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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	colour_n	flower_n	stalk_n	1,480	5	10.9998	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

a dry substance and hot An Onion all night layd in cold water and drunke killeth wormes and being beaten with salt it draweth away warts by the rootes his juyce put in the eare cureth deafenesse The Leeke groweth almost like Onions and is of Leekes the same qualitie it doth dissolve swellings and congealed The nature of it bloud being applyed like a Plaster Parsley hath leaves like Cicuta it is hot and dry in Parsley the third degree it peirceth and dissolueth provoking The nature of it urine the seede is more effectuall than the herbe It dissolveth the stone it consumeth ill moysture and sores of the head These hearbes following are used for Garlands or physicke some of them smelling sweetly The Violet hath leaves lesser and thinner than Ivie Violet but more blacke his stalke commeth from the midst of his roote beareth a purple flower and a seed full of graynes It springeth in woods and shadowie The nature of it places wilde but not sweete it is cold in the first and moyst in the second and cooleth hot diseases and inflammations Of it there be divers kindes and colours as the Pancey or Harts-ease The Daisie hath leaves somewhat round above and Daysie The nature of it small below and the roote in the ground wheeling about it is cold in the second degree The jelly-Ielly-flower hath sharpe leaves growing like jelly- jelly-Ielly-Flower grasse with flowers of sundry colours it hath an attractive The nature of it force and the juyce healeth wounds in the head Maioram hath almost a woodden stalke with many Maioram The nature of it rough round leaves and it smelleth sweetly It is hot and dry in the fourth degree it is of thin parts and of a disgesting facultie It healeth disgesteth and prouoketh vrine Rosemary is hot and dry in the third degree and Rosemary smelleth like Frankincense It mollifieth disgesteth The nature of it and dryeth Spicknard is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Spicknard The nature of it Lavender heateth and dryeth in the second degree Lavender White Daffodill is hot and dry It is of diverse Daffodill kindes Rose Campion is an hearbe with an Ash coloured Rose Campion stalke as it were cotton long leaved and white bearing purple flowers growing up like the Prim-rose The nature of it his seede is hot and dry almost in the second degree it prevaileth against the stinging of Scorpions Herbes used in medicine are Aromatike or ordinary Aromaticke doe comfort and strengthen the spirits Thence they take their name Saffron is hot in the second and dry in the first degree Saffron it a little bindeth and concocteth it may with good keeping be preserved five yeares The nature of it It comforteth the heart and stomacke it maketh pure bloud and provoketh vrine it scowreth the brest it is deadly if it be taken too much Ginger waxeth greene twise or thrise in the yeare Ginger it heateth in the third and is moyst in the first it is of The nature of it more subtile parts than Pepper Zadury or Wormeseede heateth and dryeth in the Wormeseede second degree it is that we doe call the roote of China like Ginger but not so biting The nature of it Gallingall is the roote of a plant growing in Memphis Gallingall and Syria it groweth like the flouredeluce but with prickes and is broader and thicker from the The nature of it roote It is hot and dry in the third degree as is the roote of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus is an hearbe of India growing Calamus Aromaticus The nature of it like reeds or figs. It is hot and dry in the second degree and a little binding Acorus is a plant growing with leaves like Iris but A corus The nature of it smaller or like segges the roote is white sweetly smelling It is hot and dry in the second degree There be sexes of hearbes as of other living things some of which more helpe namely the Male or Female according to their kindes CHAP. VIII Of humane Creatures MAn is a creature that hath reason as he is most What man it and the manner of his generation excellent so hath he a more perfect shape in body than others His members are formed and beginne to appeare distinctly about the six and twentieth day And they are all perfect in Males at thirty dayes and in Females at 36. dayes About this time the Childe beginneth to live and to feele The Male is moved in the third Month but the Female in the fourth Month then it is nourished and increased till the ninth Month and after the ninth Month when it is growne great it is brought forth This is the forming and procreating of Man for whose sake all other creatures were made A feeling soule is a power apprehending and What a feeling soule is perceiving things placed without the body of living creatures This facultie is exercised by the sences and by motion accompanying the sences The sences are outward or inward The outward onely Sences outward perceiving things present And every one of these have their proper subject and the most have a middle instrument of all which if there bee a certaine mutuall consent and just proportion the sences become of more force but if any one of them have too excellent an object or his instrument bee corrupt they are dull and unfit to be used This is the cause of blindnesse to those that walke in snow and of deafenesse unto Smithes c. Furthermore sences are common to the whole body or proper to some part thereof The Touching sence in the whole body is touching This is a sence by meanes of flesh full of sinewes apprehending tactill qualities His instrument is flesh full of sinewes or rather a nerve like a hayre dispersed throughout the whole body In man for the abundance of nerves is this sence most quicke his meanes is flesh and skin for though the skinne be removed yet a man feeleth hurt Sences of certaine parts are more or lesse noble The nobler are Seeing and Hearing whose meanes are the water Geeing and ayre Sight by the eye perceiveth bright and coloured things The subject thereof is light c. Greene a most temperate colour is most acceptable to the sight His instrument is the nerve Opticke which from the braine commeth to the eyes Hearing is a sence perceiving soundes his instrument Hearing is a little skin in the lowest winding or turning of the eare dry and full of holes the skin is double one below which covereth a little bone like an Anvile another above containing a little bone as it were a small Mallet The upper striken by the soundes striketh the lower and stirreth up the spirits in the nerves to perceive the sound The more un-noble sences are Tasting and Smelling Tasting Tasting apprehendeth tastes His instrument is a

hath The nature of it round red berries upon long stalkes his fruit and leaves are colde and dry in the second degree having power to close The iuyce of the fruit taken helpeth against trembling of the heart inflammations of the bodie but chiefly it helpeth the plague his iuyce with Endive water profitteth to remove specks of the face The Rose groweth up with small twigs of a blacke Rose greene full of crooked prickes his leaves are dented The nature of it on the edge his fruit namely Roses bee of diverse colours All Roses bee colde and dry and helpe both inward and outward affections of the body The juyce sod in Wine helpeth griefes of the head eyes and gums Honey and Rose water strengthen all parts and purge melancholy and fleame sodden with Fennell and Salt his oyle healeth burnings and layed on the forehead taketh away heavinesse and hot sicknesses The funge of wilde Rose trees in powder with wine expelleth the stone Water of Roses helpeth sore eyes comforteth and cooleth the braine it being drunke relieveth the heart and stomacke it keepeth the spirits and naturall heate The Bramble is full of prickes and crawleth about Bramble the leaves of sweete bryer on the one side are white on the other blacke his fruite is the blacke berry full of juyce the berry is dry colde and close His fruit The nature of it leaves or sprouts quench inward heate The top of his leaves sod in Wine stay the bloudie flixe helpe ulcers of the mouth and fasten loose teeth Poterion uva orispa Gooseberries is full of boughs Gooseberries hath ash coloured barke or white full of sharpe thornes his leaves are lesse than ground Ivie and crooked his berries from greene turne to reddish it is cold The nature of it in the first dry in the second degree his greene leaves cure inflammations and apostumes and asswage Ignis sacer Colutea in leafe not unlike to Fengreke hath a Colutea round fruit as big as a Lentle in a puffed shell It is hot The nature of it in the beginning of the second degree and dry in the first it purgeth the panch scoureth away chiefly melancholy The nature of it without trouble from the head braine and the Instruments of the senses Thus farre of Plants growing from a trunke or stalke c. Now follow Herbes which have but a thin small Herbes stalke consisting most upon leaves These doe nourish more or lesse as Corne and Pot-herbes which nourish more Wheate is a kinde of Corne having an eare upon Wheate the blade stuffed with many graynes it is moderately The nature of it hot and dry and of much nourishment and helpefull for many diseases aswell within as without the body the best is hard to breake heavie and of gold colour smooth and groweth in fat ground Leaven of Wheate doth draw ripen and open ulcers and apostumes Bisket profitteth against rheume Barly is cold and dry in the second degree and Barley purgeth His floure and new milke in plaster cure The nature of it Biles and such tumors by easing their paine and drawing forth heate Bread made of it begetteth cold and slimie humours and nourisheth lesse than wheat Barley water maketh the skin faire and smooth Spelte or Zea is of a middle temperature betweene Spelte Wheate and Barly it is a kinde of Wheate and commonly goeth under that name Rye is not so hot as Wheate and hurteth much except Rye it be well disgested Oates are colder than Wheate and of operation almost Oates like Barley Now follow of Pulse Millet Millet is a most fertile Pulse with sharpe leaves broad below and sharpe towardes the toppe his cod hath The nature of it in it a round long fruit It is cold in the first and dry in the third degree It stoppeth the belly and nourisheth but little Rize is smaller than Millet and farre lesse it groweth Rize in moyst and watry places it bindeth Lentells grow like small pease and have a vertue to Lentels binde Pease are either of the field or garden bearing a Pease white ot a purple flower Beanes are meanely colde and moyst inflaming Beanes windie hard to disgest Pot herbes Now follow Pot-herbes Coleworts haue very broad leaves which enclosing Colewortes Their natures one another round about become Cabbedges These be colde and moyst and in Egypt be very bitter The Romanes for the space of six hundred yeares used this onely herbe to cure all diseases His broath expelleth the stone and gravell his leaves applyed by themselves or with the flowers cure inflamations his juyce healeth festred sores it cureth the falling of the haire Broath made of his leaves with an olde Cocke cureth the Collicke and other gripings Spinagh hath an high stalke and beareth sharpe Spinagh seedes his leaves being sharpe and triangular it is The nature of it colde and moyst in the first degree His juyce expelleth hurtfull rheume It mollifieth the belly and cureth hardnesse of the backe and belly His Iuyce taketh away the paine and heate of the stomacke and liver it helpeth the byting of Spiders Lettise hath his leaves gathered into a curled roundnesse Lettise that which groweth in the field hath a shorter stalke and leafe than Garden Lettise being bitter and full of milke It is moderately moyst and colde like Spring water The nature of it it is wholsome in Summer to restore appetite to meate Yet too much of it hurteth the eyes and boyld with womans milke cureth burnings Beetes have two colours the one white the other Beetes blacke and red both of them for their salt disgest and cleanse but the white is more salt and bindeth yet being boyled it looseneth It cureth obstructions of The nature of it the liver especially if it be taken with vineger and mustard It also cureth those that be sicke of the splene Purslaine hath round thicke fat and white leaves Purslaine on the backe a red stalke yellow flowers like a Starre They of the Garden have broad leaves and a thicke stalke the wilde lesser and more leaves It is colde in The nature of it the first and moyst in the second degree it is tart his juyce helpeth a hot stomacke and hot diseases it being somewhat binding helpeth fluxes and evacuations of bloud if it be used with Barly flower Garden Mallowes grow with a round leafe and high Mallowes stalke his flowers be red or white wilde Mallowes mollifie and a little disgest Garden are moyst and The nature of it weaker The decoction of Mallowes drunke cureth on old cough his leaves sod and used with common oyle heale burning The Onion hath a subtile stalke round and hollow Onion arising from a round roote wound about with many fouldings it is hot almost in the fourth degree it is The nature of it of thicke partes his juyce is