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same purpose. A water distilled from the 
root simply, as steeped in wine, and dis- 
tilled in a glass, is much more effectual than 
the water of the leaves; and this water, 
drank two or three spoonfuls at a time, 
easeth all pains and torments coming of 
cold and wind, so that the body be not 
bound; and taken with some of the root in 
powder at the beginning, helpeth the pleur- 
isy, as also all other diseases of the lungs 
and breast, as coughs, phthysic, and short- 
ness of breath; and a syrup of the stalks do 
the like. It helps pains of the cholic, the 
strangury and stoppage of the urine, pro- 
cureth women’s courses, and expelleth the 
after-birth, openeth the stoppings of the 
liver and spleen, and briefly easeth and dis- 
cusseth all windiness and inward swellings. 
The decoction drunk before the fit of an 
ague, that they may sweat (if possible) be- 
fore the fit comes, will, in two or three times 
taking, rid it quite away; it helps digestion, 
and is a remedy for a surfeit. The juice or 
the water being dropped into the eyes or 
ears, helps dimness of sight and deafness; 
the juice put into the hollow teeth, easeth 
their pains. The root in powder, made up 
into a plaster with a little pitch, and laid 
on the biting of mad dogs, or any other 
venomous creature, doth wonderfully help. 
The juice, or the water dropped, or tents 
wet therein, and put into filthy dead ulcers, 
or the powder of the root (in want of 
either) doth cleanse and cause them to heal 
quickly, by covering the naked bones with 
flesh; the distilled water applied to places 
pained with the gout, or sciatica, doth give 
a great deal of ease. 
The wild Angelica is not so effectual as 
the garden; although it may be safely used 
to all the purposes aforesaid. 
AMARANTHUS. 
 Besipes its common name, by which it 
_is best known by the florists of our days, 
it is called Flower Gentle, Flower Velure, 
Floramor, and Velvet Flower. 
Descript.] It being a garden flower, and 
well known to every one that keeps it, I 
might forbear the description; yet, not- 
withstanding, because some desire it, I shall 
give it. It runneth up with a stalk a cubit 
high, streaked, and somewhat reddish to- 
ward the root, but very smooth, divided 
towards the top with small branches, among 
which stand long broad leaves of reddish 
green colour, slippery; the flowers are not 
properly flowers, but tuffs, very beautiful 
to behold, but of no smell, of reddish col- 
our; if you bruise them, they yield juice of 
the same colour, being gathered, they keep 
their beauty a long time; the seed is of a 
shining black colour. 
Time.] They continue in flower from 
August till the time the frost nip them. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of Saturn, and is an excellent 
qualifier of the unruly actions and passions 
of Venus, though Mars also should join 
with her. The flowers dried and beaten 
into powder, stop the terms in women, and 
so do almost all other red things. And by 
the icon, or image of every herb, the 
ancients at first found out their virtues. 
Modern writers laugh at them for it; but I 
wonder in my heart, how the virtues of 
herbs came at first to be known, if not by 
their signatures; the moderns have them 
from the writings of the ancients; the an- 
cients had no writings to have them from: 
but to proceed. The flowers stop all fluxes 
of blood; whether in man or woman, bleed- 
ing either at the nose or wound. There is 
also a sort of Amaranthus that bears a white 
flower, which stops the whites in women, 
and the running of the reins in men, and is 
a most gallant antivenereal, and a monnae 
remedy for the French pox. 
ANEMONE. 
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