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of women's courses, the j.-iinidicc, tlic cholic, ami the. 

 biting ot all venomous serpents, except llie asp ; and 

 ontwardly applied, is powerful against the hardness of 

 the s|iieen, and the toolh-ach, pains in the cars, red and 

 watering eyes. The decoc^tion, wifh some honey put 

 thereto, is good to stay gangrenes and fretting ulcers, and 

 to Mash those that are subject to nits and lice. Alpinus 

 and Vcslingius affirm, that the Egyptians do with good 

 success use the wood of ii to cure tiic French disease, as 

 otiiers do with lignum vitic or gnaiacum ; and give it also 

 to those who ha\e the leprosy, scabs, ulcers, or the like. 

 Its ashes doth (juickiy heal blisters raised by burnings or 

 scaldings. It helps the dropsy, arising iVom hardness of 

 s|deen, and therelore to drink out of cups uiade of the 

 wood is good for s])lenelic persons. It is also hel|)ful 

 for melancholy, and the black jaundice that arisetli 

 thereof. 



Garden Tanrsy. ?. (h. 2. d. S.) 



fJ.Muu.N Tansy is so well kuoviu, that it necdelh no 

 deserii)tion. 



l'inw.'\ it llowereth in Juno or .fuly. 



Uo-ccrnment and Virtue^.'] Dame Venus was minded 

 to pleasure women with child by this herb, for there 

 ^rows not an herb litter for their use than this is ; it is 

 just as though it were cut out for the purpose. This 

 herb bruised andajiplied to the navel, slays miscarriages; 

 I know no herb like it for that use : boiled in ordinary 

 beer, and the decoction drank, doth the like ; and if 

 her womb be not so as she would have it, this decoc^iion 

 will niake it so. Let those women that desire cluldrea 

 Jove this herb, it is their best companion, (their husbands 

 excepted.) Also it consumes the phlegmatic humours, the 

 cold and moist constitution of Winter most usually af- 

 fe(5}s the body of man with, and that was the first reason 

 of eating Tansies in the Spring. The decoction of the 

 common Tansy, or the juice drank in wine, is a singular 

 remedy for all the griefs that come by stopping of the 

 urine, helpeth the stranguary, and those that have 

 weak reins and kidnies. Jt is also very profitable to 

 dissolve and expel wind in tlic stomach, belly, or 



