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edges into many divisions, of a .ight green ! the Moon. The garden Poppy heads with 

 colour, sometimes hairy withal. The stalk \ seeds made into a syrup, is frequently, and 

 is blackish and hairy also, but not so tall as | to good effect used to procure rest, arid 

 the garden kind, having some such like : sleep, in the sick and weak, and to stay 



leaves thereon to grow below, parted into 

 three or four branches sometimes, whereon 

 grow small hairy heads bowing down be- 



catarrhs and defluxions of thin rheums 

 from the head into the stomach and lungs, 

 causing a continual cough, the fore-runner 



fore the skin break, wherein the flower is * of a consumption ; it helps also hoarseness 

 inclosed, which when it is fully blown open, j of the throat, and when one have lost their 

 is of a fair yellowish red or crimson colour, \ voice, which the oil of the seed doth like- 

 and in some much paler, without any spot i wise. The black seed boiled in wine, and 

 in the bottom of the leaves, having many drank, is said also to dry the flux of the 

 black soft threads in the middle, compass- ! belly, and women's courses. The empty 

 ing a small green head, which when it is ; shells, or poppy heads, are usually boiled 

 ripe, is not bigger than one's little finger's : in water, and given to procure rest and 

 end, wherein is contained much black seeds | sleep : so doth the leaves in the same man- 

 smaller than that of the garden. The root j ner ; as also if the head and temples be 

 perishes every year, and springs again of ! bathed with the decoction warm, or with 

 its own sowing, Of this kind there is one ; the oil of Poppies, the green leaves or the 

 lesser in all parts thereof, and differs in j heads bruised and applied with a little 

 nothing else. i vinegar, or made into a poultice with barley- 



Place.~] The garden kinds do not natu- ; meal or hog's grease, cools and tempers 

 rally grow wild in any place, but all are i all inflammations, as also the disease called 

 sown in gardens where they grow. ; St. Anthony's fire. It is generally used in 



The Wild Poppy or Corn Rose, is plen- 1 treacle and mithridate, and in all other 

 tifully enough, and many times too much so | medicines that are made to procure rest 

 in the corn fields of all counties through this ; and sleep, and to ease pains in the head as 

 land, and also on ditch hanks, and by i well as in other parts. It is also used to 

 hedge sides. The smaller wild kind is also \ cool inflammations, agues, or frenzies, or 

 found in corn fields, and also in some ; to stay defluxions which cause a cough, or 

 other places, but not so plentifully as the | consumptions, and also other fluxes of the 

 former. belly or women's courses ; it is also put 



Time.] The garden kinds are usually | into hollow teeth, to ease the pain, and hath 

 sown in the spring, which then flower about j been found by experience to ease the pains 

 the end of May, and somewhat earlier, if j of the gout. 

 they spring of their own sowing. The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Mat- 



The wild kind flower usually from May \ thiolus saith) is good to prevent the falling- 

 until July, and the seed of them is ripe soon | sickness. The syrup made with the flower, 

 after the flowering. i is with good effect given to those that have 



Government and virtues.] The herb is the pleurisy ; and the dried flowers also, 

 Lunar, and of the juice of it is made opium; j either boiled in water, or made into powder 

 only for lucre of money they cheat you, : and drank, either in the distilled water of 

 and tell you it is a kind of tear, or some I them, or some other drink, works the like 

 such like thing, that drops from Poppies j effect. The distilled water of the flowers 

 when they weep, and that is somewhere j is held to be of much good use against 

 beyond the seas, I know not where beyond \ surfeits, being drank evening and morning ; 



