2 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is under the planet INIcr- 

 cury, and a notable herbol" his, if it be rightly gathered 

 under his inlliience. It is excellent to remove witchcraft 

 both in men and beasts, as also all sudden diseases what- 

 soever. Being tied round about the neck, is one of the 

 most admirable remedies for the vertigo or dizziness in 

 the head that is ; and that is the reason (as Tragus saith) 

 the people in Germany commonly hang it about their 

 cattle's necks, when they fear any such evil hath betided 

 thera : Country people commonly use to take the berries 

 of it, and having bruised them, they apply them to felons, 

 and thereby soon rid their fingers of such troublesojue 

 guests. 



Having now shewn you the external use of the herb, 

 we shall speak a word or two of the internal, and so 

 conclude. Take notice, it is a Mercurial herb, and 

 therefore of very subtle parts, as indeed all Mercurial 

 plants are; therefore take a pound of the wood and 

 leaves together, bruise the wood, put it into a pot, and 

 put to it three pints of white wine ; put on the pot-lid 

 and shut it close; and lot it infuse hot over a gentle fire 

 twelve hours ; then strain it out, and you have a most 

 excellent drink to open obstructions of the liver and 

 spleen, to help difficulty of breathing, bruises and falls, 

 ind congealed blood in any part of the body ; it helps the 

 yellow-jaundice, the dropsy and black jaundice, and to 

 cleanse women newly brought to bed. You may drink 

 a. quarter of a pint of the infusion every morning. It 

 purgeth the body very gently, and not churlishly, as 

 some hold. And when you tind good by this, remcm- 

 berme. 



All-heal. S (h. d. 3.) 



It is called All-heal, Hercules's All-heal, and Ilercules's 

 Wound-wort, because it is supposed that Hercules learned 

 the herb and its virtues from Chiron, when he learned 

 physic of him. Some call it Panay, and others Opo- 

 pane-wort. 



Descript.'] Its root is long, thick, and exceeding full 

 of juice, of a hot and biting taste, the leaves arc great 

 and large, and winged almost like ash-tree leaves, but 



