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reins, by taking the roots in powder, or a decodlion of 

 them in white wine, with a little honey. The roots made 

 into powder, and mixed with honey, in the form of an 

 eleftuary, doth much help them whose stomachs arc 

 swollen, dissolving and breaking the wind which was the 

 cause thereof; and is also very eifeCtuil for all the diseases 

 of the lungs, as shortness of breath, wheezing, hoarse- 

 ness of the throat, and the cough ; and to expectorate 

 tough phlegm, or any ather parts, thereabout. 



The Fig-Tree. 1/. (k. d. 2.) 



To give a description of a tree so well known to every 

 body that keeps it in his garden, were needless. They 

 prosper very well in our English gardens, yet are fitter for 

 medicine than for any other profit which is gotten by the 

 fruit of them. 



Government and Virtues.'] The tree is under the domi- 

 nion of Jupiter. The milk that issueth out from the 

 leaves or branches when they are broken off, being drop- 

 ped upon warts, taketh them away. The decodtion of. 

 the leaves is excellent good to wash sore heads with ; and 

 there is scarcely a better remedy for the leprosy than it 

 is. It clears the face also of morphew, and the body of 

 white scurf, scabs, and running sores. If it be dropped 

 into old fretting ulcers, it clcanscth out the moisture, and 

 bringeth up the flesh ; because you cannot have the leaves 

 green all the year, you may make an ointment of them 

 whilst you may. A decoftion of the leaves being drank 

 inwardly, or rather a syrup made of them, dissolves con- 

 gealed blood, caused by bruises or falls, aud h-elps the 

 bloody-flux. The ashes of the wood made into an oint- 

 ment with hog's grease, helps kibes and chilblains. 

 The juice being put into an hollow tooth, easeth pain ; 

 as also pain and noise in the ears, being dropped in them, 

 and deafness. An ointment made of the juice, and hog's 

 grease, is as excellent a remedy for the biting of mad 

 dogs, or other venomous beasts, as most are. A syrup 

 saade of the leaves, or green fruit, is excellent good for 

 coughs, hoarseness, or shortness of breath, and all dis- 

 eases of the breast and lungs; it is also excellent good 

 for the dropsy and feUiDg-sickncss. They say that the 



