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but broad at the ends, and cut in the mid-f 



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die, of a yellowish green colour, every onej 



standing on a long foot-stalk, which at I Sow Thistles are generally so well known , 

 their first coming up are close folded togc-? that they need no description, 

 ther to the stalk, but opening themselves j P/r/ce.] They grow in gardens and 

 afterwards, and are of a fine sour relish, j manured grounds, sometimes by old walls, 

 and yielding a juice which will turn red j pathsides of fields, and high ways, 

 when it is clarified, and makes a mostj Government and virtues^] This and the 

 dainty clear syrup. Among these leaves j former are under the influence of Venus, 

 rise up divers slender, weak foot-stalks, j Sow Thistles are cooling, and somewhat 

 with every one of them a flower at the top, j binding, and are very fit to cool a hot 

 consisting of five small pointed leaves, star- \ stomach, and ease the pains thereof. The 

 fashion, of a white colour, in most places, s herb boiled in wine, is very helpful to stay 

 and in some dashed over with a small show i the dissolution of the stomach, and the milk 

 of blueish, on the back side only. After; that is taken from the stalks Avhen they are 

 the flowers are past, follow small round j broken, given in drink, is beneficial to those 

 heads, with small yellowish seed in them. \ that are short winded, and have a wheez- 

 The roots are nothing but small strings! ing. Pliny sailh, That it hath caused the 

 fastened to the end of a small long piece;! gravel and stone to be voided by urine, and 

 all of them being of a yellowish colour. j that the eating thereof helps a stinking 

 Place.'] It grows in many places of our j breath. The decoction of the leaves and 

 land, in woods and wood-sides, where, they j stalks causes abundance of milk in nurses^, 

 be moist and shadowed, and in other places ! and their children to be well coloured. Thfr 

 not too much upon the Sun. ! juice or distilled water is good for all hot 



TimeJ] It flowers in April and May. j inflammations, wheals, and erputions or 

 Government and virtues.] Venus owns it. ; heat in the skin, itching of the haemorr- 

 Wood Sorrel serves to all the purposes that \ hoids. The juice boiled or thoroughly 

 the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual i heated in a little oil of bitter almonds in the 

 in hindering putrefaction of blood, and | peel of a pomegranate, and dropped into 

 ulcers in the mouth and body, and to j the ears, is a sure remedy for deafness, sing- 

 quench thirst, to strengthen a weak stomach, j ings, &c. Three spoonfuls of the juice 

 to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, ! taken, warmed in white wine, and some 

 and very excellent in any contagious sick- 1 wine put thereto, causes women in travail 

 ness or pestilential fevers. The syrup made \ to have so easy and speedy a delivery, that 

 of the juice, is effectual in all the cases 5 they may be able to walk presently after, 

 aforesaid, and so is the distilled water of It is wonderful good for women to wash 

 the herb. Sponges or linen cloths wet in \ their faces with, to clear the skin, and giv 

 the juice and applied outwardly to any hot j it a lustre, 

 swelling or inflammations, doth much cool I BOTTTHPRV worm 



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and help them. Ihe same juice taken and t 



gargled in the mouth, and after it, is spit j SOUTHERN Wood is so well known to oe 



forth, taken afresh, doth wonderfully help a an ordinary inhabitant in our gardens, 



foul stinking canker or ulcer therein. It | that I shall not need to trouble you with 



is singularly good to heal wounds, or to: any description thereof. 



slay the bleeding of thrusts or scabs in the: Time.] It flowers for the most part in 



body. $July and August. 



