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into the eyes, cicanseth them from any film or skin, cloud 

 or mist, which begin to hinder the sight, and helpeth the 

 watering and redness of them, or when, by some chance, 

 they become black and blue. The root mixed with bean- 

 flour, and applied to the throat or jaws that are inflamed^ 

 helpeth them. The juice of the berries boiled in oil of 

 roses, or beaten into powder mixed with the oil, and 

 dropped into the cars, easeth pains in them. The berries, 

 or the roots beaten with hot ox-dung, and applied, 

 easeth the pains of the gout. The leaves and roots boiled 

 in wine with a little oil, and applied to the piles, or the 

 faliing down of the fundament, easeth them, and so doth 

 sitting over the hot fames thereof. The fresh roots bruised 

 and distilled with a little milk, yieldcth a most sovereign, 

 water to cleanse the skin from scurf, freckles, spots, or 

 blemishes, whatsoever therein. 



Authors have left large commendations of this herb yon 

 see, but for my part, I have neither spoken with Dr. 

 Reason, nor Dr. Experience about it. 



Cucumbers. 5. (c. 1. m. 2.) 



Tjiere is no need to give any description of what are so 

 generally known. 



Government and Virtues.'] There is no dispute to be 

 made, but that they are under the dominion of the Moon, 

 though they are so much cried out against for their 

 coldness, and if they were but one degree colder they 

 would be poison. The best of Galeaists hold them to be 

 cold and moist in the second degree, and then not so hot 

 as either lettuces or purslain : they are excellent good for 

 a hot stomach, and hot liver ; the unmeasurable use of 

 them hlls the body full of raw humours, and so indeed the 

 unmeasurable use of any thing else doth harm. The face 

 being washed with their juice cleanseth the skin, and i? 

 excellent good for hot rheums in the eyes ; the seed is 

 excellent good to provoke urine, and cleanseth the pas- 

 sages thereof when they are stopped ; there is not abetter 

 remedy for ulcers in the bladder growing than Cucumbers 

 are. The usual course is, to use the seeds in emulsions, 

 as they make almond milk ; but a far better Avay (in my 

 opinion) is this : When the season of the year is,' take 

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