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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![Re Se Se eee: Se Sgr SE RE EES ee ale Ee ee eres pin ge a ee Se ERR gece at ere et ee ee ete Be a ee SSE ee aia eS SE a Felis ie bet pete get. ghee ni sreey ty Carrs irlitata tetstetitaetata EN a eT HN branches, being very flexible like Willow ; the feavesare long and nartow , fomewhar' fmaller then Willow leaves, and. jagged dike thofe of hemp. The flowers aré of a white colour ,sand.grow in {pikes on’ the tops of the Branches: the feeds are round, almoft like pepper, having alfo a bitingtafte. : TOT Age Place and Time. ] It grows in moift rounds, and by wa- ters fides in hot Countreys ; as i Spain, and Italy, and other hot Countreys: the feeds: ate brought hither: and fold by our Droggifts and ‘A pothecaties, iA ose Temperature and Vertues.] It is ¥epured by Authours to he hot and dry in the third deg ree, of a fubtle effence, and of 4 (harp aftringent quality. This Herb hath a Lreat antipa- thy to Venus, and by its nature muft needs be judged. to be under the dominion of Mars in Capricorn ; for ‘the feeds of Agnus taken in any manner do dry up the natural feed,znd re- Strain all venerious motions . and ‘Jet itis of Pepper which incites thereunto. A Pultis being made of the leaves of “Agnus ‘Callus, and Vine leaves flamped together with Butter 9 and applyed ta the Codssdifolveth and affwageth the hard [welling thereof. The feeds being parched, or fryed,and eaten », difolve'winde, and being taken with penny-royal, in powder in wine’, it’s effectual againff the Dropfie, and S pleen, and provokes Urine, and refifts the potfons of venomous Beats: An Oyntment may be made therewith to beat and mollifie beuummed Members. Being fed with honey , it’s ‘good for fores of the mouth and throat , it takes away freckles being ufed with Niter and Vi- BOE Ae : Ehehos fumes ofthe decottion of the leaves and feeds is Zeon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30325730_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
