Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. = A treatise of the nature and qualities of such simples as are most frequently used in medicines,: both purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. To which is added: many compound medicines for most diseases incident to mankinde: as also two alphabeticall tables, very necessary for the reader. Together with, the explanation of all hard words or termes of art, whereby the vulgar may the better understand it. / By Robert Pemel, practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. Licensed and enterd according to order.

The inward use.

It is a good wound herb for all inward wounds, as also for Ulce∣rated lungs, o•• other parts, either by it selfe or with other the like herbes boyled together, and being drunk by them that have any gri∣ping paines of windy or chollerick humours in the Stomach, Spleene or Belly, doth ease them in a short space: it helpeth likewise the yellow Jaundes by opening the stoppings of the Gall, Liver and Spleene; it expelleth venome or poyson, and the Plague also: it provoketh urine and womens courses, but doth not stay them as some have thought; but the Decoction of the herbe in wine being drunke for some time together helpeth them that have the Sciatica, or Hip-gout, as also the Gout in the Hands, Knees, or Feet, helpeth to dis∣solve & disperse the peccant humours, and to procure ease. The syrupe of Alehoofe is usefull in Ulcers of the Lungs and Consumptions, as also in ••humes flowing downe to the Stomach. Boyled in broth and taken, it provoketh sleepe, and expelleth ill humours out of the body. Being steeped in Aquavitee, and taken, it doth bring away the gravell and Stone.