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Taurus is the Genesis) this is your cure. 1 is an excellent remedy boiled in beer for 

 It opens, cures and digests humours, and j broken-winded horses, 

 mightily provokes women's courses and \ 



TT if i r ii_ J J * MADDER. 



urine. Half a dram at a time of the dried \ 



root in powder taken in wine, doth wonder- 1 Descript."] GARDEN Madder shoots 

 fully warm a cold stomach, helps digestion, | forth many very long, weak, four-square, 

 and consumes all raw and superfluous j reddish stalks, trailing on the ground a 

 moisture therein ; eases all inward gripings j great way, very rough or hairy, and full of 

 and pains, dissolves wind, and resists poison | joints: At every one of these joints come 

 and infection. It is a known and much ! forth divers long and narrow leaves, stand- 



praised remedy to drink the decoction of 

 the herb for any sort of ague, and to help 

 the pains and torments of the body and 



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ing like a star about the stalks, round also 

 and hairy, towards the tops whereof come 

 forth many small pale yellow flowers, after 



bowels coming of cold. The seed is effec- j which come small round heads, green at 

 tual to all the purposes aforesaid (except first, and reddish afterwards, but black 

 the last) and works more powerfully. The \ when they are ripe, wherein is contained 

 distilled water of the herb helps the quinsy j the seed. The root is not very great, but 

 in the throat, if the rnouth and throat be | exceeding long, running down half a man's 

 gargled and washed therewith, and helps \ length into the ground, red and very clear, 

 the pleurisy, being drank three or four j while it is fresh, spreading divers ways. 



times. Being dropped into the eyes, it 

 takes away the redness or dimness of them ; 

 it likewise takes away spots or freckles in 

 the face. The leaves bruised, and fried 

 with a little hog's lard, and put hot to any 



PlaceJ] It is only manured in gardens, 

 or larger fields, for the profit that is made 

 thereof. 



Time.~] It flowers towards the ena of 

 Summer, and the seed is ripe quickly after. 



blotch or boil, will quickly break it. Government and virtues.] It is an herb of 



LUNGWORT. Mars. It hath an opening quality, and 



I afterwards to bind and strengthen. It is a 

 DescriptJ] THIS is a kind of moss, that? sure remedy for the yellow jaundice, by 



grows on sundry sorts of trees, especially 

 oaks and beeches, with broad, greyish,; 



gashed in on the edges, and some spotted 



opening the obstructions of the liver and 

 gall, and cleansing those parts ; it opens 



tough leaves diversly folded, crumpled, and j; also the obstructions of the spleen, and 



diminishes the melancholy humour. It is 



also with many small spots on the upper- j available lor the palsy and sciatica, and 

 side. It was never seen to bear any stalk \ effectual for bruises inward and outward, 

 or flower at any time. land is therefore much used in vulnerary 



Government and virtues.'] Jupiter seems { drinks. The root for all those aforesaid 

 to own this herb. It is of great use to ; purposes, is to be boiled in wine or water, 

 physicians to help the diseases of the lungs, j as the cause requires, and some honey and 

 and for coughs, wheezings, and shortness of; sugar put thereunto afterwards. The seed 

 breath, which it cures both in man and j hereof taken in vinegar and honey, helps 

 beast. It is very profitable to put into j the swelling and hardness of the spleen, 

 lotions that are taken to stay the moist The decoction of the leaves and branches 

 humours that flow to ulcers, and hinder I is a good fomentation for women thai have 

 their healing, as also to wash all other ulcers | not their courses. The leaves and roots 

 in the privy parts of a man or woman. It! beaten and applied to. any part that is dis- 



