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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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a dendijb yellow mlor, a: the Stalk: and Leave: nljb
are, of!” which grow hurl]; long, thick and round
birth, in which are contained very many Stair, )2"!
good for nothing 5 but Parkinfon fry, it pw'ijbn
without Seed. -
IV. T72: Placer. Gerard fays, that Brown-Rape is
not to be found any where but where Broom grows.
It may be found In a Brgoinyield at the foot of
Shanna-bill next Landon ; upon Hampjimd-Hmb,
and in feveral other places. But Parkirwm lays,
it grows more often where no Brown grows, am.
by Fields and‘Hedge tides, and upon Heaths , and
other Authors fry, in Girnvjieltl: and Hemplmdr.
V. The Timer. It rifes up, and appears, and is
in its chief perfection in the Month offline.
VI. The Qualities. It is Tom crate in refpe& to
Heat or Cold, Drynei‘s or Moil ute, Aperitive, Ab-
Ileriive, Diuretick, and Vulnetary ;‘Hep3tick, Ne-
phritick, and Alterative. .
VII. The Sptcintation. rIts peculiar property is
to rovoke Urine, and help the Strangury, v
VIII. The Prefarntianr. You may make there-
2. An Imam. ‘3. A
from, I. A liquid fuirr.
5. A Ba] MI.
Dr:ol?ion.> 4. An Infalaled Oil.
6. 1101:4114 In. t
Tl): , WI‘UIEJ‘.
IX. The liquid juice. It is an extraordinary
thing to cure not only green Wounds, but alfo run-
ning Sores, old, filth , tunning‘Ulcers, and malig-
nant Markings out w tfoever. 1 - ;
X. The EJInct. It is thought to‘be as eifeaual
in o ening ObiiruElions of the Reins, llreters and
Bladpder, provoking [kin and expelling Sand, Gtae
rel, Stones, or an Vi cons, Tartarous' ,or Slimy
Matter out of the rinaty pail‘ages, as Broom it (elf.
Dofe three or four ounces at a time, Morning and
Evenin in a. glafs of White Wine.
XI. ghie Dmllion. It has the Virtues of the Ef-
fence, but not all out [0 powerfirl.
XII. The 141an Oil. It ought to be made of
four or five repeated Infufions of the top, Stalks
with the Flowers, Ilrained'fotth and cleared. It is
faid to cleanfe the Skin of all manner of Spots,
Freckles, Lentils, Sun-burning, Tanning. and other
like deformities which rife through heat ofthc’ Sun,
or In erabundan of malign Humors.
XI 1. Tb: Bal all]. It is cleanhng, incarnative,and
healing, and therefore benelicial 'a ainil all forts of
old, putrid, malign, and tunnin ores and Ulcers:
It heals Wounds admirably, an conglutinates their
Li sin a very ihort time. .
- EKIV. The Cataplafm. It is good againil Burnings
and Scaldings, eafes Pain, difculies Swellings and
Contufions, where the Skin 'is‘not broken, and fof-
tens hard Tumors. '“ ,
,C H :A P. Lxxxv11.t.if“
Bani TA ,N N Y.”-
I- H E Nam. I: is called by Plimlilv. no.
v 5419.121: in Greeki'wwdma", Hydrolnpa-
”V” ‘ m 1‘4"”, Laparhnm Sylvcglre langifolmm
”'grm,.Hydr,oIagazbm, Herolapnt Ill)! nigrnm, and
B’ "”71““: in Englilb, "the Wild Black long-lenv’zl
wame‘Mp 9,1314% Ilet’erork, and -Brimnny,
Which hills its mOIl Common Appellation. 1" e - -
II. Tbchindr. The Arabian, Grtelc and Raina”
Authors aiiirm it to be at Species ot'Laparbion or
Darla, which that laborious Boraniii Abrubzin: Mim-
ting. in his famous Herbal, publiihed in Holland, in
Polio, hymn 1696. has fuiiicienrly demonlirated.
And of [his Plant there are two fpecial kinds
1. The European, iimply called Britannica, and Bri:
tannica Antiquarian WM, or Britnnny. 2. The A-
Inmcnn, called by the atorenamed Author, Britan-
nica Amtrltilnl ; and from, Iome of the places Where
It. grows, Britannica Virgizilnnn, American, or Vizgil
mm Brilnmg‘. ‘
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III. This Plant has laycn in the Dark for many
ges, ever lince the Times of the Ancient Ra'mm,
to whom it was well known, and by whom it was
much ufed,‘ as Avian, Diquwrider', Pliny, Galen,
Iginem, Eliza, Ornlmjnr, and others, telliiie,
whereby it is manifeii, that in Ancient times it was
famous-for its cures, which it performed in the’
Roman Armies, which in Brimnny and the Low
Connrrju, they laboured under, being chiefly the
' scurvy, or Scorbutick Diiiempets, as Dianletm’J, or
Fluxes of the Bowels, Pains or Aches, Looi'enefs of
Teeth; [9'22 for which reafon Claudia: (Var carried
it along‘ with him to Ramfordering it to be fpread
' uponthe Pageants ofrhis Triumph, and td be hung
up in the Capitol : And Nero himfelf took care of
it afterwitrdsfor itS'Cult-ute, by Cauiing it (told
Nurii‘. up‘in‘ the Garden: of Rome. ‘But it Eeiris
when theLQo'tbr, and other Barbarous Nutions'overa
run the“Rom&n:Empire, and the greateii part of
Chriliendottt, deilroying andprooting'up jevcp" thing
they tame‘near,’ that thisl’lantwas buried Qr' loll,
in-that UniVEtiil Deliruetioti'bf altnoil ill things, I,
and