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The other Dodders do (as I said before) participate of 

 the nature of those plants whereon they grow ; as that 

 which hath been found growing upon nettles in the 

 West-country, hath by experience, been found very ef- 

 fe<5tual to procure plenty of urine, where it hath been 

 stopped or hindered, and so of the rest. 



Sympathy and antipathy are two hinges upon which 

 the whole mode of physic turns ; and that physician which 

 minds them not, is like a door from off the hooks, more 

 like to do a man mischief, than to secure him. Then all 

 the diseases Saturn causeth, this helps by sympathy, and 

 strengthens all parts of the body he rules ; such as be 

 caused by Sol, it helps by antipathy. What those diseases 

 are, see my judgment of diseases by astrology; and if 

 you be pleased to look at the herb Worrawoodj you shall 

 find a rational way for it. 



Dog's Grass, or Couch-Grass. 1/. (temp.) 



This is called Dog's Grass from its efficacy in relieving 

 dogs when sick. 



De$cript.~\ It is well known, that the grass creepeth far 

 about under the ground, with long white jointed roots, 

 and small fibres almost at every joint, very sweet, in taste, 

 as the rest of the herb is, and interlacing one another, 

 from whence shoot forth many fair grassy leaves, small at 

 the ends, and cutting or sharp on the edges. The stalks 

 are jointed like corn, with the like leaves on them, and a 

 large spiked head, with a long husk in them, and hard 

 rough seed in them. If you know it not by this descrip- 

 tion, watch the dogs when they are sick, and they will 

 quickly lead you to it. 



Plax^e.'\ It groweth commonly through this land, in 

 divers ploughed grounds, to the no small trouble of the 

 husbandmen, as also of the gardeners, in gardens, to weed 

 it out, if they can ; for it is a constant customer to the 

 place it gets footing in. 



Government and Firtues.'] 'Tis under the dominion 

 of Jupiter, and is most medicinable of all the Quick. 

 grasses. Being boiled and drank, it openeth obstructions 

 of the liver and gall, and the stopping of urine, and easeth 

 the griping pains of ihQ belly, and inflammation j wasteth 



