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.
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![sree Peeaes eee! & © wk? 4 DE Gs “y Saha a ee Nature and Vertues.] They are under. the dominion of Jupiter, of temperature hor and moi «they increafe (eed, and fler ap Venery, being-eaten condited, or otherwife, theyre cover firength tn thofe bodies which are in Confumptions); sand Venomous creatures : they open objtructions of the Liver, Cheft, i Fleawort. Herba pulicaria. Defcription. Rdinary Fleawort groweth, up with a #7 ttalk two foor high, or more, : full: of branches on every fide np tothe top, and at every Joynt Srow two {mall, long, and narrow whitifh green leaves, at the tops of every joynt {tand divers fhort fmall {caly or chaffy leads, ont of which come {mall whitith yellow threds, like thofe of plantain, which are the bloomings or flowers ; the {eed is fmall and thining, while icisfreth, very like Fleas, but turning black when it grows old: the toot is white, hard, and woody, perithing every year. The whole plant is whitith, hairy, and {melling fomewhat like Rozin. | __ Names. Its calledin Latine Herba pulicaria s and in Shops, P/yllium,in Englifh Fleawort. Place and time] It grows with us no where but in Gardens, but there is another kinde much ‘like the for- mer, which grows in Fields near the Sea-coafts : they Hower in Fuly, or thereabouts with us, butin theirna- tural Countreys all che Summer. | : ~ Natureand Vertues. J: The feed of Fleawort which is chiefly ufed in Phyfick, is cold in the fecond degree, and. tempe- ee yy : vate “7 -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30325730_0144.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
