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tiles and applied to the grieved place, and j 

 yet 1 had it from Dr. Butler too. 



Hysopus. Hysop. Helps coughs, short- j 

 ness of breath, wheezing, distillations upon 

 theiungs: it is of a cleansing quality : kills 

 worms in the body, amends the whole 

 colour of the body, helps the dropsy and 

 spleen, sore throats, and noise in the ears. 

 See Syrup of Hysop. 



Hyosciamus, $c. Henbane. The white! 

 Henbane is held to be cold in the third \ 

 degree, the black or common Henbane and j 

 the yellow, in the fourth. They stupify \ 

 the senses, and therefore not to be taken \ 

 inwardly, outwardly applied, they help; 

 inflammations, hot gouts : applied to the 

 temples they provoke sleep. 



Hypericon. St. John's Wort. It is as 

 gallant a wound-herb as any is, either ! 

 given inwardly, or outwardly applied toj 

 the wound : it is hot and dry, opens stopp- ! 

 ings, helps spitting and vomiting of blood, i 

 it cleanses the reins, provokes the menses, 

 helps congealed blood in the stomach and 

 meseraic veins, the falling-sickness, palsy, 

 cramps and aches in the joints ; you may 

 give it in powder or any convenient decoc- , 

 tion. 



Hypoglottis, Laurus, Alexandrina. Laurel 

 of Alexandria, provokes urine and the 

 menses, and is held to be a singular help to 

 women in travail. 



Hypoglossum, the same with Hypoglossum : 

 before, only different names given by dif- 

 ferent authors, the one deriving his name 

 from the tongue of a horse, of which form 

 the leaf is ; the other the form of the little ! 

 leaf, because small leaves like small tongues t 

 grow upon the greater. 



Iheris Cardamantice. Sciati ca- cresses. | 

 I suppose so called because they help the \ 

 Sciatica, or Huckle-bone Gout. 



Ingunialis, Asther. Setwort or Shart-j 

 wort : being bruised and applied, they help I 

 swellings, botches, and venerous swellings j 

 in the groin, whence they took their name, 5 



as also inflammation and falling out of the 

 fundament. 



Iris. See the roots. 



Isatis, Glastmn. Woad. Drying and 

 binding ; the side being bathed with it, it 

 easeth pains in the spleen, cleanseth filthy 

 corroding gnawing ulcers. 



Iva Arthritica. The same with Cameepytis, 



luncus oderatus. The same with Schce- 

 nanthus. 



Labrum veneris. The same with Dipsacus. 



Lactuca. Lettice. Cold and moist, cools 

 the inflammation of the stomach, commonly 

 called heart-burning: provokes sleep, resists 

 drunkenness, and takes away the ill effects, 

 of it; cools the blood, quenches thirst, breeds 

 milk, and is good for choleric bodies, and 

 such as have a frenzy, or are frantic. It is 

 more wholesome eaten boiled than raw. 



Logabus, Herba Leporina. A kind of 

 Trefoil growing in France and Spain. Let 

 them that live there look after the virtues 

 of it. 



Lavendida. Lavender : Hot and dry in 

 the third degree : the temples and forehead 

 bathed with the juice of it; as also the smell 

 of the herb helps swoonings, catalepsis, 

 falling-sickness, provided it be not accom- 

 panied with a fever. See the flowers. 



Laureola. Laurel. The leaves purge 

 upward and downward : they are good for 

 rheumatic people to chew in their mouths, 

 for they draw forth much water. 



Laurus. Bay-tree. The leaves are hot 

 and dry, resist drunkenness, they gently 

 bind and help diseases in the bladder, help 

 the stinging of bees and wasps, mitigate 

 the pain of the stomach, dry and heal, 

 open obstructions of the liver and spleen, 

 resist the pestilence. 



Lappa Minor. The lesser Burdock. 



Lentiscus. Mastich-tree. Both the leaves 

 and bark of it stop fluxes (being hot and 

 dry in the second degree) spitting and 

 evacuations of blood, and the falling out 

 of the fundament. 



