228 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Oats. ?. (c. d. 1.) 



Are so •well known (hat they need no description. 



Governvicnt and Virtues.^ Oats fried witli bay salt, 

 apd applied to the sides, take away the pains of stitches, 

 and wind in the sides of the belly. A poultice made of 

 meal of Oats and some oil of bays put thereunto, helpcth 

 the itch and leprosy, also the fistulas of the fundament, 

 and dissolveth hard imposthunics. The meal of Oats 

 boiled with vinegar and applied, taketh away freckles and 

 spots in the face, and other parts of the body. 



One Blade. Q. (h. d, I.) 



Tins small plant is so called because it never bcarcth more 

 than one leaf, only where it riseth up with his stalk, 

 ■which thereon bcareth another. 



Descript.] The leaf is a bluish green colour, pointed 

 •with many ribs or veins therein, like plantain. At the 

 top of the stalk grow many small white Uowers, star- 

 fashion, smelling somewhat sweet ; after which come small 

 red berries, when they are ripe. The root is small, of 

 the bigness of a rush, lying and creeping under the upper 

 crust of the earth, shooting forth in divers places. 



Place.'] It groweth in moist, shadowy and grassy 

 places of woods, in many places of this land. 



Time.'] It lIoTrereth about May, and the berries are 

 ripe in June, and then quicliy perisheth, until the next 

 year it springeth from the same root again. 



Government and yiriues.'] It is a precious herb of the 

 Sun.- Half a dram, or a dram at most, in powder of the 

 roots hereof taken in wine and vinegar, of each equal 

 parts, and the party laid presently to sweat thereupon, 

 is held to be a sovereign remedy for those that are infcded 

 ■with the phguc, and have a sore upon them, by expelling 

 the poison and infeftion, and defending the heart and 

 spirits from danger. It is a singular good wound herb, 

 and is thereupon used with other the like etfe^ts in many 

 compound balms for curing of wounds, be they fresh and 

 green, or old and malignant, and especially if the sinews 

 bQ burnt. 



