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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$hip peta ica eit aati ls Ce it yy Neeson Koay yt BARI Sh Mot Brey ve oT me SSSA OR a oe as fe | 30 The Brittifo Phyfician: or, the white if amEgre, and a little Fraukincenfe, it helps fwel» \) lings, firipes, and watering eyes: Beans are alfo a friend to Ve~ 9) nus.” And thus T [hall leave them, hastning to proceed to theiy afimty, viz. French Beans. Phafeolus. C8 Aving now done with the Englifh Bean, © the French or Kidney Bean in order » follows , which alfo fcarce needs a defcription, being now Ordinary in Gardens : they grow up at firft wich one f{talk, but afterwards are divided into feveral branches , out of | which come long foot ftalks , bearing three broad round } and pointed green leaves, and muft be fupported with | fticks or poles, growing much higher then garden Peafe ; the flowers are like peafe bloffoms, and vary in colour, Jike che fruit which are fome white , fome blackifh, fome } ftriped ; the Bean is fmall, and much refembles a Kidney, — from whence they have attained the name of Kidney beans. There is a kinde that bears a fearlet flower, more planted for ornament then any thing elfe. Names.] In‘Latine it is ealled Phafeolw, in Englifh French and Kidney Beans. Place and Time. }.. They delight the grow in good Sround, and mutt be planted about the latter end of April, or beginning of AZay; for fooner the froft will deftroy them: their fruitis ripe aboutedugufts and Seprember, , fomecimes in Fly. } Temperature and Vertues. | Kidney beans are accotnt- ed hot and moift in the firft degree , eafe of digestion ; they nourifh much, increafe {perm, and are very venerial ; they excellently provoke Urine , and are great friends to the Kid- neys , they help [hortnefs of breath by opening the Breaft, and firengthen the Liver and Stomach , and a weak back: the dived beans in Winter may be boiled and eaten with butter as peafe’ eaceete teas ase scrips ue soes ties Defcription. eas AS eo eee SRSA te PRESS LSS eR SEARS CRS CaS Ss SCT ER RES >= a. gf 3 at aes Se ee ee een etn Culm ta a Tiicee cae ean Ue Re ee a$

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