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 Vertues.

The Root of the ordinary Garden sweet Chervill, boyled in the broth where∣in flesh hath been sodden, doth cleanse the breast from flegm, and all corruption, and is very good for such as be lean and weak▪ or falling into a consumption of the Lungs, to make them strong and ••usty. It is likewise good to help the P••isick, if it be boyled but in Beer. Being drunk with Wine, it provoketh Womens Courses, it expelleth the dead Child and After-birth, and purgeth Women after their deliverance; it provoketh Urine, and is good against all venomous bitings. If the Root be sliced, and ••aid to s••eep in White-wine all night, and drunk in the morning with Sugar, it wi••l give the party that taketh it three or four stools. It procureth an appetite to meat, and helpeth to expell wind. The juyce, with Powder of burnt Allom, healeth the Ulcers of the Head and Face; and kill∣eth the Canker in the Mouth or Throat, being annointed therewith. The Can∣did Roots of this Chervill, are held as effectuall as Angelica, to preserve the spi∣rits from infection, in the time of a Plague: as also to warm, and comfort a cold weak stomach. Both Leaves, Seeds and Roots, are so fine and pleasant in Sallets, as there is no Herb comparable unto it, and giveth a better rellish to those it is put with: the Seeds while they are fresh and green, sliced, and put a∣mong other Herbs, make them tast very pleasant: the Root boyled, and eaten with Oyl and Vinegar, or without Oyl, if any one mislike it, doth much please and warm a cold or old stomack, oppressed with flegm or wind, and those that have the Ptisick, and Consumption of the Lungs.

The Lungs and the particular Diseases thereof, being thus spoken to, I shall de∣scend unto the Heart, which is the first thing in a Man that lives, and the last that dies: upon the wel-fare whereof, the wel-fare of all other parts depends, and therefore especially to be provided for, so that I shall muster up a little Regiment of Simples to defend it from those poysonous enemies, which would otherwise assault it, to the en∣dangering of the wh••le Microcosme. And I shall begin with Angelica, because it re∣lates both to that which goes before, and that which comes after.