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I drank, strengthens the back, and eases the 

 I pains thereof: It helps bruises and falls, and 



BESIDES the common name, it is called | is as gallant a remedy to drive out the 

 Orchanet, and Spanish Bugloss, and by i mnall pox and measles as any is ; an oint- 

 apothecaries, Enchusa. ;inent made of it, is excellent for green 



Descript.~] Of the many sorts of this herb, ; wounds, pricks or thursts. 

 there is but one known to grow commonly } , , 



in this nation; of which one take this de _ | ADDER STONGUE, OR SERPENT s TONGUE- 



scription: It hath a great and thick root, of | Descript."] THIS herb has but one leaf, 

 a reddish colour, long, narrow, hairy leaves, > which grows with the stalk a f.nger's length 

 green like the leaves of Bugloss, which lie* above the ground, being flat and of a fresh 

 very thick upon the ground; the stalks rise j green colour; broad like Water Plantain, 

 up compassed round about, thick with 'but less, without any rib in it; from the 

 leaves, which are less and narrower than ! bottom of which leaf, on the inside, rises 

 ihe former ; they are tender, and slender, j up (ordinarily) one, sometimes two or three 

 the flowers are hollow, small, and of a red- i slender stalks, the upper half whereof is 

 dish colour. | somewhat bigger, and dented with small 



Place.~\ It grows in Kent near Rochester, j dents of a yellowish green colour, like the 

 and in many places in the West Country, j tongue of an adder serpent (only this is as 

 both in Devonshire and Cornwall. j useful as they are formidable.) The roots 



Time.'] They flower in July, and the be- j continue all the year. 



ginning of August, and the seed is ripe \ PlaceJ] It grows in moist meadows, and 

 soon after, but the root is in its prime, as ! such like places. 



carrots and parsnips are, before the herb; Time.~\ It is to be found in May or April, 

 runs up to stalk. j for it quickly perishes with a little heat. 



Government and virtues.'] It is an herb un- 1 Government and virtues.'] It is an herb 

 der the dominion of Venus, and indeed one j under the dominion of the Moon and Can- 

 of her darlings, though somewhat hard to jeer, and therefore if the weakness of the 

 come by. It helps old ulcers, hot inflam- j retentive faculty be caused by an evil in- 

 mations, burnings by common fire, and St. | fluence of Saturn in any part of the body 

 Anthony's fire, by antipathy to Mars ; for! governed by the Moon, or under the domi- 

 these uses, your best way is to make it into \ nion of Cancer, this herb cures it by sym- 

 an ointment; also, if you make a vinegar \ pathy : It cures these diseases after specified, 

 of it, as you make vinegar of roses, it helps j in any part of the body under the influence 

 the morphew and leprosy; if you apply the J of Saturn, by antipathy, 

 herb to the privities, it draws forth the dead I It is temperate in respect of heat, but 

 child. It helps the yellow jaundice, spleen, j dry in the second degree. The juice of the 

 and gravel in the kidneys. Dioscorides j leaves drank with the distilled water of 

 saith, it helps such as are bitten by a veno- \ Horse-tail, is a singular remedy for all man- 

 mous beast, whether it be taken inwardly, \ ner of wounds in the breast, bowels, or 

 or applied to the wound; nay, he saith fur- j other parts of the body, and is given with 

 ther, if any one that hath newly eaten it, j good success to those that are troubled 

 do but spit into the mouth of a serpent, the: with casting, vomiting, or bleeding at the 

 serpent instantly dies. It stays the flux of i mouth or nose, or otherwise downwards, 

 the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the j The said juice given in the distilled water 

 mother. Its decoction made in wine, and i of Oaken-buds, is very good for women who 



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