Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.
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Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.
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Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
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[London] :: Printed by Andrew Sowle,
in the year 1684.
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"Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63791.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Of Squashes.
THese are of a mild gentle nature and operation, being briskly boyled and eaten with Bread, Butter, Vinegar and Salt; they afford a good Nourishment, but not very firm, cool the body, and are quick of Concoction, cleanse the Passages, are good against
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the Obstructions of the breast, gently loosen the belly and purge by urine, especially if a whole Meal be made of them without flesh, and only eaten as aforesaid. They are under the domi∣nion of the Moon and Cancer.
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