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the Deadly Nightshade for this ; if you know it not, you 

 may let them both alone and take no harmj having other 

 medicines suflicient in the book. 



ThoOak. 1/. fc. 1. d.3) 



It is so well known (the timber thereof being the glory 

 and safety of this nation by sea) that it needeth no 

 description. 



Government and Virtues.'] Jupiter owns the tree. The 

 leaves and bark of the Oak and acorn cups da bind and 

 dry very much. The inner bark of the tree, and the thin 

 skin that covereth the acorn, are much used to stay the 

 spitting of blood and the bloody-flux. The deco6lion of 

 that bark and the powder of the cups, do stay vomitingSj 

 spitting of blood, bleeding at the mouth, or other flux in 

 men or women ; lasks also, and the involuntary flux of 

 natural seed. The acorn in powder taken in wine, pro- 

 vokcth urine and resisteth the poison of venomous creatures. 

 The decodlion of acorns and bark made in milk, and taken, 

 resisteth the force of poisonous herbs and medicines, as 

 also the virulency of cantharides, when one by eating 

 them hath his bladder exulcerated, and voideth blood, 

 Hippocrates saith, he used the fumes of Oak leaves to 

 women that were troubled with strangling of the mather ; 

 and Galen applied them being bruised, to cure wounds. 

 The distilled water of the Oaken buds, before they break 

 out into leaves, is good to be used either inwardly or 

 outwardly to assuage inflammations, and stop all manner 

 of fluxes in man or woman. The same is singular good ia 

 pestilential and hot burning fevers ; for it resisteth the 

 force of the infe6lion, and allayeth the heat ; it cooleth 

 the heat of the liver, breaketh the stone in the kidnies 

 and stayeth women's courses. The decoction of the 

 leaves worketh the same effedts. The water that is found 

 in the hollow places of old Oaks, is very efi'edtual against 

 foul or spreading scabs. The distilled water (for concoc» 

 tion, which is better) of the leaves, is one of the best re- 

 medies that I know of for the whites ia womec» 



