AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



not only good against the itch, but takes 



away all discolourings of the skin what- 



with : I can prove it doth both my own 



experience, and the experience of those to 



whom I have taught it, that most desperate \ soever : and if it chance that in a tender 



sore eyes have been cured by this only \ body it causes any itchings or inflamma- 



medicine ; and then, I pray, is not this far { tipns, by bathing the place with a little 



better than endangering the eyes by the art 

 of the needle? For if this does not abso- 



vinegar it is helped. 



Another ill-favoured trick have physicians 



lutely take away the film, it will so facilitate :j got to use to the eye, and that is worse than 

 the work, that it might be done without ! the needle ; which is to take away the films 

 danger. The herb or root boiled in white \ by corroding or gnawing medicines. That 

 Wine and drank, a few Anniseeds being : I absolutely protest against, 

 boiled therewith, opens obstructions of the t 1. Because the tunicles of the eyes are 

 liver and gall, helps the yellow jaundice ;! very thin, and therefore soon eaten asunder, 

 and often using it, helps the dropsy and the $ 2. The callus or film that they would eat 

 itch, and chose who have old sores in their j away, is seldom of an equal thickness in 

 legs, or other parts of the body. The ! every place, and then the tunicle may be 

 juice thereof taken fasting, is held to be of! eaten asunder in one place, before the film 



singularly good use against the pestilence, i ' J : ~ - "--- 



The distilled water, with a little sugar and 



be consumed in another, and so be a readier 

 way to extinguish the sight than to restore 



a little good treacle mixed therewith (the j it. 



party upon the taking being laid down to | It is called Chelidonium, from the Greek 

 sweat a little) has the same effect. The ! word Chelidon, which signifies a swallow ; 

 iuice dropped into the eyes, cleanses them \ because they say, that if you put out the 

 from films and cloudiness which darken the I eyes of young swallows when they are in 

 sight, but it is best to allay the sharpness ! the nest, the old ones will recover their eyes 

 of the iuice with a little breast milk. It is j again with this herb. This I am confident, 

 good in all old filthy corroding -creeping j for I have tried it, that if we mar the very 

 ulcers wheresoever, to stay their malignity j apple of their eyes with a needle, she will 

 of fretting and running, and to cause therm | recover them again ; but whether with this 

 to heal more speedily: The juice often { herb or not, I know not. 

 applied to tetters, ring-worms, or other such I Also I have read (and it seems to be 

 like spreading cankers, will quickly heal j somewhat probable) that the herb, being 

 them, and rubbed often upon warts, will gathered as I shewed before, and the 

 take them away. The herb with the roots !| elements draw apart from it by art of the 

 bruised and bathed with oil of camomile, i| alchymist, and after they are drawn apart 

 and applied to the navel, takes away the j rectified, the earthly quality, still in rectify- 

 griping pains in the belly and bowels, and j ing them, added to the Terra damnata (as 

 all the pains of the mother ; and applied to 5 Alchy mists call it) or Terra Sacratissima (as 

 women's breasts, stays the overmuch flowing i some philosophers call it) the elements so 

 of the courses, "^he juice or decoction of {rectified are sufficient for the cure of all 

 the herb garglea between the teeth thatach, j diseases, thehumoursoffendingbeingknown, 

 < ases the pain, and the powder of the dried { and the contrary element given : It is an 



root laid upon any aching, hollow or loose 

 tooth, will cause it to fall out. The juice 



mixed with some powder of brimstone is 



N 



experiment worth the trying, and can do 

 no harm. 



