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Time.'] It flowers and seeds in July, or $ 

 thereabouts. 



Government and virtues.~\ Saturn claims! THIS is so well known to every good 

 dominion over this herb, yet I wonder why j housewife in the country, fhat I shall noi 

 it may not be applied to the privities in a \ need to write any description of it. 

 Priapism, or continual standing of the yard, i TimeJ] It is sown in the very end of 

 it being very beneficial to that disease ; I : March, or beginning of April, and is ripe 

 suppose, my author's judgment was first ! in August or September, 

 upon the opposite disposition of Saturn to j Government and virtues.'] It is a plant of 

 Venus in those faculties, and therefore he j Saturn, and good for something else, you 

 forbade the applying of it to those parts, ! see, than to make halters only. The seed 

 that it might not cause barrenness, or spoil \ of Hemp consumes wind, and by too much 

 the spirit procrealive ; which if it do, yet \ use thereof disperses it so much that it 

 applied to the privities, it stops its lustful f dries up the natural seed for procreation ; 

 thoughts. Hemlock is exceedingly cold, | yet, being boiled in milk and taken, helps 

 and very dangerous, especially to be taken \ such as have a hot dry cough. The Dutch 

 inwardly. It may safely be applied to in- \ make an emulsion out of the seed, and give 

 flammations, tumours, and swellings in any j it with good success to those that have the 

 part of the body (save the privy parts) as \ jaundice, especially in the beginning of the 

 also to St. Anthony's fire, wheals, pushes, \ disease, if there be no ague accompanying 

 and creeping ulcers that arise of hot sharp j it, for it opens obstructions of the gall, and 

 humours, by cooling and repelling the heat; | causes digestion of choler. The emulsion 

 the leaves bruised and laid to ihe brow or j or decoction of the seed stays lasks and 

 forehead aie good for their eyes that are red | continual fluxes, eases the cholic, and allays 

 and swollen; as also to take away a pin | the troublesome humours in the bowels, 

 and web growing in the eye; this is a tried \ and stays bleeding at the mouth, nose, or 

 medicine : Take a small handful of this { other places, some of the leaves being fried 

 herb, and half so much bay salt, beaten j with the blood of them that bleed, and so 

 together, and applied to the contrary wrist I given them to eat. It is held very good to 

 of the hand, for 24 hours, doth remove it j kill the worms in men or beasts ; and the 

 in thrice dressing. If the root thereof be j juice dropped into the ears kills worms in 

 roasted under the embers, wrapped in dou- ! them ; and draws forth earwigs, or other 

 ble wet paper, until it be soft and tender, { living creatures gotten into them. The de- 

 and then applied to the gout in the hands j coction of the root allays inflammations of 

 or fingers, it will quickly help this evil, j the- head, or any other parts: the herb it- 

 If any through mistake eat the herb Hern- j self, or the distilled water thereof doth the 

 look instead of Parsley, or the roots in- j like. The decoction of the root eases the 

 stead of a Parsnip (both of which it is very j pains of the gout, the hard humours of 

 like) whereby happens a kind of frenzy, or 1 knots in the joints, the pains and shrinking 

 perturbation of the senses, as if they were | of the sinews, and the pains of the hips, 

 stupid and drunk, the remedy is (as Pliny i The fresh juice mixed with a little oil and 

 saith) to drink of the best and strongest i butter, is good for any place that hath been 

 pure wine, before it strikes to the heart, or! burnt with fire, being thereto applied 

 Gentian put in wine, or a draught of vine- 1 

 gar, wherewith Tragus doth affirm, that he \ 

 cured a woman that had eaten the root. Descnpt.'] OUR common Henbane has 



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