58 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED, 



jaundice. The distilled water of the flowers is profita* 

 ble for all the same purposes ; it also hclpcth surfeits, 

 and aitcrcth the tits of agues, if tliree or four ounces 

 thereof, with as much of the water of the lesser cen- 

 taury, and a little sugar put therein, be taken a little 

 before the fit cometh, and the j)arty be laid down to 

 sweat in his bed. Tlic oiler water that is drawn from 

 the end of the green sticks heated in the fire, hclpeth 

 the tooth-acli. The juice of young branches made into 

 an ointment of old hog's grease, and anointed, or the 

 young branches bruibed and heated in oil or hog's 

 grease, and laid to the sides pained by wind, as in 

 stitches, or the spleen, easeth them in once or twice 

 rising it. The same boiled in oil is the safest and surest 

 medicine to kill lice in the head or body, if any; and is 

 an especial remedy for joint aches, and swollen knees, 

 that come by the falling down of humours. 



The Broom rape also is not without its virtues. 



The decoction thereof in wine is tliought to be as ef- 

 fectual to void the stone in the kidnies and bladder, and 

 to provoke urine, as the Broom itself. Tlie juice thereof 

 is a singular good help to cure as avcU green wounds, 

 as old and lilthy sores and malignant ulcers. Ihe inso- 

 late oil, wherein there hath been three or four repetitions 

 of infusion of the top stalks, Avith flowers strained and 

 cleared, cleanseth the skin from all manner of spots, 

 marks, and freckles, that rise either by the heat of the 

 sun, or the malignity of humours. As for the Broom 

 and Broom-rape, Mars owns them, and is exceedingly 

 prejudicial to the liver ; 1 suppose by reason of the an- 

 tipAchy between Jupiter and IVIars, therefore if the liver 

 be disalfetlcd, minister none of it, 



Buck's-Hom Plantain. T2 • (c, d. 2) 



So-named from the leaves, which arc divided into 

 parts somewhat resembling a buck's horn. 



Dcscript.'] This being sown of seed, rise th up at first 

 with small, long, narrow, hairy, dark green leaves, 

 Jike grass, without any division or gash in them, but 

 these that follow are gashed in on both sides tfic 

 leaves iulo thx*te or four gashes, aiul pointed at tlie 



