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Of the Biftorie of Plants. 
Li b, 2. 
K It is alfo oftentimes giuen being dried at the fire, but fo,that the lead or no part thereof at all 
be burned ; and being fovfed it is a remedie for the bloudy flix,and for all kindesoflaskes : for it 
both purge th away naughty and corrupt humors, and likewife withall ftoppeth the belly. 
L The fame being dried after the fame manner doth alfo flay the ouermuch flowing of the mo- 
nethly ficknefie, and ftoppeth bloud in any part of the body,efpecially that which commeth tho- 
row the bladder , but it fhould be giuen in a little quantme,and mixed with fome other binding 
thing. 
M Mcf/ies faith, That Rubarb is an harmelefle medicine, and good at all times, and for all ages, and 
likewife for children and women with childe. 
$ My friend M ‘.Sampfon Johnfon Fellow of MAgdulen Colledge in Oxford aflures me, That the 
Phyfitions ofVicnna in Auftria vfe fcarce any other at this day than the Rubarb of the Antients, 
which grows in Hungary not for from thence : and they prefer it before the dried Rubarb brought 
outofPerfiaandtbeEaft Indies, becaufe it hath not fo ftronga binding facultieas it, neither 
doth it heate fo much ; onely it mull be vfed in fomevvhat a larger quantitie. t 
T Here be diners kindes of Sorrell, differing in many points, fome of the garden , others vvilde ; 
fome great, and fome leffer. 
T Hough Diofcorides hath not expreffed the Oxalides by that name, yet none ought to doubt 
but that they were taken and accounted as the fourth kinde of Lyot hum. For though fome 
Chap. 
Of Sorrell. 
The Kindes. 
i Oxalis^jiue Acetofa. 
Sorrell. 
Xjl ft ccfcoTi^ . 
2 Oxalis tuberopt. 
Knobbed Sorrell, 1 
The Defcription. 
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