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.

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It provokes Urine, and the courses in Women, breaks the Stone: it is good for those that have the Cough, and are bitten by Serpents, or venomous Beasts. It helpeth to discusse the windi∣nesse of the Spleen, and pains of the side: it helpeth Ruptures, mol∣lifieth

the hardnesse of the Mother, and dryeth up the moysture thereof, and draweth forth the dead Child. It provokes sweat, stoppeth the overflowing of the menses or courses in Women, and also of the womb, as some affirm, which if it doe both, surely 'tis by its Arcanum, or hidden property. It is given against a super-purgation, after the taking of a sharp Medicine, that is, when a Purge worketh more then is meet.