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 ...

The Storax-tree.

Kinds, Descript. Names.] THere are accounted three sorts of the Storax tree, whose names shall fol∣low with their Descriptions.

Descript.] 1. The usual Storax-tree called in Latine, Styrax Arbor vulgaris. This Storax-tree groweth very like unto the Quince-tree, both for form and bigness, the leavs also are long and round, and somewhat like but far less; whitish underneath and stiff, the flowers stand both at the joynts with the leaves, and at the ends of the branches consisting of five or six large whitish leavs, like unto those of the Orange-tree, with some threds in the middle, after which come cound berries, set in the cups that the flow∣ers were in before, of the bigness of Hazel-nuts, pointed at the ends, and hoary all over; each standing on a long footstalk, containing within them certain kernels in small shells; This yieldeth a most fragrant sweet Gum, and clear of the colour of brown honey.

Descript.] 2. Storax with Maple-leaves, Styrax folio Aceris. From a round ruggish root covered with a crested or as it were a joynted Bark; come forth out of knots three or five broad leavs, like unto those of the Ma∣ple or Plane-tree, standing on small blackish long stalks, and are divided in three or five parts, full of veins, dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends.

Descript.] 3. Red Storax, called in latine Styrax rubra. This hath formerly by some been thought to be the bark of some kind of tree that went under that name of Storax; But Serapio and Avicen divide Storax into liquida and sicca: by liquida meaning the pure gum flowing from the tree, and not that liquida which we have now adays by that name; and by the

sicca the feces of the expressed oyl, from the fruit; but Calumita is now taken of some to be red Storax.

Place and Time.] The first, groweth in Provence of France, in Italy, Candy, Greece, and some hither parts of Turkey where it yieldeth not gum; but in Syria, Silicia, Pamphylia, Cyprus, and those hotter coun∣treys it groweth much; It flowreth in the Spring, yielding fruit in September.

Government and Virtues.] This is a solar Plant: there is no part of this tree in use with us, but the gum that issueth out of it; It is of tem∣perature hot in the second degree, and dry in the first, it heateth mollifieth and digesteth, and is good for Coughs, Ca∣tarrhes, distillations of Rheums, and hoarsness; It provokes womens courses, and mollifieth the hard∣ness and contractions of the Mother; Pills made with it and a little Turpentine, and taken gently loose∣neth the belly, it resisteth cold poysons, used as a Pes••ary it draweth down the courses and Afterbirth, dropped into the ears it helpeth the singings and noise in them; applyed to the hips joynts or shoul∣ders, afflicted with cold Aches, it resolveth and comforteth much, and is good to be put into baths, for lameness of the joynts, and weariness by travail; It is also good to be put with white Frankincense to perfume those that have Ca∣tarrhes, Rheums, and defluxions from the head to the nose, eyes, or other parts; by casting it on quick coals and holding their heads over the smoak; and to air their night-caps therewith. It dissolveth hard Tumors in any part, as them about the throat, and the Kings-evil.

Notes

• Coughs, Ca∣tarrhes, Rheums Cour∣ses, Mothr, Loosen the bel∣ly, Afterbirth, Ears, cold A∣ches, Lame∣ness.
• Rheums, head, Nose, Eyes.
• Tumors, Kings-Evil.