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be drj, aud then stmiued into a pot for bach occasions as 

 shall require ; it is so singular good for all sorts of hurts 

 in the body, that none that know its usefulness will ever 

 be without it. 



The truth ia, I have known this herb cure some dis- 

 eases of Saturn, of which I thought good to quote one. 

 Many times such as give themselves much to drinking 

 are troubled with strange fancies, strange sights in the 

 night time, and some with voices, as also with the disease 

 ephialtes, or night-mare. I take the reason of this to be 

 (according to Fernelius) a melancholy vapour made thin 

 by excessive drinking strong liquor, and so flies up and 

 disturbs the fancy, and breeds imaginations like itself, 

 yiz. — fearful and troublesome ; these I have known cured 

 by taking only two spoonfuls of the syrup of this herb 

 after supper two hours, when you go to bed. But whe- 

 ther this does it by sympathy or antipathy is some doubt 

 in astrology. I know there is a great antipathy between 

 Saturn and Venus in matter of procreation ; yea, such an 

 one, that the barrenness of Saturn can be removed by 

 none but Venus ; nor the lust of Venus be repelled by 

 none but Saturn, but I am not of opinion this is done 

 this way, and my reason is, because these vapours, though 

 in quality melancholy, yet by their flying upward seem 

 to be somewhat aerial ; therefore I rather think it ia done 

 by sympathy, Saturn being exalted in Libra in the house 

 of Venus. 



BURNET. —(Ptmptnella Saxifraga. ) 



It is called Sanguisorbia, Meadow Pimpinel, Solbegrelia^ 

 &c. The common garden bumet is so well known that it 

 needeth no description. 



Descrip. — The ^^reat wild bumet hath winged leaves 

 rising from the root like the ganlen bumet, but not so 

 many ; yet each of the.se leaves are at the least twice as 

 large as the other, and nicked in the same manner about 

 the e<ige8, of a greyish ci»lour on the under side ; the stalks 

 are greater and rise higher, with many such like leaves 

 thereon, and greater he^ids at the top of a brownish cfv> 

 lour, and out of them come small dark purple flowers like 

 the former, but great also. It hath almost neither Hren^ 

 oor taste therein, like the garden kind. 



Place. — The first grows frequently in gfc.\lens. Tb« 

 w^ld kind groweth in diven coanties of tMs island, en- 



