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THE COMPLETE HERBAL

of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is \bad for head-aches. j

Ammonicaum, applied to the side, helps!the hardness and pains of the spleen. I

Camphire, eases pains of the head coming | of their feet, though it cannot be supposed theyof heat, takes away inflammations, and cools | have a thousand) sows, hog-lice, wood-lice ,

LIVING CREATURES.

Millepedes (so called from the multitude

any place to which it is applied.

JUICES.

, being bruised and mixed with wine, they pro-' voke urine, help the yellow jaundice: outwardlyI being boiled in oil, help pains in the ears, a| drop being put into them.

| The flesh of vipers being eaten, clear theThat all juices have the same virtues 5 sight, help the vices of the nerves, resist poisonwith the herbs or fruits whereof they are j exceedingly, neither is there any better remedymade, I suppose few or none will deny, 1 under the sun for their bitings than the headtherefore I shall only name a few of them, | of the viper that bit you , bruised and appliedand that briefly. I to the place , and the flesh eaten , you need not

Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, j eat above a dram at a time, and make it up asstrengthens the lungs, takes away the rough- \ you shall be taught in troches of vipers. Neitherness of the throat, succours the reins and j any comparable to the stinging of bees andbladder. * wasps, tfc. than the same that sting you,

The juice of Citrons cools the blood, j bruised and applied to the place.strengthens the heart, mitigates the violent! Land Scorpions cure their own stingings lyheat of fevers. \ the same means; the ashes of them (being

The juice of Lemons works the same ef-> burnt) potently provokes urine, and breaks thefeet, but not so powerfully. \ stone.

Juice of Liquorice, strengthens the lungs,helps coughs and colds.

5 Earth-worms, are an admirable remedy for

| cut nerves being applied to the place; they pro-

; voke urine; see the oil of them, only let me not

. - \ for get one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus,

rfiTTTv r' c T>T> IMA vo nuf t>t a vu'Q \ which is, That the powder of them put into anTHINGS BRED I RUM PLAN I S. J ho u ow toot ] h ma p es p drop out

These have been treated of before, only two j To draw a tooth without pain Jill an earth-excepted. The first of which is, \ en crucible full of Emmets, Ants, or Pismires,

Agaricus . Agarick : It purges flegm, j eggs and all, and when you have burned them,choler, and melancholy, from the brain, nerves, 1 keep the ashes, with which if you touch a toothmuscles, marrow, (or more properly brain) of\ it will fall out.

the back, it cleanses the breast, lungs, liver, \ Eels, being put into wine or beer, and sufferedstomach, spleen, reins, womb, joints; it provokes \ to die in it, he that drinks it will never endureurine, and the menses, kills worms, helps pains j that sort of liquor again,in the joints, and causes a good colour: it is 1 Oysters applied alive to a pestilential swelling,

very seldom or never taken alone. See Syrup 5 draw the venom to them,of Roses with Agarick. j Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a dram of it

Lastly, Vicus Quircinus, orMisletoof the] taken every morning helps the bi tings of madOak, helps the falling-sickness being either \ dogs, and all other venomous beasts,taken inwardly 3 or hung about one’s neck. j Swallows, being eaten, clear the sight, the

s ashes of them (being burnt) eaten, preserves