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courses and urine, increases both milk and 
seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of 
French barley, and a small handful of 
marsh-mallow roots, clean washed and cut, 
being boiled in the broth of a chicken, and 
four ounces taken in the morning, and 
fasting two hours after, is a good medicine 
for a pain in the sides. The white Cicers 
are used more for meat than medicine, yet 
have the same effect, and are thought more 
powerful to increase milk and seed. The 
wild Cicers are so much more powerful 
than the garden kinds, by how. much they 
exceed them in heat and dryness; whereby 
they do more open obstructions, break the 
stone, and have all the properties of cutting, 
opening, digesting, and dissolving; and 
this more speedily and certainly than the 
former. 
CINQUEFOIL, 
CALLED IN SOME COUNTIES, 
FINGERED GRASS. 
OF FIVE-LEAVED GRASS; 
FIVE- 
Descript.| It spreads and creeps far 
upon the ground, with long slender strings 
like straw berries, which take root again, 
and shoot forth many leaves, made of five 
parts, and sometimes of seven, dented about 
the edges, and somewhat hard. The stalks 
are slender, leaning downwards and bear 
many small yellow flowers thereon, with 
some yellow threads in the middle, standing 
about a smooth green head, which, when it 
is ripe, is a little rough, and contains small 
brownish seeds. The root is of a blackish 
brown colours, as big as one’s little finger, 
but growing long, with some threads 
thereat; and by the small string it quickly 
Spreads over the ground. 
Place.] It grows by wood sides, hedge 
Sides, the path-way in fields, and in the 
borders and corners of them almost through 
all this land. 
_ Time.] It flowers in summer, some 
Sooner, some later. 
Government and virtues.] This is an herb» 
of Jupiter, and therefore strengthens the 
part of the body it rules; let Jupiter be 
angular and strong when it is gathered; 
and if you give but a scruple (which is but 
twenty grains,) of it at a time, either in 
white wine, or in white wine vinegar, you 
shall very seldom miss the cure of an ague, 
be it what ague soever, in three fits, as I 
have often proved to the admiration both 
of myself and others; let no man despise it 
because it is plain and easy, the ways of 
God are all such. It is an especial herb 
used in all inflammations and _ fevers, 
whether infectious or pestilential ; or among 
other herbs to cool and temper the blood and 
humours in the body. As also for all lotions, 
gargles, infections, and the like, for sore 
mouths, ulcers, cancers, fistulas, and other 
corrupt, foul, or running sores. The juice 
hereof drank, about four ounces at a time, 
for certain days together, cures the quinsey 
and yellow jaundice; and taken for thirty 
days together, cures the falling sickness. 
The roots boiled in milk, and drank, is a 
most effectual remedy for all fluxes in man 
or woman, whether the white or red, as also 
the bloody flux. The roots boiled in vine- 
gar, and the decoction thereof held in 
the mouth, eases the pains of the tooth- 
ach. The juice or decoction taken with 
a little honey, helps the hoarseness of 
the throat, and is very good for the cough 
of the lungs. The distilled water of both 
roots and leaves is also effectual to all the 
purposes aforesaid; and if the hands be 
often washed therein, and suffered at every 
time to dry in of itself without wiping, it 
will in a short time help the, palsy, or 
shaking in them. The root boiled in 
vinegar, helps all knots, kernels, hard 
swellings, and lumps growing in any 
part of the flesh, being thereto applied; 
as also inflammations, and St. An- 
thony’s fire, all imposthumes, and pain- 
ful sores with heat and putrefaction, the 
shingles also, and all other sorts of running 
