Q THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



What parts ol the body are under each planet anJ 

 sign, and also what disease, may be found in my Holy 

 Temple of Wisdouj. 



Lastly, To avoid blotting paper with one thing many 

 times, and also to case your purses in the price of the 

 book, and withall to make you studious in physick ; you 

 ba?e at the latter end of the book, the way of preserving 

 all herbs either in juice, conserve, oil, ointments or 

 plaister, electuary, pills or troches. 



Agrimony. 7/ and ffi (h. d. 2.) 



The common Agrimony is a very useful plant, whose 

 Tirtues are much neglected. 



Descript.'] This hath divers long leaves (some greater, 

 some smaller) set upon a stalk, all of them dented about 

 the edges, green above, and greyish underneath, and a 

 little hairy withall. Among which ariseth uj) usually but 

 one strong, round, hairy, brown stalk, two or three feet 

 liigli, with smaller -'eaves set here and there upon it. 

 At the top hereof grow many small yellow flowers, one 

 above another, in long spikes, after which come rough 

 heads of seed, hanging downwards, which will cleave to 

 and stick upon garments, or any thing that shall rub 

 against them. The root is black, long, and somewhat 

 woody, abiding many years, and shooting afresh every 

 Spring; which root, though small, hath a reasonable 

 scent. 



Place.'] It groweth upon banks, near the sides of 

 hedges. 



Time.'] Itflowcreth in July and August, the seed being 

 ripe shortly after. 



Goternment and Virtues.] It is an herb under Jupiter, 

 and the sign Cancer ; and strengthens those parts under 

 the planet and sign, and removes diseases in them by 

 sympathy, and those under Saturn, Mars and Mercury, 

 \>y antipathy, if they happen in any part of the body 

 governed by Jupiter, or under the signs Cancer, Sagitta- 

 ry, or Pisces, and therefore must needs be good for the 

 gout, either used outwardly in oil or ointment, or in- 

 wardly in an electuary, or synip, or concreted juice; for 

 which see the latter cud of this book. 



It is of a clcatising and cutting faculty, without any 



