Lib. z, 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
1 30 J 
Pmax Coleni. 
CIownesAll-heale, 
txjZustl. 
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% This plant by 'Cefnef\\ : i% called Stachys 
paluftris , and Bettnicafittida, and thought to be 
ofthekinde of Verba luiatca, or SuUritis- to 
which indeed I fhou!d,and Thatm s hath refer- 
red it, calling it Side mis r .grauis odorisiCxf.d. 
pi nus calls it Tcrtioii • and giues this l ealbn 
quodTertianas Janet, becaufe it cures Tertians. 
Tabernamontan. called it Stachjfaquaii'ca, ivhofe 
figure with a deferiptionour Authour in the 
former edition gatte, by tlic name of 
tMttrrubium aquaticum aentum yet (as it fee- 
meth)either not knowing, or forgetting what 
he had formerly donejhe here againe fetteth it 
forth as a new thing, ynder another title: but 
the former figure of Talcrn. being in my ind v- 
ment the better, I haue here giuen you, with 
addition of the iointed tuberous, roots as they 
are in Winter: yet by the Carriers fault they 
are not altogether fo exquifitely expreft as I 
intended, f 
7 he Temperature. 
This plant is hot in the fecond degree, and 
dry in the firft. 
fff The Vert ucs. 
Theleaties hereof ftampedwith ^we^Vor 
hogs greafe, and applied i nto greene wounds 
in mannerofa pultefle, healeth them in ihort 
time, and in fuch abfolute manner, that it is 
hard for any that haue not had the experience 
thereof to beleeue : for being in Kent about a 
Patient, it chanced that a poore man in mowing of Peafon did cut his leg with a fithc, wherein he 
made a wound to the bones, and withall very large and wide, and alfo with great effuhon ofbloud ■ 
the poore man crept vnto this herbe, which he bruifed with his hands, and tied a great quantity of 
itvnto the wound with a pieceofhis fhirt, which prefently ftanched the bleeding, and ceafed the 
paine, infbmuch that the poore man prefently went to his dayes worke againe, and fo did from day 
to day, without refting one day vntill he was perfedUy whole ^ which was accoinpl ifhed in a few 
dayes, by this herbe damped with a little hogs greafe, and fo laid vpon in manner, of a pultefle, 
which did as it were glew or foder the lips of the wound together, and heale it according to the 
firft intention, as we terme it, that is, without drawing or bringing the wound to flippuration or 
matter-, which was fully performed in fcueii dayes,that would haue required forty dayes with bah 
fam it felfe. I law the wound, and offered to heale the fame for charitie ■ which he refufed,faying 
that I could not heale it fo well as himfelfe : a clownifh anfwcr I confefle,withoutany thankes for 
my good will ; whereupon I haue named itClownes Wound-wort, as aforefaid. Since which 
time my felfe haue cured many grieuous wounds, and fome mortalI,with the fame herbe ■ one for 
example done vpon a Gentleman of Grayes Inne in Holbornc, M 1 . Edmund Cartwright , who was 
thruft into the lungs, the wound entring in at the lower part of the Thorax, or the bi eft-blade, eueii 
through that cartilaginous fubftance called eMucronata (Jartilago, infomuch that from day to day 
the frothing and purling of the lungs did fpew forth of the wound fuch excrements as it was pof- 
fefled of, befides the Gentleman was mod dangeroufly vexed with a double quotidian fetter ; 
whom by Gods perniiflion I perfc&Iy cured in very fhort time,and with this Clo.vnes experi- 
ment, andfome of my forekno.vne helpes, which were as followeth. 
Firft I framed a flight vnguent hereof thus : I tooke foure hand fulls of the herbe (lamped, and 
put them into a pan, whereunto I added foure ounces of Barrowes greafe, halfeapinteoc oyle O- 
liue, wax three ounces, which I boy led vnto the confumption of the iuvee (which i ; known when 
the ftuffedoth not bubble at all) then did I ftraine it, putting it to the fire againe-, adding thereto 
two ounces of Turpentine, the which I lettered toboylealitde,referuing rhe fame for my vfe. 
The which I warmed in a fawccr, dipping therein ftnall loft cents, which I put into the Wound, 
defending the parts adioyningwithaplaiftet of Caicitheos . relented with o vie of roles: which man- 
ner of drettlng and preferuing'l vfed cuen vntill the wound was perfivlly whole : notwithftanding 
once in a Jay I ran- him two fpoonfnlls of this deco Tion following. 
I tooke a quart of good Claret Wine , wherein I boyled an handful! of the lea«e*d. SihtLvro 
p ppo 3 Saracenic, i. 
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