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Gaulelte, GloYcd, and Gant dc Notre Damcy our 

 Lady's Glove. 



Dr. Turner, who compiled his work on plants 

 during the reign of Queen Mary, and who is the 

 first English writer that mentions this plant, says 

 '' There is an herbe that groweth very much in 

 Englande, and specially in Norfolke, about y* 

 cony holes in sandy ground, and in diuers woddes, 

 which is called in English Foxe-gloue, and in 

 Dutch Fingerkraut. It is named of some in 

 Latine Digitalis, that is to say Thimble- wurt. It 

 hath a longe stalke and in the toppe many e floures 

 hanginge doune like belles or thumbles." 



Of the properties of this plant, the learned 

 Doctor says, '' I haue heard one that sayd, that 

 he proued that the hole herbe, stalkes, leues, and 

 floures, brused a litle, and put betwene the horse 

 sadle and his back, is an excellent remedy e against 

 the farcye or fassones." 



In the succeeding reign the properties of the 

 Digitalis seem to have been in some degree dis- 

 covered, as Gerard, a physician of London, tells 

 us in 1597, that " Foxe-gloue boiled in water or 

 wine, and drunken, doth cut and consume the 

 thicke toughnesse of grosse and slimie flegme 

 and naughtie humours ; it openeth also the stop- 

 ping of the liuer, spleene, and milt, and of other 

 inward parts. 



