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consumption, or an evil disposition of tlic whole boiJy, 

 called Cachexia, by the use hereoffor some time together, 

 shall tind a wonderful help. It helpeth also to procure 

 rest and sleep to bodies distempered by the heat of ague 

 fits, or otherwise : The distilled water is efl'cctual to drink 

 in pestilential fevers, and to wash the sores. 



You see here what virtues this common herb hath, and 

 that is the reason the French and Dutch so often cut them 

 in the Spring : and now, if you look a little farther, you 

 may sec plainly, without a pair of speftacles, that foreign 

 physicians are not so selfish as ours are, but more com- 

 municative of the virtues of plants to people. 



Darnel. Tj . (c. 3. d. 2.) 



It is called Jura and Wray, in Sussex they call it Crop, it 

 being a pestilent enemy among corn. 



Descripi.'] This hath all the Winter long, sundry long, 

 tlat, and rough leaves, which, when the stalk riscth, 

 which is slender and jointed, are narrower, but rough 

 still ; on the top groweth a long spike, composed of many 

 heads set one above another, containing two or three 

 husks, with sharp but short beards of awns at the end j 

 the seed is easily shaked out of the car, the husk itself be- 

 ing somewhat rough. 



Place.'] The country husbandmen do know this too 

 well to grow among their corn, or in the borders and 

 pathways of the other fields that are fallow. 



Government and Virtues.^ It is amalicions part of snllea 

 Saturn. As it i;; not without some vices, so hath it also 

 many virtues. The meal of Darnel is very good to stay 

 gangrenes and other such like fretting and eating can- 

 kers and putrid sores ; it also cleanseth the skin of ail le- 

 prosies, morphcws, ringworms and the like, if it be used 

 with salt and reddish roots. And being used with quick 

 brimstone and vinegar, it dissolveth knots and kernels, 

 and breaketh those that are hard to be dissolved, being 

 boiled in wine with pigeon's dung and linseed. A deco<5tion 

 thereof made with water and honey, and the places bathed 

 therewith is profitable for the sciatica. Darnel meal 

 applied in a poultice drawcth forth splinters and broken 

 bones ia the flesh. The red Darnel boiled in red wine 



