3. CULPEPER%s’ ENGLISH “PHYSICIAN, 
 thiftle in wine, being drunk,’ expels fuperfluous. melancholy out of thebedy, and 
makes amanmerry. Superfluous melancholy caufeth care, fear, fadnefs, defpairjene 
vy, and many evils befides ; but religion teacheth to wait “pes. sprinters a caft 
our care upon him who cance for ust “| Eetisdf . 
OUR LAD Ys. wvuistye 
‘ : wil liaeslh Uhedad Sond ea 
Description. OUR LADY’s thiftle hath divers large and broad 1088 w 
ing on the ground; cutin and as it were crumbled, ‘but rather hairy on the edges + 
of a white green fhining colour, wherein are many lines and ftrakes of a milky white 
colour running all over, and fet ‘about ‘with: many fharp and- ftiff prickles, among 
which rifeth up one or more‘ftrong, round, and prickly, ftalks, fee full‘of the like 
leaves up to the top, where, at the end ‘of every’ ‘brarich, ‘cometh forth’a Creat, ‘prick# 
ly, thiftle-like, head, ftrongly armed with pricks, and with bright? purple throms 
rifing out of the middle of them; after they Are paft;‘the feed eroweth! int the faid 
heads, lying ina great deal of foft white down; whith is'foniewhat flattith and thine - 
ing, large and brown. The root is great, {preading in the ground, with many ftrings 
and {mall fibres faftened thereto. All the whole ‘Plant is bitter in tafte. se 
Pracs. Itis frequent on the bank of almoft every” Tack, Sti T Ne 
Time. It flowereth and feedeth in. June, July, and, Auguk. ; 
GoveRnmentT. AnD Virtus. Our lady’s thiftlei is under Jupiter, and thoughtta 
be as good as carduus. benediétus for agues, and to prevent and cure the infection § of 
the plague, as alfo to open ‘obftruations of the liver and {pleen, and thereby i 1s good 
| againit the jaundice, It provoketh urine, breaketh and expelleth t the fone, and i “nd 
good for the dropfy. It is effe€tual alfo for the pains in the fides, and many other 
inward pains and gripings. The feed and diftilled water are held. powerful to all 
os the purpofes aforefaid : and, belides, it is often applied both inwardly to drink,and 
twardly with cloths or fpunges to the region of the liver, to cool the. diftempera: 
I reof, and to the region of the heart, againft {woonings and paffions ofi if. Ir : 
coat exceedingly : and i in f pring, if ve boil the tender plants i a . 
“WOOLLY OR COTTON. THISTLE. ai # 
Disparate THIS hath ‘many large leaves lying on the ground, fc mew 
cut in, and as it were crumpled, On theedges, of agreen colour on the upper ‘fide, 
bus covered over with along: hairy Som, or cattony down, fet with fharp pricks ; 
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