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CHAP. CCCCLXIV. 
IX. The 'limes. Thefe Plants are always green 
both Summer and Winter , but have neither Flowers, 
nor Seed. 
X. The Qualities. All thefe leveral forts of 
Maiden-Hair are temperate in refpeCl to heat or 
cold, but dry in the firft Degree. They are ’Aperi- Oj MAIDEN-HAIR True, 
tive, and Diuretick, PeCtoral, Hepatick, Nephri- 
tick, and Alexipharmick. 
XI. The Preparations. They are almoft equally 
in UTe^ but if there is any difference, the firlf and 
fourth are moft in Vogue. And from any of them, 
or all of them, you may have i. A Deco ft ion in 
Wine or Water. 2. An Infufion or Tintfure in 
Wine. 3. A Ponder of the herbs. 
'the Virtues . 
XII. The Decollion in Water or Wine. It is 
very effectual againft Coughs, Colds, Catarrhs, and 
other Diitempers of the Breft and Lungs, caufing 
an eafy expectoration •, it opens the obftruClions of 
the Liver, Spleen and Reins, and is available to 
break the Stone , efpecially in the Reins, expel 
Sand, Gravel, and other Tartarous Matters, to 
provoke Urine, and give eafe in the Srangury. It 
is alfo of good ufe for fuch as are troubled with 
the Spleen, or aff'eCled with the Fallingfficknefs. 
The Head wafhed therewith, it (Lengthens the 
Roots of the Hair, ftays it from fhedding or 
falling, and caufes it to grow thick where it is 
thin. 
XIII. The Infufion or Tinffure in Wine. It has 
all the former Virtues, but much more pleafant to 
be taken, for it has lefs of the Styptick, Terrene 
or Earthy parts, than the DecoCIion, the which are 
extracted by boiling } and more of the fine, fubtil, 
and volatile parts , moft of which in the former 
are loft, but in this retained, becaufe not tor- 
tured with the violence of the Fire. Dofe from 
4 to 6 Ounces, Morning, Noon, and Night, as 
the Phyfician , fhall think fit , of the former 
alfo , as well as of this. But this is to be 
noted , That they may be both fweetned with 
Clarified Honey, which alfo contributes to the 
fame ends. 
XIV. The Pouder. It has all the Virtues of the 
DecoCIion, or Infufion or TinUure: and being 
mixed with Clarified Honey and made into an 
EleCluary, it caufes Ex peCI oration, and is a lingu- 
lar Experiment againft the Althma, or fhortnefs of 
Breath, and difficulty of Breathing, as alfo againft 
all Tartarous Mucilage in the Urinary parts, 
Stone and Gravel, Ulcers in the Reins and the 
like. The Pouder may be given from half a Dram 
to a Dram, in Wine or other Vehicle } but feems 
to me to be belt made up into an EleCluary 
with Clarified Honey, and fo taken. Thefe 
Maiden-hairs treated of in this Chapter have 
been found by Experience, to be of the fame 
Nature, Qualities and Virtues, and to have as 
good EffeCfs, as the True Maiden-hair , of 
which we fhall [treat in the next Chapter * and 
becaufe eafier to be come by , the oftener mad 
nfe of. 
1. r | 'HE Names. It is called in Greeks 
JL ’ AcDavroy (becaufe the Rain refts not on it, 
but Aides off} and rWreot**' Diofcoridis , quafi 
multi com urn , quod Capil/os mu It os denfos facial • 
& Tetx°v Apuleij , quafi P ulchricomum , quod 
Capillos tingit pulchriorefque reddit : in Latine, 
Adiantum , Poly trichum , Calli trichum , Capillus Ve- 
neris , ( a fpeciofis reddendis Capillis •) Capillus 
Terra -, Supercilium Terra , (!f Crinita : and in 
Eng/iJ 7 ;, Maiden-Hair. 
II. The Kinds. The True Maiden- Hair is but 
twofold, viz. 1. Adianthum minus (which is Venus') 
Capillus Veneris verus , The True Maiden-Hair. 
2. Adiantum majus (which is alfo a kind of the 
Verus, and grows only larger according to the Re- 
gion it grows in) Adiantum Syriacum , Capillus Ve- 
neris Syriac us, the True Syrian Maiden-Hair. To 
thefe we may add, 3. Adiantum nigrum Vulgar e } 
Onopteris nigra Dodonti } Adiantum pu lehr um Lug- 
dune nfi fimile Thalij , Common black Maiden-Hair. 
4. Adiantum album Plinij •, Adiantum fii/icis folio 
Bauhini , A?uc tffcek asukw, Dryopteris alba , Dry opt e- 
ris Candida Dodonati , of which we have already 
written in Chap. 260. Sell. 4. and 9. aforegoing. 
5. Adiantum Yruticofum Americanum. The Ameri- 
can Maiden-Hair. 
The Defcriptionf. 
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