70 culpepbb'b complete hekdal. 



for her own : and by its leaf or seed you may draw the 

 womb which way you please, either upward by applying 

 it to the crown of the head in case it falls out ; or down- 

 wards in fits of the mother, by applying it to the soles of 

 the feet : or if you would stay it in its place, apply it to 

 the navel, and that is one good way to stay the child in it. 

 See more of it in my Guide for Women. 



The Burdock leaves are cooling, moderately drying, and 

 discussing withal, whereby it is ^ood for old ulcers and 

 sores. A dram of the roots taken with pine kernels, 

 helpeth them that spit foul, mattery, and bloody phlegm. 

 The leaves applied to the places troubled with the shrink- 

 inff in of the sinews or arteries, give much ease : the 

 juice of the leaves, or rather the roots themselves, given 

 to drink with old wine, doth wonderfully help the biting 

 of any serpents ; the root beaten with a little salt, and 

 laid on the place, suddenly easeth the pain thereof, and 

 helpeth those that are bit by a mad dog : the juice of the 

 leaves being drunk with honey, provoketh urine and re- 

 medieth the pain of the bladder : the seed being dmok in 

 wine forty days together, doth wonderfully help the scia- 

 tica : the leaves bruised with the white of an egg and ap- 

 plied to any place burnt with fire, taketh out the fire, 

 gives sudden ease, and heals it up afterwards ; the de- 

 coction of them fomented on any fretting sore or canker, 

 stayeth the corroding quality, which must be afterwards 

 anointed with an ointment made of the same liquor, hog's 

 grease, nitre, and vinegar boiled together. The root may 

 be preserved with sugar, and taken fasting or at other 

 times for the same purposes, and for consumptions, the 

 stone, and the lax. The seed is much commended to 

 break the stone, and cause it to be expelled bv urine, and 

 is often used with other seeds and things for that purpose. 



OABBAQBS.— (^rflwwca Capitata.) COLEWOETa— 

 {Brauica Oltracea,) 



I SHALL spare labor in writing a description of these, since 

 almost every one that can but write at all may describe 

 them from his own knowledge, they being so well known 

 that descriptions are altogether needless. 



Place, — ^They are generally planted in gardens. 



Time. — Their flower time is towards the middle or end 

 of July, and the seed is ripe in August. 



Government and Virttiet. — The cabbages or ooleworts 

 boiled f^ently in broth, and eAfcen, do open the body« but 



