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whileft they are hot, or. if cold, heated again as 
hot as may poffibly be fuffered; and the Patient fit 
therein, fo as to covet thofe parts, that they may 
gently fweat, as Jong as he can well endure it 
without Fainting : this I fay, if it is done three or 
four times, or mote if need requires it, will both 
abate the Swelling and eafe the Pain ; alfo re- 
ltore the Nerves, Joints, and Limbs, to their priftin 
health and ftrength. 
CHAP. XLIV. 
Of Wild BARLEY. 
I.np HE Names. It is called in Greeks K etMJypJa: 
I In L atin, Hordeum agrefle : In Englifh , Wild 
Barley. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral Kinds thereof, 
l. Zeet ^ZelctMoyoxojwof, and by Label, Bryza Mono- 
coccus -, Wild or Brant Barley , Peters Corn. 2. 
A;j/a« 4 , JEgilops , Fefluca Degenerate Barley, or 
Havergrafs. 3* KeiQnv'oQ m'Dako*, (*775 7 « truiv, a tra- 
hendofluod ariflas e corpore trahat ) : Hordeum fpuri- 
um, murimrn. , vel fpontaneum , Riflida -, Way Bar- 
ley , /fa// Barley , which laft is alfo faid to bz greater 
and leffer. 
III. The Defcriptions. Zea, £/• Bryza, has a 
/mail fibrous or Stringy Root , whence rifes up 
J lender and jhort Stalks , but firm , bearing a finally 
thin Spiked Ear, fet with Grains or Corn in two rows, 
one Corn on each fide oppofite to the other , from the 
bottom of the Ear to the top , whereby the Ear is flat, 
like unto Barley ,with rough Awnes or a Beard , as Bar- 
ley alfo has -, every Grain is contained fingly in a husk , 
wich flicks to it, Jo as not eafily to be gotten off-, the Ear 
much refembles Barley, and the Colour of the Grain, is 
a dark Red: it makes blackifh or dark brown Bread, 
and not altogether fo pie af ant as our Common Barley. 
IV. iEgilops, ( which in my opinion ought rather 
to be called Monoccocus ) has a Root which from a 
fmall Head fends forth many Fibres or Strings, from 
whence Springs forth Stalks 2. or 3 . handfuls high. 
refembling Wheat or Barley, Jointed in three or feu 
places, from whence comes forth divers Grafs Leaves , 
of a pale green colour, and at the top of the Stalks 
two or three Heads, Jet one above another, which are 
round and fomwhat long, hard and ftriped, having 
alfo many B cards at the end of each,' wherein, when 
they are ripe and look whitifh, lye 2. or 3 .final l Grains 
or Seeds a little fmaller (Jays Gerard J than Bailey . 
thefe Seeds are wrapped or infolded in a Crefled Film 
or Skin, out of which the Awnes come forth-, Matthi- 
olus fays, that cts Lolium, or Common Darnel is 
known to be a Seed degenerate from Wheat, being 
found for the mo ft part among Wheat: So by his own 
experimental knowledg, he had found that this iEgi- 
lops or Feftuca, war a Seed or Grain , degenerating 
from Barley, and is found among Barley, or where 
Barley hat grown. 
V. The greater Way Barley, or Wall Barley, hat 
a Fibrous or Thready Root, continuing many Tears, 
from whence fprings up many Graffy Leaves, and among 
them feveral Benty Stalks about 1 6. or 18. Inches high, 
at the top of which grows feveral whitifh yellowijh 
Ears, with fomewhat rough Beards, but much Jhort er 
than thofe of Barley ,and^ fome have fcarcely any Beards 
at all. The Ear is much more like that of Rye than 
Barley, andthe Corn, or Grains which come out of it 
are brown Coloured, lank and fmall, in Color and fhape 
refembling Rye, fo that it might more properly be 
called Wild-Rye, Way-Rye, or Rye-Grafs, rather 
than by any Appellation of Barley, to which in my 
opinion it has no refemblance. 
VI. The leffer Way or Wall Barley, is like the 
other in its Roots, Leaves, Stalks, Ears and Grains, 
fo that many have taken it to be the fame with the 
former, but in this it differs , that it is much lower, 
fo that it fcarcely attains to be a Foot high -, and in- 
deed it comes fo near to the former Barley, or rather 
Rye-Grals, that many have taken it to be one and the 
fame, as even I my felf alfo do. 
VII. The Places. The firft was anciently fown in 
Greece, and the Ealtern Countries ; now it is Sown 
in fome parts of Germany and France, but with us 
