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places, and also on dry shady places, as 

 Hampstead Heath, and elsewhere. 



to those purposes. The same used by 

 nurses procures them store of milk. The 



5 decoction of the seed of any of the common 



MALLOWS AND M ARSHMALLOWS. I AT 11 -n j 



J Mallows made in milk or wine, doth mar- 



COMMON Mallows are generally so well I vellously help excoriations, the phthisic, 

 known tha* they need no description. j pleurisy, and other diseases of the chest and 



Our common Marshrnallows have divers | lungs, that proceed of hot causes, if it be 

 soft hairy white stalks, rising to be three or \ continued taking for some time together, 

 four feet high, spreading forth many | The leaves and roots work the same effects, 

 branches the leaves whereof are soft and ! They help much also in the excoriations of 

 hairy, somewhat less than the other Mallow the bowels, and hardness of the mother, 

 leaves, but longer pointed, cut (for the most \ and in all hot and sharp diseases thereof, 

 part) into some few divisions, but deep, j The juice drank in wine, or the decoction 

 The flowers are many, but smaller also than ; of them therein, do help women to a speedy 

 the other Mallows, and white, or tending to land easy delivery. Pliny saith, that who- 

 a bluish colour. After which come such j soever takes a spoonful of any of the Mal- 

 long, round cases and seeds, as in the other i lows, shall that day be free from all diseases 

 Mallows. The roots are many and long, j that may come unto him ; and that it is 

 shooting from one head, of the bigness of a j especially good for the falling-sickness. The 

 thumb or finger, very pliant, tough, and j syrup also and conserve made of the flowers, 

 being like liquorice, of a whitish yellow i are very effectual for the same diseases, 

 colour on the outside, and more whitish; and to open the body, being costive. The 

 within, full of a slimy juice, which being [leaves bruised, and laid to the eyes with 

 laid in water, will thicken, as if it were a \ a little honey, take away the imposthuma- 

 jelly. jtions of them. The leaves bruised or rubbed 



Place.] The common Mallows grow in { upon any place stung with bees, wasps, or 

 every county of this land. The common i the like, presently take away the pain, 

 Marsh-mallows in most of the salt marshes, | red ness, arid swelling that rise thereupon, 

 from Woolwich down to the sea, both on \ And Dioscorides saith, The decoction of 

 the Kentish and Essex shores, and in divers j the roots and leaves helps all sorts of poison, 

 other places of this land. \ so as the poison be presently voided by 



Time.] They flower all the Summer; vomit. A poultice made of the leaves 

 months, even until the Winter do pull them j boiled and bruised, with some bean or bar- 

 down. * ley flower, and oil of Roses added, is an 



Government and virtues] Venus owns } especial remedy against all hard tumours 

 them both. The leaves of either of the i and inflammations, or imposthumes, or 

 sorts, both specified, and the roots also \ swellings of the privities, and other parts, 

 boiled in wine or water, or in broth with j and eases the pains of them; as also against 

 Parsley or Fennel roots, do help to open the | the hardness of the liver or spleen, being 

 body, and are very convenient in hot agues, j applied to the places. The juice of Mai- 

 or other distempers of the body, to apply | lows boiled in old oil and applied, takes 

 the leaves so boiled warm to the belly. It \ away all roughness of the skin, as also the 

 not only voids hot, choleric, and other : scurf, dandriff, or dry scabs in the head, or 

 offensive humours, but eases the pains and \ other parts, if they be anointed therewith, 

 torments of the belly coming thereby ; and I or washed with the decoction, and preserves 

 are therefore used in all clysters conducing j the hair from falling off. It is also effec- 



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