AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 179 



dren love this herb, it is their best com- j and it is true enough, that it will stop the 

 panion, their husbands excepted. Also it: terms, if worn so, and the whites too, for 

 consumes the phlegmatic humours, the cold \ ought I know. It stays also spitting or 

 and moist constitution of Winter most : vomiting of blood. The powder of the 

 usually affects the body of man with, and he r b taken in some of the distilled water, 

 that was the first reason of eating tansies in ; helps the whites in women, but more es- 

 the Spring. The decoction of the common i pecially if a little coral and ivory in pow- 

 Tansy, or the juice drank in wine, is a sin- j der be put to it. It is also recommended 

 gular remedy for all the griefs that come: to help children that are bursten, and have 

 by slopping of the urine, helps the stran- ; a rupture, being boiled in water and salt, 

 guary and those that have weak reins and ! Being boiled in water and drank, it eases 

 kidneys. It is also very profitable to dis- ! the griping pains of the bowels, and is good 

 solve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, : for the sciatica and joint-aches. The same 

 or bowels, to procure women's courses, and ; boiled in vinegar, with honey and allum, 

 expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruis- \ and gargled in the mouth, eases the pains 

 ed and often smelled unto, as also applied iof the tooth-ache, fastens loose teeth, helps 

 to the lower part of the belly. It is also j the gums that are sore, and settles the 

 very profitable for such women as are given j palate of the mouth in its place, when it is 

 to miscarry. It is used also against the j fallen down. It cleanses and heals ulcers 

 stone in the reins, especially to men. The Jin the mouth, or secret parts, and is very 

 herb fried with eggs (as it is the custom in ; good for inward wounds, and to close the 

 the Spring-time) which is called a Tansy, | lips of green wounds, and to heal old, moist, 

 helps to digest and carry downward those | and corrupt running sores in the legs or 

 bad humours that trouble the stomach. | elsewhere. Being bruised and applied to 

 The seed is very profitably given to chil- the soles of the feet and hand wrists, it 

 dren for the worms, and the juice in drink i wonderfully cools the hot fits of agues, be 

 is as effectual. Being boiled in oil, it is i they never so violent. The distilled water 

 good for the sinews shrunk by cramps, or ; cleanses the skin of all discolourings there- 

 pained with colds, if thereto applied. :in, as morphew, sun-burnings, &c. as also 



1 pimples, freckles, and the like ; and 



WILD TANSY, OR SILVER WEED. , . , , ., 



' dropped into the eyes, or cloths wet therein 



THIS is also so well known, that it needs? and applied, takes away the heat and in- 

 no description. flammations in them. 



Placed] It grows in every place. 

 Time.'] It flowers in June and July 

 Government and virtues.'] Now Dame 



THISTLES. 



OF these are many kinds growing here in 



Venus hath fitted women with two herbs of \ England which are so well known, that 

 one name, the one to help conception, and | they need no description : Their difference 

 the other to maintain beauty, and what j is easily known on the places where they 

 more can be expected of her? What now i grow, viz. 



remains for you, but to love your husbands, 5 Place.'] Some grow in fields, some in 

 and not to be wanting to your poor neigh- i meadows, and some among the corn ; others 

 boars? Wild Tansy stays the lask, and all Ion heaths, greens, and waste grounds in 

 the fluxes of blood in men and women, ; many places. 



which some say it will do, if the green herb J Time.'] They flower in June and August, 

 be worn in the shoes, so it be next the skin ; * and their seed is ripe quickly after. 



3 A 



