224 Salmon V 
l'oever. Taken to a dram at a time, in l'ome proper 
\ chide, two hours before the coming of the Fit 
of an Ague, it cures it more efpecially if it is ta- 
ken or repeated two, three, or four times : The beft 
thing to take it in ( in this cafe ) is the ftrongeft 
Wine : in the fame ( and in the fame Dofe) alfo in 
a Palfie •, but in other Diftempers it may be taken 
from ten to twenty or thirty drops : outwardly al- 
fo anointed upon Cramps, and parts Convulfed, it 
gives relief in a Ihort time. 
XXIII. The Powers. They have all the fame 
Virtues with the Oil, and are much more Subtil 
and Penetrative, yet may be taken in a much larger 
Dole, as from a dram to four drams, in any proper 
Vehicle. They have alfo all the Virtues of the 
Spirit, aforementioned, and ftrengthen the Sto- 
mach admirably. Given Morning and Night in 
White Port Wine, or in fome other Diuretick Ve- 
hicle, as in Parfley, or hot Arfmart Water, Deco- 
£fion, or Infufion of Winter Cherries, Lfc. they 
powerfully open Obftruflions of the Reins, Ure- 
ters, and Bladder, provoke Urine, and expel all 
Tartarous Matter, as Stones, Gravel, Sand, Slime, 
Matter, CAr. lodged in thole Parts. 
XXIV. The Elixir. It has all the Virtues of the 
Spirit, Diftilled Oil, and Powers, exalted, perform- 
ing more effeftually, and more gratefully to the 
Stomach, all that it is polfible for thofe Preparati- 
ons to do. It renovates, as it were, the Blood, and 
all the Juices, ftrengthens the Heart, and comforts 
the whole Univerfal Frame, making the Patient 
pleafant, lively, chearful, and giving him a health- 
ful habit of Body. Being bathed upon parts affe- 
cted with the Gout, in a cold habit of Body ^ it 
gives relief, and in a Ihort time. Taken inwardly 
in a Glafs of Canary, ffom one dram to three or 
four, it gives prefent eafe in the Colick, by diffipa- 
ting and expelling theWind. 
XXV. The Fixed Salt. It is good againft Dif- 
eafes of the Nerves, by carrying off the Matter 
which obftrufts them, by the Reins ^ for it diffolves 
Vifcous Juices in all parts of the Body, efpecially 
in the Blood, and caufes them to be pifs’d forth * 
for as it opens Obftruftions of the Urinary Parts, 
and provokes Urine, by its mixtion with the Blood, 
lo it carries off the Morbifick Matter of Palfies, 
Numbnefs, Rheumatifins, and Obftru&ions ( be they 
where they will) the right way, viz. by that way 
which Nature feems molt inclin’d to promote, which 
is molt commonly by Urine. Dofe twenty, thirty, 
or forty grains Morning and Night, in a large glafs 
of White Port Wine. 
CHAP. CLVII. 
Of COWSLIPS. 
I. ' | A H E Names. Some doubt whether the 
X Greeks knew this Plant or no ; however 
later Authors have called it f, ^ B anvn 
MmU • l n Latin , Paralyfis , Herba Paralyfis , Herba 
Paralytica , Alifma Diofcoridis , according to Fabius 
Columna , Alifma Prat or urn , Arthritic a, Herba Ar- 
thritica , Dodecatheon , Primula veris major : and in 
Englijh , Cowflips , Oxlips , and Paigles. 
II. The Kinds There are feveral forts hereof, 
as, I. Paralyfis vulgaris pratenfis flore flavo fimplici 
odorato , The Common Field Cowflip. 2. Paraly- 
fis altera odor at a flore pallido polyanthos , The Prim- 
rofe, or many dowered Cowflip. 3. Paralyfis flore 
Herbal. Lib. 1 
Viridante fimplici. The Angle green Cowflip. 4. Pa- 
ralyfis flore y Calice Crijpo. , The curled Cowflip. 
5. Paralyfis flore geminaio odorato , The double Cow- 
flip, one within another. 6. Paralyfis flore Flavo 
fimplici wodoro fine Calicibus , Single Oxlips. 7. Pa- 
ralyfis flore gcminato inodora , Double Oxlips, hofe 
in hofe. 8. Paralyfis inodora calicibi/s diffeclis , Ox- 
lips with Jagged Husks. 9. Paralyfis flore fatuo , 
The foolifh Cowflips. 10. Paralyfis hortcnfis flore 
pleno , Double Garden Cowflips. 1 1 . Paralyfis flore 
viridante pleno, Double green Cowflips. 12. Para- 
lyfis flore viridante , five Calamiftrato , The Double 
green feathered Cowflip, or green Rofe Cowflip. 
III. There are feveral Plants called by the name 
of Primula veris , ( from their being the fir ft Flow- 
ers which appear in the Spring ) and to which that 
name is Genus , they being all various Species of 
the fame, viz. 1. Primula veris major, five Paraly- 
fis , The Cowflip or Oxlip, of which we have be- 
fore enumerated twelve feveral Kinds, wliofe De- 
fcriptions we fhall give in this Chapter. 2. Pri- 
mula veris minor , The Primrofe, Single and Double, 
of which hereafter. 3. Primula viris P achyphy/los. 
Auricula TJrfi , Bears Ears, three feveral Kinds of 
which we have treated in Chap. 59. patt. 4. Pri- 
mula veris minor flore Rubro & A/bo , The White 
and Red Birds Eye, of which in Chap. 7 2. afore- 
going : this being laid, we come to the matter in 
hand. 
IV. The Defcriptions. The fir ft, or Common 
Cowflip, has Roots like to the Primrofe, with many 
Fibres annexed to the greater Root from which 
fpring up feveral green Leaves , very like unto the 
Wild Primrofe, but fhorter, rounder, ft iffer, rougher , 
more crumpled about the edges, and of a f adder 
green color, every one ftanding upon its Stalk, of an 
Inch or two long. From among thefe Leaves rife up 
divers round naked Stalks ofawhilifh color, a foot, 
more or lefs, high, bearing at the top many fair fin- 
gle yellow Flowers, growing out of a long Husk, up- 
on a fhort Footftalk, with fpots of a deeper yellow 
at the bottom of each Leaf, and fuelling very Sweet. 
V. The 
