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A of Ivie,andthofe bepartly white and partly red. Theroot is full of a certain juice, which is good 
either to be condite and confeéted alone, or elsto be reduced into Trofches withErvile meale s £7<i farina. 
this being taken to the weight of one Obolus, purgeth cholerique humours; and a moft:hole- 
ofome aredicine it is, efpecially wich honied wine. 7 | 
Another hearb there issnamed Hippope,which neither rifeth up in ftalkesnor beareth floure, 
-  buchath leaves onely,and thofe final. The juice:alfo of thishearbe,is wonderfull good for thofe 
whoarein a dropfie: where it isto be noted, That thefe two hearbs fhould have fome efpeciall 
properties refpective ro the natute of horfes, confidering both their names are derived from 
nothing elfe :forin very truth, fome things there be which Nature hath brought foorth asap- 
propriat remedies forcertain particular beatts, whereby we may fec her divine power, ae how 
 B wellappointed fheisand provided for to bring forth medicines of all forts;{o asthe deapth of 
herprovidence cannot be founded, neither are we able fufficiently to adrhire her wit and difcre- 
tion, in difpofing and digefting her remedies according to fundry kinds of creatures,according 
to divers caufes, and ditferent feafons: infomuch as the remedies ferving one,are not fitted for 
another, neither are they ofthe fame effeand: operation at all:times :nay, there is not-a day 
almoftin the yeere throughout, burit yeeldetharemedierefpective untoic. | 
Crap. Xirt. 
OS Of the Nettle, and the medicinable-vertues thereof.’ 
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Sthere asty thing more hated and odious than the Nettle? and yet to fay nothing of theoile 
made of itin Egypt (according as we have fhewed heretofore) endued (hee is and furnithed 
with many good properties ferving for Phyficke. For firft, astouching Nettle feed, Necanaer 
affirmeth, That itis a very countrepoifon againft Hemlocke,venomous Muthroins,and Quick- 
filver. Apollodorws addeth moreovet and faith, That being boiled in the broth of a Tortoile, itis 
e fiagular good for the poifon of Salamanders: alfo that it is contrarieto the pernicious nature of 
Henbane ;and the deadly poifon of ferpents,and namely of {corpions.Even that very bitrernefle 
and mordacitie which the Nettle hath, caufeth the Vvulain the mouth whichis falne, to knir up 
: againe:the mattice alfo which is over-loofe and beareth downe,to arife into the place ; yea.and 
_D thewuill orfundement in children hanging foorth of the bodie, to returne and abide where it 
ought tobe, onely with touching thefe parts therewith, Ifthe legs be rubbed, and the forehead 
efpecially with Nettles, iris a g00d means to awake them outot their drowfie and dead fleepe, 
who are furprifed with a lethargic, The fame being applied with fale, is pafling good forthe bi- 
ting of dogs, It it be bruifed and putup into the nofthrils, it ftancheth bleeding at the nofes but 
principally the root of it. [fic be tempered with falt, it mundifieth cancerous and foule filthie 
ulcers : likewife it helpeth diflocations and bones out of joint: it difcufferh or ripeneth borches 
in the emunctories, and the {welling kernels behind the ears ;and healeth up the places where ~ 
the flethie parts de gone from the bones, Nettle feedtaken in wine-cuit (asa drinke) openerh , 
the matrice when it is readie to ftrangle or fuffocat a woman: and beeing applied with wine, it 
E ftaieth bleeding athe nofe, If one drinke Nettlefeed after fupper, with honey and water, to the 
quantitie of two oboles weighr, it openeth the paflages and maketh way for to vomit with grea- 
ter faciline: butthe weight of one obolus taken in wine, refrefheth thofe who have a laflitude 
or wearinefleupon them, The fame being parched againftthe fire and drunke to the meafure of 
one Acetabulum, is fingular for the imperfections of the matrice: and in cuit, it withftandeth 
_ theventofities and inflations of the ftomacke. Given inwardly with hony in tlie forme of a loch, 
_ itdoththem good who labour for wind,and cannottake their breath but firting upright: and af- 
ter the fame manner it cutteth fleame and cleanfeth the breaft of ir. Being applied in a bag, to- 
gither with linefced, it taketh away the ftitch and paine in the fides: but fomeput hyflope there- 
to,and alittle pepper, A liniment made therewith, cureth the fplene. Becing parched or rofted 
F andfo eaten with meat, itkeepeththe bodiefoluble. And Hippocrates affirmeth,that the faid feed 
is very good to be taken in drnke, for to cleanfe the matricein women: and beeing fo parched 
and given to the quantitie of one Acetabulum in {weet wine cuit, it allaieth the griefe and paine 
of the faid part,in cafe withall there be a catapla{me applied to the region thereof, rogither with 
the juice of Mallows. Lfit be takenin Hydromel, 7, honye@gwarer,togither with fale, ic aw 
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