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Strawberries $. (c. m- J.) 



These arc so -well known through this land, that thoy 

 uccd no description. 



Government and Firhtes.l Ventis owns tlic herb. Straw- 

 berries, when they arc green, are cool and dry ; but 

 when they are ripe, they arc cool and moist : the berries 

 arc excellent good to cool the liver, the blood and the 

 spleen, or a hot choleric stomach ; to refresh and com- 

 fort the fainting spirits, and quench tliirst ; they arc good 

 also for other inllammations ; yet it is not amiss to 

 refrain from them va a fever, lest by their putrifying 

 in the stomach they increase the fits. The leaves and 

 roots boiled in wine and water, and drank, do like- 

 wise cool the liver and blood, and assuage all iiiHam- 

 nations in the reins and bladder, provoke urine, allay 

 the heat and sharpness thereof. The same also being 

 drank, stayeth the bloody liux and women's courses, and 

 helps the swelling of the spleen. The water of the ber- 

 ries carefully distilled, is a sovereign remedy and cor- 

 dial in the panting and beating of the heart, and is good 

 for the yellow jaundice. The juice dropped into foul 

 tilcers, or washed therewith, or the decoction of the herb 

 and root, doth wonderfully cleanse and help to cure 

 them. Lotions and gargles for sore mouths, or ulcers 

 therein, or in the privy parts or elsewhere, are made 

 Avith the leaves and roots thereof; which is also good ta 

 fasten loose teeth and to heal spungy foul gnms. It 

 helpeth also to stay catarrhs, or defluxions of rheum in 

 the mouth, throat, teeth, or eyes. The juice or water 

 is singular good lor hot and red inflamed eyes, if drop- 

 ped into them, or they be bathed therewith. It is also of 

 excellent property for all pushes, wheals, and other 

 IVreakings forth <5f hot and sharp humours in the face and 

 Jiands, and other parts of the body to bathe them there- 

 r ith, and to take away any redness in the face, or spots, 

 Or other deformities in the skin, and to make it clear and 

 smooth. , Sx>me Hse this medicine : take so many Straw- 

 berries as you shall 'think fitting, and put them into a 

 distillatory, or body of glass fit for them, which being 

 well closed, set in a bed of horse-dung for your use. 

 It is an excellent water for inflamed eyes, and to tate* 



