THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAKGEZ). 20S 



all cold rheums, distillation upon the lungs, or shortness 

 of breath, to be taken morning and evening. It also 

 provoketh urine, and helpeth to break the stone, and exc 

 pel the gravel from the kidnies ; provoketh women's 

 courses, and expelleth the dead birth. It is singular 

 good lor strangling of the mother, and other such like 

 feminine diseases. It is effedtual also against the dropsy, 

 cramps, and falling-sickness ; for the decodliou in wine 

 being gargled in the mouth, draweth down much water 

 and phlegm from the brain, purging and easing it of what 

 oppresseth it. It is of a rare quality against all sorts of 

 cold poison, to be taken as there is cause ; it provoketh 

 sweat. But lest the taste hereof, or of the seed (which, 

 worketh to the like etfet't, though not so powerfully) 

 should be too offensive, the best way is to take the water 

 distilled both from the herb and root. The juice hereof 

 dropped, or tents dipped therein, and applied either to 

 green wounds or filthy rotten ulcers, and those that come 

 by envenomed weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them. 

 The same is also very good to help the gout coming of » 

 cold cause. 



The Medlar. 13. (c. d. 3.) 



This tree is cultivated for the use of the fruit, which haY€ 

 the appearance of small rotten apples. 



DescripL'] Lt groweth near the bigness of the Quince 

 Tree, spreading branches reasonably large, with longer 

 and narrower leaves than either the apple or q.uince^ and 

 not dented about the edges. At the end of the sprigs 

 stand the flowers, made of five white, great broadopointed 

 leaves, nicked in the middle with some white threads 

 also; after which comcth the fruit, of a brownish green 

 colour being ripe, bearing a crown as it were on the top, 

 which were the five green leaves ; and being rubbed qtlj 

 or fallen away, the head of the fruit is seen to be some- 

 what hollow. The fruit is very harsh before it is mellowed^ 

 and hath usually five hard kernels within it. There is 

 another kind hereof nothing ditlering from the formcrj 

 but that it hath some thorns on it in several places, which 

 the other hath notj and usually the fruit is sniallj and net 

 so pleasant* 



