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duce much to the healing ot grecne wounds being beaten and applied, or put invnguentsorplai! 

 fters made for that purpo c. i 



They are alfo good tor thofe things that are mentioned in the laft chapter,in B, and C. 



Clufitu faitb,tbe firftand fecond are vfed in Stiria in fomentations,to bathe the head againft the 

 paines or aches tbereof,as alfo againft the ft iff eneffe and wearineffeof thelimbsor joynts. 



hat be hath knowne the decoction vfed with very good fuccefle 



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Chap, 2,53. Of Water Horehound. 



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Water Horehound, >u 





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Ater Horehound is very like 

 to blacke and (linking Hore- 

 hound in ftalke and floured 

 cups,whicb are rough,pricking,& compaffing 

 the ftalks round about like garlands.the lcaues 

 thereo be alfo b lack e,but longer^harde^raDre 

 deeply gafhed in the edges than thofe of ftin- 

 king Horehound,yet not hairy at all,but win* 

 kledrthe floures He fmall and whiti(h:the root 

 is fattened with many blacke firings. 



m The Place. 



It growes in Brooks on the brinks of water 

 ditches and neerc vnto motes, for it requireth 



ftore of water, and groweth not in dry places 



^f The Time. 



It flourifhes and floures in the Summer 



moneths,in!ulyand Auguft. f \ 



>f . ^J The Names. 



It is called Aquaule^d Palufire Mmubinm: 

 In Englifh, water Horehound- Mattbiolm ta- 

 keth it to be Species prima Sid r/V/^&jorakindc 

 of Iron wort, which Diofcmdes hatb defcribed 

 in the firft place s but with this doth better 

 agree that which is called Herba ludak** or 

 G! id wort ; it much lefle agreeth with Sidertt* 

 fceund^oT the fecond I ronwort,whicb opinion 

 alfo hath hisfauorers,for it is like in Icafew 

 none of the Femes. Some alfo th inke good to 

 call it Herba J&gptia, becaufc tbey that fcioc 



themfelues JEgy ptians (fuch as many times wander like vagabonds from citie to citie * n ~ er ' 

 Die and other places) do vfe with this herbe togiue themfelues a fwart colour, fuch as the ^S*P~j 

 ans and the people of Affricke are of- for the juyce of this herbc doth d w eucr y thing with this W* 

 of colour ,which alfo holdeth fo faft, as that it cannot be wiped or waflied away : infonaucha* 



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nen cloth being died herewith, doth alwaies keepe that colour. 



^ The Temperature. 



It feemeth tobecold,and withall very aftringent or binding, 



^[ The Vertues. 



There is little vfe of the water Horehound in Phy ficke. ^^ 



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