OITLnPIB'l OOMPLETI HKBBAL. Mi 



ctrnctioiis of the gall, whereby it profiteth them that 

 have the jaundice ; as also the leaves the spleen ; purg- 

 ing the veins of choleric and phlegmatic hunc/ours, and 

 helpeth children in agues, a little worm seed being added 

 thereto. 



The other Dodders do, as I said before, participate of 

 the nature of those plants whereon they grow : as that 

 which hath been found growing upon nettles in the west 

 oouQtry, hath by experience been found very effectual to 

 procure plenty of urine, where it hath been stopped or 

 nindereo. And so of the rest 



Sympathy and antipathy are two hinges upon which 

 the whole model of physic turns ; and that physician who 

 minds them not, is like a door off from the hooks, more 

 like to do a man mischief than to cure him. Then all 

 the diseases Saturn causes this helps by sympathy, and 

 ■trengthens all the parts of the body he rules ; such hai 

 are caoaed by Sol it helps by antipathy. 



DOG'S GRASS.— CTVtVieum Rtpem.) 



C1.IXKD also Couch Grass and Quick Grass. 



Descrip. — It is well known that grass creepeth far about 

 under ground, with lon^ white jointed roots, and small 

 fibres fdmost at every jomt, very sweet in taste, as the 

 TMt ol the herb is, and interlacing one another, from 

 whence shoot forth many fair grassy leaves, small at the 

 ends, and cutting or sharp on the edges. The stalks are 

 iointed like com, with the like leaves on them, and a 

 large spiked head, with a long husk in them, and hard 

 rough seeds in them. If you know it not by this de- 

 scription, watch the dogs when they are sick, and they 

 will quickly lead you to it 



Place, — It groweth commonly through this land in di- 

 ▼«r8 ploughed grounds, to the no small trouble of the 

 husbandmen, as also of the gardener, in gardens, to weed 

 it out if they can ; for it is a constant customer to the 

 place \i gets footing in. 



Oovemmeru and Virtvisi. — Tis under the dominion of 

 Jupiter, and is the most medicinal of all the quick grasses. 

 Bemg boiled and drunk it o)>eneth obstructions of the 

 liver and ^1, and the stoppings of urine, and easeth the 

 griping pains of the belly, and inflammations ; wasteth 

 the matter of the iftone in the bladder, and the ulcers 

 tbtreol alsa The seed doth more powerfully expel arin«. 



