Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell].

  • Robert Lovell
Date:
1665
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Credit: Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (889) 3 e T^ fi YES Y Nig S. odo o dd vj vio e rre SELES PE LEPS INT SOOSETE ISAGOGE PHYTOLOGIC A, OR, An Introdu&ion to HERBARISME, | Sock Courteous Reader, Voiding the Prolixity and tedioufnefs of a Proemial Difcourfe, ( Brevity being here intended ) thou mayeft fir confider the Quid fit. of Phytologies which is the Art of knowing and finding out the Temperature; Vettues and Ufe of Plants, as ferv- ing to the Curation or Suftentation of the Body 3 as alfo of their Dangers andthe Remedies thereof. : |- The parts hereof are two. I JTheraputick or curatory.z .Threh« tick,oralimentary. In both which, Vegetables may be confidera ed according to their fubjtance and confiltence, ox eife accordiag ‘to their accidents, - I. According to their febflance ot confiflence , they are x. ThinorGroffe. 2.Laxe or Con[lricl. 3. Clammy, or Brittle. 4. Heavy ox Light. Tenurty of parts isin thofe things which are aéeriows in effence and fubftance 5, which being fabiile do eafily communicate their vertue unto any liquor, and are of eajie difttt- butioninthe body, and eafily actuated, and notlong abiding, and is in matter not much compat, and eafily divided by natu- yal heat, having little of earth, and that mixed with much /urmi- dity, or elaborated by fiery heat, as in things very acid;fharp,and friable for the moft part. Crafsitude of parts is in thofe things which are -terrene: which being more groffe, do not quickly communicate their vertues unto liquids; and therefore the ver- ‘| ues thereof are exerted in the fZemsack, and feldome ox never pafs untothe/;ver ; and fach have much matter, as in mixturesvery terrene, or exquifite mixture of the aqueous humidity and ter- rene, without much prevalency of beat, fofarthe moft part are AZ anitere, pM ee
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