Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

Then the Colledg tells you there are these things bred of PLANTS, and that every child knows; Viz.

Colledg. AGrick, Jews-ears, the Berries of Cer∣mes, the Spungy substance of the Bry∣ar, Moss, Viscus Quercinus, Oak Apples.

Culpeper] A. As the Colledg would have you know these, so would I know what the chiefest of them are good for.

Jews-ears boyled in Milk and drunk, helpeth sore Throats: it is the opinion of those that have studied Hermetick Phylosophy, That those things which re∣semble any parts of mans body, strengthens those parts of the body they resemble, and help the diseases they are vulgarly incident to, which is an approved truth in this; for as they resemble the Bar of a man, so being boyled in white Wine, and the Wine drunk, and the Jews-ears applied to the Ear outwardly, will help deafness, inflamations, and other infirmities of the Ears.

Moss, is cold, dry, and binding, therefore good for fluxes of all sorts: if you desire to know more of it, I desire you would see my English Physitian.

Our Colledg must have none but Misleto of the Oak used, and what has any body to do to question them for so doing? let the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 buy only such, and paysawce for it; it is nothing to me; but as for the poor Country man, I can tell him this, and I will tell him but the truth, and am able to prove it when I have done, That one sort of Misleto is as good as another; it helps the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sickness, and the convulsions being 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gathered and used.

Oak Apples: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith if Oak Apples be broken alonder about the time of their withering be∣fore they have a hole through them, they contain in them one Living-creature or another, which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it be a Fly it signifies War, if a Spider, Pestilence, if a Magget, Murren of beasts, if a Worm, scarcity of Vi∣ctuals, if an Ant, plenty of Corn for us; Ple bind no bodies faith to beleeve it, because I never tried it my self; this I say, they are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and binding: being boyled in milk and drunk, they stop fluxes and the terms; and being boyled in Vineger, and the body anoynted with the Vineger cures the Itch.