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CLABY (WILD).— (/SoZvui Earminum,) 



Wild clarj is moet blasphemously called Christ's e^t», 

 because it cures diseases of the eyes. I could wish 

 from my soul that blasphemy, ignorance, and tyranny 

 were ceased among physicians, that they might be happy 

 and I joyful. 



Bescrip. — It is like the other cUry. but lesser, with 

 many stalks about a foot and a half high. The stalks are 

 square and somewhat hairy ; the flowers are of a bush 

 colour. He that knows the common clary cannot be ig- 

 norant of this. 



Place, — It grows commonly in this nation in barren 

 places. You may find it plentifully if you look in the 

 6elds near Gra3r'B Inn, and the fields near Chelsea, and 

 other such places. 



TifM. — They flower from the beginning of June until 

 the latter end of August* 



Oinmnment and Virtue, — It is something hotter and 

 drier than the garden clary is, yet, nevertheless, it is 

 under the dominion of the Moon as well as that. The 

 seeds of it beaten to powder, and drunk with wine, is an 

 admirable help to provoke lust. A decoction of the leaves 

 beinff drunk warms the stomach, and it would be a won- 

 der u it did not, the stomach being under Cancer, the 

 boose of the Moon. It also helps digestion, and scatters 

 eoogealed blood in any part of the body. The distilled 

 water cleanseth the eyes of redness, waterishness, and 

 heat. It is a capital remedy for dimness of sight, to take 

 one of its seeds and put it into the eye, and there let it 

 remain till it drops out of itself. The pain will be nothing 

 to fpeak of ; it will cleanse the eyes of all filthy and 

 patrafied matter, and in often repeating it, will take off 

 a film which covereth the sight — a handsomer, safer, and 

 eMier remedy by a great deal than to tear it off with a 



