Chap. 244. '% 
and fo drinking it off. It opens OMtruaions of 
Reins and Bladder, and provokes Urine powerfully. 
XXV. The Pete) ales or Powers. They have all 
the Virtues of the Juice, Effence, Pouder, Spirit and 
Oil, and may be ufed to all the laid Intentions, both 
internally and externally, but are indeed much more 
fubtil and penetrating, ftriking to the Bone in a 
moment. They eafe the Pain of the Head tho’ ex- 
tream, by fnuffing them often up theNoftrils, and 
alfo bathing the Forehead and Temples therewith 
Dofe is fif ty drops, more or lefs, inaGlafs of gene- 
rous Wine, and in cafe of Vapors or Fits, inaGlafs 
of fair Water. 
XXVI. The Elixir. This Medicament is only 
the Poteftates exalted, and brought to the highell 
degree of Perfection. It is one of the greateft of all 
Pettorals and Anticolicks ; and provokes the Terms 
in Women after an admirable manner. In a word, 
it has all the Virtues of the Powers, and performs’ 
whatever they can do, with Advantage. Dofe from 
forty to fixty drops in any proper Vehicle. 
XXVII. The fixed Salt. It is made of the whole 
riant, burnt to Allies whilft it is green. It is high' 
ly Diuretick, and a great Purifier of the Blood, de- 
ftroying all preternatural Acids in the Juices and 
Humors, more efpecially in the Stomach, and other 
places of Digeftion. Being mixed about a fcruple 
or half a dramat a time with a lpoonfiil of Juice of 
Lintons, it takes away Vomiting immediately, tho 
never fo extream, and gives eafe in the molt perti 
nacious Colick. 
XXVIII. Sanguis or Blood. It acuates the Juices 
of the Body, fortifies the Stomach, comforts the Fa- 
culties, chears the Heart, revives the Spirits, and 
puts whole Nature into an excellent Habit and Con- 
dition. And as it is one ot the molt admirable 
things in the World againit Coughs, Colds, Ca- 
tarrhs, Althma’s and lpitting of Blood ; fo it is a 
molt Angular thing to reltore in Confumptions, there 
being not many better things upon Earth. ’ Dole 
from two drams to three, or more, according as the 
Neceffity may require, in a Glals of homogeneous 
Wine, fuch as the Prudence of the Phyfician lhall 
direfl. 
XXIX. The Conferve or Preferve. It may be 
taken in a Morning falling againit malign and in- 
fectious Airs ■, and in contagious and peftilential 
Times, there being very few things much better. 1 
commend it for fuch as have had an Afthma of long 
continuance -, for the conltanr taking of it for fome 
confiderable time, diffolves the Tartar of the Lungs 
and caules free Breathing. 
XXX. EnuU-mel or Honey of Elecampane. It is 
highly Peftoral, and is very efficacious to warm and 
comfort a cold and windy Stomach, and to eafe 
Prickings and flitches in the Sides ; as alfo Pains of 
the Spleen, and to help Coughs, Catarrhs, Wheez- 
ing and Shortnefs of Breath. It is an excellent 
thing alfo for provoking of Urine, and to open Ob- 
ttruCtions of the Womb where the Courfes are ltopt 
fupprefling Vapors, and preventing Fits of the Mo- 
ther. Dofe as much as a Wall-nut Morning and 
Night for fome time. 
Herb 
x 
ill 
ba : in Latin , Intubus £? Endivia : in Englifh En- 
dive. ’ ' 
II. Tfe Kinds. It is either Garden,' of whiifi in 
this Chapter ; or Wild , of wdtich in the next. The 
hrlt kind is called Endivia hortenfu , Intubus major 
Mattbioli , Intubum faiivum , Garden Endive. 
garden. Enbive . 
CHAP. CCXLIV. 
1 
Of ENDIVE Garden. 
1 
^ I f ^ Karnes. It is called in Greek, : by 
X the Arabians, Dumbebe , Anubebe and En.de- 
III. The Defcription. It has a Root which is lone 
white, with fibres or Strings appendent to it which 
withers and dies away ajter it has perfected its 
Seed hom this Root Jpring forth long Leaves, 
n -T °° t \d ni more green than white, like al- 
mof to thofe o/Lettice, fomething notched in on the 
edges l he Stalk grows up among the Leaves , being 
round and hollow, divided into fever al Branches : 
°m ?1 !£*? bem & broken or cut' , there iljues a 
Milk like Juice , a little bitter. The flowers grow 
at the tops of the Branches, and confift of 111.1110 
col i r ""‘"“mly blew, feldom while 
IV. White Endive. It is ra, fed of the Seed of the 
former Garden Endive/oW (not in the Spring as 
is uJUal, but) in July, whereby it remains till Win 
ter at which time it is taken up by the Roots, and 
laidfoi two hours in the Sun or Air, by which means 
the Leaves will become tough, and eafity endure to 
be wrapped up into a heap -, after which they are bu- 
ned in the Earth or m Sand, as fome fay, with the 
Roots Upwards, Jo as no Earth or Air can get with- 
w (which, ,f they could would caufe Rot tennefs ■ ) 
the which fo covered may be taken up at need re 
puires, and fo ufed in Sa/lets all the Winter as ,s 
n j X Lond £ n ’, ■ <m ‘ t man y m,)er pieces. This is 
called White Endive, and it feems, that the anci- 
ent Romans were not ignorant ot ir. Limy lib 20 
8 . fpeakmg to the fame purpolb. 
V Curled Endive. There is aijo another fort of 
Garden Endive, called Endivia Calamiitrara, Intu- 
bum mtortum Intubus Crifpus vel CriipKhmus: 
ihts has a thick Root , with f ibres annexed, as 2 he 
former has , which Root perijhes , as does the whole 
I'd d tCr !t }aS ' >rou $ t f or lh its ripe Seed, f rom 
this Root Jpring up many Leaves 3 not much unlike to 
the 
