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coughs, pains in the sides, ptisicks, or ulcer- 
ation of the lungs, it provokes the menses, 
eases hard labour in child-bearing, brings 
away the placenta. See the syrups. 
Marrubium, nigrum, et fetidum. Black 
and stinking Horehound, I take to be all 
one. Hot and dry in the third degree; 
cures the bitings of mad dogs, wastes and 
consumes hard knots in the fundament and 
matrix, cleanses filthy ulcers. 
Marum. Herb Mastich. Hot and dry 
in the third degree, good against cramps 
and convulsions. 
Matricaria. Feverfew. Hot in the third 
degree, dry in the second; opens, purges; 
a singular remedy for diseases incident to 
the matrix, and other diseases incident to 
women, eases their travail, and infirmities 
coming after it; it helps the vertigo or dis- 
siness of the head,melancholy sad thoughts: 
you may boil it either alone, or with other 
herbs fit for the same purpose, with which 
this treatise will furnish you: applied to 
the wrists, it helps the ague. 
Matrisylva. The same with Caprifolium. 
Meliotus. Melilot. Inwardly taken, pro- 
vokes urine, breaks the Stone, cleanses the 
reins and bladder, cutteth and cleanses the 
lungs of tough flegm; the juice dropped 
into the eyes, clears the sight, into the ears, 
mitigates pain and noise there; the head 
bathed with the juice mixed with vinegar, 
takes away the pains thereof: outwardly 
in pultisses, it assuages swellings in the pri- 
vities and elsewhere. 
Mellissa, Balm. Hot and dry: outwardly 
mixed with salt and applied to the neck, 
helps the King’s-evil, bitings of mad dogs, 
venomous beasts, and such as cannot hold 
their neck as they should do; inwardly it is 
an excellent remedy for a cold and moist 
Stomach, cheers the heart, refreshes the 
mind, takes away griefs, sorrow, and care, 
instead of which it produces joy and mirth. 
See the syrup. Galen, Avicenna. 
Mentha sativa. Garden Mints, Spear 
Mints. Are hot and dry in the third degree, 
provoke hunger, are wholesome for the 
stomach, stay vomiting, stop the menses, ~ 
help sore heads in children, strengthen the 
stomach, cause digestion; outwardly ap- 
plied, they help the bitings of mad-dogs: 
Yet they hinder conception. 
Memba aquatica. Water Mints: Ease 
pains of the belly, head-ache, and vomiting, 
gravel in the kidnies and stone. 
Methastrum. Horse-mint. I know no 
difference between them and water mints. 
Mercurialis, mas, femina. Mercury male 
and female, they are both hot and dry in 
the second degree, cleansing, digesting, 
they purge watery humours, and further 
conception. 
Mezereon. Spruge-Olive, or Widdow- 
wail, A dangerous purge, better let alone 
than meddled with. 
Millefolium. Yarrow. Meanly cold and 
binding, an healing herb for wounds, 
stanches bleeding; and some say the juice 
snuffed up the nose, causeth it to bleed, 
whence it was called, Nose-bleed; it 
stops lasks, and the menses, helps the 
running of the reins, helps inflammations 
and excoriations of the priapus, as also 
inflammations of wounds. Galen. 
Muscus. Mosse. Is something cold and 
binding, yet usually retains a smatch of the 
property of the tree it grows on; therefore ~ 
that which grows upon oaks is very dry and 
binding. Serapio saith that it being infused 
in wine, and the wine drank, it stays vomit- 
ing and fluxes, as also the Fluor Albus. 
Myrtus. Myrtle-tree. The leaves are 
of a cold earthly quality, drying and bind- 
ing, good for fluxes, spitting and vomiting 
of blood; stop the Fluor Albus and menses. 
Nardus. See the root. 
Nasturtium, Aquaticum, Hortense. Wa- 
ter-cresses, and Garden-cresses. Garden- 
cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree, _ 
good for the scurvy, sciatica, hard swellings, — 
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