156 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLVRGED. 



lungs and breast, pleurisy, scabs, itch, kc. It is under 

 the celestial Sign Cancer. 



Ariicbokes. ?. (//. w. 2.) 



The Latins call them Cinera, only our College calls them 

 Artichocus. 



Government and Virtues.'] They are under the dominion 

 of Venus, and therefore it is no marvel it" they provoke 

 lust, as indeed they do, being something windy meat ; 

 and yet they stay the involuntary course of natural seed 

 in man, which is commonly called nocturnal pollutions. 

 •Vnd here 1 care not greatly if I quote a little of Galen's 

 nonsense in his treatise of the faculties of nourishment. JFe 

 saith, they contain plenty of choleric juice (which, not- 

 withstanding, 1 can scarcely believe) of which he saith is 

 engendered melancholy juice, and of that melancholy juice 

 thin choleric blood. But to proceed ; this is certain, that 

 the decodtion of the root boile;! in wine, or the root 

 bruised and distilled in wine in an alembic, and being 

 drank, purgeth by urine exceedingly. 



Harts-Tongue. 1/. fc. d. I.) 



This is always green, though it hath fresh leaves in 

 Spring. 



Descript.'] This hath divers leaves arising from the root, 

 etcry one severally, which fold themselves in their first 

 springing and spreading : when thty are full grown, are 

 about a foot long, smooth and green above, but hard, and 

 with little sap in them, and streaked on the back, thwart 

 on the sides of the middle rib with small and somewhat 

 long brownish marks ; the bottoms of the leaves are a 

 little bowed on each side of the middle rib, somewhat 

 narrow with the length, and somewhat small at the end. 

 The root is of many black threads, folded or interlaced 

 together. 



Time.'\ It is green all the Winter; but new leaves 

 spring every year. 



Government and Virtues.'] Jupiter claims dominion 

 over this herb, therefore it is a singular remedy for the 

 liver, both to strengthen it when weak, and ease it when 



