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.

176/336 page 152

$SS Ses ou8 Sei. eRe seesee gecees 2 5 eer oar Re SS SS Ris fils SS See es 5 ee ae ee pS SPEARS SE MG kes SCRE SE aE ete i ee es ate ; The Brittifh Phyficzan : or, ee ee ibd byebderh al blood, ishard of digeftion , and hurtful to the Head and Stomach. : Henbane. Jufquiamus. neferipioy. Br eaiik Henbane hath very large, thick; he aE {oft woolly leaves lying upon the ground, Much cut or torn on the edges, of a dark; grayith colour; amongf{t. which rife up divers thick foft ftalks about ‘two foot high, . fpread into divers fmaller. branches with leffer leaves on them, and many hollow flowers, {carce appear- , ing above che husks , ufually torn on one fide, ending in ‘Hye round points which srow one above another, af a | deadifh yellow colours fomewhar paler towards the edges, With many purplith veinstherein, witha final pointell in the middle, ftanding in a hard clofe husk, fharp at the top points, wherein is contained much {mall feed like Poppey feed, but of a duskith grayith colour; the root is Sreaty white , and thick, the whole plane of an offenfive {mell. | | Names. ] It hath gotten many fancied names amongft the Latines , in Shops tt is called Ju/quiamas and Hyofcyainus ; in Englifh Hen-bane, -becaufe the feed is hurtfull to Hehs, | Place and Time.) It grows commonly on every dung- hills, and by ftinking ditches fides , ‘and flowers about Fuly. : Nature and \Vertues.] It ty cold almoft ithe fourth, de= gree, of -abenumming Saturnine quality: the feeds, oyl, and Juyce of sis held good toeale pains in the Teeth, though I think aT—~ would do. it betters the leaves. of Hen-bane 6ool Inflammations of the Eyes or other parts 5 and alfwageth.. fovelling of the Cods, and womens Breafts, and affwageth pains of the Gout, Sciatica, and other pains in the joynts which pro- seed from abot cafe , being applyed with Vinegar to the Tem- ples, ~ = SS = rae <b << —. i 7 = = => =< 7 perature | quality. eaes af Wick dif Banh | Cours, | id fr , | ane) fh Bathe I dvd the | lel th BM Coy be The ay } oe cy >= =e = <—s = — —-=+ —>$

Licence and re-use

Contents