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 April 30, 2024.
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Staechas.
It grows
plentifully about Montpe∣liar.
It heals and dries, is
Diuretick and Vulnerary.
'Tis chiefly used for Ob∣structions
of the Urine,
Liver, Spleen and Courses.
It resolves Coagulated
Blood, it dries Catarrhs,
and kills Worms being ta∣ken
in Wine. 'Tis also
commended for drying up
sharp Defluxions of the
Lungs. 'Tis used outward∣ly
to mollifie hard Swel∣lings
of the Womb, in Fo∣mentations.
It dries and
discusses Defluxions of the
Head, the Herb being
burnt and smelt to. Mat∣thiolus
says, that the whole
Herb cures all Diseases of
the Brain proceeding from
a cold Cause; namely,
Flegmatick Fluxions, Pains
of the Head, the Falling-Sickness,
the Palsie, and the
like. Syrup of Staechas of
the London-Dispensatory is
made in the following man∣ner:
Take of the Flowers
of Staechas four Ounces, of
Rosemary half an Ounce,
of the Herb Thyme, Cala∣mint
and Origanum, each
an Ounce and an half; of
Sage and Betony, each half
an Ounce; of the Seeds of
Rue, Peony and Fennel,
each three Drams, digest
them a Day or two in
B. M. in a sufficient quan∣tity
of warm Fountain-wa∣ter;
strain it out, and to
five Pints of the strain'd
Liquor add five Pounds and
an half of Fine Sugar:
Make a Syrup according
to Art in B. M. add some
Drops of Oyl of Cinna∣mon.
This Syrup is fre∣quently
made use of in Dis∣eases
of the Head.
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