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pafie that the yong birds never be choked, gobblethey their meatas greedily asthey will. 
As touching the hearbe called Veneris Pecten, which tooke that name of the refemblance 
that the long cods thereof hath to combe orrake teeth: the root, if it be ftamped with mallows, 
aid fo reduced into a cataplafme, drawech forth all {pills, thorns, or whatfoever fticketh within 
%Jrfeemeth the Aefh. The hearb * Exedum, is fingular to cure the lethargie,and all drowfinefle. . 
geete ee As fot Nodia, itis an hearbe well knowne in curriours fhops. They call it alfo Mularis,and 
foe fharpe Other names befides they have for it: but tearme it how you will, it healeth corrofive ulcers: and 
andéreting I find that itis of fingulular operation againft the poifon of fcorpions, if itbe drunke in wineor — 
qualitie. __ oxymell,, 7. vinegre and water mingled togither. There is acertaine rough and prickie hearbe, 
“Goofe-graffe which the Greeks call by a pretie name * Philanthropos, for that it fticketh to folks cloaths as 
orClivers. they pafle by. A chaplet or guirland made of this hearb,and fer upon the head, eafeth the paine A 
thereof, Asfor the little Bur called Lappa Canaria, ifitbe ftamped with Plantaine and Mille- 
foile,and togither with them concorporat in wine, ithealethall cancerousfores,foitbeapplied 
unto the place and remooved once in three daies. The fame hearbe digged forth ofthe ground 
without any {pade or yron inftrument, cureth{wine, if itbee putinto the trough where Srey be '# 
ferved with draffe & {will, or given them in milk and wine. Some add moreover, that this charme 
muft be faid in the digging, Hac eft herbs _Argemon, quam Minervareperit fuibus remedinm, 
qui detlls guftaverint :idcft, This isthe hearb Argemon, which CVimerva invented asia reme- 
die for difeafed fwine,as many as tafted thereof. His 
Asfor Tordile, fome have faid that it is the feed of Sefeli, or Siler of Candie: others takeir 
tobe an hearbe by it felfe, which alfo they called Syreon: for mine ownepart, [find by my teae 7 
ding,nothing of it, butthatit delighteth to grow upon mountains ; andthat being burntjitis ~ 
good tobe drunke for to provoke womens monethly terms , andto expedtorat the fuperfluous 
fleame out of the breft:for which purpofes(they fay)that the root is more effeCtuall in operation: 
alfo that che juice thereof taken in drinke to the weight of three oboli, is fingular for the reines: 
finally, ae the root is one of the ingredients which goto the making of emollitive plafters or 
cataplafmis. : : 
The Quich-grafle otherwife named Dent-de-chien,or Dogs-graffe,is the commoneft hearb 
that groweth: itrunneth and creepeth within the earth by many knots or joints in therpet,from 
which,as alfo from the brauriches and top- {prigs trailing above-ground, it puttethfansth new 
roots and {preadeth into many braunches, In all other parts of the world,the leaves of this graffe 
grow {lender and (harpe pointed toward the end: onely upon the mount Pernaflus (whereupon 
xc is called Gramen Pernaffi) it brauncheth thicker than in other places, and refembleth in fome 
fort Ivie, bearing a white floure,and the fame odoriferous. There is not a grafie in the field wher- 
onhorfes take more delight to feed, than this, whether itbe greeneas it groweth, or drie and 
made into hay, efpecially ifit be given them fomewhat {prinkled with water. Moreover, itis {aid, 
That the inhabitants about the forefaid mount Pernaffus, do draw a juice out of this graffe,ufed 
much to encreafe plentie of milke ; for fweet and pleafant it is: but in other parts of the world ,in 
ftead thereof, they ufe the decotion of thecommon grafle, forto conglutinat wounds: [and 
yet the very hearbe it felfe in fubftance will doe as much, if it bee but ftamped and fo applied: 
and befides, a good defenfative it is to keepe any place that is cut or burt,trom inflammation.} 
Tothe {aid decodtion fome put wine and honey : others adde a third part in proportion of Fran- 
kincenfe,Pepper,and Myrrhe : and then fetall overthe fire againe,and boile it afecond time in 
a pan of braffe : which compofition they ufe asa medicine for the tooth-ach and watering eyes, - 
occaftoned by the flux of humors thither. The root fodden in wine,appeafeth the wrings & tor 
ments of the guts; openeth the conduits of the urine, and givethit paflage ; befides, it healeth 
the ulcers of the bladder: yea, it breaketh the ftone . But the feed is more diureticall, and with 
greater force driveth downe urine than the root, And yet it ftoppeth a Jaske,and ftaieth vomite, 
A peculiar vertue it hath againft the fling of dragons or ferpents. Moreover,fome there be, who 
give direction in the cure of the Kings evill, and otherflat impoftumes called Pani, to take nine 
knots or joints of a root of this grafle : and if they cannot find one root with fomany joints, to M 
take two or three roots, until] they have the forefaid number : which done, to enwrap orfold the = 
fame in unwathed or greafie wooil which is blacke, [ with this charge by the way, that the partie 
who gathered the {aid roots bee fafting] and then to goe unto the houfe of the patient thatisto 
be cured, waiting atime when he is from home: and be readie at his returne to receive him fe 
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