Chap. 419. Englijb Herbs. 
fmall black Seed, like the firft. Columna will have 
Gallium nigra purpureum Montanum , &c. to be a 
differing Species from this now defcribed, but they 
feem to me to be ail one Kind, the Rower being 
in fome places only a little darker, but in all other 
particulars alike. 
X. Gerard fays this fourth or Red Flowered La- 
dies-Bedftraw has been taken for a Kind of Wild 
Madder, but it Is truly a Kind or Species of Ladies- 
Bed lira w, or Cheefe-Rennet, as appears both by its 
Qualities of turning Milk into Curds, as alfo by its 
form, being- in each refpeft like unto the Gallium 
luteum , or Our Common Ladies-Bedftraw , and differs 
in the.color of the Flowers, which are of a dark red 
color, with a yellow Pointel in the middle confin- 
ing of four fmall Leaves. 
XI. The fifth , or Candy or American Ladies-Bed- 
ftraw. It ; grows like the firft , or Common, or Yel- 
low Ladies-Bedftraw , but much l offer , yet with 
greater Roots and Branches. It is a more effeQual 
Rennet than any of the former , hot and afiringent , 
flopping Fluxes of Blood . 
XII. The Places. The firft and fecond grow fre- 
quently in many places in this Land, in Meadows 
and Paftures both wet and dry, as alfo by Hedge , 
fides; the firft grows alfo upon Sunnie Banks near 
the borders of Fields, in fruitful Soils almoft every 
inhere •, the fecond grows in Marfh Grounds, and 
other rnoift places ; the third grows on Hills and 
Mountains and in Hedges among Bufhes in moft 
places^ the fourth grows on Mountainous and Hil- 
ly places in Germany , and was fent to us from 
Strasburgh , fince which it is nurfed up with us in 
Gardens ; the fifth grows in Candy, and in feveral 
parts of America upon the F loridian Continent, in 
feveral places of which I have often found it. 
XIII. The Times. They all Flower early, viz. 
in May , except the Red Flowered , which Flowers 
in June , and the Seeds are ripe in June , July, and 
Augufl ; but Gerard fays they Flower moft of the 
Summer Months. 
XIV. The Qualities: They are hot and dry in the 
firft degree, Aftringent, Abfterfive, and Traumatick 
or Vulnerary ; they are alfo Nephritick, Lithontrip- 
tick, and Arthritick. 
XV. The Specification. Ladies-Bedftraw is a pe- 
culiar thing to ftop bleeding inwardly, or at Nofe, 
to heal inward or outward Wounds, to help burning 
with Fire and fcalding with Water, to ltrengthen 
the Nerves, Tendons, and Joints, give eafe in the 
Gout, to help the Strangury, and to fret and break 
the Stone. 
XVI. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, I. A liquid Juice. 1. A Decotticn. 3. A 
• Louder of the Root. 4. A Nafale of Herb and Flow- 
ers. 5. An Ointment. 6. Cheefe Rennet. 
The Virtues. 
XVII. The liquid Juice. It is powerful to pro- 
voke Urine, to help the Strangury, to break the 
Stone, and to expel Gravel, Sand and Tartarous 
Matter from the Reins, Ureters and Bladder, being 
taken two or three Ounces at a time, two or three 
times a Day, in a Glafs of pure White Port Wine. 
The fame drank helps to ftop inward Bleeding and 
the overflowing of the Terms in Women, as alfo to 
heal inward Wounds, by its heating and drying Qua- 
lities. 
XVIII. The Deco ft ion of Herb and Flowers in 
IVine or Water. It has all the Virtues of the liquid 
Juice, but is much weaker. It is good to bathe the 
Feet of Travellers in, who are wearied and tired 
with Travel, and whofe Feet are fwoln, or bruifed. 
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or galled thereby ; and for fuch whofe much and 
long Running caufes not only Wearinefs, but Stiff 
•nefs in the Nerves and Joints-, for all which things 
this DecoHion ufed as hot as it can be well endu- 
red, is very available. It is alfo good againft Scurff 
Morphew, Dandriff, dry Scabs, Itchings, and other 
like Defoedations of the Skin, chiefly in Infants. 
XIX. The Ponder of the Root. It may be taken 
to one Dram in choice Canary, Madera, or other 
like generous Wines • and as Diofcbridcs writes,' it 
provokes Venery or Bodily Luft, as do alfo the Pon- 
der of the Flowers, taken in the fame Dole and 
Manner Morning and Night, or two or three times 
a. Day. 
XX. The 'Nafale of the Herb and Flowers. They 
being bruifed,. and put up the Roftrils, are faid to 
ftop a vehement Hamorrhage iivthofe Parts-, and it 
may be fo much the better, if fome of their Juice 
be firft fnuft up, or fyringed .in, 
XXI. The Ointment. It is made by boiling the 
bruifed Herb and Flowers in Oil Olive to Crifpncfs ; 
and (training out , and fo repeating this Work three 
or four times , then adding a little Bees -wax to bring 
it to a Confifiency : But fome advife it to be made 
with Hogs-Lard. Or you may make an Oil thus : 
Put the bruifed Herb and Flowers into pure Oil 0 - 
live , and infolate till the Oil becomes white : prefs 
all out , and repeat this Work three or four times , 
and (train out for XJfc : but it is fooner done by boil- 
ing the bruifed Herbs and Flowers in the Oil Id 
Crifpncfs , ft raining out by pre Jfing, and repeating 
the Work three times more ; then fl raining out the 
clear Oil , keep it for life. Ir is good againft Burn- 
ings with Fire, and Scalding with Water, and is 
good to be anointed upon Limbs and Joints, which 
are weak, and become ftiff with Walking, for it 
(Lengthens the Nerves, Tendons and Joints. It 
prevails alfo againft Scurff, Morphew, Mange, dry 
Scabs, and the Itchings and Callings of Children; 
and other Deformities of the Skin. Applied alfo 
to the Parts affefted, it gives Eafe in the Gout, and 
other like Pains-, and by Continuation of the Ap- 
plication, cures the fame. 
XXII. The Cheefe-Rennet. It is made of the 
bruifed Herb, by iqueezing out its Juice, being firlt 
moiftened with a little choice Canary or Sherry, to 
which a quarter part of Spirit of Wine is firft added* 
Or thus : Take the exprefled Juice, defecate it by 
fettling, or clarify it with Whites of Eggs : to a 
quart of this prepared Juice, put Sherry Wine four 
ounces, firft mixt with Spirit of Wine two ounces : 
mix them, digeft fome Days, then decant the clear, 
and keep it for life. But many Country People 
make ufe of the fimple Juice only. Alatthiolus lays, 
Thar the People of Tufcany do ufe to Turn their 
Milk with it, that the Cheefe which they make of 
Sheep and Goats Milk, may be the fweeter, and the 
more pleafant in Tafte, and alfo more wholeibme, 
as to break the Stone, Cfc. And the Chejhire Wo- 
men, efpecially thofe about Nantwich , where rhe 
belt Cheefe is made, do ufe it in their Rennet , (viz. 
by putting the bruifed Herb into their Rennet-bags ; ) 
much more efteeming of that Cheefe which is made 
with ir, than of that which is made without it. 
XXIII. Not a. The Ancients thought the Gallium 
alb umysiWhite-jlowered Ladies Bed- (Ir aw, to have no 
Virtues, or t© be of no life. But Clufius lays, That in 
Auftria , Hunger i a , and other places of Germany, 
the People have found it by Experience to be good- 
to (Lengthen rhe Arteries, Nerves, Tendons and 
Joinrs, thofe Parts being bathed, either with the 
Juice, Decoffion or Rennet made thereof; and that 
it takes away Wearinefs and Weak nefs after Travel- 
ling, and eafes Pains caufe by Cold, Over- walking, 
Blows; 
