86 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



but nourish more ; they provoke urine, and ar<5 

 thought to increase sperm ; they have a cleansing fa- 

 culty, whoreby they break the stone in the kidnics. To 

 drink the cream of them, being boiled in water, is tho 

 best way. It moves the belJy downwards, provokes 

 women's courses and urine, increases both milk and 

 seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of French 

 barley, and a small handful of marsh-mallow roots, clean 

 washed and cut, being boiled in the broth of a chicken, 

 and four ounces taken in the morning, and fasting two 

 hours after, is a good medicine for a pain in the sides. 

 The white Cicers are used more for meat than medicine, 

 yet have the same effects, and are thought more power- 

 ful to increase milk and seed. The wild Cicers are so 

 much more powerful than the garden kinds, by how 

 much they exceed them in heat and dryness ; whereby 

 they do more open obstrudlions, break the stone, and 

 have all the properties of cutting, opening, digesting, 

 and dissolving ; and this more speedily and certainly 

 thaa the former. 



Cinquefoil, (7/. temp.) 



This is c lied in some counties five-fingered grass. 



Descript.'] It spreads and creeps far upon the ground 

 with long slender strings like strawberries, which 

 take root again, and shoot forth maivy leaves made 

 of five parts, and sometimes of seven, dented about 

 the edges, and somewhat hard. The stalks are slen- 

 der, leaning downwards, and bear many small yellow 

 flowers thereon, with some yellow threads in the 

 middle, standing about a smooth green head, which, 

 when it is ripe, is a little rough, and containeth small 

 brownish seed. The root is of a blackish brown co- 

 lour, as big as one's litde finger, but growing long, 

 with some threads thereat ; and by the small strings it 

 quickly spreadeth over the ground. 



Ptace.^ It groweth by wood sides, hedge sides, the 

 path-way in fields, and in the borders and corners of 

 them, almost through all this land. 



Time.'] It flowcrcth iu summer, some sooner, some 

 later. 



