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hollow teeth to case tlie paiii, and hath been found by 

 experience to ease the pains of the gout. 



The wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Matthiolus saith) 

 is good to prevent the falling sickness. The svrup made 

 "With tlie riower, is with good etfe(':t given to those that 

 have the pleurisy : and the dried llowers also, either 

 boiled in water, or made into powder and drank, either 

 in the distilled water of them, or some other drink, work- 

 eth the like ctfc6t. The distilled water of the Rowers is 

 held to be of much good use against surfeits, being drank 

 evening and morning ; it is also more cooling than any of 

 the other poppies, and therefore cannot but be as etfedtual 

 in hot .'igues, frenzies, and other inllainmations either in- 

 ward or outward. Galen saitli, the seed is dangerous to 

 be used inwardly. 



Purslaine. D. (c. 3. m. 2.) 



Garden Purslaine (being used as a sallad herb) is so Avell 

 Itnown that it needeth no description; I shall therefore 

 ol ynspcak of its virtues as follovveth : 



Government and Virtues.'] 'Tis an herb of the IVIoonv 

 It is good to cool any heat in the liver, blood, reins, and 

 stomach, and in hot agues nothing better ; it stayeth hot 

 and cholerick fluxes of the belly, women's courses, the 

 whites, and gonorrhoea, or running of the reins, the 

 distillation from the head, and pains therein proceeding 

 from heat, want of sleep, or the frenzy. '1 he seed is more 

 efl'ectual than the herb, and is of singular good use to 

 cool the heat and sharpness of urine, and the outrageous 

 lust of the body, venerous dreams, and the like ; inso- 

 much that the over frequent use thereof extinguisheth the 

 heat and virtue of natural procreation. The seed bruised 

 and boiled in wine, and given to children, expelloth the 

 worms. The juice of the herb is held elfectual to all the. 

 purposes aforesaid ; as also to stay vomitings, and takea 

 with some sugar or honey, helpeth an old dry cough, 

 shortness of breath, and the phthisick, and stayeth im- 

 moderate thirst. The distilled water of the herb is used 

 hy many (as the more pleasing) with a little sugar to work 

 the.sapie elfedts. The juice also is singular good in the 

 iulhimmatioiis and ulcers in the secret parts of man or 



