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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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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"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 1, 2024.
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HArt's-tongue, in La∣tin
Phillitis.
It has
many black, Capillary
Roots. It has six, eight,
or ten long Leaves, nine
Inches, or a Foot long, and
about two Inches broad;
of a curious shining Green
above, below streak'd with
small, and somewhat long,
brownish Marks. The Bot∣toms
of the Leaves are a
little bowed on each side
of the Middle-rib. It smells
strong, and tastes rough.
It grows in moist, stony and
shady Places, especially on
Mountains, and in Wells
and Caves. It grows in
great Abundance by Wal∣berton,
near Arrundel in
Sussex.
'Tis used chiefly in Swel∣lings
of the Spleen, for the
Flux of the Belly, and for
Spitting of Blood. Out∣wardly
applied, it cleanses
Wounds and Ulcers. The
Powder of it is of excellent
use for the Palpitation of
the Heart, for Mother-fits,
and Convulsions, being ta∣ken
in Small Beer, and
Posset-drink. A Conserve
made of the green Leaves,
is used for the same pur∣pose.
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