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decoction of the leaves, hark, or root, being | cools the heat and sharpness of the urine, 

 bathed, heals broken bones. The water land excoriation in the urinary parts. The 

 that is found in the bladders on the leaves, seeds are of the same property, or rather 

 while it is fresh, is very effectual to cleanse j more powerful, and besides are available foi 

 the skin, and make it fair; and if cloaths be j fainting, swoonings, and passions of the 

 often wet therein, and applied to the rup- \ heart. Outwardly applied, they serve to 

 tures of children, it heals them, if they be \ temper the sharp humours of fretting ulcers, 

 well bound up with a truss. The said j hot tumours, swellings, and pestilential 

 water put into a glass, and set into the j sores; and wonderfully help not only the 

 ground, or else in dung for twenty-five i redness and inflammations of the eyes, but 

 days, the mouth thereof being close stopped, j the dimness .of the sight also ; they are also 

 and the bottom set upon a layer of ordinary ; used to allay the pains of the gout. You 

 salt, that the fbeces may settle and water | cannot use it amiss ; a syrup of it is a fine 

 become clear, is a singular and sovereign \ cooling medicine for fevers, 

 balm for green wounds, being used with 5 



soft tents: The decoction of the bark ofi ELECAMPANE. 



the root, fomented, mollifies hard tumours, i 



and the shrinking of the sinews. The roots i Descript.~\ IT shoots forth many large 

 of the Elm, boiled for a long time in water, ? leaves, long and broad, lying near the 

 and the fat arising on the top thereof, being I ground, small at both ends, somewhat soft 

 clean skimmed off, and the place anointed | in handling, of a whitish green on the upper 

 therewith that is grown bald, and the hair ; side, and grey underneath, each set upon 

 fallen away, will quickly restore them 5 a short footstalk, from among which rise 

 again. The said bark ground with brine; up divers great and strong hairy stalks, three 

 or pickle, until it come to the form of a | or four feet high, with some leaves there- 

 poultice, and laid an the place pained with \ upon, compassing them about at the lower 

 the gout, gives great ease. The decoc- > end, and are branched towards the tops, 

 tion of the bark in water, is excellent to j bearing divers great and large flowers, like 

 bathe such places as have been burnt with : those of the corn marigold, both the border 

 fire. 5 of leaves, and the middle thrum being yel- 



I low, which turn into down, with long, small, 

 | brownish seeds amongst it, and is carried 



DescriptJ] COMMON garden Endive! away with the wind. The root is great 

 bears a longer and larger leaf than Succory, |and thick, branched forth divers ways, 

 and abides but one year, quickly running | blackish on the outside and whitish within, 

 up to a stalk and seed, and then perishes ; !of a very bitter taste, and strong, but good 

 it has blue flowers, and the seed of the; scent, especially when they are dried, no 

 ordinary Endive is so like Succory seed, j part else of the plant having any smell, 

 that it is hard to distinguish them. PlaceJ] It grows on moist grounds and 



Government and virtues.'] It is a fine j shadowy places oftener than in the dry and 

 cooling, cleansing, jovial plant. The de- t open borders of the fields and lanes, and in 

 coction of the leaves, or the juice, or the \ other waste places, almost in every county 

 distilled water of Endive, serve well to cool j of this land. 



the excessive heat of the liver and stomach, > Time.~] It flowers in the end of June and 

 and in the hot fits of agues, and all others July, and the seed is ripe in August. The 

 inflammations in any part of the body ; it ; roots are gathered for use, as well in the 



