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Place.'] The common Mallows grow in every county 

 of this land. The common Marshmallows in most of 

 the salt marshes, from Woolwich down to the sea, both from 

 the Kentish and Essex shore, and in divers other places of 

 this land. 



Tztne.] They flower all the Summer months, even until 

 the Winter do pull them down. 



Govermnent and Virtues.'] Venus owns them both. 

 The leaves ot cither of the sorts before specified, and the 

 roots also boiled in wine and water, or in broth with 

 parsley or fennel roots, do help to open the body, and 

 are very convenient in hot agues, or other distempers of 

 the body, to apply the leaves so boiled warm to the 

 belly. It not only voideth hot, choleric, and other of- 

 fensive humours, but easeth the pains and torments of 

 the belly coming thereby, and are therefore used in all 

 clysters conducing to those purposes. The same used 

 by nurses, procureth them store of milk. The deco6lioa 

 of the seed of any of the common Mallows made in milk 

 or wine, doth marvellously help excoriations, the phthisic, 

 pleurisy, and other diseases of the chest and lungs th.it 

 proceed of hot causes, if it be continued taking for some 

 time together. The leaves and roots work the same 

 efFedls ; they help much also in the excoriations of the 

 guts and bowels, and hardness of the mother, and in all 

 hot and sharp diseases thereof. The juice drank in wine, 

 or the decodtion of them therein, doth help women to a 

 speedy and easy delivery. Pliny saith, that whosoever 

 shall lake a spoonful of any of the Mallows, shall that 

 day be free from all diseases that may come upon him, and 

 that it is special good for the falling-sickness. The syrup 

 also and conserve made of the llowers, are very effe6lual 

 for the same diseases, and to open the body, being costive. 

 The leaves bruised, and laid to the eyes with a little honey, 

 taketh away the imposthumes of them. The leaves 

 bruised or rubbed upon the place stung with bees, wasps, 

 or the like, presently take away the pains, redness, and 

 swellings that arise thereupon. And Dioscorides saith, 

 the deception of the roots and leaves helpeth all sorts of 

 poison, so as the poison be presently voided by vomit-, 

 A poultice made of the leaves, boiled and bruised, with 



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