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for my part I know but little need of them, 

 either in food or physic. 



Victorialis. A foreign kind of Garlick. 

 They say, being hung about the neck of 



cattle that are blind suddenly, it helps them ; 

 and defends those that bear it, from evil 

 spirits. 



Swallow-wort, and teazles were handled 

 before. 



UlmaricE, Reginte, prati, fyc. Mead-sweet. 

 Cold and dry, binding, stops fluxes, and 



Avellanarum. Of Hazel The rind of 

 the tree provokes urine, breaks the stone ; 

 the husks and shells of the nuts, dried and 

 given in powder, stay the immoderate flux 



of the menses. 



Aurantiorum. Of Oranges. Both these, 

 and also Lemons and Citrons, are of dif- 

 ferent qualities : the outward bark, viz. what 

 looks red, is hot and dry, the white is cold 

 and moist, the juice colder than it, the seeds 



v^-ivi c^vi <aij, unhung, a^jjjo HUA^O, .uu hot and dry; the outward bark is that 

 the immoderate flowing of the menses : you ! which here I am to speak to, it is somewhat 

 may take a dram at a time. j hotter than eithc % r that of Lemons or 



Urticte. Of Nettles. See the leaves. 5 Citrons, therefore it warms a cold stomach 

 Zedoariae. Of Zedoary , or Setwall. This } more, and expels wind better, but strengthens 

 and Zurumbet, according to Rhasis, and ! not the heart so much. 

 Mesue, are all one ; Avicenna thinks them 1 Berber, tyc. Barberries. The Rind of 

 different : I hold with Mesue ; indeed they \ the tree according to Clcesius, being steeped 

 differ in form, for the one is long, the other I in wine, and the wine drank, purges choler, 

 round; they are both hot , and dry in the j and is a singular remedy for the yellow 

 second degree, expel wind, resist poison, j jaundice. Boil it in white wine and drink 

 stop fluxes, and the menses, stay vomiting, j it. See the directions at the beginning, 

 help the cholic, and kill worms ; you may i Cassia Lignea, $c. It is something more 

 take half a dram at a time. oily than Cinnamon, yet the virtues being 



Zingiberis. Of Ginger. Helps digestion, not much different, I reft r you thither, 

 warms the stomach, clears the sight, and is Capparts Rod. Of Caper roots. See 



profitable for old men : heats the joints, and 

 therefore is profitable against the gout, 

 expels wind ; it is hot and dry in the second 

 degree. 



BARKS. 



A Pil Rad. Of the roots of Sn milage. 

 Take notice here, that the Barks both of 

 this root, as also of Parsley, Fennel, &c. 



is 



all 



the roots. 



Castanearum. Of Chesnuts. The bark 

 of the Chesnut tree is dry and binding, 

 and stops fluxes. 



Cinnamonum. Cinnamon, and Cassia 

 Lignea, are hot and dry in the second 

 degree, strengthens the stomach, help 

 digestion, cause a sweet breath, resist poi- 

 son, provoke urine, and the menses, cause 

 speedy delivery in women to travail, help 

 coughs and defluxions of humours upon 



of the root which is in use, neither, the lungs, dropsy, and difficulty of urine. 



In ointments it takes away red pimples, and 

 the like deformities from the face. There 

 is scarce a better remedy for women 



can it properly be called bark, for it is all 

 the root, the hard pith in the middle ex- 

 cepted, which is always thrown away, when ^ 

 the roots are used. It is something hotter i 



and drier than Parsley, and more medicinal ; i 



in 



labour, than a dram of Cinnamon newly 

 beaten into powder, and taken in white 

 it opens stoppings, provokes urine, helps j wine, 

 digestion, expels wind, and warms a cold] Citrij. Of Pome Citrons. The outward 

 stomach : use them like grass roots. ; pill, which I suppose is that which is meant 



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