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oil drawn from tlie sced^docs the like. The oil of tlic seed 

 is liclpfiil for deafness, noise, and worms in the cars, 

 being dropped therein ; the jnice of the herb or root doth 

 the same. The decoction of the herb or seed, or both, 

 killeth lice in man or beast. The fume of the dried herb, 

 stalks and seed, burned, quickly healcth swellings, 

 chilblains or kibes in the hands or i'act, by holding them 

 ia the fume thereof. The remedy to help those that have 

 taken Henbane is to drink goat's milk, honeyed water, 

 or pine kernels, with sweet wine ; or, in the absence of 

 these, fennel-seed, nettle-seed, the seed of cresses, 

 mustard, or radish ; as also onions or garlick taken in 

 Mine, do. all help to free them from danger, and restore 

 them to their due temper again. 



Take notice, that this herb must never be taken in- 

 wardly ; outwardly, an oil, ointment, or plaister of it, is 

 most admirable for the gout, to cool the venereal heat of 

 the reins in the French pox ; to stop the tooth-ach, being 

 applied to the aching side; to allay all inilaminations, and 

 tc help the diseases before premised. 



Hedge Hyssop, c?. (//. d. 3.) 



DiYEUs sorts there are of this plant ; the first of which is 

 an Italian by birth, and only nursed up here in the 

 gardens of the curious. Two or three sorts are found 

 commonly growing wild here, the description of two of 

 of which I shall give you. 



Desc7ipt.'\ The first is a smooth, low plant, not a foot 

 high, very bitter in taste, with many square stalks, 

 diversly branched from the bottom to the top, with divers 

 joints, and two small leaves at each joint, broader at the 

 bottom than they are at the end, and full of veins. The 

 Uowers stand at the joints, being of a fair purple colour, 

 with some white spots in them, in fashion like those of 

 dead nettles. The seed is small and yellow, and the roots 

 spread much under ground. 



The second seldom groweth half a loot high, sending 

 np many small branches, whereon grow many small 

 leaves, set one against the other, somewhat broad, but 

 very t>hort. The flowers are like the flowers of the 

 other ia fashion, but of a pale reddish colour. The 



