86 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



and woody, abiding the Winter, and shoots \ boiled, or the juice thereof drank, is eflei 

 forth fresh stalks in the spring. j tual to all the purposes aforesaid, but not & 



The smaller wild Gromel sends forth i powerful or speedy in operation. 

 divers upright hard branched stalks, two or { 



three feet high, jull of joints, at every one of j GOOSEBERRY BUSH. 



which grow small, long, hard and rough} CALLED alsO Feap berry, and in Sussex 

 leaves like the former, but less ; among j Dewberry . Bns h, and in some Counties 

 which leaves come forth small white flowers, | \v meb erry 



and after them greyish round seed like the [ Governm ' ent and virtues.-] They are under 

 former; the root is not very big, but withj the dominionof Venus. The berries, while 

 many strings thereat. j thev are unripe being sca ided or baked, 



The garden Gromel has divers upright j| arc - ood to s r up a B f aint i n g or decayed 

 slender, woody, hairy stalks, blown and j fo tite especial i5; such wh g se stomachs 

 erased, very little branched with leaves | a afflicted b holeric humours: They are 

 like the former, and white flowers; after; | exce |, entl y goo d to st ay longin gs of women 

 which, m rough brown husks, is contained ; with chikl . & Y OU may kSep them 



, , wt c . OU may ep tem pre- 



a white, hard, round seed shining lUtejj^ with s r a]1 the year Iong< The 

 pearls, and greater than either the former ; j decoction of & e leaves o f the tree cools 

 the root is like the first described, with| hot swelli s and inflammations; as also 

 divers branches and sprigs thereat which | gl Anth > s fire . The ripe Gooseberries 

 continues (as the first doth) all the Winter.; bejno . ea gre an excel]ent remed to 



Place.] The two first grow wild in barren | al , e the violent heat hoth of the stO m ac h 

 or untilled places, and by the way side| and , iver The y and tcnder leavcj! 



in many places of this land. Lhe last is ; hreak the stQIK% an<J d d both from 

 a nursling in the gardens of the curious. | the kidneys and bladder. All the evil they 



Time.-] They all flower from Midsummer j do tf) ^ body of man ig> they are 

 until September sometimes, and in the; d tQ breed crudities> and by crud i t i e s, 

 mean time the seed ripens. | worms 



Government and virtues] The herb belongs | 



to Dame Venus; and therefore if Mars | WINTER-GUEEK. 



cause the cholic or stone, as usually hej 



doth, if in Virgo, this is your cure. These | Descript] THIS sends forth seven, eight, 

 are accounted to be of as singular force as I or nine leaves from a small brown creeping 

 any herb or seed whatsoever, to break the | root, every one standing upon a long fool 

 stone and to void it, and the gravel either \ stalk, which are almost as broad as long, 

 in the reins or bladder, as also to provoke | round pointed, of a sad green colour, and 

 urine being stopped, and to help stranguary. > hard in handling, and like the leaf of a 

 The seed is of greatest use, being bruised | Pear-tree ; from whence arises a slender 

 and boiled in white wine or in broth, or the \ weak stalk, yet standing upright, bearing 

 like, or the powder of the seed taken there- j at the top many small white sweet-smelling 

 in. Two drams of the seed in powder 5 flowers, laid open like a star, consisting ot 

 taken with women's breast milk, is very j five round pointed leaves, with many yellow 

 effectual to procure a very speedy delivery | threads standing in the middle about a green 

 to such women as have sore pains in their j head, and a long stalk with them, which in 

 travail, and cannot be delivered : The herb ; time grows to be the seed-vessel, which 

 itself, (when the seed is not to be had) either | being ripe is found five square, with a small 



