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the Paradife of Plants. — 27 
taken into efpeciall notice by thofe good people, who delight in curing the 
- Wounds and Maladies of their Neighbours. There may bealfo a Syrupe made 
hereof, which is admirable geod co be ufed inwardly, when an of the former 
eccafions fhall require. The diftilled Water of the Herb is not altogether fo ef- 
fe&uall for the purpotes aforefaid, yet for thofe whofe Pallates will not brook 
any of the former Medicines, this may beraken, it being a little clearer, and 
therefore more acceptable. 
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Of the Pilewort. 
| ners The Names. ss 
T iscalled in Greek y%:Svsey roybxesv, and Chelidoninm minus in Latine, for 
what reafon I know nor, it being like unto the Chelidonimm majus or greater 
Celandine, neither in nature or forme. It iscalledalfo Hirundinaria minors 
as fome have fuppofed, becaufe it {pringeth when Swallows come ingaod 
ona 
withereth at their going away, but this is true in neither, for it flowrifhet! 
before their comming, and departeth prefent y after. Butthe names of Ficaria 
and Scropbularia minor are more propper unto IC, becaufe the Roots not only re= 
refemble thofe kernels of the Fundament called the Piles, and chofe hard fwel- 
+s that fometimes feafe upon the neck and other parts, but is very powerfull — 
tocure them. In Englith it is ufually known by the name of Pilewort,asit ought 
tobe, yet it hath been alfo called the leffer Celandine, and Figwort, from the 
Latine names. . ee ee 
Celandi ‘The Forme 
Pilewort or ine the leffe, groweth with many paleround gr 
{pread.as it were upon th 
es whereen they are fet, 
alfo is, it being fer upon a head after the fame manner. The Root is compofed 
of divers {anal kernels cernels of the bigneffe of wheat Corne, or bigger, hanging to the 
body by afmall ftring or fiber, and having another fuch a ftring at the end alfo, — 
aljwhichare ofawhitifhcolou, 7 
prot Iong after, it beginnezh ro fade in April, and iso far gonein Mey, that the es 
aoe thereof can (earcely be found, therefore be fare you look for in isdug 
on. —. iid : ges iam “ ges : a ae 
Though Pilewort have not that acrimony and fharpneffe which Diofe 
Galen affirm to be in theirs, yet thofe that have fucceeded them do.as 
bowfoever it hath the properties thereof, | 
