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knots in the flefh. Wafers, put in water and drunk, ftay the lafk and bloody flux,and 
are profitably ufed both inwardly and outwardly for ruptures in children. Boiled 
in water unto a thick jelly, it ftayeth fpitting of blood ; and, boiled with mint and 
butter, it helpeth hoarfenefs. 
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GovERNMENT AND Virtues. THE Moon owns it. The Jeaves, bark, and 
feed, are ufed to ftaunch bleeding at nofe and mouth, {pitting of blood, and all other 
fluxes of blood in man or woman, and to {tay vomiting, and provocation thereunto, 
if the decoétion of them in wine be drunk. It helpeth alfo to ftay thin, hot, fharp, 
falt, diftillations from the head upon the lungs, caufing a confumption. The leaves 
bruifed with fome pepper, and drunk in wine, much help the wind cholic. The leaves 
bruifed, and boiled in wine and drunk, ftay the heat of luft. The water that is ga- 
thered from the willow when it flowereth, the bark being flit, is very good for red- 
nefs and dimnefs of fight, for films that grow over the eyes, and ftay the rheums that _ 
fall intothem ; to provoke urine, being ftopped, if it be drunk ; and to clear the face | 
and skin from fpots and difcolourings. Galen faith, the flowers have an admirable 
faculty in drying up humours, being a medicine without any fharpnefs or corrofion. 
The bark works the fame effects, if ufed in the fame manner ; and the tree hath al- 
ways bark upon it, though not always flowers. The burnt afhes of the bark, being 
‘mixed with vinegar, take away warts, corns, and fuperfluous fleth. The decoétion 
of the leaves or bark in wine takes away fcurf, or dandriff, by wafhing the place with 
it. Icis.a fine cool tree, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed inthe 
_ Chamber of one fick of a fever. 
W OA D. 
| ibaa. IT hath divers large Leaues long, and fomewhat broad, like 
thofe of the greater plantane, but larger, thicker, of a greenifh colour, and fomewhat 
blue; from among which leaves rifeth up a lufty ftalk, three or four feet high, with 
divers leaves fet thereon; the higher the {talk rifeth, the fmaller are the leaves: at 
the top it fpreadeth into divers branches, at the end of which appear very pretty 
little yellow flowers, which, after they pals away, come husks, long, and fomewhat 
flat; in form they refemble a tongue; in colour, they are black, and hang down- 
wards, The feed contained within thefe husks, if i it be a little chewed, gives an azure 
colour. The root is white and long, 
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