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courses, and freeth and cleanseth the stomach and lungs 

 from thick and tough phlegm. There are not many better 

 medicines to break the stone than this. 



Burnet Saxifrage, d . (/^. d. 3.) 



Burnet Saxifrage growetli up with divers long stalks of 

 winged leaves, set directly opposite one to another oq 

 both sides, each being somewhat broad, and a little 

 pointed and dented about the edges, of a sad greea 

 colour. At the top of the stalks stand umbels of white 

 flowers, alter which come small and blackish seed. The 

 root is long and whitish, abiding long. Our icbser Burnet 

 Saxifrage hath much liner leaves than the former, and very 

 small, and set one against anotlier, deeply jajged about 

 the edges, and ot the same colour as the former. The 

 umbelb Oi the flowers aro white, and the stied very small, 

 and so is the root, being also somewhat liot and quick ia 

 taste. 



P/ace.j These grow in moist meadows, and are to be 

 founl, by being well sought for among the grass, wherein 

 many tmies thjy lay hiii, scarcely to be discerned, 



2'iine.'] They flower about July, and their seed is ripe 

 in Augiut. 



Government and Virtues r\ They are both herbs of th« 

 Moon. They are hot as pepper. They have the same 

 properties the parsleys have, but in provoking urine, and 

 easing the pains thereof, and of the wind and colic, are 

 more efiectual, the roots or seed being used either ia 

 powder, or in deco6tions; and likewise helpeth the windy 

 pains of the mother, arid to procure their courses, and to 

 break and void the stone in the kidnies, io digest cold, vis- 

 cous, and tough phlegm in the stomach, and is an especial 

 remedy against all kind of venom. Castoreum being 

 boiled in the distilled water thereof, is singular good to be 

 given to those that are troubled with cramps and convul- 

 sions. Some make the seeds into comfits (as they da 

 carraway seeds) which is effectual to all the. purposes 

 aforesaid. The juice of the herb dropped into the most 

 grievous wounds of the head, drieth up their moisture, and 

 healeth them quickly. Some women use the distilled watex 

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