Chap, up. ‘Englijh Herbs. 
’ii Wine befides which, being ftrewed upon moift. 
running Sores, it cleanfes, dries, and heals them. 
XVII. The Balfam. It heals Wounds at once 
or twice dreffing : if they be contufed, it digefts 
them, cleanfes and heals. Applied to foul, corrupt- 
ed, rotten Sores, and old Ulcers, it digefts them 
cleanfes, dries, and heals almoll to a Miracle. Ap- 
plied to the Gout, it draws the humor out through 
the pores of the skin, and io cures it. 
XVIII. The Ointment. It is vulnerary, drying, 
and healing, good again!! burnings, fcaldings, and’ 
fluxes of lharp Humors, which it reprelfes by vir- 
tue of its Altringency, the Sore, Ulcer or Wound, 
being firft waflit with the Juice or Effence : then 
the Pouder of the Root being ftiewed upon it, and 
afterwards pledgets being dipt in the Ointment, and 
laid over all, with a De Ahnio Emplafler upon that 
to hold it on : by this means defperate old and run- 
ning Sores and Ulcers have been fuddenly and ef- 
feftually cured. 
XIX. The Cataplafm. It is m excellent Anodyn 
and Difcuff.ve, prevalent again!! flatulent Tumors : 
If it is made up into a Pelfary with the Pouder of 
the Root, and put up the Womb, it provokes the 
Terms in Women, and educeth the Dead Child and 
After-birth. 
XX. The Spirituous Tintfure. It is good againll 
Convulfions, Lethargies, Paiges, Cramps, Pains and 
Aches in the Limbs, as alfo in the Stomach and 
Belly, Colick, and all Dileales of thole parts pro- 
ceeding from Wind : Let it be taken inwardly three 
times a day, from two drams to four in any proper 
Vehicle : and outwardly, let it be bathed upon the 
part afte&ed Morning and Evening, till health is 
recovered. 
XXI. The Acid Tinflure. It is good againll Ma- 
lignity, and the Poifon of Peftilential Fevers : is 
good again!! the bitings or llingings of Venomous 
Creatures ; opens ObftruUions of the Lungs, helps 
again!! Coughs, Colds, fhortnefs of Breath, Wheez- 
ing, Hoarfnefs, 0c. being taken in all that the Pa- 
tient drinks, whether Ale, Beer, or Wine, fo many 
drops at a time as may make the Liquor pleadingly 
lharp. ° 1 
XXII. The Oily Tinfhtre. It opens Obftru&ions 
of the Reins, Ureters and Bladder, is prevalent a- 
gainft the Strangury, pains and weaknefs in the 
Back, being taken from ten to twenty or thirty drops 
in White Port Wine twice a Day, viz. Morning 
and Night •, and withal being bathed well in, upon 
the Spina Dorfl , or Back Bone. 
XXIII. The whole Tlant , as well Herb as Root is 
available in all forts of Wounds, Sores and Ulcers 
to digeft, cleanfe, dry, conglutinate, and heal them ■ 
and therefore are principal ingredients, and fhould’ 
be in all vulnerary Ointments, Balfams, Drinks, Lo- 
tions, and Injeflions, according to fome of the afore- 
going prefcribed Preparations, refpeft being had to 
the parts afflifted, and the way and Method of Ap- 
plication or Exhibition, whether Inward or Out- 
ward. 
l6 5 
CHAP. CXIX. 
Of C E N T O R Y the Letter. 
I.'T'tfj? Names. It is called in Arabick, Kan- 
I 1 f l6n Sages , and Canturion Sege , or Segir : 
In V meek, Kurluen ri laxgV : In Latin, Centaurium 
minus, 0 farvum : Of fome, Centaurea, febrifuge , 
teZf Q- U . a % 5 tel Terror, from its exceffive bit- 
“ft Liofcorides fays, lc was caIle(1 Umnejhh-, 
and PI, ny, Libadwn, becaufe it loves to grow in 
^ S ’I J hougllt t0 be tlm PIant which 
i beophr aft us called Leptophyllum : In Ens.hH) Cen- 
tory the Laffer, and Leffer Centory. ' 
II. The Kinds. It is no Species of the Greater 
Lent pry, nor c airns any the leal! Kindred with it, 
mm? "a ? ela ( tl0n ! n an y kini h but only in the 
name, and therefore is Genus or General it felfi It 
IS hx fold as growing with us, viz. i. Centaurium 
minus vulgare flore rubente, The Common Red 
Whim £ ent0r a r' Centaunum minus flore albo , 
White flowered Centory. 3 . Centaurium minus if 
teum. Small yellow Centory. 4 . Centaurium minus 
luteum perfoliatum ramofum, Branched through- 
leav d Small yellow Centory. Centaurium minus 
luteum non ramofum. Small yellow Centory, not 
Branched. 6. Lenta, mum minimum luteum. The 
very fmall, or fmalleli yellow Centory. 
III. The Defcnptions. The firft of thefe , which 
h °7 C °m mon fma11 Cent0 IT has a Root fmall and 
hard pen fling every year, from whence Springs up 
jor the mofl part, but one round and crejled Stalk 
about a foot high, or fome thing more, branching oft 
at the top , Mo many S prigs or Branches, and fome 
alfo from the Joints of the Stalks below. The Leaves 
are fmall and a little roundijh , very like unto St 
Johnr Wort but without any holes in them, as that 
has The flowers hand at the tops, as it were in a 
l it) tor Umble, and are of a pale red color , tending 
to a Carnation. They conflft of Jive, and fometimfs 
J ma “ Leaves, very like unto thofe of HvDe- 
neon, opening them/ elves in the Day time, and do- 
Jvng at Eight, after which come Seed in little fhort 
Ftusks, and in form like unto Wheat Corns. The 
whole riant is of an exceeding bitter Tafte 
IV. The fecond, with the White Flower, differs 
nothing from the other, as to the form, neither in 
Root, Stalk, Leaves, Height, Flowers or Seed, flavine 
only in the color of the Flowers , which is White as 
the other is Red ; and the bitter tafte it the fame in 
its full Latitude. 
V. The 
