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©f the berries or leaTCS snuffed up into the nose, purgcth 

 the head and brain of rheum that niakcth dcfluxions inta 

 the eyes and nose, and curing the ulcers and stench 

 therein ; the same dropped into the cars, helpcth the old 

 and running sores of them; those that are troubled with 

 the spleen, shall find much ease by continual drinking out 

 of a cup made of Ivy, so as the drink may stand some 

 small time therein before it be drank. Cato saith, That 

 wine put into the cup, will soak through it, by reason of 

 the antipathy that is between them. 



There seems to be a very great antipathy between ivinc 

 and Ivy ; for if one hath got a surfeit by drinking of wine, 

 his speediest cure is to drink a draught of the same wine, 

 wherein a handful of Ivy leaves, being first bruised, have 

 been boiled. 



Juniper Bush. ©. {Ju d. 3.) 



For to give adescriptionof a bush so Gommonly known, 

 is needless. 



P/ace.] They grow plentifully in divers woods in Kent; 

 Warney Common, near Brentford, in Essex ; upon Finch- 

 }ey Common without Highgate; hard by the NcAvfound 

 Wells near Dulwich, upon a common between Mitcham 

 and Croydon ; in the Highgate, near Amersham, in- 

 Buckinghamshire; and many other places. 



Time.'] The berries are not ripe the first year, but con- 

 tinue green ivio Summers and one Winter before they 

 are ripe, at which time they are all of a black colour, and 

 therefore you shall always find upon the bush green berries : 

 the berries are ripe about the fall of the leaf. 



Government and Virtues.'] This admirable solar shrub 

 is scarce to be paralleled for its virtues. The berries are 

 hot in the third degree, and dry but in the first, being a 

 most admirable counter-poison, and as great a resister of 

 the pestilence as any grows ; they are excellent good 

 against the bitings of venomous boasts ; they provoke 

 urine cxceediagly, and therefore are very available to 

 dysurics and stranguaries. It is so powerful a remedy 

 against the dropsy, that the rery lee made of the ashes 

 of 'he herb being drank, cures the disease : it provokes 

 the terms, helps the fits of the mother, strengthens the 



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