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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
tillations upon the lungs, hoarseness, want 
of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is 
bad for head-aches. 
Ammonicaum, applied to the side, helps 
the hardness and pains of the spleen. 
Camphire, eases pains of the head com- 
ing of heat, takes away inflammations, and 
cools any place to which it is applied. 
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JUICES. 
Tuat all juices have the same virtues 
with the herbs or fruits whereof they are 
made, I suppose few or none will deny, 
therefore I shall only name a few of them, 
and that briefly. 
Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, 
strengthens the lungs, takes away the 
roughness of the throat, succours the reins 
and bladder. 
The juice of Citrons cools the blood, 
strengthens the heart, mitigates the violent 
heat of fevers. 
The juice of Lemons works the same ef- 
fect, but not so powerfully. 
Juice of Liquorice, strengthens the lungs, 
helps coughs and colds. 
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THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS. 
These have been treated of before, only 
two excepted. The first of which is, 
Agaricus. Agarick: It purges flegm, 
choler, and melancholy, from the brain, 
nerves, muscles, marrow, (or more properly 
brain) of the back, it cleanses the breast, 
lungs, liver, stomach, spleen, reins, womb, 
joints; it provokes urine, and the menses, 
kills worms, helps pains in the joints, and 
causes a good colour: it is very seldom or 
_ never taken alone. See S yrup of Roses with 
Agarick. 
Lastly, Vicus Quircinus, or Mistleto of 
the Oak, helps the falling-sickness being 
_ either taken inwardly, or hung about one’s 
LIVING CREATURES. 
Millepedes (so called from the multitude 
of their feet, though it cannot be supported 
they have a thousand ) sows, hog-lice, wood- 
lice, being bruised and mized with wine, 
they provoke urine, help the yellow jaun- 
dice: outwardly being boiled in oil, help 
pains in the ears,adrop being put into them. 
The flesh of vipers being eaten, clear the 
sight, help the vices of the nerves, resist 
poison exceedingly, neither is there any 
better remedy under the sun for their bit- 
ings than the head of the viper that bit you, 
bruised and applied to the place, and the 
flesh eaten, you need not eat above a dram 
at a time, and make it up as you shall be 
taught in troches of vipers. Neither any 
comparable to the stinging of bees and 
wasps, &c. than the same that sting you, 
bruised and applied to the place. 
Land Scorpions cure their own stingings 
by the same means; the ashes of them (be- 
ing burnt) potently provokes urine, and 
breaks the stone. 
Earth-worms, are an admirable remedy 
for cut nerves being applied to the place; 
they provoke urine; see the oil of them, only 
let me not forget one notable thing quoted 
by Mizaldus, which is, That the powder of 
them put into an hollow tooth, makes it drop 
out. 
To draw a tooth without pain, fill an 
earthen crucible full of Emmets, Ants, or 
Pismires, eggs and all, and when you have 
burned them, keep the ashes, with which if 
you touch a tooth it will fall out. 
Eels, being put into wine or beer, and 
suffered to die in it, he that drinks it will 
never endure that sort of liquor again. 
Oysters applied alive to a pestilential 
swelling, draw the venom to them. 
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a dram of 
it taken every morning helps the bitings of 
mad dogs, and all other venomous beasts. 
Swallows, being eaten, clear the sight, 
