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hard labour in child-bearing, brings away i stomach, stay vomiting, stop the menses, 



; help sore heads in children, strengthen the 

 stomach, cause digestion ; outwardly ap- 

 plied, they help the bitings of mad-dogs : 

 Yet they hinder conception. 



the placenta. Se the syrups. 



Marrubium, nigrum, ct fcetidum. Black 

 and stinking Horehouud, I take to be all 

 one. Hot and dry in the third degree; 



cures the bitings of mad dogs, wastes and | Memba aquatica. "Water Mints : Ease 

 consumes hard knots in the fundament and \ pains of the belly, head-ache, and vomiting, 

 matrix, cleanses filthy ulcers. i gravel in the kidnies and stone. 



Marum. Herb Mastich. Hot and dry \ Methastrum. Horse-mint. I know no 

 in the third degree, good against cramps difference between them and water mints, 

 and convulsions. Mercurialis, mas,fcemina. Mercury male 



Matricaria. Feverfew. Hot in the third? and female, they are both hot and dry in 

 degree, dry in the second ; opens, purges ; \ the second degree, cleansing, digesting, they 

 a singular remedy for diseases incident to j purge watery humours, and further concep- 

 the matrix, and other diseases incident to j tion. 



women, eases their travail, and infirmities j Mezereon. Spruge-Olive, or Widdow- 

 coming after it ; it helps the vertigo or dis-i wail. A dangerous purge, better let alone 

 siness of the head, melancholy sad thoughts : [than meddled with. 



you may boil it either alone, or with other j Millefolium. Yarrow. Meanly cold and 

 herbs fit for the same purpose, with which | binding, an healing herb for wounds, 

 this treatise will furnish you : applied to j stanches bleeding ; and some say the juice 

 the wrists, it helps the ague. { snuffed up the nose, causeth it to bleed, 



Matrisylva. The same with Caprifolium. \ whence it was called, Nose-bleed; it 



Meliotus. Melilot. Inwardly taken, pro- j stops lasks, and the menses, helps the 

 vokes urine, breaks the Stone, cleanses the running of the reins, helps inflammations 

 reins and bladder, cutteth and cleanses the and excoriations of the priapus, as also 

 lungs of tough flegm , the juice dropped inflammations of wounds. Galen. 

 into the eyes, clears the sight, into the ears, j Muicia. Mosse. Is something cold and 



' binding, yet usually retains a smatch of the 



mitigates pain and noise there ; the head 

 bathed with the juice mixed with vinegar, 

 takes away the pains thereof: outwardly 

 in pultisses, it assuages swellings in the pri- 

 vities and elsewhere. 



property of the tree it grows on; therefore 

 that which grows upon oaks is very dry and 

 binding. Serapio saith that it being infused 

 in wine, and the wine drank, it stays vorait- 

 Mellissa. Balm. Hot and dry: out- ing and fluxes, as also the Fluor Albus. 

 wardly mixed with salt and applied to the: Myrtus. Myrtle-tree. The leaves are 

 neck, helps the King's-evil, bitings of mad 'of a cold earthly quality, drying and birid- 

 dogs, venomous beasts, and such as cannot \ ing, good for fluxes, spitting and vomiting of 

 hold their neck as they should do; inwardly blood ; stop the Fluor Albus and menses. 

 it is an excellent remedy for a cold and j Nardus. See the root, 

 moist stomach, cheers the heart, refreshes j Nasturtium, Aquaticum, Hortense. Water 

 the mind, takes away griefs, sorrow, and \ cresses, and Garden-cresses. Garden- 

 care, instead of which it produces joy and j cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree, 

 mirth. See the syrup. Galen, Avicenna. \ good for thes curvy, sciatica, hard swellings, 

 Mentha sativa. Garden Mints, Spear ! yet do they trouble the belly, ease pains o 

 Mints. Are hot and dry in the third degree, \ the spleen, provoke lust. Dioscorides. Water- 

 provoke hunger, are wholesome for the \ cresses are hot and dry, cleanse the blood f 



