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THE COMPLETE HERBAL

leaves, when they are young and tender, \ the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonder-they are held to provoke urine. \ fully cool the air, and refresh such as have

Rosmarirum. Rosemary, hot and dry in 1 fevers; the leaves applied to the head,the second degree, binding, stops fluxes, j help hot diseases there, and frenzies,helps stuffings in the head, the yellow jaun- \ Sampsucum. Marjoram,dice, helps the memory, expels wind. See j Sunicula. Sanicle; hot and dry in thethe flowers. Serapio , Dioscorides . j second degree, cleanses wounds and ulcers*

Rosa solis. See the water. $ Saponaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort,

Rosa alba, rubra , Damascena. White, j vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers,Red, and Dajnask Roses. \ and is of notable use in the veneral disease

Rumex. Dock; All the ordinary sort of j Satureia. Savory. Summer savory isDocks are of a cool and drying substance, j hot and dry in the third degree, Winterand therefore stop fluxes; and the leaves j savory is not so hot, both of them expelare seldom used in physic. \ wind.

Rubus Ida us: Raspis, Raspberries , or \ Sazifragia alba. White Saxifrage, breaksHind-berries : I know no great virtues in ; wind, helps the cholic and stone,the leaves. j Scabiosa. Scabious : hot and dry in the:

Rida. Rue, or Herb of Grace; hot and ? second degree, cleanses the breast and lungs,dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, j helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty ofand is an enemy to generation, helps dif- j breathing, provokes urine, and cleanses theAcuity of breathing, and inflammations of; bladder of filthy stuff, breaks aposthumes,the lungs, pains in the sides, inflammations! and cures scabs and itch. Boil it in whiteof the priapus and matrix, naught for preg- \ wine.

nant women; no herb resists poison more.; Scariola. An Italian name for Succory .It strengthens the heart exceedingly, and j Sclumanthus. Schoenanth, Squinanth,no herb better than this in pestilential j or Charnel's hay; hot and binding. Ittimes, take it what manner you will or can. | digests and opens the passages of the veins;Ruta Muraria. See Adiantham. j surely it is as great an expeller of wind as

Sabina. Savin; hot and dry in the third j any is.degree, potently provokes the menses, expels j Scordium. ' Water-Germander,"'hot andboth birth and afterbirth, they (boiled in • dry, cleanses ulcers in the inward parts, itoil and used in ointments) stay creeping• provokes urine and the menses, - opensulcers, scour away spots, freckles and sun- j stopping of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder,burning from the face ; the belly anointed | and matrix, it is a great counter poison, andwith it kills worms in children. j eases the breast oppressed with flegrn : see

Salvia . Sage: hot and dry in the second j Diascordium.or third degree, binding, it stays abortion; Scrophularia. Figwort, so called ofin such women as are subject to come before \ Scrophula, the King's Evil , which it curestheir times, it causes fruitfulness, it is sin- \ they say, by being only hung about thegularly good for the brain, strengthens the j neck. If not, bruise it, and apply it tosenses and memory, helps spitting and \ the place, it helps the piles or hemorrhoids,vomiting of blood: outwardly, heat hot j Sedurn. And all his sorts: sec Barbawith a littte vinegar and applied to the side, j Jovis.

helps stitches and pains in the sides. j Senna. It heats in the second degree

Salix . Willow leaves, are cold, dry, and j and dries in the first, cleanses, purges, andbinding, stop spitting of blood, and fluxes; \ digests; it carries downward both cfioler,