AIND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



It helps digestion, quenches thirst, in- S groat pools, and standing waters, and scme- 

 c reuses milk in nurses, eases griping pains in \ times in slow running rivers, and lesser 

 the stomach or bowels, that come of choler. i ditches of water, in sundry places of this 

 Applied outwardly to the region of the land. 



heart, liver or reins, or by bathing the said 



Time.'] They flower most commonly 



places with the juice of distilled water, about the end of May, and their seed is 

 wherein some white Sanders, or red Roses: ripe in August. 



are put ; not only represses the heat and 1 Government and rirtaes.'] The herb is 

 inflammations therein, but comforts and | under the dominion of the Moon, and there- 

 strengthens those parts, and also tempers* fore cools and moistens like the former. 

 the heat of urine. Galen advises old men * The leaves and flowers of the Water Lilies 

 to use it with spice; and where spices are | are cold and moist, but the roots and seeds 

 wanting, to add Mints, Rochet, and such are cold and dry; the leaves do cool ail 

 like hot herbs, or else Cilron Lemon, or j inflammations, both outward and inward 

 Orange seeds, la abate the cold of one and \ heat of agues ; and so doth the flowers 

 heat of the other. The seed and distilled j also, either by the syrup or conserve; 

 water of the Lettuce work the same effects ( the syrup helps much to procure rest, 

 in all things; but the use of Lettuce is j and to settle the brain of frantic per- 

 chiefly fo r bidden to those thai are short- ; sons, by cooling the hot distemperature 

 winded, or have any imperfection in the! of the head. The seed as well as the root 

 Jungs, or spit blood. ; is effectual to slay fluxes of blood or 



* humours, either of wounds or of the belly ; 



WATER LILY. ., J - f 



but the roots are most used, and more ef- 



()( these there are two principally noted 



factual to cool, bind, and restrain all fluxes 



hinds, r/:. the White and the Yellow. 1 in man or woman. The root is likewise 



Descript.] The White Lily has very j very good for those whose urine is hot and 

 large and thick dark green leaves lying on j sharp, to be boiled in wine and water, and 

 the water, sustained by long and thick j the decoction drank. The distilled water 

 foot-stalks, that arise from a great, thick, \ of the flowers is very effectual for all the 

 round, and long tuberous black root j diseases aforesaid, both inwardly taken, 

 spongy or loose, with many knobs thereon, i and outwardly applied ; and is much com 

 green on the outside, but as white as snow \ mended to take away freckles, spots, smi- 

 within, consisting of divers rows of long! burn, and morphew from the face, or otlut 

 and somewhat thick and narrow leaves, j parts of the body. The oil made of the 

 smaller and thinner the more inward they J flowers, as oil of Roses is made, is profitably 

 be, encompassing a head with many yel-lused to cool hot tumours, and to ease the 

 low threads or thrums in the middle; where, i pains, and help the sores, 

 after they arc past, stand round Poppy-like i 



, ,.,, ,. ,' ', -, , , LILY OF THE VALLEY. 



heads, lull or broad oily and bitter seed. 



The yellow kind is little different from \ CALLED also Conval Lily, Male Lily, 

 /he former, save only that it has fewer i and Lily Confancy. 



leaves on the flowers, greater and morej Descrii>t.~] The root is small, and creeps 



shining seed, and a whitish root, both with- j far in the ground, as grass roots do. The 



n and without. The root of both is some- j leaves arc many, against which rises up u 



\iat sweet in taste. \ stalk half a foot high, with many white 



Place] They are found growing in \ flowers, like little bells with turned edges 



