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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The quantitieof the ponder is a dram weight, and in the infufion, foure,fiue,or more.lt mav be 
mixed in any liquor. 1 y 
It is in the decoction or in the infufion tempered with cold things in burning allies and other 
hot difeafes : in cold and long infirmities it is boyled with hot opening fimples'and fuch like • or 
elfe it is fteeped in wine, in which manner, as familiar to mans nature, it draweth forth °-ently’bv 
theftoole,almoftwithoutanykindeofpaine,crudeandrawhumors. & 
Moft of the Arabians commend the cods, but our Phyfitions the leaues rather • for vnlefle the 
cods be full ripe they ingender winde, and caufegripings in the belly. For they are oftentimes c a . 
tbered before they be ripe, and otherwife eafily tall away being fhaken downe by the wind bv rea- 
fon of their weake and ilender ftalks. 1 3 ' 
Some alfo thinke chat Sene is hurtful! to the ftomacke, and weakneth the fame for which caufe 
they fay that Ginger or fome fweet kinde of fpice is to be added , whereby the ftomacke may be 
ftrengthned. Likewife CMefue noteth that ^isfiow in operation, and therefore Saleem is to be 
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mixed with it. Morcouer, Sene purgethptt fo fpeedily as ftronger medicines do 
Norvvithftanding it may be helped net only by Salgem,bur alfo by other purging things mixed 
therewith, that is to fay with limply medicines, as Rubarb, Agaricke, and other?, and wi th com- 
pounds, as that which is called CM, con, or the Eleftuarie Dufbmmcm, or that which is made of 
the uiyccot Roles or fome other, according as the condition or qualitie ofthe difeafe and of the 
lickeman reqiureth. . 
The leaues of Sene arc a familiar purger to all people, but they are windie,and do binde the bo- 
die afterwards, very much difquieting the ftomack with rumbling and belching : for the auoidine 
of which inconucmence there muft be added Cinnamon, Ginger, Annife feed? and Fennell feed 
Rmfins of the Sun, and fuch like that do breake winde, whichwill the better help his purging qua- 
Sene doth better purge when it is infufed or fteeped, than when it is boyled : for doubtlefle the 
more it is boiled the lefle it purgeth, and the more windie it becommeth. 7 
Take Borage,Bugloire,Balmc,Fumitorie,of each three drams,Sene of Alexandria very wei ore ' 
pared and pounce I, two ounces, ftrow the ponder vpon the herbes and diftill them : the water that, 
commeth thereof referue to your vfe to purge chofe thatliue delicately, being miniftred in white 
wine, with ft, gar ,n condited confe<ftions,and fuch dainty wales, wherein delicate and fine neon e 
o greatly delight :vou may alfofas was faid before)adde hereunto according to the maladie di 
tiers purgers, as Agancke,Mirobalans,&c. b 3 dl 
The ponder of Sene after it is well prepared two ounces, of the ponder of the rootofMechoa- 
canfoure drams, ponder of Ginger, Amfe feeds, of each a little, a fpoonfull of Anife feeds but a 
nVfi! ltt L Gl T r5and i am ° d r CU u orfmaI l q ua ntitieof SdgcmmL this hath beene ptoued ave- 
riefitandfamihar medicine forallages and fexes.The patient may take onefpoonful or two ther- 
borh ft fl ng,CU 1C !) in P ? tM ^ f °? C fl ’ P u PI ! lg in drink> ° r white ' wine.This is right profitable to draw 
both flegmeand melancholy from the breft and other parts. 
The leaues of Sene and Cammomil are put in baths towafh the head. 
Take Sene prepared according to art one ounce, Ginger halfa quarter ofan ounce, tweluecloues 
FeneH feed two drams, or in (lead thereof Cinnamon and Tartar, of each halfe a dram, ponder all 
pure the h7ad° ne)take chereoflrnvhuemneonedram before %per, which doth maruelloufly 
tn S • r CnC r 1 u M c Cr ai?OUe ! Pl d £ ed ’ then take IiaIfe aH oimce thereof, which don,adde there- 
to (ixty Rail, ns of the Sunne with the ftones pickt out, one fpoonfull of Anife feeds braied boile 
Corfu Vi 3 qUarC ° f 3 ? nl n° ne haltc be vvafted i and while tt is boiling put in your Sene : let n ftand 
lotill the morning, then ftraine it, and put in a little Ginger: then take the one halfe of this potion 
oftCr ei,nt ° tU ° r P 00nf ll , b oPfyttup of Rofes : drinke this together, I meane the one halfe 
“J d *“6'OyfcJ ilmtefclwcommMhgocsIphjrCcko^eiionoK- 
• ■ y, th thc braine and purgeth it, as alfo the heart, liuer, milt, and lungs, caufeth a man 
irrh. nnn tnrrowr • i«- .h „ n i i t 
rn I i ^ mm as auu me iicarc, iiuer. milt, anci 
rin CT inH y °?I:! n ^“ dre l h . m * rtl !’, a , nd taketb aw „ a Y forrow ; it deareth thc fight, ftrengthnethhea- 
rino- inrl'w . ° . “ ?auu LUACLiictwciy luiruvv ; u CiCaretn tJQC ll2J 
b ’ c s vcr y § 00c * a gainft old feiiers and difeafes arifing of melancholy. 
n*rrc*er, and (Larper pointed 
