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punctures, and those foul ulcers that arise 
by the French pox. Mizaldus adds that the 
leaves laid under the feet, will keep the 
dogs from barking at you. It is called 
Hounds-tongue, because it ties the tongues 
of hounds; whether true, or not, I never 
tried, yet I cured the biting of a mad dog 
with this only medicine. 
HOLLY, HOLM, OR HULVER BUSH. 
For to describe a tree so well known is 
needless. * 
Government and virtues.| The tree is 
Saturnine. The berries expel wind, and 
therefore are held to be profitable in the 
cholic. The berries have a strong faculty 
with them; for if you eat a dozen of them 
in the morning fasting when they are ripe 
and not dried, they purge the body of gross 
and clammy phlegm: but if you dry the 
berries, and beat them into powder, they 
bind the body, and stop fluxes, bloody-flux- 
es, and the terms in women. The bark of 
the tree, and also the leaves, are excellently 
good, being used in fomentations for broken 
bones, and such members as are out of joint. 
Pliny saith, the branches of the tree defend 
houses from lightning, and men from witch- 
craft, 
ST. JOHN’S WORT. 
Tus is a very beautiful shrub, and is 
4 great ornament to our meadows. 
Descript.| Common St. John’s Wort 
Shoots forth brownish, upright, hard, round 
Stalks, two feet high, spreading many 
branches from the sides up to the tops of 
them, with two small leaves set one against 
another at every place, which are of a deep 
8teen colour, somewhat like the leaves of 
the lesser centaury, but narrow, and full of 
small holes in every leaf, which cannot be 
® te perceived, as when they are held up. 
: light; at the tops of the stalks and 
a-piece, with many yellow threads in the 
middle, which being bruised do yield a red-— 
dish juice like blood; after which come 
small round heads, wherein is contained 
small blackish seed smelling like rosin. 
The root is hard and woody, with divers 
strings and fibres at it, of a brownish colour, 
which abides in the ground many years, 
shooting anew every Spring. 
Place.| This grows in woods and copses, 
as well those that are shady, as open to 
the sun. 
Time.| They flower about Midsummer 
and July, and their seed is ripe in the latter 
end of July or August. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
celestial sign Leo, and the dominion of the 
Sun. It may be, if you meet a Papist, he 
will tell you, especially if he be a lawyer, 
that St. John made it over to him by a 
letter of attorney. It is a singnlar wound 
herb; boiled in wine and drank, it heals 
inward hurts or bruises; made into an oint- 
ment, it opens obstructions, dissolves swell- 
ings, and closes up the lips of wounds. The 
decoction of the herb and flowers, especially 
of the seed, being drank in wine, with the 
juice of knot-grass, helps all manner of 
vomiting and spitting of blood, is good for 
those that are bitten or stung by any veno- 
mous creature, and for those that cannot 
make water. Two drams of the seed of St. 
John’s Wort made into powder, and drank 
in a little broth, doth gently expel choler or — 
congealed blood in the stomach. The decoc- — 
tion of the leaves and seeds drank somewhat 
warm before the fits of agues, whether they 
be tertians or quartans, alters the fits, and, 
by often using, doth take them quite away. 
The seed is much commended, being drank _ 
for forty days together, to help the sciatica, __ 
the falling-sickness, and the ae ae 
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