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healing, as also to wash all other ulcers in the jirivy parts 

 of a man or woman. It is an exccJlcnt rcmctly boiled in beer 

 for broken-winded horses. 



Madder. ^. (c. d \.) 



This is principally cultivated for the use of dyers. 



Descript.~\ Garden Madder shooteth forth many very 

 long, weak, lour-square, reddish stalks, trailing on the 

 ground a great way, very rough and hairy, and full of 

 joints ; at everyone of these joints come forth divers long 

 and narrow loaves, standing like a star about the stalks, 

 rough and hairy, towards the tops vhereof come forth 

 many small pale yellow flowers, after which come small 

 round heads, green at lirst, and reddish afterwards, but 

 black when they arc ripe, wherein is contained the 

 seed. The root is not very great, but exceeding long, 

 running down half a man's length into the ground, 

 red and very clear while it is fresh, spreading divers 

 ways. 



i-'/rtce.') It is only manured in gardens, or larger fields, 

 for the profit that is made thereof. 



Time.'] It flowereth towards the end of Summer, and 

 the seed is ripe quickly after. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is an herb of Mars. It 

 hath an opening quality, and afterwards to bind and 

 strengthen. It is a sure remedy for the yellow jaundice, 

 by o[ -ning the obstruftions of the liver and gall, and 

 cleansing those parts ; it openeth also the obstructions 

 of the spleen, and diminisheth the melancholy humour; 

 it is available for the palsy and sciatica, and effc6tual for 

 bruises inward and outward, and is therefore much used 

 in vulnerary drinks. The root for all those aforesaid 

 purposes, is to be boiled in wine or water, as the cause 

 requireth, and some hony and sugar put thereunto after- 

 wards. The seed hereof taken in vinegar and honey, 

 helpeth the swelling and hardness of the spleen. The 

 deco6tiou of the leaves and branches is a good fomentation 

 for women to sit over that have not their courses. The 

 leaves and roots beaten and applied to any part that is 

 discoloured with freckles, morphew, the white scurf, or 

 any such deformity of the skin, cleanseth thoroughly, and 

 taketh them away. 



