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of the plague : as also to open the obstruc- 1 persons that have their bodies drawn togo- 

 tions of the liver and spleen, and thereby is i ther by some spasm or convulsion, or other 

 good against the jaundice. It provokes j infirmities ; as the rickets (or as the college 

 urine, breaks and expels the stone, and is j of physicians would have it, Rachites, about 

 good for the dropsy. Il is effectual also for j which name they have quarrelled sufficiently) 

 the pains in the sides, and many other in-} in children, being a disease that hinders 

 ward pains and gripings. The seed and; their growth, by binding their nerves, 

 distilled water is held powerful to all the 5 ligaments, and whole structure of their 

 purposes aforesaid, and besides, it is often \ body, 

 applied both outwardly with cloths ori , 



/., .. ,1 THE FULLERS THISTLE, OR TEASLE. 



spunges to the region or the liver, to cool;: 



the distemper thereof, and to the region oft IT is so well known, that it needs no 

 the heart, against swoonings and the pas- 1 description, being used with the cloth- 

 sions of it. It cleanses the blood exceed- j workers. 



ingly : and in Spring, if you please to boil j The wild Teasle is in all things like the 

 the tender plant (but cut off the prickles, ! former, but that the prickles are small, soft, 

 unless you have a mind to choak yourself) { and upright, not hooked or stiff, and the 

 it will change your blood as the season I flowers of this are of a fine blueish, or pale 

 changes, and that is the way to be safe, j carnation colour, but of the manured kind, 



> whitish. 



THE WOOLLEN, OK, COTTON THISTLE. T>; T T<U fi U 



Place.] 1 he first grows, being sown JH 



Descript.] THIS has many large leaves ? gardens or fields for the use of clothworkers: 

 lying upon the ground, somewhat cut in, |The other near ditches and rills of water in 

 and as >t were crumpled on the edges, of a; many places of this land, 

 green < olour on the upper side, but covered ; TimeJ] They flower in July, and are ripe 

 over with a long hairy wool or cotton down, in the end of August. 



set with most sharp and cruel. pricks ; from j Government and virtues. ~] It is an herb of 

 the middle of whose heads of flowers come I Venus. Dioscorides saith, That the root 

 forth many purplish crimson threads, and \ bruised and boiled in wine, till it be thick, 

 sometimes white, although but seldom. \ and kept in a brazen vessel, and after spread 

 The seed that follow in those white downy; as a salve, and applied to the fundament, 

 heads, is somewhat large and round, re- 'doth heal the cleft thereof, cankers and 

 sembling the seed of Lady's Thistle, but; fistulas therein, also takes away warts and 

 paler. The root is great and thick, spread- 1 wens. The juice of the leaves dropped into 

 ing much, yet usually dies after seed time, j the ears, kills worms in them. The dis- 

 Place.~] It grows on divers ditch-banks, j tilled water of the leaves dropped into the 

 and in the corn-fields, and highways, gene- i eyes, takes away redness and mists in them 

 rally throughout the land, and is often j that hinder the sight, and is often used by 

 growing in gardens. j women to preserve their beauty, and to take 



Government and virtues.'] It is a plant of: away redness and inflammations, and all 

 Mars. Dioscorides and Pliny write, That \ other heat or discolourings. 

 the leaves and roots hereof taken in drink, i 



help those that have a crick in their neck! j TREACLE MUSTARD. 



that they cannot, turn it, unless they turn j DescriptJ] IT rises up with a hard round 

 their whole body. Galen saith, That the \ stalk, about a foot high, parted into some 

 roots and leaves hereof are good for such ; branches, having divers soft green leave:- 



