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and may be effectual for other parts of the:; together, stays bleeding at the mouth. The 



body also. 



seed being drank, is a remedy against the 



; stinging of venomous creatures, the biting 



NETTLES. \ of mad dogs, the poisonous qualities of 



I Hemlock, Henbane, Nightshade, Mandrake, 



NETTLES are so well known, that they ;or other such like herbs that stupify or dull 

 need no description; they may be found j the senses ; as also the lethaigy, especially 

 by feeling, in the darkest night. I to use it outwardly, to rub the forehead or 



Government and virtues. ~\ This is also; temples in the lethargy, and the places 

 an herb Mars claims dominion over. You 5 stung or bitten with beasts, with a little salt, 

 know Mars is hot and dry, and you know j The distilled water of the herb is also effec- 

 as well that Winter is cold and moist ; then i tual (though not so powerful) for the dis- 

 you may know as well the reason why j eases aforesaid; as for outward wounds 

 Nettle-tops eaten in the Spring consume; and sores to wash them, and to cleanse the 

 the phlegmatic superfluities in the body or ; skin from morphew, leprosy, and other 

 man, that the coldness and moistness of discolourings thereof. The seed or leaves 

 Winter hath left behind. r \ he roots or $ bruised, and put into the nostrils, stays the 

 leaves boiled, or the juice of either of them, j bleeding of them, and takes away the flesh 

 or both made into an electuary with honey \ growing in them called polypus. The juice 

 and sugar, is a safe and sure medicine to j of the leaves, or the decoction of them, or 

 open the pipes and passages of the lungs, j of the root, is singularly good to wash either 

 which is the cause of wheezing and short- 1 old, rotten, or stinking sores or fistulous, 

 ness of breath, and hrlps to expectorate land gangrenes, and such as fretting, eating, 

 tough phlegm, as also to raise the impost- \ or corroding scabs, manginess, and itch, 

 humed pleurisy ; and spend it by spitting ;| in any part of the body, as also green 

 the same helps the swelling of the almonds j wounds, by washing them therewith, or ap- 

 of the throat, the mouth -md throat being; plying the green herb bruised thereunto, 

 gargled therewith. The juice is also effec-jyea, although the flesh were separated from 

 tual to settle the palate of the mouth in its j the bones; the same applied to our wearied 

 place, and to heal and temper the inflani-{ members, refresh them, or to place those 

 malions and soreness of the mouth and ; that have been out of joint, being first set 

 throat. The decoction of the leaves in ; up again, strengthens, dries, and comforts 

 wine, being drank, is singularly good to pro- 1 them, as also those places troubled with 

 voke women's courses, and settle the suf- \ aches and gouts, and the defluxion of 

 location, strangling of the mother, and all \ humours upon the joints or sinews ; it eases 

 other diseases thereof; it is also applied out- j the pains, and dries or dissolves the defluc- 

 wardly with a little myrrh. The same also, j tions. An ointment made of the juice, 

 or the seed provokes urine, and expels the | oil, and a little wax, is singularly good to 

 gravel and stone in the reins or bladder, > rub cold and benumbed members. An 

 often proved to be effectual in many that \ handful of the leaves of green Nettles, and 

 have taken it. The same kills the worms \ another of Wallwort, or Deanwort, bruised 

 in children, eases pains in the sides, and; and applied simply themselves to the gout, 

 dissolves the windiness in the spleen, as : sciatica, or joint aches in any part, hath 

 also in the body, although others think it; been found to be an admirable help there- 

 only powerful to provoke venery. The junto. 



juice of the leaves taken two or three days ; 



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