Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner].
- Robert Turner
- Date:
- 1664
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
127/336 page 105
![} = | by dye , , o he ( dee jutaiens ebpeth | t being in Wal ser, 4 af de ff ck and 1 ball Dunes, | Hi rd thelie | i 0 if he | nd tht oft lanes | y 40 setae Ani REE PA ON SB AIA he RON ETRE CREAN RO SE ES ERR 1A SU ECARD TO OE POR ng 9 SOE Re mae (eer ~ The Vertues of. Enolifh Plants. 105 err einteninge ernie and fides, andunward hurts inthe Breaft, Lungs; and Bowels : adramof theroot taken in powder inved Wine, and ufed of- and is good for the Dropfe and Ruptures , the fame dofe being the herb helps Maladies of the Teeth, the mouth being gargled therewith, and fo doth the avy root being held between. the Teeth , it confolidates green wounds; and dryes up the moi= flurein Ulcers, caufing them thereby the fooner- to heal , the decoction of: the herb being applyed unto them. Doves-foot, or Cranes-Bill. Geranium Columbinum. Defeription, iw SLOWS up with divers {mall round pale 3 green leaves , dented about fomewhat more then Mallows , lying round upon the ground upon reddith hairy ftalks , among which rife up. ewo or three weak joynted reddifh hairy {talks , wich {mall leaves, on the tops. grow many finall red flowers of five leaves apiece; the feedis like a Cranes Bill, the root is flender and fibrous. Names.] Itis called Geranium Columbinum , Gruinalis, and Grainum ; in Englith Doves-foor , and 'Craneé- Bill. Place and Time. | It grows frequently in pafture grounds the Summer. Wature and Vertues..] Doves-foor ts cold and dry, with a binding quality; rather Saturnine then Martial. It is Sood to expell Winde, and the Stone and Gravel in the K jdneys , the decoction being drunk, whichis alfo good for inward Wounds, Ulcers, and Bruifes, to difolve congealed blood’: The perder of the herb and root takeainvved Wine fix aud laf ; many | dayes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30325730_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
