Vertues and Vse.
The Leavs herof bruised, and applied hea∣leth green Wounds* 1.1 being bound thereon with its own Bark: The Leavs or the Bark used with Vinegar, cureth Scurf, and Lepry very effectually: The Decoction of the Leavs, Bark, or Root, being bathed, healeth broken Bones.* 1.2 The Water that is found in the Blad∣ders on the Leavs, while it is fresh, is very ef∣fectual to clens the Skin and make it fair: •••••• if clothes be often wet therin and applied to the Ruptures* 1.3 of Children it helpeth them; if they be after wel bound up with a Truss, The said Water put into a Glass, and set in the Ground, or els in Dung for twenty five daies, the Mouth therof being close stopped; and the bottom set upon a lay of ordinary Salt, that the Feces may settle and the Water become very clear, is a singular and Soveraign Balm for green Wounds, being used with soft tents: The Decoction of the Bark of the Root so∣mented mollifieth hard tumors, and the shrin∣king of the Sinews.* 1.4 The Roots of the Elm boyled for a long time in Water, and the fat rising on the top therof being clean scummed off, and the place anointed therwith that is grown Bald,* 1.5 and the Hair fallen away, will quickly restore them again. The said Bark, ground with Brine and Pickle until it come to the form of a Pultis, and laid on the place, pained with the Gout,* 1.6 giveth great eas. The Decoction of the Bark in Water is excellent to bath such places as have burned* 1.7 with fire.