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62 Salmon V 'Herbal. 
Lib. I 
bottoms, but inftead of the three upright Leaves, as 
the Tlowerdeluces have, this has only three fhort pie- 
ces Handing in their places , after which fucceed 
thick and long three fquareCods or Heads,contaimng 
in each part fomewhat large and flat Seed, very like 
to thofe of the Garden Ylowerde luces , which are 
fometimes reddifh, purplilh, and hlackifh. 
IV. The "Places. It grows ufually in watery 
Ditches, Ponds, Lakes, and Moorifh Grounds, which 
are often overflowed, or kept wet with Water, as 
at Lambeth , on the Bank Side of the Thames , and 
Ditch Sides thereabouts ; alfo in moift Meadows, 
low Grounds, Banks of Rivers , and the like: it 
glows ill valt plenty in the Fens in Cambridgfkire , 
lftr of Ely , Bedfordshire , Lincolnjbire , O’ c. And 
altho’ it 'is by nature a Watery Plant , yet it will 
grow and profper very well if planted in Gardens. 
° V. The Times. It grows up in the Spring , in 
March and April , Flowers in July , and the Seed is 
ripe in Augufi. 
VI. The Qualities. The Root is chiefly ufed, and 
is cold and dry in the fecond degree , Aftringent , 
Repercuflive , Traumatick , Anodyne , and Arthri- 
tick. , . , 
VII. The Specification. It is known to bind the 
Bowels, and flop all Fluxes of Blood or Humors. 
VIII. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, 1. A Juice. 2. An EJfence. 3. Anlnfifion 
or Decollion in Wine. 4. j! Ponder. ;. A Cblly- 
rium. 6 . A Cataplajm. 7. An Ointment or Bal- 
fam. 8. A Diftilled Water. 
The Virtues. 
IX. The Juice. Inwardly taken to a Spoonful 
or two in a Glafs of Red Port Wine it is very aftrin- 
genr, and flops all Fluxes of the Bowels , whether 
of Blood or Humors, as alfo Piffing of Blood, over- 
flown’ ; of the Terms, and other Fluxes ofBlood at 
Mouth Noie, or other parts , in external Hamor- 
rhages ’it muft be applied with Stuphes to the part. 
X. The E fence. It has all the Virtues of the 
Liquid Juice, but is more effe&ual, being inwardly 
given, one or two Spoonfuls at a time, in any pro- 
per Vehicle, but it is to be repeated fo often at due 
intervals of time as need fhall require; It prefently 
flops the overflowing of the Loches of Women in 
Child-Bed, and ftrengthens the Womb, and all the 
weakned parts. 
XI. The Infufton or Dee oil tan in Wine. It has 
the fame Virtues with the Juice and Effence, but is 
weaker, and therefore muff he given in larger quan- 
tities, as five or fix Ounces twice a day. 
XII. The Ponder. Given to one Dram, or more, 
in Wine, it flops all internal Fluxes ofBlood, whe- 
ther in the Lungs, Stomach, Guts, Reins, Bladder, 
or Womb: outwardly applied alfo it flops Bleed- 
ing, and being fttewed upon old, moifl, and running 
Sores, it cleanfes, dries up the moifture, and indu- 
ces their healing : ftrewed upon a foul Bone it is faid 
to cleanfe it and cover it with Flelh. 
XIII. The Collyrium. Take of the Diftilled Wa- 
ter four Ounces , Red Port Wine two Ounces, of 
the clarified Juice of the Root one Ounce, mix them. 
Dropt into fore and watering Eyes it flops the Flux 
of Rheum, dries and heals them ; Cloths or Spunges 
may alfo be wetted therein and applied upon the . 
Forehead; it takes away alfo Clouds, Dimnefs, 
Films, Pearls, and the like. 
XIV. The Cataplafm. Applied to the Joints in 
the Gout it eafes the Pain, and ftrengthens the part 
afflicted, fo that the Difeafe feldom or never returns 
any more upon that Foot; it alfo flops any Flux of 
Humors upon the part. 
XV. The Ointment or Ba/fam. It is ufed after 
cleanfing of Wounds or Ulcers, to dry, incarnate, 
and heal, for as it breeds Flefh, fo it flops any de- 
fluxion of Humors thereupon, hindring the growing 
of proud Flefh. 
XVI. The Diftilled Water. Dropt into the Eyes 
it is good againft the watering of them, applied to 
the Forehead in wet Spunges it flops Defluxions, and 
fomented on hot Tumors and Inflammations of Wo- 
mens Breafts, as alfo upon Cancers, and noli me tan- 
gere, it cools and gives much eale, and this more 
efpecially if it is mixed with a little Saccbarum Sa- 
turni , and then it prevails againft foul and putrid 
Ulcers happening in the Privy Parts of Man or Wo- 
man, or in any other part of the Body. 
CHAP. CCLXVII. 
Of F L A X Manured or Common. 
I.'T'ffF' Names. It is called by the Arabians 
1 Bazariehichen, or Bezerchetan , in Greek Aim, 
in Latin Linum , and in Eng/ijh P/ax , and Line , 
which laft Name fome will have from making 
Lines of it; but I take it to he derived from the 
Greek Name. 
II. The Kinds. Of flax there are two principal 
Kinds, viz. 1. The Manured, of which we lhall 
Treat in this Chapter. 2: The Wild Kind, of which 
in the next. The Manured , Garden , ox Common 
Kind , is a Angular Plant, (of the Peelings of which 
they make fine Cloths) and is deferibed as iollowfeth. 
III. The Defcription. It has -a /mail fibrous Root, 
which perijhcs every Tear , from whence rifes up a 
round pliant Stalk , about a yard high , befet with nar- 
row , long , and J oft Leaves , without any order , and 
is branched on the top into three or four /mail Branch- 
es, each of them bearing two or three fair Blue flow- 
ers made of jive round pointed Leaves apiece , with 
’ fome 
