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and applied to any carbuncle or plague j grass hath many thick flat leaves, more 

 sore, is found by certain experience to dis- ; long than broad, and sometimes longer and 

 solve and break it in three hours space, i narrower ; sometimes also smooth on the 

 The same decoction also drank, helps the I edges, and sometimes a little waved ; some- 

 pains and stitches in the side. The decoc-j times plain, smooth and pointed, of a sad 

 tion of the roots taken for forty days toge- j green, and sometimes a blueish colour, 

 ther, or a dram of the powder of them j every one standing by itself upon a long 

 taken at a time in whey, doth (as Malthi- \ foot-stalk, which is brownish or greenish 

 olus saith) wonderfully help those that are ! also, from among which arise many slender 

 troubled with running of spreading scabs, j stalks, bearing few leaves thereon like the 

 tetters, ringworms, yea, although they pro- ] other, but longer and less for the most 

 ceed from the French pox, which, he saith j part : At the tops whereof grow many 

 he hath tried by experience. The juice or| whitish flowers, with yellow threads in the 

 decoction drank, helps also scabs and j middle, standing about a green head, which 

 breakings-out of the itch, and the like. | becomes the seed vessel, which will be 

 The juice also made up into an ointment | somewhat flat when it is ripe, wherein is 

 and used, is effectual for the same purpose. j contained reddish seed, tasting somewhat 

 The same also heals all inward wounds by I hot. The root is made of many white 

 the drying, cleansing, and healing quality j strings, which stick deeply into the mud, 

 therein : And a syrup made of the juice j wherein it chiefly delights, yet it will well 

 and sugar, is very effectual to all the pur- > abide in the rr.ore upland and drier ground, 

 poses aforesaid, and so is the distilled water ! and tastes a little brackish and salt even 

 of the herb and flowers made in due season, ! there, but not so much as where it hath the 

 especially to be used when the green herb ; salt water to feed upon, 

 is not in force to be taken. The decoction j PlaceJ] It grows all along the Thames 

 of the herb and roots outwardly applied,; sides, both on the Essex and Kentish 

 doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or 1 shores, from Woolwich round about the 

 cold swellings in any part of the body, is sea costs to Dover, Portsmouth, and even 

 effectual for shrunk sinews or veins, and j to Bristol, where it is had in plenty ; the 

 heals green wounds, old sores, and ulcers, jotherwith round leaves grows in the marshes 

 The juice of Scabious, made up with the | in Holland, in Lincolnshire, and other 

 powder of Borax and Samphire, cleanses i places of Lincolnshire by the sea side, 

 the skin of the face, or other parts of the 1 Descript.~\ There is also another sort 

 body, not only from freckles and pimples, j called Dutch Scurvygrass, which is most 

 but also from morphew and leprosy ; the ; known, and frequent in gardens, which has 

 head washed with the decoction, cleanses it I fresh, green, and almost round leaves rising 

 from dandriff, scurf, sores, itch, and the 1 from the root, not so thick as the former, 



like, used warm. The herb bruised and 

 applied, doth in a short time loosen, and 



yet in some rich ground, very large, even 

 twice as big as in others, not dented about 



draw forth any splinter, broken bone, | the hedges,or hollow in the middle, standing 

 arrow head, or other such like thing lying Ion a long foot-stalk; from among these 

 in the flesh. rise long, slender stalks, higher than the for- 



mer, with more white flowers at the tops of 



SCURVYGRASS. : them, which turn into small pods, and 



^smaller brownish seed than the former 

 Descript.] THE ordinary English Scurvy- [The root is white, small and thready. Thf 



