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inflammations of the tliroat. The seed and leaves boiled 

 in wine, and applied, draw forth speedily thorns or 

 splinters gotten into the flesh, ease the ])ains, and heal 

 them also. The leaves bruised and ■Mraj)pcd in double 

 papers, and covered with hot ashes and embers to bake 

 a while, and then taken forth and laid warm on any 

 blotch or boil happening in the groin or share, doth 

 dissolve and heal them. '1 he seed brnised and boiled in 

 •uine, and laid on any member that hath been out of joint, 

 and neMly set again, taketh away all swelling and pain 

 thereof. 



Mustard. 6. {h. d. i.) 



This groweth with us in gardens only, and other manured 

 places, therefore needeth no description. 



Time.'] It is an annual plant, flowering in July, and 

 the seed is ripe in August. 



Govei'tinient and Virtues.'] It is an excellent sauce for 

 such whose blood wants clarifying, and for weak sto- 

 machs, being an herb of I\Iars, but naught for cholerick 

 people, though as good for such as are aged, or troubled 

 with cold diseases. Aries claims something to do with 

 it, therefore it strengthens the heart, and resistcth poison. 

 Let such whose stomachs are so weak they cannot digest 

 their meat, or appetite it, take of Mustard-seed a dram, 

 cinnamon as much, and having beaten them to powder, 

 and half as much mastick in powder, and with gum ara- 

 bick dissolved in rose-water, make it up into troches, of 

 vhich they may take one of about half a dram-weight 

 an hour or two before meals; let old men and women 

 make much of this medicine, and they will either give 

 me thanks, or shew manifest ingratitude. Mustard-seed 

 hath the virtue of heat, discussing, rarifying, and drawing 

 out splinters of bones, and other things of the flesh. It is 

 of good effeft to bring down women's courses, for the 

 falling-sickness or lethargy, drowsy forgetful evil, to use 

 it both inwardly and ontwardly, to rub the nostrils, 

 forehead, and temples, to warm and c^uicken the spirits; 

 for by the fierce sharpness it purgcth the brain by sneezing, 

 and drawing down rheum and other viscous humours, 

 which by their distillations upon the lungs and chest, 



