The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

Ladies-mantle, in La∣tin Alchimilla.

It has a Root of the thickness of the Little Finger, or Thumb, consisting of many Fibres, that are astringent, and drying. Some thin, hairy Stalks arise, branching out about nine Inches high; upon which there are small Flowers, of a Grass-colour, placed in a Circle; each consists of eight Leaves, four large, and four small; placed alternately; in the middle whereof are little yellow Tufts. The Flow∣ers grow on the uppermost Seminal Vessels; two small, shining Seeds are contain'd in each Vessel, not exactly round, but somewhat long in one part. Some of the Leaves arise immediately from the Root, with long, hairy Foot-stalks, about one Handful and an half long: Others adhere to the Stalk, by a short, or no Foot-stalk at all. As to other things, the Leaf is like a Mallow, of a Colour betwixt yellow and green, and hairy under; divided into eight or nine obtuse Angles, peculiar Nerves coming into each Angle, from the Foot-stalks; they are neatly indented about the Edges. It grows in Meadows and Pastures, especially on hilly Grounds, spontaneously. There is abundance of it in the North of England, in York∣shire and Derbyshire, where

it is commonly called Bear's-foot.

'Tis an excellent Wound-herb. 'Tis hot and dry, and astringent. It stops Bleeding, the Courses, and the Whites. The Leaves, the Tops, and the Roots are used in Vulnerary Po∣tions, Powders, Plasters, and Ointments. Rags dip∣ped in a Decoction of it, and applied to Women's Breasts when they are very lax, renders them hard and solid. It agglutinates in∣ward Wounds, and Rup∣tures. And the Decoction of it, or the Powder of the dried Herb, taken in the Decoction, or in the di∣still'd Water, is excellent in curing Children's Burst∣en Bellies. The Astringent Quality is chief in this Plant; by means whereof it does what it does. Take of Ladies-mantle, Sanicle, Golden-rod, Sengreen, Be∣tony and Agrimony, each one Handful; Marsh-mal∣lows two Handfuls; Fern, Flowers of Camomile, St. John's-wort, Mugwort, Briars, Origanum, and Tor∣mentil-Leaves and Roots, each one Handful; put them into three Bags, then boyl them in the Faeces of Red Wine; and apply them one after another. These are very astringent, and of good use to stop Fluxes.