Cuckow-pintle, in La∣tin Arum.
It has a Tube∣rous Root, and sends its Fibres every way into the Earth. The Leaves are
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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"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 May 1, 2024.
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oblong, triangular, smooth at top, and shining below, and have sometimes black Spots upon them. The Taste of the Root and Leaf is very biting. The Stalk is about an Hand high, on the top whereof the naked Pestel comes out, from a long, membranaceous Sheath, and is oblong, and of a dark-purple Colour. The Ber∣ries are of a Vermilion Co∣lour. The Roots, when they are young, yield a Milky Juice.
The Root, especially of that which is spotted, green, or dry, taken to the quan∣tity of a Dram, is an ex∣cellent Remedy for Poyson, and in the Plague. Some add to it the like quantity of Treacle. The Root boyl'd, and mix'd with Hony, cures all Flegma∣tick Humours of the Breast, and is good for an Asthma. It cures Ruptures, and pro∣vokes Urine. Women use the distill'd Water of the Root, to beautifie their Faces; but the Juice of the Root, set in the Sun, is much better. The dried Root is an excellent Medi∣cine for the Scurvy; and is full as effectual in cold Diseases of the Spleen, and Stomach; especially for Wind. The Country-Peo∣ple about Maidstone, in Kent, use the Herb and Root, instead of Soap. The Compound-Powder of Wake-Robin is as fol∣lows: Take of the Roots of Wake-Robin, powder'd, two Ounces; of the Roots of Sweet-smelling Flag, Pimpernel and Saxifrage, each one Ounce; of Crabs-eyes half an Ounce, of Cin∣namon three Drams, of Salt of Wormwood, and Juniper, each one Dram: Make a Powder.