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old sores, cancers, and inveterate ulcers, and j therefore they are not so frequently found 

 draws forth thorns and splinters of wood, | in the southern parts of England as in the 

 nails, or any other such things gotten in the ? northern, where they grow frequently : You 

 flesh. It helps to strengthen the members j may look for them in cold grounds, by ponds 

 that be out of joint: and being bruised and i and ditches' sides, and also by running 

 applied, or the juice dropped in it, helps 1 waters ; sometimes you shall find them grow 

 foul and imposthumed ears. 1 in the midst of waters. 



The distilled water of the herb is good; TimeJ] They all flower in July or August, 

 to all the said purposes, either inward or j and the seed is ripe presently after, 

 outward, but a great deal weaker. Government and virtues."] It is a plant of 



It is a most admirable remedy for such j J upiter, as well as the other Agrimony, only 

 whose livers are annoyed either by heat or i this belongs to the celestial sign Cancer, 

 cold. The liver is the former of blood, and j It heals and dries, cuts and cleanses 

 blood the nourisher of the body, and Agri- j thick and tough humours of the breast, and 

 mony a strengthener of the liver. i for this I hold it inferior to but few herbs 



I cannot stand to give you a reason in ! that grow. It helps the cachexia or evil 

 every herb why it cures such diseases ; but ; disposition of the body, the dropsy and 

 if you please to pursue my judgment in j yellow-jaundice. It opens obstructions ot 

 the herb Wormwood, you shall find them { the liver, mollifies the hardness of the spleen, 

 there, and it will be well worth your while! being applied outwardly. It breaks impost- 

 to consider it in every herb, you shall find I humes away inwardly : It is an excellent 

 them true throughout the book. j remedy for the third day ague. It provokes 



WATER AGRIMONY. | ne d , ^e terms ; it kills worms, and 



| cleanses the body ot sharp humours, which 



IT is called in some countries, Water | are the cause of itch and scabs ; the herb 

 Hemp, Bastard Hemp, and Bastard Agri- ! being burnt, the smoke thereof drives away 

 mony, Eupalorium, and Hepatorium, be- | flies, wasps, &c. It strengthens the lungs 

 cause it strengthens the liver I exceedingly. Country people give it to 



Descript.~\ The root continues a long time, j their cattle when they are troubled with the 

 having many long slender strings. The j cough, or broken- winded, 

 stalk grows up about two feet high, some- 1 



times higher. They are of a dafk purple | ALEHOOF, OR GROUND-IVY. 



colour. The branches are many, growings SEVERAL counties give it different names, 

 at distances the one from the other, the one j so that there is scarcely an herb growing of 

 from the one side of the stalk, the other | that bigness that has got so many : It is 

 from the opposite point. The leaves are } called Cat's-foot, Ground-ivy, Gill-go-by- 

 fringed, and much indented at the edges. | ground, and Gill-creep-by-ground, Turn- 

 The flowers grow at the top of the branches, i hoof, Haymaids, and Alehoof. 

 ot a brown yellow colour, spotted with* Descript.'] This well known herb lies, 

 black spots, having a substance within 'spreads and creeps upon the grounds 

 the midst of them like that of a Daisy: It's shoots forth roots, at the corners of tendet 

 you rub them between your fingers, they | jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at 

 small like rosin or cedar when it is burnt, j every joint somewhat hairy, crumpled and 

 The seeds are long, and easily stick to any ! unevenly dented about the edges with round 

 woollen thing they touch. j dents; at the joints likewise, with the leaves 



Place.~\ They delight not in heat, and \ towards the end of the branches, come forth 



