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ment made of the same liquor, hog's-grease, j mended, being eaten before meat to keep 

 nitre, and vinegar boiled together. The j one from surfeiting, as also from being 

 roots may be preserved with sugar, and j drunk with too much wine, or quickly to 

 taken fasting, or at other times, for the same j make a man sober again that is drunk be- 

 purposes, and for consumptions, the stone, j fore For (as they say) there is such an 

 and the lask. The seed is much commended j antipathy or enmity between the Vine and 

 to break the stone, and cause it to be ex- j the Coleworts, that the one will die where 

 pelled by urine, and is often used with; the other grows. The decoction of Cole- 

 other seeds and things to that purpose. j worts takes away the pain and ache, and 



{allays the swellings of sores and gouty 



CABBAGES AND COLEWOHTS. J , 9 S j 



j legs and knees, wherein many gross and 



I SHALL spare labour in writing a des-j watery humours are fallen, the place being 

 cription of these, since almost every one j bathed therewith warm. It helps also old 

 that can but write at all, may describe and filthy sores, being bathed therewith, 

 them from his own knowledge, they being j and heals all small scabs, pushes, and 

 generally so well known, that descriptions i whcals, that break out in the skin. The 

 are altogether needless. | ashes of Colewort stalks mixed with old 



Place .] They are generally planted in \ hog's grease, are very effectual to anoint 

 gardens. j the sides of those that have had long pains 



Time.~] Their flower time is towards the! therein, or any other place pained with 

 middle, or end of July, and the seed is j melancholy and windy humours. This was 

 ripe in August. j surely Chrysippus's God, and therefore he 



Government and virtues^] The Cabbages ? wrote a whole volume on them and their 

 or Coleworts boiled gently in broth, and | virtues, and that none of the least neither, 

 eaten, do open the body, but the second j for he would be no small fool: He appro- 

 decoction doth bind the body. The juice \ priates them to every part of the body, and 

 thereof drank in wine, helps those that are \ to every disease in every part ; and honest 

 bitten by an adder, and the decoction of the \ old Cato (they say) used no other physic, 

 flowers brings down women's courses : \ I know not what metal their bodies were 

 Being taken with honey, it recovers hoarse- : made of; this I am sure, Cabbages are 

 ness, or loss of the voice. The often eating extremely windy, whether you take them as 



of them well boiled, helps those that are 

 entering into a consumption. The pulp of 

 the middle ribs of Coleworts boiled in al- 



meat or as medicine : yea, as windy meat 

 as can be eaten, unless you eat bag-pipes or 

 bellows, and they are but seldom eaten in 



mond milk, and made up into an electuary j our days ; and Colewort flowers are some- 

 with honey, being taken often, is very pro- \ thing more tolerable, and the wholesomer 

 fitable for those that are puffy and short ! food of the two. The Moon challenges the 

 winded. Being boiled twice, an old cock j dominion of this herb, 

 boiled in the broth and drank, it helps the ! 

 pains, and the obstructions of the liver and j 



spleen, and the stone in the kidneys. The; Descript.~\ THIS has divers somewhat 

 juice boiled with honey, and dropped into! long and broad large and thick wrinkled 

 the corner of the eyes, clears the sight, j leaves, somewhat crumpled about the edges, 

 by consuming any film or cloud beginning ? and growing each upon a thick footstalk, 

 to dim it; it also consumes the canker {very brittle, of a greyish green colour, 

 growing therein. They are much com- j from among which rises up a strong thick 



