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therewith. The simple distilled water of the 
flowers is very. effectual for the said pur- 
poses, and the condensate juice of the 
Sloes. The distilled water of the green 
berries is used also for the said effects. 
THOROUGH WAX, OR THOROUGH LEAF. 
Descript.] Common Thorough-Wax 
sends forth a strait round stalk, two feet 
high, or better, whose lower leaves being 
of a blueish colour, are smaller and nar- 
rower than those up higher, and stand close 
thereto, not compassing it ; but as they grow 
higher, they do more encompass the stalks, 
until it wholly pass through them, branch- 
ing toward the top into many parts, where 
the leaves grow smaller again, every one 
standing singly, and never two at a joint. 
The flowers are small and yellow, standing 
in tufts at the heads of the branches, where 
afterwards grow the seed being blackish, 
many thick thrust together. The root is 
small, long and woody, perishing every 
year, after seed-time, and rising again plen- 
tifully of its own sowing. 
Place.| It is found growing in many 
corn-fields and pasture-grounds in this 
land. 
Time.} It flowers in July, and the seed 
is ripe in August. 
Government and virtues.] Both this and 
the former are under the influence of 
Saturn. Thorough-Wax is of singular good 
use for all sorts of bruises and wounds 
either inward or outward; and old ulcers 
and sores likewise, if the decoction of the 
herb with water and wine be drank, and the 
place washed therewith, or the juice of the 
green herb bruised, or boiled, either by 
itself, or with other herbs, in oil or hog’s 
grease, to be made into an ointment to serve 
all the year. The decoction of the herb, 
or powder of the dried herb, taken in- 
_ Wardly, and the same, or the leaves bruised, 
. ant pereted ecclesia is — 5 
children before they be too old. Being ap- — 
plied with a little flour and wax to chil- 
dren’s navels that stick forth, it helps them. 
THYME. 
Ir is in vain to describe an herb so com- 
monly known. 
Government and virtues.| It is a noble 
strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one 
as grows; neither is there scarce a better 
remedy growing for that disease in children 
which they commonly call the Chin-cough, 
than it is. It purges the body of phlegm, 
and is an excellent remedy for shortness of 
breath. It kills worms in the belly, and 
being a notable herb of Venus, provokes 
the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery 
to women in travail, and brings away the 
after birth. It is so harmless you need not 
fear the use of it. An ointment made of it 
takes away hot swellings and warts, helps 
the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes 
away pains and hardness of the spleen. 
’Tis excellent for those that are troubled 
with the gout. It eases pains in the loins 
and hips. The herb taken any way in- 
wardly, comforts the stomach much, and 
expels wind. 
WILD THYME, OR MOTHER OF THYME. 
Wip Thyme also is so well known, that 
it needs no description. 
Place.] It may be found commonly in 
commons, and other barren places through- 
out the nation. 
Government and virtues.| It is under the 
dominion of Venus, and under the sign 
Aries, and therefore chiefly appropriated 
to the head. It provokes urime and the 
terms, and eases the griping pain of the 
belly, cramps, ruptures, and inflammation _ 
of the liver. If you make a vinegar of the — 
herb, as vinegar of roses is made (you may ae 
