¶ The Vertues.
The chiefest vertue is in the root, which being stamped with salt is good for those that haue a [ A] plague sore, if it be presently in the beginning tied to the thigh, in the middle between the groin or flanke and the knee: by meanes whereof the poyson and malignitie of the disease is drawn from the inward parts, by the emunctorie or clensing place of the flanke, into those outward parts of lesse account: for it exulcerateth and presently raiseth a blister, to what part of the body soeuer it is applied. And if it chance that the sore-hapneth vnder the arme, then it is requisite to apply it to the arme a little aboue the elbow. My opinion is, that any of the Crow-feet will do the same: my reason is, because they all and euery of them do blister and cause paine, wheresoeuer they be applied, and paine doth draw vnto it selfe more paine; for the nature of paine is to resort vnto the weakest place, and where it may finde paine; and likewise the poyson and venomous qualitie of that disease is to resort vnto that painefull place.
Apuleius saith further, That if it be hanged in a linnen cloath about the necke of him that is lu∣naticke, [ B] in the waine of the moone, when the signe shall be in the first degree of I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Scorpio, that then he shall forthwith be cured. Moreouer, the herbe Batrachion stamped with vineger, root and all, is vsed for them that haue blacke skars or such like marks on their skins, it eats them out, and leaues a colour like that of the body.