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in the belly or stomach, quiets inward pains | Time.'] It flowers in May and June, 

 that arise from the heat, sharpness and cor- i abides after seedtime green all the Winter 

 ruption of blood and choler. The distilled | Government and virtues."] Venus claims 

 water hereof taken by itself or with the J the herb as her own. Ladies' Mantle it 

 powder of the herb or seed, is very effectual j.very proper for those wounds that have in- 

 to all the purposes aforesaid, and is ac- S flammations, and is very effectual to stay 

 counted one of the most sovereign remedies : bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, 

 to cool all manner of inflammations, break- ; bruises by falls or otherwise, and helps rup- 

 ing out through heat, hot swellings and j tures ; and such women as have large 

 itnposthumes, gangrene and fistulous can- breasts, causing them to grow less and hard 

 kers, or foul filthy ulcers, being applied 1 being both drank and outwardly applied ; 

 Of put into them; but especially for all i the distilled water drank for 20 days toge- 



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sorts of ulcers and sores happening in the 

 privy parts of men and women. It helps 

 all fresh and green wounds, and speedily 



ther helps conception, and to retain the 

 birth ; if the women do sometimes also sit in 

 a bath made of the decoction of the herb. 



heals them. The juice dropped into the | It is one of the most singular wound herbs 



ears, cleanses them being foul, and having 

 running matter in them. 



[t is very prevalent for the premises ; as 

 also for broken joints and ruptures. 



LADIES MANTLE. 



that is, and therefore highly prized and 

 praised by the Germans, who use it in all 

 wounds inward and outward, to drink a de- 

 coctron thereof, and wash the wounds there- 

 with, or dip tents therein, and put them 

 into the wounds, which wonderfully dries 

 Descript.'] IT has many leaves rising j up all humidity of the sores, and abates in- 

 from the root standing upon long hairy | flammations tnerein. It quickly heals all 

 foot-stalks, being almost round, and a little j green wounds, not suffering any corruption 

 cut on the edges, into eight or ten parts, j to remain behind, and cures all old sores, 

 making it seem like a star, with so many ; though fistulous and hollow, 

 corners and points, and dented round about, i 



c i- LAVENDER. 



of a light green colour, somewhat hard in < 



handling, and as it were folded or plaited i BEING an inhabitant almost in every 

 at first, and then crumpled in divers places, j garden, it is so well known, that it needs no 

 and a little hairy, as the stalk is also, which \ description. 



rises up among them to the height of two j Time.] It flowers about the end of June, 

 or three feet; and being Aveak, is not able and beginning of July, 

 to stand upright, but bended to the ground, | Government and virtues."] Mercury owns 

 divided at the top into two or three small j the herb; and it carries his effects very po- 

 oranches, with small yellowish green heads, i tently. Lavender is of a special good use 

 and flowers of a whitish colour breaking out j for all the griefs and pains of the head and 

 of them ; which being past, there comes a } brain that proceed of a cold cause, as the 

 small yellowish seed like a poppy seed : I apoplexy, falling-sickness, the dropsy, or 

 The root is somewhat long and black, with sluggish malady, cramps, convulsions, 

 many strings and fibres thereat. \ palsies, and often faintings. It strengthens 



Place.'] It grows naturally in many pas- { the stomach, and frees the liver and spleen 

 tures and wood sides in Hertfordshire, i from obstructions, provokes women's courses, 

 Wiltshire, and Kent, and other places of | and expels the dead child and after-birth, 

 this land. *The flowers of Lavender steeped in wine, 



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