$04 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Time and Place.} Tlicy grow in this land, and (lowef 

 in May for the most part, and bear fruit in September and 

 Oftober. 



Government and Firtues.'] The fruit is old Saturn's, 

 and sure a better medicine he hardly had to strengthen 

 the retentive faculty ; therefore it stays women's long- 

 ings ; the good old man cannot endure women's minds 

 should run a gadding. Also a plaister made of the fruit 

 dried before they are rotten, and other convenient things, 

 and applied to the reins of the back, stops miscarriage in 

 ■women with child. They are very powerful to stay any 

 fluxes of blood or humours in men and women ; the 

 leaves also have this quality. The fruit eaten by women 

 with child stayeth their longings after unusual meats, 

 and is very cflcCtual for them that are apt to miscarry, 

 and may be delivered before their time, to help that ma- 

 lady, and make them joyful mothers. The deco(5tion 

 of them is good to gargle and wash the mouth, throat 

 and teeth, when there is any defiuxions of blood to stay 

 it, or of humours, which causeth the pains and swel- 

 lings. It is a good bath for women to sit over, that have 

 their courses flow too abundant; or for the piles when 

 they bleed too much. If a poultice or plaister be made 

 ■with dried Medlars, beaten and mixed with the juice of 

 red roses, whercunto a few cloves and nutmegs may be 

 added, and a little red coral also, and applied to the 

 stomach that is given to casting or loathing of meat, it 

 etfectually helpeth. The dried leaves in powder strewed 

 on fresh bleeding wounds, restraineth the blood, and 

 healeth up the wound quickly. The Medlar-stones made 

 into powder and drank in wine, wherein some parsley- 

 TOots have lain infused all night, or a little boiled, do 

 break the stone in the kiduics, helping to expel it, 



Mellilot. %. (h. d, 1.) 



This is also called King's Claver, and is much used hy ilxt 

 apothecaries. 



Descript.~\ It hath many green stalks, two or three 

 feet high, rising from a tough, long, white root, which 

 dicth not every year, set round about at the joints with 

 small) and somewljat long wejl-smdliag leayc-s, set threr 



