252 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is j 



bad for head-aches LIVING CREATURES. 



Awmomcaum, applied to the side, helps { 



the hardness and pains of the spleen. Millepedes (so called from the multitude 



Camphire, eases pains of the head coining ; of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they 

 of heat, lakes away inflammations, and cools \have a thousand) sows, hog-lice, w-ood-lice, 

 any place to which it is applied. [bring bruised and mired with nine, thci/ pr<>- 



j voke urine, help the yellow jaundice outwardly 

 ] being boiled in oil, help pains in the ears, a 



JUICES ! ( ^'P ^M'g P llt wto them. 



The flesh of vipers being eaten, clear the 



THAT all juices have the same virtues \sight, helpthevic.es of the nerves, resist poison 

 with the herbs or fruits whereof they are \ exceedingly, neither is there any better remedy 

 made, I suppose few or none will deny, I under the sun for their bitings than the head 

 therefore I shall only name a few of them, \of the viper that bit you, bruised and applied 

 and that briefly. \ to the place, and the flesh eaten, you need not 



Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, ; eat above a dram at a time, and make it up an 

 strengthens the lungs, takes away the rough- \you shall be taught in troches of vipers. Neither 

 ness of the throat, succours the reins and | any comparable to the stinging of bees and 

 bladder. \wasps, $c. than the same that sting you, 



The juice of Citrons cools the blood, j bruised and applied to the place. 

 strengthens the heart, mitigates the violent ! Land Scorpions cure their own stingings ly 

 heat of fevers. I the same means ; the ashes of them (being 



The juice of Lemons works the same ef- \ burnt) potently provokes urine, and breaks tlie 

 feet, but not so powerfully. j stone. 



Juice of Liquorice, strengthens the lungs, Earth-worms, are an admirable remedy for 

 helps coughs and colds. j cut nerves being applied to the place ; they pro- 



\ voke urine ; see the oil of them, only let me not 

 \forget one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus, 



THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS. \^ hi f l ^That the powder of them put into an 



\ hollow tooth, makes it drop out. 



These have been treated of before, only two j To draw a tooth without pa\n, Jill fin carth- 

 exceptcd. The first of which is* j en crucible full of Emmets, Ants, or Pismires, 



Agaricus. Agarick: It purges flegm, \ eggs and all, and when you have burned them, 

 choler, and melancholy, from the brain, nerves, \ keep the ashes, with which if you touch a tooth 

 muscles, marrow, (or more properly brain) of\ it will fall out. 



the back, it cleanses the breast, lungs, liver,\ Eds, being put into wine or beer, and suffered 

 ttomach, spleen, reins, womb, joints; it provokes \ to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure 

 urine., and the menses, kills worms, helps pains \ that sort of liquor again. 

 in the joints, and causes a good colour : it is\ Oystersdp^/icdalivetoapcstilentialswelling, 

 eery seldom or never taken alone. See Syrup 

 of Roses with Agarick. 



Lastly, Vicus Quircinus, or Miskto of the 



draw the venom to them. 



Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a dram of it 

 taken every morning helps the bitings of mad 



Oak, helps the falling-siclaiess being either \dogs, and all other venomous beasts, 

 taken inwardly, or hung about one's neck. Swallows, being eaten, clear the sight, the 



Cashes of them (being burnt} eaten, present 



