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It is Tcry prevalent for the premises, as also for broken 

 joints and ruptures. 



Ladies- Mantle ? . (h. d, 2.) 



This herb is more prized by the German than by the 

 English physicians. 



Descript."] It hath many leaves rising from the root 

 standing upon long hairy foot-stalks, being almost round, 

 and a little cut on the edges, into eight or ten parts, 

 making it seem like a star, with so many corners and 

 points, and dented round about, of a light colour, some- 

 what hard in handling, and as it were folded or plaited 

 at first, and then crumpled ru divers places, and a little 

 hairy, as the stalk is also, which riseth up among them to 

 the height of two or three feet ; and being Aveak, is not 

 able to stand upright, but bendeth to the ground, divided 

 at the top into two or three branches, with small yellowish 

 green heads, and flowers of a whitish colour breaking out 

 of them ; which being past, there cometh a small yellowish 

 seed like like a poppy-seed ; the root is somewhat long 

 and black, with many strings and fibres thereat. 



Place.'} It groweth naturally in many pastures and 

 "woodsides in Hertfordshire, Wiltshire, and Kent, and 

 other places of this land. 



Time-I It flowereth in May and June, abideth after 

 seed-time green all the Winter. 



Government and Virtues.'] Venus claims the herb as her 

 own. Ladies-Mantle is very proper for those wounds 

 that have inflammations, and is very eff'e6lual to stay 

 bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls 

 or otherwise, and hdpeth ruptures; and such womea 

 or maids as have over great flagging breasts, causing, 

 them to grow less and hard, being both drank, and out- 

 wardly applied for 20 days together helpeth conception, 

 and to retain the birth ; if the woman do sometimes also 

 sit in a bath made of the decodlion of the herb. It is 

 one of the most singular wound herbs that is, and there- 

 fore highly prised and praised by the Germans, who use 

 it in all wounds inward and autward, to drink a de- 

 codlion thereof, and wash the wounds therewith, or dip 

 tents therein, and put them into the wounds, which 

 wonderfully drieth up all humidity of the sores, and 

 abateth inflammations therein. It quickly healeth all 



