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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$V-Vigkgtgl Sips tre The Vertues of Englifb Plants. 139 -om its faculcy in eafing the “Gouc’y atid) Herba Gerard? aEnglifh Goutwore, Athweed, and wilde Mafterwort. ® Place and Time, Ic. growethy of it felf in ‘Gardens vithout any fowing; where having once taken root, 1t will oincreafe, as hardly tobe gotten ont again , deftroying ther herbs, it grows likewifeby Hedges fides , and-in he bordetsand corners of Fields; it flowers from’ une ill Auguft. 2 a onom om) th) \INacare and» Vertues. | Goutwort ishot and dry almoft in jnthl she third degree, being near the nature of Mafterwort :\* the i Ab ieoots fLamped.andlaid upon any part -trenbled with the Gout, {nenlaffwagerh the pain, ‘and takes: away the’ fwelling and inflam~ y tie ination thereof. The Fundament being bathed‘ with the deco- it and tion of the leaves and roots, \and the boiled leaves applyed ve~ fit ivy hot thereunto cureth the Hemorrhotdess* <> | Wun Vere th Spiker | - ty @ i ti Glafswort.or Saltwert.. Kali Geniculatuny, es Sive Salicornia- rl Ieee | is Rh | , rh delorip thoi. if hathomany: thick»round -ftalks @ foot ludlee ids tenet Lc highy fullof fac chick fprigs, with many joynts or knots, without-any: leaves, of areddifh green | colour : the whole plant.is like a branch of ‘Corral; the 4 |} root is very fmall and fingle. } Ve\one led by him Kals minw , having «many; flender weak: wt branches fpread upomthe ground > fet with many round ing | long fharp pointed leaves, .of awhitifh green colour:-the are | feed ts {mall and fhining , fomewhat like forrel feed, the ons} root flender,.withmany fibres: the whole. plant is of a noe} faltifhtafte. Dodoncys calls this Kali album. | voit, | Names: ] The Arabianscall. it Kali, and Alkali; the _athes hereof are by Mathiolus called Sylyaticus foda ,. moft yi | Utually Sal Alkali, and Alumen Calinum ; but Alumen Cali- fro | ive num ee$

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