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an heape, and buried in the earth with the 

 rootes vpwards, where no earth can get within 

 it, which, if it did, would cause rottenness ; 

 the which, so couered, may be taken vp at 

 times conuenient, and vsed in sallades all the 

 winter, as in London and other places is to be 

 seene ; and then it is called white endiue." 

 He adds, " these herbes eaten in sallades or 

 otherwise, especially the white endiue, doth 

 comfort the weake and feeble stomacke, and 

 cooleth and refresheth the stomacke ouer- 

 much heated." 



Galen, who wrote in the second century, 

 mentions this plant as an excellent medicine 

 for a heated liver. Many of the Romans at- 

 tributed the astonishing cures performed by 

 that physician to magic, and thought that 

 he had obtained all his knowledge by en- 

 chantment. Galen, however, confessed him- 

 self indebted for his medical knowledge to 

 the writings of Hippocrates, which had then 

 been preserved 550 years : this should be 

 an inducement for us rather to learn the 

 opinions of the ancients, than to condemn 

 them unknown. 



Endive is now cultivated in this country 

 more as a winter and spring salad than for 

 any other purpose; although it is excellent 



