HErb Paris, True-Love, or One-berry, in Latin Herba Paris.
The Root is small, knotted, and creep∣ing. The Stalk is pretty thick, round and solid, and about half a Foot high, reddish near the Earth, green above. It has four Leaves, set directly one
The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...
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- The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...
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- Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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- London :: Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...,
- 1694.
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- Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
- Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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against another; they shine under, above they do not; they are somewhat like the Leaf of Night-shade, but broader. It has one Flow∣er, like a Star, compos'd of four small, narrow, long, pointed Leaves, of a yel∣lowish green Colour, hav∣ing four other lesser Leaves lying between them. The Berry is of a black, pur∣plish Colour, full of Juice, and of the bigness of a Grape; having within ma∣ny white Seeds.
The Berries and Leaves are Cooling, and Drying. The Berries are used in∣wardly in the Plague, and Malignant Diseases, and upon being poyson'd. The Leaves are used outward∣ly in Pestilential Buboes, and other hot Tumours, and in old Ulcers.