Chap. 6 2 
to a Woman in Labor to excite the pains and 
battens the Expulfion of both Birth and After- 
Kirih, and to be repeated again, if the Midwife 
thinks need ful. For Vapors and Fits of the Mother, 
give them in fair water in the time of the Fit, 
and at other times only Morning and Evening. 
In Convulfions, Faintings, Swoonings, Palfies, ©V. 
give them in Canary, Madera, White Port, or 
White Lisbon Wines, or any other ftrong and 
generous Wine, two or three times a day or oftner 
it need requires. 
XXII. I he Elixir. It has the fame Proper- 
ties, Qualities, and Virtues with the Powers, fa- 
ying that this is much fttonger, yet may be given 
in the fame manner and dofe without exception. 
XXIII. The fixed Salt. It is Hyfterick and 
Antipleuretick, being given in proper Vehicles. It 
abforbs the acidities of the Stomach and otherViice- 
ra, chieHy of the Womb, and gives eafe in Vehe- 
ment pains of the Stomach and Bowels, Womb, 
..Reins, and Bladder. Dole from gr. 10 to 20 in 
Sivin Water, Decoction of Winter Cherries, or 
other fit Vehicle. 
CHAP DCXXI. 
Of SAVORY. 
I' T'fCb Names. It is called in Arabick, Sa- 
» hater, and Sahutar ; in' Greek, ed^Cerr 
GCfiCen : in Latine, Satureia , alfo X hymbra : and 
m Engiiih, Savofy. 
11 . The Kinds. There are about five forts of 
Savory commonly to be met with in our Gar- 
dens^ viz. 1. Satureia Vulgaris , Satureia hyberna, 
Satureia perennis Camerarij ■, Satureia , five Thymbra 
altera Lobe/ij ; Satureia hortenfis Cefalpini ; Hyflopus 
agrejhs Brunfelff Thymbra Sylveflris Angui/ara ; 
Thymbra agreJUs Gefneri, ffl Satureia Montana Bau- 
hm ; Our Common Winter Savory. 2. Satureia 
ft iva, Satureia hortenfis, if Sativa orThymbra Saliva 
by molt writers ^ Cum la Ccefalpini & T abcrn&rnon- 
tani, Thymbra agreftis Qtfalpin, , Thymbra vera Gtj- 
nen ; Satureia hortenfis Bauhini, Cunila Columella ■ 
Our Summer Savory. 3. Satureia Crctica 
Leginma ; Thymbra Cretcnfis Alpini ; Thymbra 
Leginma Clujij ; Thymbra Leginma Diofcoridis 
Tom I, Diofcorides his True Savory of Candy. 4 
Thymbra Spiral a Penn-, Thymbra vera Lobe/ij 
Lugiunenfe (V Tabernemontano 5 Thymbra Vera 
Juliani, Thymbra vcl Satureia Rttpis vel Saxatilis 
Rock Savory. ’ 
The Defcrzptioiis. 
III. The firft, or our Winter Savory. It has a 
Woody Root with divers J. 'mall firings adjoining 
to it, and abides with green Leaves all the Win- 
ter, which is more ufually encreafed by flipping or 
dividing the Root, and new Jetting it again in 
the fpring, than by flowing the Seed. It is a fmall 
Low, and Bufhy herb , very Tike unto Hyffop, but 
not much above a Foot high , with divers 'fmall 
hard Branches, and hard dark green Leaves there - 
on, as thick fet as the Leaves of Hyffop, and 
fometimes with but four Leaves at a Joint, of a 
reafonable ftrong aromatick or /meet fmell ' yet 
not fo ftrong or /meet as the fummer kind fol- 
lowing. The Flowers are of a Pale Purplijh co- 
lor, jet at fever al diftances , towards the tops of 
the Stalks , and. with Leaves alfo under them. 
Savory Summer. 
Rom ' 7 eC °" d J ? r our Savory. 
Too, is Woody, and has many firings, yet fewer 
than the former, which fen flies wholly every Zl 
and mu/1 be Sown again every Spring, if ylu will 
have 
