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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
Publication: London :: Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...,; 1694.
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Subject terms: 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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Wild-Cucumber, in Latin, Cucumis silvestris.

Elaterium is made of the Juice of it pressed out, and inspissated. It purges Flegm and Watery Humours, up∣wards and downwards. It moves the Courses, and kills the Child in the Womb; wherefore it is seldom used; especially, for that it is accompanied with Malignity. 'Tis the most durable of all Juices, for it is supposed to conti∣nue good above an hun∣dred Years. A certain Em∣perick cured several People of Dropsies, by giving them two Pills, of the bigness of a Vetch, made of Wheaten Flower and this Juice: Af∣terwards he washed their Legs with a Lotion, made of the Stalks; and then he gave the Pills again, and so perfected the Cure.