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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Place.] They grow in divers corn fields, 1 and hanging downwards, having some 

 and in borders about them, and in other j threads also in the middle, from whence 

 fertile grounds about Southfleet in Kent j rise round heads, pointed sharp at the ends, 

 abundantly ; at Buchrite, Hamerton, and 1 wherein small brown seed lies. The roots 

 Richmanworth in Huntingdonshire, and in * are so many small fibres, and some greater 

 divers other places. ; strings among them ; the flowers have no 



Time] They are in flower about June; 

 and July, and the whole plant is dry and 

 withered before August be done. 



scent, but the leaves have a bitter hot 

 taste. 



P/ace.] It grows on dry sandy ground 



Government and virtues.] It is a Lunar \ for the most part, and as well on the higher 

 herb. The leaves bruised and applied with j as the lower places under hedge-sides in 

 barley meal to watering eyes that are hot j almost every county of this land, 

 and inflamed by defluxions from the head, > Time] It seldom flowers before July, 

 do very much help them, as also the fluxes j and the seed is ripe in August. 



of blood or humours, as the lask, bloody ; 

 flux, women's courses, and stays all man- ; 

 ner of bleeding at the nose, mouth, or any 

 other place, or that comes by any bruise 



Government and virtues.] The plant is 

 under the dominion of Venus, being of a 

 gentle cleansing nature, and withal very 

 friendly to nature. The herb is familiarly 



or hurt, or bursting a vein ; it wonderfully ? and frequently used by the Italians to heal 



helps all those inward parts that need con- j 

 solidating or strengthening, and is no less 

 effectual both to heal and close green 

 wounds, than to cleanse and heal all foul 

 or old ulcers, fretting or spreading cankers 

 or the like. This herb is of a fine cooling, 

 drying quality, and an ointment or plaister 

 of it might do a man a courtesy that hath 

 any hot virulent sores : 'Tis admirable for 



any fresh or green wound, the leaves being 

 but bruised and bound thereon; and the 

 juice thereof is also used in old sores, to 

 cleanse, dry, and heal them. The decoc- 

 tion hereof made up with some sugar or 

 honey, is available to cleanse and purge 

 the body both upwards and downwards, 

 sometimes of tough phlegm and clammy 

 humours, and to open obstructions of the 



the ulcers of the French pox ; if taken in- 1 liver and spleen. It has been found by 

 wardly, may cure the disease. i experience to be available for the king's 



j;evil, the herb bruised and applied, or an 



FOX-GLOVE. ' ointment made with the juice thereof, and 



so used ; and a decoction of two handfuls 



Descript] IT has many long and broad } thereof, with four ounces of Polipody in 

 leaves lying upon the ground dented upon \ ale, has been found by late experience to 

 the edges, a little soft or woolly, and of a i cure divers of the falling sickness, that have 

 hoary green colour, among which rise up i been troubled with it above twenty years, 

 sometimes sundry stalks, but one very j I am confident that an ointment of it is 

 often, bearing such leaves thereon from the \ one of the best remedies for a scabby head 

 bottom to the middle, from whence to the j that is. 

 top it is stored with large and long hollow $ TRY 



reddish purple flowers, a little more long? 



and eminent at the lower edge, with some; Descript] OUR common Fumitory is a 

 white spots within them, one above another 5 tender sappy herb, sends forth from one 

 with small green leaves at every one, but | square, a slender weak stalk, and leaning 

 all of them turning their heads one way, j downwards on all sides, many branches 



