A wood, is offenfive tothe ftomacke and head both; whereas that decodtion firftabove named, Is 
_. moftholefome: for afttingent though ibe, and binding the mouth of the {tomacke aloft, yet it 
_ doth evacuat choller downward, it provoketh urine, keeperh the bodie foluble, and the belly in 
good temper, yea and ific itbee pained, giveth greateafe: the wormes engendred therein, it ex- 
elleth :and being taken with Sefeli, and Celticke nard, fo there be alittle vincgre pur thereto, it 
difpatcheth all ventofities in the ftomacke, and cureth women with child of that tnordinat de- 
fire and ftrange longing of theits:it cleanfeth the ftomacke of-thofe humors which cauteloa- 
thing of meat, bringeth the appetit agaitie anc helpeth concoction: if it bee drunke with rue; 
pepper, and fale, iepurgeth ir of raw humors and ctudities occafioned by want of digeftion . In 
oldtime, Phyficians gave wormewood for a purgative ; but then they tooke a fextar of fea water 
that had been keptlong, fix drams of the feed, with three drams of falr, and one cyath of honey : 
and the better will this purgation worke,in cafe the poite of falt be doubled ;but it would be put 
_ verized as fine as polly may be, tothe end thar it might paffe away the fooner,and work more 
eafily: Some ufedto give the weight befirefaid in a grewell of barley groats, with an addition of 
Peniroyall: others againft the palfie: and othiersagaine had a devifeto put the leaves of worme- 
-woodin figgs, andmakelitde children to eat them fo, thar they might not taft cheir bitterneffe. 
Wormewood being taken with the root of Floure-de-lis,difchargeth the brett of cough fleame, 
aid cleanfeth the pipes. For the jaundife,it would be givenin deinke raw, with * Perfley or Mai- 
denhaire. Supped hot dy little and little n water, it breaketh wind and refolveth ventolities : and 
__ togither with French Spikenard, it eyreth the infirmities ofthe liver: and taken with vinegre, or 
Cc fome grewell, or els in figs, icbelpeth thefplene: given in vinegre, it helpech thofe that have ¢a- 
___ ten venomous mufhroms, or be poifoned with the gun of Chameleon called Ixta, In wine ifit 
be taken, it faveth thofe who have drunke Hemlocke: it refafteth the poifon inflicted by the fling 
of the hardifhrow, the fea-dragon,and{corpions, Itis holden to be fingular for the clarifying of 
the fight; if the eyes be given to watering, itrepreffeth the rheume or flux of humersthither, fo 
it bee applied with wine cuit: and Jaid unto contufions, and the skin blacke and blew under the 
eies, with honey, it reduceth the placeto the native colour againe. The vapour or fume of the 
decoction of wormewood received into the cares, afluageth their paine: or if they rin with cor- 
' rupt matter,it is good to apply the fame, reduced into powder and incorporat in honey, Take 
three or foure {prigs of wormewood, one root of Nardus Gallicus, boile them in fix cyaths of 
~@D water,itis a foverargne medicineto drinke for to provoke vrine, and bring down the defired fick- 
neffe of women: or being taken fimply alone with honey, and withall put up in apeffarie made 
with a locke of wooll, itis of {peciall operation to procnrerbeir monthly terms: with hony and 
fal-nitre,itis fingular forthe {quinancte: it healech kieestheels, if they be bathed with the deco- 
ction thereof in water: applied unto freth or prcen wounds in a cataplafine, before any cold wa- 
ter come unto them, it healeth them: and befides, in that manner, ic cureth the {calls in the 
of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. <a 77 
* Cum api, 
not opio. 
head: being incorporat with * Cyprian wax or figgs, and fo applied to the flanks or hypochon- xOrthe cerot 
drial! parts, it hath a particular vertue by it felfero helpe tieir griefes. Moreover, it killeth any Cope, after 
itch. Howbeit, this would benoted, that wormwood in no cafe muft be given to thofe that have 
an ague, Let a man or woman ufe to drinke worimewood, they fhall not be fea-ficke nor givento o _ 
| £ heaving, ascommonly they beethatare atfea. If wormewood be wornein a truffle to the bor- | 
tome ot the belly, ir allayerh the {welling in the thare. The {mell of wormewood procureth 
-Aleepe; or if icbe laid under the pillow cr bolfter, provided alwaies that the Patient be not ware 
of it, Either bafted within cloaths, or ftrewed upon them, itkeepeth away the moth. If one rub 
his bodie therewith and oile togither, it driveth gnats away :fo doth the fmoke thereof alfo when 
it burneth. If writing inke bee tempered with the infufion of wormewood, it preferveth letters % 
and bookes written therewith, from beeing gnawneby myce. The afhes of wormewood burnt, 
and incorporat with oile rofarto an ointment, coloureth the haire of the head blacke. There is 
Diofcovides, 
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*¥ Socalled, - 
beeaufe O/pris 
yct another kind of Seawormewood, which fome call Seriphium:and excellent good is that was eoterred, 
which groweth aboutthecitic * Taphofiris in Agypt. OF this wormewoodi itis, that the priefts eee 
¢ cb 
. F of ifts wa cheir folemve marches and proceffions, ufe to beare braunches before them. The there. 
leaves bee fomnewhat narrower than thofe of the former,and the bitterneffe not altogither fo ae pes a 
sind of {weer 
much, An enemicitisto the ftomacke: howbcit, the belleit loofeneth,and chaféthwormes out ¢ cstled Hep. 
of the guts : for which purpofe, it is good eels it with oile and falc: or ee the infufion there- Jona by Dicfe, - 
which fignifie 
* of ina *fupping or grewell made with theflomgofthethree-monthcome. To makethe de- 
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