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edges into many divisions, of a light green j the Moon. The garden Poppy heads with 

 colour, sometimes hairy withal. The stalk | seeds made into a syrup, is frequently, and 

 is blackish and hairy also, but not so tall as * to good effect used to procure rest, and 

 the garden kind, having some such like : sleep, in the sick and weak, and to stay 

 leaves thereon to grow below, parted into ; catarrhs and defluxions of thin rheums 



three or four branches sometimes, whereon 



from the head into the stomach and lungs, 



grow small hairy heads bowing down be- ;; causing a continual cough, the fore-runner 

 fore the skin break, wherein the flower is j of a consumption ; it helps also hoarseness 

 inclosed, which when it is fully blown open, j of the throat, and when one have lost their 

 is of a fair yellowish red or crimson colour, \ voice, which the oil of the seed doth like- 

 and in some much paler, without any spot j wise. The black seed boiled in wine, and 

 in the bottom of the leaves, having many | drank, is said also to dry the flux of the 

 black soft threads in the middle, compass- j belly, and women's courses. The empty 

 ing a small green head, which when it is I shells, or poppy heads, are usually boiled 

 ripe, is not bigger than one's little finger's j in water, and given to procure rest and 

 end, wherein is contained much black seeds sleep : so doth the leaves in the same man- 

 smaller than that of the garden. The root j ner ; as also if the head and temples be 

 perishes every year, and springs again of i bathed with the decoction warm, or with 

 its own sowing, Of this kind there is one ; the oil of Poppies, the green leaves or the 

 lesser in all parts thereof, and differs in j heads bruised and applied with a little 

 nothing else. 1 vinegar, or made into a poultice with barley- 



Place.~] The garden kinds do not natu- 5 meal or hog's grease, cools and tempers 

 rally grow wild in any place, but all are i all inflammations, as also the disease called 

 sown in gardens where they grow. \ St. Anthony's fire. It is generally used in 



The Wild Poppy or Corn Rose, is plen- j treacle and mithridate, and in all other 

 tifully enough, and many times too much so | medicines that are made to procure rest 

 in the corn fields of all counties through this i and sleep, and to ease pains in the head as 

 land, and also on ditch hanks, and by i well as in other parts. It is also used to 

 hedge sides. The smaller wild kind is also s cool inflammations, agues, or frenzies, or 

 found in corn fields, and also in some ! to stay defluxions which cause a cough, or 

 other places, but not so plentifully as the \ consumptions, and also other fluxes of the 

 former. j belly or women's courses ; it is also put 



Time.] The garden kinds are usually | into hollow teeth, to ease the pain, and hath 

 .sown in the spring, which then flower about j been found by experience to ease the pains 

 the end of May, and somewhat earlier, if : of the gout, 

 they spring of their own sowing. The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Mat- 



The wild kind flower usually from May \ thiolus saith) is good to prevent the falling- 

 until July, and the seed of them is ripe soon ? sickness. The syrup made with the flower, 

 after the flowering. j is with good effect given to those that have 



Government and virtues ?\ The herb is the pleurisy ; and the dried flowers also, 

 Lunar, and of the juice of it is made opium; j either boiled in water, or made into powdei 

 only for lucre of money they cheat you, : and drank, either in the distilled water of 

 and tell you it is a kind of tear, or some \ them, or some other drink, works the like 

 such like thing, that drops from Poppies ; effect. The distilled water of the flowers 

 when they weep, and that is somewhere j is held to be of much good use against 

 beyond the seas, I know not where beyond | surfeits, being drank evening and morning; 



