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or skin, cloud or mists, which begin to 
hinder the sight, and helps the watering 
and redness of them, or when, by some 
chance, they become black and blue. The 
root mixed with bean-flour, and applied to 
the throat or jaws that are inflamed, helps 
them. The juice of the berries boiled in 
oil of roses, or beaten into powder mixed 
with the oil, and dropped into the ears, eases 
pains in them. The berries or the roots 
beaten with the hot ox-dung, and applied, 
eases the pains of the gout. The leaves and 
roots boiled in wine with a little oil, and 
applied to the piles, or the falling down of 
the fundament, eases them, and so doth 
sitting over the hot fumes thereof. The 
fresh roots bruised and distilled with a little 
milk, yields a most sovereign water to 
cleanse the skin from scurf, freckles, spots, 
or blemishes whatsoever therein. 
Authors have left large commendations 
of this herb you see, but for my part, I have 
neither spoken with Dr. Reason nor Dr. 
Experience about it. 
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CUCUMBERS. 
Government and virtues.] Ture is no 
dispute to be made, but that they are under 
the dominion of the Moon, though they are 
So much cried out against for their coldness, 
and if they were but one degree colder they 
would be poison. The best of Galenists 
hold them to be cold and moist in the 
second degree, and then not so hot as either 
lettuces or purslain: They are excellent 
good for a hot stomach, and hot liver; the 
unmeasurable use of them fills the body 
full of raw humours, and so indeed the un- 
measurable use of any thing else doth harm. 
The face being washed with their juice, 
cleanses the skin, and is excellent good for 
_ hot rheums in the eyes; the seed is excel- 
Tent good to provoke urine, and cleanses the 
_ passages thereof when they are stopped; 
there is not a better remedy for ulcers in 
the bladder growing, than Cucumbers are. 
The usual course is, to use the seeds in 
emulsions, as they make almond milk; but 
a far better way (in my opinion) is this: 
When the season of the year is, Take the 
Cucumbers and bruise them well, and distil 
the water from them, and let such as are 
troubled with ulcers in the bladder drink 
no other drink. The face being washed 
with the same water, cures the reddest 
face that is; it is also excellently good for 
sun-burning, freckles, and morphew. 
DAISIES. 
THESE are so well known almost to every 
child, that I suppose it needless to write 
any description of them. Take therefore 
the virtues of them as follows. 
Government and virtues.| The herb is — 
under the sign Cancer, and under the 
dominion of Venus, and therefore excellent 
good for wounds in the breast, and very 
fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, 
and plaisters, as also in syrup. The greater 
wild Daisey is a wound herb of good re- 
spect, often used in those drinks or salves 
that are for wounds, either inward or out- 
ward. The juice or distilled water of these, 
or the small Daisey, doth much temper the 
heat of choler, and refresh the liver, and the 
other inward parts. A decoction made of 
them, and drank, helps to cure the wounds 
made in the hollowness of the breast. The 
same also cures all ulcers and pustules in 
the mouth or tongue, or in the secret parts. 
The leaves bruised and applied to the cods, 
or to any other parts that are swoln and 
hot, doth dissolve it, and temper the heat. 
A decoction made thereof, of wallwort and 
agrimony, and the places fomented and 
bathed therewith warm, gives great ease to 
them that are troubled with the palsy, 
sciatica, or the gout. The same also dis- 
perses and dissolves the knots or kernels 
that grow in the flesh of any part of the — 
body, and bruises and hurts that come of — 
