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jaundice ; they say one leaf cures a quoti- j helps all inward inflammations whatsoever, 

 dian ague, three a tertain, and four a I Poirum. Leeks. See the roots, 

 quartan. I know it will cure agues without j Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the 

 this curiosity, if a wise man have the hand- \ Flowers, which you will, 

 ling of it ; otherwise a cart load will not j Prunella. Self-heal, Carpenter's-herb, 

 do it. | and Sicklewort. Moderately hot and dry, 



Petroseiinum. Parsley. See Smallage. ; binding. See Bugle, the virtues being the 



Per Columbinus. See Geranium. \ same. 



Persicanum folia. Peach Leaves: they] Pulegium. Pennyroyal; hot and dry in 

 are a gentle, yet a complete purger of [the third degree; provokes urine, breaks 

 choler, and disease coming from thence ; J the stone in the reins, strengthens women's 

 n't for children because of their gentleness. 5 backs, provokes the menses, easeth their 

 You may boil them in white wine: a hand- \ labour in child-bed, brings away the pla- 

 full is enough at a time. j centa, stays vomiting, strengthens the brain, 



Pilosella. Mouse-ear : once before and j breaks wind, and helps the vertigo, 

 this is often enough. Pulmonaria, arborea, et Symphytum macii- 



Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge of j losum. Lung- wort. It helps infirmities of 

 the last Edition. the lungs, as hoarsness, coughs, wheezing, 



Plantago. Plantain. Cold and dry ; an j shortness of breath, &c. You may boil it 

 herb, though common, yet let none des- in Hyssop-water, or any other water that 



pise it, for the decoction of it prevails 

 mightily against tormenting pains and ex- 



strengthens the lungs. 



Pulicaria. Fleabane ; hot and dry in the 



coriations of the entrails, bloody fluxes, it j third degree, helps the biting of venomous 

 stops the menses, and spitting of blood, j beasts, wounds and swellings, the } r ellow 

 phthisicks, or consumptions of the lungs, 5 jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as 

 the running of the reins, and the Fluor ; cannot make water; being burnt, the smoak 

 Albus, pains in the head, and frenzies: out- \ of it kills all the gnats and fleas in the 

 wardly it clears the sight, takes away in- j chamber ; it is dangerous for pregnant 

 flammations, scabs, itch, the shingles, and ; women. 



all spreading sores, and is as wholesome an Pyrus sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree. I 

 herb as can grow about any an house. | know no virtue in the leaves. 

 Tragus, Dioscorides. Pyrola. Winter-green. Cold and dry, 



Folium, fyc. Policy, or Pellamountain : j and very binding, slops fluxes, and the 



All the sorts are hot in the second degree, 

 and dry in the third: helps dropsies, the yel- 

 low jaundice, infirmities of the spleen, and 



menses, and is admirably good in green 

 wounds. 



Quercus folia. Oak Leaves : Are much 



provokes urine. Dioscorides. \ of the nature of the former, stay the Fluor 



Polygonum. Knotgrass. \ Albus. See the bark. 



Polytricum. Maidenhair. Ranunculus. Hath got a sort of English 



Portulaca. Purslain: Cold and moist j Names : Crowfoot, King-kob, Gold-cups, 



in the second or third degree : cools hot 



Gold-knobs, Butter-flowers, &c. they are 



stomachs, and it is admirable for one that i of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken 

 hath his teeth on edge by eating sour apples, j inwardly : If you bruise the roots and apply 

 it cools the blood, liver, and is good for hot i them to a plague-sore, they are notable 

 diseases, or inflammations in any of these j things to draw the venom to them, 

 places, stops fluxes, and the menses, and j Raparum folia. If they do mean Turnip 



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