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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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xxii INTRODUCTION.
But Saline Tinaures, are generally gtve‘n tn home
Diuretick Degaion, fweetned with Syrup 0] Al-
thea, or of Parjly, Winter Cherrtet, fig. 5. Pott-
dets and Extra&; if foft, are made tnto 13qu5:
with Honey, Pulp of a RqIIed Aft le or Pear, or
fame proper Lohoeh. 6., But grafts, tfjitf
enough to be made into Pillx, (while Recent) are
fwallowed at Pill: by themfelve: : If (kept ttll they
are bdl'd, they will [merely dtUalL'e tn the Body,
but me]? be reduced to a foft Eleliuary. 7.
Trothes, are to he redueed tnto a Pouder, and
made into a Bolus with hotel roper Syrup, or Hos
ney. 8. Lozenges are hcl tn the Mouth, and
. fwallowed down only (ll they melt. 9. Elet‘luzt-
ties are fwallawed either a: a 30195, or dwlped
in fame proper Infujio’n, Deeotlton, or Wine,
fweetned wit home Syrup, Hwy, or Sugar.
10. Pills are fw'allowed y them elves, wafhtng
them down with font: proper dtjitlled Water, In-
fujiort, Deeoflion, Wine, fullelp, PQJH-dflllk,-M‘
Broth. n. Spirits are dulet ed wzthftmepro-
per S yru , or mixt with “Hue fweetne with Sy-
rup, or Vhite Sugar, and j: talten. '12. Poteflate‘s
and Elixirs, are always given tn :2 Gla: of
duleihed Wine. 12'. Oils and Balhms, are alway:
drop! into foft White Sugar, and [a well mixt
with it, then put into a Glaf: “of fame proper
Wine and Ii) drank. ”(Salts E entigl, Elemen-
tary, or Fixt, and Volatil, are generally diyhlved
in pyrite proper diflill’d Water, lnfufion, DeeolIt-
an, or Wine, and dulet'jied with Syrup, Honey, or
Sugar, and [o fwallowed. > 1
V]. THE APPLICATION of Topicks critter;
mls. t. Lotionsare either forBathingin,o‘r for Wafh-
ing old Sore: and Ultert; for Gorgarifmt, for
Sore Mouth: and 172mm or ptr Injetlian: into
Fiflula’:, the Iizrd, or lilhmb, to be' qud with
proper syringet. 2. Oils, they are to be anointed
upon the Part; mfelied, rubbing them well in,
talorning and Night,’ or two or three time: a
‘Day. 3. Ointments and Balfams; thefe may he
anointed withall z, ’alfo they are fired“ upon
Pledge”, and a plied to Green Woun :, Old Iberi-
ning Sore: an Ulcers: 4.. Poudets ; 4 thefetore
either nt‘iixed with f‘t’tm20tntn‘tlent or Bgljitlm, and
a a lie -, or ten y rewe upon t e‘ Vound
gorepapr Ulcer. sf Ernplallets and Cetates,‘ are td
he fpread upon fupple Cloth or Leather, and n
gpplied ft‘m ly upon the naked Tumor, IVound,
are or leer, or laid aver Pledge“, die]? or
arm’d with Balfant, to keep thent on. ‘6.‘Cata-
plafms are put upon Cloth or Leather, to. be ap-
plied to Tumor: and quitemt, to difczdi; jtften
or fuppurate. 7. Clyllets are to be ufed' either
with a Clvjier-Pipe and Bladder, or with a Cl '-
ller-Syring, to force it up the Intellinum‘r‘eaum,
the Anus. . . -
VII. WH E R E NOTE, that Clyllets are either
Anodyn, or Healing, or Purging: If Anodyn,
jhnte choice Opiate is diyblved in it. i f Healing,
they are mixed either with Spirit of Wine, or pm,
OII, Balfatn, or Liquid Rolitt. But if Purging,
they have alway: a proportional quantity of Brown
Sugar inthem, with [one Common Salt -, but no
011 0’ Olly body by any meant, becaufe they oltooyk
blunt the point: of the Satin: Particlee. ‘
. ‘ C H A P. XIII.
Conclulion of the Intro-.
v du6hon.
I. HUS HAVINGgiven 'otc ajhortEx-'
T planetary Introduliion to)o:er HZIory of
Plantr, without the Knowledge efuthieh, t it Work
could not well be underjiood, and upon whirh rin-
ciple: agreot part of the Pral7ife e Ply teh iegund‘
ed and built; the ()bferttotion o whic , if truly a
proliifing aeeording'ta Art, and not a going bond
truer head,'and a doing f thing: at all adventurer,
(L! Empitidis do,- by-which the Life a a Patient
is not only put into Danger, but by fut Empirictl
PraHifer, a thoufand ‘lllijZ'arriogee are daily-corn-
rnitted; to the great prejudice of the Siek, 'and dif-
reputation of the Mediral Arte. ‘ , . ‘ .
112M A N T G R E .A T, thing: have been per-
formed by jimple Medicine: and Pre oration: ; and
by that print: and pinple Prallife, the Qualities and ,
Virtue: (f Simple: were jz‘rlt invejligated or found
out. This too: the fir]? jiep of Art.‘ .A terward:
when the Facultiet and Virtue: of many I ting: were
dtfeovered, the juceeeding Pral7ifer: began to add
one thing to another, which they thought to have
[the Virtuet; believing, that two thing: of equal
firenglh being conjoin’d, the Power and Forte of-
that Medicine muff be doubled; and indeed it Ina--
ny timetfutcecded according to expellation.” ’
III. F R 0 M T H E S E beginningt, Artiji: be-
gan to redouble their hhrcet, and to multi ly Ingre-
diente; ”tithing continually Complex Jompoftti-
ons, and from’vthe belieftgf a' Vis,unim,.‘ta jhrrn
Compounds, whirh i ‘proeef: of many "tiger 'hei
came a Magazine or Store-Haufe, ate it were, to Re-
medte: for all Difeafet; which they Tainted into a
method of Prefcrtptianr, and under proper Tiller,
and parttcular form: of I’reparationt; they made ,
at length a Repolitory %r general Prallife', ionfijt-
tng far a great number t?" Prefrripte, ferving for all
Indtcattont, and jhr t e Cure afthe mu totntnort
and ’retgntrtg Difeafe: ,jr‘which tltey'called by the
name of a Phatmacopdzia' or Difpenlhtory. ’ 7
”L .t If. ’1 ' ’
LIV. ' TH US ‘ IE E Medical Arte, tender tht':
natural and prtmtttve Sim lieity, eontinuedfer Ina-
ny hundred Tears; and o rained the name 1131‘ Hip-
ptoctattcal and Galenical Phyft'ck, without arpv eon-
jiderable or mantfeji advantage, alteration, or ad- '
> vancequeputation; exrept in hunting a Famgo
of not only Compoun , but decompound Reaper,
which being a Hodge-Podge of Complications
tht’d rather. to the Detriment and Reproach of
our, 'Art, than the adding of any Honour of Glory
to II; and thereby reduced the Seiente from Natu-
, fupptyed Learned Men; or
M] and SimpleTEmp'uicifm inlb art Arti t' l I
ReputableAtronuackety: r - l in “4
‘V. THIE ART THUS roanin ten ‘
Labyrinth of Mitfortunee,‘ by tghe ill gratify;
rather Empiricks, he-
gan to link under the Earthen, and indeed would
m a [hart ttnte have been redutedtinto the rntift
profound Myjlery of Empiricifm, or Quacket -
than not patina God, to an; the Light arty-3
ntijiry to Arife and Shine upon ere, by the Mean:
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