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troubled with a red nofe and face, they being diftilled * * * and the 

 face wafhed morning and evening with the water. * * * A rotten 

 apple applyed to eyes that are blood ihotten or enfiamed with heat, 

 or that are black and blew by any ftroake or fall, all day or all night, 

 helpeth them quickly. * * * 



CHAP. CCXXXII. 



Of the Haw-thorne. 



The Names. 



I 



T being fo much controverted by Authors concerning the true 

 Greek name of this Shrub, I fhall not undertake to decide it, but 

 paffe it by without giving it any. * * * 



The Kinds. 



Antiquity was acquainted but with one fort hereof, yet now there 

 be three taken notice of. l. The ordinary Haw-thorne. 2. The low 

 Haw-thorne. 3. Englands Hawthornej which is in all parts like the 

 common fort, but that it flowereth twice in a yeare, to the great 

 admiration of fome wife and judicious men. 



The Signatures and Vertues. 



The powder of the Berries or the feeds in the Berries being given 

 to drink in Wine, is generally * * * reported to be good for the 

 Dropsy. The flowers fteeped three dayes in Wine, and afterwards 

 distilled in glaffe, and the water thereof drunk, is a Soveraign 

 Remedy for the Pleurisy, and for inward tormenting paines, which 

 is alfo signified by the freckles that grow on this Tree. * * * The 

 faid diftilled water is not onely cooling but drawing alfo, for it is 

 found by good experience, that if Cloathes and Spunges be wet in 

 faid water, and applyed -to any place wherein thornes, Splinters, &c 

 have entered and be there abiding, it will notably draw them forth, 

 so that the thorne gives a medicine for its own pricking, as many 

 other things befides do, if they were obferved. * * * 



CHAP. CCXLIII. 



0/ Holly. 



The Kinds. 



THere may be faid to be three forts of Holly, i. The Holly- 

 Tree without prickles. 2. The Holly-bufh with prickly- 

 leaves. 3. The Holly bufh with yellow Berries. Yet there 

 be fome that aflBrme that with, and that without prickles, to be the 



