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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Herbs -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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 7, 2024.
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Solomon's-seal, in La∣tin
Polygomaton,
The Root
is a Finger thick, unequal
and tuberous, with a great
many Fibres, and of a
sweetish Taste. The Stalk
is two or three Foot high,
round, and smells ill if it
be rub'd or cut; it is bent
like a Bow. The Leaves
are placed one above ano∣ther;
they are large, and
like the Leaves of the Lilly
of the Vallies; they are
nervous, and of a shining
dark Green above, of a
grayish Colour underneath.
At the Foot of every Leaf,
almost from the bottom to
the top, hang long, white
and hollow Flowers; and
after them, small, round
Berries, green at first, and
bluish when they are ripe,
wherein are small, stony
Seeds; they are white.
'Tis Astringent, and Vul∣nerary:
It stops all Fluxes;
it cements broken Bones.
And the Root boyl'd in
Wine and drank, is excel∣lent
for Contusions and
Ruptures. Used outward∣ly
it takes off Spots, and
whitens the Skin. Four∣teen
or fifteen of the Ber∣ries
descriptionPage 172
purge Flegm, upwards
and downwards. For the
Whites, take Candied
Roots of Solomon's-seal;
and it is an excellent Re∣medy.
'Tis also counted
good for the Falling-sick∣ness.
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