the Paradife of Plants. ot 
The Temperature, 
Scurvy-Graf is evidently hot and dry,very like to the Garden-Creges in Qua- 
lity, but not ot fo aromaticall, or {picy acalt - 
The Vertues; 
Before I {peak of the Vertues of Scarvy-Grafe, ic will not be altogether im- 
proper to teil you what the SCG RV Tiss It is. a Ditealé proceedite through 
a melancholy humour, which maketh the Gums to becomé fivollen and éxulce- 
rated, loofning)alfo the fmews and teech; {fo that he that hathir, doth wit | very 
much difficulty chew any-thing : the mouth flinketh grievonfly, the Thighs and 
Legs are withal! very often full of b!ew fpors, nor much unlike thole that come 
‘of brnifes : the Face, andthe reft.of the Body is often times of a pale Colour;and 
the Feer.are fwollen as in the Dropf-e, and will-havea pain in the folés of them, 
and {o will the fingersends. This hurctul Dieafe happeneth ac Sea amongit 
Fifher-men, and trefh water Souldiers, (and fuch as delight co fit Rill, without 
jabour, andexercife of the body) efpecially, if they make not ‘clean’ 
from the Flower, or mealinets that is ypon the fame, which doth fpoilt 
the curing whereof, this excelleut Plant, theref led Sey 
to prevail : the juyce thereof, : : 
falls of the Leaves be : BF epper, Grains, Anifeed, and Liquorice, 
of each an Oun es being brayed, and the Herb bruifeda little ina Mor- 
sf GF Wood or Stone, put them in a Stone-Por, called a Steawe, with four Gal. 
“Tons of ftrong Ale, to tieep or infufe the fame in for three dayes, whichdone, it 
will be fic tor your ufe ; and then youmuft drink it three weeks togethér, as 
-your ordinary drink, The Decoétion is good tor che fame purpofes, ‘and {ois the 
‘Herb, conned up in new drink, either by it (ef or with ocher things ; for it open- 
-ethobftructions, and evacuateth cold, clammy, melancholy, and flegma . 
mours, both from the Liver, and Seat of blood, and the fpleen, wafti o an 
fuming, both the fielling and hardnefs thereof ; and thereby bringing t 
back again to a moft lively Colour : the juyce alfo hel 
win a Pa 
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peth all fou Ulce 
Sores in the month, if it be often gargled therewith, and ufed ontwardly, : 
Cleanfe the skin from {pots, marks, orskars that happen therein: The Conferve 
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