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Time.'] It flowers and seeds in July, or< HEMP 



thereabouts. 



Government and virtues.'] Saturn claims? Tins is so well known to every good 

 dominion over this herb, yet I wonder why \ housewife in the country, that I shall not 

 : t may not be applied to the privities in a | need to write any description of it. 

 Priapism, or continual standing of the yard, \ Time.] It is sown in the very end 01 

 t being very beneficial to that disease ; I ; March, or beginning of April, and is ripe 

 /suppose, my author's judgment was first : in August or September, 

 upon the opposite disposition of Saturn to j Government and virtuesJ] It is a plant of 

 Venus in those faculties, and therefore he | Saturn, and good for something else, you 

 forbade the applying of it to those parts, I see, than to make halters only. The seed 

 that it might not cause barrenness, or spoil \ of Hemp consumes wind, and by too much 

 the spirit procreative ; which if it do, yet j use thereof disperses it so much that it 

 applied to the privities, it stops its lustful j dries up the natural seed for procreation; 

 thoughts. Hemlock is exceedingly cold, j yet, being boiled in milk and taken, helps 

 and very dangerous, especially to be taken j such as have a hot dry cough. The Dutch 

 inwardly. It may safely be applied to in- \ make an emulsion out of the seed, and give 

 {laminations, tumours, and swellings in any \ it with good success to those that have the 

 part of the body (save the privy parts) as j jaundice, especially in the beginning of the 

 also to St. Anthony's fire, wheals, pushes, j disease, if there be no ague accompanying 

 and creeping ulcers that arise of hot sharp j it, for it opens obstructions of the gall, and 

 humours, by cooling and repelling the heat; | causes digestion of choler. The emulsion 

 the leaves bruised and laid to the brow or j or decoction of the seed stays lasks and 

 forehead aie good for their eyes that are red j continual fluxes, eases the cholic, and allays 

 and swollen ; as also to take away a pin | the troublesome humours in the bowels, 

 and web growing in the eye ; this is a tried \ and stays bleeding at the mouth, nose, or 



other places, some of the leaves being fried 



medicine: Take a small handful of this 

 herb, and half so much bay salt, beaten 

 together, and applied to the contrary wrist 



with the blood of them that bleed, and so 

 given them to eat. It is held very good to 



of the hand, for 24 hours, doth remove it | kill the worms in men or beasts ; and the 

 in thrice dressing. If the root thereof be j juice dropped into the ears kills worms in 

 roasted under the embers, wrapped in dou- j them ; and draws forth earwigs, or other 

 ble wet paper, until it be soft and tender, { living creatures gotten into them. The de- 

 and then applied to the gout in the hands 5 coction of the root allays inflammations of 

 or fingers, it will quickly help this evil, the head, or any other parts : the herb it- 



If any through mistake eat the herb Hem- 

 lock instead of Parsley, or the roots in- 



self, or the distilled water thereof doth the 

 like. The decoction of the root eases the 



stead of a Parsnip (both of which it is very | pains of the gout, the hard humours of 

 like) whereby happens a kind of frenzy, or | knots in the joints, the pains and shrinking 

 perturbation of the senses, as if they were \ of the sinews, and the pains of the hips 

 stupid and drunk, the remedy is (as Pliny t The fresh juice mixed with a' little oil and 

 saith) to drink of the best and strongest ] butter, is good for any place that hath been 

 pure wine, before it strikes to the heart, or | burnt with fire, being thereto applied 

 Gentian put in wine, or a draught of vine- 1 

 gar, wherewith Tragus doth affirm, that he} 

 cured a woman that had eaten the root. Descnpt.~] OUR, common Henbane ha) 



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