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Show ~Ofthe HiftorieofPlants.Ise 1004 “ee Rem) e heme e and fharpe po inted: among whichrifeth vp a knotty ftalke three ox foure cubits high, dinidige j whereof do growfpokie tufts or rundles like the precedent felfe into divers branches ; onthe : tops~he'icedis flat andplaine : the root long, thicke,and ne white butthe floures are commonly whichbeing broken or wounded, yeciact h forth liquor like thanof the former, of ahotand bitinea + 100s This plant by Gefwer was called Stachys paluftris, and Betonicafetids, and thoughttobe ofthe kinde of Herba lkadaca, or Siderits -to whichindeed [ fhouldjand Thales hath refer. redit, calling it Séderitis 1. crautsodoris:Cafil. pinus calls it Tertiola; and giues this reafon, quod Tertianasfanet, becaule it cures ‘Fertians, and of a great compaffe but itis fufpected that thefe are drawne fromthe defeription of Hercy. Tabernamontan. calledit Stachys aquaticawhole a bos ; ote Broadleafed Panaxis thoughtto be the great Centory : for Pliny witnefleth, that Panaxwhich ANS 4 Chiron found out is fyrnamed Centaurinm,Centoric. Matthiolus faith it growes ofit felfe in the tops ofthe hills Apennini, in the Cape Argentaria, in the fea coafts of Siena, andit is cherifhed in the gardensofItaly :buthe cannot affirme, That fold in Venice is brongtr, the liquor hereofis gatheredin Italy ; for the: liquor Opopanax: whichis : i andin i Phocideci. faithhe, out of Alexandria acity inEg ypt: it groweth alfo in Syria, Bocetia, figurewith a defcription our Authourin the former edition gaue,pag. 565. by the name of CMarrnbiumaquaticum acutum , yet (asit fec- a The Names, That whichis is called m.# in Greeke,is likewife named Panax in Latine : and that PanaHe- meth)either not knowing,or forgetting what he had formerly done,he here againefettethie forth asa new thing,vnder another-title:but the'former figure ofTavera. being in my iudement the better, I haue here ginen you, with additionof the iointed tuberous rootsas they are in Winter : yet by the Caruers faulr they are not altogether fo exquifitely expreft as [ intended. + Hercules Panax : it may becalled in Englifh, Hercules his Wound-wortor All-heale,ot Opops- This plant is hoc inthe ond degree, and ties of Arcadia. q The Time. They floureandflourifh from thefirft of May vnto the end of September, vaclium which. Diofcorides fetteth downeis called in Latine, Pamax Hcraculanum , or Hertulewm, o nax wort,of the Greeke name, B Panax Coloni. Clownes All-heale. Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. The Place. = Panax ofSiais ‘Thefe plants grow in Syria; the firft of them alfo in my garden: but what Theophraftus doth not exprefle. Plinyin his 12 booke; Chap. 26: faith,thatthe leaues arg round, les Panax. A Lis Ze | The Temperature. The barkeofthe root of Hercules Wound-wort is hot and dry,yet leffe thantheinyce,as Galen teacheth. | The Vertues. the biting 0! Thefeed beat to pouder and drunke in Wormwood wine is good againft poyfon, mad dogs,andthe ftinging ofall manner ofvenomous beafts. Salue, cut Ving or ae the fcformeoffan an Vaguent ith h honey, andd broughtto ftamped with The leafe ; or root tam without or naked reth wounds andviccrs of great difficultie, and couereth bonesthat are bare flefh. fa Cuar. 390. Of (lownes Wound-wort or eAll-biale @| The Defcription. sof the Lownes All-heale, or the Husbandmans Wound-wort,hathlongflendet {quate falks es height oftwocubits, furrowed of chamfered along the fameasit were with {mall ae anot >na and fomewhat roughor hairy : whereupon arefet by couples one oppofiteto rough Ieaues fomewhatnarrow, bluntly indented about the edgeslike the teeth ofa fav ee formeof the leaues of Speare-mint, and of an ouerworne greene colour :at thetop of the ram rowthe floures {pike fafhion,ofa purple colour mixed with fome few fpots of white va as ike to little hoods. The root confifteth ofmany {mall threddy ftrings, whereunto a apr tied diuers knobby or tuberous lumpes, ofa white colour tending to yellownefle : “ W plantis ofan vnpleafant fauourlike Stachys or ftinking Hore-hound. + The 100! *s ia fren the time andthe beginning of the Spring is fomewhat knobbyruberous, and ioynted,w ri fort ftalkes grow vpbecomeflaccide and hollow, and fothe old ones decay, and then 11 pv new ones. + The Place. 3 4 ‘| hataoele Ir groweth in moift medowes bythe fides ofditches, and likewife in fertile me pero ind what moift, almofcuery where ; efpecially in Kent about South-fleet, neere t aes likewife in the medowes by Lambeth neere London. @ The Time. It floureth in Auguft, and bringethhis feed to perfection int heend ofSeptember» The Names. we Bh whichhath bin faid in the defeription fhall faffice touchingthe names, @s asEnglith. a] The Temperature, dry in thefirft, q, The Vertues, . The leaues hereof ftamped with Axwngiaor A hogs greafe, and applied vnto greene wounds in mannerofa pultefie, healeth them inthort time, and infuch abfolute manner, that it is hardfor any that haue nor hadtheexperience thereoftobeleeue: for being inKent abour a Patient, it chanced that a poore man in mowing of Peafon did cut his leg witha fat he, whe reinhe Madea woundto the bones, andwithall very large and wide,andalfo with great cffulion of bloud; the poore man crept vntothis herbe, which he bruifed with his hands, and tied a great quantity of itynto the wourtd with apiece ofhis fhirt, which prefently ftanched the bleeding, andceafed the paine, infomuch that the poore manprefently went to his dayes worke againe,and fo did from day t day, without refting one dayvntill he was perfectly whole ; which was accomplithed ina few “ayes, by this herbe ftampedwitha little’hogs greafe, andfo laid vpon in manner of a pulteffe, whichdid as irwere glewor foder the lips ofthe woundtogether, and heale it according to the irk intention, aswe terme it, that is, without drawing or bringing the wound to fuppuration or matter which was filly performed in feuendayes,that would hauerequire | forty dayeswith balfam it felfe. 1 Gythe wound, andoffered to heale the fame for charitie ; whi hhe refuted, faying that Leould not healeit fu well as himfelfe : a clownith anfwer I confefle,wichout any thankes for |; whereupon I haue nan xed it Clownes Wound-wort, as aforefaid. Since which y felfehaue cured many grieuous wounds, and fome mortall, with the fameherbe ; one for e done ypon a Gentleman of Grayes Inne in Holborne, M*. E dmund Cartwright , whowas the lun xs, the wound entring in at thelower part of the Thorax, or the breft-blade, even that cartilacinous fubftancecalled catucronata Cartilago, intomuch that from day to day ound fuc Lexcrements as it was polngandpuifing of the lungs did{pew forth oft mof dangeroufly vexed with a double quoridian fener; ides the Gentleman‘ {hore time,a 1 with this Clownes.experiaes y cured in veryaa niffion 1 ast Owetil fome of my fo’ 5, which w t off the herbe ftamped, and tit I framed aflig suent hereof5 thus: Il rooke oure handfulls reafe, halfea pinte of 0 e ounces of Batrow raine it, putting ito thefire > ine,addin 7 tl ft e formy vie. eferuing the fam into the wound, ch I pur e C ’ , oie of rofes:which mianhole : notwithftanding the leautes of Solidizo Saraciniva, AB |