Vertues and Vse.
The Leavs bruised and applied with Barley Meal to watering Eyes* 1.1 that are hot and infla∣med by defluxions from the Head, doth very much help them, as also the Fluxes of Blood or Humors, as the Lask, Bloody Flux,* 1.2 Wo∣mens Courses, and staieth all manner of blee∣ding at Nose, Mouth, or any other place, or that cometh by any Bruis, or Hurt, or bur∣sting a Vein; and wonderfully it helpeth all those inward parts that need consolidating or strengthening: and is no less effectual both to heal and close green Wounds,* 1.3 as to clens or heal all foul or old Ulcers, fretting or spreading Cankers or the like.
Bees are industrious and go abroad to ga∣ther Honey from each Plant and Flower, but Drones lie at home, and eat up what the Bees have taken pains for; Just so do our Colledg of Physitians, lie at home and domineer, and suck out the Sweetness of other Mens Labors and Studies, themselvs being as ignorant in the Knowledg of Herbs as a Child of four yeers old, as I can make appear to any Ratio∣nal man by their last Dispensatory, now then to hide their Ignorance, there is not a readier way in the World, than to hide Knowledg from their Country men, that so no Body might be able so much as to smel out their Ignorance, when Simples were more in use mens Bodies were in better health by far than now they are, or shall be if the Colledg can help it. The truth is, this Herb is of a fine cooling, drying quality, and an Oyntment or Plaister of it, might do a Man a courtesie that hath any hot virulent Sores, 'tis admirable for the Ulcers of the French Pox, and being a gallant An∣tivenerian Medicine, under the Dominion of Saturn, if taken inwardly may cure the Dis∣eas. It was at first called Foemale Speedwel, but a Shentle man of wales whose Nose was almost eaten off with the Pox, and so neer the matter, that the Docters commanded it to be cut off, being cured by only the Use of this Herb, to honor the Herb for saving his Nose whol, gave it one of her own Country names, LLUELLIN.