26 CUIiPEPB&'S COMPLETE H££BAL. 



In Carduus water or Angelica water. The stalks or roots 

 candied and eaten fasting, are good preservatives in time 

 of infection ; and at other times to warm and comfort a 

 cold stomach : the root also steeped in vinegar, and a little 

 of that vinegar taken sometimes fasting, and the root 

 smelled unto is good for the same purpose : a water dis- 

 tilled from the root simply, as steeped in wine and dis- 

 tilled in a glass, is much more effectual than the water of 

 the leaves ; and this water drank two or three spoonfuls 

 at a time, easeth all pains and torments coming of cold 

 and wind, so that the body be not bound ; and taken with 

 some of the root in powder at the beginning, helpeth the 

 pleurisy, as also all other diseases of the lungs and breast, 

 as coughs, phthisic, and shortness of breath ; and a syrup 

 of the stalks doth the like. It helps pains of the cholic, 

 the strangury and stoppage of the urine, procureth wo- 

 men's courses, and expelleth the after birth ; openeth the 

 stoppage of the liver and spleen, and briefly easeth and 

 discusseth all windiness and inward swellings. The de- 

 coction drank before the fit of an ague, that they may 

 sweat, if possible, before the fit comes, will, in two or 

 three times taking, rid it quite away ; it helps digestion, 

 and is a remedy for a surfeit. The juice, or the water 

 being dropped into the eyes or ears helps dimness of sight 

 and deafness : the juice put into the hollow of the teeth 

 easeth their pain. The root in powder, made up into 

 plaister with a little pitch, and laid on the biting of mad 

 dogs or any other venomous creature, doth wonderfully 

 help. The juice or the water dropped, or tents wet there- 

 in, and put into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of the 

 root, in want of either, doth cleanse and cause them to 

 heal quickly, by covering the naked bones with flesh : the 

 distilled water applied to places pained with the gout, or 

 sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease. 



The Wild Angelica {Angelica SylvestrUf) may be safely 

 used to all the purposes aforesaid. 



ANEMONE. — {Anemone Nemorosa,) 



Called also Wind-flower, because they say the flowers 

 never open but when the wind bloweth. Pliny is my 

 author ; if it be not so, blame him. The seed also, if it 

 bears any at all, flies away with the wind. 



Place and Time, — They are sown usually in the gar- 

 dens of the curious, and flower in the spring-time. As for 



