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the stomach.and is a certain remedy ("saith 

 Tragus) to dissolve congealed or clotted 

 blood in the body, or that which is clotted 

 by bruises, falls, &c. The juice or distilled 

 water thereof being drank, and the bruised 

 leaves laid to the place, being taken either 

 in meat or drink, it is good to help to 

 provoke urine, or expel the stone in the 

 kidneys, to send down women's courses, 

 and to help the pleurisy and pricking of 

 the sides. 



The wild Chervil bruised and applied, 

 dissolves swellings in any part, or the 

 marks of congealed blood by bruises or 

 blows, in a little space. 



SWEET CHERVIL, OR SWEET CICELY. 



DescriptJ] THIS grows very like the 

 great hemlock, having large spread leaves 

 cut into divers parts, but of a fresher green 

 colour than the Hemlock, tasting as sweet 

 as the Anniseed. The stalks rise up a yard I 

 high, or better, being creased or hollow, 

 having leaves at the joints, but lesser ; and 

 at the tops of the branched stalks, umbels 

 or tufts of white flowers; after which comes 

 long crested black shining seed, pointed at 

 both ends, tasting quick, yet sweet and 

 pleasant. The root is great and white, 

 growing deep in the ground, and spreading 

 sundry long branches therein, in taste and 

 smell stronger than the leaves or seeds, 

 and continuing many years. 



Place.] This grows in gardens. 



Government and virtues.] These are all 

 three of them of the nature of Jupiter, and 

 under his dominion. This whole plant, 

 besides its pleasantness in sallads, has its 

 physical virtue. The root boiled, and eaten 

 with oil and vinegar, (or without oil) do 

 much please and warm old and cold sto- 

 machs oppressed with wind or phlegm, or 

 those that have the phthisic or consump- 

 tion of the lungs. The same drank with 

 wine is a preservation from the plague. It 

 provokes women's courses, and expels the 



after-birth, procures an appetite to meat, 

 and expels wind. The juice is good to 

 heal the ulcers of the head and face ; the 

 candied root hereof are held as effectual as 

 Angelica, to preserve from infection in the 

 time of a plague, and to warm and comfort 

 a cold weak stomach. It is so harmless, 

 you cannot use it amiss. 



CHESNUT TREE. 



It were as needless to describe a tree so 

 commonly known as to tell a man he had 

 gotten a mouth ; therefore take the govern- 

 ment and virtues of them thus : 



The tree is abundantly under the do- 

 minion of Jupiter, and therefore the fruit 

 must needs breed good blood, and yield 

 commendable nourishment to the body ; 

 yet if eaten over-much, they make the 

 blood thick, procure head ache, and bind 

 the body ; the inner skin, that covers the 

 nut, is of so binding a quality, that a scruple 

 of it being taken by a man, or ten grains 

 by a child, soon stops any flux whatsoever : 

 The whole nut being dried and beaten 

 into powder, and a dram taken at a time, 

 is a good remedy to stop the terms in 

 women. If you dry Chesnuts, (only the 

 kernels I mean) both the barks being 

 taken away, beat them into powder, and 

 make the powder up into an electuary with 

 honey, so have you an admirable remedy 

 for the cough and spitting of blood. 



EARTH CHESNUTS. 



THEY are called Earth-nuts, Earth 

 Chesnuts, Ground Nuts, Ciper-nuts, and 

 in Sussex Pig-nuts. A description of them 

 were needless, for every child knows them. 



Government and virtues.] They are some- 

 thing hot and dry in quality, under the 

 dominion of Venus, they provoke lust 

 exceedingly, and stir up to those sports she 

 is mistress of; the seed is excellent good to 

 provoke urine ; and so also is the root, but 

 it doth not perform it so forcibly as the seed 

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