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Taurus is the Genesis) this is your cure. I is an excellent remedy boiled in beer for 

 It opens, cures and digests humours, and j broken-winded horses, 

 mightily provokes women's courses and \ 



TT if i c *i_ J J ? MADDER. 



urine. Half a dram at a time of the dried ; 



root in powder taken in wine, doth wonder- * Descript."] GARDEN" Madder shoots 

 fully warm a cold stomach, helps digestion, | forth many very long, weak, four-square, 

 and consumes all raw and superfluous * reddish stalks, trailing on the ground a 

 moisture therein ; eases all inward gripings ^ great way, very rough or hairy, and full of 

 and pains, dissolves wind, and resists poison i joints: At every one of these joints come 

 and infection. It is a known and much > forth divers long and narrow leaves, stand- 

 praised remedy to drink the decoction of j ing like a star about the stalks, round also 

 the herb for any sort of ague, and to help j and hairy, towards the tops whereof come 

 the pains and torments of the body and I forth many small pale yellow flowers, after 

 bowels coming of cold. The seed is effec-j which come small roundheads, green at 

 tual to all the purposes aforesaid (except j first, and reddish afterwards, but black 

 r.he last) and works more powerfully. The \ when they are ripe, wherein is contained 

 distilled water of the herb helps the quinsy } the seed. The root is not very great, but 

 in the throat, if the rnouth and throat be I exceeding long, running down half a man's 

 gargled and washed therewith, and helps $ length into the ground, red and very clear, 

 the pleurisy, being drank three or four j while it is fresh, spreading divers ways, 

 times. Being dropped into the eyes, itj Placed] It is only manured in gardens, 

 takes away the redness or dimness of them ; ! or larger fields, for the profit that is made 

 it likewise takes away spots or freckles in thereof. 



the face. The leaves bruised, and fried 

 with a little hog's lard, and put hot to any 

 blotch or boil, will quickly break it. 



Time.~\ It flowers towards the end of 

 Summer, and the seed is ripe quickly after. 

 Government and virtues. ~] It is an herb of 



LUNGWORT. jMars. It hath an opening quality, and 



J afterwards to bind and strengthen. It is a' 

 Descript.'] THIS is a kind of moss, that; sure remedy for the yellow jaundice, by 



grows on sundry sorts of trees, especially 

 oaks and beeches, with broad, greyish, 

 tough leaves diversly folded, crumpled, and 

 gashed in on the edges, and some spotted 



opening the obstructions of the liver and 

 gall, arid cleansing those parts ; it opens 

 also the obstructions of the spleen, and 

 diminishes the melancholy humour. It is 



also with many small spots on the upper- ' available for the palsy and sciatica, and 

 side. It was never seen to bear any stalk | effectual for bruises inward and outward, 

 or flower at any time. land is therefore much used in vulnerary 



Government and virtues.'] Jupiter seems I drinks. The root for all those aforesaid 

 \:o own this herb. It is of great use to ; purposes, is to be boiled in wine or water, 

 physicians to help the diseases of the lungs, i as the cause requires, and some honey ami 

 and for coughs, wheezings, and shor tness of ; sugar put thereunto afterwards. The seed 

 breath, which it cures both in man and | hereof taken in vinegar and honey, helps 

 beast. It is very profitable to put into j the swelling and hardness of the spleen, 

 lotions that are taken to stay the moist | The decoction of the leaves and branches 

 humours that flow to ulcers, and hinder! is a good fomentation for women that have 

 their healing, as also to wash all other ulcers! not their courses. The leaves and roots 

 in the privy parts of a man or woman. It | beaten and applied to any part that is dis- 



