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pains of the gout. It is good for the liver and spleen. 

 A tansy or caudle made with eggs, and juice thereof, 

 while it is young, putting to it some sugar and rose-water, 

 is good for a woman in child-bed, when the after-birth 

 is not thoroughly voided, and for their faintings upoa 

 or in their sore travel. The herb bruised and boiled in a 

 little wine and oil, and laid warm on aboil, will ripen it, 

 and break it. 



Barberry. S' Ch. d. I.) 



The shrub is so well knoAvn by every boy and girl that 

 hath but attained to the age of seven years, that it needs 

 no description. 



Government and Virtues.'] Mars o"\vns the shrub, and 

 presents it to the use of my countrymen to purge their 

 bodies of choler. The inner rind of the Barberry-tree 

 boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank each 

 morning, is an excellent remedy to cleanse the body of 

 choleric humours, and free it from Stich diseases as 

 choler causeth, such as scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, 

 yellow jaundice, boils, &c. It is excellent for hot agues, 

 burnings, scaldings, heat of the blood, heat of the liver, 

 bloody Hux, for the berries are as good as the bark, and 

 more pleasing ; they get a man a good stomach to his 

 victuals, by strengthening the attractive faculty which is 

 under Mars. The hair washed with the lye made of ashes 

 of the tree and Avater, will make it turn yellow, viz. 

 of Mars' own colour. The fruit and rind of the shrub, 

 the flowers of broom and of heath, or furze, cleanse the 

 body of choler by sympathy, as the flowers, leaves, and 

 bark of the peac'i-tree do by antipathy ; because these 

 are under Mars, that under Venus. 



Barlej. T? . Cc. c?. 1 J 



The continual usefulness hereof hath made all in general 

 so acquainted herewith, that it is altogether needless 

 to describe it, several kinds hereof plentifully growing, 

 being yearly sown in this land. The virtues thereof take 

 as followeth. 



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