in wine or water, and drunk, do likewife cool the liver’ 
and blood, and affuage all inflammations in the reins and bladder, provoke urine, and 
allay the heat and fharpnefs thereof: the fame’ alfo, being drunk, fay ‘the 
bloody flux, and help the fwellings of the fpleen. ‘The water of the berries, care- 
fully diftilled, is a fovereign remedy and cordial in the pacification of the heart and 
is good for the yellow jaundice, The juice, dropped into foul ulcers, or the decoc- 
_ tion of the herb and root, doth. wonderfully cleanfe and help to cure them. Lotions. 
and gargles for fore mouths, or uleers therein, or elfewhere, are made with the leaves 
and roots, which are alfo good to faften loofe teeth, and to heal {pungy foul gums... 
It helpeth.alfo to ftay catarrhs or deAuxions of rhetim'into the mouth, throat, teeth, 
or.eyes. The j juice, or water, is good for hot and red inflamed eyes ; it is alfo-of ex- 
cellent property for all puthes,. wheals, and other breakings forth of hot and fharp: 
humours, i in the face and hands, or, other patts of the body,.to bathe them theréwith 5 
and to.take away any rednefs in the face, or fpots or ether deformities in. the fkin,. 
and to make it clear and fmooth. Some ufe this medicine: take fo many ftraw- 
berries as you fhall think fitting, and put them into a diftillatory, or body of gla; 
fit for them; which being well clofed, fet it ina bed of horfe-dang for twelve or 
fourteen days, and afterwards diftibi it carefully,, and keep it for your ufe. It is an 
excellent water for hot inflamed eyes, and. to take away any film or fin that: begin- 
neth to grow ¢ over them, and. for hartussve cine pent Atrepete <#3y 
outward medicine, es stetdeah Leak ae? Caced 
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pe aoe TH E. garden: fuccory hath: longer and: narrower ter than 
endive, and more cut in and torn at the edges, and the:root abideth.many years ; it 
‘beareth alfo many blue flowers like endive, and the feed:is hardly diftinguifhable 
from the feed of the fmooth or ordinary endive: 7°94 7 
~GovERwMENT AND. Virtues: Shor n herb of Jupiter. “Garden faccory, asi it is: 
moreidty and left'cold ehatiienive, ‘fo it openéth more. A the leav. 
Or roots boiled it in vnc oF wate, vit be drunk steed sth: 
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