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and draweth forth thorns and splinters of 
wood, nails, or any other such things gotten 
in the flesh. It helps to strengthen the mem- 
bers that be out of joint: and being bruised 
and applied, or the juice dropped in it, 
helps foul and imposthumed ears. 
The distilled water of the herb is good 
to all the said purposes, either inward or 
outward, but a great deal weaker. 
It is a most admirable remedy for such 
whose livers are annoyed either by heat or 
cold. The liver is the former of blood, and 
blood the nourisher of the body, and Agri- 
mony a strengthener of the liver. 
I cannot stand to give you a reason in 
every herb why it cures such diseases; but 
if you please to pursue my judgment in 
the herb Wormwood, you shall find them 
there, and it will be well worth your while 
to consider it in every herb, you shall find 
them true throughout the book. 
WATER AGRIMONY. 
Ir is called in some countries, Water 
Hemp, Bastard Hemp, and Bastard Agri- 
mony, Eupatorium, and Hepatorium, be- 
cause it strengthens the liver. 
Descript.] The root continues a long 
time, having many long slender strings. 
The stalk grows up about two feet high, 
sometimes higher. They are of a dark pur- 
ple colour. The branches are many, grow- 
ing at distances the one from the other, the 
one from the one side of the stalk, the other 
from the opposite point. The leaves are 
winged, and much indented at the edges. 
The flowers grow at the top of the branches, 
of a brown yellow colour, spotted with 
black spots, having a substance within the 
midst of them like that of a Daisy: If 
you rub them between your fingers, they 
smell like rosin or cedar when it is burnt. 
The seeds are long, and easily stick to any 
woollen thing they touch. 
Place.| They delight not in heat, and 
| theron they are ck ae freqnentty Zoo 
in the southern parts of England as in the 
northern, where they grow frequently: 
You may look for them in cold grounds, by 
ponds and ditches’ sides, and also by run- 
ning waters; sometimes you shall find them 
grow in the midst of waters. 
Time.| They all flower in July or Aug- 
ust, and the seed is ripe presently after. 
_ Government and virtues.| It is a plant 
of Jupiter, as well as the other Agrimony, 
only this belongs to the celestial sign Can- 
er.. It healeth and drieth, cutteth and 
cleanseth thick and tough humours of the 
breast, and for this I hold it inferior to but 
few herbs that grow. It helps the cachexia 
or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy 
and yellow-jaundice. It opens obstructions 
of the liver, mollifies the hardness of the 
spleen, being applied outwardly. It breaks 
imposthumes away inwardly: It is an excel- 
lent remedy for the third day ague. It pro- 
vokes urine and the terms; it kills worms, 
and cleanseth the body of sharp humours, 
which are the cause of itch and scabs; the 
herb being burnt, the smoke thereof drives 
away flies, wasps, &c. It strengthens the 
lungs exceedingly. Country people give it 
to their cattle when they are troubled with 
the cough, or broken-winded. 
ALEHOOF, OR GROUND-IVY. 
SevERAL counties give it different names, 
so that there is scarcely an herb growing of 
that bigness that has got so many: It is 
called Cats-foot, Ground-ivy, Gill-go-by- 
ground, and Gill-creep-by-ground, Turn- 
hoof, Haymaids, and Alehoof. 
Descript.| This well known herb lieth, 
spreadeth, and creepeth upon the ground, 
shoots forth roots, at the corners of tender 
jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at 
every joint somewhat hairy, crumpled, and 
unevenly dented about the edges with round — . 
dents ; at the joints likewise, with the leaves 
towards the end of the branches, come forth _ 
hollow, long flowers, of a blueish purple — 
