The folk-lore of plants / by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer.

  • Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger), 1848-1923.
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The folk-lore of plants / by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by it. Speaking, too, of the virtues of the peony, he thus writes:— It hath been long received, and con- firmed by divers trials, that the root of the male peony dried, tied to the necke, doth helpe the falling sickness, and likewise the incubus, which we call the mare. The cause of both these diseases, and especially of the epilepsie from the stomach, is the grossness of the vapours, which rise and enter into the cells of the brain, and therefore the working is by extreme and subtle alternation which that simple hath. Worn as an amulet, the peony was a popular preservative against enchantment.