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flegm, and melancholy, it cleanses the brain, 
heart, liver, spleen; it cheers the senses, 
opens obstructions, takes away dulness of 
sight, helps deafness, helps melancholy and 
madness, resists resolution of the nerves, 
pains of the head, scabs, itch, falling-sick- 
ness, the windiness of it is corrected with a 
little ginger. You may boil half an ounce 
of it at a time, in water or white wine, but 
boil it not too much; half an ounce is a 
moderate dose to be boiled for any reason- 
able body. 
Serpillum. Mother-of-Time, with Time; 
it is hot and dry in the third degree, it pro- 
vokes the menses, and helps the stranguary 
or stoppage of urine, gripings in the belly, 
ruptures, convulsions, inflammation of the 
liver, lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen, 
boil it in white wine. tius, Galen. 
Sigillum Solomonis. Solomon’s seal. See 
the root. 
Smyrnium. Alexander of Crete. 
Solanum. Night-shade: very cold and 
dry, binding; it is somewhat dangerous 
given inwardly, unless by a skilful hand; 
outwardly it helps the Shingles, St. An- 
thony’s fire, and otler hot inflammations. 
Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in the 
Second degree, it opens obstructions of the 
liver, and purges watery humours, and is 
therefore very profitable in dropsies, it is 
very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore 
if taken inwardly it had need be well cor- 
tected with cinnamon, ginger, or annis- 
Seed, &c, 
Sonchus levis Asper. Sow-thistles smooth 
and rough, they are of a cold, watery, yet 
binding quality, good for frenzies, they in- 
crease milk in nurses, and cause the children 
Which they nurse to have a good colour, 
help gnawings of the stomach coming of a 
hot cause; outwardly they help inflamma- 
tions, and hot swellings, cool the heat of the 
and privities. 
Sophi Chirurgorum. Fluxweed: drying 
Without any manifest heat or coldness; itis | 
usually found about old ruinous buildings; 
it is so called because of its virtue in 
stopping fluxes. 
Shinachia. Spinage. I never read any 
physical virtues of it. 
Spina Alba. See the root. 
Spica. See Nardus. 
Stebe. Silver Knapweed: The virtues 
be the same with Scabious, and some think 
the herbs too; though I am of another 
opinion. 
Stechas. French Lavender. Cassidony, 
is a great counterpoison, opens obstructions 
of the liver and spleen, cleanses the matrix 
and bladder, brings out corrupt humours, 
provokes urine. 
Succisa, Marsus Diaboli. Devil’s-bit. 
Hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly 
taken, it eases the fits of the mother, and 
breaks wind, takes away the swellings in the 
mouth, and slimy flegm that stick to the 
jaws, neither is there a more present rem- 
edy in the world for those cold swellings in 
the neck which the vulgar call the almonds 
of the ears, than this herb bruised and ap- 
plied to them. 
Suchaha. An Egyptian Thorn. Very 
hard, if not impossible to come by here. 
Tanacetum. Tansy: hot in the second 
degree and dry in the third; the very smell 
of it stays abortion, or miscarriages in 
women; so it doth being bruised and ap- 
plied to their navels, provokes urine, and 
is a special help against the gout. 
Tarazacon. Dandelion, or to write better 
French, Dent-de-lion, for in plain English, 
it is called lyon’s tooth; it is a kind of Suc- 
cory, and thither I refer you. 
Tamariscus. Tamiris. It hath a dry 
cleansing quality, and hath a notable virtue 
against the rickets, and infirmities of the 
spleen, provokes the menses. Galen, Dios- _ 
corides. pa 
Telephium. A kind of Opine. 
Thlaspi. See Nasturitum. | a 
Thymbra. A wild Savory, == 
