Vertues and use.
Pliny and Dioscorides write, That the Leavs & Roots hereof taken in Drink, helpeth those that have a Crick in their Neck,* 1.1 wher∣by they cannot turn their Neck but their whol Body must turn also (Sure they do not mean those that have got a Crick in their Neck by being under the Hangmans Hands.) Galen saith that the Root and Leavs hereof are of an heating quality, and good for such Persons as have their Bodies drawn together by some Spasme,* 1.2 or Convulsion; as it is with Children that have the Rickets, or rather (as the Col∣ledg of Physitians will have it) the Rachites, for which name for the Diseas, they have (in a particular Treatise lately set forth by them) Learnedly Disputed, and put forth to the pub∣lick view, that the World may see, they took much pains to little purpose.
Mars owns the Plant, and manifests to the World, that though it may hurt your Fingers it will help your Body, for I fancy it much for the Premises.