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into the eyes, cleanses them from any film 

 or skin, cloud or mists, which begin to 



the bladder growing, than Cucumbers are 

 The usual course is, to use the seeds in 



hinder the sight, and helps the watering emulsions, as they make almond milk ; but 



and redness of them, or when, by some 

 chance, they become black and blue. The 

 root mixed with bean-flour, and applied to 

 the throat or jaws that are inflamed, helps 

 them. The juice of the berries boiled in 



a far belter way (in my opinion) is this 

 When the season of the year is, Take the 

 Cucumbers and bruise them well, and distil 

 the water from them, and let such as are 

 troubled with ulcers in the bladder drink 



oil of roses, or beaten into powder mixed no other drink. The face being washed 

 with the oil, and dropped into the ears, \ with the same water, cures the reddest 

 eases pains in them. The berries or the I face that is ; it is also excellently good for 

 roots beaten with the hot ox-dung, and * sun-burning, freckles, and morphcw. 

 applied, eases the pains of the gout. The j DAISIES 



leaves and roots boiled in wine with a little $ 



oil, and applied to the piles, or the falling j THESE are so well known almost to every 

 down of the fundament, eases them, and so I child, that I suppose it needless to write 

 doth sitting over the hot fumes thereof. The ! any description of them. Take theiefore 

 fresh roots bruised and distilled with a little j 



milk, yields a most sovereign water to 



the virtues of them as follows. 



Government and virtues.] The herb is 



cleanse the skin from scurf, freckles, spots, i undei the sign Cancer, and under the 

 or blemishes whatsoever therein. i dominion of Venus,andthereforeexcellently 



Authors have left large commendations j good for wounds in the breast, and very 

 of this herb you see, but for my part, I have j fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, 

 neither spoken with Dr. Reason nor Dr. j and plaisters, as also in syrup. The greater 

 Experience about it. | wild Daisy is a wound herb of good res- 



! pect, often used in those drinks or salves 

 I that are for wounds, either inward or out- 



Gwernment and virtues^] THERE is no j ward. The juice or distilled water of these, 

 dispute to be made, but that they are under ! or the small Daisy, doth much temper the 

 the dominion of the Moon, though they are \ heat of choler, and refresh the liver, and the 

 so much cried out against for their coldness, j other inward parts. A decoction made of 

 and if they were but one degree colder they j them and drank, helps to cure the wounds 

 would be poison. The best of Galenists ! made in the hollowness of the breast. The 

 hold them to be cold and moist in the j same also cures all ulcers and pustules in 

 second degree, and then not so hot as either j the mouth or tongue, or in the secret parts, 

 lettuce or purslain : They are excellently ; The leaves bruised and applied to the pri- 

 good for a hot stomach, and hot liver ; the j vities,or toany other parts thatareswolh and 

 immeasurable use of them fills the body | hot, doth dissolve it, and temper the heat, 

 full of raw humours, and so indeed the un- { A decoction made thereof, of Wallwort and 

 measurable use of any thing else doth harm. j Agrimony, and the places fomented and 

 The face being washed with their juice, \ bathed therewith warm, gives great ease to 

 cleanses the skin, and is excellently good for | them that are troubled with the palsy, 

 hot rheums in the eyes ; the seed is excel- j sciatica, or the gout. The same also dis- 

 lently good to provoke urine, and cleanses perses and dissolves the knots or kernels 

 the passages thereof when they are stopped ; | that grow in the flesh of any part of the 

 there is not a better remedy for ulcers in * body, and bruises and hurts that come of 



