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rheumatic distillations in them, doth cleanse 
and help them. The juice of Liquorice is 
as effectual in all the diseases of the breast 
and lungs, the reins and the bladder, as the 
decoction. The juice distilled in Rose- 
water, with some gum tragacanth, is a fine 
licking medicine for hoarseness, wheezing, 
&e. 
LIVERW ORT. 
THERE are according to some botanists, 
upwards of three hundred different kinds 
of Liverwort. 
Descript.| Common Liverwort grows 
close, and spreads much upon the ground 
in moist and shady places, with many small 
green leaves, or rather (as it were) sticking 
flat to one another, very unevenly cut in on 
the edges, and crumpled; from among 
which arise small slender stalks an inch or 
two high at most, bearing small star-like 
flowers at the top; the roots are very fine 
and small. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of Jupiter, and under the sign 
Cancer. It is a singularly good herb for 
all the diseases of the liver, both to cool 
and cleanse it, and helps the inflammations 
in any part, and the yellow jaundice like- 
wise: Being bruised and boiled in small 
beer, and drank, it cools the heat of the 
liver and kidneys, and helps the running of 
the reins in men, and the whites in women; 
it is a singular remedy to stay the spreading 
of tetters, ringworms, and other fretting 
and running sores and scabs, and is an ex- 
cellent remedy for such whose livers are 
corrupted by surfeits, which cause their 
bodies to break out, for it fortifies the liver 
exceedingly, and makes it impregnable. 
-LOOSESTRIFE OR WILLOWHERB. 
Descript.] Common yellow Loosestrife 
grows to be four or five feet high, or more, 
stand two long leaves, shorter, 
diversly branched from the middle of them | 
to the tops into great and long branches, 
on all which at the joints there grow long 
and narrow leaves, but broader below, and 
usually two at a joint, yet sometimes three 
or four, somewhat like willow leaves, 
smooth on the edges, and of a fair green 
colour from the upper joints of the 
branches, and at the tops of them also 
stand many yellow flowers of five leaves 
a-piece, with divers yellow threads in the 
middle, which turn into small round heads, 
containing small cornered seeds: the root 
creeps under ground, almost’ like cough- 
grass, but greater, and shoots up every 
Spring brownish heads, which afterwards 
grow up into stalks. It has no scent or 
taste, but is only astringent. 
Place.| It grows in many places of this 
land in moist meadows, and by water sides. 
Time.| It flowers from June to August. 
Government and virtues.| This herb is 
‘good for all manner of bleeding at the 
mouth, nose, or wounds, and all fluxes of 
the belly, and the bloody-fiux, given either 
to drink or taken by clysters; it stays also 
the abundance of women’s courses; it is a 
singular good wound-herb for green wounds, 
to stay the bleeding, and quickly close to- 
gether the lips of the wound, if the herb 
be bruised, and the juice only applied. It 
is often used in gargles for sore mouths, as 
also for the secret parts. The smoak here- 
of being bruised, drives away flies and 
gnats, which in the night time molest peo- — 
ple inhabiting near marshes, and in the © 
fenny countries, ; 
LOOSESTRIFE, WITH SPIKED HEADS OF 
FLOWERS. : 
Ir is likewise called Grass-polly. Raed 
Deseript.] This grows with many woody 
square stalks, full of joints, about three 
feet high at least; at every one wh 
