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cerateth and raifeth blifters, and being taken inwardly itkilleth remedilefie. Generally all the 
Crow-feet, as Galen faith, areof avery fharpe or biting cjualitie, infomudi as they rafie blifters 
with paine : and they are hot and drie in tire fourth degree. 
T he Virtues of all the Crowfeet. 
Theleauesorrootsof Crowfeet (lamped and applied vnto any part of the body , caufeth the \ 
skin to fwelland bliftet,and raifeth vp wheales, bladders, caufeth fears, crufts.and ouglie vlcers :it is 
laid vponcragged warts .corrupt nailcs,and fuch like excrefcenccs,to eaufe them to fall away. 
The leaucs damped andapplied vnto any peftilentiall or plague fore, or carbuncle, ftaieth the B 
fpreading nature of the fame, and caufeth the venomous or peftilentiall matter tobreath forth, by 
opening the parts and paftkges in the skin. 
It preuaileth much to draw a plague fore from the inward parts, being of danger, vnto other re- Q 
mote places further from the heart, and other of the fpirituail parts, as hath beene declared in the 
defeription. 
Many dovfe to tie a little of the herbe llamped vvith fait vnto any of the fingers, againft thepai 
ofthe teethjwhich medicine leldome faiIeth,for it caufeth greater paine in the finger than was in 
the tooth, by the rneanes whereof, the greater paine taketh away the lefler. 
Cunning beggers dovfe to ftampe the leaues,and lay itvnto their legs and arms, which caufeth 
fuch filthy vlcers as we daily lecfamong fuch wicked vagabonds) to moue the people the more ro 
pittie. 
The kinde of Crowfoot of Illyria, being taken to be Apium rifis of fovne, yet others thinke^w- 
nitum Uatrachioidcs to be it. This plant fpoileth the fences and vnderltanding,and draweth together 
the finevves and mnfcles of the face in fuch ftrange manner, that thrift who beholding fuch as died 
by the taking hereof, haue fuppofed that they died laughing-, loforceably hath it drawneand con- 
trafted the netucs and finevves, that their faces haue been dravvne awry 3 as. though they laughed, 
whereas contraaiwife they haue died with great torment. 
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