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eases the pains of them. Galen saith, itj Time.'] They spring up in April, and 

 opens obstructions both of the liver and > their blooming catkins in July, seeding for 



spleen, and purges the breast and lungs of 

 phlegm : and used outwardly it both i 



the most part in August, and then perish 

 down to the ground, rising afresh in the 



cleanses and digests. A decoction of Hore- i Spring. 



hound (saith Matthiolus) is available fort Government and virtues.'] The herb be- 



those that have hard livers, and for such as 5 longs to Saturn, yet is very harmless, and 



have itches and running tetters. The pow- 

 der hereof taken, or the decoction, kills 



excellently good for the things following : 

 Horsetail, the smoother rather than the 



worms. The green leaves bruised, and | rough, and the leaves rather than the bare, 



boiled in old hog's grease into an oint-jis most physical. It is very powerful to 



nient, heals the biting of dogs, abates the 



swellings and pains that come by any 



pricking of thorns, or such like means ; and 



used with vinegar, cleanses and heals tetters. 



There is a syrup made of Horehound to be 



had at the apothecaries, very good for old 



coughs, to rid the tough phlegm; as also' 



staunch bleeding either inward or outward, 

 the juice or the decoction thereof being 

 drank, or the juice, decoction, or distilled 

 water applied outwardly. It also stays all 

 sorts of lasks and fluxes in man or woman- 

 and bloody urine ; and heals also not onl_y 

 the inward ulcers, and the excoriation oi 



to void cold rheums from the lungs of old| the entrails, bladder, &c. but all other sorts- 

 folks, and for those that are asthmatic on of foul, moist and running ulcers, and soon 

 short-winded. \ solders together the tops of green wounds. 



Jit cures all ruptures in children. The de- 



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f coction thereof in wine being drank, pro- 



OF that there are many kinds, but I shall j vokes urine, and helps the stone and stran- 

 not trouble you nor myself with any large 1 omary; and the distilled water thereof drank 



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description of them, which to do, were 

 but, as the proverb is, To find a knot in a 



two or three times in a day, and a small 

 quantity at a time, also eases the bowels, 



rush, ail the kinds thereof being nothing land is effectual against a cough that comes 

 else but knotted rushes, some with leaves, j by distillations from the head. The juice 

 and some without. Take the description of ! O r distilled water being warmed, and hot 

 the most eminent sort as follows. j inflammations, pustules or red wheals, and 



Descript.] The great Horsetail at the* other breakings-out in the skin, being 

 first springing has heads somewhat like | bathed therewith, doth help them, and doth 

 those of asparagus, and afterwards grow to be j no less the swelling heat and inflammation 

 hard, rough, hollow stalks, jointed at sundry j o f the lower parts in men and women, 

 places up to the top, a foot high, so made : 



as if the lower parts were put into the} HOUSELEEK OR SENCREEN 



upper, where grow on each side a bush of { BOTH these are so well known to my 

 small long rush-like hard leaves, each part ! countrymen, that I shall not need to write 

 resembling a horsetail, from whence it is so j any description of them, 

 called. At the tops of the stalks cornej Place.] It grows commonly upon walls 

 forth small catkins, like those of trees. The | and house-sides, and flowers in July, 

 root creeps under ground, having joints at \ Government and virtues.~\ It is an herb 

 sundry places. | of Jupiter, and it is reported by Mezaldus, 



Placed] This (as most of the other sorts ; to preserve what it grows upon from fire 

 hereof; grows in wet grounds. ! and lightning. Our ordinary Houseleek is 



