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and fubtill pares : it wafts and confumes winde.it cutteth and digefteth groffe and tough humors. 
TheVcr tries . 
Rue or Herbe-Grace prouokes vrine, brings downe the ficknes, expels the dead child and after- A 
birth 3 being inwardly taken, or the decodtion drunke ; and is good for the mother, if but fmelled to. 
elin.lib.10.ctt. 1 3. faith it opens the matrix, and brings it into the right place, if the belly all oner B 
and the fharc(the breft fay the old falfe copies)be anointed therewith : mixed with hony it is a re- 
medie agarnft the inflammation and fvvelling ofthe ftones, proceed mg of long abftinence from vc- 
nerie, called of our Englifh Mountebanks the Colts euill, if it beboylcd with Barrowcs greafe, 
Bay leaues, and the ponders of Fcnugreeke and Linfeed be added thereto, and applied pultis wife. 
It takes away crudity and rawnefle of humors, and alfo windines and old paines ofthe ftomack. C 
Boiled with vineger i t cafeth paines, is good againft the ftitch of the fide and cheft,and llrortnes D 
of breath vpon a cold caut'e,and alfo againft the paine in the ioynts and huckle bones. 
The oile" of it femes for the purpofes laft recited : it takes away the collicke and pangs in the E 
guts, not only in a differ, but alfo anointed vpon the places affeded. But if this oile be made of 
the oile preffed out of Linefeed it will be fo much the better, and of Angular force to take away 
hard fwellings of the fpleene or milt. 
It is vfed with good fuccefle againft the dropfic called in Greeke being applied to the p 
belly in manner of a pultis. 
The herb a little boiled or fcalded,and kept in pickle as Sampier,and eaten, quickens the fight Q 
The fame applied ijith honey and the iuyee of Fennell is a remedieagamft dim eyes. . H 
The iuyee of Rue nude hot in the rinde of a pomegranat and dropped mtathe eares, takes away j 
the paine thereof. 
S . Anthonies fire is quenched therewith : it killeth the fhingles,and running vlcers and fores in 
the heads of yong children, if ir be tempered with Cerufe or white Lead, vineger, and oile of rofes, 
and made into the forme of Natrium or T riaf harm neon. 
Diofcoridcs faith, that Rue put vp in the nofthrils flayeth bleeding. L 
Ofwbofe opinion Pliny alfo is ; when notwxth (landing it is of power rather to procure bleeding jvt 
through the fharpe andbiting qualitie that it hath. 
The leaues of Rue beaten and drrjnke with wine, are an antidote againft poifons,as Pliny faith. pj 
Diofcorides writeth,that a twelue penny weight of the feed drunke in wine is a counterpoyfon a- q 
gainft deadly medicines or thepoylon ofWolfs-bane,/x«,Mufhroms,or Tode-flooles,the biting 
of Serpents, flinging of Scorpions, fpiders, bees, hornets, and wafps ; and it is reported, that if a man 
be anointed with the iuyee of Rue thefe will not hurt him • and that the Serpent is driuen away at 
the fmell thereof when it is burned, infomuch that when the Weefell is to fight with the Serpent, 
fhe armeth her felfe by eating Rue againft the might of the Serpent. 
The leaues of Rue eaten with the kernels ofwallnnts or figs (lamped together and made into a P 
Ruffe or pa fie, is good againft all euill aires, the peflilence or Diague, relifts poy fon and all venom. 
Rue boiled with Dil, Fennell feed, and fome Sugar, in a fufficient quantitie of wine, fwageth the Q_ 
torments and griping paines ofthe belly, the paines in the (ides and bread, the difficulty of brea- 
thing, the cough, and flopping ofthe lungs, and helpcth fuch as arc declining to a dropfic. 
The iuyee taken with Dill, as aforefaid, helpcth the cold fits of agues, and alters their courfe : it R 
lielpeth the inflammation of the fundament, and paines of the gut called Rectum inteflinum. 
The iuyee of Rue drunke with wine purgeth women after their deliuerance, driuing forth the S 
fecondine, the dead childe, and the vnnatuvall birth. 
Ruevfed very often either in meate ordrinke, qucnchetnand drieth vp the natutall feed ot ge- T 
neration,and the milke of thofe that giue fucke. 
The oile wherein Rue hath beene boyled,and infufed many aayes together in the Sun warmetli y 
and chafeth all cold members if they be anointed therewith : alfo it prouoketh vrine if the region 
ofthe bladder be anointed therewith. . 
Ifit be mini fired in clifters it expells windincfTe,and the torfion or gnawing paines ot the guts, x 
The leaues of garden Rucboiled in water and drunke.caufeth one to nuke water, prouoketh the y 
termes,and floppeth the laske. . , , - 
Rut a (jlueftris or vvilde Rue is much more vehement both in fmell and operation, and therefore £ 
the more virulent or pernitious • forfomtimesitfumethout avapororaire fohurtuill that it fcor- 
cheth the face of him that looketh vpon it, railing vp blifters, wheales, and other accidents . it ve- 
nometh their hands that touch it, and will infed the luce alfo, ifit be touched with them before 
they be clcanc wallaed - wherefore it is not to be admitted vnto meate or medicine. 
The end of the fecond Tooke. 
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