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flegm, and melancholy, it cleanses the : usually found about old ruinous buildings : 



brain, heart, liver, spleen; it cheers the; it is so called because of its virtue "in 



senses, opens obstructions, takes away dul- j stopping fluxes. 



ness of sight, helps deafness, helps mclan- \ Shinachia. Spinage. I never read any 



clioly and madness, resists resolution of the i physical virtues of it. 



nerves, pains of the head, scabs, itch, fall- < Spina Alba. See the root. 



ing-sickness, the windiness of it is corrected ! Spica. See Nardus. 



with a little ginger. You may boil half an \ St<zbe. Silver Knapweed: The virtues 



ounce of it at a time, in water or white \ be the same with Scabious, and some think 



wine, but boil it not too much ; half an I the herbs too ; though I am of another 



ounce is a moderate dose to be boiled for j opinion. 



any reasonable body. \ Stccchas. French Lavender. Cassidony, 



Serpillum. Mother-of-Time, with Time ; \ is a great counterpoison, opens obstructions 

 it is hot and dry in the third degree, it pro- j of the liver and spleen, cleanses the matrix 

 vokes the menses, and helps the stranguary \ and bladder, brings out corrupt humours, 

 or stoppage of urine, gripings in the belly, \ provokes urine. 



ruptures, convulsions, inflammation of the > Succisa^ Marsus Diaboli. DevilVbit. 

 liver, lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen, j Hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly 

 boil it in white wine. Mtius, Galen. \ taken, it eases the fits of the mother, and 



Sigillum Solomonis. Solomon's seal. See ; breaks wind, takes away swellings in the 

 the root. j mouth, and slimy flegm that stick to the 



Smyrnium. Alexander of Crete. 

 Solanum. Night-shade : very cold and 

 dry, binding; it is somewhat dangerous 



jaws, neither is there a more present remedy 

 in the world for those cold swellings in 

 the neck which the vulgar call the almonds 



given inwardly, unless by a skilful hand ; j of the ears, than this herb bruised and 



oxitwardly it helps the Shingles, <Stf. Anthony's \ applied to them. 



fire, and other hot inflammations. Sitchaha. An Egyptian Thorn. Very 



Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in j hard, if not impossible to come by here, 

 the second degree, it opens obstructions of j Tanacetum. Tansy : hot in the second 

 the liver, and purges watery humours, and \ degree and dry in the third ; the very smell 

 is therefore very profitable in dropsies, it is of it stays abortion, or miscarriages in 

 very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore j women ; so it doth being bruised and ap- 

 if taken inwardly it had need be well cor- 5 plied to their navels, provokes urine, and 

 rected with cinnamon, ginger, or annis- f is a special help against the gout, 

 seed, &c. Taraxacon. Dandelion, or to write better 



Sonchns levis Asper. Sow-thistles smooth j French, Dent-de-lion, for in plain English, 

 and rough, they are of a cold, watery, yet lit is called lyon's tooth ; it is a kind of Sue- 

 binding quality, good for frenzies, they | cory, and thither I refer you. 



increase milk in nurses, and cause the chil- 

 dren which they nurse to have a good 



Tamariscus. Tamiris. It hath a dry 

 cleansing quality, and hath a notable virtue 



colour, help gnawings of the stomach j against the rickets, and infirmities of the 

 coming of a hot cause ; outwardly they 5 spleen, provokes the menses. Galen, Dios- 

 help inflammations, and hot swellings, cool j corides. 

 the heat of the fundament and privities. TelepJiium. A kind of Opine. 



Soplii Chiritrgorum. Fluxweed : drying \ Thlaspi. See Nasturtium. 

 without any manifest heat or coldness ; it is I Thymbra. A wild Savory. 



