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Government and Virtues.'] It is a coid and Saturnine 

 plant. The leaves thereof bruised and applied, heal 

 green wounds, beiHg bound thereon with its own bark. 

 The leaves or the bark used with vinegar, cureth scurf 

 and leprosy very etfedlually: The deco6lion of the 

 leaves, bark, or root, being bathed, heals broken bones. 

 The water that is found in the bladders on the leares, 

 while it is fresh, is very efFecftual to cleanse the skin, and 

 xuake it fair ; and if cloths be often wet therein, and ap- 

 plied to the ruptures of children, it healeth them, if they 

 te well bound up with a truss. The said water put into 

 a glass, and set into the ground, or else in dung for 

 twenty. five days, the mouth thereof being close stopped, 

 and ^he bottom set upon a lay of ordinary salt, that the 

 fceces may settle and water become clear, is a singular 

 and sovereign balm for green wounds, being used with 

 soft tents : The decodion of the bark of the root fo- 

 mented, mollifieth hard tumours, and the shrinking of 

 the sinews. The roots of the Elm boiled for a long 

 time in water, and the fat arising on the top thereof, 

 being clean scummed olY, and the place anointed there- 

 with that is grown bald, and the hair fallen away, will 

 quickly restore them again. The said bark ground with 

 brine and pickle, until \i come to the form of a poultice, 

 and laid on the place pained with the gout, giveth great 

 ease. The decot^tion of the bark in water, is excellent to 

 bathe such places as have been burnt with fire. 



Endive. 11. (c. d. 2,) 



Common garden Endive is well known by gardeners and 

 Eallad eaters. 



Descript.'] It beareth a longer and larger leaf than 

 succory, and abidcth but one year, quickly running up to 

 stalk and seed, and then perisheth ^ It hath blue flowers, 

 and the seed of the ordinary End.iv.e is so like succory 

 seed, that it is hard to distinguish tkem. 



Government cmd Virtues.'] It is a fine cooling, cleansing, 

 jovial plant. The decodlion of the leaves, of the juice, 

 or the distilled water of Endive, serveth well to cool the 

 excessive heat of the liver and stomach, and in the hot 

 fits of agues, and all other inflamoutious in any part 

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