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■trong TomitiDgs, paius in the stomach, and gripings in 

 the bellj ; yet if the decoction may stand and settle two 

 or three days, until the yellow colour be changed black, it 

 will not work so strongly as before, but will strengthen 

 the stomach, and procure an appetite to meat. The out- 

 ward bark contrariwise doth bind the body, and is helpful 

 for all laxes and fluxes thereof, but this also must be dried 

 first, whereby it will work the better. The inner bark 

 thereof boiled in vinegar is an approved remedy to kill 

 lice, to cure the itch, and take away scabs, by drying them 

 up in a short time. It is singularly good to wash the teeth, 

 and to take away the pains, to fasten those that are loose, 

 to cleanse them, and keep them sound. The leaves are 

 good fodder for kine, to make them give more milk. 



In spring-time you use the herbs before-mentioned, and 

 will take a handful of each of them, and to them add a 

 handful of elder buds, and having bruised them all, boil 

 them in a gallon of ordinary beer when it is new ; and 

 having boiled them half an hour, add to this three gallons 

 more, and let tiiem work together, and drink a draught of 

 it every morning, half a pint, or thereabouts ; it is an 

 excellent purge for the spring to consume the phlegmatic 

 quality the winter has left behind it, and withal to keep 

 your body in health, and consume those evil humours which 

 the heat of summer will readily stir up. £steem it as a 

 jewel. 



ALDER (COMMONO—T-i^nw Glutinosa.) 



Descrip. — Qroweth to a reasonable height, and spreads 

 much if it like the place. It is so generally well known 

 nnto country people, that I conceive it needless to tell 

 that which is no news. 



Place and Time. — It delighteth to grow in moist woods 

 ADd watery places ; flowereth in April and May, and 

 jieldeth ripe seed in September. 



Oovernment and Ute. — It is a tree under the dominion 

 of Venua, and of some watery sign or other, I suppose 

 Piacee, and therefore the decoction, or distilled water of 

 the leaves, is excellent^ against burnings and inflamma- 

 tions, either with wounds or without, to bathe the place 

 ffrieved with, and especially for that inflammation ol the 

 breast, which the vulgar call an ague. 



If yoa cannot get the leaves, which In winter is impoe- 

 iible, make uae of the bark in the same manner. 



