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wine, or White-wine Vinegar: you shall feldom miffe the Cure of 

 an Ague in three fits, be it what it will, even to admiration, as Mr. 

 Culpepper affirmeth. * * * The distilled water of the Roots and 

 Leaves * * * ^ if the hands be often wafhed therein, and fufEered 

 every time to dry of it felf, without wiping, it will in fhort time 

 help the Palfie, or fhaking of them. 



CHAP. LXIII 



Of Mints 



The Forme 



Mint is fo well known that it needeth no defcription, yet it 

 deferving one no lefs than other plants, I fhall not be fo 

 injurious as to let it paffe without one, though it be the 

 fhorter Garden mints which is the third kind above mentioned 

 Cometh up with ftalks four fquare of an obfcure red colour, fome- 

 what hairy, which are covered with round leaves nicked on the 

 edges, like a Saw; of a deep green colour: the flowers are little and 

 red, and grow about the ftalks circlewife, as thofe of Penny Royal: 

 the root creepeth aflope in the ground, having fome ftrings on it, 

 and now and then in fundry places it buddeth out afrefh, and will 

 over-run the ground where it is fet, if it be let alone any long time. 



The Vertues. 



* * * Two or three branches thereof taken with the Juyce of 

 Pomgranates, stayeth the Hiccoughs * * * It is a fafe medicine for 

 the biting of a mad Dog, being bruifed with fait, and laid thereon. 

 The powder of it being taken after meat helpeth digestion and those 

 that are Splenetick * * * . 



CHAP. XLV 

 Of Golden-Rod 



The Vertues 



THis Herb is of efpecial ufe in all Lotions, * * * ; The de- 

 coction thereof, likewise helpeth to faften the teeth that are 

 loofe in the Gums. * * * Gerard faith, that the dry Herb 

 that came from beyond the Seas, was formerly fold for half a Crown 

 an Ounce; but sence it was found to, be fo plentiful on Haijipsteed- 

 Heathj and other places in England, no man will give half a Crown 

 for an hundred weight of it. And here I may take an occafion, as 



