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Show rhs ae Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants, 708 . D It concoethanddraweth out ofthe cheft raw humors nec! Svpright,and forthofe thar E It is goodfor them that eannot breathe vnlefic the y hold their 5Ssth it be taken ina looch as be fick of the int haue the pleurifie, andfor firch ildren haue, calledthe Chin. orlicking medicine, and alfo againtt the troublefome cough cr Bae cough. oms. firmeth that it is a remedie againft the venomous qualitic of Hemlocke,Mufht Nits and Quic H I - L . : ict : that it isa counterpoyfon for Henbane, Serpents, and Scorpions, faith dort: And oa } sages ola ra skec ; ‘ As Pliny witt the fame Authory siteth, that the oyle of it takes away the ftinging which the Nettleit felfe maketh ‘The fame {tone¢ fort of thofe Itexpelleth grauell, and caufeth to mak The leaues ofany kinde of Nettle,or the feeds, doworke thelike effe&, but not with thatgood {peed andfo affuredly as the Romaiie Nettle. no goodpurpofe, the other be ripe, elfe itwillwither away,and come to q The Place. plaine and Hempe,as Columella writeth, delighteth to grow ina fat dungedandwateric foile,or moift, and deepely digged. q The Times of Anguft, the otherin Iuly. Hempe is fowne in March and April! the firft isripe in the end | The Names. name :in high-Dutch,Zamer han+ ofthe Italians Camape : of the Spaniards,Camame: in French, Chanure-. of the Brabanders, Aemps in Englith, Hempe. Themalesscalled Charle Hempe,and : Winter Hempe: the female, Barren Hempe, and Sommer Hempe: The Temperature and Vertues. The {eed ofHempe, as Galen writethin his bookes of the faculties of fimple medicines, is hard ofdigeftion, hurtfulto the ftomacke andhead,and containethin it anilliuyce: notwithftanding fomedo vfe to eate the fame parched, cum alys tragematis, with other junkets. > Itconfumeth winde, as the faid Authorfaith in his booke ofthe faculties ofmedicines, and is fogreara driet, as that it drieth vp the feed iftoo muchbe eatenofit. Diofworides faith, That the iuyceof the herbe dropped into the cares affwageth the paine thereofproceeding (as I take it) of obftructionor ftopping, as Gaz ad deth. ’ The itiner fub {tanceor pulpe ofthe feedpreffed out in fome kinde of liquor, is given to tI ofe thathane the yellow jaundice, when the difeafe firft appeares, and oftentimes with good fucceile sifthe difeafe comeofob ru @ion withoutanagtie ; for it openeth the paffage ofthe gail, and di Of Hempe. + 2 Cannabis faemina, Femeline,or Female Hempe. fperfeth and concodteth the choler through the whole body. Matthiolus {aith,that the feed giuen to hens caufeth themto lay egges more plentifully. Cuar. 239. 1 Cannabis Spuria. Wilde Hempe. i The Defiription. 09 one mutt be gathered before nature of that fex ; which is very like tothe other being the male,and that This isnamed of the Grecianswinsee + alfo of the Latines Cannabis : the Apothetaries keep groffely powned, and drunkeinwhite wine, is a moft fingular medicineagaink the - bladder orin thereines, as hath beene often proued, to thegreat eafeandcom. that haue been grieuoutly with that maladie. Cuar. 238. OF theHiftoryof Plants, Z Empe bringeth forth coutie Nattees neste hollow, fiue or fix foot highfull of ches when it growethwilde of it felfe; but w henit is fowne in fields tt hathyvery i . _ otnobranches arall. ‘Theleaues thereofbe hard tough, fomewhat blacke, 4 at they be bruifed they beofa ranke finell,made vp of divers little leattes ioyned rogerher,cucty a the feeds come fort 5 ticular leafe whereof iss narrow,long > tha {harpe pointed, ,andand nicked nicked inin the the edges: edges : : ancese from the bottomes of thewines and leaues, being round, fomewhathard, full ofwhite fubl The roots haue many ft : : the pete aida ehiail ere z There is another,being the female Hempeyyet barten and without feed, contrat e ynto na tu ye Of wilde Hempe. $2 Cannabis Spuriaaltera: . Baftard Hempe. |