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place, for it heals all manner of wounds and a-piece, with many yellow threads in the 

 punctures, and those foul ulcers that arise j middle, which being bruised do yield a red- 

 by the French pox. Mizaldus adds that dish juice like blood ; after which come 

 the leaves laid under the feet, will keep the j small rownd heads, wherein is contained 

 dogs from barking at you. It is called Ismail blackish seed smelling like rosin. 

 Hound's-tongue, because it ties the tongues j The root is hard and woody, with divers 

 of hounds ; whether true, or not, I never j strings and fibres at it, of a brownish colour, 

 tried, yet I cured the biting of a mad dog j which abides in the ground many years, 

 with this only medicine. ( shooting anew every Spring. 



Place.! This grows in woods and copses, 



HOLLY, HOLM, OR HULVER BUSH. 



Qpen 



sun. 



Time.'] They flower about Midsummer 



FOR to describe a tree so well known is 

 needless. 



Government and virtues.'] The tree is j and July, and their seed is ripe in the latter 

 Saturnine. The berries expel wind, and 5 end of July or August. 

 therefore are held to be profitable in the } Government and virtues.] It is under the 

 cholic. The berries have a strong faculty J celestial sign Leo, and the dominion of the 

 with them ; for if you eat a dozen of them ! Sun. It may be, if you meet a Papist, he 

 in the morning fasting when they are ripe j will tell you, especially if he be a lawyer, 

 and not dried, they purge the body of gross j that St. John made it over to him by a 

 and clammy phlegm : but if you dry the j letter of attorney. It is a singular wound 

 berries, and beat them into powder, they | herb ; boiled in wine and drank, it heals 

 bind the body, and stop fluxes, bloody- inward hurts or bruises ; made into an oint- 



fluxes, and the terms in women. The bark 

 of the tree, and also the leaves, are excel- 

 lently good, being used in fomentations for 



ment, it open obstructions, dissolves swell- 

 ings, and closes up the lips of wounds. The 

 decoction of the herb and flowers, especi- 



broken bones, and such members as are out | ally of the seed, being drank in wine, with 

 of joint. Pliny saith, the branches of the $ the juice of knot-grass, helps all manner of 

 tree defend houses from lightning, and men ? vomiting and spitting of blood, is good for 

 from witchcraft. those that are bitten or stung by any veno- 



, Imous creature, and for those that cannot 



make water. Two drams of the seed of 



THIS is a very beautiful shrub, and is! St. John's Wort made into powder, and 

 a great ornament to our meadows. I drank in a little broth, doth gently expel 



Descript.'] Common St. John's Wortjcholer or congealed blood in the stomach, 

 shoots forth brownish, upright, hard, round ! The decoction of the leaves and seeds 

 stalks, two feet high, spreading many I drank somewhat warm before the fits of 

 branches from the sides up to the tops of; agues, whether they be tertains or quartans, 

 them, with two small leaves set one again sti alters the fits, and, by often using, doth 

 another at every place, which are of a deep 5 take them quite away. The seed is much 

 green colour, somewhat like the leaves of \ commended, being drank for forty days 

 the lesser Centaury, but narrow, and full of ^together, to help the sciatica, the falling- 

 small holes in every leaf, which cannot be | sickness, and the palsy, 

 so well perceived, as when they are held up ] 

 to the light ; at the tops of the stalks and | 

 branches stand yellow flowers of five leaves \ IT is so well known to every child 



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