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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
GARLICK. 
Tue offensiveness of the breath of him 
that hath eaten Garlick, will lead you by 
the nose to the knowledge hereof, and (in- 
stead of a description) direct you to the 
place where it grows in gardens, which 
kinds are the best, and most physical. 
Government and virtues.]| Mars owns 
this herb. This was anciently accounted 
the poor man’s treacle, it being a remedy 
for all diseases and hurts (except those 
which itself breed.) It provokes urine and 
women’s courses, helps the biting of mad 
dogs, and other venomous creatures; kills 
worms in children, cuts and avoids tough 
phlegm, purges the head, helps the leth- 
argy, is a good preservative against, and a 
remedy for any plague, sore, or foul ulcers; 
takes away spots and blemishes in the skin, 
eases pains in the ears, ripens and breaks 
imposthumes, or other swellings. And for 
all those diseases the onions are as effec- 
tual. But the Garlick hath some more pe- 
culiar virtues besides the former, viz. it 
hath a special quality to discuss inconven- 
iences coming by corrupt agues or mineral 
vapours, or by drinking corrupt and stink- 
ing waters; as also by taking wolf-bane, 
hen-bane, hemlock, or other poisonous and 
dangerous herbs. It is also held good in 
hydropick diseases, the jaundice, falling 
sickness, cramps, convulsions, the piles or 
hemorrhoids, or other cold diseases. Many 
authors quote many diseases this is good 
for; but conceal its vices. Its heat is very 
vehement, and all vehement hot things send 
up but ill-favoured vapours to the brain. In 
choleric men it will add fuel to the fire; in 
men oppressed by melancholy, it will atten- 
GENTIAN, FELWORT, OR BALDMONY. 
Ir is confessed that Gentian, which is 
most used amongst us, is brought over from 
beyond sea, yet we have two sorts of it 
growing frequently in our nation, which 
besides the reasons so frequently alledged 
why English herbs should be fittest for 
English bodies, has been proved by the ex- 
perience of divers physicians, to be not # 
whit inferior in virtue to that which comes 
beyond sea, therefore be pleased to take 
the description of them as follows. 
Descript.| The greater of the two hath 
many small long roots thrust down deep | 
into the ground, and abiding all the Winter. 
The stalks are sometimes more, sometimes | 
fewer, of a brownish green colour, which 
is sometimes two feet high, if the ground 
be fruitful, having many long, narrow, dark 
green leaves, set by couples up to the top; 
the flowers are long and hollow, of a purple 
colour, ending in fine corners. The smaller’ 
sort which is to be found in our land, grows 
up with sundry stalks, not a foot high, 
parted into several small branches, whereom 
grow divers small leaves together, very like 
those of the lesser Centuary, of a whitish 
green colour; on the tops of these stalks 
grow divers perfect blue flowers, standing 
in long husks, but not so big as the other} 
the root is very small, and full of threads. © 
Place.] The first grows in divers places 
of both the East and West counties, and 45 
well in wet as in dry grounds; as nest 
Long-field by Gravesend, near Cobham i) 
Kent, near Lillinstone in Kent, also in 4 
chalk pit hard by a paper-mill not fat 
from Dartford in Kent. The second grows 
also in divers places in Kent, as about 
Southfleet and Longfield; upon Barton's” 
hills in Bedfordshire; also not far from St 
Albans, upon a piece of waste chalky 
ground, as you go out of Dunstable way to” 
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