88 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



used with other things available to tliat purpose, taken 

 cither inwardly or outwardly, or both ; as all bruises 

 or hurts by blows, falls, or the like, and to stay the 

 bleeding of wounds in any parts inward or outward. 



Some hold that one leaf cures a quotidian, three a 

 tertian, and four a quartan ague, and a hundred to one 

 if it be not Dioscorides, for he is full of whimsies. The 

 truth is, I never stood so much upon the number of the 

 leaves, nor whether I give it in powder or decoflion : 

 If Jupiter were strong, and the Moon applying to him, 

 and his good aspect at the gathering, 1 never knew it 

 miss the desired eti'ciSts. 



Gives, c?- (Ji- d. 4. J 



Cat^led also Rush Leeks, Chives, Civet, and Sweth. 



Temperature and Firtues.'\ 1 confess I had not added 

 these, had it not been for a country gentleman, who by 

 a letter certified rae, that amongst other herbs, I had left 

 these out ; they are indeed a kind of leeks, hot and dry 

 in the fourth degree as they are, and so under the do- 

 minion of Mars ; if they be eaten raw, (I do not mean 

 raw, opposite to roasted or boiled, but raw, opposite to 

 chymical preparation) they send up very hurtful va- 

 pours to the brain, causing troublesome sleep, and 

 spoiling the eyc-sight ; yet of them, prepared by the art 

 of the alchymist, may be made an excellent remedy for 

 the stoppage of urine. 



Garden Clary, j . 



This is also in some counties knovn by the name of 

 Clear-eye. 



Descript,"] Our ordinary garden Clary hath four square 

 stalks, with broad, rough, wrinkled, whitish, or hairy 

 green leaves, somewhat evenly cut in on the edges, and 

 of a strong sweet scent, growing some near the ground, 

 and some by couples upon stalks. The flowers grow at 

 certain distances, with two small leaves at the joints 

 under them, somewhat like unto flowers of sage, but 

 smaller and of a whitish blue colour. The seed is brown- 

 ish, and somewhat flat, or not so round as the wild. The 



