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ladies Mantle is more cooling then Sanide, and therefore more proper for thofe wounds that have inflamma¬ 
tions and more aftringent binding and drying, and therefore is more efFedluall to (lay bleedings, vomitings.fluxes 
in man or woman of all forts,and bruifes by fals or otherwife.and to helpe ruptures, it helpeth alfo fiich niaides or 
Id women that have overgreat flagging breads, caufing them to grow leffe and hard, being both drunke, and out- 
wardly applyed, and fcrveth alfo to flay the whites in them, wherein it is fo powetfull that it is ufed as a furfit- 
jj Ii n „ water alfo, the diftilied water drunke continually for twenty daies together, by fuch women as ate barren 
£1 and cannot conceive, or retaine the birth after conception, through the too much humidity of thematrice, and 
,, fluxe of moift humours thereunto, caufing the feede not to abide but to paffe a way without frmte, will reduce 
“i their bodies to fo good and conformable an eft ate,that they (hall thereby be made more fit and able to retaine the 
V conception, and beare out their children, if they doe alfo fit fometimes as in a bath, in the decoftion made of the 
i he, be. Tt is accounted as one of the moft lingular wound herfces that is, and therefore the Gerber extoll it with 
?’ exceedin' 1 meat praife, and never drefle any wound, either inward or outward, but they give of the decotfti- 
[| on hereof to d rinke • and either wafli the wound with the faid decoftion, or dippe tents therein, and put them 
r) thereinto, which wonderfully dryeth up all the humidity of the fores, or of the humours flowing thercunto.yea 
fl although they be fiffulous and hollow, and abateth alfo fuch inflammations, as often happen unto fores: but 
I for freffi or greene wounds or cuts, it foquickcly healeth them up, that it fuffereth not any qiiitturc to grow 
f therein, but con folidateth the lippes of the wound, yet not fuffenng any corruption to remame behinde: ithath 
il formerly beene much accounted of by Chymifts, who have affirmed that the juice hereof w ill conftraine the vo- 
1) lubility of Mercury, and make it fixt, from whence as it is thought it tookc the name, but thefc idle fancies arc 
] now quite worne out, as I thinke. 
Chap. XXXI. 
Solidago Saracenica. Sarafins Confound. 
Here have beene divers herbes that have beene miftaken and fet forth for the right Sarafins Con¬ 
found, we will therefore (he w you here in this place Come of them that are not right, with the 
true one alfo. . 
I, Solidago Saracemca vera S alien folio. 
The true Sarafins Confound with willow leaves. 
The true Sarafins Confound groweth very high fometimes, with brownifh ftalkes, and other 
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. Soltia* 0 Saracenlca five GcrmvticafiLiquofa. 
The Gc r mant Coafound with fmall cods. 
The true baratins ^omounugiuwcu* wo, , 
whiles with greene and hollow, to a mans height, having many long and narrow greene leaves fmpt about the 
edges fet thereon fomewhat like unto thofe of the Al¬ 
mond, or Peach tree, or Willow leaves, but not or inch 
a white greene colour; the toppes of the ftalkes are rur- 
nifhed with many pale yellow ftarrelike flowers,ftanding 
in greene heads, which when they arc fallen, and the leed 
ripe, which isfomewhar long, fmall, and of a yellowifn 
browne colour, wrapped in downe, is therewith car.ryed 
away with the wind, the roote is compofed of many 
ftrings or fibres, fet together at a head, which periih not 
in winter, but abide, although the ftalkes dry away, and 
noleafe appearcth in Winter; the tafte hereof is ftrong 
and unplealant, and fo is the fmell alfo. 
2, Solidago Saracemca major. 
The greater Sarafins Confound. 
This greater Jo/i^odiffereth not much from the for¬ 
mer, riling up with upright hard round hollow ftalkes, as 
high as it, with many darke greene leaves at the firft, fee 
at the head of the roote, which afterwards rife up with 
the ftalkes, and are fet there without order, fomewhat 
larger then they ; and dented about the edges; the flowers 
are much greater with more andyellowerlong leaves ftar- 
fafhion, ftanding in greene heads many together, where¬ 
in after they are paft, are contained the feede, which 
with the downe thereof flieth away with the winde, in 
the like manner as the former doth, the rootes are com¬ 
pofed of a great bufh of white ftrings, or white fibres 
growing very ftrongly in the ground, and (hooting forth 
ftringo n all fides, which produce new plants, encreafing 
in a fmall time, and overfpreading a "great quantity of 
ground, the head of leaves is fomewhat browne at the firft 
(hooting out of the ground, and fo is the head of the roote 
before the Spring, and are of a bitter tafte, and binding* 
with all. 
3. Solidago Saracenlca five Cjermanicafi'lujuof1. 
The Germane Confound with fmall cods. 
This Confound rifeth up with great round wooddy 
ftalkes, to as great an height as the former, or more, but 
are 
