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if he be oceasioner of the malady, and in 
Taurus is the Genesis) this is your cure. 
It opens, cures and digests humours, and 
mightily provokes women’s courses and 
urine. Half a dram at a time of the dried 
root in powder taken in wine, doth wonder- 
fully warm a cold stomach, helps digestion, 
and consumes all raw and _ superfluous 
moisture therein; eases all inward gripings 
and pains, dissolves wind, and resists poison 
and infection. It is a known and much 
praised remedy to drink the decoction of 
the herb for any sort of ague, and to help 
the pains and torments of the body and 
bowels coming of cold. The seed is effec- 
tual to all the purposes aforesaid (except 
the last) and works more powerfully. The 
distilled water of the herb helps the quinsy 
in the throat, if the mouth and throat be 
gargled and washed therewith, and helps 
the pleurisy, being drank three or four 
times. Being dropped into the eyes, it 
takes away the redness or dimness of them; 
it likewise takes away spots or freckles in 
the face. The leaves bruised, and fried 
with a little hog’s lard, and had hot to any 
blotch or boil, will quickly break it. 
LUNGWORT. 
_Descript.] Tus is a kind of moss, that 
stows on sundry sorts of trees, especially 
oaks and beeches, with broad, greyish, 
tough leaves diversly folded, crumpled, and 
gashed in on the edges, and some spotted 
also with many small spots on the upper- 
side. It was never scen to bear any stalk 
or flowers at any time. 
Government and virtues.] Jupiter seems 
to own this herb. It is of great use to 
Physicians to help the diseases of the lungs, 
and for coughs, wheezings, and shortness of 
breath, which it cures both in man and 
beast. It is very profitable to put into 
lotions that are taken to stay the moist 
humours that flow to ulcers, and hinder 
their healing, as also to wash all other ulcers 
in the privy parts of a man or woman. It 
is an excellent- remedy boiled in beer for 
broken-winded horses. 
MADDER. 
Descript.] Garpen Madder shoots forth 
many very long, weak, four-square, reddish 
stalks, trailing on the ground a great way, 
very rough or hairy, and full of joints: At 
every one of these joints come forth divers 
long and narrow leaves, standing like a star 
about the stalks, rough also and hairy, to- 
wards the tops whereof come forth many 
small pale yellow flowers, after which come 
small round heads, green at first, and red- 
dish afterwards, but black when they are 
ripe, wherein is contained the seed. The 
root is not very great, but exceeding long, 
running down half a man’s length into the 
ground, red and very clear, while it is fresh, 
spreading divers ways. 
Place.|] It is only manured in gardens, 
or larger fields, for the profit that is made 
thereof. 
Time.| It flowers towards the end of 
Summer, and the seed is ripe quickly after. 
Government and virtues.] It is an herb 
of Mars. It hath an opening quality, and 
afterwards to bind and strengthen. It is a 
sure remedy for the yellow jaundice, by 
opening the obstructions of the liver and 
gall, and cleansing those parts; it opens 
also the obstructions of the spleen, and 
diminishes the melancholy humour. It is 
available for the palsy and sciatica, and 
effectual for bruises inward and outward, 
and is therefore much used in vulnerary 
drinks. The root for all those aforesaid 
purposes, is to be boiled in wine or water, 
as the cause requires, and some honey and — 
sugar put thereunto afterwards. The seed 
hereof taken in vinegar and honey, helps | 
the swelling and hardness of the spleen. — 
The decoction of the leaves and branches 
is a good fomentation for women that have 
not their courses, The leaves and 
