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croffe ones tongue, for the biting fort will make the tongue to fmart, and fo will 
not the other. Va we Wilke 
: | “The Places and Time. 
The fir groweth very common, almoft every where, in moift and watery 
Plafhes, and neer to the brims of Rivers, Ditches, and running Brooks, and fome- 
times in thofe Corn-fields, that ate fabjeG co moifture in the Winter time, The 
fecond groweth alfo within thé confines of our Countrey, and fo doth the rhird, 
but the place thereof is ‘not particularly exprefled, and therefore fome Phyfick 
Garden is the furett place to finde chem ; the /af is: found in like places with the 
fir, but not fo frequently, ‘and is to be known from it: by the res {pots, which 
ic fomerimes hath, as alfo by the Diagnoftick | have already fet down, They Bower 
in Jane, and their Seed is ripcin Anguf. 
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The wilds of dead Arfieart, ast iscalied, is cold and fomething dry, but the 
Bising Ar/mart is het and dry, yst not fo hot as Pepper, accordingto Gales. —. 
The Vertues and Signature. 
The Leaves and Stalkes of the Dead Arfmart; being famped and applyed to 
veen or frefh Wounds, dowe de i 
thereint>. Being appiyed in like manner, it confameth all cold (wellings, ta- 
keth away b/ack and blew markes of che Skin, by diffolving the ¢ blood, 
happening upon braifes, ftrokes, falls, &c. which is fignified by the black fpote 
which are upon the Leaves, and being laid to a Joynt that hath e Felon ne 
it taketh it away by Signature alfo. A ‘piece of the Reot, or fome of the 
bruifed, and held to an.sking toorh, taketh away the pees: The Juice of it be- 
; care in them, and fo it is 
and Hy{op, of each 
wpon any place, that is troubled with the Gout, and ablew woollen cloth laid 
‘pponit, taketh away the pain thereof. Two {pooofalls of che faid Water, with 
one of Aqua Vite, being nointed on any place troubled with an Ack, for five ot 
fixe daycs, taketh it quite away. tis faid, that ifa-handfall of Ar/mart wetted 
in Water be applyed to a Wonnd or Sore, and afterwards buried in moift ground, 
as the herb rotteth, fo the iore will heal mirsculoufly: The herbe or jaice being 
put to Horfes or other Cattles fores will keep away the Fiyes,which would other- 
hortet time of Summer. The biting Arfesart, or 
water Pepper is faid by Crolins to heale Pounds by Signatare, the red fpots fome- 
times growing on the leaves, intimating as much. Beng in a Chamber . 
ie will foon kill all the Fleas. The Leaves rubbed upon a tired Fades back, and 8 
good handful or two laid ander the Saddfe, maketh hiasto travel laftily again. 
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