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flegm, and melancholy, it cleanses the! usually found about old ruinous buildings : 



brain, heart, liver, spleen ; it cheers the > it is so called because of its virtue in 



senses, opens obstructions, takes away dul- j stopping fluxes. 



ness of sight, helps deafness, helps melan- j Shinachia. Spinage. I never read any 



choly and madness, resists resolution of the $ physical virtues of it. 



nerves, pains of the head, scabs, itch, fall- ; Spina Alba. See the root. 



ing-sickness, the windiness of it is corrected ! Spica. See Nardtis. 



with a little ginger. You may boil half an > Stabe. Silver Knapweed : The virtues 



ounce of it at a time, in water or white \ be the same with Scabious, and some think 



wine, but boil it not too much ; half an \ the herbs too ; though I am of another 



ounce is a moderate dose to be boiled for \ opinion. 



any reasonable body. i Stoschas. French Lavender. Cassidony, 



Serpillum. Mother-of-Time, with Time ; us a great counterpoison, opens obstructions 

 ;t is hot and dry in the third degree, it pro- 1 of the liver and spleen, cleanses the matrix 

 vokes the menses, and helps the stranguary \ and bladder, brings out corrupt humours, 

 or stoppage of urine, gripings in the belly, ; provokes urine. 



ruptures, convulsions, inflammation of the | Succisa, Marsus Diaboli. Devil's-bit. 

 liver, lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen, \ Hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly 

 boil it in white wine. Mtius, Galen. \ taken, it eases the fits of the mother, and 



Sigillum Solomonis. Solomon's seal. See j breaks wind, takes away swellings in the 

 the root. > mouth, and slimy flegm that stick to the 



Smyrnium. Alexander of Crete. 



jaws, neither is there a more present remedy 



Solatium. Night-shade: very cold and in the world for those cold swellings in 

 dry, binding ; it is somewhat dangerous ' the neck which the vulgar call the almonds 

 given inwardly, unless by a skilful hand ;i of the ears, than this herb bruised and 

 outwardly it helps the Shingles, St. Anthony's \ applied to them, 

 fire, and other hot inflammations. Suchaha. An Egyptian Thorn. Very 



Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in | hard, if not impossible to come by here, 

 the second degree, it opens obstructions of i Tanacetum. Tansy : hot in the second 

 the liver, and purges watery humours, and > degree and dry in the third ; the very smell 

 is therefore very profitable in dropsies, it is of it stays abortion, or miscarriages in 

 very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore ; women ; so it doth being bruised and ap- 

 if taken inwardly it had need be well cor- 5 plied to their navels, provokes urine, and 

 rected with cinnamon, ginger, or annis- j is a special help against the gout, 

 seed, c. Taraxacon. Dandelion, or to write better 



Sonchus levis Asper. Sow-thistles smooth j French, Dent-de-lion, for in plain English, 

 and rough, they are of a cold, watery, yet it is called lyon's tooth; it is a kind of Sue- 



binding quality, good for frenzies, they 

 increase milk in nurses, and cause the chil- 

 dren which they nurse to have a good 



cory, and thither I refer you. 



Tamariscus. Tamiris. It hath a dry 

 cleansing quality, and hath a notable virtue 



colour, help gnawings of the stomach j against the rickets, and infirmities of the 

 coming of a hot cause; outwardly they } spleen, provokes the menses. Galen, Dios 

 help inflammations, and hot swellings, cool i corides. 

 the heat of the fundament and privities. Telephium. A kind of Opine. 



Sophi Chirurgorum. Fluxweed : dry ing \ Thlaspi. See Nasturtium. 

 without any manifest heat or coldness ; it is j Thymbra, A wild Savory. 



