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break out into leaves is good to be used 
either inwardly or outwardly, to assuage 
inflammations, and to stop all manner of 
fluxes in man or woman. The same is 
singularly good in pestilential and hot 
burning fevers: for it resists the force of 
the infection, and allays the heat: It cools 
the heat of the liver, breaking the stone in 
the kidneys, and stays women’s courses. 
The decoction of the leaves works the same 
effects. The water that is found in the 
hollow places of old Oaks, is very effectual 
against any foul or spreading scabs. The 
distilled water (or concoction, which is 
better) of the leaves, is one of the best 
remedies that I know of for the whites in 
women. 
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OATS. 
Are so well known that they need no 
description. 
Government and virtues.] Oats fried 
with bay salt, and applied to the sides, take 
away the pains of stitches and wind in the 
sides or the belly. A poultice made of 
meal of Oats, and some oil of bays put 
thereunto, helps the itch and the leprosy, 
as also the fistulas of the fundament, and 
dissolves hard imposthumes. The meal of 
Oats boiled with vinegar, and applied, 
takes away freckles and spots in the face, 
and other parts of the body. 
ONE BLADE, 
Descript.] Tus small plant never bears 
more than one leaf, but only when it rises 
up with his stalk, which thereon bears 
another, and seldom more, which are of a 
blueish green colour, pointed, with many 
tibs or veins therein, like plantain. At the 
top of the stalk grow many small white 
flowers, star fashion, smelling somewhat 
Sweet; after which come small red berries, 
when they are ripe. The root is small, of the 
gen te eles a a eae 
the upper crust of the earth, shooting forth 
in divers places. — 
Place.] It grows in moist, shadowy, and 
grassy places of woods, in many places of 
this land. 
Time.| It flowers about May, and the 
berries are ripe in June, and then quickly 
perishes, until the next year it springs from 
the same root again. 
Government and virtues.| It is a precious 
herb of the Sun. Half a dram, or a dram 
at most, in powder of the roots hereof taken 
in wine and vinegar, of each equal parts, 
and the party laid presently to sweat there- 
upon, is held to be a sovereign remedy for 
those that are infected with the plague, and 
have a sore upon them, by expelling the 
poison and infection, and defending the 
heart and spirits from danger. It is a sin- 
gularly good wound herb, and is thereupon 
used with other the like effects in many 
compound balms for curing of wounds, be 
they fresh and green, or old and malignant, 
and especially if the sinews be burnt. 
ORCHIS. 
Ir has almost as many several names 
attributed to the several sorts of it, as would 
almost fill a sheet of paper; as dog-stones, 
goat-stones, fool-stones, fox-stones, satiri- 
con, cullians, together with many others too 
tedious to rehearse. 
Descript.] To describe all the several 
sorts of it were an endless piece of work; 
therefore I shall only describe the roots, 
because they are to be used with some dis- 
cretion. They have each of them a double 
root within, some of them are round, in 
others like a hand; these roots alter every 
year by course, when the one rises and 
waxes full, the other waxes lank, and per- _ 
ishes. Now, it is that which is full whichis _ 
to be used in medicines, the other being — 
either of no use at all, fessor raoniee fa: : 
the aeiaane: of —. it 
