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&ft«r-birth ; procureth an appetite to meat, and expelleth 

 wind : the juice is good to heal the ulcers of the head and 

 face : the candied roots hereof are held as effectual as an- 

 gelica to pi-eserve from infection in the time of a plague, 

 and to warm and comfort a cold weak stomach. It 18 ao 

 harmless you cannot use it amiss. 



CHESTNUT TREK'-iCastanea Vesca.) 



It were as needless to describe a tree so commonly known 

 as to tell a man he had gotten a mouth ; therefore take 

 thegovemment and virtues of them thus : 



The tree is abundantly under the dominion of Jupiter, 

 and therefore the fruit must needs breed good blood, and 

 yield commendable nourishment to the body ; yet if eaten 

 over much, they make the blood thick, procure head- 

 ache, and bind the body ; the inner skin that covereth 

 the nut is of so binding a quality, that a scruple of it 

 being taken by a man, or ten grains by a child, soon 

 stops any flux whatsoever : the whole nut being dried 

 ana beat into powder, and a dram taken at a time, is a 

 good remedy to stop the terms in women. If you dry 

 chestnuts, (only the kernels I mean) both the barfcs being 

 taken away, beat them into powder, and make the pow- 

 der up into an electuary with honey, so have you an ad- 

 mirable remedy for the cough and spitting of blood. 



CHESTNUTS (EARTH.)— {JSMnium Flexuosvm.) 



THETare called Earth Nuts, Earth Chestnuts, Ground Nuts, 

 Ciper Nuts, and in Sussex, Pig Nuts. A description of 

 them were needless, for every child knows them. 



Government and Virtuet.—T\iQj are something hot 

 and dry in quality, under the dominion of Venus they 

 provoke lust exceedingly, and stir up these sports she ia 

 mistress of ; the seed is excellent good to provoke urine: 

 and ao also the root, but it doth not perform it so forci- 

 bly ai the seed doth. The root being dried and beaten 

 into a powder, and the powder made into an electuary, 

 is as singular a remedy for spitting blood and voiding 

 of bloody urine as the fonuer chestnut was for coughs. 



CHICKWEED.— (^;«n< Media.) 



It ia ao generally known to most people, that I shall 

 not troubU you with the description thereof, nor myself 



