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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ep hybetglotgh dee againft the Drophe, Falling Sickne/s, (Lortnefs of Breath, Ca- tharrs, Rheumes,.cold phlegmatick, humours, Gout, Sciatica, wafhed with the decottion thereof. The bark. may be given in Stinking Gladwin, Spatula Fetida: T:hathtong,narrow leayes like Iris(where- of itisakinde) butfmaller, and being rubbed, of a loathfome f{mell, haying many ftalks which Defcription. ers, muchiike the Flower de Luce ,.of. an over-worn blue, or ratherpurple colour, with fome. yellow and red the root is long and threddy underneath , reddifh without and white within, and of a hot tafte and.evil {mell. Names.] Itiscalledin Greek £u'pes by Diofcorides » and tees ct'ypéa, by Lheophraftus ; it is alfo called Spatula fatida, and Xyris: in Englith f{tinking Gladwin and Spurgewort. Place and Time. | It is planted in Gardens, and groweth Fuly and Auguft, the feed is ripe in September. Nature and Vertues. } Gladwin is hot and dry.in the third degrees having a heating and extenuating quality ; the roots pounded and finuffed up into the Nofe, provake fncezing where- by they purge the head: the root is alfo effectual againft the Cough being ufed in an Eleduary or Lohoch for that purpafe ; it digefts grofs humours, purges Choller and Phlegm, procures OHS ¢ ee ee a

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