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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$| cooleth the heat of the Reins and Kidneys ; wherefore it is good 1 for thofe that are troubled with the Stone « # helps the Bloody Flux, and Lasks of the Belly, and other bleeding , helps the it Chollick, breaks the fits of Agues 5 flayeth bleedings at the up Nofe, and the decoction either in ale or wine, flayeth the diftil- » Wlations of bot and. fharp, Rheumes from the Head to the Eyes : Nat is a Plant under the dominion of Saturn. “Of Bugle. Contolida media. ith side Uele hath larger leaves then Self-heal, f Deferiprit B eh not much different , fome green on ithe upper fide, others more brownifh , fomewhat hairy ) and dented about the edges, the ftalk is f{quare and hairy, gp about a foot high, ‘the leaves {tand ‘by couples,, and from about the middle of the ftalk to the'top, {tand the flowers which are blueifa, and fome of an-afycolour,likethofe of rontid Ivy 5° the feeds are fmall, round, and blackifh;the rodts liké chofe of penny-royal. Names} Weis called in Latine Confolida media, Buglum, \ Place and Time. jit-groweth iftwet Copfes 5 and moift | | ie land Bugutla.: ia Fields,and flowérs from May to Fuly,theroot abides many ie nck uycats. | a Mess! : Shu | ae oi Quality and Vertues:] It temper ately hot and dry, and wa fomewhat binding, an herb of Vennss tt wonderfully cures DOlcers and Sores, whether new or old,’ the leaves bemg bruifed Dand applyed : ‘the juyce made into n Lotion with honey and al- lome, cares fores of the Afouth and Guns and-all fores and ulcers of the privy parts: The decottion twine diffalyes: con- aniygealed blood, and helps inward Bruifes and Wounds, and vx egpectal herb in wound Drinks » and for thofe that are Lrver “'Ierown, Take Bugle, Scabious, and Santcle, boil them in bogs vt greale, till the herbs be dry,then fram it and’keep tt for a fiu- if pular oyntinent for all forts of burts in the body. f | E | et Bug-$

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