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powder, the quantity of half a dram at a time. You may mix it with syrup of violets, ifyour body be feverish.Capparum. Capper Roots. Are hot and dry in the second degree, cutting andcleansing: they provoke menses, help malignant ulcers, ease the toothache, assuageswelling, and help the rickets. See Oil of Cappers.Cariophillatœ, &c. Of Avens, or Herb Bennet. The roots are dry, and somethinghot, of a cleansing quality, they keep garments from being moth-eaten. See the leaves.Caulium. Of Colewort. I know nothing the roots are good for, but only to bear theherbs and flowers.Centrurii majoris. Of Centaury the Greater. The roots help such as are bursten,such as spit blood, shrinking of sinews, shortness of wind, coughs, convulsions,cramps: half a dram in powder being taken inwardly, either in muskadel, or in adecoction of the same roots. They are either not at all, or very scarce in England, ourcentaury is the small centaury.Cepœ. Of Onions. Are hot and dry (according to Galen) in the fourth degree: theycause dryness, and are extremely hurtful for choleric people, they breed but littlenourishment, and that little is naught: they are bad meat, yet good physic forphlegmatic people, they are opening, and provoke urine and the menses, if cold be thecause obstructing: bruised and outwardly applied, they cure the bitings of mad dogs,roasted and applied, they help boils, and aposthumes: raw, they take the fire out ofburnings, but ordinarily eaten, they cause headache, spoil the sight, dull the senses,and fill the body full of wind.Chameleontis albi nigri, &c. Of Chameleon, white and black. Tragus calls thecarline thistle by the name of white chameleon, the root whereof is hot in the seconddegree, and dry in the third, it provokes sweat, kills worms, resists pestilence andpoison; it is given with success in pestilential fevers, helps the toothache by beingchewed in the mouth, opens the stoppings of the liver and spleen, provokes urine, andthe menses: give but little of it at a time, by reason of its heat. As for the blackchameleon, all physicians hold it to have a kind of venomous quality, and unfit to beused inwardly, Galen, Clusius, Nicander, Dioscorides, and ‏.‏ginetaئ Outwardly inointments, it is profitable for scabs, morphew, tetters, &c. and all things that needcleansing.Chelidonij majoris, minoris. Of celandine, the greater and lesser. The greater is thatwhich we usually call Celandine: the root is hot and dry, cleansing and scouring,proper for such as have the yellow jaundice, it opens obstructions of the liver, beingboiled in white wine, and the decoctions drank; and if chewed in the mouth it helpsthe tooth-ache. Celandine the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewort, which withus is hot in the first degree; the juice of the root mixed with honey and snuffed up inthe nose, purges the head, helps the hemorrhoids or piles being bathed with it, as alsodoth the root only carried about one: being made into an ointment, it helps the king'sevil or Scrophula.China, wonderfully extenuates and dries, provokes sweat, resists putrefaction; itstrengthens the liver, helps the dropsy and malignant ulcers, leprosy, itch, andvenereal, and is profitable in diseases coming of fasting. It is commonly used in dietdrinks for the premises.Cichorii. Of Succory; cool and dry in the second degree, strengthens the liver andveins, it opens obstructions, stoppings in the liver and spleen, being boiled in whitewine and the decoction drank.Colchici. Of Meadow Saffron. The roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach,therefore I let them alone.