Chap. 354. Englijb ‘Herbs. 
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Beait which is wounded with the lame : yet it is 
certain, that the Flelh of the Beait. fo killed is not 
at all poilonous, but very lafe, and eats more ten- 
der than if it had been otherwise killed, more efpe- 
cinlly if it be kept for a Day and Night. 
XII. The Ponder of the Herb or Root. Mixt with 
Clieele or Bacon-fat, and put in proper places lor 
Rats and Mice, it kills them, if they eat it. Mixt 
with Pouder of Liquorice , and itrewed upon foul 
filthy Ulcers, it cleanles them, drys in fome mea- 
sure, (if skilfully applied) and difpofes them for 
Healing, which may afterwards with proper Incarna- 
tives and Ulceratives, be perfected. 
XIII. The Oil or Ointment of the Juice , or green 
Herb , or Root. It kills Lice and V ermine, if the 
Head or any part of the Body, in which Lice and 
Vermine breed, be anointed therewith, it quickly 
kills them, and frees the Patient from the fame. 
XIV. The Decoition or Lye of the Roots , Leaves 
or Seed. If it is a limple Deco£tion, it is then made 
in fimple fair Water only : but if it is a Lye, it is 
made in a fmali Lixivium of Pot-alhes. It cleanfes 
the Head and other Parts from Morphew, Scurff, 
Dandriff, Scabs, Itch, Pimples, Tettars, Ringworms, 
Leprofy, and other like Breakings out, the Parts af- 
fected being bathed therewith. 
XV. The dftilled Water. Being dropped into 
the Eyes, it takes away the Inflammation or Red- 
nefs in them ; alfo clears them from any Haw, or 
Pin and Web, growing in or upon them. The fame 
thing is laid of the Juice •, but l fear it is dange- 
rous, and if it is ufed to the Eyes, it muft be done 
with much Caution, and by fuch as have Judgment 
and Skill, and not by Fools. It ought to be mixt 
with a fufficient quantity of Damask-Rofe Water, 
both to allay its Heat, and to take off the Violence 
of its Operation. 
XV I. To Cure fuch as are Poifoned herewith. The 
frit thing you are to do, is to give an Emetick, as 
two, three, four, five or fix Grains of Emetick Tar- 
tar • from half an Ounce to an Ounce or Ounce and 
half of Infufion of Crocus Metallorum , or Vinum 
Beneditfum , or Vinum Antimonia/e , or a Dofe of a- 
ny other proper Emetick which you have at hand, 
proportioning the Dofe according to Age and 
Strength. The next thing you are to do, is to ex- 
hibit Cathartick Clyfters ^ or this following, if the 
Patient is weak : Take Poffet-drink or Mutton-broth 
a Pint , brown Sugar four Ounces : mix , melt or dif- 
folve , and exhibit it warm. This is to be done, that 
the Body be effectually, and as foon as may be, dif 
charged of the Poifon : which being p&rformed, 
Cordials and Antidotes are to be given, the one to 
defend the Heart, preferve and keep up the Vital 
and Animal Spirits * the other to enervate and de- 
ltroy the force and power of the Poifon * for the firft 
of thefe, we commend our Aqua Bezoartica , Ti nil li- 
ra Bezoartica , or fome other like Cordial Water, 
Spirit or TinCture, to be mixt and given with fome 
noble and generous Wine. The Antidotes we com- 
mend in this Cafe, are, Mithridate , Venice Treacle , 
the Antidote in our Phylaxa -, or for want of them, 
to drink a Decottion in Wine of Origanum , Penny- 
royal , Savory , Sage, Southernwood , Wormwood , Gen- 
tian , Winters Cinnamon •, Elect. Diate/Jaron is good, 
fo alfo is a mixture of Caftoreum , Pepper , Cubebs 
and Rue , of each a like quantity , being in fne Pou- 
der, and mixt up with Honey into a Bolus. Petrus 
Aponenfis commends a Dram or two of Terra Lem- 
ma to be taken in warm Drink or Wine *, but above 
all he fays, that Ariftolochia longa is the molt efpe- 
cial Antidote or Remedy againft all Aconites. Avi- 
cen has an Antidote againlt this Poifon, which is 
made of the Ply which feeds upon this Poifonous 
Plant, which he found to be very effectual, not on- 
ly^ againlt ocher Poifons, but chiefly againlt that of 
Napellus or Helmet-flower , and Poifon of the Ta- 
rantula. It is thus made : Take Ariftolochia longa , 
fine Bole , each in fine ponder , a Dram •, Plies which 
Jeed upon the A apellus number twenty : make a fine 
Pouder , and mix them : Dofe a Dram at a time in 
a Glafs of Wine. Guainerius his Antidote is this : 
Take Bay- berries , Terra Lemma , both in fine pouder , 
Mithridate , of e,\ch two Ounces •, Plies which have 
fed upern N apellus number twenty four in f onder : 
mix them , and with a fufficient quantity of Honey 
and O ft make an Electuary. Dofe from a Dram to 
two Drams at a time, with a Glafs of generous 
Wine. But the true Antidote againlt this Poifon is 
the Anthora or Antithora in the Chapter following, 
of which we lhall there Ipeak more largely. 
CHAP. CCCLIV. 
Of HELMET-FLOWER Alexi- 
pharmick , 
0 R, 
MONKS -HOOD Antidotal. 
I.'T"' H E Names. It is called in Greek , AwpOo#-. ; 
in Latin , Ajltiphthora or Antithora , but molt 
commonly, for Shortnefs fake, Anthora , ( as being 
the Oppofite or Antidote to Helmet-flower of 
Woolf s-bane : ) in Englifh , Helmet-flower Alexiphar- 
mick. 
II. The Kinds. It is a lingular Plant of the Kind* 
and is called by the Piemontoije , Anthora , quafi An- 
tithora, that is, the Remedy againlt the Poifonful 
Herb Thora : Avicenna, the Arabian calls it Na- 
pellus Moyfls in lib. 2. cap. $ 00 . and in cap. 745.' 
calls it Zedoaria, by which it is manifelt that this 
Zedoaria Avicenna is not our Common Zedoaria og 
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