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juice dropped into the ears, eases the noise | There is a greater kind than the ordinary 

 in them, and takes away the pricking ancHsort found wild with us, which so abides, 

 shooting pains therein : The same, or the 'being brought into gardens, and differs not 

 distilled water, assuages hot and swelling { from it, but only in tne largeness of the 

 imposthumes, burnings and scaldings by Heaves and stalks, in rising higher, and not 

 fire or water ; as also all other hot tumours ! creeping upon the ground so much. The 

 and inflammations, or breakings-ouf, of flowers whereof are purple, growing in run- 

 heat, being bathed often with wet cloths j dies about the stalks like the other, 

 dipped therein : The said juice made into j 'Place.'] The first, which is common in 

 a liniment with ceruss, and oil of roses, and j gardens, grows also in many moist and 

 anointed therewith, cleanses foul rotten ; watery places of this land, 

 ulcers, and stays spreading or creeping! The second is found wild in effect in 

 ulcers, and running scabs or sores in chil-j divers places by the highways from London 

 dren's heads; and helps to stay the hair \ to Colchester, and thereabouts, more abun- 

 from falling off the head. The said oint-jdantlv than in any other counties, and is 

 ment, or the herb applied to the fundament, \ also planted in their gardens in Essex, 

 opens the piles, and eases their pains ; and { Time.'] They flower in the latter end of 

 being mixed with goats' tallow, helps the i Summer, about August, 

 gout. The juice is very effectual to cleanse: Government and virtues.'] The herb is 

 fistulas, and to heal them up safely ; or the; under Venus. Dioscorides sailh, that 

 herb itself bruised and applied with a little j Pennyroyal makes thin tough phlegm, 

 salt. It is likewise also effectual to heal j warms the coldness of any part whereto it 

 any green wound ; if it be bruised and | is applied, and digests raw or corrupt mat- 

 bound thereto for three days, you shall ; ter ; Being boiled and drank, it provokes 

 need no other medicine to heal it further. ; women's courses, and expels the dead child 

 A poultice made hereof with Mallows, and \ and after-birth, and stays the disposition 

 boiled in wine and wheat bran and bean \ to vomit, being taken in water and vinegar 

 flour, and some oil put thereto, and ap- i mingled together. And being mingled with 

 plied warm to any bruised sinews, tendon, i honey and salt, it voids phlegm out of the 

 or muscle, doth in a very short time restore ; lungs, and purges melancholy by the stool, 

 them to their strength, taking away the i Drank with wine, it helps such as are bitten 

 pains of the bruises, and dissolves the con- ; and stung with venomous beasts, and ap- 

 gealed blood coming of blows, or falls from < plied to the nostrils with vinegar, revives 

 high places. 5 those that are fainting and swooning. 



7 l'he juice of Pellitory of the Wall clarified ; Being dried and burnt, it strengthens the 

 and boiled in a syrup with honey, and a; gums. It is helpful to those that are trou- 

 spoonful of it drank every morning by such ! bled with the gout, being applied of itself 

 as are subject to the dropsy ; if continuing j to the place until it was red ; and applied 

 that course, though but once a weak, they | in a plaister, it takes away spots or marks 

 ever have the dropsy, let them but come j in the face; applied with salt, it profits those 

 to me, and I will cure them gratis. I that are splenetic, or livergrown. The d<- 



\ coction doth help the itch, if washed there- 

 | with. The green herb bruised and put 



PENNYROYAL is so well known unto j into vinegar, cleanses foul ulcers, and takes 

 all, 1 mean the common kind, that it needs taway the marks of bruises and blows about 

 no description. |the eyes, and a.l discolourings of the face 



