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into the eyes, cleanses them from any film 

 or skin, cloud or mists, which begin to 

 hinder the sight, and helps the watering 

 and redness of them, or when, by some 

 chance, they become black and blue. The 

 root mixed with bean-flour, and applied to 

 the throat or jaws that are inflamed, helps 

 them. The juice of the berries boiled in 

 oil of roses, or beaten into powder mixed 

 with the oil, and dropped into the ears, 

 eases pains in them. The berries or the 

 roots beaten with the hot ox-dung, and 

 applied, eases the pains of the gout. The 

 leaves and roots boiled in wine with a little 

 oil, and applied to the piles, or the falling 

 down of the fundament, eases them, and so 

 doth sitting over the hot fumes thereof. The 

 fresh roots bruised and distilled with a little 

 milk, yields a most sovereign water -to 

 cleanse the skin from scurf, freckles, spots, 

 or blemishes whatsoever therein. 



Authors have left large commendations 

 of this herb you see, but for my part, I have 

 neither spoken with Dr. Reason nor Dr. 

 Experience about it. 



CUCUMBERS. 



Government and virtues. ~] THERE is o 

 dispute to be made, but that they are under 

 the dominion of the Moon, though they are 

 so much cried out against for their coldness, 

 and if they were but one degree colder they 

 would be poison. The best of Galenists 

 hold them to be cold and moist in the 

 second degree, and then not so hot as either 

 lettuce or purslain : They are excellently 

 good for a hot stomach, and hot liver ; the 

 unmeasurable use of them fills the body 

 full of raw humours, and so indeed the un- 

 measurable use of any thing else doth harm. 

 The face being washed with their juice, 

 cleanses the skin, and is excellently good for 

 hot rheums in the eyes ; the seed is excel- 

 lently good to provoke urine, and cleanses 

 the passages thereof when they are stopped: 

 there is not a better remedy for ulcers in 



the bladder growing, than Cucumbers are ; 

 The usual course is, to use the seeds in 

 emulsions, as they make almond milk ; but 

 a far better way (in my opinion) is this ; 

 When the season of the year is, Take the 

 Cucumbers and bruise them well, and distil 

 the water from them, and let such as are 

 troubled with ulcers in the bladder drink 

 no other drink. The face being washed 

 with the same water, cures the reddest 

 face that is ; it is also excellently good for 

 sun-burning, freckles, and morphew. 



DAISIES. 



THESE are so well known almost to every 

 child, that I suppose it needless to write 

 any description of them. Take therefore 

 the virtues of them as follows. 



Government and virtues. ,] The herb is 

 under the sign Cancer, and under the 

 dominion of Venus, and therefore excellently 

 good for wounds in the breast, and very 

 fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, 

 and plaisters, as also in syrup. The greater 

 wild Daisy is a wound herb of good res- 

 pect, often used in those drinks or salves 

 that are for wounds, either inward or out- 

 ward. The juice or distilled water of these, 

 or the small Daisy, doth much temper the 

 heat of choler, and refresh the liver, and the 

 other inward parts. A decoction made of 

 them and drank, helps to cure the wounds 

 made in the hollowness of the breast. The 

 same also cures all ulcers and pustules in 

 the mouth or tongue, or in the secret parts. 

 The leaves bruised and applied to the pri- 

 vities, or to any other parts that are swoln 

 and hot, doth dissolve it, and temper the heat. 

 A decoction made thereof, of Wallwort and 

 Agrimony, and the places fomented and 

 bathed therewith warm, gives great ease to 

 them that are troubled with the palsy, 

 sciatica, or the gout. The same also dis- 

 perses and dissolves the knots or kernels 

 that grow in the flesh of any part of the 

 body, and bruises and hurts that come of 



