Turner is one of the few herbalists who cautions against the excessive use of any herb. "Onions eaten in meat largely make the head ake, they make them forgetfull whiche in the tyme of syknes use them out of mesure." "Cole engendreth euell and melancholie juice. It dulleth the syght and it troubleth the slepe wyth contrary thynges which are sene in the dreme." Of nigella he writes: "Take hede that ye take not to muche of this herbe, for if ye go beyonde the mesure it bryngeth deth." "Hemp seed," he says, "if it be taken out of measure taketh men's wyttes from thē as coriander doth." "If any person use saffron measurably it maketh in them a good colour, but if thei use it out of mesure it maketh hym loke pale, and maketh the hede ache and hurteth the appetite." For those who have taken an overdose of opium there is a surprising remedy. "If the pacient be to much slepi put stynkynge thynges unto hys nose to waken hym therewith." As in all herbals of this period, there are an astonishing number of remedies against melancholy and suggestions for those whose weak brains will not stand much strong drink; but, while remedies for broken heads, so common in the older herbals, are conspicuously absent, we find that walnuts are recommended "for the bytings both of men and dogges"! As in the _Grete Herball_, there are many descriptions of other substances besides herbs, some of the longest being of dates, rice, olives, citron, pomegranates and lentils. The account of citron it would be pleasant to transcribe in full, not for the sake of the story but for the manner of the telling. One could listen to a sermon of considerable length from a divine who, in a book intended for grown-ups, has a tale of "two naughty murthering robbers, condemned for theyr murder and robery to be flayn and poysoned to deth of serpentes, and such venemous bestes," and of the one who, owing to having eaten "a pece of citron," remained, Daniel-like, unhurt by the poison of the snakes, whilst the other who had not taken this precaution "fell down sterk dede." And finally, the moral--"Wherefore it were wisdome that noblemen and other that are bydden to dynner of theyr enemies or suspected frendes before they eat any other thyng should take a pece of citron."