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very effectual against long lingering agues; 
and a dram of the seed in powder, drank in 
wine, before the fit of the ague, helps to 
drive it away. The distilled water of the 
herb and flowers (if you can take them in 
time) hath the like properties, and is espe- 
cially good for hot stomachs, and in agues, 
either pestilential or of long continuance; 
for swoonings and passions of the heart, for 
the heat and head-ache in children, and for 
the blood and liver. The said water, or the 
juice, or the bruised leaves applied out- 
wardly, allay swellings, inflammations, St. 
Anthony’s fire, pushes, wheals, and pimples, 
especially used with a little vinegar; as also 
to wash pestiferous sores. The said water 
is very effectual for sore eyes that are in- 
flamed with redness, for nurses’ breasts 
that are pained by the abundance of milk. 
The wild Succory, as it is more bitter, 
So it is more strengthening to the stomach 
and liver, 
STONE-CROP, PRICK-MADAM, OB SMALL- 
HOUSELEEK. 
Descript.| Iv grows with divers trailing 
branches upon the ground, set with many 
thick, flat, roundish, whitish green leaves, 
pointed at the ends. The flowers stand 
many of them together, somewhat loosely. 
The roots are small, and run creeping under 
ground. 
Place.| It grows upon the stone walls 
and mud walls, upon the tiles of houses and 
pent-houses, and amongst rubbish, and in 
other gravelly places. 
Time.| It flowers in June and July, and 
the leaves are green all the Winter. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of the Moon, cold in quality, and 
Something binding, and therefore very good 
to stay defluctions, especially such as fall 
upon the eyes. It stops bleeding, both in- 
ward and outward, helps cankers, and all 
fretting sores and ulcers; it abates the heat | 
of choler, thereby preventing diseases aris- 
ing from choleric humours. It expels poi- 
son much, resists pestilential fevers, being 
exceeding good also for tertian agues: You 
may drink the decoction of it, if you please, 
for all the foregoing infirmities. It is so 
harmless an herb, you can scarce use it 
amiss: Being bruised and applied to the 
place, it helps the king’s evil, and any other 
knots or kernels in the flesh; as also the 
piles. 
ENGLISH TOBACCO. 
Descript.] Tuts rises up with a round 
thick stalk, about two feet high, whereon 
do grow thick, flat green leaves, nothing so 
large as the other Indian kind, somewhat 
round pointed also, and nothing dented 
about the edges. The stalk branches forth, 
and bears at the tops divers flowers set on 
great husks like the other, but nothing so 
large: scarce standing above the brims of 
the husks, round pointed also, and of a 
greenish yellow colour. The seed that fol- 
lows is not so bright, but larger, contained 
in the like great heads. The roots are 
neither so great nor woody; it perishes 
every year with the hard frosts in Winter, 
but rises generally of its own sowing. 
Place.] This came from some parts of 
Brazil, as it is thought, and is more familiar 
in our country than any of the other sorts; 
early giving ripe seed, which the others sel- 
dom do. 
Time.| It flowers from June, sometimes 
to the end of August, or later, and the seed 
ripens in the mean time, 
Government and virtues.] It is a martial 
plant. It is found by good experience to 
be available to expectorate tough phlegm 
from the stomach, chest, and lungs. The 
juice thereof made into a syrup, or the dis- _ 
tilled water of the herb drank with some _ 
| sugar, or without, if you will, or the smoak 
token: by: = pipe, at. ie: Brats bet feline 
