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A63927	Botanologia the Brittish physician, or, the nature and vertues of English plants, exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their several names Greek, Latine, or English, natures, places where they grow ... : by means whereof people may gather their own physick under every hedge ... : with two exact tables, the one of the English and Latine names of the plants, the other of the diseases and names of each plant appropriated to the diseases, with their cures / by Robert Turner.	Turner, Robert, fl. 1640-1664.	1664 (1664)	Wing T3328; ESTC R232320	236,559	402

of then do but cast your eye to the Names under the Description of the Plant you finde in that Page you are directed to and there you will finde the Plant here described called by the same name you look for I shall at present say no more but wish this Book and the Students therein happy success and their desires both in pleasure and profit subscribing my self Reader Your devoted Friend Robert Turner Christopher Alley in St. Martins le Grand London 23. March 1663 4. To his Esteemed Friend Mr. Robert Turner on this his Excellent and Vseful Treatise entituled BOTANOLOGIA OUr Age hath been with Books so fully Blest And Arts and Learning have advanc'd their Crest So high therein a Thousand Years before Hath not produc'd in English Equal Store And should we judge of th' Study Brain or Wit Fancy and whatsoe're appends to it Of Former Times and these our Present Dayes And to the best deserving give the Bayes Antiquity must strike it sail and say This Age Arts truest Honour doth enjoy The Muses Sons here purchase all anew Their Trebled-trials vouch their Studies true No Antick Crutches yields Support to them Their Grandsires Knowledge gives no Diadem As Poets so an Herbarist is Born Without Celestial Succour he 's a Scorn Not all the Acquisitions Schools can lend Will make True Science a poor Mortal's Friend Yet where both Art and Nature do unite In one Physician He 's the only Wight And thus 't is here Our Author hath for Friend Not onely Learning which doth aptly lend Wings to Industry But Nature too Hath give him Stars Great Things in Arts to do In 's Book he hath a Method plain devis'd All parts of it so curiously compriz'd That Vulgar men which have but skill to read May be their own Physicians at need The better sort are hereby taught how all Things springing from Earths Bowels safely shall By Love or † Sympathy Antipathy Hatred as the Stars dispose Each Sickness cure that in the Body grows Learned Physicians whose better hands And Brains are subject unto Fates Commands Who have the Fortune maugre all their skill As many Patients for to suffer ill As ever finde a Cure Let them but look With serious Aspect o're this Learned Book They 'l finde the Cause of their Vnhappiness And unto safer means themselves Address Let 's then the Author thank who thus imparts For publick good these secret useful Arts And when we Read him wish All Men as free As Learn'd and Able that shall write as He. John Gadbury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ad Lectorem in laudem Operis Authoris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 COnsere nunc Hortum Lector tibi candide laetum Vnde aegrotantem tu medicare queas Turneroque tuo grates persolve quod Herbas Expertus quicquid prosuit arte canat Perge igitur Turnere tuum nomenque per Orbem Sparge Libris raras pande salutis opes Jo. B. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To the Author upon his useful and excellent BOTANOLOGIA or The Brittish Physician FOr th' Sea-encompast Little World our Isle A flowery Wreath your fragrant Leaves compile Her secret and reserved worth you sing The precious Herbs o' th' odoriferous Spring Prove Antick dayes had reason good to stile Long since Britannia the Happy Isle I once admir'd yet wonder now no more Old Rome's ambitious Eagles storm'd our Shore That Picts from Mountains periwigg'd with Snow Infest a Region where such Simples grow That treacherous Saxons sack what Picts did spare And from Sea-Rovers turn our Land to share That the encroaching irreligious Dane Shov'd the usurping Saxon down again That the audacious Norman did lay down A meaner Ducall for a Regall Crown Let not tann'd Africk boast the Wealth doth hide Nor swelling Asia the first Nurse of Pride Nor the yet-barbarous New World Roots unfold Weeds and Diseases to confound the Old Our World our Isle but searcht affordeth store ' Gainst most of Natures foes If we need more You shew the Vertue you the worth commend Of Drugs soft Asia Drugs scorcht Africk send Drugs our politer Europe Drugs that home From that great Monarch remote Nations come From some of whom kinde Phoebus goes not down But 's never discontinued Rayes do crown March 10. 1663 William Smith late of Clare-Hall Cambr. To my truly Ingenious Friend Mr. Robert Turner upon his well accomplished Botanologia or The Brittish Physician THat rude seditious Quack who sought to raise A Monument to himself a lasting praise In that licentious Time by wronging those With his illiterate filthy Nonsense whose Substantial Solid and deserving worth His Dirt made with more splendor issue forth You scorn to Ape nor mention of him make But when reforming of some Grand Mistake How are we all engag'd th' Apothecary Surgeon Physician hath his short Library Included in this Book your worthy pains Miss not one Herb that Flora on the Plains When she her verdant Mantle spreads doth show What Star doth govern each is told by you Then le ts conclude in you and you alone Compriz'd are Gerrard and old Perkinson March 8th 1663 4 Barthol Goodrick M. Licent THE Brittish Physician OR The Vertues of English Plants Adders Tongue Ophioglossum THis Herb ariseth out of the ground with one leaf The Description much like a Water-plantain Leaf being of an oyley substance and a little more then half a finger long at the bottom of the leaf sprouts forth a tender stalk about three inches long and at the top thereof grows a little speer like a snakes tongue sometimes but very seldom there springeth forth two or three crooked stings or tongues like the rest but this latter sort is seldom found Place It groweth in moist low grounds and Meadows in many places of England as in the Meadows of Holshot in Hampshire and near Colbrooke and many other places Time It springeth in April flouriseth in May and is gone quite in June or July at the furthest Names It is called in Latine Ophyogl●ssum Lingua Serpentis Linquoce Lingualace Lancea Christi Enephillon Lingua vulneraria In English Adders ' tongue Serpents tongue and of some Adders grass in Dutch Natertonguen in high Dutch Nater-zungelin Temperature and Vertues Adders Tongue is hot and dry in the third degree a Herb of the Sun in Aries It is an excellent wound Herb and thereof may be made an excellent Balsome for green wounds after this manner take the leaves of the Herb and pound them in a stone Mortar till they are sufficiently bruised and macerated then boil them in a sufficient quantity of oyl Olive till the herbs be dry afterwards strain it and reserve it for the purpose aforesaid as a precious Medecine The green Herb bruised or the juyce thereof applyed to any green wound at the time of the year when it may be had worketh the same effects Agrimony Eupatoria OF this Plant there be two kindes Description the field or wood Agrimony and

very dangerous being mach haunted by Tygers Temperature and Vertues It is hot and dry in the second and according to the judgement of some in the third degree of subtle parts a little astringent and bitter This wood is used as a main Ingredient in those Powders and Electuries which are used to strengthen the heart and inward parts to resist saintings and cold diseases of the heart and corroborate the spirits for which it is very essectual It is also useful in the Apoplexy Palsie Lethargy and left Memory by strengthning and drying the brain and stopping rheumatick defluxions which cause those Diseases It helps faint Swetings Dysenteries Lasks and Pleurisies expells Winde dryeth up Crudities fortisies a weaks Stomach and resists Putrefaction for which it is used in drivers Cordials and Antidotes The Extract thereof it good for the forementioned Diseases It is used outwardly in sumigations to dry up Rheum and in Quilts for that purpose it helps also cold diseases of the Womb The fumigation thereof is said also to provoke the Tearms it helps told diseases of the Womb and killeth Worms by reason of its bitterness as much of the powder thereof as will lye upon a groat being taken three mornings together either in broth or wine is profitable in diseases of the Liver and Spleen openeth their obstructions and strengtheneth them Yarrow Millefolium IT hath many long leaves lying upon the ground Description which are divided or finely cut into many small parts finer then Tansie a little jagged about the edges amongst which rise up two stalks round and green with such leaves but smaller and finer the nearer the tops where stand many small white flowers upon a tuft or umbel each flower having five leaves with a yellowish thrum in the middle somewhat strong in scent but not unpleasant The Root is deep and spreading consisting of many white fibres Names It is called in Latine Millefolium and of some Supercilium Veneris in English Millefoil Yarrow Nose-bleed and thousand leaf Place and Time There are very few Pasture-grounds free from it they flower in July and August Nature and Vertues Yarrow is meanly cold and dry and somewhat astringent an Herb of Venus and is excellent good for Vlcers and Inflammations of the Privities and for inward Excoriations of the Yard the juyce being injected with a Seringe Mathiolus commends it against pissing of blood an ounce of the powder of the herb and flowers with a dram of fine Bole-Armonick being taken three dayes together fasting in a draught of milk The same powder taken in Comphrey or Plantain-water is excellent to staqy inward bleadings and stayeth the bleeding of fresh wounds being strewed thereon and being put into the nostrils stayeth bleeding at rose The juyce put into the Eyes cleareth them of blood and redness and the rox or green leaves chewed in the mouth easeth the Tooth-aches The juyce of the herb and flow 〈◊〉 taken in Goats milk or the distilled water stayeth the running of the Reins in men especially if taken with a little powder of Corral Amber and Ivory The decoction of Yarrow in white wine being drunk stoppeth womens Courses and the bloody Flux and a good quantity thereof boiled in water and made into a bathe and sate over performeth the same It is good to close up the stomachs of those in whom the Retentive Faculty is so weak that they disgorge or vomit up whatsoever they eat It is a good Medicine for an Ague a draught thereof being drunk before the fit come and used for two or three fits together An Oyntment made of the herb is good for green wounds and also for Vlcers and Fistula's especially such as abound with moisture The said Oyntment or Oyl is good to stay the shedding of hair the head bieng anointed therewith Yew Tree Taxus THis Tree is well known for hard timber and good to make strong Bowes the Latine name thereof is Taxas but it is not mentioned by me for any medicinal Vertue that is in it though the bark thereof is by some used instead of that of Tamarisk I say not how judiciously Nature and Vertues Yew is hot and dry in the third degree and hath such an attractive quality that if it be set in a place subject to poysonous vapours the very branches will draw and imbibe them Hence it is conceived that the judicious in former times planted it in Church-yards on the West side because those places being fuller of putrefaction and gross oleaginous Vapours exhaled out of the Graves by the setting Sun and sometimes drawn into those Meteors called Ignes fatui divers have been frighted supposing some dead bodies to walk others have been blasted c. not that it is able to drive away Devils as some superstitious Monks have imagined nor yet that it was ever used to sprinkle Holy-Water as some quarrel some Presbyters altogether as ignorant of natural Causes as the signification of Emblems and useful Ornaments have fondly conceived Wheresoever it grows it is dangerous and deadly both to man and beast according to most Authours how much more then if it be encompassed with Graves into which the lesser Roots will run and suck nourishment poisonous mans flesh being the rankest poison that can be yet a certain Vicar unwilling to own the effects thereof upon his Cows would fain deny it to be so Other Creatures as Rabbits have been poisoned with it and the very lying under the shadow hath been found hurtful Yet the growing of it in a Church-yard is useful and therefore it ought not to be cut down upon what pittiful pretence soever Zedoary Zedoaria IT is a Root growing in the East Indies Description called in Latine Zedoaria growing much like unto Ginger Nature and Vertues It is hot and dry in the second degree It stops Lasks and is good against venomous bitings stoppings and pains of the Stomach It stayes vomiting helps the Chollick amends a stinking Breath and is a very good Antidote against the Plague and other contagious Diseases FINIS An Alphabetical Table of all the Herbs and Plants contained in this Book with their several Latine Appellations directed to their several Pages A. ADders Tongue Ophioglossum Page 1 Adders-grass idem Page 1 Agrimony Eupatoria Page 2 Water-Agrimony Eupatorium Page 3 Agarick Agaricus Larix Page 172 Ague tree Sassafras Page 295 Agnus castus Chaste tree Page 4 Alecoast Costus hortorum Page 5 Alehoof Hedera terrestris Page 6 All-heal Panax Herculeum Page 7 Alexanders Hipposelinum Page 8 Black Alder-tree Alnus nigra Ibid. Alleluia Page 311 Almond-tree Amigdalum Page 9 Alkekengi Page 10 Angelica Page 11 Apple-tree Pomus Page 12 Apricock-tree Malus Armeniaca Page 13 Archangel Lamium Ibid. Aron Page 92 Arrach Atriplex Page 14 Arsmart Persicaria Page 15 Alkanet Fucus Herba Page 16 Amara dulcis Page 41 Amaranthus Page 346 Anemonies Herba venti Page 18 Artechokes Cinara Page 19 Assarabacca Asarum Page 20 Asparagus Corruda Ibid. Ash-tree Fraxinus Page 21 Asp or