CHAP. XIIII.
¶ Of Lamium, and the medicinable vertues thereof.
AS touching that dead-Nettle, which among the other kinds we named before Lamium, i. Archangell, it is the mildest of all others and most tractable, for the leaues bite not nor sting at all. The same, if it be applied with some corns of salt, to contusions and bruises, to [unspec K] deep burns, the Kings euill, swellings, gouts, and wounds, cureth them all. The white that it hath in the mids of the leafe, is singular for S. Anthonies fire, the shingles, and such like. Some there be of our Latine writers, who treating of Nettles, haue couched them in their ranks respectiue∣ly to the time, saying, That the root of a Nettle which commeth in the Autumne, cureth the tertian ague; but it must be tied fast to the Patient: and these ceremonies are to be obserued also in the taking it forth of the ground, That the party be named for whom it is gathered; the feuer also, of what type or kind it is; yea and who be the parents of the sick person; and then hee or shee shall be sure to be deliuered of that disease. The said root, with the same circumstances, is of the like operation to driue away the quartan ague also. The selfesame authors do assirme moreouer, That the root of a Nettle being applied with salt, draweth forth all thorns and shi∣uers [unspec L] that stick within the flesh. Also, that a cataplasm of the leaues and hogs grease incorporat together, doth resolue the scrophules or swelling kernels called the Kings-euill: or if they are come to suppuration, eateth and worketh them forth, and doth incarnat & fil vp the place again