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then ftay lasks and women’s courfés, being taken in red wine ;, and. flay the falling 
of the hair, and make it fair, being anointed with oil and wine. The green husks 
will do the like, being. ufed in the fame manner.) The kernels, beaten with rue and 
wine, being applied, help the quiniey 5 ;.and, bruifed with honey, and applied to the 
ears, cafe the pains and inflammations of them... A piece of the green husk, put into 
a hollow tooth, eafeth the pain. The oil that is preffed out of the kernels is very 
profitably taken inwardly, like oil of almonds, to help the cholic, and to expel wind; 
an ounce or two thereof may be taken atatime. The young green nuts, taken be- 
fore they be half ripe, and preferved with fugar, are of good ufe for thofe that have 
weak ftomachs, or defluxions thereon, The diftilled water of the unripe green husk 
is of excellent ufe to cool the heat of agues, being drunk an ounce or two at atime, 
as alfo to refift the infeétion of the plague, if fome of it be alfo applied to the fores 
thereof. The fame likewife cooleth the heat of green wounds and old ulcers, and 
healeth them. The diftilled water of the green husks, when they are fhelled from 
the nuts, being drunk with a little vinegar, is alfo found by experience to be good for 
thofe that are infetted with the plague, fo as before the taking thereof a vein be open 
ed. The faid water is very good againft the quinfey, being gargled and bathed there- 
with, and wonderfully helpeth deafnefs, the noife and other pains in the ears... The 
diftilled water of the young green leaves, in the end of May, performeth afingular 
cure on foul running ulcers and fores, to. be bathed with wet cloths or fpunges apphi- 
ed to aie every morning. 5 denial 
2, WOLD, WELD, OR DYERS WEED. ; 
: Desenirri0w- THE common kind eaves sacking. ee many are 5 a 
harrow, and flat, upon the ground, of'a dark bluifh-green colour, fomewhat like unto 
=e oad, bot nothing fo large; ‘a little crumpled, and as it were round-pointed, which — 
== _ dofo abide ‘the firft year: and, the next fpring, from among them rife divers round 
=F fall two or | three feet high, befet with many fuch-like leaves thereon, but fmaller, 
= a ad fh ooting forth fome fmall branches, which with the ftalks-carry many {mall yel+ 
Tow flowe ina okie head at the: on of treet se eee comesthe 
aa sua ad it hath been j in aserc alates, 5 thets aasie 
a it groweth every where by the way-fides, in moitt seroitamas as 5 salt weet, 
in come of fields and by-lanes, and fometimes all over ‘eis ee Sh Suiits and 
iRetbey cal Renee | we ti tis pfesete4t 
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