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water, and applied to the eyes th.it are hot, red and in- 

 fiamed, or blood sholten helpeth them. Hot bread ap- 

 plied for an hoar at times, tor three days together, per- 

 fectly healetli the kernels in the throat, commonly called 

 the king's evil. The flower of Wheat mixed with (he juice 

 of henbane, stay the llux of humours to the joints, being 

 laid thereon. The said meal boiled in vinegar htlpeth the 

 shrinking of the sinews, saith Pliny ; and mixed with 

 vinegar, and boiled together, healeth all freckles, pim- 

 ples and spots on the face, Wheat tiour mixed wifh the 

 yolk of an egg, honey and turpentine, doth draw, cleanse 

 and heal any boil, plague sore or foul ulcer. The bran 

 of Wheat meal steeped in vinegar, and bound in a linen 

 cloth and rubbed on the places that have the scurf, mor- 

 phew, scabs or leprosy, will take them away, the body 

 being first well purged and prepared. The decoction 

 of the bran of Wheat or barley, is of good use to bathe 

 those places that are bur^ten by a rupture, and the said 

 bran boiled in good vinegar, and applied to swollen 

 breasts, helpeth them, and stayeth all intiamniatiuns. 

 It helpeth also the biting of vipers (which 1 take to be 

 no other than our English adder) and all other venomous 

 creatures. The leaves of v\heat meal, applied with salt, 

 take away hardness of the skin, warts and hard knots in 

 the flesh. Starch moistened in rose water, and laid to 

 the privates, takcth away their itching. Walters put in 

 ■water and drank, stayeth the lasks and bloody llux, and 

 are prolitably used both inwardly and outwardly for the 

 ruptures in children. Boiled in "water unto a thick jelly, 

 and taken, it stayeth spitting of blood ; and boiled with 

 mint and butter, it helpeth the hoarseness of the throat. 



The Willow Tree. ]) . (c. d. 2.) 



These are so well known that they need no descrip- 

 tion. I shall therefore only shew you the virtues 

 thereof. 



Government and P'v^iues.'] The Moon owns it. Both 

 the leaves, bark, and the seed, are used to staunch bleed- 

 ing of wounds, and at mouth and nose, spitting of blood, 

 and other fluxes of blood in man or woman, and to stay- 

 vomiting, and provocation thereunto, if the decoaiou 



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