Chap. 42. linglijh Herbs. 
cures fimple Wounds by the firft intention : It clean- 
les running Sores ^ old foetid Ulcers^ and ftubborn 
and rebellious Fiftula’s •, walhing them firft with the 
Juice, or Eflence, and then applying of this Balfam : 
it cleanfes, incarnates, or breeds Flefh, and brings to 
a fpeedy healing. 
XX. The Cataplafn. It difcuffes Inflamations in 
their beginning ^ is good againft Contufions, or Brui- 
fes, eales pains or Aches in any part, and is lingular 
good in a cold Gout. I have applied it with great 
i'uccefs in vehement Head-achs, proceeding from ta- 
king cold, or any recent Caufe. 
XXI. The Mixture. Take Juice of the Roots iv. 
ounces , fine Verdigreefe ij. drams -, mix them. It 
takes off the Callus in hollow Ulcers, and Fiftula's, 
where it muft be injeUed with a Syringe. But if 
the Callofity is in an open Ulcer, the Mixture may 
be thus made : Take of the foregoing Ointment ij. 
ounces : Pouder of Tobacco ij. drams : Verdigreefe 
j. dram : mix them. Or thus : Take of the former 
Balfam ij. ounces : Pouder of round Birthwort Roots 
ij. drams : fine Verdtgrecfe j. dram : mix them. Any 
of thefe mixtures take off a Callus from any Ulcer 
or Fiftula, cleanfes . the lame, and induces it to a 
fpeedy healing ; and this it will do, if the affeU is 
in the Joints. 
CHAP. XLII. 
Of Wild or Mountain AVE N S. 
I . ' | ' H E Karnes. They are called in Latin, Ca- 
ryophyllat a agref A, Caryophyllata montatia •, 
and in Englijh , Wild or Mountain Avens. The Epi- 
thet Wild is put to thefe, to diftinguifh them from 
the former, which are never called Wild ^ for tho’ 
they grow Wild in Fields and Woods, yet it is al- 
ways near home, and befides, they are many times 
Nurfed up in Gardens, which thefe are never, ex- 
cept as meer Rarities. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral Kinds of Moun- 
tain Avens , but thofe growing in our Country chief- 
ly, are, i. Caryophyllata montana purpurea, as Ge- 
rard calls it : Or Montana paluflris purpurea , as 
Parkinfon : Alfo Aquatica nutante fore , and Aqua- 
tica fore rubro ftriato , by the Bauhins • Purple 
Mountain Avens , or Water Avens. 2. Caryophyl- 
lata fore amplo purpureo , Avens with a large dou- 
ble flower. 3, Caryophyllata Chamcedryos folio, as 
Morifon calls it : Chanuedris fpuria montana Cifli- 
flore , as Parkinfon : Alpina Ciftiflore , and Alpina 
flore fragraria albo , as the Bauhins : Teucrum Al- 
pinism Ciftiflorc , as Gerard -, Mountain Avens zvith 
Germander Leaves. 4. Caryophyllata PentaphylUa , 
as Bauhin and Parkinfon : Alpina Pentaphyllcea , as 
Gerard : and Alpina quinquefolia , as Cafpar Bauhin -, 
Cinquefoil Avens. To which add, ?. Caryophyllata 
montana Virginienfis , Virginia Mountain Avens. 
6. Caryophyllata montana flore magno luteo , Alcun- 
tain Avens with a great yellow flower. 
III. Defcriptions. 1. Purple, or Water Mountain 
Avens. It has a Root about a lingers thicknefs , with 
many Strings or Fibres thereat, from whence rifes 
tip many long and hairy Leaves , compofed of divers 
little Leaves, with larger at the top, and thefe f nipt 
or dented about the edges, like as the Common Avens : 
among thefe Leaves rife up feveral Stalks, a loot 
or mote in height , on which grow Flowers, whofe 
Heads hang down : the tops of the Stalks, and Cups 
of the Flowers, are commonly of a purplifh Tellow, 
but the Flowers fcarcely appear above the Husks that 
contain them : Thefe Flowers themfelves are of a 
pretty Red Colour, and are of divers fhapes, and 
grow divers ways : ( which is the reafon that Clu- 
fius, and fome others, have judged them to be feve- 
ral Plants, giving the Flowers here expreft for a 
differing kind. ) lor fome of thefe Flowers, even the 
greatefl part of them grow with five Red, round 
pointed Leaves, which never lye fair open, but only 
fland ftraight out, the middlepart being filled with 
a hairy matter, and yellowifh Threads : Some of thefe 
Flowers confijl of Seven, Eight , Nine, or more 
Leaves, and fome again lye wholly open, with Green 
Leaves, growing clofe under the Cup of the Flower • 
and fome few now and then may be found compofed 
of a great many little Leaves, thick tbrufl together, 
making a very double Flower : after the Flowers are 
fallen come fitch hairy Heads, as you fee in the FL 
gure, and in other Plants of this Kind, among which 
lies the Seed. 
IV. 2. Avens with a large double purple Flower. 
Tho" fome make this to be a differentKind from the lafl 
yet doubt lefs it is not, but is one of the fportings of 
Nature, wherein Jhe alls varioufly in one and the 
fame Plant and therefore the Defcription of the 
laft may fully ferye for this, there being in truth 
no variation but in the Flower, as we have in the 
former, above, already declared. 
V. 3. Mountain Avens with Germander Leaves. 
It has a long, thick, hard, woody Root, with many 
Sprigs or Strings growing from it, and fpreading 
under ground, of a brown blackifh colour • from 
whence fpnng up feveral hard, woody Stalks, eight 
or nine Inches long, fpread upon the Earth , of a 
blown, 7 eddifh colour, which have Leaves growing 
upon them without any order, like to Germander 
Leaves, but leffer, harder, more wrinkled, and flaw- 
like indented on the edges, of a White Hony colour 
below 07 underneath, and of a blackifh Green colour 
above, having an Aflringent Tafte. The Flowers 
are White, and each Flower flan ds upon a flender 
hairy Foot-flalk, about three or four Inches long, 
twice as big as a Strawberry Flower, and confifting 
Teaves apiece, or more, in the midale of 
which is a Thrummy Head, of a /mail hairy fub- 
flanc?, which being fallen, there fucceeds little Dow- 
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