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effects by sympathy and antipathy, you 
may easily perceive a reason of them; as 
also why barley bread is so unwholesome 
for melancholy people. Barley in all the 
parts and compositions thereof (except 
malt) is more cooling than wheat, and a lit- 
tle cleansing: And all the preparations 
thereof, as barley-water and other things 
made thereof, give great nourishment to 
persons troubled with fevers, agues, and 
heats in the stomach: A poultice made of 
barley meal or flour boiled in vinegar and 
honey, and a few dry figs put into them, 
dissolves all imposthumes, and assuages in- 
flammations, being thereto applied. And 
being boiled with melilot and camomile- 
flowers, and some linseed, fenugreek, and 
rue in powder, and applied warm, it eases 
pains in side and stomach, and windiness 
_ of the spleen. The meal of barley and flea- 
- wort boiled in water, and made a poultice 
-_ with honey and oil of lilies applied warm, 
cures swellings under the ears, throat, neck, 
and such like; and a plaister made thereof 
_ with tar, with sharp vinegar into a poultice, 
and laid on hot, helps the leprosy; being 
_ boiled in red wine with pomegranate rinds, 
and myrtles, stays the lask or other flux of 
_ the belly; boiled with vinegar and quince, 
_ it eases the pains of the gout; barley-flour, 
_ white salt, honey, and vinegar mingled to- 
; gether, takes away the itch speedily and 
certainly. The water distilled from the 
_ green barley in the end of May, is very good 
_ for those that have defluctions of humours 
fallen into their eyes, and eases the pain be- 
ing dropped into them; or white bread 
_ steeped therein, and bound on the eyes, does 
_ the same. 
GARDEN BAZIL, OR SWEET BAZIL. 
Descript.| Tue greater or ordinary 
Bazil rises up usually with one upright 
_ stalk, diversly branching forth on all sides, 
_ with two leaves at every joint, which are 
somewhat broad and round, yet pointed, of 
a pale green colour, but fresh; a little 
snipped about the edges, and of a strong 
healthy scent. The flowers are small and 
white, and standing at the tops of the 
branches, with two small leaves at the 
joints, in some places green, in others 
brown, after which come black seed. The 
root perishes at the approach of Winter, 
and therefore must be new sown every year. 
Place.| It grows in gardens. 
Time.| It must be sowed late, and flowers 
in the heart of Summer, being a very tender 
plant. 
Government and virtues.| This is the 
herb which all authors are together by the 
ears about, and rail at one another (like 
lawyers.) Galen and Dioscorides hold it 
not fit to be taken inwardly; and Chrysip- 
pus rails at it with downright Billingsgate 
rhetoric; Pliny, and the Arabian physi- 
cians, defend it. 
For my own part, I presently found that 
speech true; 
Non nostrium inter nos tantas componere 
lites. 
And away to Dr. Reason went I, who told 
me it was an herb of Mars, and under the 
Scorpion, and perhaps therefore called 
Basilicon, and it is no marvel if it carry — 
_a kind of virulent quality with it. Being 
applied to the place bitten by venomous 
beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it 
speedily draws the poison to it; Every like 
draws his like. Mizaldus affirms, that,. be- 
ing laid to rot in horse-dung, it will breed 
venomous beasts. Hilarius, a French phy- 
sician, affirms upon his own knowledge, 
that an acquaintance of his, by common 
smelling to it, had a scorpion bred in his 
brain. Something is the matter, this herb 
and rue will not grow together, no, nor near 
one another: and we know rue is as great 
an enemy to poison as any that grows. 
To conclude: It expels both birth and _ 
after-birth; and as it helps the deficiency _ 
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