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decoction of the leaves, bark, or root, being 

 bathed, heals broken bones. The water 

 that is found in the bladders on the leaves, 

 while it is fresh, is very effectual to cleanse 

 the skin, and make it fair; and if cloaths be 

 often wet therein, and applied to the rup- 

 tures of children, it heals them, if they be 

 well bound up with a truss. The said 

 water put into a glass, and set into the 

 ground, or else in dung for twenty-five days, 

 the mouth thereof being close stopped, 

 and the bottom set upon a layer of ordinary 

 salt, that the fceces may settle and water 

 become clear, is a singular and sovereign 

 balm for green wounds, being used with 

 soft tents : The decoction of the bark of 

 the root, fomented, mollifies hard tumours, 

 and the shrinking of the sinews. The roots 

 of the Elm, boiled for a long time in water, 

 and the fat arising on the top thereof, being 

 clean skimmed off, and the place anointed 

 therewith that is grown bald, and the hair 

 fallen away, will quickly restore them 

 again. The said bark ground with brine 

 or pickle, until it come to the form of a 

 poultice, and laid on the place pained with 

 the gout, gives great ease. The decoc- 

 tion of the bark in water, is excellent to 

 bathe such places as have been burnt with 

 fire. 



ENDIVE. 



Descript.~\ COMMON garden Endive bears 

 a longer and larger leaf than Succory, and 

 abides but one year, quickly running up to 

 a stalk and seed, and then perishes ; it has 

 blue flowers, and the seed of the ordinary 

 Endive is so like Succory seed, that it is 

 hard to distinguish them. 



Government and virlues.~\ It is a fine 

 cooling, cleansing, jovial plant. The de- 

 coction of the leaves, or the juice, or the 

 distilled water of Endive, serve well to cool 

 the excessive heat of the liver and stomach, 

 and in the hot fits of agues, and all other 

 inflammations in any part of the body ; it 



cools the heat and sharpness of the urine, 

 and excoriation in the urinary parts. The 

 seeds are of the same property, or rather 

 more powerful, and besides are available 

 for fainting, swooriings, and passions of the 

 heart. Outwardly applied, they serve to 

 temper the sharp humours of fretting ulcers, 

 hot tumours, swellings, and pestilential 

 sores ; and wonderfully help not only the 

 redness and inflammations of the eyes, but 

 the dimness of the sight also ; they are also 

 used to allay the pains of the gout. You 

 cannot use it amiss ; a syrup of it is a fine 

 cooling medicine for fevers. 



ELECAMPANE. 



DescriptJ] IT shoots forth many large 

 leaves, long and broad, lying near the 

 ground, small at both ends, somewhat soft 

 in handling of a whitish green on the upper 

 side, and grey underneath, each set upon 

 a short footstalk, from among which arise up 

 divers great and strong hairy stalks, three 

 or four feet high, with some leaves there- 

 upon, compassing them about at the lower 

 end, and are branched towards the tops, 

 bearing divers great and large flowers, like 

 those of the corn marigold, both the border 

 of leaves, and the middle thrum being yel- 

 low, which turn into down, with long, small, 

 brownish seeds amongst it, and is carried 

 away with the wind. The root is great 

 and thick, branched forth divers ways, 

 blackish on the outside and whitish within, 

 of a very bitter taste, and strong, but good 

 scent, especially when they are dried, no 

 part else of the plant having any smell. 



PlaceJ] It grows on moist grounds, and 

 shadowy places oftener than in the dry and 

 open borders of the fields and lanes, and in 

 other waste places, almost in every county 

 of this land. 



Time.~\ It flowers in the end of June and 

 July, and the seed is ripe in August. The 

 roots are gathered for use, as well in the 



