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Mei, &c. Spignel. The roots are hot and dry in the second or third degree, and sendup unwholesome vapours to the head.Mezerei, &c. Of Spurge, Olive, or Widow-wail. See the Herb, if you think it worththe seeing.Merorum Celci. Of Mulberry Tree. The bark of the root is bitter, hot and dry, opensstoppings of the liver and spleen, purges the belly, and kills worms, boiled in vinegar,helps the tooth-ache.Morsus Diaboli, Succisœ, &c. Devil's-bit. See the herb.Norpi Spicœ, Indicœ, Celticœ, &c. Of Spikenard, Indian, and Cheltic. Cheltic Nardwonderfully provokes urine. They are both hot and dry. The Indian, also provokesurine, and stops fluxes, helps windiness of the stomach, resists the pestilence, helpsgnawing pains of the stomach, and dries up rheums that molest the head.The Celtic Spikenard performs the same offices, though in a weaker measure.Nenupharis, Nymphœ. Of Water-lilies. They are cold and dry, and stop lust: I neverdived so deep to find what virtue the roots have.Ononidis, Arrestœ Bovis, &c. Of Cammock, or Rest-harrow, so called because itmakes oxen stand still when they are ploughing. The roots are hot and dry in the thirddegree; it breaks the stone (viz. the bark of it). The root itself, according to Pliny,helps the falling-sickness; according to Matthiolus, helps ruptures: you may take halfa dram at a time.Ostrutij. Masterwort, given once before under the name of Imperitoria. But I havesomething else to do than to write one thing twice as they did.Pastinatœ, Sativœ, and silvestris. Garden and Wild Parsnips. They are of atemperate quality, inclining something to heat. The Garden Parsnips provoke lust, andnourish as much and more too, than any root ordinarily eaten: the wild are morephysical, being cutting, cleansing, and opening: they resist the bitings of venomousbeasts, ease pains and stitches in the sides, and are a sovereign remedy against thewind cholic.Pentafylli. Of Cinqfyl, commonly called Five-leaved, or Five-finger'd grass: theroot is very drying, but moderately hot. It is admirable against all fluxes, and stopsblood flowing from any part of the body: it helps infirmities of the liver and lungs,helps putrified ulcers of the mouth, the root boiled in vinegar is good against theshingles, and appeases the rage of any fretting sores. You may safely take half a dramat a time in any convenient liquor.Petacitœ. Of Butter-bur. The roots are hot and dry in the second degree, they areexceeding good in violent and pestilential fevers, they provoke the menses, expelpoison, and kill worms.Peucedani, Fœniculi porcini. Of Sulphurwort, Hogs-fennel, or Hore-strange. It isvery good applied to the navels of children that stick out, and ruptures: held in themouth, it is a present remedy for the fits of the mother: being taken inwardly, it givesspeedy deliverance to women in travail, and brings away the placenta.Pœoniœ, maris, ‏.وfœmell Of Peony male and female. They are meanly hot, but moredrying. The root helps women not sufficiently purged after travail, it provokes themenses, and helps pains in the belly, as also in the reins and bladder, falling sickness,and convulsions in children, being either taken inwardly, or hung about their necks.You may take half a dram at a time, and less for children.Phu, ‏,وValerin majoris, minoris. Valerian, or Setwal, greater and lesser. They aretemperately hot, the greater provokes urine and the menses, helps the stranguary,stays rheums in the head, and takes away