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tilled water of the Oaken bud, before they j the upper crust of the earth, shooting forth 



break out into leaves is good to be used j in divers places. 



either inwardly or outwardly, to assuage! Place.'] It grows in moist, shadowy 



inflammations, and to stop all manner of land grassy places of woods, in many parts 



fluxes in man or woman. The same is f of this land. 



singularly good in pestilential and hot! Time.'] It flowers about May, and the 



burning fevers; for it resists the force of; berries are ripe in June, and then quickly 



the infection, and allays the heat : It cooks j perishes, until the next year it springs from 



the heat of the liver, breaking the stone in j the same root again. 



the kidneys, and stays women's courses, j Government and virtues.] It is a precious 



The decoction of the leaves works the same > herb of the Sun. Half a dram, or a dram 



effects. The Avater that is found in the j at most, in powder of the roots hereof taken 



hollow places of old Oaks, is very effectual in wine and vinegar, of each equal parts, 



against any foul or spreading scabs. The 

 distilled water (or concoction, which is 



and the party laid presently to sweat there- 

 upon, is held to be a sovereign remedy for 



better) of the leaves, is one of the best { those that are infected with the plague, and 

 remedies that I know of for the whites in \ have a sore upon them, by expelling the 

 women. j poison and infection, and defending the 



| heart and spirits from danger. It is a sin- 

 ' s ' j gularly good wound herb, and is thereupon 



ARE so well known that they need no j used with other the like effects in many 

 description. i compound balms for curing of wounds, be 



Government and virtues. ~] Oats fried with \ they fresh and green, or old and malignant, 

 bay salt, and applied to the sides, take } and especially if the sinews be burnt, 

 away the pains of stitches and wind in the \ 



sides or the belly. A poultice made of 5 ORCHIS. 



meal of Oats, and some oil of Bays put 



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thereunto, helps the itch and the leprosy, 

 as also the fistulas of the fundament, and 



IT has almost as many several names 

 attributed to the several sorts of it, as would 



dissolves hard imposthurnes. The meal of: almost fill a sheet of paper ; as dog-stones, 

 Oats boiled with vinegar, and applied, f goat-stones, fool-stones, fox-stones, satiri- 

 takes away freckles and spots in the face, \ con, cullians, together with many others too 

 and other parts of the body. j tedious to rehearse. 



Descript.l To describe all the several 



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; sorts of it were an endless piece or work ; 



DescriptJ] THIS small plant never bears ! therefore I shall only describe the roots 

 more than one leaf, but only when it rises because they are to be used with some dis- 

 up with his stalk, which thereon bears j cretion. They have each of them a double 

 another, and seldom more, which are of a root within, some of them are round, in 

 blueish green colour, pointed, with many j others like a hand ; these roots alter every 

 ribs or veins therein, like Plantain. At the ; year by course, when the one rises and 

 top of the stalk grow many small white j waxes full, the other waxes lank, and perishes 

 flowers, star fashion, smelling somewhat i Now, it is that which is full which is to be 

 sweet ; after which come small red berries, ! used in medicines, the other being either of 

 when they are ripe. The root is small, of the ! no use at all, or else, according to the 

 bigness of a rush, lying and creeping under \ humour of some, it destroys and disannuls 



