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tilled water thereof is very good for such j The eyes being washed every morning 



as are pained in their heads, it prevails | with Eyebright water, most strangely clears 



against the dropsy and all sorts of fevers j and strengthens the sight. 



it succours the liver and spleen, and helps i Maidenhair distilled in May, the water 



want of digestion and evil disposition of j cleanses both liveY and lungs, clarifies the 



the body thence arising ; it hastens travail j blood, and breaks the stone. 



in women with child, and is excellent I Hyssop water cleanses the lungs of flegrn, 



against the bitings of venomous beasts. \ helps coughs and Asthmas, distil it in 



Distil Sage whilst the dowers be on it, j August. 



the water strengthens the brain, provokes the * The water of Hare-hound, helps the cough 

 menses, helps nature much in all its actions. | and straitness of the breast ; it strengthens 



Marjoram is in its prime in June, dis- i ; the breast, lungs and stomach, and liver, 



tilled water is excellent for such Avhose 

 brains are too cold, it provokes urine, heats 

 the womb, provokes the menses, strengthens 

 the memory and helps the judgment, causes 

 an able brain. 



Distil Camomel water about the beginning 

 of June. It eases the cholick and pains 

 in the belly; it breaks the stone in the 

 reins and bladder, provokes the menses, 

 expels the dead child, and takes away pains 

 in the head. 



Fennel water strengthens the heart and 



distil it in June. 



Carduus water succours the head, 

 strengthens the memory, helps such as are 

 troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues , 

 it provokes sweat, strengthens the heart, 

 and all other fevers of choler. It is in 

 its prime in May and June. 



Scabious water helps pleurises and pains, 

 and pricking m ihe sides; Aposthumes, 

 coughs, pestilences, and straitness of the 

 breast. 



Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable 



brain ; dilates the breast, the cough, pro- j in dropsies, an ounce being drank con- 



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vokes the menses, encreases milk in nurses, ! 

 and if you wash your eyes with it, it clears 

 the sight. 



tinually every morning and evening; as 

 also pains and torments in the bowels. 

 Bawm water distilled in May, restores 



The Hooses of the fore feet of a Cow \ memory, it quickens all the senses, 

 dried and taken any away, encrease milk j strengthens the brain, heart, and stomach, 

 in nurses, the smoke of them drives away 1 causes a merry mind and a sweet breath, 

 mice. Mizaldus. The water of Comfrey solders broken 



Calaminth water heats and cleanses the j bones, being drank, helps ruptures, out- 

 womb, provokes the menses, and eases the \ wardly it stops the bleeding of wounds, 



pains of the head, distil it in May. 



The distilled water of Rosemary flowers, 

 helps such as are troubled with the yellow 

 Jaundice, Asthmas, it cleanses the blood, 

 helps concoction, strengthens the brain 

 and body exceedingly. 



Water'of the flowers of Lilies of the valley, 

 strengthens the brain and all the senses. 



The water of Cowslip flowers helps the 

 palsey ; takes away pains in the head, the 

 vertigo and megrim, and is exceeding good 

 for pregnant women. 



they being washed with it. 



Wormwood water distilled cold, about the 

 end of May, heats and strengthens the 

 stomach, helps concoction, stays vomiting. 



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kills worms in the stomach and bowels, it 

 mitigates the pains in the teeth, and is pro- 

 fitably given in fevers of choler. 



Mint water strengthens the stomach, helps 

 concoction and stays vomiting, distil it in 

 the latter end of May, or beginning of 

 June, as the year is in forwardness or back 

 wardness, observe that in all the rest. 



