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it is held to help the gout by anointing the j the pestilence: it helps the vertigo or 

 grieved place with it. \ swimming of the head, is admirable against- 



Cucumeris a grestis. Of wild Cucumber Uhe bitings of venomous beasts, and such as 

 roots ; they purge flegm, and that with such j have taken too much opium, as also for 

 violence, that I would advise the country j lethargies, the juice helps hot rheums in the 

 man that knows not how to correct them, to j eyes ; a scruple of the root in powder is 

 let them alone. \ enough to take at one time. 



Cinarce, $c. Of Artichokes. The roots j Dracontii, Dracunculi. Divers authors 

 purge by urine, whereby the rank savour of 1 attribute divers herbs to this name. It is 

 the body is much amended. jmost probable that they mean dragons, 



Cyiioglosste, Sfc. Of. Hounds-tongue, j the roots of which cleanse mightily, and 

 Cold and dry : being roasted and laid to ! take away proud, or dead flesh, the very 

 the fundament, helps the hemorrhoids, is : smell of them is hurtful for pregnant women: 

 also good for burnings and scaldings. outwardly in ointments, they take away 



Curcuma. Of Turmerick, hot in the scurf, morphew, and sun-burning ; I would 

 third degree, opens obstructions, is profita- ; not wish any, unless very well read in physic, 

 ble against the yellow jaundice, and cold ; to take them inwardly. Matthiohis, Dios- 

 distemper of the liver and spleen, half a ; corides. 



dram being taken at night going to bed in \ Ebuli. Of Dwarf Elder, Walwort, or 

 the pulp of a roasted apple, and if you add | Danewort ; hot and dry in the third degree, 

 a little saffron to it, it will be the belter by Jthe roots are as excellent a purge for the 

 far. \ dropsy as any under the sun. You may 



Cyperiutriusque, longi, rotundi. Of Cyprus |take a dram or two drams (if the patient be 

 Grass, or English Galanga, both sorts, long i strong) in white wine at a time, 

 and round : is of a warm nature, provokes! Echij. Of Viper's Bugloss, or wild Bug- 

 urine, breaks the stone, provokes the menses ; s loss. This root is cold and dry, good for such 

 the ashes of them (being burnt) are used for;s are bitten by vencmons beasts, either being 

 ulcers in the mouth, cankers, &c. j boiled in wine anddrank^ or bruised and applied 



Dauci. Of Carrots. Are moderately ! to the place : being boiled in wine and drank, 

 hot and moist, breed but little nourishment, > it encreaseth milk in nurses. 

 and are windy. Ellebori, Veratri, albi nigri. Of Hclle- 



Dentaria majoris, fyc. Of Toothwort, \ bore white and black. The root of white Helle- 

 toolhed violets, or corralvvort : they are \ bore, or sneezewort, being grated and snuffed 

 drying, binding, and strengthening; axe \ up the nose, causeth sneezing; kills tats and 

 good to ease pains in the sides and bowels ; i mice being mired with their meat. 

 also being boiled, the decoction is said to! Black Hellebore, Bears-foot or Christmas 

 be good to wash green wounds and ulcers \flower : both this and the former are hot and 

 wilh. $ dry in the third degree. This is neither so 



Dictiamni. Of Dittany : is hot and dry I violent nor dangerous as the former. 

 in the third degree, hastens travail in j Enulae Campanae Helenij. Of Elecam- 

 women, provokes the menses. (See the j pane. It is hot and dry in the third degree, 

 leaves.) \wholesomejor the stomach, resists poison, helps 



Doronici. Of Doronicum, a supposed t old coughs, and sortness of breath, helps rnp- 

 kind of Wolf's bane: It is hot and dry in \tures, and provokes lust ; in ointments, it is good 

 the third degree, strengthens the heart, is a ; against scabs and itch. 

 covercign cordial, and preservative against* Endivae, &c. Of Endive, Garden 



