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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![Hamplbire : it flowers in May, the berries are ripe towards | Michaelmas. | : | © Temperature and Vertues.] It’s of a purging dry quali- | ty, andthe inner bark thereof being fleeped in Wine and drunk, | is a ftrong-vomit,.and cleanfes thesftomack, it purges alfo hy- | droptck humors, and adecottion thereof made together with | Agrimony, Wormwood, Bodder, Hops 5 and fome of the five | opening roots, and drunk every morning, cures the Dropfie and Faundies.: The bark, ought to be dryed before it be ufed, and | being boiled in Vinegar; it’s a good remedy to kill lice and cure | (cabs and itch. Some write that the leaves ave good fodder | for Cattle, tocaufethem to give good flore of milk , but I | could never fee any Cow that would eat them. | Alleluiah, Vide Wood-forrel. Almond-Trce. Amigdalum. Defcription; F this tree there be two kindes, the and Names. one bears fruit {weet, the other bic« ter, they grow bigger chen any Peachtree: I have feen a bitcer, Almond-tree in Hampfhire as big as agreat Plum- | tree, it hath leaves much like Peach-leaves , it is called in |. Latine Amigdalum , they grow plentifully-in Tarkey and Barbary. | Natureand Vertues.] The fweet Almonds are hot and moift in the firft degree, the bitter dry in the. fecond , it is” a Plant of Jupiter : the fweet Almonds nonrifh the body andin- creafe feed, they ftrengthen the Breath, cleanfe the Kidneyes, and open the paffages of Urine. There is a fine pleafant oyl drawn out of the {weet eAlmonds, which being taken with Su- gar-candy 1s excellent againft dry Coughs and hoar{ene/s , it ts good for thofe that have any inward fore, and, for’ {uch who are troxbled with the Stone, becaufe tt makes flippery the paf- fages of theUrine, ‘Bitter Almonds alfo opens obftrwitions of the Liver and Spleen,clean(eth the Lungs from Phlegui, and Bi G~](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30325730_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
