AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



very effectual against long lingering agues ; 

 and a dram of the seed in powder, drank in 

 wine, before the fit of the ague, helps to 

 drive it away. The distilled water of the 

 herb and flowers (if you can take them in 

 time) hath the like properties, and is es- 

 pecially good for hot stomachs, and in 

 agues, either pestilential or of long con- 

 tinuance ; for swoonings and passions of 

 the heart, for the heat and head-ache in 

 children, and for the blood and liver. The 

 said water, or the juice, or the bruised 

 leaves applied outwardly, allay swellings, 

 inflammations, St. Anthony's fire, pushes, 

 wheals, and pimples, especially used with 

 a little vinegar ; as also to wash pestiferous 

 sores. The said water is very effectual for 

 sore eyes that are inflamed with redness, 

 for nurses' breasts that are pained by the 

 abundance of milk. 



The wild Succory, as it is more bitter, 

 so it is more strengthening to the stomach 

 and liver. 



STONE-CROP, PRICK-MADAM, OR SMALL- ' 

 HOUSELEEK. 



Rescript."] IT grows with divers trailing 

 branches upon the ground, set with many 

 thick, flat, roundish, whitish green leaves, 

 pointed at the ends. The flowers stand j 

 many of them together, somewhat loosely. * 

 The roots are small, and run creeping under j 

 ground. 



Placed] It grows upon the stone walls 

 and mud walls, upon the tiles of houses and 

 pent-houses, and amongst rubbish, and in 

 other gravelly places. 



Time] It flowers in June and July, and 

 the leaves are green all the Winter. 



Government and virtues.] It is under the 

 dominion of the Moon, cold in quality, 

 and something binding, and therefore very \ 

 good to stay defluctions, especially such as 

 fall upon the eyes. It stops bleeding, both 

 inward and outward, helps cankers, and all 

 fretting sores and ulcers ; it abates the heat 



of choler, thereby preventing diseases 

 arising from choleric humours. It expels 

 poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being 

 exceeding good also for tertian agues : You 

 may drink the decoction of it, if you please, 

 for all the foregoing infirmities. It is so 

 harmless an herb, you can scarce use it 

 amiss : Being bruised and applied to the 

 place, it helps the king's evil, and any other 

 knots or kernels in the flesh ; as also the 

 piles. 



ENGLISH TOBACCO. 



Descript] THIS rises up with a round 

 thick stalk, about two feet high, whereon 

 do grow thick, flat green leaves, nothing so 

 large as the other Indian kind, somewhat 

 round pointed also, and nothing dented 

 about the edges. The stalk branches forth, 

 and bears at the tops divers flowers set on 

 great husks like the other, but nothing so 

 large : scarce standing above the brims of 

 the husks, round pointed also, and of a 

 greenish yellow colour. The seed that 

 follows is not so bright, but larger, con- 

 tained in the like great heads. The roots 

 are neither so great nor woody ; it perishes 

 every year with the hard frosts in Winter, 

 but rises generally from its own sowing. 



Place.] This came from some parts of 

 Brazil, as it is thought, and is more familiar 

 in our country than any of the other sorts ; 

 early giving ripe seed, which the others sel- 

 dom do. 



Time] It flowers from June, sometimes 

 to the end of August, or later, and the seed 

 ripens in the mean lime. 



Government and virtues.] It is a martial 

 plant. It is found by good experience to 

 be available to expectorate tough phlegm 

 from the stomach, chest, and lungs. The 

 juice thereof made into a syrup, or the dis- 

 tilled water of the herb drank with some 

 sugar, or without, if you will, or the smcak 

 taken by a pipe, as is usual, but fainting;, 

 helps to expel worms in the stomach and 



