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dried roots boiled in milk and drank, is specially £;ood fot- 

 the chin-cough. Hippocrates used to give the decoftion 

 of the roots, or the juice thereof, to drink, to those that 

 arc wounded, and ready to faint through loss of blood, 

 and applied the same mixed with honey and rosin to the 

 wounds; as also the roots boiled in wine, to those that 

 have received any hurt by bruises, falls or blows, or had 

 any bone or member out of joint, or any swelling, pain, 

 or ach in the muscles, sinews or arteries. The mucilage 

 of the roots, and of linseed and fenugreek put together, 

 is much used in poultices, ointments, and plaisters, to 

 mollify and digest all hard swellings, and the inllammation 

 of them, and to ease pains in any part of the body. The 

 seed either green or dry mixed with vinegar, cleanseth 

 the skin of morphew, and all other discolourings, being 

 boiled therewith in the Sun. 



You may remember, that not long since there was a 

 raging disease called the bloody-flux ; the college of 

 physicians not knowing what to make of it called it the 

 plague of the guts, for their wits were at Ne plus ultra 

 about it : my son was taken with the same disease, and 

 the excoriation of his bowels was exceeding great ; my- 

 self being in the country, was sent for up ; the only 

 thing I gave him, was Mallows bruised and boiled both 

 in milk and drink; in two days (the blessing of God 

 being upon it) it cured him. And 1 here, to shew my 

 thankfulness to God in communicating it to his creatures^ 

 leave it to posterity. 



Maple Tree. 'U. (temp.) 



It is under the dominion of Jupiter. The decoCliou 

 either of the leaves or bark, must needs strengthen the 

 liver much, and so you shall find it to do, if you use 

 it. It is excellent good to open obstrudlions both in the 

 liver and spleen, and easeth pains of the sides thence 

 proceeding. 



Wild Marjoram. ^. (h. d. 2.) 



CALtEn also Origane, Origanum, Eastward Marjoram^ 

 Wild Marjoram, and Grove Marjoram. 

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