134 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



the kernels of the stones do wonderfully j much more, and are very good in repelling 

 ease the pains and wringings of the belly j medicines ; and if the wild sort be boiled 

 through wind or sharp humours, and help; with mushrooms, it makes them less dan- 

 to make an excellent medicine for the stone \ gcrous. The said Pears boiled with a little 

 upon all occasions, in this manner: I take \ honey, help much the oppressed stomach, 

 fifty kernels of peach-stones, and one hundred \ as all sorts of them do, some more, some 

 of the kernels of cherry-stones, a handful of\ less : but the harsher sorts do more cool 

 elder flower* fresh or dried, and three pints ! and bind, serving well to be bound to green 

 of Muscadel; set them in a close pot into a bed ! wounds, to cool and stay the blood, and heal 

 of horse-dung for ten days, after zchich distill up the green wound without farther trouble, 

 in a glass with a gentle fire, and keep it for * orinflammation, asGalen saithhehath found 

 your use : You may drink upon occasion \ by experience. The wild Pears do sooner 

 three or four ounces at a time. The milk or \ close up the lipsof green wounds than others, 

 cream of these kernels being drawn forth i Schola Selerni advises to drink much 

 Avith some Vervain water and applied to ! wine after Pears, or else (say they) they are 

 the forehead and temples, doth much help j as bad as poison ; nay, and they curse the 

 to procure rest and sleep to sick persons j tree for it too ; but if a poor man find his 

 wanting it. The oil drawn from the kernels, j stomach oppressed by eating Pears, it is but 

 the temples being therewith anointed, doth j working hard, and it Avill do as Avell as 

 the like. The said oil put into clysters, \ drinking wine, 

 eases the pains of the Avind cholic : and \ 



iU , ,. ,, PELLITORY OF SPAIN. 



anointed on the lower part or the belly, j 



doth the like, and dropped into the ears, | COMMON Pellitory of Spain, if it be 

 eases pains in them; the juice of the leaves planted in our gardens, Avill prosper very 

 doth the like. Being also anointed on the well ; yet there is one sort groAving orclina- 

 forehead and temples, it helps the megrim,: rily here Avild, Avhich I esteem to be little 

 and all other pains in the head. If the J inferior to the other, if at all. I shall not 



kernels be bruised and boiled in vinegar, 

 until they become thick, and applied to the 

 head, it marvellously procures the hair to 

 groAv again upon bald places, or Avhere it is 

 too thin. 



THE PEAR TREE. 



deny you the description of them both. 



T)escript.~\ Common Pellitory is a very 

 common plant, and Avill not be kept in our 

 gardens Avilhout diligent looking to. The 

 root goes down right into the ground bear- 

 ing leaves, being long and finely cut upon 

 the stalk, lying on the ground, much larger 

 PEAR Trees are soAvell knoAvn, that they j than the leaves of the Camomile are. At 

 teed no description. * the top it bears one single large flower at a 



Government and virtues.'] The Tree belongs 

 to Venus, and so doth the Apple tree. For 



place, having a border of many leaves, 

 Avhite on the upper side, and reddish under- 



their physical use they are best discerned \ neath, Avith a yelloAV thrum in the middle, 

 "by their taste. All the sweet and luscious j not standing so close as that of Camomile, 

 sorts, Avhether manured or wild, do help to i The other common Pellitory Avhich 

 move the belly dowmvards, more or less. \ groAvs here, hath a root of a sharp biting 

 Those that are hard and sour, do, on the j taste, scarcely discernible by the taste from 

 contrary, bind the belly as much, and the) that before described, from whence arise 

 leaves do so also: Those that are moist do divers brittle stalks, a yard high and more 

 in some sort cool, but harsh or wild sorts i with narrow leaves finely dented about the 



