22 THE ENGLISH PnvSICIAN ENLARGED. 



in, or otherwise applied, consumeth all cold swellings, 

 and dissolvcth the congealed blood of bruises, by strokes, 

 falls, Sec. A piece of the root, or some of the seeds 

 bruised, and held to an aching tooth, takcth away tho 

 pain. The leaves bruised and laid to the joint that hath 

 a felon thereon taketh it away. The juice destroyeth 

 worms in the ears, being dropped into them; if the hot 

 Arssmart be strewed in a chamber, it will soon kill all 

 the lieas ; and the herb or juice of the cold Arssmart, put 

 to a horse, or other cattle's sores, will drive away the fly 

 in the hottest time of Summer ; a good handful of the hot 

 biting Arssmart put under a horse's saddle, will make him 

 travel the better, although he were half tired before. 

 The mild Arssmart is good against all imposthumes and 

 inflammations at the beginning, and to heal green wounds. 

 All authors chop the virtues of both sorts of Arssmart 

 together, as men chop herbs to the pot, when both of 

 them are of clean contrary qualities. The hot Arssmart 

 groweth not so high or tall as the mild doth, but hath 

 many leaves of the colour of peach leaves, very seldom 

 or never spotted ; in other particulars it is like the for- 

 mer, but may easily be known from it, if you will but be 

 pleased to break a leaf of it cross your tongue, for the 

 hot will make your tongue to smart, so will not the cold. 

 If you see them both together, you may easily distinguish 

 them, because the mild hath far broader leaves. Culpeper 

 says that if you take a handful of this herb wetted in clean 

 water, and lay it gently on a wound or sore, then take it 

 away and bury it in some place that is moist, the said 

 •wound will heal as the same rots. 



Asarabacca. (J (h, d. 3.) 



Appears as an evergreen, keeping its leaves all Winter, 

 but putting forth new ones in the Spring. 



Descrip.l Asarabacca hath many heads rising from the 

 roots, from whence come many smooth leaves, every one 

 upon his own foot-stalk, which are rounder and bigger 

 than Violet leaves, thicker also, and of a dark green 

 shining colour on the upper side, and of a pale yellow 

 green underneath, little or nothing dented about the 

 edges, from among which rise small, round, hollow. 



