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II. The Kinds. It is the third and Ml Kind of 
the Archangels or Dead Nettles. 
III. The Defcription. The Roots hereof are much 
like to thofe of the White , hut are not obferved to 
creep fo much under ground ns they : from whence 
rifes up fquare hoary Stalks , and large green dented 
Leaves , very much like the White Archangel, but 
that the Stalks are more freight and upright , not 
bending downwards ; and the Joints , with their 
Leaves , are further af under , and the Leaves are 
fame thing longer than the former. The Flowers alfo are 
larger , and more gaping , growing in Randles about 
the Stalk , of a fair Yellow or Golden Colour in mof , 
and in fame more faint , exaftly oj the fhabe of thofe 
of the White Archangel', but gaping iCider. After 
the Viewers follow the Seed in the fame Husk , /;///<? 
or nothing differing from that of the While. 
IV. The Places. It grows ufually in Woods, and 
wet Grounds in Woods, and fometimes in dryer 
places, in divers Countries of our Land : Gerard 
found it under the Hedge ’on the Left Hand, as you 
go from Hamflead near London , to the Church, and 
in the Wood thereby, as alfo in many other Copfes 
about Lee in EJfex near Watford and Bujhy in 
Middlefex , and in the Woods belonging to th<§ then 
Lord Cobham in Kent. 
V. The Times . It Flowers from the beginning of 
Alay, and all June and July , and the Seed ripens 
gradually in the mean feafon. 
VI. The Qualities. It is hot and dry in the Se- 
cond Degree : Attenuating, or making thin, Dilcuf- 
five, Refolutive, Vulnerary, and Alterative : and is 
appropriate to the Head, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, 
Womb and Joints. 
VII. The Specification. It is obferved to be a more 
peculiar Vulnerary than any of the other kinds. 
VIII. The Preparations. You may prepare from 
it : I. A Ponder from the Seed. 2. A Conjerve of the 
Viewers. 3. A Dif tiled Water of the whole Plant. 
4. A Deco ft ion in Wine , or Wine and Water. 5. A 
Juice from the Plant. 6 . An E (fence of the whole 
Plant. 7. A Spirituous Tinfture. 8. A Saline Tin - 
ft ure. 9. An Oily Tinfture. 10. An Oil for -External 
Ufes. 11. An Ointment. 12. ACerote or Emplafer. 
13. A Caiaplafn. 14. A half am. 
The Virtues. 
IX. This has all the Virtues both of the Red and 
White aforegoing , and much of the fame ftrength 
and goodnefs ; and therefore as to the Ufes of the 
various Preparations thereof, we fhall wholly refer 
you to what we have laid of the like Preparations 
of the Red, in Chap. 22. from Sell. 14. to Soft. 2 6. 
Yet this we have to fey in relation to the Flowers, 
that as they ftrengthen the Womb very much, fo 
they have a peculiar property againlt both Reds, 
and Whites, which yet. may bf made more power- 
ful by compounding the Conferve of it, according 
to the following Prescript. 
X. The Conjerve. Ik Take of the fimple Conferee 
20 ounces : Tuip entme boiled in Water , till it will 
Ponder , v. ounces : fine Ponder of Catechu ij. ounces 
and half ^ mix them. Dofe.from iij. drams to vj. 
drams , Morning, Noon and Night, for fome time, 
taking the EITence alfo inwardly : A Spirituous Tin- 
61 ure of the dried Flowers, taken from j. dram*to 
ij. drams, does alfo the fame thing. 
XI. The half am. It heals green Wounds, cleanfes 
old Ulcers and Filtula’s, obtunds their Malignity, 
and Hops their fretting, corroding, and Ipreading, 
efpecially where they are Inveterate, very Filthy, 
and Corrupt, and where Fiftula’s are Cavernous, 
with many crooked Windings in them : Firft walh 
them with tire EITence, by inje&ing it in Blood- 
warm then injeU into the hollownels, fome of 
this Balfam melted, anil lay a Pledgit dipt in the 
feme over the Mouth thereof, and over all the Ce- 
rote or Emplafter -, letting the Patient alfo, in the 
mean time, take the laid EITence inwafdly twice or 
thrice a day, as the manner is in wounded Perfons, 
fo you will find a wonderful and Hidden Cure. This 
for a Vulnerary ufe is much more powerful than 
any of the other Archangels. ■ 
CHAP. XXV. 
Carden A R A C H. 
T HE Nantes. It is called in Arabic Catafi 
or Caraf : In Greeks ^ Xft/o-oA.a^a^r., 
from its yellow Flowers : In Latin , At rip lex , and. 
01 us Aureuni : In Englifh , Arach , and Orach. 
II. The Kinds. There are four feveral Kinds 
thereof, 1. The Garden. 2. The Wild. 3. Slinking. 
4. Sea. Of all which in their feveral Chapters. The 
White is that we treat of in this Chapter, and that 
is threefold: 1. Atriplex fitiva alba major , The 
greater White Garden Arracii. 2. Alba minor , The 
lelfer White. 3. Atriplex Jativa purpurea , Purple 
Garden Arrach. 
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III. The Defcription. The Great White Garden 
Arach bar a Root growing deep into the Ground , 
with many fniall fibres fafined there to, which fades 
away as J bo n as it has born Seed ^ from zchence ri- 
fes up a Stalk fquare or cornered , and of a white 
mealy Colour ^ out of which comes feveral Branches 
and Leaves : the Leaves are many , fianding upon 
their Voot-flalks , broad at bottom 5 and ending in two 
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