Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...

Squinant.

Kinds Descript. Names.] THere are two sorts of this Squinant, a finer and a coarser; or the true, and a Bastard kind.

Descript.] 1. The finer sweet-smelling Rush. It is also called Camels hay, and Juncus odoratus tenuior, sive schenanthos. This Rush hath many tufts or heads of long Rush-like leaves set thick together, one com∣passing another at the bottom, and shooting forth upwards, the outermost whereof are bigger and grosser than those that grow within, which are of a foot long and better; small round and stiff, or hard, of a quick and spicy taste, somewhat pleasant, and of a fine sweet gentle or soft scent. It bea∣reth divers round hard-joynted stalks, having divers short brownish or purplish husks on the tops, containing within them mossie whitish short threads or hairs, wherein lyeth a chaffy seed; The root is full of long fibres and hath the least scent or taste of any part thereof.

Descript.] 2. The grosser sweet-smelling Rush, in Latine called Jun∣cus odoratus crassior. This groweth in the same manner that the former doth, but is greater in every part thereof; and less sweet, aswell as less sharp, and hot in taste.

Place and Time.] They grow naturally in Arabia, Syria, Mesopo∣tamia, and those tracts of the East countreys; and in some places of Africa. It never flowers in these colder Countreys, if it be here planted, but in those hotter parts it flowreth in the Summer-time.

Government and Vertues.] This Plant is under the dominion of Jupiter in Libra, it discusseth Swellings and Wind, but doth a little trouble the head; It provokes Urine and womens courses, it gently cutteth or breaketh hu∣mours, and digesteth them, and looseth the brea∣thing places of the veins; The decoction of the flow∣ers drunk stayeth the spitting of blood, and helps the griefs of the Lungs Liver Stomach and Reins. The Root is held to be of an astringent property, and is effectual for those that have a loathing to their meat, a dram taken every morning fasting for certain days together, with the like quantity of Pepper; It is good for the Dropsie, Cramps, the decoction is good for women to sit in, that are troubled with the Mother, it allayeth the Inflammations of the Liver Stomach and body; the roots do bind more, and the flowers are

more hot, but in all the parts thereof there is an Astriction; The whole Plant being boyled in the Broth of a Chicken, is helpful to ease the pains of the womb, which women feel after Child-bearing; The powder thereof is good against Sores of the mouth and all creeping Ulcers, and ta∣ken with wine and vinegar is good for those that have an Ulcer in their stomach, if the stomach or belly be foment••d with the decoction thereof, it easeth the pains and taketh away all Inflamations therein.

Notes

• Swellings, Wind, Ʋrine, Womens Cour∣ses, Humours, Spitting blood, Lungs, Liver, stomach, reins, Loathing meat▪ Dropsie, Cramps, Con∣vulsions, Mo∣ther, Liver, Stomach, Body.
• Pains of the womb, Sores of the mouth, Ʋl∣cers.