26*4 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



Dodoens recommends the expressed juice 

 to be dropped into the eye, as good against 

 inflammation ; or the leaf to be peeled and 

 laid on that organ. He says also that it re- 

 lieves the pains of the gout when brought 

 on by hot humours. Gerard says, " The 

 iuice of housleeke taketh away cornes from 

 the toes and feete, if they be washed and 

 bathed therewith euery day and night, as it 

 were implaistered with the skin of the same 

 housleeke, which certainly taketh them away 

 without incision or such like, as hath beene 

 experimented by my very good friend M. 

 Nicholas Belson, a man painfull and curious 

 in searching forth the secrets of Nature." 



It is customary, with us, among the com- 

 mon sort, says Schroder, to give the ex- 

 pressed juice of houseleek and sugar, in 

 fevers, and hot diseases. 



Dr. Tancred Robinson says, he has known 

 it exhibited with good success in fevers, and 

 especially in those of the erysipetalous and 

 hectic kinds ; for this plant abounds with a 

 medicinal alcaline salt. 



Tragus states, that linen cloths moistened 

 with the juice or distilled water, and applied 

 to inflammations in any part of the body, 



