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fore: the Italians call it Aralda ^sCamerarim faith, the French call it Gent'de nofire *Z) ame , and Doigtier the 
Garmanes call it Finger huet and Finger kraut , the Dutch Vingercruidt ,and we in Englifb Foxgloves. 5 
The fertues 
Th z Italians have an uluall proverbe with them concerning this herbe,called by them Aralda which is Aralda ' 
tutte piaghe fa/da i Aralda falveth all (ores: for they ufe it familiarly to heale any frefh or greene wound or cut 3 
the leaves being but bruifedand bound too, and fometimes alio they ufe thejuyce in old fores to clenfc them* 
dry up their moyjlure, and heale them the more fpeedily,which it performeth by the bitter quality therein where! 
by it is found to be heating and drying and clenfing wichall; fo that whenfoever there is neede of a rarefying or 
extenuating of thickc tough flegme and vifeous humours troubling the chefi: or ftomacke; the deco&ion or juice 
hereot made up with fome Sugar or honey is available, asalfo to clenfeand purge the body both upwards and 
downewaidsfbmetimes, of tough flegme,and clammy humours, and to open the obftru&ions of the Liver and 
t)plecne ; and yet notwithftandiug that thefe qualities are found to bee in it, there are but few 7 Phyfitions in 
our times that put it to thefe ufe- , but is in a manner wholly negle&ed : It hath beene found by late experience 
to be available for the Kings Evi l, the herbe bruifed and applyed to the place, or the juice made up into an oint¬ 
ment and ufeu thereon : And it hath beene of later experience found alfo to be effeftuall againftthe Falling flek- 
ne lie, that divers have beene cured thereby • for after the taking of the decoftion of two handfulls thereof with 
loure ounces of Poltipody i of the oake bruifed made in Ale, they that have beene troubled with that difeafe 
20 .ye 3 res,and have fallen once in a weekeortwoor three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in 14. or ic 
monethsjthat is urn ill the writing hereof,which I thinke may be fayd to be an abfolute cure, not to be prefumed 
that after fo long flay it fhould returne againe. 
Chap. LXXXIIL 
Helenium five Enu la Camp an a. Elecampane.' 
, . j . .r— , — *».v-aiiipduc;( anuo 
that vyhich is thought to be Dtofcorides his Heleniu cSEpyp- 
uum in the next: ) the defeription of which yon ft all 
have in this manner. It fhootech forth many large leaves 
lying ncare the ground which are long and broad, fmall 
at both ends, fomewhar foft in handling, of a vvhirifh 
greene on the upper fide, and gray underneath, each let 
upon a fhort footeftalke ; from among which rife up di¬ 
vers great and ftrong hairy llalkes three or foure foote 
high,with fome leaves thereon comparting them about at 
the lower ends,and are branched towards thetoppes, bea¬ 
ring divers great and large flowers, like unto thole of the 
Marigold, both the border of leaves, and the 
middle thrumbe being yellow, which turne into downe, 
With fome long fmall brownifh feede among it, and is 
carryed away with the winde : the rootc is great and 
thicke,branched forth divers wayes, blackifh on the cut- 
fide,and white within,of a very bitter tafte,but good fenr, 
elpecially when they are dryed, no part elfe of the plane 
having any finell. 
The Place. 
It groweth in the moyft grounds and fhadowy places 
oftner then in rhe dry, and open borders of fields and 
of th^ L^d 10 ^ Cr W3 ^ C ^ IaCeS 3lm °^ in Cvery countre y 
The Time. 
It flowreth in the end of June and luly, and the feede is 
ripe in Augufi the rootes are gathered for ufe, as wel 1 in 
w Pnng be( ° re c 1C Ieaves comc forth i as in Autumne 
or Winter. 
Heletiinm five Enula Campana. 
Elecampane. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke srfrtn, Helenium alfo in Latine 
and of fo yaelmU, and EmU, and SnuU C«mm* : fome 
thinke it tooke the name from the teares of Helen, f rom 
whence it fprung which is a fable 3 others that (hee had 
Lthough'D ;ofcorides ,Theophrafim and that followeth them,did in ancient times account of di¬ 
vers herbes to be called Re Ionium , which were much differing one from another, and which arc not 
fo well knowne as gueft at by us in thefe times what tuey are, as that Helenium <y£gyptium of Dio m 
fcondes in his Chapter of Helenium , and that Hcl nium Comogenum, with whofe rootes Coflus was 
. . wont to be adulterated, as he faith m bis ( hapter of if they be not both orre : and that He. 
™ of Theopbrafius in his fixt Bookeand fixt r . hapter numbred among the fweete herbes put into Garlands, 
which may alio be the lame with that Egyptium of Dinfcondes • and although Batthimu in thefe times would re- 
erre the flos $*/*r,and the varieties thereof unto it fo florae whereof 1 havefpoken in my former bookc)vetI 
meane not to fpeake of any of them in this Chapter,bdt of * 
the moll ordinary fort, even the firft of Dtofcorides, which 
is moft ulually called Enula Cdwpw^Eiccampane-.f and of 
that" which IQ t-hnMrrhf 1-/-1 T) -nCrem/S.- rLi E r- 
he 
