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‘of downeward to the ground,and bearing up his head without {tooping,teach and catch hold of 
meat,tliey cure the rifings and tumors behind the eares. The tendex branches and the leaft green 
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crampes,and nainely,in that univerfall convulfion,which holdeth the bodie fo ftiffe, thar itcan @_ 
ftirre no way nor other, as ifit were made of one entire peece without any joint.Likewife,both ta- 
ken in drink,and alfo infufed or injeGted by clyftre,it helpeth the flux, occafionedeither bya fec-. 
le and rheumaticke ftomacke,or els by the ulcer of the guts.[fa man rub the bodie all over with. 
it & oile together, it fetteth it into an heat,were it before benummed.A liniment made of it,and, 
wrought with wax and oile rofat together, skinneth a burnt or {calded place, moftfinely,leaving _ 
no skaratall to bee feene. Temper it with oile, and therewith annoint their cies who are pore- 
blind, fandblind, or otherwife thort-fighted, it amendeth their eye-fight :andto conclude, rub 
the teeth often therewith, it preferveth them white,neat,and from rotting. Thus much of Figge- 
tree afhes. : f | 
. Morcover,it is commonly faid, That if one come to a Fig tree,bend a bovgh or branch ther- Hi 
a knot or joint with his teeth,and fo bite it off,that no man fee him when he is doing of it; & then 
lap the fame within a pecce of fine leather, tied faftby a thred,and hang it about his necke,it will 
difpatch the kings evill and {welling kernils or inflammations behind theeares, | 
The batke of the Figge treereduced into pouder,mixed with oile,and fo applied,healeththe . 
ulcers of the bellie. Greene Figges taken raw, {tamped and incorporat with nitre and meale,take 
away all werts, whether they bee {mooth or rough. The afhes made of thofe fhoots that {pring 
from the root,is a kind of Antifpodium,and may goe for Spodium indeed. If the fame bee twice $ 
calcined and burnt,and then mixed with ceruffe or white lead,and fo reduced in trochiskes,they 
make a goodcollyrie or eye-falve,to cure the roughneffe and exulceration of the eyes, 
As many vertuesas the mild Figge tree hath, yet the wild is much more effeCtuallinoperati- I 
on: howloever fhe yeeldeth lefle milke or white juice than the other doth, Forabraunch onely 
of it,is as good as rennet or rindles to make milke turne and runto a cheefe-curd, Howbeit,that’ 
milkie liquor which it hath, if it be gathered and kept untill it be drie and wax hard, ferveth to fea- 
fon our ficfh meats,and give them a good taft. For which purpofe it iswont to be mixedand dif 
folved in vinegre,and then the flefh muft be well rubbed and poudered therwith. The fame is ufu- 
ally mingled with caufticke and corrofive medicines, when thereis an intention to raife lifters, 
and make an ifluedt caufeth rhe bellie to be laxative,and openeth the matrice, if tbe ufed with 
Amy! pouder,Being taken in drinke with the yolke of an egge,it provoketh womens fleurs.Ap- 
plied in alinimentwith the flower of Feni-greeke, it eafeth the paines of the gout: it cleanfeth 
the leprofie,and foule wild {cab :it killeth ring-wormes and fell tettars: itfcoureth away freckles K 
and fuch fleckes as disfavor the face :likewife it cureth the parts {tung with venomous ferpents, i 
or bitten with mad dogs.Moreover,this juice of the wild Figge tree,applied unto the teeth with a 
locke of wooll,allaieth their ach : {dit doth alfo if it be putinto them that bee worme-eaten and 
hollow. The tender young branches,together with the leaves, if they be mingled with Ervile,are 
good againft the poyfon of venomous {ea-fitbes, But then, according tofome Phyficians,there ° 
muft be wine added to this receit. The {aid tender braunches being put into the pot with Boenfe, 
and{o boiled together, fave much fewell, for lefle fire by farre will ferve to feeth the meat, The 
greene Figges of this wild Figee tree brought intoa liniment,do mollifie and difcufle thekings 
evill, and all other tumorsand apoftemes. And in fome meafure the leaves alfohavethe fame 
operation: Chufe the fofteft and tendereft of them, let them be {tamped and mixed with vinegre, : 
they will cure running {cals and fores,eafe bloudie fals and chilblanes, yea, and fcoure away fil- 
thiefcurfe or dandrutte. Thefaid greene Figges,together with the leaves, incorporat with hony, , 
doe cure the wens or exulcerat bunches,which yeeld matter out of them referbling hony: like- f 
wife they heale the biting of mad dogs. [he greene and freth Figges newly gathered, if they bee 
laid too with wine, doe heale filthie eating ulcers: and mixed with Poppie leaves, they drawand 
fetch away broken bones out of the bodie. The greene Figs of the wild Fig tree doe {catter and 
difcufie inflammations, onely by their perfume,sfthey be burnt. They area countrepoyfon, in 
cafe one have drunke Buls bloud, or cerufle: the fame alfo put away the danger of milkecrudled _ 
within the ftomacke,if they be taken in drinke. Likewife,fodden in water,and reduced into a lini- 
Figges of this wild Figg tree,being taken in wine,are very good for thefting of {corpions : with 
this charge,that the milkie juice thereof bee inftilled into the wound,and the leaves laied aloft. 
The fame alfo ferveth for the hardi-(hrew, The afhes of the fmall tendrons being burnt,duly 
2oqthits , applied, - 
