252 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is | 



bad for head-aches LIVING CREATURES. 



Ammonicaum, applied to the side, helps \ 



the hardness and pains of the spleen. Millepedes (so called from ihe multitude 



Camphire, eases pains of the head coining \ of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they 



of heat, takes away inflammations, arid cools j have a thousand) sows, hog-lice, wood-lice, 



any place to which it is applied. ^ being bruised and mired with wine, they pro- 



I voke urine, help the yellow jaundice outwardly 

 { being boiled in oil, help pains in the ears, a 



\drop be-ins put into them. 

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Lhe flesh of vipers being eaten, clear the 



THAT all juices have the same virtues ; sight, help the vices of the nerves, resist poison 

 with the herbs or fruits whereof they are j exceedingly, neither is there any better remedy 

 made, I suppose few or none will deny, \under the sun for their bitings than the head 

 therefore I shall only name a few of them, $ of the viper that bit you, bruised and applied 

 and that briefly. \ to the place, and the flesh eaten, you need not 



Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, $ eat above a dram at a time, and make it up a? 

 strengthens the lungs, takes away the rough- i you shall be taught in troches of vipers. Neither 

 ness of the throat, succours the reins and j any comparable to the stinging of bees and 

 bladder. 1 wasps, $c. than the same that sting you, 



The juice of Citrons cools the blood, ! bruised and applied to the place. 

 strengthens the heart, mitigates the violent Land Scorpions cure their own stingings 'y 

 heat of fevers. the same means ; the ashes of them (being 



The juice of Lemons works the same ef- burnt) potently provokes urine, and breaks the 

 feet, but not so powerfully. \stone. 



Juice of Liquorice, strengthens the lungs, j Earth-worms, are an admirable remedy for 

 helps coughs and colds. \ cut nerves being applied to the place ; they pro- 



\ voke urine ; see the oil of them, only let me not 

 \forgp.t one notable thing quoted by Mizalclus, 



THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS. M>A fo, ITtof the powder of them put into an 



% hollow tooth, makes it drop out. 



These have been treated of before, only two j To draw a tooth without pain,/// #72 earth- 

 exceptcd. The first of which is* \ en crucible full of Emmets, Ants, or Pismires, 



Agaricus. Agarick : It purges flegm, \ eggs and all, and when you have burned them, 

 choler, and melancholy, from the brain, nerves, \ keep the ashes, with which if you touch a tooth 

 muscles, marrow, (or more properly brain) of\ it will fall out. 



ihe back, it cleanses the breast, lungs, liver, \ Eels, being put into wine or beer, and suffered 

 stomach, spleen, reins, womb, joints; it provokes \ to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure 

 urine, and the menses, kills worms, helps pains \ that sort of liquor again. 

 in the joints, and causes a good colour: it is\ Oysters applied alive to a pestilential swelling, 

 very seldom or never taken alone. See Syrup 

 of Roses with Agarick. 



draw the venom to them. 



Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a dram of it 



Lastly, Vicus Quircinus, or Misleto of the \ taken every morning helps the bitings of mad 

 Oak, helps the falling-sickness being either] dogs, and all other venomous beasts, 

 taken inwardly, or hung about one's neck. Swallows, being eaten, clear the sight, the 



Cashes of them (being burnt) eaten, preserve 



