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outwardly applied, help fresh wounds or cuts immediate- 

 ly, being bruised and laid thereto ; and is special good 

 for ruptures and broken bones; yea, it is said to be so 

 powerful to consolidate and knit together, that if they 

 be boiled vvilh dissevered pieces of flesh in a pot, it will 

 join them together again. It is good to be applied to 

 ■women's breasts that grow sore by the abundance of milk 

 coming into them ; also, to repress the overmuch bleed- 

 ing of the haemorrhoids, to cool the inflammation of the 

 parts thereabouts, and to give ease of pains. The roots 

 of Comfrey taken fresh, beaten small, and spread upon 

 leather, and laid upon any place troubled with the gout 

 doth presently give ease of the pains ; and applied in the 

 same manner, giveth ease to pained joints, and profiteth 

 very much for running and moist ulcers, gangrenes, mor- 

 tifications, and the like, for which it hath by often expe- 

 rience been found helpful. 



Coralwort. D . (c. m. 2.) 



It is also called by some Toothwort, Tooth Violet, Dog 

 Teeth Violet, and Dentaria. 



Descript.'\ Of the many sorts of this herb, two of them 

 may be found growing in this nation ; the first of which 

 shooteth forth one or two winged leaves, upon long 

 brownish footstalks, which are doubled down at their 

 first coming out of the ground ; when they are fully 

 opened, they consist of seven leaves, most commonly of 

 a sad green colour, dented about the edges, set on both 

 sides the middle rib one against another, as the leaves 

 of the ash-tree ; the stalk beareth no leaves on the lower 

 half of it; the upper half beareth sometimes three or four, 

 each consisting of five leaves, sometimes of three; on the 

 top stand four or five flowers upon short-stalks, with long 

 husks ; the flowers are very like the flowers of stock- 

 gilliflowers, of a pale purplish colour, consisting of four 

 leaves a piece, after which come small cods, which con- 

 tain the seed ; the root is very smooth, white, and shining ; 

 it doth not grow downwards, but creeping along under 

 the upper crust of the ground, and consisteth of divers 

 small round knobs set together; towards the top of the 

 Stalk there grows some single leaves, by each of whicli 



