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alio, at the toot or lowett part of them : The Flow- I 
ers are almolt all Blew, with home fmall matter ot 
White in them, which being paft away, fmall pou- 
ches or Seed VelTels fucceed, not unlike the for- 
mer. 
Fiucllcti tvit h cornered lecuiet 
VI. T he Places. They grow upon Banks and 
Borders of Fields, in Sandy Grounds and Woods 
almolt every where; as alfo in Cornfields, and in 
Borders about them, and in other fertile Grounds, 
as about Souli'fleet in Kent, in great abundance; at 
Buckworth alfo, hamcrton and Ricbwerfworth, in 
Huntingtonfhire , and in feveral other places, both 
there and ellewhere. 
VII. The Times. They all flower about May, 
June and July , and the whole Plant is Withered 
by the beginning of September. 
VIII. The Qualities, Tluellin is Temperate in 
relpeft to heat or coldnefs, drynefs or moifture .- 
is Cleanfing, Aftringent, Incarnative, Vulnerary, 
Stomatick, Hepatick, Alexipharmick and Reite- 
rative. 
IX. The Specification. It flops Fluxes of all 
forts, whether of the Blood or Humors, whether 
of the Bowels, or defluxions upon. any part; it 
heals alfo old Ulcers, eating Cankers, Pocky erup- 
tions and the like. 
X. Vie Preparations. You may prepare from 
this Herb, I. ALiquid Juice. 2. An EJJence. 3. A 
Deco Q ion in Water or Wine. 4. ji Balfam. 5. A 
Cataplafm. 
The Virtues. 
XI. The Liquid Juice. Given to three or four 
Spoonfuls at a time Morning and Evening in a 
Glafs of Red Port Wine, it flops defluxions fiom 
the Head, alfo other defluxions upon any particu- 
lar part, all fluxes of Blood or Humors, as a Di- 
arrhoea, Dyfenteria, Lienteria, Hepatick Flux, and 
the overflowing of the Courfes in Women. 
XII. The Ejfence. It has all the former Virtues, 
but more efficacious : It flops all forts of Bleeding, 
whether at the Nofe, or Spitting, Vomitting or 
Pilling of Blood ; alfo fluxes of Blood from any 
other parts, caufed by the cutting or breaking of a 
Vein-, and is a Angular good thing againtt Contu- 
lions whether inward or outward, firengthening and 
confolidating the parts which are hurt; and it is no 
lefs effeftnal being ufed Dietetically to cleanfe, dry, 
and heal old Ulcers which are foul, fretting and 
eating; and outwardly being applied to dry, con- 
glutinate and heal any fimple green Wound. It is 
of Angular ufe againft the Trench Pox, and all fret- 
ting and eating Cankers proceeding from the fame; 
fo that l'carcely any other Vegetable comes up to the 
height of its excellency in this Cafe. Pena gives 
a relation of one whofe Nofe was almolt confumed 
with an eating Canker (Tfuppofe proceeding from 
the Trench Pox ) which was by the Phyflcians order 
to have been cut off, to preferve the reft of his 
Face and Body, now ready to fall into a [ Pocky ] 
Leprofte ; a Ample Barber being in Company, and 
hearing of -it, defiled that he might firlt make tryal 
of an Herb which he had feen his Mafter ufe in 
like Cafe ; ft was granted, and he ufed only the 
Juice and Decoftion of this Herb, giving of them 
inwardly, and applied the Herb outwardly : By 
. this only means he recovered the Patient, and not 
only Cured the \_Pocky ] eating Ulcer of his Nofe, 
but alfo the [Poofy] Scabbinefs or Leprofie of his 
whole Body, which he was now fallen into ; and 
by this alone means became perfeflly well. 
XIII. The Becottion in Wine or Water. It has 
all the Virtues of the Juice and Eflence, but lefs 
efficacious, and therefore ought to be given in tre- 
ble or quadruple quantity, two or three times a 
day. 
XIV. The Balfam. It is no ways inferior to any 
Balfam made of any of the Vulnerary Herbs ; it 
digefts, cleanfes, incarnates, dries, and heals old 
Ulcers, putrid, fretting and eating Sores, and Cures 
at once or twice drefhng any Ample green Wound, 
in what part of the Body fo ever. 
XV. The Cataplafm. It is made of the green 
Herb, bruifed and mixed with Burly Flower ; being 
applied to watering Eyes, occaAoned by defluxions 
from the Heads, where there is Heat and Inflamma- 
tion withal, it very much helps them, and flops all 
other Defluxions of Humors, upon any other part 
whatfoever, wherethere is Pain, Diflocation, Weak- 
nefs, Wound, orUlcer, -&c. 
XVI. An 
