AND COMPLETE HERBAL.’ gy 
them, wormwood, an herb of Mars, cures him, becaufe Mats is exalted in Capri- 
corn the houfe of Saturn ; and this it doth by fympathy. “Wheals, puthes, black 
atid blue{pots, coming either by bruifes or beatings, wormwood, the herb of Mars, ! 
helps. Mars eradicates all difeafes in the throat by his hérbs; (of which wormwood 
is'one,) and this by antipathy... The eyes are under the Iuminaries: the right eye 
of aman, and the left eye of a woman, the Sun claims dominion over; the left 
_eye'of aman, and the right of a woman, are the privilege of the Moon: worm- 
woad, an herb of Mars, cures both. Suppofe a man be bitten or ftung by a martial 
creature, imagine a wafp, a hornet, or {corpion; wormwood, an herb of Mars, gives 
you a prefent cure. Mix a little wormwood with your ink, and neither rats-nor 
mice will touch the paper that is written with it: ‘Wormwood is a prefent cure for 
the cholic. Moths are under the dominion of Mars; his herb, wormwood, being 
laid amang eft clothes, will hinder moths from hurting them. Wormwood is good for 
an ague. A draught of wormwood-beer, taken every morning, is a certain pore if 
fora teh even} breath. It likewife cures = - a 3 a 6g Ma ieale iam 
sgt Boo Dik oni: 
‘Descartion. IT hath a root fhining within like alabatter. ‘oe are, - many f 
kinds, all extremely pernicious and poifonous; for, if man or beaft be wounded 
with arrow, knife, fword, or any other inftrument, dipped i in the j juice of this herb, 
they die incurable within half an hour. The reafon this herb | goes by the name, of 
wolf-bane was this: men in former ages ‘hunting for wolves ufed to poifon { 
of raw flefh with uh der of this Lind and jay them as 5 baits, 2) aay wolves 
= eee Bae | 
at ce Ke ALL E D alfo Dole-bleed, mil-foil, "and, thoulandeleaf. 
~ Diiscr1PTION. . At hath many long leaves fpread upon the ground, and fncly. c cut 
and divided into ‘many {mall PAT ts flowers are, m5 white PRP divers green. ftalks e 
The eet feems beft for the purple. ; 
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