Salmon/ Herbal. Lib. L 
708 
warm, it evacuates from the Belly all forts ot 
cold, lharp, acid, Salt, or ochet evil Humors, 
which are apt to offend the Bowels, and caufe 
Belly aches, and other vehement and fick Pains $ 
and works as well in this manner, as if a fut- 
ficient quantity of Sena had been infufed in 
the Decpffion . But if to the Clyflcr , 4 Ounces of 
brown Sugar be added, it will work lb much the 
better, and the more powerfully. 
XVIII. The Diftilkd Water of the Herb. It 
has the Virtues ot both Juice and Decotlion , but 
afts in a much, weaker manner. But if white 
Sugar Candy is diffolved in it, it will make a good 
Collyrium for weak, fore, and running Eyes. And 
if a few Grains of Scammony in fine Pouder be 
diffolved in it, and ufed as an Errhine , it will 
notably purge the Head and Brain , of thick , 
grofs, clammy, fait, (harp, and acid Humors, and 
therefore may be profitable againlt Colds, Catarrhs, 
Apoplexies, Epileplies, Palfies b Vertigo s, Me- 
grims, Head-aches, Lethargies, and other like Dif- 
eafes of thofe parts. If lweetned^ with . white 
Sugar and taken to 6 or 8 Ounces in a Morning 
faffing, it opens the Body and purges off grofs, 
Vifcous , and Melancholy Humors : And Authors 
lay, if it is mixt with Manna , and May Dew , 
taken off Rofe Bufhes (for which reafon Lome 
Writers call it Rhodomanna) it will purge Choler 
alfo. 
CHAP. CCCCLXXXVIIL 
Of MERCURY Herb Wild: 
0 R, 
DOGS - MERCURY. 
I. r T"' H E Names. It is called in Greek , 
X Kuvia & K vycKf/nfin , Cynea & Cynocrambe -, 
which is Canina Brajfica , but for what reafon is 
hard to determine , for that it has no agreement 
with, nor is any thing akin to Cabbage , ot Cole- 
worts: it might properly enough have been called 
Mercurialis Canina , ( propter ignobilitatem : ) but 
fome Authors have rather called it Her curia/if 
Sylveftris , as Cord us , Lonicerus , Th alius, Cf Tra- 
gus: it is the Cynocrambe , Camerarij , Dodonxi , 
Euchfij , Lobelij , Matthioli: Mercurialis Canina 
Column £, & Mercurialis Montana Bauhini , (thefe 
two laft thinking Cynocrambe , to be wholly im- 
proper : ) in Englijh , Wild Herb Mercury , and 
Dogs-Mercury. 
II. Tiie Kinds. The Principal of the Wild 
forts of Herb Mercury, are thefe four following, 
viz. I. Mercurialis Sylveftris vulgaris, Cyno- 
crambe diUa aliquibus -, Mercurialis Montana tefti - 
culati Bauhina -, Mercurialis Sylveftris vulgaris 
Mas, The Common Male Wild Mercury. 2. Mer- 
curials Sylveftris vulgaris Tormina, Mercurialis 
Montana Spicata Bauhini , The Common Female 
Wild Mercury. 3. Cynocrambe Legit ima Diofcori- 
dis Bauhini-, Cynocrambe vera Belli-, Al fines facie 
Riant a nova Column.?, The true Dogs-Mercury of 
Bauhinus. 4. Mercurialis Sylveftris Jfliquofa ; 
Rcrficaria filiquofa Camera/ij , Thalij , Lobeljj , Cf 
Lugdunenfis -, Mercurialis Sylveftris altera Tragi ■, 
Tit by malt/s Sylveftris l.oniceri milium Caprearum 
Gefneri-, Impatiens Herba Dodonai Catenance 
altera Ccefalpini, Ba If ami ta altera Columns Qjry 
fea Lugduncnfis Balfamita lutca Bauhini, id Noli 
nre tangere Bauhini, Camerarij , Gefneri, Lobe Hi 
& Tabernemontani , Codded Wild Mercury, by 
fome, Codded Arfmart , Quick-Seed, Impatience, 
and Touch me not. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Common Male Wild Mercury. 
It has a manifold Root , full oj fmnll Fibres, which 
run under Ground and in time mat thejnfelvcs very 
much, not periflnng Annually as the former Mer- 
curies do, but abiding the Winter, Jhoot forth new 
Stalks and Branches every Tear, the old ones dying 
away and Ferijhing. From this Root fpring up 
WC & # e *0 f.ftp JCnh Wild , Gommon f 
ffialt and email. 
feveral Stalks, flenderer and lower th3n the Com- 
mon Mercury, and with no Branches at all upon 
them. This Male Kind is fet with two Leaves at 
every Joint , fomeching greater than the Leaves of 
the next following Female, more pointed and full 
of Veins, and fomewhat harder alfo in handling, 
of a darker green color, and lefler fnipt or dented 
about the edges : at the Joints with the Leaves 
come forth longer S calks than in the former, with 
two hairy, round Seeds upon them, twice as 
large as thole of the firft Common Male Trench 
Mercury : the talfe hereof is Herby, and the fmell 
fomething ftrong and heady. 
IV. The 
