Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair].

Patrick Blair

Date:: 1724

Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Broath feme have difeovered Secrets in their Sleep after the taking of tlv* Broath, which they would not have told if awake , p/- Ceparum fubcineribtd toftarum, ficuum pinguium^ Vng. Bafilici, 5. Althaa ana 2ij. M. f. Cataplafma is a potent Emollient for luppurating of hard, indurated, glandulous and fchir- rous Tumours, and an effectual Difcutient if timely apply’d. Roafled Onions inwardly taken, when their Acrimony and hotTafteis deffroy’d, are good PeTorals in Colds and fhortnefs of Breath. Leeks partake of the lame Vertues, but are rather us’d in the Kitchrn, than the Shops, where the other two fupply their Place. Aims nigra Baccifera vide Frangula. VII. Aloe. The Plant Aloe comes next in courfe of the Alphabet, which though of little or no ufe in Vhyfick in thefe Northern Climates, yet fince the Gardens of the Curious have of late Years been fo well flock’d with a great variety of its Species, fince its infpiffated Juice from the hotter Regions is founiverfally known in the Druggifts and Apothecaries Shops \ and fince there are feveral Things in it worthy of Obfervation, I have thought fit, i. To give a general Defcription of the Plant it felf, without determining the officinal Species. 2. To give an Idea of its Texture and Nourifhment, and 3. To give fome probable ConjeTures concerning the Parts which afford, and the manner of procuring the infpiffated Juice. The T R I B E. Its the firfifc fucculent Plant we meet with, and. is jufllv faid to be of kin to the Seda, being Rlanta Succulentaf Semperviva, Sempervirens & acaulis, flore tubulofo, UliaceOy oblongo, in fex partes SeSio, flaminibus fenis, cum fuis apicibuSj fruSlu triquetro in trio, Loculamenta divifo, jeminibus plants* The cDefcrij)tion. It has a proportionally thick, hard, fhort Root, foon difpers’d into a great variety of final], numerous, hard Fibers ; the Leaves arile from the Hoot, circularly di (pos’d, thin, membranous and flat at fir if, afterwards becoming more or lefs thick and juicy, or thin broad and fibrous, taper¬ ing fooner or later according to the bignefs of the Plant, or length of the Leaves, with or without Prickles, terminating in a point of various Fi¬ gures and Colours *7 a proportional finally round, naked, for the moft part weakand infirm flowering Stem, one or more, as there are circles of Leaves from the fame Root,arifes from the Center, fupporting upon imall,$