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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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Chap. ‘113.’ .Ezglzjh Herb. 157
jL’J with it while Pill), 1121;! m7! hollow, near 4 Man’:
height, will) form: and Leave: on them, from the
lawtr fart upward: a goat! mt), but bar: and linked
from thence to the top, when they have jizmll, long,
and round hurls, jbrzcizzg forth a! jz'rjt hm: jel-
lumilb Howerr, which being 911]), 117: Torch-bard or
S Me grow: great”, and am 1]]: with): If a Down)
’beli'am‘t, A] A1 Mildly]; brown, M1 jomelimr: of a
’fJJi I) brown color on ll)! omjr‘dt’, and trbilifl) will)-
in ; fmewbal folid or wrigbly, whirlryn i: in time
[71mm away will) the Wind.
Cabs-tail
IV. Thefirmml dafe'rr nothing from the former,
but m tblr, that it grow: mop; bigb, nor gm”, Il't’
11:7er being raw lzfr lerrtbmz of Ibrfonlic’f-
V. ’IlJL‘ Iltirl Jlfli‘l'r ml from thejc’t'urlj, hm if!
liritrgfrzmll'z'r 1.4er it, in boil) Leaf Ml Stall, rrlu’, '1
are more hard aml Margit; and in the hear! or top,
which injame place: bear: afrzzazlz'erjfilce .zlluvr, the
lawn being greater, with ajilztll dilhm‘e (reticent
thew, (Mrl izjixall Leaf at hollow 0 fl.
VI. The Plrm’r. They grow in Pm]: and [billing
Wotan, and fometimes in rtmzzizzg Sll'rumr, JS alli)
in the middle of marry Dinlm or PWIJJ‘, and
by their Banks and Sides in many places of this
Kingdom. Gerard litys, he found the fmallcr on
prowing in Ditches and Marlhy Grounds in the
lie of Sbtpry, going from Shrrlalld-Hou L' to Horr-
lbum. I have alfo found them growing in many
places in the Fem, and in Moilt and Standing Wa-
- ters in any Grown]: in Cambridgerire, and the
1er 0f Ely. And in the South part of Carolina, at
the head omeno River, in the Marlhes near the
Km Ci! leading into Milqwtdmaluw River, which
are overllowed with every Tide, 1 have found them
growing lenrifully.
VI T1? Timer. They flower in 7111;! and fuly,
and their llritrlr, Torrie: or Mam, are ri e in Au-
g1! 5 but the Down hardly flies away til the end
0 Augltjf, or Month OfSt’plt’Illbt’r.
VIII. The lealilirr. They are cold and dry in
the firli Degree : Altringenr, and very Styprick, Al-
terative, and Analeprick.
IX. The S rrizimrim. The Down is a Specilick
to l’top the b eeding of External Wounds.
17M Preparatizm. You may have, I. The
Down. 2. A Pamltr of if. 3. A Camplgfm.
N Tl): Wrnm'.
XI. The Damn it felf. A lied d to bleeding
Wounds, it refently (tops that bleelging: applied
to running it aerated Kibed Heels, it quickly cures
them: f0 alfo ufed to moili Sores, and running
Ulcers, it drys almoli to a Miracle, imam-ates and
heals. In the FM Quayle: it is [ometimcs‘ufed
to make Beds of; for poor People to lye on. And
mixed with Butter, as a Bait for Rats and Mice, it
kills them by choakin them.
XII, The Ponder o '11): Dawn. Maitlriolm fays,
it is’good to help the bnrfteimefs or Ruptures of
Children, wherein the Inteliines thll down into the
Cods. This others contelt againli, as being danger-
0118 to be taken inwardly, as being rather lit to
lirangl'e than help them, became it choaks Rats and
Mice. But this latter opinion I think to he an lar-
ror, for as it is ufed to choak and kill liars and
Mice-lit, is ufed‘ Whole, and nonin die Ponder,
whereas;'ifit is reducetito a ‘rtery fuhril Ponder, as
Matthialm orders it, it can‘no ways he able to et-
feet any fuch thing This Ponder may be given,
1in Gerard, mixed with Pom!” of Barony, Rant: of
Gladiol, ml Leave: of Horjhozzgue. This is to be
mixed with the Yolk or an Egg, and fo eaten 3 it is
( fa 5 he) a moli perfeEt Remed agarnft Ruptures
in ghildrenmnd mull beAdmini ed every Day fall-
ing, for thirty Days together, one dram at a time:
it not only helps Children and Strrplings, but grown
Men alfo, if in time of their Cure they ule conve-
nient Ligatures or Trullings, and (it proper Eniplaa
(fers upon the grieved place, according to Art; lbw
be. For my part I have had no Experience hereof,
and therefore can fay but little to it, having, I con‘
fefs, hot much Faith in the Prefcript'ion, yet think.
it not of fuch a dangerous confequence, -as.fome
would have it; nor have I any great opinion of
any Internals, given for this kind of Rupture, for
that thofe Medicaments puffing through the law.
[linen can never come aEtuallv t0 the P!” “h“? m
'Wound is,and f0 can do little in order to the Cure.
.Xlll. lb!