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the tops of green wounds. It cureth all ruptures in 

 children. The decodion thereof in ^vine being drank, 

 provoketh urine, and helpeth the stone and stranguary ; 

 and the distilled water thereof drank two or three times 

 in a day, and a small quantity at a time, also easeth the 

 entrails or guts, and is effciftual against a cough that comes 

 by distillation from the head. The juice or distilled wa- 

 ter being warmed, and hot inflammations, pustles or red 

 wheals, and other breakings-out in the skin, being 

 bathed therewith, doth help them, and doth no less ease 

 the swelling heat and inflammations of the fundament, or 

 privy parts in men or women. 



Houseleek, or Sengreen. 1/. (c. 3. temp.) 



Both these are so well known to my countrymen, that I 

 shall not need to write any description of them. 



Flace."] It groweth commonly upon Avails and house* 

 sides, and flowereth in July. 



Government and rirtucs.~\ It is an herb of Jupiter; and 

 it is reported by Mezaldus to preserve what it grows upon, 

 from fire and lightning. Our ordinary Ilouseleek is good 

 for all inward heats, as well as outward, and in the eyes 

 or other parts of the body : a posset made with the juice 

 of Ilouseleek, is singular good in all hot agues, for 

 it cooleth and tcnipereth the blood and spirits, and 

 quencheth the thirst ; and also good to stay all hot 

 defluctions or sliarp and salt rheums in the eyes, the juice 

 being dropped into them, or in the ears, helpeth them. 

 It helpeth also other fluxes of humours in the bowels, 

 and the immoderate courses of women. It cooleth and 

 restraineth all other hot inflammations, St. Anthony's 

 fire, scaldings and burnings, the shingles, fretting ulcers, 

 cankers, tetters, ring-worms, and t e like ; and much 

 easeth the pain of the gout proceeding from a hot cause. 

 The juice also taketh away warts and corns in the hands 

 or feet, being often bathed therewith, and the skin and 

 leaves being laid on them afterwards ; it easeth also the 

 head-ach, and distempered heat of tiie brain in frenzies, 

 or through want of sleep, being applied to the temples 

 and forehead. The leaves bruised and laid upon the 

 crown or seam of the head, stayeth bleeding at the uos»». 

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