530 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAPGED. 



slnp;ular remedy for the gout, and all achs and pains in the 

 joints and sinews. A conserve made of the (lowers, is 

 used for a remedy both for the apoplexy and palsy. 



The Walnut-Trec. ©. (k. d. 2 J 



It is so •well known, that it ncedcth no description. 



Government and Virtues.'} This is also a plant of the 

 Sun. Let the fruit of it be gathered accordingly, ■which 

 yoii shall find to be of most virtues whilst they are green, 

 before they have shells. The bark of the Tree doth bind 

 and dry very much, and the leaves are much of the same 

 temperature j but the leaves, Mhen they are older, arc 

 heating and drying in the second degree, and harder of 

 digestion than when they are fresh, which by reason of 

 their sweetness, are more pleasing and better digesting in 

 the stomach ; and taken with sw cet wine, they move the 

 belly dow nwards ; but being old, they grieve the sto- 

 mach ; and in hot bodies cause the choler to abound)^ 

 and the head-ach, and are an enemy to those that have 

 the cough ; but are less hurtful to those that have a colder 

 stomach, and are said to kill the broad worms in the belly 

 or stomach. If they be taken with onions, salt and 

 honey, they help the biting of a mad dog, or the venom^ 

 or infciStious poison of any beast, &c. Caius Pompeius 

 tound in the treasury of Mithridates, king of Pontus, 

 when he was overthrown, a seroU of his own hand- 

 ■writing, containing a medicine against any poison or in- 

 fe6lion ; which is this: Take two dry Walnuts, and as 

 many good figs; and twenty leaves of rue, bruised and 

 beaten together, with two or three corns of salt, and 

 twenty juniper berries, which take every morning fasting,^ 

 prcserveth from danger of poison and infection that day it 

 is taken. The juice of the other green husks, boiled with 

 honey is an excellent gargle for a sore mouth, or the heat 

 and inflammations in the throat and stomach. The kernels 

 when they grow old, are more oily, and therefore not fit 

 to be eaten, but are then used to heal wounds of the 

 sinews, gangrenes, and carbuncles. The said kernels 

 being burned, are then very astringent, and will stay laskjj 

 and women's courses, being taken in red wine, and stay 

 the falling of the hair, and make it fair, being anoiutcd. 



