Pulsatilla.
'Tis a Vul∣nerary Herb. The distill'd Water of it is excellent for cleansing and curing
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 ...
- Author
- Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
- Publication
- 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 1, 2024.
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Page 320
Wounds. The Root of it is much commended by some for a Preservative from the Contagion of the Plague, and against Poy∣sons, and for the Biting of Venomous Creatures, two Drams of it being taken in Wine, 'Tis also mix'd with Antidotes. But Tragus says, that the Root dried, pro∣vokes Sneezing; and that, being chew'd in the Mouth raw, it evacuates Flegm. Which argues, that it is not gentle nor sweetish, as Mat∣thiolus says.