AND: COMPLETE ee ee 
Time.» It flowereth about June 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues.” “Mathiolus faith, thatthe root heteof cutteth tough 
phlegm, digefteth raw phlegm, thinneth grofs humoors, diffolverh hard tumours, 
and openeth obftructions, Some highly commend it againit the bitiags of .veno- 
mous creatures, to be taken inwardly, and applied otitward ly to the hurt place; as 
alfo for the plague or peftilence. The people in fome parts of England bruife the 
bet, and fay i it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs. | 
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ALL the felreral keind’ hereof 2 are'fo well mow: unto al people, that 2 dei, 
tion is unneceffary. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. ‘It is under Venus. Disktorde faith, thar, to cat 
the corns of green wheat is hurtful to the ftomach, and breedeth worms. Pliny aich,, 
that the corns of wheat roafted upon an iron pan, and eaten, are a prefent remedy, 
for thofé that are chilled with cold.” ‘The oil, preffed from wheat between two thick 
plates of iron or copper heated, healeth all tetters and r ringworms, being ufed l warm, 
and hereby Galen faith he hath known many to be cured.» Mathiolus comme: 
the fame oil to be put into hollow ulcers to heal them up, and it is good for chops 
in the hands or feet, and to make a rugged skin fmooth. The green | corns of wheat 
being chewed, and applied to the place bitten by a mad. dog, heal it: flices of wheat. 
bread foaked in red rofe-water, and applied to the eyes that are hot, red, inflamed, : 
or blood-fhotten, help them. Hot bread, applied for an hour at a time for three 
days together, perfeétly healeth the kernels in the throat commonly called the king’s 
evil. The flour of wheat, mixed with the juice of henbane, fayeth the flux of 
humours to the joints, being laid thereon. The faid meal boiled i in vinegar, help- 
eth the fhrinking of the finews, faith Pliny; and, mixed with vinegar and honey 
. boiled together, healeth all freckles, fpots, and pimples, on the face, Wheat- flour 
mixed with the yolk of an egg, honey, and turpentine, doth draw, Cleanie, and heal, . 
any ‘bile; plague-fore, ‘or foul ulcer. ‘The bran of wheat-meal ‘feeped in harp 
vinegar, .and-then bound in’a linen cloth, and Tubbed ¢ on thole places that have . 
the fourf, morphew, feabs, or leprofy, will takethein away, the body being frit well 
purged and prepared. The decoétion of the bran of wheat or barley is oe good ule 
to bathe thofe secs that are burften bya fupture ; ‘and the faid bran boiled i in =: oc gt 
-apE fw breafts, ‘helpeth them, and ftayeth all inflam mations, 
Iv. helpech aifo thé icins of viper and ‘all other venomous Creatures. _The,lea ayes. 
of wheat-meal, applied with falt, take away hardnefs of the skin, warts, and hard . 
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