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The temperance of butter Burre

Butter Burre is hott & drye in the second
degree, & of thinn [?] / [?] / Vertues,

The rootes of butter stamped with ale, & given
to drinke in postilent & burninge feavers,
mightily cooleth, & abateth the heat thereof.
The rootes dryed & beaten to powder & drunke
in wine is a Soveraigne medicine against
the plauge & pestilent feavers, because
it provoketh sweate & dryweth from the hart
all venome & ill heat; killeth wormes, & is
of great force against the sufferation of
the mother.

The Same cureth all naughtie filthie ulcers
if the powder be strawed therein.
The Same killeth wormes in the belly,
provoketh urine, & bringeth downe the
monethly termes.