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Of Pellitory of the walle, the temperature.

Pellitory of the wall (as Gallen sayth) hath force
to scoure, & is somethinge could & moyste.

The vertue.

Pellitory of the wall boyled & the decoction of it
drunken, helpeth such as are vexed with an oulde
cough, the gravell & stonne; & is good against the
difficultie of makinge water, & stoppinge of the
same, not onely inwardly, but also outwardly
applied uppon the region of the bladder, in maner
of a fomentation or warme bathinge, withe foringe
or double clouts or such like.

Dioscorides sayth that the wine tempered with
[Serase?] or white lead, maketh a good oyntment
against St. Anthonies' fier & the shingles: & mixed
with the cerott of Alcanua or with male goats
tallow, it helpeth the goute of the feete, which
Plinie also affirmeth in his 22. booke 17. Chapter.
it is applied sayth he, to the paines of the feete
with Goate suet & waxe of Cyprus: wherin Peele
of waxe of Cyprus there must be putt the Cerote
of Alcamia.

Dioscorides addeth, that the iuice hereof is a remedy
for ould coughes, & taketh away hott swellinge
of the almonds in the throate if it be [pled?] in
a gargarisine or other wyse applied: it mittigateth
also the paines in the eares beinge poured in with
oyle of roses mixed there with.

It is affymred that if three ounce of the iuise be
drunke, it provoketh wrine out of hand.
The leaves tempered with oyle of sweete almonde,
in manner of a pultus & laid to the paines ptes
it is a remedy for them that be troubled with the
stone & that can hardly make water.