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and drank, purges choleric and gross ; the government of the Sun ; yet this, if 



humours, and helps the sciatica ; it opens j you observe it, you shall find an excellent 



obstructions of the liver, gall, and speen, \ truth ; in diseases of the blood, use the red 



helps the jaundice, and eases the pains in j Centaury ; if of choler, use the yellow ; 



the sides and hardness of the spleen, used i but if phlegm or water, you will find the 



outwardly, and is given with very good i white best. 



effect in agues. It helps those that have THE CHERRY _ TREE . 



the dropsy, or the green-sickness, being : 



much used by the Italians in powder forj I SUPPOSE tnere are few but know this 



that purpose. It kills the worms in the j tree, for its fruit's sake ; and therefore 



belly, as is found by experience. The i I shall spare writing a description thereof. 



decoction thereof, viz. the tops of the stalks, j Place.'] For the place of its growth, it 



with the leaves and flowers, is good against Us afforded room in every orchard. 



the cholic, and to bring down women's j Government and virtues.'] It is a tree of 



courses, helps to void the dead birth, and t Venus. Cherries, as they are of different 



eases pains of the mother, and is very ef- 5 tastes, so they are of different qualities. 



fectual in all old pains of the joints as the; 



The sweet pass through the stomach and 



gout, cramps, or convulsions. A dram of { the belly more speedily, but are of little 

 the powder taken in wine, Ls a wonderful ; nourishment ; the tart or sour are more 

 good help against the biting and poison of j pleasing to an hot stomach, procure appe- 

 an adder. The juice of the herb with \ tite to meat, and help to cut tough phlegm, 

 a little honey put to it, is good to clear the j and gross humours ; but when these are 

 eyes from dimness, mists and clouds that; dried, they are more binding to the belly 



offend or hinder sight. It is singularly 

 good both for green and fresh wounds, as 

 also for old ulcers and sores, to close up the 

 one and cleanse the othei, and perfectly to 

 cure them both, although they are hollow 

 or fistulous; the green herb especially, being 

 bruised and laid thereto. The decoction; 



than when they are fresh, being cooling in 

 hot diseases, and welcome to the stomach, 

 and provoke urine. The gum of the Cherry- 

 tree, dissolved in wine is good for a cold, 

 cough, and hoarseness of the throat; mends 

 the colour in the face, sharpens the eye- 

 sight, provokes appetite, and helps to break 



thereof dropped into the ears, cleanses! and expel the stone, and dissolved, the 

 them from worms, cleanses the foul ulcers j water thereof is much used to break the 

 and spreading scabs of the head, and takes J stone, and to expel gravel and wind, 

 away all freckles, spots, and marks in the! WTNTFR-CHFRRIES 



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skin, being washed with it ; the herb is so : 



safe you cannot fail in the using of it, only \ 



Descript.'] THE Winter Cherry has a 



jiving it inwardly for inward diseases. running or creeping root in the ground, of 

 It is very wholesome, but not very tooth- i the bigness many times of one's little finger, 

 some. | shooting forth at several joints in several 



There is beside these, another small | places, whereby it quickly spreads a great 

 Centaury, which bears a yellow flower ; in ! compass of ground. The stalk rises not 

 all other respects it is like the former, save j above a yard high, whereon are set many 

 that the leaves are larger, and of a darker j broad and long green leaves, somewhat 

 green, and the stalks pass through the midst | like nightshades, but larger ; at the joints 

 of them, as it does in the herb Thorowan. j whereof come forth whitish flowers made 

 They are all of them, as I told you, under ' of five leaves a piece, which afterwards 



