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Full Title
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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dz: fpeaks of. It is called in Latin, Alcbimilla, by
melt Writers -, Stellm'a Mallbioli, Lugdunenfr,ffc.
Pu Lewis, and Pam Lem: ;- qufmz, and Dron-
an); Cordi , Sanimlz major, (as much refembling
Sanicle: ) and in Englifb, Ladier-Jllamlt, Liam-
I'bot and Great Sanicle. 4
If, TIM Kindr. Authors make two forts hereof,
via. 1. Alrbimilla me'or vulgaris, Stellaria, Sal-rim-
14 major, Common ladies-Mantle“ 2. Alrbimilla
. mirror, 1151 Alpine quinyuejhlia, Five-leaved Ladies-
Mantle, or Ladies-Mantle cinkfoil-leaved.
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III. The Dei'criptions. The hrji, or Common
V‘ Ladies-Mantle, ha: 4 R00! which is famwhat long
’ land black, with many Fibrt’r, anti String: tbl'l‘t’ll’.
It is fomething like to our Common Sam’cle, having
manyieaves rihng from the Root, ilanding upon
long hairy Foooiialks, being almoit round, but a
little cut in on the edges into eight or ten parts,
more or‘ leis, making it feem like a Star, (whence
the Name Slellaria ) with fo many Corners and
Points, and dented round about, of a light‘green
Color 5 fomething hard in handling; and as if it was
folded or plaited at firii, and then crumpled-1n dr-
vers places, and a little hairy, as the Stalk rs alfo,
,Which rifes up among them, which grows to the
Height of twoor three Feet,‘ with a fewfuch
Leaves thereon, but imaller, and being-weak,” not
able to iland upright, but bends fornetrrnes down to
, the Ground; divided at the top into two or three
.fmall Branches, With fmall yellowrih greenHeads,
and Flowers of a whitiih green Color,‘break1ng out
of them, which being pail, there comes fmall
yellowiih Seed, like unto Poppy Seed. .
IV. The fmmd, or Five-lowed Ladies-Nuntle.
. 1: 1m.- 4 fmll blackjibrom W, from which fprmg
- d few fmaller'and [mother green Leaver, [at upon
, [orig Foot-flalkr, but divided 3: the edges Into live
Corners or Points, and fometbing more deeply dent-
ed about the Brims than the former : from among
which come forth two or three‘fmauweak bending
4‘ Ruptures
Stalks, about fix or feren Inches high. The Flow-
ers which grow at tops, are fmaller, but like to the
other, according to the Bigneis of the Plant, and of
the fame llerby or green Color.
V. The Placer. The Exit grows naturally in ma-
ny Failures and Wood-tides, both in Hartfonllbire
and Wiltjbire; as alfo in Kent, as in Kingzcood near
Ftvz'rjbm, in the Failures nigh Titian”! and Chap-
jlow, and in other places of this Land. Gerard
fays it grows of it felf Wild in divers places, in the
Failures at Antiwar, and in other parts ofHamjgfbire
and Barkjbire, in their Clofes and Co fes, or low
Woods, as ali'o upon the Bank of a oat which
enclofesa Houfe in Bujh , called Baum-Hall, four-
teen Miles from London; and in the Highway from
thence to Warford, a iinall Mile diitant from it.
The fecond grows on Bernardr-Hill in Switzerland,
but is to be found with us only in Gardens.
VI. The Timer. The iirit flowers in May and
farm. The fecond not till Augujl : but they both
abide after Seed-time,land flouriih and keep green
all Winter after, as well as in Summon.
Vii. Thc‘Qualilier. It is hot and dry in the fe-
‘ cond Degree , Abileriive, Aiiringent, Strengthning
and Vulnerary. .
Vlll. The Specifmlian. It is peculiar to flop
Bleeding, whether inward or outward, all Fluxes
of the Bowels in Man or Woman ; and the Whites, ,
or Weaknefs of the Womb. It cures Wounds after
a moii: iingular manner, being one of the molt no-
ble Wound-Herbs, being extolled by the German:
with exceeding great i’raife, who never cure any
Wound, whether inward or outward, but they give
ofvthe DecoE’tion hereof to drink. ' .
IX. Tl]: Preparationr. You may make hereof,
t. A ligaid juice: 2. An Eanu’. 3. A Decayi-
on or Infafon. 4. A Ponder of the Lancet. 5. A
Ba] an: ar' Ointment. 6. A 01mph 22;. 7. A dijlil.
It Water. 8. A Sfiriluom‘ Tinihxrr. 9. Art Add
Tinz’lnre. 10. An Oily Tinfiure. ' ' .
The Virtuer. ' .
X. The liquid juice. It is not (‘9 hot'as that of
Smith, and therefore more lit for thoie Wounds,
which are accom anied with Inflammation, and fo
is more drying, ai ingent, or binding and cleanfing.
It is elleElu'al againil all forts of Bleedings both in-
ward and outward, ilops the Over-flowing of the
Terms in'Women,(and curesrthe Bloody-flux, as
alfo all other Fluxes of the BQWelS. Dofe from
two to four or iix Spoonfuls Morning and Ni ht in
a Glafs of the diililled Water, or in Ale orl ine.
XI. The Ejmce. . It hasall the Virtues of the
former; belides which, it cures Bruifes by Falls or
otherwife, whether inwards or outwards : it heals
of . the Peritomum, as alfo Ruptures of
the Blood-Veilels, which cauie Spitting or Filling
of Blood ; and is a peculiar thing to iiop the Whites
in Women, being eileemed more oweri‘ul for this
Purpofe than moil other things; or which Intenti-.
on it is not only to , be given inwardly. by the
Mouth, but is ‘alfo outwardly to be applied as an
InjeElion up the Womb, wuh a Womb-Syringe.
Dofe three or fours ooniuls in Red Port Wine, or'
fome other proper ehicle, two or three times :1
Da . Inwardly alfo taken, and outwardly applied
to Vomens Breaiis, which are great and over-much
tia , it caui'es them to grow leifer and hard. This
Eiigence being taken for twenty or thirty Days toge-
ther, b fuch Women as are Barren, or have a Slip-
perine s of the Womb, it isfard to mufe them to
Conceive, and to retain the Birth after Conceptlon 5
for that it drys up the too SYWH‘lmlditYa and “05:
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