Pages
-
the flowers & suger, or any other way confected w th suger, beinge taken every day fastinge. Rosemary is of subtill ptes, is good for the could Rheume w ch falleth from the braine, driveth away windines, provoketh urine, & openeth the stoppinge of the liver & [milt]. Wine boyled w th rose mary, & taken of women troubled w th the mother, or the whites, it helpeth theme the [rather?] if the fast 3 or 4 howers after. The flowers made up into plates w th suger in the manner of sugar Roses & eaten, it comforteth the hart, & maketh it merge, quickneth the spirite, & maketh them more lively; The oyle of Rosemary chimycally drawnd, comfortheth the could, weeke & feeble braine in most wonderfull manner. Those of Marchia us to put it in there drinke the sooner to make therine [clyente?] drunke, & also do put it into chestes & presses among clothes, to preserve them from mothes or other vermine.
-
The temperature of Harte tonge It is of a bindinge & dryinge facultie
The Vertues This common harte toonge is commended against the laste & bloodie fluxe: Dioscorides teacheth that beinge drunke in wine it is a remedy against the bytinge of Serpentes.
It doth open the hardnes & stoppinge of the spleene & liver, & all other grieses proceedinge of oppilations or stoppinge what [sendr?].
The temperature, of doves foote, or cranes bill, doves foote is could & somewhat drie w th some astriction or bindinge, [houvd?] power to [soder?] or joyne togither.
The Vertues If seemeth [sayth?] [?] Author, to be good for greene & bleedinge woundes & asswageth inflammations or hot swellinges.
The herbe & roote dryed, beten into most fine powder, & given halfe a spoonefull fastinge, & the like quantitie to bedwards in red wine, or ould clarrett, for the space of one & twenty dayes togeither, cureth miraculously ruptures or burstinges, as my selfe have often pruvd wherby I have gotten Crownes & Credit: if the ruptures be in aged psons, it shalbe needfull to add therto the powder of [?]
-
Snayles (those without shells) dryed in an oven, in number nine, which fortifieth the herbs in such sort, that it never fayleth although the rupture be great & of longe continuanse: it likewise profiteth much those that are wounded into the body, & the decoction of the herbe made in wine, previleth myhtilye in healinge inward wounds, as my selfe have likewise prooved.
-
The nature of Adders toong
Adders toong is drie in the third degree.
The Vertues The leaves of Adders toong stamped in a stone morter, & boyled in oyle olive unto the consumption of the juice, & untill the herbs be drye & parched, then strayned, will yeelde a most excellent greene oyle or rather a Balsame for greene wounds, comparable unto oyle of Saint Johns wort, if it do not farre surpasse it by many degrees: whose beautie is such, that very many Artistes have thought the same to bee mixed wth verdigrease.