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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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England, New Turk, New ftrf , Pergf'lvania, Wr-
gimlz, and Caroline, inwhich 111?, place lhave found
'it leveral times, travelling through moill, wet, and
Moorifh places. . '.
VI. The Timer. The fitfl begins to Flower in
the end of February, or beginning of March, and
the Leaves appear about the middle or latter end
of Maui), when the Flowers are all gone, and te-
main green all the Summer long ; and for this
caufe it has been thought that Com-foo: had never
born Flowers, as Pliny lib. 26. mp. 6. has hinted.
VII. TlJeQualilier. They are cold and dry in the
, firll Degree -, Appetitive, AIltingent,Traumatick or
Vulnetarv, Pet‘toral, and Analeptick. .
VIII. 11“ be Speeifimtion. They are peculiar agarnll
Cou hs, and Difeafes of the Lungs. ’
DE. The Preparation. You may have therefrom,
I. A liquid Juice. 2. .1171 ,IIEZVe'nec. 3.41.;1 Syrup.
4. A Deeogian- SIACa’iapId nt‘. ‘ "6. D (ELEII’UEJ‘.
7. A Dijlilled Il’ater. 8. Tinder. . ’
. ‘ The Viewer. . ,1
X. The liquid ‘j‘uiee. . .Talten alone, or . fweetned
with Sugar or Honey, ,it’is‘prevalent agairilt Coughs,
Colds, Wheezing, Hoarli-refs, and other Dillempets
ofthe Lungs. Dofe from one to three ounces,Morn-
ing and 1ight at'Bed time :, and at’other times of
the Day, ' the Cough is vehement. , ,r'
XI; 1er Ejenre. It has all=the Virtues of the
Halal. ,, t .- Lib, I.
XVII. The Tinder. It isemade, as Aluttbialm
fays, of the Cotton or white Wool, .which grows
in fome parts of the Root ; the (hid Corton being
cleanfed from the Roots, and bound up hard in Li-
nen Cloths, and boiled iii-Lye for a while ; then
adding fome Salt- etre to it, it is to be dried in the
Sun. This, fays arkimn, is the bell Tinder to
take Fire that ‘cm be, being Iiruck from :1 Flint.
Applied to moill Ulcers,it dries up their Humidities.
C H A P. " CXLVIII.
0f,c 0 L H M 13le E.
I. H E Newer. It is faid to be called in Greek,
. mm, as ('4le thinks fiom Tbkopbmjlm,
1117. 4. cap. 7. and yet fome think the Greek: knew
nothlng at all of it : Daleebmgiw u'pon Atlmmo,
calls it, Alam’yEG', Dio anther, 1. e. Flo: fool's: Fm
bin: (2211471114, in his P ytobqhmer, to whom 0141'”:
gives the gratell approbation, refers it to the
’ldwwv. lfopyrum Didmidis. In Latin, it is cal-
led,-glquilem, Aguilzm, Aquilegid, Aquilegiu Riyal,
Aguzlegm' Stellenz, Leonmji‘ernum Gefneri Herbs
Leanix : and in Englifh, Columbine. z ’
11. T71: 16111:. Authors defcribe many Kinds
Juic ’but more powerful j-,' befides which, it is fin-
gular y good to cure Ulcers of the Lungs, and Sto-
mach, as alfo' the Bloodyflux,’ and Ulcers of the
Bowels, itllops thin Rheums and Dillillations, or
Catarrhsnand helps in Conftmtptions. fDofe'from
one ounce to three, two or three times a day,‘either
alone,- or mixed with the Dillilled Water; ' "g
XII. The Syrupmlt cures Coughsf‘chiel'ly dry
Coughs ; but has an Influence againll‘all' Dillem-
pets of the Breall: and Lungs, being "often taken,
even b fpoonfuls, as alfo with akLiquorice flick.
XI . TbeDeeallian. If it is-made of thegteen
Leaves and Roots, it cures aCough proceedin from
a thin Rheum, and helps Hoarfnefs, you may weeten
it with Sugar or Honey.‘ ‘. , . MJ‘
XIV. The Cueplafm bftbe green Leaver. If it is
made alone, or with Honey, it is good to.abate hot
Inllammations, and Anthonies fire, and to, cute 0-
ther hot excretions of the Skin-,and being‘a'pplicd,
it is good to heal Ulcers, and Other‘oldand run-
nin Sores. ‘ .U‘E 13“
V. The Dryer! Leaver. Taken :33 Tobacco,
they are good lOr thin Rheums, Dillillations and
Counhs: fo alfo the Root taken in like fort, as
Diqj?erider and Galen fay: viz. the Fumes of it,
taken (from burning Coles) into 'the Mouth thro’
.a Funnel ', as 21116 the Fumes of the Laws fo taken
(for l fuppofe the Ancients knew nothing of To-
bacco Pipes, that being a Modern invention; ) the
eEeElually hel fuch as are troubled With fhortne s
ofBruth, an draw their Brmth thick and often.
The Fumes nlfo ripen and‘bmk Apollems of the
Thorax and Lungs, and that without an danger.
XVI. ’Ilze' Dijlilled Water. Ufed 1m 1y of it
Tell, or mixed with Elder-190w!" and igbtflzmle,
.1! .15 a lingular remedy againll all hot Agnes, to
drink two ounces at a time, and to have Cloths
wet therein. and to be 'a plied to the Head and
SIGHT-16h. ’The Ihme applied to hot Swellings, or
“W; Inllarnrnation, does much good, and prevails
againll-Burmngs and Scaldings, and. Anthonies 'fire.
It IS Iingular good alfo to takeaway red Pimples,
Whenls, and other fmall eruptions of the Skin,
which arife through heat, and is proSmble againlt
the inflammation of the Files, and bunting‘hett of
the Privy Parts, cloths being wet therein and applied.
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hereof; but thol'e which we [hall treat of, are thefe
lizven following: I. A nilegia Valgarirnorefmpliei,
The Common Single lumbine. 2. Aguilrgia Vul-
gm: flare. plum, Common Double Columbine.
3. Aquilegw motrfi: Gzrniculis Double inverted‘
.Columbines. 4. 'quuilegia R0 at, .The Role Co-
lumbine. 15.nquilegiaebegener',‘ The Degenerate
Columbine. 6. Mamba”: vel 'I'lmliemm Hifpa‘
mam album 9’ pmb‘pureum, Rum Pagflrir, Rum
Pralenjir, P eudarbn arbarnm, Tufted olumbines,
White and urple. 7. Agurlegia W’rginiznejlore ru-
bemmte pretax, The only: red Columbine of Vice!"
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