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the memory, warmiug and qaickening the seDses; and the 

 conserve made of the flowers is used for the same purpose, 

 and also for all the former recited diseases. The juice if 

 drank with vinegar, is good for the plague. Gargles are 

 made with Sage, rosemary, honeysuckles, and plantain, 

 boiled in wine or water, with some honey or alum added, 

 to wash sore mouths and throata Sage is boiled with 

 other hot and comforting herbs, to bathe the body and the 

 legs in the summer-time, especially to warm cold joints or 

 sinews, troubled with the palsy and cramp, and to comfort 

 and strengthen the parts. It is recommended against the 

 stitch, or pains in the side coming of wind, if the place be 

 fomented warm with the decoction thereof in wine, and 

 the herb also after boiling be laid warm thereunto. 



SAGE (SMALL,) or SAGE OF YIRTVK--^ Salvia 

 Minor Virtutis.) 



Descrip. — This is smaller than the other sages, having 

 less, narrower, and smoother leaves, of a whitish hoary 

 green colour, with two small pieces or ears growing on 

 them next the stalk, which in some plants are wanting, in 

 others but on one side. It is milder m scent than the com- 

 mon, and has smaller flowers, but of the same colour, flow- 

 ering at the same time, and is also planted in gardens. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Venus, and has 

 the same virtues as the wood sage. An infusion operates 

 powerfully by sweat and urine, and removes female ob- 

 structions. The expressed juice drunk for a considerable 

 time is excellent against rheumatic pains ; and was for- 

 merly celebrated against venereal diseases, but since the 

 introduction of mercury, its use has been set aside. 



SAGE {W0OD.)'-( Salvia Agreatis.) 



Descrip. — This rises with square hoary stalks, two feet 

 high, witt two leaves set at every joint, like other sage- 

 leaves, but smaller, softer, whiter, and rounder, a little 

 dented about the edges, and smelling somewhat stronger. 

 At the tops of the stalks and branches stand the flowers, 

 on a slender spike, turning themselves all one way when 

 they bloom, and are of a paler and whiter colour, smaller 

 than sage, but hooded and gaping like unto them. The 

 seed is blackish and round ; the root is long and stringy, 

 with divers fibres thereat, and abides many years. 



Place, — It grows in woods, and by wood-sides ; as also 

 in divers fields and bye-lanes in England. 



