35+ CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
evil diet, &c. which the Greeks call xayshie cachexia. A decoction thereof made 
with wine, and drunk, is very effectual againft long lingering agues’; and a drachm | 
of the feed i in. powder drunk, in wine: before the fit of an ague, helpeth ‘to drive it 3 
away. The diftilled water of the herb and flowers (if you can take them) in time) 
is good for hot ftomachs, and in agues, either peftilential or‘of long continuance, for 
{woonings, and the paffions of the heart, for the heat and head-ach in children, and 
for the diforders of the blood and liver. The faid water, or the juice,or the bruifed’ | 
leaves, applied outwardly, allayeth {wellings, inflammations, St. Anthony’s fire, 
puthes, wheals, and pimples, efpecially ufed with a little vinegar, as alfo to wath pel 
-tiferous fores. The faid water is very effectual for fore-eyes that are inflamed: with LA 
rednefs, and for nurfes. breafts that are iepeines by abundance of milk. 
Db STONE. CROP, ox “SMALL Hated LEEK. ~~ 
Description. IT groweth with divers trailing branches upon the ground, fet a 
with many thick, fat, roundifh, whitifh, leaves, pointed at the ends; the flowers 
ftand many of them together, fogeehat loofely ; adite roots are {mall, and run creep- 1 
ing under the ground, _ 
Pace. It groweth upon the {tone walls, and mud wt upon the tiles of hous 
and penthoufes, and amongft rubbith, and in other gravelly places. 
Time. It flowereth in June and July, and the leaves z are green all the winter. 
GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. It is under the dominion of the Moon, cold in 
quality, and fomething binding, and therefore’ ery good to ftay defluxions, efpe- 
cially { fuch as fall upon the eyes; it ftops bleeding "both: inward and outward, helps 
cankers and all fretting fores and ulcers ; it abates the heat of choler, thereby pre- 
venting difeafes thence arifing from choleric humours, It expels poifon, refifteth 
peitilential fevers, and is exceeding good alfo for tertian agues. It is fo harmlefsan 
herb, you can {carce ufe it amifs. Being bruifed and applied to the place, it helps 
REPS tere pectany other, knots, or kernels, in tamer as alfo agtle 
MW sansaraniria 7 oe, 
con me the forts of prickly bindsietls, of which shemeie 
Yer. 
P ng feverally follow. ae 
ik bindweed with red tei called in Latin neers : 
ought from the Myst. Indies makes the third Mad: whe 
