0ULPKPKU8 COMPLJETC HBRBilL. 30ft 



take a draue^ht before the fit comes on; being boiled in oi]« 

 it is good to help the wind colic, the hardness and windi 

 ness of the mother, and frees women from the strangling 

 or suflfocation thereof, if the parts be anointed with it ; it 

 kills and drives forth the worms of the bellj-, if it be drunk 

 after it has been boiled in wine to the half, with a little ho- 

 nej ; it helps the gout or pains in the joints, hands, feet 

 or knees, applied thereto ; and with figs it helps the drop- 

 sy, if bathed therewith ; bein^ bruised and put into the 

 nostrils, it stays the bleeding; it helps the swelling of the 

 testicles, if bathed with the decoction and bay leaves. It 

 takes away wheals and pimples, if bruised with a few myr- 

 tle leaves it be made up with wax, and applied. It cures 

 the morphew, and takes away all sorts of warts, if boiled 

 in wine with some pepper and nitre, and the place rubbed 

 therewith ; and with almond and honey, helps the dry 

 scabs, or any tetter or ringworm. The juice warmed in a 

 pomegranate shell or rind, and dropped into the ears, helps 

 the pains of them. An ointment made of the juice with oil 

 of ruses, ceruse, and a little vinegar, and anointed, cures St. 

 Anthony's fire, and all running sores in the head. It helps 

 disorders in the head, nerves, and womb, convulsions and 

 hysteric fits, the colic, and weakness of the stomach and 

 bowels ; it resists poison, and cures venomous bites. 



RUE (MEADOW or WlLD,)—(ThalictimFlavum,) 



Detcrip. — ^Thifl rises up with a yellow stringy root, much 

 ■preadin^ in the ground, shooting forth new sprouts round 

 about, with many herby green stalks, two feet high, crest- 

 ed all the length of them, set with joints here and there, 

 and many large leaves on them, being divided into smallei 

 leaves, nicked or dented in the fore part of them, of a red 

 green colour on the upper side, and pale green under- 

 neath : toward the top of the stalk there shoots forth 

 divers short branches, oi\ every one whereof stand two, 

 three, or four small heads, which breaking the skin that 

 incloeee them, shoot forth a tuft of p ile greenish yellow 

 threads, which falling away, there comes in their places 

 nmll three-cornered pods, containing small, long, and round 

 eeed. The whole plant has a strong unpleasant scent. 



Place.— It ^prows in many places of tDis country, in the 

 br>rders of moist meadows, and ditch-sidee. 



Tim$, — It flowers about July, or beginning of Aogoet 



Oovemrmnt and Virtiutt. — TTiis herb braised and appli* 



