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GovERNMENT AND Vixtuzs, The Moon rules them. Galen, in his feventh 
book of fimple medicines; faith, that the yellow wall-flowers: work more powerful- 
ly than any of the other kinds, and-are therefore of more 'ufe in phyfic.’ They’ 
cleanfe the blood and free the liver and reins from “obftruétions, ftay inflamma- 
tions and fwellings, comfort and ftrengthen any weak part, or! out of joint; help to 
cleanfe the eyes from miftinefs and films, and to cleanfe fou) and filthy ulcers in the: 
mouth, or any other part, and are a fingular remedy for the gout, and all’ achs and’ 
pains in the joints and finews. A conferve made of the flowers is ufed for a iets 
both for the apoplexy and palfy. | 
YPM By Re BER Wis 
IT is fo well known, that it needeth no defcription. 
Time. It bloffometh early, before the leaves come forth; and the fruit is ripe 
in September. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. This is a plant of the Sun; let the fruit of it be 
gathered accordingly, which you fhallfind to beof molt virtue whilft they are green, 
before they have fhells. The bark of the tree doth bind and dry very much, and 
the leaves are much of the fame temperature; but the leaves, when they are older, 
are heating and drying in the fecond degree, and harder of digeftion than when they 
are frefh, which by reafon of their fweetnefs are more pleafing and better digefting’ 
in the ftomach ; and, taken with {weet wine, they move the belly downwards ; but, 
being old, they grieve the ftomach, and in hot. bodies caufe choler to abound, and 
the head-ach, and arean enemy to thofe that have a cough; butare lefs hurtful to 
thofe that -have colder ftomachs, and are faid to kill the broad worms in the belly 
or ftomach, If they betaken with onions, falt, and honey, they help the biting of 
a mad dog, or the venom or infeCtious poifon of any beaft, &c. Coneus Pompeius / 
found in the treafury of Mithridates, king of Pontus, when he was overthrown, a | 
fcroll of his own hand-writing, containing a medicine againft any poifon and infec- \ 
tion, which is this: take two dry walnuts, and as many good figs, and twenty leaves | 
of rue, bruifed and beaten together with two or three corns of falt, and twenty ju- a 
niper-berries ; which, taken every morning fafting, preferveth’from danger of poifon | 
or infection that day it is taken, The juice of the outer green husks, boiled up 
with honey, is anexcellent gargle for fore mouths, the heat and inflammations in the 
throat and ftomach, The kernels, when they grow old, are more oily, and therefore 
not fo fit to be eaten, but are then ufed to heal the wounds of the finews, gangrenes, 
andcarbuncles. The faid kernels, being burned, are then very aftringent, and will 
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