74 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



being applied Mith honey to running sores and ulcers, 

 do cleanse tlicm. 



I suppose the seeds of them perform this better than 

 the roots ; and though Galen commended garcltn Carrots 

 highly to break vind, yet experience teaciieth they 

 breed it first, and we may thank nature for expelling it, 

 not they ; the seeds of them expel wind indeed, and so 

 mend what the root marreth. 



Carraway. ^. (h. d. 3.) 



The Carraway is projiagated chiefly for the seeds. 



Dcscript.'] It bcarcth divers stalks of fine cut leaves, 

 lying upon the ground, somewhat like to the leaves 

 of carrots, but not bushing so thick, of a little quick 

 <aste in them, from among which riseth up a square 

 9talk, not so high as the carrot, at whose joints are set 

 the like leaves, but smaller and fitter, and at the top 

 small open tufts, or umbels of white flowers, which turn 

 into small blackish seed, smaller than the Anniseed, and 

 of a quicker and better taste. The root is whitish, small 

 and long, somewhat like unto a parsnip, but with more 

 wrinkled bark, and much less, of a little hot and quick 

 taste, and stronger than the parsnip, and abideth after 

 €eed-time. 



Place.'] It is usually sown with us in gardens. 



Time.] They flower in June and July and seed 

 quickly after. 



Government and Virtues.'] This is also a iMcrcurial plant. 

 Carraway seed hath a moderate sharp quality, whereby 

 it breaketh w ind, and provokcth urine, which also the 

 herb doth. The young root is better food than the parsnips j 

 it is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach, and 

 Jielpeth digestion. The seed is conducing to all cold 

 griefs of the head and stomach, bowels, or mother, as 

 also the wind in them, and helpeth to sharpen the eye- 

 sight. The powder of the seed put into a poultice, 

 taketh away black and blue spots of blows and bruises. 

 The herb itself, or with some of the seed bruised and 

 fried, laid hot in a bag or double cloth to the lower parts 

 of the belly, easeth the pains of the wind and colic. 



