Chap; 5 5'^- 'EngUfi'He, 



W 



Surfute or Top offtanding Waters, in Fools, Ditches 

 andPo/ids, withm either Ihwer or Seed that could 



^n 



burning Fits of Agues. Ducks greedily devour it •, 

 Fx tL oS? t^'is^ffin"'^ gi^enthem. ' 

 good againft Phlegmons an^hot Pahs'^of t^Joim| 



X. TheCata^LJm! If ris'inade of the Herb 

 beaten up with a;r/;;-flower, it prevails againft the 

 Gout, and confolidates Ruptures in young Children- 

 and is wofitable againft the Swelling of the Cods' 

 and of Womens Breafts before tliey be grown too 



vails much againft hot Tumors, as Phlegmons a!id 

 the like, asalfo Pains of the Joints proceeding from 

 Heat ; and helps the falling down of the Funda- 



'ly^'fhrijiilknV^nr^ It is good againft an 

 EnrfipekSj and Matthwlw efteemsit highly fbr re- 



peftilential Fevers, to help the Rednefs of the Eyes 

 ' • Swellings of the Tefticles, by repelling of 



^^^^m 



ntnfis, makes a ftrange Relation concerning this 

 Plant, fcarcely to be believed 5 and it is this -. That 

 if it Ihould happen (as fometimes it may) by In- 

 undations, or any other Accident, that thefe ftnall 



Waters, as Rivers, Brooks, fmall Streams, Cc. as 



wonderfully encreafed -, for by their Roots, which 



ing, come to be Plants, like unto 'Sifymbrium, Wa- 

 ter MittU or hadies Smocks ; and that this thing has 

 been obferved by the diligent Searchers of Nature, 

 and not without much Admiration of the Matter of 

 Faft. Vix credo, indeed I know nothing of it. 



V. Tht^alitles. According to Galen, Ducks- 

 mat is cold and moift in the fecond Degree •, Ano- 

 dyne, RepercufEve, Arthritick and Alexipharmick; 

 but this laft it is by Accident. 



VI. The Specification. It refiftsand cook Inflam- 



WLTheFreparations. Yoalme, i. The green 



it eafes the Head-ach coming of Heat. Applied 

 Extremity of the Fains of the Gout, it alleviai 

 them i but fometimes endangers the 





CHAP. CCXXXVI. 

 Of DYERS-WEED, 



WOLD or WELD. 



I'J^ HE Names. It is a Plant which was un. 

 1 knovni to the Greeks .' the Utws caU it ■ 



leum^md^virgiV^c7.Eliol'l^a\\t\zL]!!in : in 

 Englijh, Dyers-weed, alfo Wold or Weld. 



willing, treat in the next Chapter, but to that we 



things are to be difputed. It took its Name of Lu- 

 tea and Luteola, not only from the yelloW color of 

 the Herb and its Flowers, when it is dry, but chief- 



hlgTs took U t^lnl^htnum, becaufe thf Seei- 



have it to be Phyteuma Dw/condis ; ' others Stru- 

 thium Diofcoridis, as Lacuna and Gefner. M.,tth,- 

 olus cAWii Pfeudoftruthium. Dodon^us, Herka Lu- 



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