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The temperature of Cowslips.
The cowslips & primeroses are in temperature drie, & altle or nothinge hott.
Vertues.
The cowslips are Commend against the paine of the ioyntes, called the goute, & Scacknes of the the sinewes, (which is the pallsie,) the decoction of the rootes is thought to be profitablye given against the stone in the kidnies & bladder & the iuice of the leaves for members that are loose & out of ioynt, or inward ptes that are hurte, rent or broken.
A dram & a halfe of the powder of the dried roote of feild primrose gathered in Autumme, given to drinke in ale or wine, purgeth by vomite very forcablye, (but safely) waterye humours, choller & flegme, in such manner as Azarum doth experimented by a learned skillfull Apothecarie of Colchester, Mr Thomas Buckthorne, & singular in the knowledge of principles. A conserve made wth flowers of cowslips & suger prevaileth woonderfully against the palsie konvulsions, crampes, & all the diseases of the sinewes.
Cowslips or [P?]aigles do greatly restraine & stop the bellie, in the tyme of a great late or bloodie fluxe, if the decoction theof be drunke 'warme.
A practitioner in london, who was famous for
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for curinge the frensie, the leaves & flowers of primerose, boyle them a litle in fountaine water, & in some rose & bettoine waters, adding thereto suger, peper, salte, & butter, which be [nige?] strained do drinke therof first & lat. the rootes of primrose stamped & strained, & the iuyce [?]ed into the nose with a quill or such like, purgeth the braine, & qualisieth the same of the migraine.
An unguent mad with the iuyce of cowslips, & oyle of Linseede, cureth all scaldinges or burninges with [?], water or other wise. The flowers of primeroses [sddens?] & applied, do heale the kinge euill, healeth also the almondes of the throte & vunla, if if you gargarise the ptie wth the decction therof.
The leaves & flowersof primeroses boyled in wine & drunke, is good against all diseases, of the brest & lunge, & draweth foorth or splinter, or bone [brised?] therin
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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 wth 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.
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The Temperature of rose mary
Rosemary is hot & drye in the second degre, & also of an astringent or bindinge qualitie, as beinge compounded of vixens ptes, & takinge more of the mixture of the earthie substance
The Vertues.
Rosemary is given against all fluxes of blood, it is also good espetilly the flowers therof for all infirmities, of the hears & braine, [preeding] of a could & moyst cauhe; for they drie the braine, quicken the sences, & memory, & strengthen the sinewie ptes.
Serapio witnesseth, that rose mary is a remedy against the stuffinge of the head, that commeth through coldnes of the braine, if a garland therof be put about the head. Dioscorides teacheth that it cureth him that hath the yellow iaundice, if it be boyled in water & drunke before exercise, & that after the taking therof the patient must bath themselfe & drinke some. The dystilled water of the flowers of rose mary beinge drunke at morninge & eveninge first & last, taketh away the stench of the mouth & breth, & maketh it very sweete, if there be added therto to steep or infuse for certayne dayes, Cloves, Maces, Cinamon, & a litle annysede. Also rosemarie comforteth the braine the memory, the inward senses, & restoreth speech to them that are posessed w a dumbe paulsie, espetially the conserve made of the
