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Salmon V Herbal. Lib. I. 
The Virtues. 
XV. The Liquid Juice. It is a very good aftrin- 
gent, and helps to ftay fluxes both of Blood and 
Matter, as fpitting or vomiting Blood, bleeding at 
Nofe, and other outward parts, pifling of Blood, 
alfo the violent overflowing of the Courfes in Wo- 
men; it heals inward Wounds, alfo thole Veins 
which are inwardly broken, and cures fluxes of the 
Bowels, as Diarrhoea’s, Lienteria’s, and Dylenteria’s, 
or Bloody Fluxes. Dofe three, or four, or more 
Spoonfuls in Red Port Wine two or three times a 
day, or as oft as need requires. 
XVI. The Effence. It has all the Virtues of the 
Juice, but is much more powerful for Fluxes of the 
Belly ; it ftrengthens the Stomach, and flops Vomit- 
ing, it prevails again!! Catarrhs, or diftillations of 
thin and fharp Humors falling upon the Lungs, and 
is good for fuch as are bruifed by Falls, Blows, or 
other Accidents. Dofe two or three Spoonfuls in a 
Glafsof Wine Morning, Noon, and Night. 
XVII. The Decotfion of Herb and Roots in Wine 
or Water . It has all the Virtues of Juice and Ef- 
fence, but much lefs powerful; it is good to walh 
green Wounds, old running Sores, putrid Ulcers, 
Fiftula’s, and the like, for it wafhes off, and clean- 
fes them of their putrid matter and fanies, dries and 
heals them, without any lharpnefs or biting ; it does 
the like in running Sores and Scabs of the Head and 
other parts. Dofe inwardly is five, fix, or eight 
Ounces, fweetened with a little Sugar. 
XVIII. The Louder of Herb and Roots. It is ad- 
mirably drying and aftringent, for being ftrewed 
thick upon any bleeding part it prefently flops the 
afflux of Blood, and conglutinates the lips of a Am- 
ple green Wound; ftrewed thick upon old and pu- 
trid running Sores and Ulcers it cleanfes them, dries 
up the Humors flowing, and difpofes them to heal- 
ing; a Dram of the Pouder given inwardly in Red 
Port Wine Morning and Evening flops all inward 
fluxes of the Bowels. 
XIX. The Gargarifm. Take of the E (fence two 
Ounces , of the Decotfion four Ounces , Alum two 
Drams , Honey an Ounce , mix and diffolve. It heals 
forenefs of Mouth, Gums, and Throat, and affwa- 
ges the fwellings of the Uvula and Jaws ; it is alfo 
good for green Wounds, to flop the bleeding, and 
conglutinate the lips of the Wound. 
XX. The Balfam. It digefts, cleanfes, incarnates, 
dries, and heals all forts of Wounds, Ulcers, and 
putrid running Sores in what part of the Body fo- 
ever, and put fcalding hot into Fiftula’s it dilfolves 
the callous, and caufes them in a Ihort time to be 
cured. 
XXI. The Cataplafm. Made of the Herb and 
Roots boiled foft, and brought to a thicknels with 
Pouder of Cemfrey Roots, and applied, it is faid to 
be available for the Cure of Ruptures, the DecoUi- 
on in Wine being alfo taken inwardly for fome con- 
liderable time. 
XXII. Laftly, it is to be noted, that the Vitali- 
ties ^ Specifications and Virtues of this Herb are in a 
manner the fame with thole of Scabious, this being 
a Species thereof, and therefore for a more full ac- 
count thereof we lhall refer you thither. 
CHAP. CCCCXV. 
Of KNAPWEED Silver, 
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Falfe S T O E B E. 
1 . / T III. * V H E Names. This Plant was doubtlefs un 
JL known to the Ancient Greeks , as alfo to the 
Ancient Latines , but the Moderns call it 'Stcebe, 
which is not the true Stcebe of Diofcorides and 
Theophraftt/s , that being the Pimpinella Spinofa , or 
Thorney Burnet , whereas this Yalfe Stcebe feems tru- 
ly to be of the Stock of the Knapweeds , and there- 
fore may more properly be called in Latine Stcebe 
Notha vel Spuria , and in Englifh Bafiard or Yalfe 
Stcebe , or Silver Knapweed. 
II. The Kinds. Authors have made many forts 
of this Silver Knapweed , but the chief which w'e 
lhall take notice of are thefe following, viz. i. Stce- 
\be Salamantica prim a. Clufij , Aphyllanthes prime Do • 
donai , Stcebe major Yolijs Cichoraceis mollibtts languid 
nofis Bauhini , Clufius his firft Spanilh Silver Knap- 
weed. 2. Stcebe Salamantica fecunda Clufij , alfo 
S tabes Salamantica primee altera Species ejufdem 
Authorise Stcebe Argent e a incana Lobelij , Aphyllan- 
.thes tertia Dodon&i , Stcebe major Yolijs Erucce mol li- 
ft ns languinofis Bauhini , Clufius his lecond Spanilh 
Silver Knapweed. 3. Stcebe Salamantica Argent ea 
■Lobe If alfo Stcebe Salamantica Argent e a minor, 
Stcebe Salamantica tertia Clufij , Aphyllanthes quarta 
Dodonai , Stcebe Calyculis Argent eis Bauhini, Lobel’s 
Silver Headed Knapweed. 4. Stcebe Auftriaca ela - 
■tior Clufij , Stcebe Gallic a, Stcebe Calyculis Argent eis 
major Bauhini , The Greater Silver Knapweed of 
Auftria. 5. Stcebe Aufiriaca humilior & humilis 
Clufij , Centaurij majoris Species minor Gefneri in 
Colletfione Stirpium , Stcebe incana Cyano Jimilis te- 
nuifolia Bauhini , Silver Knapweed of Auftria the 
Leffer. 6 . Stcebe Argent e a Ylore albo minor, Stcebe 
Calyculis Argent eis minor Bauhini , face a Ylore al- 
bo Gerardi Lf Tabernamontani, The Leffer Silver 
Knapweed with a white Flower. 7. Stcebe Plant a - 
ginis Yolio Alpini fin Lib. de Plantis exoticis ) Nar- 
row Leaved Silver Knapweed of Candy. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Clufius his 
firft Spanilh Silver Knapweed. It ha s a Root which 
is white , long, and woody , when it is grown above 
two Tears old , and then oftentimes perifhes in the 
Winter, otherwife it abides well, and will ufually 
Ylower and Seed two Winters , if they be not too ex- 
treamly cold, or do not ft and. too much in the Wea- 
ther-, from this Root rife up feveral Targe winged 
Leaves, lying on the Ground, very much cut in on 
both fides into large pieces, but each of them fet 
clofer together than the next, of a fad green Color 
on the upper fide, and fomewhat whitilh underneath, 
very hairy all over, as alfo the ftrait ftrong Stalks, 
which rile up to be three or four Feet high, or more, 
with' feveral fuch like divided Leaves on them as 
grow below, but much leffer, and every one lharp 
at the points, divided in the top into divers Branch- 
es, bearing upon long, bare, or naked Stalks, and 
fomewhat long, fmall, fcaly, fmooth, round, green 
Heads, but feeming more neatly contrived together 
than any of the Heads of the former Knapweeds , 
from the fmall tops whereof rife many ’fine Purplilh 
or Crimfon Threads or Thrums, or of a Color be- 
tween both, Handing round together, and lometbihg 
whiter 
