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courses and urine, increases both milk and | of Jupiter, and therefore strengthens the 



seed. One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of 

 French barley, and a small handful of 



Marsh-mallow roots, clean washed and cut, 

 being boiled in the broth of a chicken, and 

 four ounces taken in the morning, arid 

 fasting two hours after, is a good medicine 

 for a pain in the sides. The white Cicers 



part of the body it rules ; let 

 angular and strong when it is 



Jupiter be 

 gathered ; 



and if you give but a scruple (which is but 

 twenty grains,) of it at a time, either in 

 white wine, or in white wine vinegar, you 

 shall very seldom miss the cure of an ague, 

 be it what ague soever, in three fits, as I 



are used more for meat than medicine, yet | have often proved to the admiration both 

 have the same effect, and are thought more ! of myself and others; let no man despise it 



because it is plain and easy, the ways of 

 God are all such. It is an especial herb 



powerful to increase milk and seed. The 



wild Cicers are so much more powerful 

 than the garden kinds, by how much they 

 exceed them in heat and dryness; whereby 

 they do more open obstructions, break the 

 stone, and have all the properties of cutting, 

 opening, digesting, and dissolving ; and 



used in all inflammations and fevers, whether 

 infectious or pestilential ; or among other 

 herbs to cool and temper the blood and 

 humours in the body. As also for all 

 lotions, gargles, infections, and the like, for 



former. 



CINQUEFOIL, OR FIVE-LEAVED GRASS} 

 CALLED IN SOME COUNTIES, FIVE- 

 FINGERED GRASS. 



Descript.~] It spreads and creeps far 



this more speedily and certainly than the ! sore mouths, ulcers, cancers, fistulas, and 



other corrupt, foul, or running sores. The 

 juice hereof drank, about four ounces at a 

 time, for certain days together, cures the 

 quinsey and yellow jaundice ; and taken for 

 thirty days together, cures the falling sick- 

 ness. The roots boiled in milk, and drank, is 



upon the ground, with long slender strings j a most effectual remedy for all fluxes in man 

 like straw berries, which take root again, ! or woman, whether the white or red, as also 



and shoot forth many leaves, made of five 

 parts, and sometimes of seven, dented about 

 the edges, and somewhat hard. The stalks 

 are slender, leaning downwards and bear 

 many small yellow flowers thereon, with 

 some yellow threads in the middle, standing 

 about a smooth green head, which, when it 

 is ripe, is a little rough, and contains small 

 brownish seeds. The root is of a blackish 

 brown colours, as big as one's little finger, 

 but growing long, with some threads 

 thereat ; and by the small string it quickly 

 spreads over the ground. 



the bloody flux. The roots boiled in vine- 

 gar, and the decoction thereof held in the 

 mouth, eases the pains of the toothach. 

 The juice or decoction taken with a little 

 honey, helps the hoarseness of the throat, 



and is 



lungs. 



very good for the 

 The distilled water of 



cough 



of the 

 both roots 



and leaves, is also effectual to all the 

 purposes aforesaid ; and if the hands be 

 often washed therein, and suffered at every 

 time to dry in of itself without wiping, it 

 will in a short time help the palsy, or 

 shaking in them. The root boiled in 



Place.'] It grows by wood sides, hedge j vinegar, helps all knots, kernels, hard 

 sides, the path-way in fields, and in the i swellings, and lumps growing in any 

 borders and corners of them almost through part of the flesh, being thereto applied ; 

 all this land. as also inflammations, and St. An- 



Time.~\ It flowers in summer, somejthony's fire, all imposthumes, and pain- 

 sooner, some later. I ful sores with heat and putrefaction, 



Government and virtues.'] This is an herb ! the shingles also, and all other sorts of 



