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^f Tfo Names. 

 It is commonly cal led £fa&ni terreftris : in Greeke, ****"'«* i alfo artfM w« .• in High-Dutch, 



dSimfcelteb t in Low- Dutch, €)nDct^aue t in French, Lierre terrejire . Hedcra humlis offome, wd 



Chamtcifiim : in Engli(h,Ground-Ivy, Ale-hoofe, Gill goby ground, Tune-hoof, and Can-foot. 

 f Many queftion whether this be the Chamteifim of the Anticncs i which controucrfic Vikfm 

 hath largely handled } Pimpt. 3. lif>.$.cap.q. t 



«fl" TfoTemperaturc. 



Ground Ivie is hot and dry, and becaufe it is bitter it fcoureth, and remoueth flopping* out of 



the intrals. 



^ The Verities. 



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A Ground- Ivy is commended againft the humming noyfe and ringing found ofthceares, being 

 put into them, and for them that are hard of hearing. r . 



B M&uhiolui writetb, That the juice being tempered with Verdugreafe, is good againft fiituiac* 

 and hollow vlcers. " , 



. picfiorides teacheth, That halfe a dram of the leaues being drunk in foure ounces andahalte 

 faire water, for fortie or fiftie daies together.isa remedie againft the Sciatica, or ache in tw W ' 

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E The fame taken in like fort fix or feuen daies doth alfo cure the yellow jaundife. Gdcn bat a - 

 tributed (as we haue faid) all the vertue vnto the floures : Seeing the floures of Ground-Ivyi 

 he) are very bitter, they remoue (toppings out of the liuer, and are giuen to them that arc \ 

 With the Sciatica. WW . lkr!c 



E GroundJvy.Celandine.and Daifies^feachalikequantitie, ftampedand ftrained 5 anaa 



fiigar and rofe water put thereto, and dropped with a feather into the eies, takethaway ai 1 fc 

 of inflammation, fpots, webs, itch, fmarting, or any griefe whatfoeuer in the eyes, yea aim 

 the ifigfc it were nigh hand gone: it is proued to be the beft medicine in the world. 



F Theherbes ftampedasaforefaid,and mixed with a little ale and honey, and « r A al " cd ^ 4 L in ed 

 the puinc and web, or any griefe out of the eyes of hor fe or cow, or any other beaft, DM* ? 

 jmothe fame with a fyringe,or I might haue faid the liquor injetfed into the cics ; w "» J j cff 

 But I lift not to be ©tier eloquent among Gentlewomen, to whom efpecially my W oikc 

 neceflarie* 



G The women of our Noitherne parts, ef 



A Ic- hoof into their AIe 5 but thereafon 



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