220 Salmon ’ s 
XX. The Spirit. It is very comfortable to the 
Stomach, and exceeding Cordial ; by heating and 
refrefhing of it, and taking away the cold and 
imoift Temperature thereof, which is the ground 
and foundation of Catarrhs and Rheumarifms ; it 
helps Digeftion, reprelfes the Vapors, which afcend 
thence up into the Head, and forcibly refills the Tor- 
tures of the Colick, proceeding from Cold, Wind, 
and the like : and being moderately ufed, it ftirs 
up Venery by an encreafe of Blood and Seed, and 
by a gentle warming, and, as it were, vivifying the 
fame. Dcfe one fpoonful, or more, in the Morning 
fading, a little afore Dinner, and at Bed time, either 
alone, or in a Glafs of Canary. 
XXI. The Oil by Diftilhtion. Being taken in- 
wardly from ten to fifteen or twenty drops, and in 
fome very cold and moift Conftitutions to thirty 
or forty drops ; firft dropt into, and mixt well with 
White Sugar, and then mixed well with a glafs of 
Wine, and fo taken, it is a famous thing againft 
the Palfie, Cramps and Convulfions, whether in Old 
or Young, and the Gout in the Stomach •, anoint- 
ing all thofe parts which are affefted with thofe 
Difeafes, outwardly. Morning and Night, and rub- 
bing or chafing it well in. It etteclually opens the 
Urinary Pallages, and powerfully ftirs up to Coi- 
tion, by encreafing Seed, making it Spirituous, and 
ftrengthening the parts of Generation. 
XXII. An Obferoation. The Arabian Phyficians, 
and others of the Ancients, tell us how we Ihould 
correct Coriander Seed before we ufe it, viz. by 
Keeping it all Night in Vinegar, and then drying it 
again, thereby to take away ( as they think ) its 
Venene Qualities. But this Label feems to defpife, 
and that truly with very good reafon, becaufe no 
fuch thing can be extrafted from it ; for after it is 
ripe, if it is luffered to dry of it felf, or in the Sun, 
all thofe pretended Obnoxious Qualities will vanilh 
away of their own accord ; nor needs it any other 
Preparation when it is made into Comfits, and is 
fo far from being hurtful to the Stomach, and Bow- 
els ( as fome Authors have affirmed ) that on the 
contrary, it has been found by great Experience to 
be an excellent Stomatick, exceeding many others : 
and this even Country People have found by the 
ufe of it, without any Preparation at all : for being 
only Dry, it has a warming Faculty, and a Sweet, 
and no Noifome Smell or Tafte, that being contain- 
ed only in its Humidities whilft it is Green, and not 
in the Seed when only dried. 
CHAP. CLIV. 
Of COR N-F LAG. 
I. ' I ' H E Names. It is called in Greek , Xliav. 
JL and CciffytVOV '• In Latin, Gladiolus , and of 
fome Enfis ( as it were the Sword F lag : ) of fome 
Gladiolus Segetalis, Viclorialis f&mina Cordi, and 
Vitt or tails Rotunda : In Englifh, Corn-El ag. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral forts thereof, as, 
1. Gladiolus Narbonenfts , The French Corn-Flag. 
2. Gladiolus ltalicus hints florum ordinibus. The 
Italian Corn-Flag. 3. Gladiolus Byzantinus , The 
Conftantinopolitan or Turkifh Corn-Flag. 4. Gla- 
diolus fore r/^£Wt’,Blufh-colored Corn-Flag. 5; . Gla- 
diolus flore albo, White-fiowred Corn-Flag. 6. Gla- 
diolus purpureas minor. The fmall purple Corn- 
Flag. 7. Gladiolus Lacujiris, The Water, Corn, or 
Sword Flag, defcribed by Clufirn. 
‘Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
Ill The Delcriptions. The firft has a Root which 
is fomewhat great, round, flat and hard, looking as 
if it was netted, having another Jhort fpongy one un- 
der it, which when it has done bearing , and the 
Stalk dry, that the Root may be taken up, flicks clofe 
to the bottom, but may be eafily taken away, having 
commonly a number of fmall Roots encreafed about 
it, the leaf of which will quickly grow, fo that if 
it is fuffered any long time in a Garden, it will even 
cboak it up. From this Root, three or four broad, 
long, and ft iff green Leaves rife up, one, as it were , 
• riflng 
