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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$nd iy gs Evi af the i like fh Se, of the 0 Oh tN Ap ie yesate pth The Vertnes of Englifb Plants. is a <3 and alfo by ditches fides: Ic. flowers and feeds from June tillafter Bartholomewtide. | Temperature and Vertues.] Zhits Plant Saturn. vules » let is cold, motfty and earthy, an excelent. plant for Womens idifeafes.. Lt.cures, fits of the Mother, Diflocation, or falling — out. of the Wamb;being taken mwardly : It cools the over much heat.of the wommb,aud caufes eafie Delivery, being xubbedand held to the noftrilssit caujeth the Womb t0.de{cend. to its right Iplace,and cleanfesand ftrengthens 1. It provokes. the Terms if fopped,.and alfo flops. the immoderate flowing of them and [makes Barren women frastful.It is therefore good far fuch Wo- gnen as are[ubject to be troubled with any of the aforementioned Diftemperss to. prepare and.keep alwayes by them, a Syrup |enade of the juyce of this Herb and fugar, or honey » which. ¢ bef to cleanfe the Womb, otherwife ug at is more proper... | Defcrt- His Herb grows with a little joynted green. ption. ifhftalk, the leaves.growing at che joynts. of the ftalks, being not very long, many times having blac- | kith fpors upon'them: the lowers growin {piky heads of |a blufh colour, after them come little blackith flat feeds 5 i the.rootnis fibrous and | perifheth, every, year. ~There is | dead.or.milde Axfmart, and biting Arfmart, which if-you tafte. of, it will, bite your tongue very.much. o6 The Names.\.Ut:is called in,Latine Piper: Aquaticumsand alith Utarar Pannar nd Art sith Water Pepper, and Arfmart. ‘y leaves , in En rr i . - = + a * Pa ‘ . : A R a“ Place and.time.\ 1c is common in moftditches, elpecially fuch as’are muddy; and grows alfo upon dunghils of mud covered with. itin Hampfhire, and other places... Je is in flower in. f ute, and feéds about Aagu/t. Yemperature and Vertues..]. The imilde ts (aidt$

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