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the former, but confift of Jive fomewhat large and 
long Leaves. The Heads and Seeds are like the 
other , and Spring up by being fcattered after Seed 
time. 
X. The Preparations. 1. The Decotfion. 2. The 
Juice. 3. The Infpiffate Juice. 4. The E/fence. 
V The Fonder. 6 . The Cataplafm. 7. The half am 
of the Mountain Soldanella. 
! 'Bind Weed 
V. Soldanella Alpina major, The greater Moun- 
tain Soldanella f for there is a leffer , of which we 
Jhall take no notice here ) ha* a long round Head or 
Root footing forth many Fibres , or (mail Strings. 
From whence rifes many hard round Leaves , fund- 
ing upon long Foot-falks , fomething unevenly cut 
about the edges •, green on the upper fide, and of a 
grayifh green underneath, and a little reddijh like 
the leaves of Sowbread, and much refembling the Sea 
Soldanella ( this Mountain Soldanella being Jo cal- 
led from the likenefs of the Leaves to the former : ) 
The Stalks are fender, /mail, round, and reddifh , 
about a /pan high , having upon them four or five 
Flowers at Top, every one hanging down their heads 
like unto a Bell-flower, confif ing but of one leaf, 
plaited into five folds, each of them ending in a long 
point, which makes the Flower feem to have five 
leaves, having a round green head in the middle, 
with a prick or point at the end thereof. The Flower 
is of a fair blew color, fome deeper, fome paler, and 
fome almoft white, as nature pleafes, but without any 
fmell at all. The middle head, after the flower is 
fallen, grows to be a long, round Pod, bearing the 
point el it had at the end thereof, in which is contain- 
ed fmall greemjh Seed. 
VI. The Places. The two firft Kinds grow on our 
own Sea Coaft in great plenty, in many places, as 
near Lee in Effex, at Merfey in EjJex, and in moft 
places in the tiles of Thane t or Shepey, as alfo along 
the Northern Coaft : The laft grows on the Alps, 
and Mountains of Germany : It alio grows on the 
Mountains of Wales, not far from Cowmens Meer in 
North l Giles. . 
VII. The Times. The two former flower, Gerard 
favs, in June, but Parkinfon, about the end of Sum- 
mer, and their Seed is ripe in AugujL The third 
flowers on the Alps, &c. not till July or Augufi, as 
the Snow melts iooner or later ; but in Gardens it 
flowers in April. 
VIII. The 'finalities. Soldanella is hot and dry in 
the i'econd Degree, Aftringent, Hepatick, Cathartick 
and Emetick ; but is faid to be a great Enemy to the 
Stomach. 
IX. ' The Specification. It is faid to be a peculiar 
■thing for curing the Dropfie. 
The Virtues. 
XI. T he Decol/ion. It ought to be made in Fat 
Mutton 01 Beef Broth, ( becaufe ofits ftrength, and 
aptnefs to trouble the Stomach ) opens the Belly 
powerfully, and purges violently in Dropfies, and 
Tinrpanies, and therefore is not to be given, but to 
fuch as are of a ftrong Conftitution ; it opens Ob- 
ftruQions of the Liver, and ftrengthens the fame. 
XII. T he liquid Juice. It is both Emetick and 
Cathartick, and makes Sick ; hut in fuch Bodies as 
can bear its violence, it effe&ually carries off Wa- 
tty Humors. An ounce mixt with a good Glafs of 
White Wine will purge fome People very well 
others may take two ounces or more ; whereas half 
an ounce will powerfully purge others. 
XIII. The Infpiffate Juice. This is not to be 
prefs’d out, but fullered to iffue out of its own Ac- 
cord when the Herb or Stalk is broken - this being 
dried, and afterwards foftned with the E {fence, 
or Wine, or other like Liquid, fo as to be ufed 
Plafter-wife, being applied to the bottom of the 
Belly, admirably draws forth the Watry Humor in 
Dropfies. 
XIV. The E fence. It has the Virtues of the li- 
quid Juice, but more correft and free from Crudi- 
ties, and therefore more gentle iu its Operation c 
Being given in Wine from half an ounce, to am 
ounce, it kills Worms both in Children, and Elder 
People. 
XV. The Bonder. It is made of the Leaves dried, 
and ought to be correUed with Annifeeds, Carra- 
ways, Cinnamon, Cubebs, Ginger, Zedoary and Su- 
gar : So prepared and given, it kills Worms in Chil- 
dren, and purges the Belly : The Ample pouder is 
good alfo to cleanfe Sores and Ulcers, to incarnate 
or breed Flefh in deep and hollow Ulcers, and alfo 
to heal them. 
XVI. The Cataplafm. Made of the Green Leaves, 
and applied to the Belly, it is faid to purge the 
Bowels by Stool, and drive forth the Watry Humor 
which caufes the Dropfie : but it muft be often ap- 
plied, and renewed with frefti Herbs j and fo it is 
profitable againft the Sciatica and Gout. 
XVII. The Balfam of the Mountain Soldanella. 
It is an admirable Vulnerary, curing not only green 
Wounds with much eafe and fpeed but it alfo 
cleanfes old and rotten Ulcers, and putrid Sores, 
deftroying the Putridity. It wonderfully incarnates 
or breeds Fle(h in Wounds, and heals them. 
XVIII. Gerard fays, That the German Phyficians 
do much boaft of the Wonders they have done with 
Soldanella Montana : That the Leaves applied as a 
Cataplafm to the Navel, and fomewhat lower, draws 
forth Water from the Bellies of fuch as are Hydro- 
pick : and this effeU (fays he) it works in othg: 
parts without heating. 
CHAP. LXXIf. 
BIRDS-E Y E. 
I . h p HE Names. I find no Greek Name that this 
1 Plant has : but it is called in Latin, Para- 
lytica Alpina, Primula veris minor -, by fome Som- 
alia angufi folia : in Engtifh, Birds-Eye , and Birds- 
cine, and Birds-eyne. 
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