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lower, which stops the whites in women, and the running 

 of the reins in men, and is a most gallant antivenercalj 

 and a singular remedy for the Venereal Disease. 



Anemone. ^. (h. d. 2 ) 



Called also Wind Flower, because, they say the flowers 

 never open bilt when the wind bloweth. Pliny is ray 

 author ; if it be not so blame him. The seed also (if it 

 bears any at all) flies away with the wind. 



Descript.~\ It hath a perennial thick root, full of knobs, 

 creeping beneath the surface of the ground, and is very 

 acrid to the taste. Its leaves are supported on long leaf 

 stalks, which are divided into three parts, each of which 

 support a number of pointed and jagged segments, having 

 a round slender and purple stem, six or eight inches high, 

 with three leaves surrounding it near the top. 1 he flowers 

 are large and white, with more or less of a purple tinge, 

 ■which stand on tender foot stalks, which rise from the 

 center of the leaves, which surround the stem. The seeds 

 are very numerous ; they are pointed, and the shaft re« 

 mains upon them till they come to maturity. 



Place.^j It is sometimes found in shady woods, and by 

 the sides of hedges ; but is mostly cultivated in the gardens 

 of the curious, where its colour is more beautiful and 

 various. 



Time-I It flowers early in the Spring. 



Government and Firtues.'] it is under the dominion of 

 Mars, being supposed to be a kind of Crow-foot. The 

 leaves provoke the terms mightily, being boiled, and the 

 deco6lion drank. The body being bathed with the de- 

 coclion of them, cures the leprosy. The leaves being 

 stamped, and the juice snufl^ed up the nose, purgeth the 

 head mightily ; so doth the root, being chewed in the 

 mouth, lor it procureth much spitting, and bringeth 

 away many watery and phlegmatic humours, and is 

 therefore excellent for the lethargy. And when all is 

 done, let physicians prate what they please, all the pills 

 in the dispensatory purge not the head like to hot things 

 held in the mouth. Being made iuto au ointment, and 

 the eye lids anointed with it, it helps inflammations of the. 

 eyes^ whereby it is palpable, that every stronger draweth' 



