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with us, although Tragus saith from expe- 1 is also effectual against the venom of any 

 rience in Germany, that the distilled water j poisonous creature, and the danger that 

 thereof is profitable for gnawings or excori- * comes to them that have the lethargy, and 

 utions in the stomach or bowels, or for ul- jis as good against the cough. The distilled 

 cers in the lungs, liver, or other inward J water of Parsley is a familiar medicine with 

 parts, as also in the matrix, and helps all ! nurses to give their children when they are 

 those diseases, being drank for certain days \ troubled with wind in the stomach or belly 

 together. It stays the sharpness of humours i which they call the frets ; and is also much 

 in the bloody- flux, and other fluxes in the i available to them that are of great years 

 body, or in wounds. The root thereof | The leaves of Parsley laid to the eyes that 

 also performs the like effect. It is used {are inflamed with heat, or swollen, doth 

 outwardly to cool any heat or inflammation 5 much help them, if it be used with bread or 

 upon any hurt or wound, and eases the j meal ; and being fried with butter, and ap- 

 painsof them; as, also, to heal scaldings \ plied to women's breasts that are hard 

 or burnings, the juice thereof being beaten i through the curdling of their milk, it abates 

 with some green sallad oil, and anointed. | the hardness quickly ; and also takes away 

 The leaf bruised, and laid to any green \ black and blue marks coming of bruises or 

 wound in the hand or legs, doth heal them ! falls. The juice thereof dropped^into the 

 quickly; and being bound to the throat, (ears with a little wine, eases the pains, 

 much helps the quinsy ; it helps also rup-j Tragus sets dawn an excellent medicine to 

 tures and burstenness. If you please to] help the jaundice and falling sickness, the 

 make the juice thereof into a syrup with; dropsy, and stone in the kidneys, in this 

 honey or sugar, you may safely take a | manner : Take of the seed of Parsley, Fen- 

 epoonful or two at a time, (let my author j nel, Annise and Carraways, of each an 

 say what he will) for a quinsy, and you Bounce; of the roots of Parsley, Burnet, 

 shall find the medicine pleasant, and the \ Saxifrage, and Carraways, of each an ounce 

 cure speedy. j an( ] an h-df ; let the seeds be bruised, and 



\ the roots washed and cut small ; let them 



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| he all night to steep in a bottle of white 



THIS is so well known, that it needs no JAvine, and in the morning be boiled in a 

 description. | close earthen vessel until a third part 01 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the j more be wasted ; which being strained and 

 dominion of Mercury; is very comfortable* cleared, take four ounces thereof morning 

 to the stomach ; helps to provoke urine cind (and evening first and last, abstaining from 

 women's courses, to break wind both in the | drink after 'ii for three hours. This opens 

 stomach and bowds, and doth a little open j obstructions of the liver and spleen, and 

 the body, but the root much more. It 'expels the dropsy and jaundice by urine, 

 opens obstructions both of liver and spleen, * 



and is therefore accounted one of the five! PARSLEY PIERT > OR PARSLEY BREAK 

 opening roots. Galen commended itj STONE. 



against the falling sickness, and to provoke I Descript.] THE root, although it be very 

 nnne mightily ; especially if the roots be Ismail and thready, yet it continues many 

 boiled, and eaten like Parsnips. The seed 1 years, from which arise many leaves lying 

 is effectual lo provoke urine and women's i along on the ground, each standing upon 

 courses, to expel wind, to break the stone,! a long small foot-stalk, the leaves as broad 

 and case the pains and torments thereof; it I as a man's nail, very deeply denied on the 



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