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 ...

Chiches, or Chich-pease, in Latin Cicer sativum.

Chich-pease are three-fold, White, Red, and Black. The Ancients commonly fed upon them, as do the Italians now at this Day. They eat them raw, as well as boyl'd; but they are best boyl'd, and when they are green, as are Pease and Beans, but they are windy. They provoke Ve∣nery; they cleanse, open, incide, digest, provoke U∣rine, and lessen the Stone; but they hurt the Bladder when it is ulcerated. They gently move the Belly. The Broth of them doth good in the Jaundice. A Decoction of them kills Worms, moves the Cour∣ses, expels the Child, and breeds Milk. In Cata∣plasms they cure the Swel∣lings under the Ears, called Parotides, and Inflamma∣tions of the Testicles, and Malignant Ulcers. We most commonly make use of them only in Difficulty of Urine: But Practitio∣ners should take care that they do not use them too often to those that have Ul∣cers in those Parts. They

are sown every where in Italy, Spain and France. Take of the Root of Li∣quorish four Scruples, of Marsh-mallows, Grass and Rest-harrow, each half an Ounce; of the Berries of Winter-Cherries, number Twenty, of Red Chick-pease four Ounces, of Cur∣rants one Ounce, of the four greater Cold Seeds one Scruple, of Barly two Handfuls; boyl them in the Water of Winter-Cher∣ries, Rest-harrow, Straw∣berries, and Flowers of Beans, each one Pint and on half; to the strain'd Li∣quor add four Ounces of the Syrup of Marsh-mal∣lows. A Person that was grievously afflicted with the Stone in the Bladder, was much reliev'd by ta∣king of this Decoction dai∣ly, for the space of seven∣teen Weeks.