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 ...
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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 ...
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Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.
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London :: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave ...,
1674.
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28326.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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Hermo-dactyls.
HErmodactils, are to be reckoned amongst the number of unknown drugs, they being brought into England in abundance, but no Author hath hitherto declared the place or growing thereof, but only Mesne who saith, it is the root of a Mountain herb, whereof some are long and round like a finger, white both without and within; but the Her∣modactils used in shops are not such; they are small and somewhat flat, thick, short, white roots, and some are blackish, which are not good, they are of a firm substance, yet easie to be cut or made into powder and of little or no tast but drying.
Government and Vertues.] They are Solar, hot and dry in the second degree, and are effectual in purging forth flegmatick, slimy and watry humors, from the joints, and therefore good to help the Gout, and other running joint-aches, and is used to good purpose with other things in diet-drinks.
Hermodactils are apt to stir up Windiness and trouble the Stomach,
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but may be corrected with either Ginger, long Pepper, Anniseeds, or Comin.