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The Temperature of Wilde tyme.

Wilde tyme is hot & drye in the third degree:
it is of thinne & subtill partes, cutting, & much bytinge.

The vertues.

It bringeth downe the desired sicknes, prouoketh
vrine, appied in bathes & fomentations it procureth
sweate: beinge boyled in wine, it helpeth the Ague,
it easeth the strangurie, it stayeth the [hicket?], it
breaketh the stones in the bladder, it helpeth the
Lithargie, frensie, & madnes, & stayeth the vomiting
of blood. Wilde tyme boyled in wine & drunke,
is good against the wamblinge & gripinge of
the bellie, ruptures, comvulsions, & inflamations
of the liver. it helpeth against the bytinge of
any venemous beast, either taken in drinke,
or outwardly appied.

AEtius writeth, that [Gerpillim?] infused well in
vineger, & then sodden & mingled with rose water,
is a right singular remedye to cure them that
have had a longe fhrensie or lithargie.
Galen prescribeth one dram of the mix'e to be
give wi vineger, against the vomitinge of blood
& helpeth such as are greaued with the spleene.

If garden tyme the nature of it.

This tyme is hot & drye in the third degree.

The vertues.

Thyme boyled in water & honie & drunken, is
good against the cough & shortnesse of the breath,
it provoketh vrine, eppeaseth the [secondine?] or
after birth, & the dead childe; & dissolveth clotted
or congealed blood in the bodye.