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.

Asarum purgeth strongly by vomit, and sometimes by stoole. It draweth away thick Flegme, and Choller, both yellow and cru∣ginous, or green. It is profitable for them that have the Dropsie,

Jaundise, and that have Tertian and Quartaine Agues, as also the Green-sicknesse, Paine of the head, arising of vapours from the Sto∣mach. It provokes sweat, the Courses in Women, and Urine; therefore it is good in the Strangury, and stopping of the Urine, and also in the Hip-Gout, and in Asthmatick persons, or such as are short-winded. It helpeth stoppings of the Liver, Gall, and Spleen. The roots are effectuall against the biting of Serpents, and therefore is put with other simples, both into Mithridate and Trea∣cle, of Andromachus (saith M^r Parkinson in his Herball) but I find it only put into Mithridate. It helpeth Chronicall, or long continued Agues, upon a double ground. First, Because it purgeth away thick Flegme and Choller, of all sorts, from the Stomach, and parts adjacent, as also whatsoever is of long continuance in the viscerous parts, which is the cause of these Diuturnall or long-continued Agues, now by vomit, the humours aforesaid are taken away. Secondly, Because it provoketh sweat, and so ex∣pelleth obnoxious humous from those parts, by the ports of the skin.