Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...

The Temperature.

The Garden Beans are with us more used for food, then for Physick, and being boyled whilest they are green and young, they are no contemptib••e food; for e∣ven the better sort of people feed upon them▪ yet they are accounted windy. The Field Beans are in many Countries used with a little Wheat and Rye, to make Bread, and Beer also being mixed with Malt, and may be eaten green; but then they are more windy, then when they are dry; and being dry, they are harder of digestion, though they be boyled, parched, or fryed. Being green, it is cold and moyst, being dry it is cold and dry. They are of a spongy, and light substance, which hath a scouring, or cleansing faculty; for it is plainly seen, that the Meal of Beans cleanseth away the filth of the Skin.