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The foure and twentieth Booke 
of Walwoort, are weaker in operation than the other parts of the tree or plant: howbeit, they 
{erve wellto colour the haire of the head blacke. The famealfo taken in drinke, to the meafure 
of oneacetable, be diureticall and provoke urine. The fofteft and tendereft leaves are eaten or- 
dinarilyin a falad with oile and falt,forto purge fleame and choller.Infum,theleffer plant,which 
is the Wallwort, isin all things more effectual] chanthe elder it felfe; for ifthe rootthereof be 
fodden, and a draught of twocyaths be given to them whoare ina dropfic, it will purge migh- 
tily and evacuat waterie humors. A decoction of the roots and leaves of Danewort, is fingular 
_ tomollifte the matrice and naturall parts of a woman, if (he fit over the fame and take the vapor 
thereof into her bodie, The tender {prigs of the milder Elder, boiled between two platters, doe ° 
make the bodiefoluble,and move tothe feege. The leaves drunke in wine, refift and kill the poi- 
foned tting of ferpents, The tendrons of the Elder, incorporat with goats tallow, and reduced 
into a liniment, are fingular good for the gout, ifthey be applied to the grieved place. The water 
of their infufion,if icbe caft or {prinkled in any roume of the houfe,killeth fleas: and if the place 
be likewife {prinkled with the decoction of the leaves, it will not leavea flie alive. There isa kind 
of difeafe [much like to purples or meazles ] when the bodie is bepainted all over with red bli- 
fiers :a braunch of the Elder tree is excellent good to lath the {aid wheals or vifings, for to make 
them fall againe and go downe. Take the inner barke or rind of the Elder, beat it into powder, 
and fo drinke it in white wine, it isa fufficient purgation. | . 
The luniper of all other trees, paffeth, either for to heat any part, or to extenuat and make 
fubtile any humors :in operation much like tothe Cedar, Of it there be two kinds ;the greater, 
and the leffe: 2 perfume made with the one as well as the other, driveth away ferpents. The feed 
or berries of luniper, afiuage the pains of ftomacke, breaft, and fides: the fame ferve well to 
breake wind and cefolve all ventofities, yea and to evaporat all cold and chilneffe : they ripen any 
cough, and mollifie all hardneffe: a liniment made therof applied outwardly,canfeth any tumor 
to goe down,and repreffeth the rifing thereof: likewife ifthe berries be drunke in fome groffe or 
. thickered wine, it will ftay a laske: like as they will abate the {welling of the belly, if they be laid 
® Oxyporis, 
too by way of acataplafme or liniment. The Iuniper berrie is reckoned among the ingredients 
which goe into antidots, or prefervatives againft poifon ; fuch 1 meane, asbe * penetrative and 
of quicke operation. Itis diureticall and mooveth urine.In cafe the eyes doe water much by 
reafon of a continual! rhewme taking to them, itis good to apply a liniment unto them made 
therewith. Foure Juniper berties are given in white wine, or twentie of them boiled in wine, for 
convulfions,cramps, ruptures wrings, and torments in the bellie, for the griefes of the matrice 
andthe Sciatica. To conclude, fome there be,who fearing to be {tung with ferpents,ufe ordina- 
rily torub or annoint their bodies with a liniment made of Iuniper feed or berries. 
Cuarp. 1X 
eS Of the Sallow, Willow, or Withie : of the twig Wahieor Oifier Amerina, Of twigs 
or binding rods, Of Heath or Lings, 
He fruit which the Willow or Sallow yeeldeth, ifit be fuffered to hang,before itdoth ripen 
is converted into acertaine fubftance refembling acobweb; but beeing gathered ereicbe | 
thus transformed, it is fingular good for fuch as reach or caftup bloud. The athes of the 
rind pilled from the firft braunches that the willow putteth foorth, and tempered with water, ta- 
keth away corns and callofities of the feet: they ferve alfo to rid the {pots and fpeckswhich disft- 
gure the vifage,the rather if they be incorporat with the juice of the willow. Now there be found 
in the faid willow, three forts of juice: The firft fweateth out of the tree ic felfein manner of a 
gum: the fecond iffueth forth by way of incifion,when the tree is in the bloum; provided alwais 
thatthe cut or gathin the barke, bee made three fingers broad: this liquor is fingular goodto 
cleanfe the cies, and to rid away fuch impediments as hinder the fight; likewife to incraflat or 
thicken where need requireth;.to provoke urine,and draw forth allinward impoftumes outward- 
lys the third juice is that which diftilleth from the braunches prefently after the bill or cutting- 
- hooke,when the tree is lopped, ortheboughs cut from the bodie. Take any one of thefe juices, 
and heat the fame well with oile of rofes-intherind of a pomegranat, excellent it is for to bee 
dropped into the ears: likewife the decoétion of Sallows, or the leaves ftamped and incorporat - 
» with wax,and fo applied,do the like : as alfo laid too in maner of a cataplafe, they eafe the ee : 
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