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powerful a remedy against the dropsy, that j on, usually not round as those below, but 

 the very lye made of the ashes of the herb i somewhat long, and divided at the edges : 

 being drank, cures the disease. It provokes 1 the tops are somewhat divided into long 

 the terms, helps the fits of the mother, j branches, bearing a number of flowers, set 

 strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and j round about a long spike one above another, 

 expels the wind. Indeed there is scarce a; which are hollow and like a little bell of a 

 better remedy for wind in any part of the j whitish green colour, after which come 

 body, or the cholic, than the chymical oil j small heads, containing very small brownish 

 drawn from the berries ; such country j seed, which falling on the ground, will 

 people as know not how to draw the chy- : plentifully spring up before Winter, if it 

 mical oil, may content themselves by eating ! have moisture. The root is round and most 

 ten or a dozen of the ripe berries every I usually smooth, greyish without, and white 

 morning fasting. They are admirably good ; within, having small fibres at the head of 

 for a cough, shortness of breath, and con-; the root, and bottom of the stalk, 

 sumption, pains in the belly, ruptures,! Place.'] It grows very plentifully in 

 cramps, and convulsions. They give safe j many places of this land, but especially in 

 and speedy delivery to women with child, j all the west parts thereof, upon stone and 

 they strengthen the brain exceedingly, help { mud walls, upon rocks also, and in stony 

 the memory, and fortify the sight by j places upon the ground, at the bottom of 

 strengthening the optic nerves ; are excel- > old trees, and sometimes on the bodies of 

 lently good in all sorts of agues ; help the : them that are decayed and rotten, 

 gout and sciatica, and strengthen the limbs \ Time.'} It usually flowers in the begin- 

 of the body. The ashes of the wood is alning of May, and the seed ripening quickly 

 speedy remedy to such as have the scurvy, \ after, sheds itself; so that about the end or 

 to rub their gums with. The berries stay 1 May, usually the stalks and leaves are 

 all fluxes, help the haemorrhoids or piles, ? withered, dry, and gone until September, 

 and kill worms in children. A lye made! then the leaves spring up again, and so 

 of the ashes of the wood, and the body \ abide all winter. 



bathed with it, cures the itch, scabs and ; Government and virtues.'] Venus chal- 

 leprosy. The berries break the stone, > lenges the herb under Libra. The juice 

 procure appetite when it is lost, and are \ or the distilled water being drank, is very 

 excellently good for all palsies, and falling- 1 effectual for all inflammations and unnatural 

 sickness. * heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot 



* liver, or the bowels : the herb, juice, or dis- 



KIDNEYWORf, OR WALL PENNYROYAL, J ^ ^^ ^^ Q ^^ } Ued 



OR WALL PENNYWORT. | heals pimples, St. Anthon/s firef and other 



Descript.'] IT has many thick, flat, and ! outward heats. The said juice or water 

 round leaves growing from the root, every * helps to heal sore kidneys, torn or fretted 

 one having a long footstalk, fastened un- j by the stone, or exulcerated within ; it also 

 derneath, about the middle of it, and a j provokes urine, is available for the dropsy, 

 little unevenly weaved sometimes about the J and helps to break the stone. Being used 

 edges, of a pale green colour, and some-? as a bath, or made into an ointment, it 

 what yellow on the upper side like a sau- \ cools the painful piles or haemorrhoida. 

 cer ; from among which arise one or more i veins.. It is no less effectual to give ease 

 tender, smooth, hollow stalks half a foot j to the pains of the gout, the sciatica, and 

 high, with two or three small leaves there- \ helps the kernels or knots in the neck or 



