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A28326	Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physician.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3121; ESTC R15907	274,441	310

of each equal parts mix them well together and put it into the middle of a loaf and bake it well then take of the inner crum of that loaf and make small pills thereof which be singular good against Weakness and debility caused by the French-Pox French-Pox and all pains of the Limbs 3. Another way is Take Euphorbium and Mastick of each equall part● and make pills thereof with the juice of Citrons or Orenges which pills are much commended against the Pestilence Pestilence Euphorbium being well corrected and prepared purgeth downward tough cold and slimy Flegm Flegm Choler drawing the same unto it self from the remote parts of the body and also purgeth Choler it is very good against the old and continual Headach Head-ach Palsie the Palsie Cramp weakness that followes after the French-Pox Pain of the Sinews Cramp French-Pox Sinews and extream parts and is good against the Pestilence and such like contagious diseases A plaister made of Euphorbium with oyl and wax is singular good against all Aches and pains of the Joints Lameness Aches Lameness Palsies Cramps and shrinking of Sinews Palsie Sinews the same being mingled with oyl of Bayes and Bears-grease cureth Scurff and Scabbs of the Head Baldness Scurff Scald-Head Baldness and causeth the Hair to grow again and it will also cause the Beard to grow if the Chin be anointed therewith The same mingled with Oyl and stroked or laid upon the Temples is good against Drowsiness and doth awaken and quicken the Spirits of such as are subject to the Lethargy Lethargy Apoplexies Speech-lost Leprosie and if it be applied to the Nape of the Neck it restoreth the speech again to such as have lost it by reason of the Apoplexy or other sickness and being mingled with Vinegar and applied it takes away foul and ill favored spots of the body the Leprosie Leprosie scurff and skoles of the skin Fenugreek Names IT is called in shops in Latin Foenum Graecum which is as much as to say Greek-hay Descript Fenugreek groweth up with tender stalks round blackish hollow and full of branches the leaves are devided into three parts like the leaves of Trefoil or the three-leaved grasse the flowers be pale whitish and like the flowers of Lupines but smaller after the flowers are faded or fallen away there follow after them long Cods or husks crooked and sharp pointed wherein is a yellow seed the root is full of small hanging hairs Place It groweth not in this Country but in the Gardens of some Herbarists Time It flowereth in July and the seed is ripe in August Government and Virtues Fenugreek-seed is hot in the second degree and dry in the first under the influence of the planet Mercury the seed which is to be had at our Druggists and Apothecaries shops is only used in medicines The decoction or broth of the seed drunk with a little Vinegar Ill-humors expelleth and purgeth forth all evill and superfluous humors which cleave or stick fast to the Bowells The same decoction first made with Dates and afterwards made into the substance of a syrrup with hony doth mundifie and cleanse the Breast Breast Chest Chest and Lungs Lungs and is good for all griefs and diseases of the Breast so that the Patient be not troubled with a Feaver or the Head-ach for such a syrrup is hurtful to the Head and to them that have Agues Fenugreek is of a softning and dissolving nature and therefore the Meal thereof being boyled in Mede or honied water doth consume soften and dissolve hard Swellings Swellings and Imposthumes Imposthumes and a paste made thereof with Salt-Peeter and Vinegar doth soften and wast the hardness and Swelling of the Spleen It is good for Women that have either Imposthume Ulcer or stopping in the Matrix Spleen Matrix to bathe and sit in the decoction thereof and a suppository made of the juice thereof and put up into the neck of the Matrix doth mollifie and soften all hardness thereof or in the natural place of Conception the decoction of Fenugreek is good to wash the head withall to take away the scurffe thereof Scales Nits and dandriffe Dandriffe Scurffe Scales Nits The same applied with Brimstone and Hony drives away Pushes pimples wheales and spots in the Face heales all Manginess and Itch Pushes Pimples Itch. and helpeth the rank and stinking smell of the Arm-pits The seed of Fenugreek being prepared as the Lupines may be eaten and then they loose the belly gently The Fig-tree Kinds and Names OF these there is the wild Fig-tree and the Garden Fig-tree The Garden Fig-tree is called in Latine Ficus Sativa and the fruit Ficus or a Fig The wild Fig-tree is called Ficus Silvestris and Caprificus the dry Fig is called in Latin Carica the fruit of the Fig-tree which never cometh to ripeness is called in Latin grossus and of some Erineus Descript The Garden Fig-tree groweth with many branches full of pith within like the stalks of Elder covered over with a smooth plain bark or rind the leaves be great and large of a blackish green and for the most part divided into five parts at the top of the branches grow the fruit the which is round and long fashioned like Pears sweet and full of small kernells or graines Before the fruit be ripe if it be hurt or scarified there cometh a sap or juice like milk but being through-ripe the juice is like to Hony Place The Fig-trees are plentifull in Spain and Italy In this Country they are planted in Gardens but they must be set in warm places that stand well in the Sun and defended from the North and North-East Winds Time The Fig-trees in this Country are late before they put forth their leaves it being in May the fruit is ripe about the end of Summer Government and Vertues Figs are under the Government of Jupiter the green Figs new gathered are a little warm somewhat moist the dry Figs are hot almost in the second degree and of subtil parts the milky juice of Figs is hot and dry almost in the third degree and also sharp and biting the leaves have also some sharpness with an opening power but not so strong as the juice The new gathered Figs nourish more than the other fruits and they loose the belly gently but they ingender Windiness Belly Windiness heat Thirst they abate heat and quench thirst but eaten in too great a quantity hurt and weaken the Stomack the dry Figs do nourish better then the green or new Figs yet they ingender no very good blood those that feed much upon Figs become Lousie thereby as some say Figs eaten before meat do loose the Belly and are good for the Kidneys Kidneys for they drive forth Gravel and Vrine Gravel Urine they provoke sweat Sweat and by the same means they send forth Corrupt Corrupt and stinking humors

in the mouth it helpeth a stinking breath it also helps digestion and is good against Melancholy These outer rinds being preserved with Sugar are used as a Junket at Banquets yet they are often used in Cordial Electuaries and preservatives against infection and Melancholy It also helpeth to loose the body and therefore there is a solutive Electuary made therewith called Electuarium de citro solutivum to evacuate the bodies of cold flegmatick Constitutions and may safely be used where Choler is mixed with Flegm The inner white rinde of the fruit is almost unsavoury and without taste and is not used in Physick but being preserved is used at Banquets the sowr juice in the middle is cold and farre surpasseth that of Lemons in the effects although not so sharp in taste it is singular good in all pestilential and burning Feavers to restrain the venome and Infection to suppress the Choler and hot distemper of the blood and to quench thirst and correcteth the ill disposition of the Liver stirreth up an Appetite and refresheth the over-spent and fainting spirits Burning Feavers Choler Thirst Appetite Faint Spirits resisteth drunkenness and helpeth the turnings of the Brain by the hot vapours arising therein which causeth a Frenzy for want of sleep the seed not only equalleth the rind but also surpasseth it in many particulars yet Galen and Avicen contradict one another herein Galen saith that the seed is cold which Mathiolus excuseth with diverting his intent to the juice and Avicen saith it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second the Bark or rynd hot in the first and dry in the end of the second degree the inner white substance between the outer bark and the inner juice hot and moist in the first degree and the sowr juice cold and dry in the third degree These seeds are very effectual to preserve the heart and vital spirits from the poyson of the Scorpion and other venemous creatures as also against the infection of the Plague or Pox or any other contagious disease they kill the worms in the stomach provoke the Terms cause an Abortment and have a digesting and a drying quality fit to dry up and consume moist humours both inwardly in the body and outwardly in any moist or running Ulcers or Sores Heart poyson of Scorpions Plague Pox Worms Terms Moist humours Vlcers Sores and to take away the pains that come after the biting of any venemous Creature The whole fruit or the branches of the trees layd in Presses Chests or Wardrobes keepeth Cloth or silk Garments from Moths or worms and likewise giveth them a good scent Quick-Grass Kinds and Names THere are several sorts of these Grasses some growing in the fields and other places of the upland grounds and others near the Sea it is also called Dogs-grass and Gramen Caninum the other several names shall follow in the Descriptions Descript 1. Common quick-grass Gramen caninum vulgare This grass creepeth far about under ground with long white joynted roots and small fibres almost at every joynt very sweet in taste as the rest of the herb is and interlaceing one another from whence shoot forth many fair and long grassie leaves small at the ends and cutting or sharp at the edges the stalks are joynted like Corn with the like leaves on them and a long spiked head with long husks on them and hard rough seed in them Descript 2. Quick grass with a more spread Panickle Gramen caninum longius radicatum paniculatum This differeth very little from the former but in the tuft or panickle which is more spread into branches with shorter and broader husks and in the root which is fuller greater and further-spread Descript 3. The lesser quick-grass with a sparsed tuft Gramen caninum latiore panicula minus This small quick-grass hath slender stalks about half a foot high with many very narrow leaves both below and on the stalks the tuft or panickle at the top is small according to the Plant and spreadeth into sundry parts or branches the root is small and joynted but creepeth not so much and have many more fibres among them than the others have and is a little browner not so white but more sweet Descript 4. Low bending quick grass Gramen caninum arvense This creepeth much under ground but in a differing manner the stalks taking root in divers places and scarce rising a foot high with such like green leaves as the ordinary but shorter the spiked head is bright and sparsed or spread abroad somewhat like the field grass Descript 5. Gramen caninum supinum Monspeliense This differeth very little from the last in any other part thereof than in the panickle or spiked head which is longer and not spread or branched into parts as that is Descript 6. A small sweet grass like Quick-grass Gramen exile tenuifolium Canariae simile sive gramen dulce This small grass hath divers low creeping Branches and rooting at the joynts as the two last having many small and narrow leaves on them much less than they and a small sparsed panickle somewhat like the red dwarf-grass Descript 7. Wall-grass with a creeping root Gramen murorum radice repente this Wall grass from a blackish creeping root springeth forth with many stalks a foot high bending or crooking with a few narrow short leaves on them at whose tops stand small white panickles of an inch and a half long made of many small chaffy husks Place and Time The first is usual and common in divers plow'd Grounds and Gardens where it is often more bold than welcome troubling the Husbandmen as much after the plowing up of some of them as to pull up the rest after the springing and being raked together to burn them as it doth Gardners where it happeneth to weed it out from amongst their trees and Herbs the second and third are more scarce and delight in Sandy and Chalky grounds the three next are likewise found in Fields that have been plowed and do lye Fallow and the last is often found on old decayed Walls in divers places they flourish chiefly in the beginning of Summer Government and Virtues These are Plants of Mercury The root is of temperature cold and dry and hath a little mordacity in it and some tenuity of parts the herb is cold in the first degree and moderate in moisture and dryness but the seed is much more cold and drying of some tenuity of parts and somewhat harsh This quick grass is most medicinable of all other sorts of grasses it is effectual to open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and the stoppings of Urine the decoction thereof being drunk and to ease the griping pains in the belly and Inflamations and wasteth the excrementitious matter of the Stone in the Bladder and the Ulcers thereof also the root being bruised and applyed doth knit together and consolidate wounds the seed doth more powerfully expell Urine bindeth the belly and stayeth vomiting the distilled water

way Place and Time This tree groweth in Arabia in many places and in Aegypt and floureth and beareth fruit twice a year and hath alwayes green leaves Government and Vertues It is Saturnine the gum hath a thickning condensing and cooling property and is very effectual to represse and cool the heat and sharpness of humors and to bind or close up the open passages of the skin and keeping the places from blistering that are burnt with fire being dissolved with the white of an Egg and applied It is also very serviceable for Limners Dyers to make the best writing Ink and many other external uses Gum Tragacanth Names and Descript THe tree hereof is called Goats-thorn which is a small bushy plant rising up with many tough pliant or flexible woody stems about two foot high divided into many slender branches covered with a white hoariness with divers long white thorns in a double row among which rise up many small long and round leaves which abide always green there grow flowers at the tops of the branches and amongst the leaves of a pale yellow colour which turn into small white cods containing in them small whitish cornered seed the root is great and long much spreading in the ground which being cut or broken yeeldeth a pure white shining Gum in small crooked peeces of a sweet tast Place All sorts of these trees are found in Candia and about Marselles and Mompelier Time In the places where they naturally grow they flower and seed in the beginning of Autumne Government and Vertues There is no physical use known of either the leaves flowers seeds or roots of Tragacantha but onely of the gum it self which partaketh of the influence of Venus it is of a temperate property and besides the medicinal uses thereof it serveth for many external purposes as a starch or glew for which young Ladies use it to make their Artificial flowers and other gum-works This gum being dissolved is often used to be mixed with pectoral syrrups honey or juice of Liquorice to help the Cough or Hoarseness Coughs Hoarseness in the Throat salt and sharp distillations of Rhume upon the Lungs Rhume Lungs being taken as an Electuary or put under the tongue so to go gently down he said gum di●●olved in sweet Wine a dram at a time and drunk is p●ofitable for the knawing pains in the Bowells Knawings-Bowels and the sharpness of Urine and frettings either in the Reins or Bladder Reines Bladder especially if it be mixed with some burnt Harts-horn the said Gum is also good for the Eye sight Eyes Sight being used alone or mixed with other things proper for the same purpose to allay the heat and sharpness of hot Rhumes the said gum mingled with milk taketh away white spots growing in the black of the Eyes and the Itching of the Eyes and Wheals or scabs upon the Eye-lids and being mixed with the juice of Quinces and used in a glister is good against the Bloody-flux and is generally used where there is cause of making smooth the Lungs breast or Throat or the wind-pipe being grown sharp or harsh by Rhumes and is excellent to represse and dry up sharp and thin matter and is excellent for Ulcers in any of the parts before-named Gum Elemni Description and Vertues WHat tree this gum is taken from we have no certain description it is a yellowish gum cleer and transparent which being broken sheweth more white and gummi within it will easily take fire and is of a quick scent and tast The properties of it are these It is of excellent use for all wounds and fractures of the Head and skull to be mixed with Balsomes and Oyntments for that purpose and is good for the Tooth-ach when Rhumes fall into them to be applied unto the Temples as Mastick Gum Tacamahacca THis Gum is reported to be gathered from a tree like unto Poplar being very sweet having a red fruit or berry like unto a Peony Government and Vertues Mercury rules it the gum is good for many external uses but not being known to be given inwardly it is useful for Women to retain the mother in its place by laying a plaister thereof upon the Navel Matrix and putting a little Musk Amber or a little Civet in the middle of the plaister This gum being applied as a plaister spread upon leather to the side or Spleen Side Spleen Tumors Pains Joints stomach digestion head-ach Brain Memory Defluxions Face Eyes Eares Teeth Gout Sciatica Punctures that is grown hard and Windy disperseth the Wind and dissolveth the Tumors and is effectual in all Tumors and pains of the body or Joints which come from cold raw and Windy humors applied thereon Take of this gum with a third part of S●orax a little Ambergreese and some Wax and make a plaister thereof and apply it to the Stomack doth much strengthen the weakness thereof and digestion provokes appetite and breaks Wind it is good in the Headach and to strengthen the Brain and Memory as also in all defluxions from the Head into the Face Eares or Teeth to be applied to the Temples or to be put into the Ear tyed in a little fine silk or Cloth it is good also for pains in the joints Gout and Sciatica it speedily helpeth Punctures and Wounds in the joints it is hot almost in the third degree and dry in the second with much astriction Herb Robert Names IT is called Geranium Robertianum vulgare the common Herb Robert Descript The common Herb Robert springeth up with a reddish stalk about two foot high having divers leaves thereon upon very long and reddish footstalks divided at the ends into three or four divisions and each of them cut in on the edges some with deeper cuts than others and all dented likewise about the edges which oftentimes turn reddish at the tops of the stalks come forth divers flowers consisting of five leaves a peece larger then those of the Garden Musk and of a more reddish colour after which come beaky heads like long bills the root is small and threddy the whole plant is of a very strong smell Place Herb Robert groweth frequent every where by wayes sides upon the banks of Ditches and wast grounds Time It flowereth chiefly in June and July and the seed is ripe soon after Government and Vertues Herb Robert is a plant of Mars and is very much commended against the Stone and not onely so but also to stay blood Stone Flux of Blood Green wounds Vlcers from what part soever flowing it is excellent good speedily to heal all green wounds and is effectual likewise in old Ulcers either in the secrets or any other parts Hermo-dactyls HErmodactils are to be reckoned amongst the number of unknown drugs they being brought into England in abundance but no Author hath hitherto declared the place or growing thereof but only Mesne who saith it is the root of a Mountain herb whereof some are long and round

like a finger white both without and within but the Hermodactils used in shops are not such they are small and somewhat flat thick short white roots and some are blackish which are not good they are of a firm substance yet easie to be cut or made into powder and of little or no tast but drying Government and Vertues They are Solar hot and dry in the second degree and are effectual in purging forth flegmatick slimy and watry humors Flegm Watry Humors from the joints and therefore good to help the Gout and other running joint-aches and is used to good purpose with other things in diet-drinks Hermodactils are apt to stir up Windiness and trouble the Stomach but may be corrected with either Ginger long Pepper Anniseeds or Comin Hone-wort Names IT is called also Corn-parsly and Selinum Segetale and Hone-wort Descript It is a small low Herb having sundry winged long leaves lying on the ground many being set one against another finely dented about the edges with one at the end which are each of them longer than Burnet-leaves and pointed at the ends among which rise sundry round stalks half a yard high with the like but lesser leaves on them branching forth likewise from the joints and all of them bearing small Vmbells of white flowers which turn into a small blackish seed lesse than Parsley seed but in tast as hot and sharp as it the root is small long and white and perisheth every year after it hath yeelded its seed and springeth up again of its own sowing Place It groweth in Fields among Corn or in places where Corn hath been sown and by the sides of Corn-fields I have found it grow plentifully in the Fields between Camberwel and Dulwich Time It flowereth in Harvest time and the seed is ripe in September Government and Virtues It is under the planetary rule of Mercury as the other parsleys are of a cutting exterminating nature and effectual for the same purposes Parsley is Parkinson saith that Mr Goodier of Hampshire reported to him that the use of a handful of the leaves being drunk in a draught of Beer every morning for a fortnight did cure one that had a Swelling in her cheek arising there yearly and Mr. Roger Dixon Chirurgion did use it for Swellings and Tumors Jack by the Hedge Names IT is called also Sawce-alone and in Latine Alliaria Descript This Herb at his first springing up hath roundish leaves the lower are rounder then those that grow towards the tops of the stalks and are set singly one at a joint being somewhat round and broad and pointed at the ends and jagged about not much unlike Nettle-leaves but greater and of a fresher green colour and not rough nor pricking the which being bruised between the fingers have the savor and smell of Gar-like but more pleasant and tasteth somewhat hot and sharp the flowers are very small and white growing at the tops of the stalks one above another like to Rocket and after them succeed long Cods or husks wherein is contained a small round blackish seed the root is stringy and threddy perisheth every year when it hath given seed and of its own seed springeth again Place This plant delighteth to grow in low untilled grounds und●● 〈…〉 the borders of Meadows and moist pastures and by He● 〈◊〉 and path wayes in many places Ti●●●● ●ack by the Hedge floureth in May and June and the seed is rip● soon after Government and Vertues It is a plant of Mars of temperature hot and dry in the third degree Sawce-alone hath been much used and is still in some places by people for sawce to their meat in stead of Garlick and it is likewise a good sawce to fish and helpeth to digest the crudities and other corrupt humors ingendred by the much eating of Fish it warmeth the Stomack Stumack and causeth digestion Digestion the juice boiled with hony is very good for the Cough Cough to help to cut and expectorate tough Flegm Flegm the seed bruised and boiled in Wine is a good remedy for the wind-Chollick Chollick and S one Stone being drunk warm the same for Women troubled with the Mother Mother both to drink warm and the seeds put into a Cloth and applied warm the decoction of the leaves or seed is good in glisters to ease pains of the Stone the green leaves are good to cleanse and heal Ulcers Vlcers in the legs the root hath a tast like unto Radishes and may be used in the same manner and to the same purposes as they are Jessamine or Jesmine Names IT is called Jasminum and Gelseminum vulgatius et album there being reckoned amongst Authors four other kinds as Jasminum vel Gelseminum Catalonicum simplex the single Spanish Jasmine Gelseminum vel Jasminum Catalonium multiplex The double Spanish Jasmine Gelseminum sive Jasmimum Indicum flavum odoratissimum The Indian most sweet yellow Jasmine And Gelseminum sive Jasminum luteum Odoratum Virginianum scandens et semper virens The sweet yellow climing Virginian Jasmine Des●ript The ordinary Jasmine springeth up with many long shoots from the root divided into many small branches full of joints or knots and covered with a dark grayish bark these shoots or twigs are filled with a white spongy pith within like the Elder the leaves be of a dark green colour winged and parted into several other little leaves the flowers be white and long of a sweet and pleasant savor standing divers in a tuft together at the tops of the small branches which fall away without bearing of any fruit in our Country but in hotter Countries where it naturally groweth it beareth a flat seed like a Lupine the root spreadeth far in the ground and increaseth by yeelding of many suckers Place Jasmine the three first sorts thereof grow well in Spain and are supposed to have been brought thither out of Syria none grows here but such as are planted in Gardens Time Jasmine floureth in July and August but the fruit thereof never cometh to perfection in this Country Government and Vertues Jasmine is under the Solar Influence It is hot almost in the second degree as saith Serapio and hath a bitter tast Jasmine is effectual to cure the foul dry Scurff and red Spots Scurff Spots Swellings Wens flegm Catharrs Head-ach Freckles Morphew Tetters Ring-worms Cramp Stiches and dissolveth cold Swellings and Wens or hard lumps or knobs gathered together in the flesh being pultis-wise applied thereon It discusseth humors is good against salt Flegm and is profitable for old men that are troubled with Catharrs and tough Flegm but it breedeth the Head-ach in those who are of an hot constitution if they use it the leaves either green or dry do cleanse Freckles Morphew Spots and discolourings of the Face and other parts of the body and helpeth Tetters and Ring-worms There is an Oyle made of the flowers by infusion which is good for any cold part

afterwards turn into small soft Cones like to Cypresse Nuts while they are close but longer than they made of many fine scales lying one upon another standing on a short stalk having seed in the inside of every scale formed like a small bird with two wings and a small sweet kernel within them like the Pine kernel the wood is very firm hard and close long in growing and long lasting It yieldeth forth a liquid Rozen being bored ve●y clear and white which is called Venice Turpentine There is also found upon the bodies and great boughs thereof a kind of hard and dry Mushroom called Agarick Place and Time It groweth plentifully in the Woods by Trent and in many other places of Germany and between Germany and Italy It shooteth forth leaves in the Spring and the blossomes presently after and the fruit is ripe towards the latter end of Summer The Turpentine is gathered in the hottest time of the Summer but the Agarick about November and December Governments and Vertues The Larix-tree is under the dominion of Venus the leaves bark and fruit are of the same temperature as those of the Pine-tree the Turpentine thereof taken to the quantity of an ounce will gently open the belly provoke Urine and cleanse the Reines Kidneys Reines Kidneys and Bladder and helps to dissolve the Stone Bladder Stone and drive forth the Gravel and gives ease to those that have the Gout Gravel Gout if it be rouled up in Sugar and taken it helps the running of the Reins But pills most excellent for the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins may be made thereof in this manner Turpentine Pills for the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Take Turpentine-and wash it in Plaintain and Rose-water then with the powder of white Amber red Corral Mastick and a little Camphire make it into Pills which are to be taken morning and Evening for certain dayes together It is good also for the Tissick and Consumption of the Lungs Tissick Lungs being taken with hony in an Electuary it expectorates tough flegm and helps those that are troubled with a continual Cough it is of excellent use also outwardly to be used as an ingredient amongst salves It doth both draw cleanse and heal all sores or Ulcers whether new or old and green Wounds the Chymical oyl drawn from Turpentine is more drying and consolidating than the Turpentine it self so that it is singular good to be used in Wounds Wounds Vl●ers and to warm and ease paines in the joints and sinews caused with cold and being mixed with oyl of St. Johns-wort it is singular good against Sprains Pains Sprains Wrinches and outward Bruises Bruises-freckles caused by falls or otherwise the parts being fomented This oyl being drank the quantity of twenty drops at a time in Ale or white Wine provokes Urine cleanseth and cureth all Ulcers and Sores in the Kidney Kidneys or Bladder Bladder or Uretory passages The water that is distilled with the oyl is good for freckles and spots in the Face A scruple in weight of that water taken in white Wine procureth a Vomit and giveth much ease to those whose Stomacks are overcharged with Flegm Agarick which is the Tuberous substance which groweth upon this tree is a good purging medicine and often used by it self but more commonly is mixed with other medicines of a purging quality to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen Liver Spleen and entrails it purgteh all vitious humors which offend the body It is usually corrected wich Ginger and given with Oxymel that is a sirrup made with Vinegar and Hony otherwise of it self it is apt to trouble the Stomack and cause Vomiting It purgeth thin and rotten tough flegm both yellow hard and black burnt Choller Flegm Choler from the Head and Brain Breast Lungs Head Lungs stomack Liver Stomack Liver and Spleen Spleen Gout and from the Reins joints Sinews and Muscles whereby it helpeth such as are troubled with the Gout Dropsie Falling-sickness Jaundise Chollick Dropsie Chollick Sciatica shortness of Breath Cough Consumption of the Lungs spitting of Blood paines of the Womb Blood Womb sharpness of Urine and the Wormes It is also helpful to cure all sorts of Agues Agues to ease griping pains of the Stomack and Belly and such as have had Falls and Bruises or are bursten-Bellied Half a dram or two scruples being taken in Wine either by the infusion or in powder is good against all poisons and bitings of Serpents The most usual way of preparing it for the other diseases before mentioned is to slice a dram and put it into a gentle purging decoction or an Infusion If it be boyled in Lye with other Cephalicks and the head washed therewith it comforteth the Brain Memory Brain Memory and giddinessof the Head and stayes Rhumes and Catarrhs and cleanseth it from scurff Rhumes Scurff and Dandriff Spurge-Laurel Names IT is also called Wild Laurel and in Latine Laureola Descript The Spurge Laurel springeth up usually but with one stem but sometimes with more very tough and pliant having a whitish thick tough bark branching forth into divers parts towards the tops whereon grow many long thick somewhat broad and shining dark green leaves longer smoother and softer than Bay-leaves and without any veins therein the flowers come forth towards the tops of the stalks and branches and at the joints with the leaves many set together which are somewhat long and hollow having four small leaves of a whitish yellow green colour after which come small round and somewhat long black berries when they are ripe wherein is contained a white kernell the root groweth deep into the ground and spreadeth with long white strings and is somewhat wooddy The leaves flower bark and root are very hot in tast burning the mouth and Throat of any that shall tast them the leaves continue green all the Winter Place Spurge Laurel groweth Wild in many places of this land particularly in Cobham Park in Kent Time It floureth very early as about January if the Winter be mild and the berries are ripe about June Government and Vertues Mars rules this plant both leaves and berries hereof are violent purges of a heating burning quality so that they inflame the throat and Stomack of whosoever shall take thereof yet being given advisedly and prepared by a skilful hand it cleanseth the Stomack of Flegm Flegm Terms both by purge and Vomit it driveth down Womens Courses and being chewed in the Mouth it draweth down much corrupt matter from the Head and brain if the leavs and berries when they are fresh be boyled in oyl and the oyle strained forth this oyle looseneth the belly and helpeth the Chollick the belly being anointed therewith it provokes Urine and helpeth the Piles some give the powder of the leaves in a little broth to ease the pains of the Chollick and purge forth watry humors in the Dropsie The

Correction of Spurge Laurel Lay the leaves or berries in steep in Vinegar a whole day then dry it and make it into powder adding to it Annise or Fennel seed gum Tragant and Mastick and so give it together with some cooling water as of Endive Succory or Orenges it will perform its operation without troubling or inflaming the Throat nor the inward parts Indian-leaf Names IT is called by the Indians Cadegi Indi that is Folium Indum It is called also Malabathrum and of the East-Indians Tamala patra Descript They are broad leaves with three ribs onely in them a little pointed at the ends which have been brought unto us but in small quantity and amongst them some leaves on their branches two usually at a joint tasting somewhat hot like unto bay-leaves and the bark of the branches hath the same tast amongst these leaves sometimes hath been found a small fruit like unto an Acorn in the cup which is probably the fruit of the tree and gathered with the leaves Government and Vertues It is Solar The vertues are to provoke Urine to warm and strengthen the Stomack and it maketh the Breath sweet It is good to be put into Cordial and Stomachical compositions It resisteth poison and Venome and the infusion thereof in Wine warm helpeth inflamations and redness of the Eyes being bathed therewith Lentills Kinds and Names THey are called Lens and Lenticula in Latine In some Countries of England where they sow them for meat for their Cattel they call them Tills There are found three sorts hereof 1. Lens Major the greater Lentill 2. Lens Minor the lesser Lentil And 3. Lens Maculata the spotted Lentil Descript 1. The greater Lentil groweth about two foot long with many hard yet slender and weak branches from whence at several places shoot forth long stalks of small winged leaves many on each side of a middle rib which middle rib endeth in a small clasper between the leaves and the stalks come the flowers which are small of a sad reddish purplish colour almost like the flowers of Vetches they stand for the most part two at the end of a long footstalk after the flowers are gone there succeed small short flat Cods wherein is flat round smooth seed of a pale yellowish Ash-colour the root is fibrous and dyeth every winter 2. The lesser lentill differeth from the former onely in this that the stalks leaves and seed is lesser the flowers are more pale and the seeds are whiter The third differs not much from the last but the seed which is blackish is spotted with blacker spots Place and Time The two first in parts beyond the Seas are sown in manured Fields and so they are in some Countries in England especially the smaller sort The greater doth seldome come to maturity with us if the season be not very mild and dry the spotted kind hath been growing wild in Portugal Government and Virtues They are under the dominion of Saturn of a mean temperature between heat and cold yet they are dry in the second degree according to Galen they are somewhat astringent and bind the body especially the outer skin It is of contrary qualities for the decoction thereof doth not bind but loosen the body therfore those that would have it bind let them cast away the first water and use the second which stoppeth Lasks and strengtheneth the Stomack Lasks Stomack and inward parts Lentils husked lose the strength of binding but nourish more than those that are not husked but Galen saith that to cat much of the broth of Lentils breedeth Cankers and Leprosie being grosse and thick meat It breedes the Melancholy humor but is good for moist and watry bodies but forbidden to those that are of a dry constitution It is also hurtful to the fight but is convenient for Women that have their Courses in too much abundance the decoction thereof applied with Wheat flower easeth the Gout Terms Gout and used with hony it closeth up the Lips of Wounds and cleanseth foul sores being boyled with Vinegar it dissolveth knots Sores knots and kernels Kernels and a decoction made thereof with Quinces Melilot and a little Rose-water put thereto it helpeth the Inflamation of the Eyes and Fundament But for the chaps of the Fundament let it be boyled with dryed Roses and Pomgranate rindes adding a little hony unto it And so it is good for creeping Cankers adding some Sea water unto it and for Wheals and running watry sores St. Anthonies-fire Kibes and for the curdling of Milk in Womens Breasts And a decoction there of with Rose leaves and Quinces is a good lotion for Ulcers in the Mouth Privy parts or Fundament Cankers Kibes St. Anthonies-fire Mouth Privy parts Fundament Lentisk or Mastick-tree Names IT is called in Latine Lentiscus and the gum or Rozen resina Lentiscina and Mastiche and Mastix in English Mastick Descript The Mastick or Lentisk-tree groweth like a tree if it be suffered to grow up and often it riseth but as a shrub the body and branches are of a reddish colour tough and gentle having their ends bending somewhat downwards whereon do grow winged dark green leaves consisting of four couples standing one against another of the bigness of the large Myrtle leaf with a reddish Circle about their edges and somewhat reddish veins on the underside smelling sweet and always continuing green the flowers grow in clusters at the joints with the leaves being small and of a pale purplish green colour after them come small blackish berries of the bigness of a Pepper-corn with a hard black shell under the outer skin and a white kernel within it beareth also certain hornes with a cleer liquor in them which turneth into small flies that fly away It yeeldeth also a clear white gum in small drops when the stocks are cut in sundry places which is carefully gathered and preserved Place The Lentisk-tree groweth in Provence of France and also in divers places of Italy and Candy and in many places of Greece but yeeldeth little gum there But especially in the Isle of Chio now called Sio Time It floureth in April and the berries are ripe in September It is pruned and manured with as great care and pains as others do their Vines it goeth beyond them in the profit of the Gum. Government and Vertues The Lentisk-tree is under the influence of Jupiter It is of temperature moderately hot but both root and branch bark leaf fruit and Gum are of a binding quality and do stop all Fluxes Fluxes and spitting of Blood Blood strengthens a weak Stomack Stomack and helps falling down of the Mother Mother or Fundament The decoction healeth up hollow sores Fundament sores sodereth broken bones Bones fasteneth loose Teeth Loose-teeth Itch and stayeth creeping Sores they being fomented therewith The oyl that is pressed out of the berries helpeth the Itch Leprosie Leprosie and Scabbs Scabbs both in Men and Beasts

sharp and aromatical is of more effect in medicines and so is the long being more used to be given for Agues to warm the stomach before the coming of the fit thereby to abate the shaking thereof All of them are used against the Quinsie being mixed with honey Quinsie Kernels and taken inwardly aswell as applyed outwardly and disperseth the kernels aswell in the throat as in the other parts of the body Mathiolus writeth of a kind of Pepper which he calleth Piper Aethiopicum brought with other Merchandise from Alexandria into Italy and groweth in long Cods like beans or pease but many cods set together at a place whose grains within them being like Pepper both in form and taste but smaller stick very close to the inside this sort Serapio calleth granum Zelin Monardus also maketh mention of a kind of long Pepper that groweth in all the tract of the Continent of the West-Indies This kind of pepper is half a foot long and of the thickness of a small Rope consisting of many rowes of small grains set close together as in the head of Plantane and is black being ripe and hotter in taste and more aromatical and pleasant than Capsicum and preferred before black Pepper and groweth saith he on high Trees or Plants Guinny Pepper Kinds and Names THere are many sorts hereof found out and brought to our knowledge in these latter dayes more than formerly were one Gregorius de Reggio a Capuchine Fryar maketh mention of a dozen several sorts or varieties at the least in the fruit or Cods though in any thing else very little differing there are likewise some other varieties observed by Clusius and others Descript 1. The most ordinary Guinny Pepper with long husks Capsicum majus vulgatius oblongis siliquis By this you may frame the Description of all the rest the main difference consisting in the form of the fruit whether husks or Cods This Plant riseth up with an upright firm roundstalk with a certain pyth within them about two foot high in our Countrey and not above three foot in the hotter spreading into many branches on all sides even from the very bottome which divide themselves again into other smaller branches at each joynt whereof come forth two long leaves upon short footstalks somewhat bigger than those of Nightshade else very like with divers veins in them not dented about the edges at all and of a very sad green colour the flowers stand severally at the joynts with the leaves very like unto the flowers of Nightshade consisting most usually of five and sometimes of six white small-pointed-leaves standing open like a star with a few yellow threds in the middle after which come the fruit either great or small long or short round or square as the kind is either standing upright or hanging down as their flowers shew themselves either of this or that form in this somewhat great and long about three inches in length thick and round at the stalk and smaller towards the end which is not sharp but round-pointed green at the first but being full ripe of a very deep shining Crimson red colour on the outside which is like a thick skin and white on the inside smelling reasonably well and sweet having many flat yellowish white seeds therein cleaving to certain thin skins within it which are broader at the upper end and smaller at the lower leaving the end or point empty within not reaching so far the which husk but especially the seed being of so hot and fiery a taste that it enflameth and burneth the mouth and throat for a long time after it is chewed almost ready to choak one that taketh much at a time thereof the root is composed of a great Tuft or bush of threds spreading plentifully in the ground and perisheth even in hot Countreys after it hath ripened all its fruit Descript 2. Capsicum minus Brasilianum small round Guinny-pepper This groweth in the same manner as the former doth not differing in any thing but in the leaves which being of the same form are not so great and large and in the fruit which is small and round standing some forthright and some upright but none hanging down each of them upon a long footstalk about the bigness of a Barbery but round and nothing so red and in another sort almost black having such like seeds within them but somewhat smaller no less hot and fiery than the former and abideth the winter-colds no otherwise than the former and seldome beareth ripe fruit in our Countrey Descript 3. The greater round upright Guinny Pepper Capsicum rotundum majus surrectum The chiefest difference in this sort of Guinny-pepper consisteth most in the form of the fruit which standeth upright as the flowers do being great and round like an apple even the greatest of all the sorts that bear round fruit of an excellent red colour when it is ripe like unto a polished Corall Descript 4. The great upright Spire-fashion'd Guinny-Pepper Capsicum erectum pyramidale majus This differeth very little from the first the difference of the fruit is that this standeth upright great below and smaller and smaller to the point which is sharper than in the first of as brave an orient Corall-like colour as the last Descript 5. The lesser upright Spire-fashion'd Guinny-Pepper Capsicum erectum pyramidale minus As the fruit of this sort is lesser by the half than the last and not so sharp or small at the end but somewhat round so the green leaves also are smaller and narrower and the stalk smaller and not growing so high the flowers of this as of all the rest that bear their fruit upright do stand upright also which is a certain rule to know what fruit will be pendulous and what will be upright Descript 6. The least Spire-fashioned Guinny-Pepper Capsicum exiguum erectum Pyramidale The form of this is very like the second sort but these are smaller and longer than those of the second sort of an inch long at the least and of a blackish red before they be through-ripe and then as red as the rest This groweth taller fuller of branches and more stored both with flowers and fruit the leaves are of the same dark green colour with the rest Descript 7. The greater upright Heart-fashioned Guinny-Pepper Capsicum Cordatum erectum majus This groweth not so high as most of the former having large leaves but not so small at the ends the fruit is not pendulous or hanging downwards with his footstalk but standing upright being somewhat great flattish and as it were bunched out at the upper end next unto the stalk and smaller below short and round-pointed somewhat resembling the form of a mans-Heart as it is intituled Cordatum Descript 8. The lesser upright Heart-fashioned Guinny-Pepper Capsicum Cordatum erectum minus This doth not differ from the last but in the smallness of the fruit standing also upright but much smaller and shorter Descript 9. Pendulous Heart-fashioned Guinny-Pepper

and long as the great Night-shade leaves but some deeplier dented than others almost torn especially at the lower end of the leaf next the stalk each standing on a long footstalk The stalk riseth from among the leaves being streight thick fat strong and round two or three foot high from whence shoot forth on all sides if it be in warm fat ground divers stalks of leaves like unto the other or in a barren ground its bare without branches two for the most part set at a joynt and at each joynt of the stalk up to the top cometh forth one flower of a whitish colour which is somewhat long like unto a Bell-flower made of one leaf without division at the edges having a few long threads at the bottom not rising so high that they may be seen without opening the flower after the flowers are past there come up in their steads small long hard Cods having three or four or five Ribs or Crests which do open themselves into many parts having in each part small whitish yellow flat seeds lying therein the root is somewhat great and long with many strings and fibres at it taking fast hold in the ground both leaves stalks and seeds are very bitter while they are green but being dryed they become more pleasant The seed is more oyly than Linseed from whence is pressed forth a whitish oyl very sweet while it is fresh and will not in a long time decay or grow stronger Place and Time It groweth naturally in the Indies and other Eastern Countreys It flowreth in July and the seed is ripe about the end of September Government and Vertues This is an herb of Mars both seed and oyl are of temperature hot and moist near in the second degree and are of a mollifying and dissolving quality The green leaves are fit for fomentations to be used for the eyes to repress inflamations and pains thereof the seeds may be taken inwardly in decoctions or otherwise or used in a glister looseneth the belly the oyl is often used for the same purposes It sticketh in the teeth when it is eaten thereby causing a stinking breath It is said that the Egyptians use the Decoction of the seed for the Cough shortness of breath Eyes inflamed Bellly Cholick Cough Shortness of breath Plurisie and hard swellings of the Liver Mesue saith it lenifieth the roughness or hoarsness of the throat and voice Plurisie Liver Throat Voice and making it clear and free of pain It easeth pains of the head proceeding from the heat of the Sun The decoction of both herb and seeds with some honey is good for women to sit over whose wombs are hard or swollen Womb Hard Courses to bring down Scurf Dandrif Scabs and to bring down their courses and to wash their heads who are troubled with scurf dandrif or dry scabs the herb or seed doth stay vomiting Vomiting taken in an egge the oyl is effectual to anoint the face or any other part of the body to cleanse the skin and to take away Sun-burning Morphew Freckles Sun-burning Sinews shrunk Freckles Morphew Spots or skars or any other deformities of the skin it helps sinews that are shrunk and is good to anoynt any part scalded or burnt The true Sycomore-tree Names Descript Kinds THere are two sorts of this tree the one bearing fruit out of the Body and greater Arms of the tree only the other upon stalks without leaves The first is called in Latine Sycomorus and Ficus Egyptia the Egyptian Fig-tree and is the true Sycomore tree those trees which are vulgarly called Sycamores in England are a kind of Maples Descript 1. This Sycamore groweth to be a very great tree bigger than the Mulberry tree with great Arms and Branches full of round and somewhat long leaves pointed at the ends and dented about the edges very like the leaves of the Mulberry tree but harder and rougher like Fig-leaves this beareth small Figs or fruit and no flower differing in that from all other trees for it putteth forth the fruit out of the very body or trunk of the tree only and the elder branches next to the body and no where else And are very like unto white or wild Figs and of the same bigness but much sweeter and without any kernels therein The whole tree and every part aboundeth with milk if the bark be but gently wounded but if it be cut too deep it yieldeth no milk at all which maketh it to bear three or four times a year new rising out of the places where the old grew The root is solid hard and black and will abide fresh long after it is felled Descript 2. The other Sycamore is called Sycomorus altera ceu Ficus Cypria the Sycamore of Cyprus This groweth to be as big as a Plum-tree or white Poplar-tree the Arms and Branches bearing broad and somewhat round leaves like unto the Elm but very like unto the former This beareth such like fruit as Figs but smaller which rise both from the body and the greater Arms but not as the former but on certain stalks in branches which rise by themselves without any leaves with them and are as sweet as Figs and bear four times every year but not unless they be slit that the milk in them may come forth Place and Time The first chiefly in Egypt Syria and Arabia and other places adjacent The other in Cyprus Caria Rhodes and the neighbouring parts their time you may know by their Descriptions Government and Vertues These are under the particular Influence of Venus The fruit maketh the belly soluble but by its overmuch moisture it troubles the Stomach and giveth but little nourishment The milk that is taken from the tree by gently piercing the bark and afterwards dryed and made into Trochiss and kept in an earthen pot hath a property to dissolve Tumors and soften them and to soder and close together the lips of green wounds Belly soluble Tumors mollified Green wounds The fruit it self being applyed as a plaister worketh the same effect The said dryed milk is good against venemous creatures and the Plague Venemous Creatures Plague Pains in the head Ears Spleen and easeth the pains of the head and Ears and is good to be drunk by those persons that are Splenetick Spikenard Descript Names IT is a Root called Spike because it shooteth up hairy stalks of hairy-like Spikes many set together of a brownish colour the root doth somewhat resemble that of the French Nardus but of a paler blackish colour and without any scent Place It s natural growth is in the East-Indies Government and Vertues It 's Venu's Plant the properties are these It is of a gentle heating drying quality provokes Urine Vrine Fluxes Reds Whites Loathing meat stayeth Fluxes and both the reds and whites in women it takes away the loathing to meat and the gnawing in the stomach Gnawing of the stomach Swellings Stone Kings-Evil helps swellings the Stone in the