THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 30t 



sovereign help to kill those sharp humours that cause the 

 icch. The juice thereof, with a little vinegar, ser?eth well 

 to be used outwardly for the same cause, and is also pro- 

 fitable for tetters, ring-worms, &c. It helpeth also to 

 discuss the kernels in the throat; and the juice gargled in 

 the mouth, helpeth the sores therein. The leaves wrapt 

 in colewort leaf and roasted in the embers, and applied to 

 a hard imposthume, blotch, boil or plague sore, doth ripen 

 and break it. The distilled water of the herb is of much 

 good use for all the purposes aforesaid. 



Wood Sorrel. ? fc. 1. d. 2.) 



This is a very different plant from the former. 



Descript.~\ It groweth upon the ground, having at 

 number of leaves coming from the root made of three 

 leaves, like trefoil, but broad at the ends, and cut in the 

 middle, of a yellowish green colour, every one standing 

 ©n a long foot-stalk, which at their first coming up are 

 close folded together, to the stalk, but opening themselves 

 afterwards, and are of a fine sour relish, and yielding a 

 juice which will turn red when it is clarified, and maketh 

 a most dainty clear syrup. Among these leaves rise up 

 divers tender, weak footstalks, with every one of them a 

 flower at tlie top, consisting of five small-pointcd leaves, 

 star-fashion, of a white colour, in most places, and in some 

 dashed over with a small shew of bluish, on the back side 

 only. After the flowers are past, follow small round 

 heads, with small yellow seeds in them. The roots are 

 small strings, fastened to the end of a iraall long piece ; 

 all of them being of a yellowish colour. 



Place.'] It groweth in woods and wood sides, where 

 they be moist and shadowed, and in other places not too 

 much open to the sun. 



Tiine.~\ It flowereth in April and May. 



Government and yirtues.~\ Venus OAvns it. This scrveth 

 all the purposes that the other Sorrels do, and is more 

 etie(5lual in hindering putrefa<5tion of blood, and ulcers in 

 the mouth and body, and to quench thirst, to strengthen 

 a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, 

 »Qd very excellent in any contagious sickness or pei- 



