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and applied to any carbuncle or plague: grass hath many thick flat leaves, more 

 sore, is found by certain experience to dis- 1 long than broad, and sometimes longer and 

 solve and break it in three hours space. \ narrower ; sometimes also smooth on the 

 The same decoction also drank, helps the j edges, and sometimes a little waved ; some- 

 pains and stitches in the side. The decoc- j times plain, smooth and pointed, of a sad 

 tion of the roots taken for forty days toge- 5 green, and sometimes a blueish colour, 

 ther, or a dram of the powder of then> every one standing by itself upon a long 

 taken at a time in whey, doth (as Matthi- j foot-stalk, which is brownish or greenish 

 olus saith) wonderfully help those that are | also, from among which arise many slender 

 troubled with running of spreading scabs, j stalks, bearing few leaves thereon like the 

 tetters, ringworms, yea, although they pro- j other, but longer and less for the most 

 ceed from the French pox, which, he saith | part : At the tops whereof grow many 

 he hath tried by experience. The juice or; whitish flowers, with yellow threads in the 

 decoction drank, helps also scabs and j middle, standing about a green head, which 

 breakings-out of the itch, and the like. { becomes the. seed vessel, which will be 

 The juice also made up into an ointment j somewhat flat when it is ripe, wherein is 

 and used, is effectual for the same purpose. | contained reddish seed, tasting somewhat 

 The same also heals all inward wounds by j hot. The root is. made of many white 

 the drying, cleansing, and healing quality j strings, which stick deeply into the mud, 

 therein : And a syrup made of the juice j wherein it chiefly delights, yet it will well 

 and sugar, is very effectual to all the pur- ; abide in the ir. ore upland and drier ground, 

 poses aforesaid, and so is the distilled water | and tastes a little brackish and salt even 

 of the herb and flowers made in due season, j there, but not so much as where it hath the 

 especially to be used when the green herb 5 salt water to feed upon, 

 is not in force to be taken. The decoction j Place.'] It grows all along the Thames 

 of the herb and roots outwardly applied, : sides, both on the Essex and Kentish 

 doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or 1 shores, from Woolwich round about the 

 cold swellings in any part of the body, is! sea costs to Dover, Portsmouth, and even 

 effectual for shrunk sinews or veins, and { to Bristol, where it is had in plenty; the 

 heals green wounds, old sores, and ulcers, j other with round leaves grows in the marshes 

 The juice of Scabious, made up with the; in Holland, in Lincolnshire, and other 

 powder of Borax and Samphire, cleanses : places of Lincolnshire by the sea side, 

 the skin of the face, or other parts of the} Descript.'] There is also another sort 

 body, not only from freckles and pimples, | called Dutch Scurvygrass, which is most 

 but also from morphew and leprosy ; the ! known, and frequent in gardens, which has 

 head washed with the decoction, cleanses it fresh, green, and almost round leaves rising 

 from dandriff, scurf, sores, itch, and the 



like, used warm. The herb bruised and 

 ipplied, doth in a short time loosen, and 



from the root, not so thick as the former, 

 yet in some rich ground, very large, even 

 twice as big as in others, not dented about 



Iraw forth any splinter, broken bone, { the hedges,or hollow in the middle, standing 

 irrow head, or other such like thing lying I on a long foot-stalk; from among these 

 in the flesh. rise long, slender stalks, higher than the for- 



mer, with more white flowers at the tops of 



SCURVVGRASS. them, which turn into small pods, and 



| smaller brownish seed than the former. 

 THE ordinary English Scurvy- [The root is white, small and thready. The 



