Salmon’ s 
it may ferve as a Bath for Women to fit in, or to 
fit over its fumes, it loofens the Womb, opens the 
obftruftion thereof, and caufes the Courfes to come 
down, and alfo facilitates the Birth : and if fat in, 
as a Bath, it not only opens the obllruHions of 
the Womb , but alfo takes away the Inflamation 
thereof, if any be. If the Decoflion is made with 
the addition of Agrimony and Cammil , whether in 
Wine or Water, it has an Anodyn power and qua- 
lity, for if any part which is pained, if the Nerves 
are hurt, or are troubled with the Cramp, and they 
be bathed and fomented herewith , as hot as it 
can well be endured, it gives prefent eafe and 
relief. 
XV. The HouHcr of the Herb. It has the Virtues 
of the Juice, EJfcnce and Decoflion , and may be 
given from 2 Scruples to 2 Drams in Generous Wine, 
or other proper Vehicle. If it is given to # three 
Drams in Wine, Authors fay, it is the belt, and 
a certain help for the Sciatica. But I fuppofe it 
ought to. be given Morning and Evening, with a 
Continuando for fifteen or twenty days-, taking 
now and then, a / proper Purge between whiles. 
When it is to be given in fo large a quantity, it 
ought to be given in a Mefs of hot Water 
Gruel , or Mutton Broth , or in three or four 
Spoonfuls or more, of Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers , 
or of Violets . 
XVI. The Balfam or Ointment. They cure 
Green Wounds excellently well: they being ap- 
ply ed to Wens, or Gums, or hard Knots, or Ker- 
nels which happen about the Neck and Throat, it 
eafes their pains and takes them away ^ and they 
are faid to be more effe&ual, if fome Yield Daifcs 
be added to the Compofition •. I am fure, they will 
be then the better for the curing of Wounds and 
Ulcers. 
XVII. The Cataplafm. It is made of the Green 
Herb, and is of good ufe to diflipate the Fluxion, 
and cure a fimple Contufion. And if it is applyed 
to the Joints and Limbs of fuch as are very much 
wearied with Travelling, it eafes and gives them 
much relief, as Pliny fays : and that they fhall feel 
no wearynefs, in their Journying. 
XVIII. The Peffary. It is made either of the 
Raw Root , either whole, or beaten into a Mafs in a 
Mortar : or of the Juice , mixed with fine Pouder 
of Myrrh , enough to bring it into a Body, of fuch a 
confittence as may be formed into a PeJJary. Being 
put up the Womb, it induces the Terms which 
have been ftopt-, and if a Woman is at the time of 
her Labour, it facilitates the Birth, and afterwards 
brings away the After-Birth. 
XIX. The Diflilled Water. Tho’ poftibly it 
has the Virtues of the Juice, Ejfence , DecoUion, 
and Pouder ; yet it is weak in its Operation , 
and may be given ( fweetned with Syrup of 
Violets ) to half a Pint or more : but it is 
chiefly ufed as a Vehicle, to convey the other 
Preparations in. 
XX. T heSpirituous Tinclure. It is of excellent 
ufe to be given to Women in Labor to facilitate 
the Birth, as alfo after Delivery, to prevent After 
Pains, and to caufe a full and compleat cleanfing, 
for the want of which thing a great many Women 
fulfer much, incur many Weaknetfes and Diftem- 
pers, and are many times ruined by ir. It is good 
alfo, againft the Colick, as alfo Tortious and 
Gripings of the Bowels. Dofe 2 or 3 Drams at a 
time in a Glafs of Wine. 
XXI. The Acid Tintture. It prevails powerful- 
ly againft the Poyfon and Malignity of Poppies 
and Opium: rectifies the Stomach, flops Vomiting, 
and caufes a good digeftion. It allays Vapors, 
opens all forts of Qbttru&ions of the Bowels, and 
Herbal Lib. I. 
cures the Rickets in Children: It likewife 
cleanfes the Reins and Bladder of Tartarous 
Mucilage. Dofe from twenty to fixty Drops 
or more, according to the quantity of the Ve- 
hicle it is taken in : it may Ire given in Canary , 
or other Generous fort of Wine, two, three, or 
four times a day. 
XXII. The Oily TinUure . If it is inwardly 
given from half a Dram to two Drams, it gives 
prefent eafe in the Colick, and Gripings of the 
Guts, as alfo in the Strangury, powerfully pro- 
vokes Urine, and cleanfes the Urinary parts of all 
kinds of Heterogeneous Matter : is good againft 
Fits of the Mother, and many times cures the Palfie 
(if not in old People) as alfo inward Convulfions 
of the Stomach and Bowels. In the Palfie, it 
ought to be Anointed alfo outwardly Morning and 
Night on the Back Bone from the Vertebra of the 
Neck, to the Anus almoft: Anointed likewife up- 
on the part affiifted with the Sciatica , it has 
been found to give eafe j and many times a cure. 
CHAP. DVI. 
Of MUGWORT Sea. 
I- ' | ' H E Names. It is called in Greek, 'A?tv 
X Uh-ltrcia . ; Jn Latine , A/ temifia Marina : 
and in Englijh, Sea Mugwort. 
II. The Kinds. It is a fingular Plant of its own 
Kind: but is thought by fome good Authors to be 
a Species of the Mugworts , and therefore being 
a Sea Plant they called it Art emifia Marina, as Ge- 
rard: and Art emifia folio Lavendu/a , as Clufus, 
becaufe it has a kind of Lavender like Leaf - Lobe l 
and Tabernamontanus call'd it alfo Artemi ft Ma- 
rina: Others taking it to be a Species of Worm- 
wood, of the Sea Kinds, have call’d it, Abfnthium 
Marinum latifolium, as Camerarius, and he thinks 
it to be fo : Dodomus calls it Abfnthium Angufti - 
folium, viz. Narrow Leaved Wormwood, and nar- 
row Leav’d it may well be thought, in refpeU to 
the Common Wormwood. But Parkinfon calls it, 
Abfnthium Maritimum LavenduH folio , Lavender 
Leav’d Sea Wormwood. 
The Defcriptions , 
III. Gerard thus Defcribes it. It hat a woody 
Root, from whence rife up many Branches , funding 
upright in difances one from another jf an afhie color, 
befet with Leaves not much unlike to thofe of Sea 
Purflane: thefe Leaves arc of two forts, for fome 
of them are long and narrow, like thofe of Lavender, 
whence Clufius called it Artemifia folio Lavendulce, 
otherfome are cut in or divided, almoft to the middle 
Rib ■, about the lower parts of the Stalks, and to- 
wards the Tops of the Branches , they are narrower 
and leffer, and cut with great and deep jaggs , thick 
in Subfiance, and of a wbitijh color , as all the ref 
of t he Plant is. The f lowers are many and yellow > 
which fading away , there follows Molfie Seed like 
unto that of Our Common Wormwood. It yields 
a pleafant Smell like unto Abrotanum Marinum, 
and in Tafc is fome what Salt if) or Brackifh. [As 
to the Tafc l fear that Gerard is a little out -, I have 
fome - 
