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being bound lo the wrists of the hands, and 

 the soles of the feet, it helps the yellow 



THE SERVICE-TREE. 



. ., , , i ^ 5 jaundice. The herb being made into a 

 IT is so well known m the place where j j ui hel inflammatio s and St. An- 



it grows that it needs no description. j f h > s fire F The . j bd d d . 



Tune.-] It flowers before the end of * ]s ^ ^ > e l / mutter . 



May, and the fruit is ripe in October. thereof A ^ ointment be 



GoKromorf ami Ate*,] Services when { ^ . u * d iall W( / un(is 



they are mellow, are fit to be taken to stay j . the4iead 



fluxes, scouring, and casting, yet less than | 



medlers. If they be dried before they be j SMALLAGE 



mellow, and kept all the year, they may be j 



used in decoctions for the said purpose, j THIS . g a]o ye wdl fe and |here _ 



either to drink, or to bathe the pai t, re- > fore j ^ not yj^ the reader 



qumng it ; and are prontao.y used in that | i 



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manner to stay the bleeding of wounds,: p ^, n ; g natura]] in d and 

 and of the mouth or nose to be applied to; If ^ in 



the forehead and nape of the neck ; and are ; , / f, nr Lnpr VPW WP!) 



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Kme.] It abides green all the Winter, 



SHEPHERD'S PURSE. and seeds in August. 



Government and virtues.] It is an herbol 



IT is called Whoreman's Permacety, j Mercury. Smallage is hotter, drier, ami 

 Shepherd's Scrip, Shepherd's Pounce, Toy- ; much more medicinal than parsley, for it 

 wort, Pickpurse, and Casework ; much more opens obstructions of the liver 



Descript.'] The root is small, white, and ! and spleen, rarefies thick phlegm, and 

 perishes every year. The leaves are small i cleanses it and the blood withal. It pro- 

 and long, of a palegreen colour, and deeply j vokes urine and women's courses, and is 

 cut in on both sides, among which spring! singularly good against the yellow jaundice, 

 up a stalk which is small and round, con- j tertian and quartan agues, if the juice 

 taining small leaves upon it even to the top. j thereof be taken, but especially made u 

 The flowers are white and very small ; after j into a syrup. The juice also put to honey 

 which come the little cases which hold the > of roses, and barley-water, is very good to 

 seed, which are flat, almost in the form of $ gargle the mouth and throat of those that 

 a heart. \ have sores and ulcers in them, and will 



Place.'] They are frequent in this nation, > quickly heal them. The same lotion also 

 almost by every path-side. | cleanses and heals all other foul ulcers and 



Time.'] They flower all the Summer I cankers elsewhere, if they be washed there- 

 long ; nay some of them are so fruitful, that \ with. The seed is especially used to break 

 they flower twice a year. land expel wind, to kill worms, and to help 



Government and virtues.'] It is under theja stinking breath. The root is effectual to 

 dominion of Saturn, and of a cold, dry, i all the purposes aforesaid, and is held to 

 and binding nature, like to him. It helps be stronger in operation than the herb, but 

 all fluxes of blood, either caused by inward j especially to open obstructions, and to rid 

 or outward wounds; as also flux of the I away any ague, if the juice thereof be taken 

 belly, and bloody flux, spitting blood, and 1 in wine, or the decoction thereof m wine. 

 bloody urine, stops the terms in women ;$ used. 



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