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come by sore travelling. All griefs and pains proceeding 

 from wind, either in the head, stomach, back, belly, or 

 womb, by anointing the parts aft'ected therewith ; and 

 l)ains in the ears arc also cured by dropping in -some of 

 the oil, or by receiving into the ears the fume of the 

 decoction of the berries through a funnel. The oil takes 

 away the marks of the skin and flesh by bruises, falls, &c. 

 and dissolveth the congealed blood in them. It helpeth 

 ako the itch, scabs and weals in the skin. 



Beans. $ . Cc. d. 1.} 



Both the garden and field Beans are so well known, that 

 it saveth me the labour of writing any description of them 

 Their virtues follow. 



Government and VirtuesJ] They are plants of VenuSy 

 and the distilled water of the flower of garden Beans, is 

 good to clean the face and skin from spots and wrinkles, 

 and tlie meal or flour of them, or the small beans, doth the 

 same. The water distiikd from the green husks, is held 

 to be very effectual against the stone, and to provoke 

 urine. Bean flour is used in poultices to assuage in- 

 iianimations rising upon wounds, and the swelling of 

 women's breasts, caused by curdling of their milky and 

 represseth their milk. Flour of beans and femigreek 

 mixed with honey, and applied to felons, boils, bruises, 

 or blue marks by blows, or the imposthumes in the 

 kerntls of the ears, helpeth them all, and with rose leaves, 

 frankincense, and the white of an egg, being applied to 

 the eyes, helpeth them that are swollen or do water, or 

 have received any blow upon them, if used with wine. 

 If a Bean be parted in two, the skin being taken away, 

 and laid on the place where the leech hath beea set that 

 bleedeth too much, stayeth the bleeding. Bean flour 

 boiled to a poultice with wine and vinegar, and some oil 

 put thereto, easeth both pains and swelling? of the private 

 parts. The husks boiled in water ta the consumption of 

 a third part thereof, stayeth a lask, and the ashes of the 

 husks, made up with hogs grease, helpeth the old pains,, 

 contusions, and wounds of the sinews, the sciatica and 

 gout. The fiold Beans have all the aforementioaed 

 virtues asthe garden Beans. 



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