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ther, and applied to the contrary wrist of the hand for 

 2 4 hours, doth remove it in thrice dressing. If the root 

 thereof be roasted under the embers, wrapped in double 

 wet paper, until it be soft and tender, and then applied 

 to tlie gout in the hands and fingers, it will quickly 

 lielp this evil. If any, through mistake, eat the herb 

 Hemlock instead of Parsley, or the roots instead of a 

 Parsnip (both of which it is very like) whereby happeneth 

 a kind of frenzy, or perturbation of the senses, as if they 

 were stupid and drunk, the remedy is (as Pliny saith) to 

 drink of the best and strongest pure wine, before it strikes 

 to the heart, or gentian put in wine, or a draught of 

 vinegar, wherewith Tragus doth afErm, that he cured a 

 woman that had eaten the root. 



Hemp. f2 . (c. d. 1.) 



This is so well known to every good housewife ia 

 the country, that 1 shall not need to write any description 

 of it. 



Time.'] It is sown in the end of March,, or beginning of 

 April. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is a plant of Saturn, and 

 good for fomething else, you see, than to make halters 

 only. The seed of Hemp consuraeth wind, and by too 

 much use thereof disperseth it so much, tltat it drieth up 

 the natural seed for procreation ;. yet^ being boiled ia 

 milk, and taken, helpeth such as have a hot dry cough. 

 The Dutch make an emulsion out of the seed, and give it 

 with good success to those who- have the jaundice, espe- 

 cially in the beginning of the disease, if there be no ague 

 accompanying it, for it opcncth obstrudtions of the gall, 

 and causeth digestion of ckoler. The emulsion or de- 

 coction of the seed stayetli lasks and continual lluxes, 

 easeth the colic, and allayeth the troublesome humours 

 in the bowels, and stayeth bleeding at the mouth, nose, 

 or other places, some of the leaves being fried with the 

 blood of ihem that bleed, and so given them to eat. It 

 h hold very good to kill the worms in men or beasts; and 

 the juice dropped into the ears, killeth the worms in them, 

 and draweth forth earwigs, or other living creatures gotten 

 in tbcm. The decoction of the root allayeth iullammations 



