54 2 
Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
r 'eeelt,on in It iter- 4- AVeeeOm '"•Wine 5- A 
p j H J :r , 6. A DiJlilled Water. 7 . A Sallet. 
The Virtues. 
XV The Liquid Juice. It is of 0 binding quail' 
ty," and dries without (Iv.irpnefs, and is very powra 
tul to flop bleeding in any part, inward or outward 
being drank from one Ounce to two, or three, or 
outwardly applied, if the bleeding is external. 
XVI The Etlrn.r. It has all the former Virtues, 
befides which it Hops all fluxes of Woman ^and^fo 
foever fluxes of Seed in Man or V.oman, and alio 
fritting, vomiting, or pifiing of Bloo i'lS j { 
fo not only tire inward Excoriations and Ulcers o 
the Guts 'Reins, Ureters, and Bladder, be. out 
all other’ kinds of inveterate, moift, running and 
toul Ulcers whether internal or external ; it is alio 
extraordinary good Vulnerary, for it quickly and 
etf.lv conglutinates the lips of Ample green Wounds 
not liiffering them to come to digeftion K is an 
excellent thing to cure Ruptures in Children, for by 
infinuating it lldf into the Mafsof Blood and other 
Juices it difrofes them for conglutination, and by 
circulation the edges of the Penton-eumfe come con 
folidated ; it is faid to cure Ruptures 111 elder Per 
ions being ufed with a long contmuando, accord- 
ing as the Habit of the Patient may be, the Difeafe 
bring recent- being drunk to one, two, or three 
oinces, mixed in a GUI's of White Pott Wi^ it 
gives eafein the Strangury, Stone, and Gravel, opens 
the oblfruflions of the Urinary parts, provoking the 
Urine and expelling the tartarous Mucilage; it 
ought ’in this Cafe to be given Morning, Noon, and 
Night; it gives eafe in the Mick, and mixed with 
Honey into aLohoch, it is efFeUual ap ln ft Co«g>f> 
Colds, and Catarrhs; being externally riled warm 
robot Pultules, red Wheals, inhumations of the 
Skin, and other like Eruptions , it eafe the pain, 
difculfes the tumor, and allavs the lnHamation. 
XVII- The Dccollton in II dter. Outwardly uled 
in Baths it abates the heat of inhumations, and being 
fomented upon excoriations in the privy parts ot 
Wan or Woman, or ufed as an InfeSton m a Go 
norrhtea, it cleanfes, dries, and heals the fa • 
XVIII. The Dccedi, n in Wine. It has all the 
Virtues of the Liquid juice and Effence, but oug 
to be ufed ill a larger Dole, as from two Ounces to 
four or fix ; it (Lengthens the Stomach wonderful- 
ly, and is good again!! Vomiting, joreneft of the 
Ventricle, and other difaffeUions of the lame. 
viv j ; r poii.'iii'. Given inwardly to one Dram 
in any proper Vehicle, it has all the Virtues of the 
Juice and Elfence, but operates not altogether fo ef- 
leftually, nor fo freedily ; outwardly applied ^ to any 
H emorrhage, it prelentjy flops it, it cleanfes, dries 
up the humidity, and heals old Ulcers, and. caufes 
the lips of green Wounds to confolidate, be. 
XX. The DiJlilled Water. It has the fame \ li- 
ven ■ but the Leaved and fmoother Kinds are rather 
to be chofen for Medicinal ufes, and are molt com- 
monly ufed in Phyfick. 
chap. CCCLXXX. 
Of HORSETAIL Meadow, 
Meadow 
0 R, 
shavegkass. 
T HE Names. It is called in Greek 'hrmthur 
WSA'l’J-t in Latine Equifetum Pratenfc , and. in 
Emlilh Meadow Horfetail, or Meadow Shavegrajs. 
fl The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. 1. Equifetum 
Pratenje majus , Equifetum alter urn Matthioh Lug- 
dunenjis , alwrumque , Hifpuns altera Tragi , Hippu- 
ris Von, alia Label, j, Equifetum. Prat: ^Jf’thngf- 
fimis Bauhini, The Greater Meadow Horfetail 2. 
Equifetum Pratenje minus , The Leffer Meadow 
Horfetail. 
much init rior to them, yet it is \ery go ; .. , n^i-nnr /tihmmnp to it. from which 
much interior to them, yet it is .—j a - 
foul Ulcers with to cleanfe them, and to be uled as 
a Vehicle for the other Preparations, asalfo tomake 
an Eye Water with , and InjeUions for the Yard, 
Womb, l'iltula’s, (uc. . , ' , 
XXI. The Sallet. It is made of the young uuds 
or heads a while after they are fprung out or the 
Ground, you are to boil. them as Afparagus 'and to 
drefsthem up in like manner, or being firlt boiled, 
they may then be ltrewed with flower, then frved, 
'"xSll Kota. Many Country Women make ufe 
of the rough forts of Horfetail for to rub and fcower 
their Pewter and wooden Veffels, and fometimes to 
QOW nOH.eUilL,- liu* . 1 ■ V , . . 
, Come iew fibre sjr firings- adjoin mg to it, from which 
rifes up a rough -chamfered Stalk, jointed at certain 
fpaces, having at each joint two bufhes of rough 
briftly Leaves, iet one againft another j in the form 
and manner of growing it differs but little from fome 
of the former, fave that it grows greater, and bufliy, 
with more ffore and longer Leaves than any at the 
joints, each Leaf for the molt part being jointed alfo 
with little, but fcarcely difcernable joints. 
IV. T he fecond, or Lelfer Meadow Horfetail, bat 
a Root not much unlike to the Greater Marfh Horfetail, 
with Several Fibres or Strings adjoining to it, creep- 
ing under Ground , with joints as it .were ■, from 
i • 1 T> n rl Cr-Tltr VlPaHc 1 I 'll! 
polifh^w^fmoo^f^S^ which'dre” rough'and^n^ which Root firft frring up fcaly heads, hi thofe 
