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or swelling, doth very effectually dissolve 
and consume them; yea, even the swellings 
of the throat called the king’s evil; the 
juice of the leaves or roots heals the itch, 
and all running or spreading scabs, sores, 
blemishes, or scars in the skin, whereso- 
ever they be. 
GOLDEN ROD. 
Descript.] Tuts rises up with brownish 
small round stalks, two feet high, and 
Sometimes more, having thereon many 
narrow and long dark green leaves, very 
seldom with any dents about the edges, or 
any stalks or white spots therein, yet they 
are sometimes so found divided at the tops 
into many small branches, with divers 
small yellow flowers on every one of them, 
all which are turned one way, and being 
ripe, do turn into down, and are carried 
away by the wind. The root consists of 
Many small fibres, which grows not deep 
in the ground, but abides all the winter 
therein, shooting forth new branches every 
year, the old one lying down to the ground. 
Place.] It grows in the open places of 
woods and copses, on both moist and dry 
grounds, in many places of this land. 
Time.] It flowers about the month of 
July. 
Government and virtues.] Venus claims 
the herb, and therefore to be sure it re- 
Spects beauty lost. Arnoldus de Villa Nova 
commends it much against the stone in the 
teins and kidneys, and to provoke urine in 
abundance, whereby also the gravel and 
Stone may be voided. The decoction of the 
herb, green or dry, or the distilled water 
thereof, is very effectual, for inward 
bruises, as also to be outwardly applied, it 
stays bleeding in any part-of the body, and 
of wounds; also the fluxes of humours, the 
bloody-flux, and women’s courses; and is 
no less prevalent in all ruptures or burst- 
ings, being drank inwardly, and outwardly 
*pplied. It is a sovereign wound herb, 
inferior to none, both for the inward and 
outward hurts; green wounds, old sores 
and ulcers, are quickly cured therewith. It 
also is of especial use to all lotions for sores 
or ulcers in the mouth, throat, or privy parts 
of man or woman. The decoction also helps 
to fasten the teeth that are loose in the 
gums. 
GOUT-WORT, OR HERB GERRARD. 
Descript.| Ir is a low herb, seldom ris- 
ing half a yard high, having sundry leaves 
standing on brownish green stalks by three, 
snipped about, and of a strong unpleasant 
savour: The umbels of the flowers are 
white, and the seed blackish, the root runs 
in the ground, quickly taking a great deal 
of room. 
Place.| It grows by hedge and wall- 
sides, and often in the border and corner of 
fields, and in gardens also. 
Time.| It flowers and seeds about the 
end of July. 
Government and virtues.] Saturn rules 
it. Neither is it to be supposed Goutwort 
hath its name for nothing but upon experi- 
ment to heal the gout and sciatica; as also 
joint-aches, and other cold griefs. The very 
bearing of it about one eases the pains of 
the gout, and defends him that bears it from 
the disease. 
GROMEL. 
Or this I shall briefly describe their 
kinds, which are principally used in physic, 
the virtues whereof are alike, though some- 
what different in their manner and form of | 
growing. 
Descript.| The greater Gromel grows 
up with slender hard and hairy stalks, trail- 
ing and taking root in the ground, as it lies _ 
thereon, and parted into many other small _ 
branches with hairy dark green leaves 
thereon. At the joints with the leaves come — 
forth very small blue flowers, and after 
