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and It will be found et!ectual. The Spaniards used to 

 eat a piece of the root thereof in a morning fasting, many 

 dayd together, to help them when troablea with stone in 

 the reins or kidneja. 



COLTS FOOT {COMMO}!f.y~(Tuuaago Farfara,) 



Calucd also Ck>agh-wort, Foal's-wort, Horse^hoof, and 

 Bull's foot. 



De9crip, — This shooteth up a tender stalk, with small 

 jellowish flowers somewhat earlier, which fall away 

 quickly, and after they are past come up somewhat round 

 leaves, sometimes dented about the edges, much lesser, 

 thicker, and greener than those of butter-bur, with a little 

 down or frieze over the green leaf on the upper side, 

 which may be rubbed away, and whitish or mealy under- 

 neath. The root is small and white, spreading much an- 

 derground, so that where it taketh root it will hardly be 

 driven away again, if any little piece be abiding therein ; 

 and from thence spring fresh leaves. 



Flac9,^lt groweth as well in wet grounds as in driei 

 places. 



Time. — And flowereth in the end of February ; the leaves 

 begin to appear in March. 



Goffemment and Virtues. — The plant is under Venus : 

 the fresh leaves, or juice, or syrup thereof, is good for a 

 hot, dry cough, or wheezing, and shortness of breath. The 

 dry leaves are best for those who have thin rheums and 

 distillations upon their lungs, causing a cough ; for which 

 also the dried leaves taken as tobacco, or the root, is very 



Sood. The distilled water hereof simply, or with elder- 

 owers and night-shade, is a singular good remedy against 

 all hot agues, to drink two ounces at a time, and apply 

 cloths wet therein to the head and stomach, which also 

 does much good being applied to any hot swellings or in 

 flaromations. It helpeth St. Anthony's fire, and burnings, 

 and is singular good to take away wheals and small pushet 

 that arise through heat ; as also the burning heat of the 

 piles, or privy parts, cloths wet therein bemg thereunto 

 applied. 



COMFREY.^^Sr/mphytwm Officinale,) 



Deserip. —The common ^preat comfrey hath divers very 

 large hairy green leaves lying on the ground, so hairy or 

 prickly, that if they touch any tender part of the handa, 



