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Time.| They flower in August. 
Government and virtues.] They are un- 
- der the dominion of Mars, and one of the 
_ principal herbs he is ruler of. They resist 
_ putrefactions, poison, and a more sure 
remedy cannot be found to prevent the pes- 
tilence than it is; it strengthens the stomach 
_ exceedingly, helps digestion, comforts the 
heart, and preserves it against faintings 
and swoonings: The powder of the dry 
roots help the biting of mad dogs and 
venomous beasts, opens obstructions of the 
liver, and restores an appetite for their 
meat to such as have lost it. The herb 
steeped in wine, and the wine drank, re- 
freshes such as be over-weary with travel, 
and grow lame in their joints, either by 
cold or evil lodgings; it helps stitches, and 
griping pains in the sides; is an excellent 
remedy for such as are bruised by falls; it 
provokes urine and the terms exceedingly, 
therefore let it not be given to women with 
child: The same is very profitable for such 
as are troubled with cramps and convul- 
sions, to drink the decoction: Also they say 
it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most 
certainly : it is excellent in all cold diseases, 
and such as are troubled with tough phlegm, 
scabs, itch, or any fretting sores and ulcers; 
it is an admirable remedy to kill the worms, 
by taking half a dram of the powder in a 
morning in any convenient liquor; the same 
is excellently good to be taken inwardly 
for the king’s evil. It helps agues of all 
Sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as also the 
bots in cattle; when kine are bitten on the 
udder by any venomous beast, do but stroke 
the place with the decoction of any of these, 
and it will instantly heal them. 
CLOVE GILLIFLOWERS. 
Ir is vain to describe an herb so well 
wn. 
Government and virtues.] They are gal- 
lant, fine, temperate flowers, of the nature 
temperate, that no excess, neither in heat, 
cold, dryness, nor moisture, can be per- 
ceived in them; they are great strengtheners 
both of the brain and heart, and will there- 
fore serve either for cordials or cephalics, 
as your occasion will serve. There is both 
a syrup and a conserve made of them alone, 
commonly to be had at every apothecary’s. 
To take now and then a little of either, 
strengthens nature much, in such as are in 
consumptions. They are also excellently 
good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel 
poison. 
GERMANDER. 
Descript.] ‘Common Germander shoots 
forth sundry stalks, with small and some- 
what round leaves, dented about the edges. 
The flowers stand at the tops, of a deep 
purple colour. The root is composed of 
divers sprigs, which shoots forth a great 
way round about, quickly overspreading a 
garden. 
Place.| It grows usually with us in 
gardens. 
Time.| And flowers in June and July. 
Government and virtues.] It is a most 
prevalent herb of Mercury, and strengthens 
the brain and apprehension exceedingly 
when weak, and relieves them when droop- 
ing. This taken with honey (saith Diosco- © 
rides) is a remedy for coughs, hardness of 
the spleen, and difficulty of urine, and 
helps those that are fallen into a dropsy, 
especially at the beginning of the disease, 
a decoction being made thereof when it is 
green, and drank. It also brings down 
women’s courses, and expels the dead child. 
all serpents, being drank in wine, and the 
bruised herb outwardly applied; used with 4 
honey, it cleanses old and foul ulcers; and _ 
made into an oil, and the eyes anointed 
therewith, takes away the dimness ; 
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