276 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAHGED. 



shcwcfh less store of discoloured veins than the next doth 

 when it is dr}'. 



Great round-leaved Dock, or Bastard Rhubarb. <?. 

 (-//. d. 2.) 



Tins hath divers large, round, thin, yellowish green leaves 

 rising from the root, a little waved about the edges, every 

 one standing upon a reasonable thick and long brownish 

 i'oot-stalk, from among which riseth up a pretty big stalk 

 about two feet high, some such like leaves growing 

 thereon, but smaller; at the top whereof stand in a long 

 spike, many small brownish flowers, which turn into a 

 hard three-square shining brown seed, like the Garden 

 Patience before described. The root groweth greater 

 than that, with many branches of great fibres thereat, 

 yellow on the outside, and somewhat pale ; yellow within, 

 •with some discoloured veins like to the Rhubarb which is 

 first described, but much less than it, especially when it 

 is dry. 



Place and Ttmc.~\ These aho grow in gardens, and 

 flower and seed at or near the same time that our true 

 Rhubarb doth, viz. they flovrer in June and the seed is 

 ripe in July. 



Government and Virtues.'] Mars claims predominancy 

 over all these wholesome herbs ; you cry out upon him 

 for an infortunate, when God created him for your good 

 (only he is angry with fools.) What dishonour is this, 

 not to Mars, but to God himself? A dram of the dried, 

 root of Monk's Rhubarb, with a scruple of ginger made 

 into powder, and taken fasting in a draught or mess of 

 warm broth, purgeth both choler and phlegm downwards 

 very gently and safely. The seed thereof contrary doth 

 bind the belly, and helpetii to stay any sort of lasks or 

 bloody-flux. The distilled water thereof is very profitably 

 used to heal scabs; also foul ulcerous sores, and to lay the 

 inflammation of them ; the juice of the leaves, or roots, or 

 the decoction of them in vinegar, is used as a most efledlual 

 remedy to heal scabs and running sores. 



Tiic Bastard Rhubarb hath all the properties of the 



Monk's Rhubarb, but more eft"e6tual for both inward and 



utward diseases. The dcco^ion thereof; without linegar. 



