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infection of pestilence, if after the taking 
of it the party sweat two hours in bed, and 
this medicine be again and again repeated, 
if need require. The green herb bruised 
and applied to any carbuncle or plague 
sore, is found by certain experience to dis- 
solve and break it in three hours space. 
The same decoction also drank, helps the 
pains and stitches in the side. The decoc- 
tion of the roots taken for forty days to- 
gether, or a dram of the powder of them 
taken at a time in whey, doth (as Matthi- 
olus saith) wonderfully help those that are 
troubled with running or spreading scabs, 
tetters, ringworms, yea, although they pro- 
ceed from the French pox, which, he saith, 
he hath tried by experience. The juice or 
decoction drank, helps also scabs and 
breakings-out of the itch, and the like. 
The juice also made up into an ointment 
and used, is effectual for the same purpose. 
The same also heals all inward wounds by 
the drying, cleansing, and healing quality 
therein: And a syrup made of the juice 
and sugar, is very effectual to all the pur- 
poses aforesaid, and so is the distilled water 
of the herb and flowers made in due season, 
especially to be used when the green herb 
is not in force to be taken. The decoction 
of the herb and roots outwardly applied, 
doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or 
cold swellings in any part of the body, is 
effectual for shrunk sinews or veins, and 
heals green wounds, old sores, aud ulcers. 
The juice of Scabious, made up with the 
powder of Borax and Samphire, cleanses 
the skin of the face, or other parts of the 
body, not only from freckles and pimples, 
but also from morphew and leprosy; the 
head washed with the decoction, cleanses it 
from dandriff, scurf, sores, itch, and the 
like, used warm. The herb bruised and ap- 
plied, doth in a short time loosen, and draw 
forth any splinter, broken bone, arrow 
ries or other such like thing lying in the 
esh. 
SCURVYGRASS. 
Descript.] Tue ordinary English Scurvy- 
grass hath many thick flat leaves, more 
long than broad, and sometimes longer and 
narrower; sometimes also smooth on the 
edges, and sometimes a little waved; some- 
times plain, smooth and pointed, of a sad 
green, and sometimes a blueish colour, 
every one standing by itself upon a long 
foot-stalk, which is brownish or greenish 
also, from among which arise many slender 
stalks, bearing few leaves thereon like the 
other, but longer and lesser for the most 
part: At the tops whereof grow many 
whitish flowers, with yellow threads in the 
middle, standing about a green head, which 
becomes the seed vessel, which will be 
somewhat flat when it is ripe, wherein is 
contained reddish seed, tasting somewhat 
hot. The root is made of many white 
strings, which stick deeply into the mud, 
wherein it chiefly delights, yet it will well 
abide in the more upland and drier ground, 
and tastes a little brackish and salt even 
there, but not so much as where it hath the 
salt water to feed upon. 
Place.| It grows all along the Thames 
sides, both on the Essex and Kentish 
shores, from Woolwich round about the 
sea coasts to Dover, Portsmouth, and even 
to Bristol, where it is had in plenty; the 
other with round leaves grows in the 
marshes in Holland, in Lincolnshire, and 
other places of Lincolnshire by the sea side. 
Descript.] There is also another sort 
called Dutch Scurvygrass, which is most 
known, and frequent in gardens, which has 
fresh, green, and almost round leaves rising 
from the root, not so thick as the former, 
yet in some rich ground, very large, even 
twice as big as in others, not dented about 
the edges, or hollow in the middle, standing» 
on a long foot-stalk; from among these — 
rise long, slender stalks, higher than the for- _ 
mer, with more white flowers at the tops of 
