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fcowcls, to procure women's courses, and expel windiness 

 ill the matrix, if it be bruised and often smelled unto, 

 as also applied to the lower part of the belly. It 

 is also very profitable for such women as are given to mis- 

 carry in child-bearing, to cause them to go out their full 

 time: it is used also against the stone in the reins, espe- 

 x:ial]y to men. The herb fried with eggs (as it is accus- 

 tomed in the Spring-time) which is called a Tansy, help- 

 eth to digest and carry downward those bad humours that 

 trouble the stomach. The seed is very profitable given to 

 children for the worms, and the juice in drink is as eftec- 

 tual. Being boiled in oil, it is good for the sinews 

 shrunk by cramps, or pained with colds, if thereto ap- 

 plied. 



Wild Tansy, or Silver- Weed. . (h. 2. d. 3.) 



Tuts is also so well known, that it needeth no descrip- 

 tion. 



Tinie-I It flowereth in June or July. 



Government and Firtues.^ Now Dame Venus liath' 

 fitted women with two herbs of one name, one to help 

 conception, the other to maintain beauty, and what 

 more can be expected of her ? What now remains for 

 you, but to love your husbands, and not be wanting to 

 your poor neighbours ? Wild Tansy stayeth the lask, 

 and all the lluxes of blood in men and women, which 

 some say it will do, if the green herb be worn in the 

 shoes, so it be next the skin ; and it is true enough, that 

 it will stop the terms, if worn so, and the whites too, 

 for aught 1 know. It stayeth also spitting or vomiting of 

 blood. The powder of the herb taken in some of the 

 distilled water, liclpeth the whites in women, but more 

 eipecially if a little coral and ivory in powder be put to 

 it. It is also commended (o help children thut are burst- 

 en, and hav-j a rupture, being boiled in water and salt, 

 it easeth the grii)ing pains of the bowels, and is good for 

 the sciatica and joint achs. The same boiled in vinegar, 

 with honey and allum, and gargled in the mouth, easeth 

 the pains of the tooth-ach, fastenefh loose teeth, helpeth 

 the gums that are sore^ and settleth the palate of the 

 mouth in its place, when it is fallen down, ll cleaaseth 



