tib^ THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED". 



Vlacc-I Tlio garden kiiuls do not nahirally grow ^u\§ 

 in any |)Iac(', but are sown in gardens where they grow. 



The N\ lid I'oppy, or Corn Hose, is pleiitit'nl enough, 

 and iiiiiny times too uiiieh in the corn fields olall counties 

 through this land, and also npon dilch banks and by hedge 

 sides. 'INie. smaller wild kind is also ibund in corn lields, 

 and also in sonic other places, but not so plcntiluily as the 

 former. 



liiiic^ The garden kinds are usually sown in the 

 Sj)ring, which (hen llower about the tnd of May, and 

 some\vhat earlier, it' they spring of their own sowing. 



The wild kind ilower usually from May until July, 

 and the seed of t;.em is ripe soon after the llowering. 



Government and rtrttias.~\ The herb is Lunar, and of 

 the juice of it is made opium; only for lucre of money 

 they cheat \ ou, and tell you it is a kind of tear, or some 

 such like thir.g, that drops from poppies -when they 

 weep, and that is somewhere beyond (he seas,. 1 know 

 not vvlicre beyond the moon. The garden poppy heads 

 >vitli seeds made into syrup, is frequently and to good 

 eflect used to procure rest and sleep, in the sick and weak, 

 and to stay catarrhs and dcliuctions of thin rheums from 

 the head into the stomach and lungs, causing a continual 

 cough, the forerunner of a consumption ; it helpeth also 

 hoarseness of the throat, and when o;ie hath lost their 

 voice, which the seed doth likewise. The black seed 

 boiled in wine, and drank, is said also to stay the lUix 

 of the belly, and Avomen's courses. The empty shells 

 or poppy heads, are usually l)oiled in water, and given 

 to procure rest and slee[) ; so do the leaves in the same 

 manner: as also if the head and temples be bathed with 

 the decoction warm, or with the oil of poppies, the green 

 leaves or heads bruised, and applied with a little vinegar, 

 or made into a poultice with barley meal, or hog's grease, 

 coalclh and tempereth all iii.llammations, as also the disease 

 called St. Anthony's lire. It is generally used in treacle 

 and njithridate, and in aJl other medicines that are njade 

 to procure rest and sleep, and to ease pains ia the head as 

 ivell as in, other par's. It is also used to cool inllamma- 

 tions, agues, or frenzies, or to stay those detlutiion? 

 •which cause a cough, or consumption, and also othcj 

 fluxes of the belly, or woaica's courstts ; it is also put lata 



