L l B. 2 
!0?8 Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
mors, and all grofle flegme and choler, and is alfogood againft all old and cold di (cafes which 
are hard to be cured 5 it purgeth the brain, and is very good againft all difeafesof the head , againft 
F the Apoplexieand Epilepfie. 
Being taken in the fame manner, it is good againft crampes, palfies, Ihnnkings and paices of 
G the finevves. 
It is good againft the fhortnefle of breath, the cold and long cough, the paine in the fide and i 
H breft,for it mundifieth and clenfeth the breft from all cold flcgme and rheumaticke humors. 
Sapapenum infufed or ftceped in vineger all night, and fpread vpon leather or cloatb, fcattererh, 
diffolueth, and driueth away all hard and cold fvvellings, tumors, botches, and hard lumpes grow- 
ing about the ioynts orelfewhere, and is excellent good to be putinto or mingled with all oynt- 
I ments or emplaifters which are made to mollifie or foften. 
The iuyce of Ferula Galbanifera, called Galbanum, drunke in wine with a little myrrh, is good a- ■ 
wainft all venome or poyfon that hath beene taken inwardly, or fhot into the body with venomous , 
K darts, quarrels, or arrowes. 
It helps womens paineful trauefif they do take therof in a cup of wine the quantitie of a bean. . 
L The perfume olGdbanum belpeth women that are gricued with the rifing of the mother, and is i 
trood for thofe thathaue the falling fickndfe. 
M S Galbanum foftneth,mollifieth,anddraweth forth thornes, fplinters,or broken bones, and con- ■ 
fumeth cold and flegmaticke humors, feruing in fundry ointments and emplaifters for the vfe of i 
Surgerie,and hath the fame phyftcallvertues that are attributed vnt® Sag apemm. 
Chap. 418. Of DropAfoort, or Filipendula. 
qj 7 be Kinds. 
T Herc be di tiers forts of Drop-worts, fome of the champion or ferti 11 paftures, fome of more 
root ft and dankifh grounds,and fome of the mountaine, 
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