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merry, and reviyeth the heart, faintings and Bwoonlngs, 

 eepeciallj of each who are overtakeD in sleep, and driveth 

 away all troablesome cares and thoughts out of the mind, 

 arising from melancholy and black cnoler : which Ayicen 

 also confirmeth. It is yery good to help digestion, and 

 open obstructions of the brain, and hath so much purging 

 quality in it, (saith Ayicen) as to expel those melancholy 

 vapours from the spirits and blood which are in the heart 

 and arteries, although it cannot do so in other parts of the 

 body. Dioscorides saith, that the leaves steeped in wine, 

 and the wine drank, and the leaves externally applied, is 

 a remedy against the sting of a scorpion, and tne biting 

 of mad dogs ; and commendeth the aecoction for women 

 to bathe or sit in to procure their courses ; it is good to 

 wash aching teeth therewith, and profitable for those that 

 have the bloody-flux. The leaves also, with a little nitre 

 taken in drink, are good against the surfeit of mushrooms, 

 and help the griping paina of the belly ; and being made 

 into an electuary, it is good for them that cannot fetch 

 their breath : used with salt, it takes away the wens, ker- 

 nels, or hard swellings in the flesh or throat ; it cleanseth 

 foul sores, and easetn pains of the gout. It is good for 

 the liver and spleen. A tansy or caudle made with eggs, 

 \nd juice thereof, while it is young, putting to some sugar 

 and rose-water, is good for a woman in child -bed, when 

 the after birth is not thoroughly voided, and for their 

 faintinjcifs upon or in their sore travail The herb bruised 

 and boiled m a little white wine and oil, and laid warm 

 on a bile, will ripen and break it. 



BAB.BEB,B,Y,—(Berberis Vulgarii.) 



Tbk shrub is so well known by every boy and girl that 

 has bot attained to the age of seven years, that It needfl 

 DO description. 



OcvemmerU and Virtue*, — Mars owns the shrub, and 

 presents it to the use of my countrymen to purge their 

 Dodies of choler. The inner rind of the barberry tree 

 boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank every 

 morning, is an excellent remedy to cleanse the body of 

 choleric humours, and free it from such diseases as choler 

 eanseth, such us scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, yellow 

 iaundice, biles, &c. It is excellent for hot agues, bum- 

 logs, scalding!, heat of the blood, beat of the liver, bloody 

 flax, for the Derriet are as good as the bark, and mors 



