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 Gum Taramahaca.

Descript.] THis Gum is said to be gathered from a great Tree like a Poplar, that is very sweet having a red fruit or berry, like to those of the Peony.

Virtues.] The Gum is of good use for outward remedies, it serveth most in womens diseases, to retain the Mother* 1.1 in its place by laying a plaister thereof upon the Navel; as also when it riseth up and is ready to strangle them, put some Musk and Amber to it, or a little Civet in the middle of the plaister: This Gum being spread on leather, and applyed to the side or spleen,* 1.2 that is grown hard and windy, dis••olveth the tumors, disperseth the wind, and bringeth much ease and help to the grieved part, and is no less effectual in all tumors pains and torments, in the body or joynts, proceeding of cold raw and windy humors,* 1.3 applyed plaister-wise thereon: To be applyed to the stomach with a third part of Storax, a little Am∣ber-greese, and some wax; is a singular help to strengthen the weakness thereof, to strengthen the brain and memory, as also in all defluxions from the head, it likewise helps the appetite, digestion, and dissolves wind; It helpeth also all running humors and pains in the Arms, shoulders, or any other part of the body; the Joynts likewise, Gout, and Sciatica.

It is of temperature hot almost in the third degree, and dry in the second; the best is pure, and clean without dross, cleer, and some of a whitish brown colour, and more whitish in some parts, of a little quick and sharp scent, and quickly consuming into smoak being cast on quick coals.

Sealed Earth, Terra Sigillata.

Though this be not an Herb, yet because of its singular use in Phy∣sick, I have here set forth whence it comes, and its eminent Virtues; The place of its growth is by all reports, The Isle of Lemnos in the Aegean-Sea; The best fine Bole is very like it; The chiefest ef∣fects of it is to expell Poison, The venome of Ser∣pents; it is good against Lasks and Fluxes,* 1.4 the bitings of a Mad-dog; it wonderfully helpeth old sores, and consolidateth green wounds; The fine bole of Ar∣menia, is found to be very effectual in the Plague; it is also singular good in Lasks, Bloody-fluxes, and spit∣ting

of blood,* 1.5 for the Catarrhe, or defluxion of thin humors, upon the Breast and Lungs, and shortness of breath, and likewise against foul Ulcers of the mouth, lungs, or other parts, and Fistulaes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mother,
• * 1.2

  Spleen, Wind,
• * 1.3

  Tumors, Pains, Joynts, Sto∣mach, Brain, Memory, Dige∣stion, Stomach, Wind, Armes, Joynts, Gouts,
• * 1.4

  Poyson, Ser∣pents, Lasks, Fluxes, Plague, and Bloody-fluxes,
• * 1.5

  Spitting of Blood, Ca∣tarrhes, breath Ʋlcers, Fistu∣laes,