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in tne belly or stomach, quiets inward pains { Time.'] It tiowers in May and June, 

 that arise from the heat, sharpness and cor- i abides after seedtime green all the Winter 

 ruption of blood and choler. The distilled \ Government and virtues.] Venus claims 

 water hereof taken by itself or with the \ the herb as her own. Ladies' Mantle it 

 powder of the herb or seed, is very effectual j,very proper for those wounds that have in- 

 to all the purposes aforesaid, and is ac- i flammations, and is very effectual to stay 

 counted one of the most sovereign remedies j bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, 

 to cool all manner of inflammations, break- j bruises by falls or otherwise, and helps rup- 

 ing out through heat, hot swellings and i tures ; and such women as have large 

 imposthumes, gangrene and fistulous can- I breasts, causing them to grow less and hard 

 kers, or foul filthy ulcers, being applied | being both drank and outwardly applied ; 

 or put into them ; but especially for all j the distilled water drank for 20 days toge- 



sorts of ulcers and sores happening in the i 

 privy parts of men and women. It helps i 

 all fresh and green wounds, and speedily i 



ther helps conception, and to retain the 

 birth; if the women do sometimes also sit in 

 a bath made of the decoction of the herb. 



heals them. The juice dropped into the \ It is one of the most singular wound herbs 

 ears, cleanses them being foul, and having !j that is, and therefore highly prized and 

 running matter in them. i; praised by the Germans, who use it in all 



It is very prevalent for the premises ; as i wounds inward and outward, to drink a de- 



also for broken joints and ruptures. 



coction thereof, and wash the wounds there- 



, with, or dip tents therein, and put them 



into the wounds, which wonderfully dries 



DescriptJ] IT has many leaves rising 

 from the root standing upon long hairy 

 foot-stalks, being almost round, and a little 



up all humidity of the sores, and abates in- 

 flammations tnerein. It quickly heals ali 

 green wounds, not suffering any corruption 



cut on the edges, into eight or ten parts, j to remain behind, and cures all old sores, 



though fistulous and hollow. 



LAVENDER. 



making it seem like a star, with so many 

 corners and points, and dented round about, 

 of a light green colour, somewhat hard in 

 handling, and as it were folded or plaited | BEING an inhabitant almost in every 

 at first, and then crumpled in divers places, j garden, it is so well known, that it needs no 

 and a little hairy, as the stalk is also, which { description. 



rises up among them to the height of two j Time.'] It flowers about the end of June, 

 or three feet ; and being weak, is not able > and beginning of July, 

 to stand upright, but bended to the ground, i Government and virtues.'] Mercury owns 

 divided at the top into two or three small j the herb; and it carries his effects very po- 

 oranches, with small yellowish green heads, j tently. Lavender is of a special good use 

 and flowers of a whitish colour breaking out { for all the griefs and pains of the head and 

 of them ; which being past, there comes a ; brain that proceed of a cold cause, as the 

 small yellowish seed like a poppy seed : | apoplexy, falling-sickness, the dropsy, or 

 The root is somewhat long and black, with j sluggish malady, cramps, convulsions, 

 many strings and fibres thereat. | palsies, and often faintings. It strengthens 



Place.] It grows naturally in many pas- j the stomach, and frees the liver and spleen 

 tures and wood sides in Hertfordshire, i from obstructions, provokes women's courses, 

 Wiltshire, and Kent, and other places of j and expels the dead child and after-birth, 

 this land. 'The 'flowers of Lavender steeped in wine, 



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