Chap. 247. ‘Englifh Herbs. 337 
XIV. The Effence. It has all the Virtues of the 
liquid Juice ; and by reafon of its Finenefs, much 
the better and pleafanter Medicine to be taken. It 
powerfully opens Obltruclions of the Liver and 
Spleen, Reins, Bladder and Womb ; is goodagainft 
the Yellow Jaundice, Dropfy and Gout, and pro- 
vokes the Terms in Women. It is good again!! the 
Bitings of Serpents, and the Poyfon of the Aconite, 
or other poyfonous Herbs ; but in cafe of the Stone, 
Gravel, Sand, Strangury, £fc. it ought to be taken 
for twenty or thirty days together, firll faffing in the 
Morning, and laft at Night going to Bed. If the 
Life of this Medicine is continued longer, it not on- 
ly removes the Stoppage of Urine and pilling by 
drops, with the Sand, Gravel and Tartar of the 
Reins, and all other Defeats of the Urinary Parts, 
but it is faid perfectly to cure them, as alio thofe 
who are troubled with the Stone , fo as that thofe 
Pains (hall never return again ; which thing Authors 
fay has been proved by Experience, on fuch as have 
been a long time troubled therewith. Dofe three 
or four fpoonfuls at a time in generous Wine. 
XV. The DecoEtion in Wine. It has all the Vir- 
tues of the liquid Juice and Effence, but is lefs pow- 
erful, and therefore ought to be taken three or four 
times a day, fweetned with a little double-refined 
.Sugar. It is ufually taken ( as well as the other 
things ) to excite Coition ; and is faid to be good 
again!! the Trerich Difeafe it felf. 
XVI. The Yonder oj the Root. This being taken 
to a dram in a Glafs of White Lisbon Wine, with 
the Addition of half a dram of Caucus or Wild Car- 
rot Seed, expels Stone and Gravel from the Reins 
and Bladder, provokes Urine and the Terms, eafes 
the Colick, refills Poyfon, and cures the Bitings 
of Serpents and other venomous Creatures. It is 
fingular good again!! the Scrophula, or thofe Tu- 
mors and Kernels in the Throat called the Kings-eviL, 
being often taken Morning and Night in two or three 
ounces of the Effence abovefaid. 
XVII. The Ointment. It is made of the bruifed 
Root, boiled in Hogs Lard. This being applied 
to broken Bones, Splinters, Thorns, & c. remain- 
ing in the Flelh, does not only draw them forth, 
but heals up the place again, making new Flefii 
Where it was confutned or eaten away. 
XVIII. The Cataplafm. It is made of the Roots 
beaten into a Pulp, or raw, or boiled, and then 
beaten into a Mafs. This being applied to Struma’s, 
or Kings-evil Sores, or to the Bitings of mad Dogs, 
Serpents, or of any other venomous Creature , it 
draws out the Malignity and Poyfon, and quickly 
heals the Sore. In the Gout, whether of Hands or 
Feet, it gives prefent eafe and applied to Apo- 
llems, it quickly ripens and breaks them. 
XIX. The dtftilled Water. It is drawn from the 
whole Plant when the Leaves and Stalks are young : 
and is profitably taken for all the Purpofes aforefaid : 
it removes Melancholy from the Heart, and is good 
for Quartan and Quotidian Agues, as alfo for them 
who, by Convulfions, have their Necks drawn awry, 
or cannot turn them without turning their whole Bo- 
dies : but in all thefe Cafes the Juice or Effence are 
more powerful ; and they may be taken in this di- 
llilled Water for a Vehicle. 
XX. The liquid Juice oj the Leaves. Being dropt 
into the Ears, it is faid to fuppurate Apoftems there- 
in. And Gerard fays, that being drunk with Wine, 
it is a Remedy for thofe who are troubled with a 
Gonorrhoea or Running of the Reins* 
CHAP. CCXLVII. 
Of EYE-BRIGHT Common or 
Meadow. 
I.'T' HE Karnes. It is called, as fome fay, in 
X Greeks ’tvtp&irivi : in Latin , Euphragia , Eu- 
fragia , Euphrafyne , (which is alfo a Name of Bug- 
lofs ) Ocularis , Ocularia , Opktbalmica and Eufrajia : 
in Englijh , Eye-bright. 
II. The Kinds. There are many kinds of this 
Plant ^ but there are but two principal Species which 
are known to us, or at leaftwife grow in our Coun- 
try, viz. 1 . Eufrajia , Eufragia , and Euphragia vul- 
garis, Our common Meadow Eye-bright, of which 
in this Chapter. 2. Euphragia, and Eufragia Inn fo- 
lia Columnar, ( yet the Leaves are far lefs than thole 
of Flax : ) Euphragia fylveflris, Euphragia , vel Eu- 
fragia Lignofa ; Woody Eye-bright, of which in 
the next Chapter. 
III. The Defcription. It has d Root which is 
long, fnall and thready at the end, from which uf ti- 
dily rifes up one fmall, low, blackij). ) green Stalk, a 
J pan high , or not much more, fpread out from the 
bottom into fiver a l Branches , on which are Jet fmall, 
long, dark, green Leaves, pointed at their ends , and 
dented about the edges, almojl like a Sdw , tzoo al- 
ways fet together, and very thick. At the Joints 
with the Leaves, from the middle upwards, come 
forth fmall white Flowers, ftriped with purple and 
yellow Stripes, and Spots mixed therewith * after 
which follow finall round Heads, with very fmall 
Seed therein. This being found on fome hilly 
Ground, does fometimes vary in Color of the Flow- 
er, as being fometimes more whitilh, fometimes 
more yellowifh, and fometimes more purple. 
IV. The Places. It grows in dry Meadows, in 
green and grafly Ways, and Paftures lying to the 
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