132 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



■wardly, dissolvcth clotted and congealed blood within the 

 body, coming by any wounds, bruise, or fall ; and is 

 no less eflcdlual for the king's evil, or any other knobs, 

 kernels, bunches, or wens growing in the flesh whercso- 

 crer ; and for the haimorrhoidsj or piles. An ointment 

 made hereof may be used at all times when the fresh 

 iherb is not to be had. The distilled water of the whole 

 plant, roots and all, is used for the same purposes, and 

 drieth up the superfluous virulent moisture of hollow and 

 corroding ulcers; it taketh away all redness, spots, and 

 freckles in the face ; as also the scurf, and any foul de- 

 formity therein, and the leprosy likewise. 



Fillipendula, or Drop-Wort. ?, (h. m. 2.) 



This derives its name of Drop-wort (says Culpepcr,) 

 'because it helps them who make water by drops. 



Descript.J This sendeth forth many leaves, some big- 

 ger, son>e lesser, set on each side of a middle rib, and 

 each of them deisted about the edges, somewhat resembling 

 ■wild Tansy, or Agrimony, but harder in handling ; among 

 ^vhich rise up one or more stalks, two or three feet high, 

 with the leaves growing thereon, and sometimes also di- 

 vided into other branches, spreading at the top into many 

 white sweet smelling flowers, consisting of five leaves 

 a-piece, with some threads in the middle of them stand- 

 ing together, in a pith, or umbel, each upon a small 

 foot-stalk, which, after they have been blown upon a good 

 ■while, do fall away, and in their places appear small^ 

 round, chaffy heads, like buttons, wherein are the chaffy 

 seeds set and placed. The root consists of many small, 

 black, tuberous pieces, fastened together by many small, 

 long blackish strings, which run from one to another. 



Place."] It groweth in many places of this land, ia 

 the corners of dry fields and meadows, and the hedge 

 sides. 



Time.'} They flower in June and July, and their seed 

 is ripe in August. 



Government and /^eV^MCJ.] It is under the dominion of 

 Venus. It efi'eftually opens the passages of the urine, 

 helpeth the stranguary, the stone in the kidnies or blad- 

 der, the gravel, and all other pains of the bladder and. 



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