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A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne].

Pierre Pomet

Date:: 1712

Credit: A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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which the Gardiners and Labourers diftin- guifti it by, and by the Figure of the Root, which all the World knows. There are two Kinds of ir, one cultivated, and the other wild, the firft is call’d Napm by J. B, and Bay ; Napm fativa by Turnefort ÿ and Bum as or Napm by Ad. Lob, Ger. The Stalk rifes about a Foot and half, or two Foot high, and fpreads it felf into Branches : The Leaves are oblong, deeply cut, rough and green : The Flowers are compos’d of four yellow Leaves, form’d like a Crofs, which are fucceeded by a long Pod of about an Inch, divided into two Apartments fill’d with Seed, thick and round, of a reddilh, 6r fomething purplilh Colour, (harp and biting in Taft : The Root is oblong, round, thicker at the Top, flelhy, and much lefs towards the Bottom, of a white or yellowifli Colour, fometimes blackifii on the outfide, and white within, of a fweetilh Taft, and agreeably piquant : It is cultivated in moift Grounds for the ufe of the Kitchin. The fécond Kind is call’d Napm Sylveflris by Turneforf, and the Bauhins j Bunias, five Napus Sylveflris noflras. Park. Biinium and Napus Sylveflris^ Ad. Bunias Sylveflris Lobelii^ Ger, in French^ Wild-Navew, It refembles the cultivated Navew, except the Root, that is much lefs : The Flower is yellow, and fome¬ times white : It grows among the Corn : The Seed is prefer’d in Phyfick to that of the do- meftick Navevo : Both one and the other Sort yields a great deal of Phlegm, Salt, and eftèn- tial Oil. The Navevp-Seedls deterfive, aperitive, d”!- geftive, incifive, it refifts Poyfon,and carries off the peccant Humours by Perfplration ; it pro¬ vokes Üfine, is proper in the Jaundice, in malignant Fevers, final] Pox, and is employ’d in making of Treacle. The Root is excellent for inveterate Coughs, Afthma’s, and Phthi- fick, taken hot by way of DecodHon y and> is externally applied to digeft, refolve, or al¬ lay Pains, apply’d in Form of a Pultis. The Seed which is calfd Navette is none of the Navevo-Seed, as a great many believe, but is . the Seed of a Kind of wild Colly-flovoer, which they call in Flanders, Col/a op Rape-feed , cul¬ tivated in Normandy^ Britanny^ Holland^ and Flanders. They make of this Seed by Expref- fing, an Oil, which they call Oil of Navette : The Colour is yellow, the Smell not often- Evej and the Xafte is fw.cet,. It is. coramoa- ly ufed for Burns^ and ferves the kers. ly. Of ColHflower and Rape-Seedo '^His is a little round Seed, fome- thing like the Navette ; and is Fometl- brought to us by the way of Mar- feilles from Cyprus ; there is likewlfe fome that they bring from Genoa^ but it is much in¬ ferior to that of Cyprm^ and the more fo, ac^ cording as it is fo much the lighter. The neweft Seed ought to be chofe, and' that which is true Cyprus^ without any Mix¬ ture, of which the Importer fliould lhew Cer- tificares that it is true Seed, and of that Years Growth, by reafon it is of no little confequence to the Gardiner and others that fow it, to be difappointed of a whole Year’s Production by the Bad nefs of the Seed ; there¬ fore it ought nor to be brought in above four or five Months before it be fold. The Colliflower gives me an Opportunity of fpeaking of another Species, which fome Au¬ thors call iVild-Collifloxver^ and which is pro¬ pagated with great Induftry in Holland^ Flan¬ ders^ Normandy^ 8cc. for the fake of the Seed,^ which they make Oil of by Expreflion i and this is what is call’d Navette-Qil, and by the Flemings Colfay or Bape-Oil : This Oil is of great me to the Woollen Manufacture in Francej efpecially in the Time of War, when Whale or Train-Oil is fcarce and dear. The Goodnefs of this Oil is known to a great many . Perfons, whole oceafions oblige them to un- derftand it ; nevenhelefs I advife them to chufe fuch as is pure and unmix’d with other Oils; which may be eafily done by the Gold- Colour and Goodnefs- of the Scent ; for the^ true B^pe-Oil is fweet, and on the contrary , the bitter. 16. Of Rice. IC E is the Product of a Plant which grows very common in Fomei^ many Places of Europe ; but more particularly, that which is now fold in Farit' is brought from Spain and Piedmont, This>- is a Seed of fo great Ufe and Profit, that it is called the Manna of the. Poor, and throughout. feveral

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