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old sores, cancers, and inveterate ulcers, and 

 draws forth thorns and splinters of wood, 

 nails, or any other such things gotten in the 

 flesh. It helps to strengthen the members 

 that be out of joint: and being bruised and 

 applied, or the juice dropped in it, helps 

 foul and imposthumed ears. 



The distilled water of the herb is good 

 to all the said purposes, either inward or 

 outward, but a great deal weaker. 



It is a most admirable remedy for such 

 whose livers are annoyed either by heat or 

 cold. The liver is the former of blood, and 

 blood the nourisher of the body, and Agri- 

 mony a strengthener of the liver. 



I cannot stand to give you a reason in 

 every herb why it cures such diseases ; but 

 if you please to pursue my judgment in 

 the herb Wormwood, you shall find them 

 there, and it will be well worth your while 

 to consider it in every herb, you shall find 

 them true throughout the book. 



WATER AGRIMONY. 



IT is called in some countries, Water 

 Hemp, Bastard Hemp, and Bastard Agri- 

 mony, Eupatorium, and Hepatorium, be- 

 cause it strengthens the liver. 



Descript.'] The root continues along time, 

 having many long slender strings. The 

 stalk grows up about two feet high, some- 

 times higher. They are of a dark purple 

 colour. The branches are many, growing 

 at distances the one from the other, the one 

 from the one side of the stalk, the other 

 from the opposite point. The leaves are 

 fringed, and much indented at the edges. 

 The flowers grow at the top of the branches, 

 of a brown yellow colour, spotted with 

 black spots, having a substance within 

 the midst of them like that of a Daisy : If 

 you rub them between your fingers, they 

 smell like rosin or cedar when it is burnt. 

 The seeds are long, and easily stick to any 

 woollen thing they touch. 



Place.'] They delight not in heat, and 



therefore they are not so frequently found 

 in the Southern parts of England as in the 

 northern, where they grow frequently: You 

 may look for them in cold grounds, by ponds 

 and ditches' sides, and also by running 

 waters ; sometimes you shall find them grow 

 in the midst of waters. 



Time.'] They all flower in July or August, 

 and the seed is ripe presently after. 



Government and virtues J] It is a plant of 

 Jupiter, as well as the other Agrimony, only 

 this belongs to the celestial sign Cancer. 

 It heals and dries, cuts and cleanses 

 thick and tough humours of the breast, and 

 for this I hold it inferior to but few herbs 

 that grow. It helps the cachexia or evil 

 disposition of the body, the dropsy and 

 yellow-jaundice. It opens obstructions of 

 the liver, mollifies the hardness of the spleen, 

 being applied outwardly. It breaks impost- 

 humes away inwardly : It is an excellent 

 remedy for the third day ague. It provokes 

 urine and the terms ; it kills worms, and 

 cleanses the body of sharp humours, which 

 are the cause of itch and scabs ; the herb 

 being burnt, the smoke thereof drives away 

 flies, wasps, &c. It strengthens the lungs 

 exceedingly. Country people give it to 

 their cattle when they are troubled with the 

 cough, or broken- winded, 



ALEHOOF, OR GROUND-IVY. 



SEVERAL counties give it different names, 

 so that there is scarcely any herb growing 

 of that bigness that has got so many: It is 

 called Cat's-foot, Ground-ivy, Gill-go-by- 

 ground, and Gill-creep-by-ground, Turn- 

 hoof, Haymaids, and Alehoof. 



Descript.'] This well known herb lies, 

 spreads and creeps upon the ground, 

 shoots forth roots, at the corners of tender 

 jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at 

 every joint somewhat hairy, crumpled and 

 unevenly dented about the edges with round 

 dents; at the joints likewise, with the leaves 

 towards the end of the branches, come forth 



