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ivisc also cfioftiial (o lieal any green wound ; if it be 

 bruised and bound thereto lor three da}S, you shall need 

 no other medicine to Jieal it further. A poultice made 

 licreof with mallows, and boiled in wine and wheat bran 

 and beau Hour, and some oil put thereto, and apjilied 

 •warm to any bruised siiieMS, tendon, or muscle, doth 

 in a very short time restore tliein to their strength, 

 taking away the pains of the bruises, and dissolveth the 

 congealed blood coming of blows, or fall from liigli 

 places. 



The juice of Pcllitory of the Wall clarified and boiled 

 in a syrup w ifh honey, and a spoonful of it drank every 

 morning by such as are subjcrt to the drojjsy : if con- 

 tinuing that course, though but once a week, if ever 

 they have the dropsy, let them come but to me, and I 

 "vvill cure them gratis. 



Pennyroyal. ? . (Ii. d. S.) 



Pennyroyal is so well known unto all, I mean the com- 

 mon kind, that it necdeth no description. 



There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found 

 •wild with us, which so abideth being brought in gar- 

 dens, and difl'ereth not from it, but only in the largeness 

 of the leaves and stalks, in rising higher, and not creep- 

 ing upon the ground so much. The flowers Avhereof 

 are purple, growing in rundles about the stalks like the 

 other. 



Place.'] The first, which is common in gardens, grow- 

 eth also m many moist and watery jjlaces of this laud. 



The second is found wild in divers places by the 

 highways from J^ondon to Colcltester, and thereabouts, 

 more abundantly than in any other countries, and is 

 also planted in their gardens in Essex. 



Time.'} They flower in the latter end of Summer, about 

 August. 



Government and Virtues.'] The herb is under Venus. 

 Dioscorides saith, that Pennyroyal maketh thin tough 

 phlegm, warmeth the coldness of any part whereto it is 

 applied, and digesteth raw or corrupt matter; being 

 boiled and drank, it provoketh women's courses, and 

 expelleth the dead child and aftcr.birth, and stayeth the 



