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compound Syrup of Calamint are the most j comfort both it and the brain. The oil 

 effectual. Let no woman be too busy with > made of the flowers of Camomile, is much 



it, for it works very violent upon the femi- 

 nine part. 



used against all hard swellings, pains or 



aches, shrinking of the sinews, or cramps, 

 01 pa'.ns in the joints, or any other part of 



CAMOMILE. I the body. Being used in clysters, it helps 



to dissolve the wind and pains in the belly ; 



IT is so well known every where, that it j anointed also, it helps stitches and pains in 

 is but lost time and labour to describe it. 1 the sides. 



The virtues thereof are as follow. Nechessor sailh, the Egyptians dedicated 



A decoction made of Camomile, and j it to the Sun, because it cured agues, and 



drank, takes away all pains and stitches in j they Avere like enough to doit, for they 



the side. The flowers of Camomile beaten, j were the arrantest apes in their religion 

 and made up into balls with Gill, drive away ; that I ever read of. Bachinus, Bena, and 

 all sorts of agues, if the part grieved be j Lobel, commend the syrup made of the 

 anointed with that oil, taken from the i juice of it and sugar, taken inwardly, to be 

 floAvers, from the crown of the head to the | excellent for the spleen. Also this is cer- 

 sole of the foot, and afterwards laid to \ tain, that it most wonderfully breaks the 



sweat in his bed, and that he sweats well. 

 This is Nechessor, an Egyptian's, medicine. 

 It is profitable for all sorts of agues that 

 corne either from phlegm, or melancholy, 

 or from an inflammation of the bowels, 

 being applied when the humours causing 



stone : Some take it in syrup or decoction, 

 others inject the juice of it into the bladder 

 with a syringe. My opinion is, that the 

 salt of it, taken half a dram in the morning 

 in a little white or Rhenish wine, is better 

 than either; that it is excellent for the stone, 



appears in this which I have seen tried, 

 viz. That a stone that has been taken out 

 of the body of a man being wrapped in 



a 



them shall be concocted ; and there is 

 nothing more profitable to the sides and 

 region of the liver and spleen than it. The 



bathing with a decoction of Camomile { Camomile, will in time dissolve, and in 

 takes away weariness, eases pains, to what j little time too. 

 part of the body soever they be applied. I 



It comforts the sinews that are over-strained, \ WATER-CALTROPS. 



molifies all swellings : It moderately com- j 



forts all parts that have need of warmth, \ THEY are called also Tribulus Aquaticus, 

 digests and dissolves whatsoever has need \ Tribulus Lacusoris, Tribulus, Marinus, 

 thereof, by a wonderful speedy property, j Caltrops, Saligos, Water Nuts, and Water 

 It eases all pains of the cholic and stone, 'I Chesnuts. 



and all pains and torments of the belly, \ De-script.'] As for the greater sort of 

 and gently provokes urine. The flowers j Water Caltrop it is not found here, or very 

 boiled in posset-drink provokes sweat, and | rarely. Two other sorts there are which 

 help to expel all colds, aches and pains j I shall here describe. The first has a long 

 whatsoever, and is an excellent help to \ creeping and jointed root, sending forth 

 bring down women's courses. Syrup made ! tufts at each joint, from which joints rise 

 of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers i long flat, slender knotted stalks, even to 

 in white wine, is a remedy against the j the top of the water, divided towards the 

 jaundice and dropsy. The flowers boiled j top into many branches, each carrying 

 in lye, are good to wash the head, and ! two leaves on both sides, being about two 



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