108 OVLPSPSR'a OOMPLXTX HIRBAL. 



fpoonful taken at a time healeth the itch : aud an ounce 

 or more taken at a time fur some dajs together doth help 

 the rupture. The leaves either green or dry, or the juice 

 of them, doth cleanse all manner of rotten and nlthj 

 ulcers, in what part of the body soever ; and healeth the 

 stinging sores in the nose, called polypus. The water 

 wherein the root hath been b oiled, dropped into the eyes, 

 cleanseth them from any film or skin cloud or mist, which 

 begin to hinder the sight, and helpeth the watering and 

 redness of them, or when by some chance they become 

 black and blue. The root mixed with bean flour and ap- 

 plied to the throat or laws that are inflamed, helpeth 

 them. The juice of the berries boiled in oil of roses, oi 

 beaten into powder mixed with the oil, and dropped into 

 the ears, easeth pains in them. The berries or roots 

 beaten with hot ox-dung, and applied, easeth the pains of 

 the gout. The leaves and roots boiled in wine with a little 

 oil and applied to the piles, or the falling down of the 

 fundament, easeth them, and so doth sitting over the hot 

 fumes thereof. The fresh roots bruised and distilled with 

 a little milk, yieldeth a most sovereign water to cleanse 

 the skin from scurf, freckles, spots, or blemishes, whatso- 

 ever therein. 



Authors have left large commendations of this herb yoa 

 see, but for my part, I have neither spoken with Dr. 

 Reason nor Dr. Experience about it. 



CJJCVMBEBS.—CCucumis ScUiwus.) 



OovemmejU and Fir/w«.— There is no dispute to be 

 made but that they are under the dominion of the Moon, 

 though they are so much cried out against for their cold- 

 ness, and if they were but one degree colder they would 

 be poison. The best of Qalenists hold them to be cold 

 ana moist in the second degree, and then not so hot as 

 either lettuces or purslain : they are excellent good for a 

 hot stomach and hot liver ; the unmeasurable use of them 

 fills the body full of raw humours, and so indeed the un- 

 measurable use of any thing else doth harm. The face 

 being washed with their juice cleanseth the skin, and is 

 excellent good for hot rheums in the eyes : the seed is 

 excellent good to provoke urine, aud cleanseth the passages 

 thereof when they are stopped ; there is not a better re- 

 medy growing for ulcers in the bladder than cucumbers 

 ftre. The usual coarse is to use the see^'^ in emulsions, as 



