The Complete Herbal; To Which Is Now Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Qualities; Physicall (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... him to be, Ian eagle with a fly. You say Mars is anhe would have drawn his sword for anger, angry, and it is true enough he is angry with to see the ill conditions of these people j many countrymen, for being such fools to that can spy his vices, and not his virtues.) be led by the noses by the college of phyThe eternal God, when he made Mars, jsicians, as they lead bears to Paris garden, made him for public good, and the sons of: Melancholy men cannot endure to be men shall know it it in the latter end of the I wronged in point of good fame, and that world. Et ccelum Mars solus babet. You j doth sorely trouble old Saturn, because they say Mars is a destroyer; mix a little Worm-I call him the greatest infortunate; in the wood, an herb of Mars, with your ink, body of man he rules the spleen, (and that neither rats nor mice touch the paper writ-j makes covetous man so splenetic) the poor ten with it, and then Mars is a preserver, j old man lies crying out of his left side Astrologers think Mars causes scabs and Father Saturn's angry, Mars comes to him; itch, and the virgins are angry with him, Come, brother, I confess thou art evil spoken because wanton-Venus told them he de-j of, and so am I; thou knowest I have my forms their skins; but, quoth Mars, my j exaltation in thy house, I give him an herb only desire is, they should know themselves; of mine, Wormwood, to cure the old man: my herb Wormwood will restore them to j Saturn consented, but spoke little, and so the beauty they formerly had, and in that Mars cured him by sympathy. When I will fiot come an inch behind my opposite, Mars was free from war, (for he loves to be Venus-: for which doth the greatest evil, he fighting, and is the best friend a soldier that takes away an innate...