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Temperature and Virtues. '\ The herb is Jupiter's, and 

 the sign Cancer. It strengthens all the parts of the body 

 under Cancer and Jnpiter ; which what they may be, is 

 found amply discoursed in my astrological judgment of 

 diseases. Dioscorides saith, that Hyssop boiled with rue 

 and honey, and drank, helpcth those that are troubled 

 with coughs, shortness of breath, wheezing and rheumatic 

 distillations upon the lungs ; taken also with oxymel, it 

 purgeth gross humours by stool; and with honey killeth 

 worms in the belly ; and with fresh and new figs bruised, 

 hclpeth to loosen the belly, and more forcibly, if the 

 root of Flower-de-luce and Crosses be added thereto. It 

 umcndeth and cherisheth the native colour of the body, 

 spoiled by the yellow jaundice ; and being taken with 

 figs and nitre, helpeth the dropsy and spleen ; being boiled 

 with wine, it is good to wash inflammations, and taketh 

 away the black and blue spots and marks that come by 

 strokes, bruises, or falls, being applied with warm water.- 

 It is an excellent medicine for the quinsey, or swellino- 

 in the throat, to'.vash and gargle it, being boiled with figs ; 

 it helpeth the tootli-acli, being boiled with vinegar and 

 agarglcd there with. The hot vapours of the decoction 

 taken by a funnel in at the ears, easeth the inflammations 

 and singing noise of them. Being bruised, and salt, honey, 

 and cummin. seed put to it, helpeth those that are stung 

 by serpents. The oil thereof (the head being anointed) 

 killeth lice, and taketh away itching of the head. It 

 helpcth those that have the falling-sickness, which way 

 soever it be applied. It hclpeth to expectorate tough 

 phlegm, and is elfe(5tual in all cold griefs, or diseases of 

 the chests or lungs, being taken either in syrup or licking 

 medicine. The greea herb bruised, and a litttle sugar 

 doth quickly heal any cut or green wounds, being 

 thereto applied. 



Hops. cJ. {h. d. 2.) 



These are so well known, that they need no description; 

 I mean the manured kind, which every good husband or 

 housewife is accjuainted with. 



