Lib. 2. Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 
medow by Abington called Nietford, by the relation of a learned Gentleman of S. Johns in the 
faid towne of Oxcnford, a diligent «<*•*>'■*, my very good friend, called M‘ . Rich^d Slater A lfo it 
grovveth in great plenty in the Ifle of Elie, and in a medow by Harwood in Lancafhire and diners 
other places. 
The Time. 
The floures appeare in Iune and Inly : it i s 
beft to gather the herbe in Auguft.-it psr i- 
fheth not in Winter, but onely lofeth the 
ftalkes, which come vp againe in Sommer : the 
root remaineth frefh all the yeare. 
The N nmes. 
The Grecians call it : the Latines do 
keepe that name Scardium : the Apothecaries 
haue no other name : It is called of fome Tnx- 
ago Palnjlris , Quercula, and alfo OMithrida tium 5 
or CMithricLtcs the finder of it out. Ittooke 
the name Scordium from the line! of Garlicke, 
vi hich the G recians call and jCmoptr. of the 
rancknefle of the fmell : in high-Dutch, ygvjja 
fliCt hatteniij ! in French, Scordiotl : in Ita- 
lian, Chalamandrina fdnjlre : in.Englifh,Scor- 
dium, Water Germander, and Garlicke Ger- 
mander. 
«J T he Temp ey.it tire. 
Water Germander is hot and dry : ithath a 
certaine bitter tafte,harlh and Iharpe, as Galen 
witnefleth. 
I Scordium. 
Water Germander, 
t f lx S c cn. 
v 
The Tertues. 
VVater Germander cleanfeth the intrals,and likewife oldvlcers, being mixed with honey ac- a 
nf tlT ^ ? Pa OL,oketh vnnc ’ and bringeth dovvne the monethly fickenefle : it dravveth out A 
„ fle § me and rol:ten raatter : ^ is good for an old cough, paine in the fides which 
commeth of flopping and cold, and for burftings and inward ruptures. 
^„r. edeC °?. IO T, ade in ,vine and drt,nkc > is g° od againft the bitiugs of Serpents , and deadly r 
p y 3ns ; and is vfed in antidotes or counterpoy fons with good fuccefle. 
and u-iter P ° rted C ° m ^‘S ace tke P a i ne of the gout, being ftamped and applied with a little vineger c 
r;n?°f le affirme ’ that raw being laid among the leaues of Scordium, may be preferued a long r> 
time from corruption. 5 3 1 ° u 
Being drunkewith wine it openeth the ftoppings of thcliuer, the milt, kidnies, bladder, and p 
• a n *3 F 0ll °keth vrine, helpeth the ftrangurie, that is, when a man cannot piffe but by drops, and 
is a molt lingular cordiall to comfort and make merry the heart. 
he ponder oi Scordion taken in tire quantitie of two drams in meade or honied water, cureth „ 
an Aoppeth the bloudy flix, andcomforteth the ftomacke. Of this Scordium is made a mod lin- ^ 
gular medicine called Diafcordium, which ferueth very notably for all the purpofes aforefaid. 
The fame medicine made with Scordium is giuen with very good fuccefle vnto children and r- 
aged people, that haue the fmall pockes,meafles, or the Purples, or any other peftilent ficknefle 
whatloeuer, cucn the plague it fejfe, giuen before the ficknes haue vniuerfally poffefled the whole 
Chap. 
