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courses and urine, increases both milk and ; of Jupiter, and therefore strengthens the 

 seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of 'part of the body it rules; let Jupiter be 

 French barley, and a small handful of j angular and strong when it is gathered, 

 Marsh-mallow roots, clean washed and cut, j and if you give but a scruple (which is but 

 being boiled in the broth of a chicken, and j twenty grains,) of it at a time, either in 

 four ounces taken in the morning, and ; white wine, or in white wine vinegar, you 

 tasting two hours after, is a good medicine; shall very seldom miss the cure of an ague, 

 for a pain in the sides. The white Cicers | be it what ague soever, in three fits, as I 

 are used more for meat than medicine, yet | have often proved to the admiration both 

 have the same effect, and are thought more : of myself and others ; let no man despise it 

 powerful to increase milk and seed. The ; because it is plain and easy, the ways of 

 wild Cicers are so much more powerful i God are all such. It is an especial herb 

 than the garden kinds, by how much they ; used in all inflammations and fevers, whether 

 exceed them in heat and dry ness ; whereby ! infectious or pestilential; or among other 

 they do more open obstructions, break the j herbs to cool and temper the blood and 

 stone, and have all the properties of cutting, i humours in the body. As also for all lotions, 

 opening, digesting, and dissolving; and; gargles, infections, and the like, for sore 

 this more speedily and certainly than the j mouths, ulcers, cancers, fistulas, and other 

 former. $ corrupt, foul, or running sores. The juice 



\ hereof drank, about four ounces at a time, 



CINQUEFOTL, OR FIVE-LEAVED GRASS; 5 f . . ., .1 



; for certain days together, cures the quinsev 



CALLED IN SOME COUNTIES, FIVE- , . J j. s , . , c * .1 ~' 



i and yellow laundice ; and taken for thirty 



FINGERED GRASS. t , '" M J , , J 



: days together, cures the falling sickness, 



DescriptJ] IT spreads and creeps far \ The roots boiled in milk, and drank, is a 

 upon the ground, Avith long slender strings j most effectual remedy for all fluxes in man 

 like strawberries, which take root again, J or woman, whether the white or red, as also 

 and shoot forth many leaves, made of five; the bloody flux. The roots boiled in vine- 

 parls, and sometimes of seven, dented about | gar, and the decoction thereof held in 

 the edges, and somewhat hard. The stalks; the mouth, eases the pains of the tooth- 

 are slender, leaning downwards and beanach. The juice or decoction taken with 

 many small yellow flowers thereon, with ! a little honey, helps the hoarseness of 

 some yellow threads in the middle, standing! the throat, and is very good for the cough 

 about a smooth green head, which, when it \ of the lungs. The distilled water of both 

 is ripe, is a little rough, and contains small | roots and .leaves is also effectual to all the 

 brownish seeds. The root is of a blackish J purposes aforesaid ; and if the hands be 

 brown colours, as big as one's little finger, | often washed therein, and suffered at every 

 but growing long, with some threads thereat; | time to dry in of itself without wiping, it 

 and by the small string it quickly spreads j will in a short time help the palsy, or 

 over the ground. I shaking in them. The root boiled in 



Place.~] It grows by wood sides, hedge j vinegar, helps all knots, kernels, hard 

 sides, the path-way in fields, and in the j swellings, and lumps growing in any 

 borders and corners of them almost through ! part of the flesh, being thereto applied ; 

 all this land. } as also inflammations, and St. An- 



Time.'] It flowers in summer, somejthony's fire, all imposthumes, and pain- 

 sooner, some later, jful sores with heat and putrefaction. 



Government and virtues.'] This is an herb i the shingles also, and all other sorts of 



