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boils, and itch, the bitings of mad dogs and venomous 

 beasts; all which infirmities are under Mars : Thus you 

 see what it doth by sympathy. 



By antipathy to other planets it curcth the venereal 

 disease. By antipathy to Venus, who governs it, it 

 strengthens the memory, and cures deafness by antipa- 

 thy to Saturn, who hath his fall in Aries, which rules 

 the head. It cures quartan agues, and other diseases of 

 melancholy, and adult choler, by sympathy to Saturn, 

 Mars being exalted in Capricorn. Also it provokes 

 urine, the stopping of which is usually caused by Mars 

 or the Moon. 



Wild Carrots. ^. (temp. m. I,) 



Garden Carrots are so well known, that they need 

 no description ; but because they are of less phy- 

 sical use than the wild kind (as indeed almost in all 

 herbs the wild are most eftectual in physic, as being 

 more powerful in operations than the garden kind) I 

 shall therefore briefly describe the U'ild Carrot. 



Descript.~\ It groweth in a manner altogether like the 

 garden, but that the leaves and stalks arc somewhat whiter 

 and rougher. The stalks bear large tufts of white 

 flowers, with a deep purjjle spot in the middle, which 

 are contradled together when the seed begins to ripen, 

 that the middle part being hollow and low, and the 

 outward stalk risiiig high, maketh the %vhole umbel shew 

 like a bird's rest. The roots sm;'.ll, long and hard, and 

 unfit for meat, being somewhat sharp and strong. 



Place.l The wild kind groweth in divers parts of this 

 land plentifully by the field-sides, and untilled places. 



Time.'] They flower and seed in the end of Summer. 



Government and rirf lies.'} V»'^ild Carrots belong to Mer- 

 cury, and therefore break wind, and remove stitches in 

 the sides, provoke urine and women's courses, and 

 helpeth to break and expel the stone; the seed also of 

 the same worketh the like eflfeft, and is good for the 

 dropsy, and those whose bellies arc swollen with wind ; 

 helpeth the colic, the stoue in the kidnies, and rising 

 ©f the mother ; being taken in wine, or boded in 

 wine, and taken, it helpeth conception. The leave* 



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