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tiles and applied to the grieved place, and 
yet I had it from Dr. Butler too. 
Hysopus. Hysop. Helps coughs, short- 
ness of breath, wheezing, distillations upon 
the lungs: it is of a cleansing quality: kills 
worms in the body, amends the whole 
colour of the body, helps the dropsy and 
spleen, sore throats, and noise in the ears. 
See Syrup of Hysop. 
Hyosciamus, §c. Henbane. The white 
Henbane is held to be cold in the third de- 
gree, the black or common Henbane and 
the yellow, in the fourth. They stupify 
the senses, and therefore not to be taken 
inwardly, outwardly applied, they help 
infammations, hot gouts: applied to the 
temples they provoke sleep. 
Hypericon. St. John’s Wort. It is as 
gallant a wound-herb as any is, either 
given inwardly, or outwardly applied to the 
wound: it is hot and dry, opens stoppings, 
helps spitting and vomiting of blood, it 
cleanses the reins, provokes the menses, 
helps congealed blood in the stomach and 
Meseraic veins, the falling-sickness, palsy, 
cramps and aches in the joints; you may 
give it in powder or any convenient decoc- 
tion, 
Hypoglottis, Laurus, Alexandrina. Laurel 
of Alexandria, provokes urine and the 
menses, and is held to be a singular help to 
women in travail. 
Hypoglossum, the same with Hypo- 
glossum before, only different names given 
by different authors, the one deriving his 
name from the tongue of a horse, of which 
form the leaf is; the other the form of the 
little leaf, because small leaves like small 
tongues grow upon the greater. 
Iberis Cardamantice. Sciatica-cresses. 
T suppose so called because they help the 
Sciatica, or Huckle-bone Gout. 
Ingunialis, Asther. Setwort or Shart- 
wort: being bruised and applied, they help 
swellings, botches, and venerous swellings 
‘nthe groin, whence they took their name, 
as also inflammation and falling out of the 
fundament. 
Iris. See the roots. 
Isatis, Glastum. Woad. Drying and 
binding; the side being bathed with it, it 
easeth pains in the spleen, cleanseth filthy 
corroding gnawing ulcers. 
Iva Arthritica. The same with Came- 
pytis. 
Iuncus oderatus. The same with Sche- 
nanthus. 
Labrumveneris. Thesame with Dipsacus. 
Lactuca. Lettice. Cold and moist, cools 
the inflammation of the stomach, commonly 
called heart-burning: provokes sleep, re- 
sists drunkenness, and takes away the ill 
effects, of it; cools the blood, quenches 
thirst, breeds milk, and is good for choleric 
bodies, and such as have a frenzy, or are 
frantic. It is more wholesome eaten boiled 
than raw. 
Logabus, Herba Leporina. A kind of 
Trefoil growing in France and Spain. Let 
them that live there look after the virtues 
of it. 
Lavendula. Lavender: Hot and dry in 
the third degree: the temples and forehead 
bathed with the juice of it; as also the smell 
of the herb helps swoonings, catalepsis, 
falling-sickness, provided it be not accom- 
panied with a fever. See the flowers. 
Laureola. Laurel. The leaves purge up- 
ward and downward: they are good for 
rheumatic people to chew in their mouths, 
for they draw forth much water. 
Laurus. Bay-tree. The leaves are hot 
and dry, resist drunkenness, they gently 
bind and help diseases in the bladder, help 
the stinging of bees and wasps, mitigate 
the pain of the stomach, dry and heal, 
open obstructions of the liver and Eee, 
resist the pestilence. ae 
Lappa Minor. The lesser Burdock. . ae 
Lentiscus. Mastich-tree. Both the lea 
and bark of it stop fluxes _ 
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