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 ...

Cardamoms.

Names.] THey are called Cardamom, and Grana Paradisi by some, Grains of Paradice.

Descript.] Cardamoms grow upon a small tree, in the East-Indies and Arabia, which beareth the seeds in husks, in which they are brought hither and sold in our shops, for medicinal use.

Government and Vertues.] These seeds called Cardamoms are hot and dry in the third degree, under the dominion of Jupiter; It break∣eth the Stone, and provoketh Urine, and giveth ease to such as make water with pain; it resisteth Poison, and helpeth stingings or bitings of Scorpions or o∣ther Venemous creatures. It is good against the

Falling-Sicknesse, Gripings in the Guts or Bowells; expelleth Wind from the Stomack, and intrails; help∣eth such as are bruised or broken by falls or bruises, those that have loose or weak Sinews, and pains of the Sciatica or Hip-gout; and used with Vinegar it is good against Scabs, and is an ingredient in many of our com∣positions and cordial Antidotes.

Notes

• Stone, Ʋrine Poison, Scorpi∣ons
• Falling-sickness Guts, Wind Bruises, Sinews Sciatica