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

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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$ity ene aid Teen CL ‘i a eee reT 1etPe lt pene te 7 ii Se ee 124 ‘The Brittifh Phyfician: or, I! Fhejuyce and: decottion of the herb taken inwardly and thal i herb ufed ourwardly. oo inst ; i gc See more of this in The Art of Simpling : written i! ; | Spy W. Coles: LB g RRA Higa BY | a | 4 i ) : as . Hg MEADOD 1 ae r sii Fox-Gloves. Digitalis. / Fe ‘ I hy is known fo'commonly ‘almoft to every Childe in my 3 Countrey of Hamp/hire, that 1 fhall forbear ‘to make | fi any large defeription of it. *- ty Names]! Authours call it by many ftrange' Latine | Names, as Digitalis) Virga, Regia, Campanula filveftre, and pe many other affected names: We in Englifh éallit! Fox: ge lage Gloves, andin Hamplhire it is very well’ known by the psiion name of Poppers! becaufe if you hold the broad end of toy theflower clofe between’ your finger ard thumb, and poiwhh blow at che fmallhead, as into a bladder’, till it bé full of pice do Winde, and then’ fuddenly {trike on’ it with “your other nal ou hand, ic will give’a Sreat crack or pop. | Payee nb pee PS Ses ES RESETS Sates Place and Time. They grow senerallyin dry grounds, pf \ and-under Hedges fides in moft'Countreys of Englands <=\ | Swi = oS. Natitre and Vertues)] It @ a Venerial Plant ssfaith Cults {Liie, pepper, but he forgets his Logitk’ when he aftribed all bitter Dates, plantsto Mars. ue asst crosace bolle Bihere 4 Fex-Gloves are bitter in tate, ‘hot and dry, baving'aclean= Situ fing quality.” The Ttalians call this Herb Aralda’, wand ule Nature this proverb concerning it, -Aralda,tutce piaghe falda;:Arals _ [filels, da falveth all Sores<°they ufe it toheal green yrounds’,: cut Wl gen) ting the leaves and-applying them, they ufe alfo cha juyce to Mlmsy éleanfe and dry up old Sores: it 43 found helpful for che Kings Wile Evil, the flowers fiamiped with frefh Butter and applyed 'y or With the juyeein an Oyntment’; the bruifed leavePare alfo good be~ Wii.) ing applyedy but moto powerful ; being boiled in water or Will wine, it confnmes thick: phlegm, and vifcous humours in the Be vice Chef and Stomacl. AJyrrup may be made thereof with Su- Eg ar Ss ai Spee HG ot Sp Ct EY es AR Sie SESS SF Ra ee ee Se - rs$

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