Chap. 80. TLftglijb Herbs. 
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Corn fields, and are alfo nourifhed up in Cardens. 
The laft was brought to us from Turfy , or Ctmfi an- 
ti nofle , and grows in the Gardens of fome Her- 
borilts. 
VII. The Ti tries. They flower for the moil part 
thro’ all the Summer , and their Seed ripens in the 
mean feafon. 
VIII. The Qualities, Specification , P reparations. 
Virtues and Ufes , are all exa&ly the fame with 
thofe in the former Chapter, fo that w r e fhall fay 
no more thereof in this place. 
CHAP. LXXX. 
ELITES White. 
I. nrif E Names. It is called in Greek B >Jmv ; In 
JL Latin , Blitum : and in Englijh , Elites. Yet 
Tark 'mfon fays, that none of the Ancients have made 
any mention of them. 
II. The Kinds. There are two principal Kinds, 
viz. i . Blitum album , the White Blite *, and this is 
both Majus and Minus , of which we treat in this 
Chapter. 2. Blitum Rubrum, The Red Blite, which 
is alfo Majus and Minus , ol which in the next 
Chapter, 
III. The Defcription. The Great White Blite 
has a Root very thick , and long , and very full oj 
Threads or Strings •, from whence rifes up fever at 
Stalks, making a kind of bufh,till it comes to be three 
or four Feet high -, the Stalks are grayifh, white, and 
round : the Leaves are plain and J. moot h almofi like 
to thofe of Arach, but not fo foft nor mealy : the 
F lowers grovt thruft together, like thofe of Arach : 
after which comes the Seed inclofed in round, flat, 
husky skins. 
IV. The LelTer White Blite, which is called the 
Wild White Blite is very like unto the former, ex- 
cept that the Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Branches , and 
the whole Riant are altogether of a green color, and 
every way lej's than the former, growing, upright ■, 
and not creeping at all. 
VI. The Times. They fiourifh and flower all the 
Summer long, their Seed is ripe in Aug a ft and Sep- 
tember, •, and grow very green even in the I i r , ■mis- 
time. 
VII. The Qualities. The Blite, fays Gale* a (lib. f. 
fac. Med. Simp. ) is a Pot Herb, which ferves lor 
Meat, cold and moilt ( in the lecond Degree : 
Hyfterick, and Solutive. Yet Parkinjon, w ill have 
them to be Cold, Dry, Aftringent or Binding. 
VIII. The Specification-. They arc pe, ir 
r luxes and Diftempers of the Womb. 
IX. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, 1. A Liquid Juice. 2. An EJfence ; 5. A 
Deco ft ion in Wine-. 4. A Syrup. 
The Virtues. 
X. The Liquid Juice. Taken to five or fix Oun- 
ces in a Glafs of Wine, it purges by ftool, makes 
the Belly foluble, and cools the Bowels : but fome- 
times it overturns the Stomach, and cleanles it by 
Vomiting. J 
XL The EJfence. It does the fame thing with 
the Juice, but with lefs detriment to the Stomach -, 
and being taken Morning and Evening from two 
ounces to three, or four, ir hops the Whites in Wo- 
men, and a Gonorrhea in Men, Univerfals being pre- 
mifed. . ° v 
XII. The Decoffion in Wine. This is yet lefs. 
troublefome to the Stomach, and has the Virtues of 
.he Elience -, but not, altogether fo powerful ■, and 
may be taken wichqut apy danger by a Woman with 
Child; 
XIII. The Syrup. It is 'not Only Elvfterick, but 
Pectoral alfo: it clean fes the Womb/Breaft, Sto- 
imich, and Lungs, of Slime, and Vifcous or Tarta- 
rous Matter, eafes Coughs, and taken for fome 
time, helps Afthma’s, and fhortnefs of Breath. 
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