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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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- IV. The Defcriptions. ,’ Thejidi oerter kind,
but a Root. which 1: a; great Bufh‘o Stringr, fpread.‘
ing in ibe Ground” whereby it i: rangly mated, yet
perifher every Tear sztef it has-give): it: Seed. From
this Root fprings forth one thick, tall, crelled, brown,
red Stalk, four or‘give feetehigh ; from whence
fpring many great broad Leaves, ike to fome of the
other following kinds for, the Form, but much
largergimd redder forI-the' molt part, ..efpec1a11y the
Iowelt," which branches forth into fevetal'lisarts:
from‘ between ‘thei‘e leaves and the Sta or
Branc Esias'zilfo atsthe tops of them, liand long
fpiky, rouhdr'a'nd fomewhat flat Tufts; of a more
teddilh purple color than the firli of'the followmg
Chapter ; and divided ali‘o into divers parts, where-
in, when they are full ripe, are to be feen an innu-
merable company of tvhitheeds,‘ [landing out a-
mong‘tlie’fhorr Thrums, and do ealily fall away
with a little touching. Every'one ‘of thefe white
Seeds has, as it were, a hole half bored thro’
therein. ' - e .
V.’ 'I‘hefewnJ, or Greateli Scarlet Flowergentle,
[hrfa pretty thick long Root, with Jblllt Fibre: ad-
jnining to it, which fiend: up one at: more very great,
thiclt, round, tall Stalk, rather higher and greater
than the molt ordinary greit red Flowergentle, with
f" [ni‘ge great Leaver an it, or rather greater , but
b0th the Stalks and they are of a frefh yellowuh
pale green color, with little or no Rednefs in them
a? all, (and thisis one proper Mark to know this
fort from others, before it comes to flower.) . The
flowers lland at the tops of the Stalks and Branches,
more fpread at the bottom into feveral partszthe
middle being longeft-,,and commonly when it 15 m
the Perfeition,'hanging down like a Tall‘elj the o-
ther parts, like (hotter Spikes, compaliing it round,
Which, even for the Proportion, is very beautiiiil,
Ut‘ much more for the color; which is ofa more
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excellent'bright, i'carlet red; and which being ga- .‘
tlil’CEl in the prime, will hold the color a great
ithilebefore it decays, efpecially if it is kept from
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the Sun and Wind. The Seed encloll‘d in thefc
Tufts, is almoll as white and (mail as the t’ormer,
yet a little redder, whereby the Difference may be
known. .
VI. The Placer. Both thefe were brought to us
firlt out of the my? India, the latter from Brazil,
or fomc other parts of America, where they both
are much ufed, efpecially the Seed. They are all
nurs’d up with us in Gardens -' but. in backward or
cold Years they do not f0 well thrive, becaufe they
love much Hem; yet for the molt part they give us
eve Year ri eSeed.
. V I. The imer. They beat their fpiky Flowers
in fuh: and Auguft‘, and yield their ripe Seed in Au.
guj? or September. ' '
VIII. The Qualitier. They are temperate in re-
f eft to Heat or Cold, and dry in the titlt Degree;
llringent, Repercufhve, Hyiterick, Arthritick and
Antemmenagogick.
1X. The S eafmion. They are peculiar for
gpgggng all otts of Fluxes, efpecially Fluxes of
X. The Preparatienr. You may have thereiiom,
I. A juice or 502m. 2. A DecoEion in Red Port
Wine. 3. The Seed, or Pouder theretf. 4. A (21-
taplafm of the Leaver.
The Virtuer.
I;
- . XI. 77;: 1; ”1'21 yui'c‘e’mg rm, or 5mm if
the fame. It ave. made many Ex eriments of the
Virtues of this Plant upon feveralpof my Patients,
who have been troubled with Fluxes of the Bowels,
Bloodleuxes, Spitting and Filling of Blood, as 21L
fo the overflowing of the Terms : I haVe given the
Juice or Eilence of the fame to three or four Spoon-
fuls at,‘a time in" Glafs of Red Port, or fome other
proper Vehicle, as Smiths-forge Water, 87:. and
have found it abundantly to‘anfwer my ExpeEiation
in “the Cure of the aforenamed Difeiies ; and I am
Iii-tidied, that fometimes, and upon fome Patients,
it has done as much as any Vegetable can do: but I
ave it Morning and Night, and fometimes alfo at
con, and continued the Life thereof for feveral
da "5.
hill. The Daemon in Red Part Wine. It has all
the Virtues of the liquid Juice and Ellence, but is
not hill out to eilicacioust yet it is fomewhat more
plwl‘ant to be taken, and maybe given from three
to fix Ounces at a time, Morning, Noon and Night.
Given C1 Iterwihein‘any vehement Flux of the Bel-
l , as allil) in a Bloody-flux, andgin a Tenafmus, it
ilops the dime; heals the Guts, and Ilrengthens the
Part afflicted : but it ought to be .feveral‘ times re-
peated, actbrdiug as the Neccflity orpccaliOn may
re uire.; 3:4" x .
XII, The Seed, . or Fowler therecf. It may be
given from half a Dram to a Dram at a. time in a
,Glafs of Wine, Morning and Night, againii aul'e-
'oui‘nefs or Vomiting, Weaknefs of the Bowels,
Bloody-flux, Hepatickd'lux, and all other forts of
Fluxes. If there is any Corrofion of the Guts, it
heals it, (tops the Hint of Humors to the Part, and
reliores the Tone thereof, if hurt or depraved.
XIV.’The Camplayin of the Leaver. It repercuf-
fes Humors, flops F uxions to any Part, eafes Pains,
and prevails much againll the Gout : but in this,
hit Cab: it will be fo much the better, if an equal
quantity of green Comfrey Roots be added and beat-
en up with it.
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