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hclpeth to cure the biting of a mad dog, some of the 

 leaves being also applied to the wound. The leaves 

 bruised, or the juice of them boiled in hog's lard, and 

 applied, helpeth falling away of the hair, which cometh 

 of hot and sharp humours; as also for any place that is 

 scalded or burnt; the leaves bruised and laid to any 

 green wound doth heal it quickly ; the root baked under 

 the embers, wrapped in paste or wet paper, or in a wet 

 double cloth, and thereof a suppository made, and put up 

 into, or applied to the fundament, doth very effedlually 

 help the painful piles or haemorrhoids. The distilled water 

 of the herbs and roots is very good to all the purposes 

 aforesaid, to be used as well inwardly to drink, as out- 

 wardly to wash any sore place ; for it healeth all manner 

 of wounds and punftures, and those foul ulcers that 

 arise by the French-pox. Mizaldus adds, that the leaves 

 laid under the feet, will keep the dogs from barking 

 at you. It is called llound's-tongue, because it ties 

 the tongues of hounds; whether true, or not, I never 

 tried ; yet I cured the biting of a mad dog with this 

 only medicine. 



Holly, Holm, or Hulver Bush. Tj . {Ji. d. 2.) 



Foil to describe a tree so well known is needless. 



Government and Virtues.'] The tree is Saturnine. 

 The berries expel wind, and therefore are held to be pro- 

 fitable in the colick. The berries have a strong faeulty 

 with them ; for if you eat a dozen of them in the morn- 

 ing when they are ripe and not dried, they purge the 

 body of gross and clammy phlegm ; but if you dry the 

 berries, and beat them into powder, they bind the body, 

 and stop fluxes, bloody-fluxes, and the terms in women. 

 The bark of the tree, and also the leaves, are excellent 

 good, being used in fomentations for broken bones, and 

 such members as are out of joint. Pliny saith, the 

 branches of the tree defend houses from lightning, and 

 men from witchcraft. 



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