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86 : 
Salmon’* Herbal. 
Lib. L 
Pile-wort [mall. 
The Virtues. 
thirty round pole green Leaves , Jet on weak and 
trailing Benches, which lye upon the Ground, and 
an flat , fmooth , and J'omewhat Jhintng, and in 
fame Places (tht? feldom) marked with black Spots, 
each funding on a long foot Stalk : among which 
rife 'up fmall yellow blowers, (confining of nine 
or ten J mail narrow Leaves) growing upon Jlenier 
foot Stalks, Very like unto a Crowfoot blower , to 
which the Seed alfo is not very unlike, being many 
f, 'mail ones Jet together upon one Head. 
V. There is another Jort hereof, which has as 
it were double blowers , conji fling of two rows of 
Leaves, in all , other things not differing from the 
former , which Camerarius in Horto, only men- 
lions. 
VI. T he P laces. They grow in moift Meadows, 
by common Ways, and Ditch-fides which are wet, 
and fometimes overflowed with Water, and almoft 
every where throughout the Kingdom, in Plafhy, 
and watery Grounds, in the moift corners of Fields, 
and places which are near the Water fide: and yet 
they will alfo grow in fomething dryer Grounds pro- 
vided it be in the (hade withal. 
VII. 'The Times. They fpring forth out of the 
Ground about the middle or latter end of February , 
and Flower and Seed in March and April , and 
are quite gone in May, fo that they cannot be 
found, till they fpring up again the next Year. 
VIII. The Qualities. They are hot and dry in 
the firft Degree, and not in the fourth Degree, as 
TioJ. corides and Galen , make theirs to be. They 
are Attractive, moderately Maturative, ptherwife 
Difcuffive, Abfterfive, and Vulnerary. 
IX. The Specification. Tile-wort is a Angular 
Cure for the Haemorrhoids or Piles, and theDi- 
feale called the Struma or Scrophula , vulgarly 
the Kings-Evilj it foftens and difeuffes Wens, 
and other hard Tumors. 
X. The Preparations. You may make there- 
from, I. A Liquid Juice or EJJe/ice of the Leaves 
and Roots. 2. A Deception of the fame. 3. An 
Oil, or Ointment. 4. A half am. 5. ACataplaJm 
of the fame. 
XI. The Liquid Juice , or E fence. They are 
Specificks againft the Scurvy, Jaundice, Gout, 
Stone, Gravel, Kings-Evil; and productions of' 
the Hemorrhoids or Piles , being inwatdly taken 
from 2 to 3, or 4 Spoonfuls, Morning and Night, 
in a Glafs of White Port, or Lisbon Wine:, and 
withall bathing and fomenting the parts affeCted 
therewith hot, twice or thrice a Day, for half an 
Hour together. 
XII. The Deco ion. It has the Virtues of the' 
Juice or Ejfence , but much weaker in its effeCts and 
and operation, and may be given for the fame pur- 
pofes, from 4 to 8 Ounces, fweetned with Syrup 
of Violets, or of Rofes Solutive, Morning and 
Night. If the Decottion 1 part, is mixed with the 
Juice or Ejfence 3 parts, and ufed as an Errh'tne up 
rhe Noftrils, it purges and cleanfes the Head and 
Brain, from cold and moift Humors which offend 
it, and many times prevents an Apoplexy, and 
Cures the Epilepfy, Vertigo, Lethargy, and other 
Difeafes of like Kind; 
XIII. The Oil or Ointment. Anointed 3 or 4 
times a Day upon the Hemorrhoids or Piles it 
cures them*, and is wonderfully beneficial in the 
Cure of the Kings-Evil, and hard Tumors in many 
parts of the Body, being anointed upon the parts 
affeCted, and Cloths dipt in the fame apply ed 
over them. 
XIV. The Balfam. If the Piles or Scrophula are 
difpofed to break, it will ripen and break them, 
and afterwards more fully digeft the indigefted 
Matter, cleanfe and heal them after an admirable 
manner, beyond molt other Medicaments appropri- 
ated to the Cure of thofe Difeafes. 
XV. The Cataplafm of the Green Herb and Roots. 
It difeuffes and heals fimple Contufions, being ap- 
plyed whilft they are Recent ^ is profitable againft 
an Oedema in the Knee, and either difeuffes (be- 
ing applyed warm) or maturates, breaks, cleanfes 
and heals the Hemorrhoids in a (hort- time , and 
withal gives prefent eafe and relief in the pain tho’ 
never fo extream. In a recent Scrophula, it diff 
cuffes the Kernels and Knots, tho’ never fo hard, 
foalfo if they be inveterate, if long applyed 5 but 
if they tend to fuppuration, it haftens it and breaks 
them, after which they may be wafhed with the 
Juice or Ejfence, and then deanfed and healed 
with the Ointment and Balfam. 
CHAP. DLX1I. 
Of PIMPERNEL. 
I. /- T“ V H E Karnes. Some take this Plant to be 
JL the Melochia of Serapio , but the Mas or 
Male Kind F 'litre Phcrniceo , he calls it in the Ara- 
bian Tongue Xantala , and the Lamina Elore Cdtru- 
leo, he calls, Cardabella. It is called in Greek, 
, Ava.)a.\Ki{ {ex tiva & yihKii idque ex Gallo Phrygia 
fluvio ubi oritur : ) in l.atine , Anagallis ; in 
Englijh , Pimpernel. Some Authors call it, Mor- 
fus Gallina & Morgelina, but thefe are rather the 
proper Names of a Species of Alfine or Chick- 
weed. Marcellus an old Writer calls it Macia - y 
which is extant alfo in Diofcorides, among the 
Barba- 
