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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$eens ed PAIN rong 1,9 hehe it ve bale bettas PEE tebe Tar als FASRIA LS RR eee ED arts LPs” itty obi. Ee RMT Pee si ROE Teo BSP ERR BELG EDIE PARE BT Ad BAREEAS CRESS BRS SST SAS FSCS ESS Buglofs. Buglofium. ata xa Ts needs no defeription, it’s Latine name is Buelof= pli » fum, and forit’s Vertues I fhall refer you to Bor=| rage, they ate both excellént cordial herbs, under the do- |!” minion of Jupiter, ftrengthners of the heart and lungs), and breaft: An Ele@tiary may be made of Buglofs roots! ue} for the Cough, and to condenfate and, expectorate thin age Phiegm, and Rheumatick diftillations upon the Lungs. — Pi , . i A AMAy 7 Vipers Buglofs. Echium, |) | q gtoun q lying-on the ground,the ftalks. are, roughy | jp 7, hard, and prickly, {potted like a Vipers skin, the leaves} \,, long, rough, and hairy, of a fad green, the middle rib for the moft parc white ; che . flowers grow in {piky heads on the tops of the {talks of a purple violet. colour ;, the feeds are blackifh cornered like a Vipers head, the root {$j woody, but perifheth every Winter. > peace | i Names. The Greeks callic*Exsor, fome Latines Echt! p,.,,’ um, and Buglofum filveftre Viperinum, Vipers Buglofs.... | gj De(eription: i Bic fpringeth up with many rough leaves } inv, | degre, priniy si : i 29) WAN, Place and Time. | It grows wildcin many places of chis) j, Land, flowers and feeds about the middle of Summer... ssh “Temperature and Vertues.] It is cold and.dry., yer the)’ feeds and roots are good: to expel Adelancholly , temper the\ by Blood, and-allay hor fits of Agues , procures milk. in womens Breafls, eafeth pains.of the Reins aud Kidneys, helps bitings| hf of venomous creatures, is effectual againft poifon, and poifonous th f Herbs. The. difiilled. water being ufed inwardly or outwardly) ther. . : : ve igs Fok: ; then (On 4 occafion ferves ; a fyrrup may likewife be made thereofs of anal * which is good to expel falne{s,.and comfort the heart... Nig 'e iF See further in’The Art of Simpling : by W.. Coles }\i., ; Bura} —$

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