.•^0 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Government and f'irtncs.l It is a notable plant of 

 Saturn; if yon view diligently its effects by sympathy and 

 antipathy you may easily perceive a reason of them ; as 

 also wliy barlej -bread is so unwholesome for melancholy 

 people. Bailey in all the parts and composition thereof, 

 (except malt) is more cooling than Mheat, and a little 

 cleansing. And all the preparations thereof, as Jiarley- 

 vater and other things made thereof, do give great 

 nourishment to persons troubled with fevers, agues, and 

 heats in the stomach. A poultice made of barley-meal or 

 flour boiled in vinegar and honey, and a few dr^ figs put 

 in them, dissoheth all hard imposthumes, and assuagcth 

 inflammations, being thereto applied. And being boiled 

 with melilot and camomile- flowers, and some linseed, 

 fenugreek and rue in powder, and applied warm, it 

 easeth pains in side and stomach, and windiness of the 

 spleen. The meal of barley and flcaworts boiled in 

 water, and made a poultice with honey and oil of lilies, 

 applied warm, cureth swellings under the ears, throat, 

 neck, and such like ; and a plaister made thereof with 

 tar, wax, andoil, helpeth the king's evil in the throat; 

 boiled with sharp vinegar into a poultice, and laid on hot, 

 helpeth the leprosy ; being boiled in red wine \\ith pome- 

 granate rind, and myrtles, stayeth the lask or other 

 tlux of the belly ; boiled with vinegar and quince, it 

 easeth the pains of the gout ; barley flower, white salt, 

 honey, and vinegar mingled together, taketh away the 

 itch speedily and certainly. The water distilled from the 

 green barley in the end of May, is very good for those 

 that have defluctions of humours fallen into their eyes, and 

 easeth the pain being dropped into them; or white bread 

 steeped therein, and bound on the eyes, doth the same. 



Garden Bazil, or Sweet Bazil. c? in in., (h. m. 3.) 



The greater or ordinary Bazil is cultivated in gardens, oa 

 account of its odoriferous scent. 



Descript.'] It riseth up usually with one upright stalk, 

 diversely branching forth on all sides, with two leaves at 

 every jouit, which are somewhat broad and round, yet 

 pointed, of a pale green colour, but fresh ; a litte snipped 

 about the edges, and of a strong healthy scent. Tho 



