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also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the colick ; defects 

 of the liver, and provoketh women's courses. The fresh 

 herb boiled, and raade into a poultice, applied to the 

 breasts of women that are swollen with pain and heat, 

 as also the privy parts of man and woman, the seat or 

 fundament, or the arteries, joints and sinews, when they 

 are inflamed and swollen, doth much ease them j and 

 used with some salt, helpcth to dissolve knots or kernels 

 in any part of the body. The juice of the herb, or (as 

 Dioscorides saith) the leaves and flowers, with some fine 

 frankincense in powder, used in wounds of the body, 

 nerves or sinews, do singularly help to heal them. The 

 distilled water of the herb perlormeth well all the afore- 

 said cures ; but especially for inflammations or watering 

 of the eyes, by reason of the defluxion of rheum into 

 them. 



Hearfs-Ease. ^. (c. 1. m. 2.) 



This is that herb, which such physicians as are licensed 

 to blasphame by authority, without danger of having 

 their tongues burned through with an hot iron, called, 

 an herb of the Trinity. It is also called by those 

 that arc more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood, 

 Live in Idleness, Cull me to you : and in Sussex we - 

 call them Pausies. 



Place.'] Besides those which are brought up in gardens, 

 they grow commonly wild in the fields, especially in such 

 as are very barren ; sometimes you may find it on the 

 tops of the high hills. 



Time.'] They flower ail the Spring and Summer long. 

 Government and Fzriues.'] The herb is really Saturnine, 

 something cold, viscous and slimy. A strong deco6lion 

 of the herbs and flowers (if you will, you may make it 

 into syrup) is an excellent cure for the French. pox, the 

 herb being a gallant antivcnerean ; and that antivc- 

 nereans are the best cure for that disease, far better and 

 safer than to torment them with the flux, divers foreign 

 physicians have confessed. The spiit of it is excellent 

 good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling- 

 sickness, and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the.- 

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