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ihort branches, on every one whereof stand; often taken in meat and drink, it abates 

 two, three or four small heads, or buttons, j venery. A decoetion thereof with some 

 which breaking the skin that incloses them, \ dried dill leaves and flowers, eases all pains 

 shoots forth a tuft of pale greenish yellow j and torments, inwardly to be drank, and 

 threads, which falling away, there come in : outwardly to be applied warm to the place 

 their places small three-cornered cods, I grieved. The same being drank, helps the 

 wherein is contained small, long and round > pains both of the chest and sides, as also 

 seed. The whole plant has a strong un- $ coughs and hardness of breathing, the in- 

 pleasant scent. \ llammations of the lungs, and the torment- 



PlaceJ] It grows in many places of this j ing pains of the sciatica and the joints, being 

 land, in the borders of moist meadows, and | anointed, or laid to the places; as also the 

 ditch-sides. 5 shaking fits of agues, to take a draught be- 



Tlme.~\ It flowers about July, or the be- j fore the fit comes. Being boiled or infused 

 ginning of August. in oil, it is good to help the wind cholic, 



Government and virtitesJ] Dioscorides I the hardness and windiness of the mother, 

 saith, That this herb bruised and applied, \ and frees women from the strangling or 

 perfectly heals old sores, and the distilled \ suffocation thereof, if the share and the 

 water of the herb and flowers doth the like. j parts thereabouts be anointed therewith. It 

 It is used by some among other pot-herbs \ kills and drives forth the worms of the 

 to open the body, and make it soluble ; but \ belly, if it be drank after it is boiled in wine 

 the roots washed clean, and boiled in ale j to the half, with a little honey ; it helps the 

 and drank, provokes to stool more than the; gout or pains in the joint?, hands, feet or 

 leaves, but yet very gently. The root I knees, applied thereunto ; ana witn figs it 

 boiled in water, and the places of the body j helps the dropsy, being bathed therewith : 

 most troubled with vermin and lice washed \ Being bruised and put into the nostrils, it 

 therewith while it is warm, destroys ihem i slays the bleeding thereof. It takes away 

 utterly. In Italy it is good against the i wheals and pimples, if being bruised with a 

 plague, and in Saxony against the jaundice, {few myrtle leaves, it be made up with wax, 

 as Camerarius saith. jand applied. It cures the morphew, and 



GARDEN-RUE. | ^ ^ ^ S ftS f War , tS > . if boi1 ^ 



'wine with some pepper and nitre, and the 



GARDEN-RUE is so well known by this (place rubbed therewith, and with almond 

 name, and the name Herb of Grace, that 1 1 and honey helps the dry scabs, or any 

 shall not need to write any farther descrip- 1 tetter or ringworm. The juice thereof 

 tion of it, but shall shew you the virtue of it, warmed in a pomegranate shell or rind, and 

 as follows. dropped into the ears, helps the pains of 



Government mid virtues."] It is an herb of them. The juice of it and fennel, with a 

 the Sun, and under Leo. It provokes urine j little honey, and the gall of a cock put there- 

 and women's courses, being taken either in i unto, helps the dimness of the eye-sight, 

 meat or drink. The seed thereof taken in j An ointment made of the juice thereof with 

 wine, is an antidote against all dangerous ! oil of roses, ceruse, and a little vinegar, and 



medicines or deadly poisons. The leaves 

 taken either by themselves, or with figs and 

 walnuts, is called Mithridate's counter-poi- 



son against the plague, and causes all veno- 

 mous things to become harmless; being 



anointed, cures St. Anthony's fire, and all 

 running sores in the head : and the stinking 

 ulcers of the nose, or other parts. The 

 antidote used by Milhridates, every morn- 



ing fasting, to secure himself from any 



