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stringy, with divers fibres thereat, and 
abides many years. 
Place.] It grows in woods, and by wood- 
sides; as also in divers fields and bye-lanes 
in the land. 
Time.] It flowers in June, July and 
August. 
Government and virtues.]| The herb is 
under Venus. The decoction of the Wood 
Sage provokes urine and women’s courses: 
It also provokes sweat, digests humours, 
and discusses swellings and nodes in the 
flesh, and is therefore thought to be good 
against the French pox. The decoction of 
the green herb, made with wine, is a safe 
and sure remedy for those who by falls, 
bruises, or blows, suspect some vein to be 
inwardly broken, to disperse and void the 
congealed blood, and to consolidate the 
veins. The drink used inwardly, and the 
herb used outwardly, is good for such as 
are inwardly or outwardly bursten, and is 
found to be a sure remedy for the palsy. 
The juice of the herb, or the powder there- 
of dried, is good for moist ulcers and sores 
in the legs, and other parts, to dry them, 
and cause them to heal more speedily. It 
is no less effectual also in green wounds, to 
be used upon any occasion. 
SOLOMON’S SEAL. 
Descript.] Tur common Solomon’s Seal 
Tises up with a round stalk half a yard 
high, bowing or bending down to the 
ground, set with single leaves one above 
another, somewhat large, anf like the leaves 
of the lily-convally, or May-lily, with an 
eye of bluish upon the green, with some 
ribs therein, and more yellowish under- 
neath. At the foot of every leaf, almost 
from the bottom up to the top of the stalk, 
come forth small, long, white and hollow 
Pendulous flowers, somewhat like the 
flowers of May-lily, but ending in five long } : 
Points, for the most part two together, at the a 
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one, and sometimes also two stalks, with 
flowers at the foot of a leaf, which are with- 
out any scent at all, and stand on one side 
of the stalk. After they are past, come in 
their places small round berries great at the 
first, and blackish green, tending to blueness 
when they are ripe, wherein lie small, 
white, hard, and stony seeds. The root is 
of the thickness of one’s finger or thumb, 
white and knotted in some places, a flat 
round circle representing a Seal, whereof it 
took the name, lying along under the upper 
crust of the earth, and not growing down- 
ward, but with many fibres underneath. 
Place.| It is frequent in divers places of 
this land; as, namely in a wood two miles 
from Canterbury, by Fish-Pool Hill, as also 
in Bushy Close belonging to the parsonage 
of Alderbury, near Clarendon, two miles 
from Salisbury: in Cheffon wood, on Ches- 
son Hill, between Newington and Sitting- 
bourn in Kent, and divers other places in 
Essex, and other counties. 
Time.] It flowers about May: The root 
abides and shoots a-new every year. 
Government and virtues.] Saturn owns 
the plant, for he loves his bones well. The 
root of Solomon’s Seal is found by experi- 
ence to be available in wounds, hurts, and 
outward sores, to heal and close up the lips 
of those that are green, and to dry up and 
restrain the flux of humours to those that 
are old. It is singularly good to stay vom- 
itings and bleeding wheresoever, as also all 
fluxes in man or woman; also, to knit any 
joint, which by weakness uses to be often 
out of place, or will not stay in long when 
it is set; also to knit and join broken bones 
in any part of the body, the roots being — 
bruised and applied to the places; yea, it 
hath been found by experience, and the de~ _ 
coction of the root in wine, or the bruised fo 
