14 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



blasphcmeously call Thansies or Hearts-case, an herb for 

 the Trinilij^ because it is of three colours ; and a certain 

 ointment, an o/'ntment of the Apostles^ because it consists 

 of twelve ingredients. Alas, I am sorry for their folly, 

 iind grieved at their blasphemy, God send them wisdom 

 the rest of their age, for they have their share of igno- 

 rance already. Oh! Why must ours be blasphemous, 

 because the Heathens and Papists were idolatrous ? Cer- 

 tainly they have read so much in old rusty autiiors, tliat 

 they have lost all their divinity : for unless it were amongst 

 the Ranters, I never read or heard such blasphemy. The 

 Heathens and Papists were bad, and our's worse; the 

 Papists giving idolatrous names to herbs for thoir virtues 

 sake, not for their fair looks ; and therefore some called 

 this an herb of the tlolij Ghost ; others more moderate 

 called it Angelica, because of its angelical virtues, and that 

 name it retains still, and all nations follow it so near as 

 their dialect will permit. 



Descript.'] it hath a biennial long thick root, which is 

 hung with innumerable fibres. It is warm and aromatic 

 to the taste, and has a very agreeable smell. Its leaves 

 are large and numerous, and consist of several broad- 

 pointed little leaves, disposed in a winged manner on the 

 ribs of a divided leaf stalk, growing on a stem which is 

 robust but hollow, six or eight feet high, and divided into 

 several branches, which terminate in large rundlcs or 

 tufts of flowers, which arc small and white. The seeds 

 are connected, and encompassed with a border, flat on 

 the one side, on the other convex, and marked with three 

 furrows. 



Place.'] This useful and very valuable plant is cultivated 

 in gardens ; but grows wild in some parts of the 

 kingdom. 



Time.'] It flowers in July, and, the seeds are ripe in 

 September. 



Government and Virtues.^ It is an herb of the Sun in 

 Leo; let it be gathered when he is there, the moon ap- 

 plying to his good aspect; let it be gathered either in his 

 hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular; ob- 

 serve the like in gathering the herbs of other planets, and 

 3'ou may happen to do wonders. In all epidemical dis. 

 eases caused by Saturn, that is as good apicservative as 



