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 Ʋertues.

Though the faculty which Camphire hath in extinguishing Venery be deny∣ed by Scaliger, who writes thus. We have certain experience that Camphire doth not extinguish Venery, for saith he, a young Man did the feat lustily, al∣though he had a peece thereof in his hand; He saith also, that he tryed it upon a Bitch that went too proud, to whom he gave, and applyed it all the wayes he could devise, but all in vain, for, Coivit, concepit, peperit; Yet this experience is not sufficient, for when it is said Camphire extinguisheth Lust, it is not so to be understood, as if by one act, or by using it outwardly once or twice it should prevaile, but it is to be often used, both inwardly and outwardly, and then it will be found wonderfull effectuall to that purpose; It is also very a∣vailable for the running of the Reines, and likewise against the Whites in Women, and also for the rising of the Mother, being dissolved in Balme water, by the help of a blanched Almond, without which or some other Oyly or vis∣cous thing, as a Syrupe or the like, it will not, cold water having little or no power to make it relent; It resisteth Putrifaction and Venome, and is therefore frequently used in the time of the Pestilence, both to defend those that are not infected from it, and to expell it from those that are, and to fortify the Heart in that, as well as in Feavers, and all other contagious diseases, being taken either in Electuary, Powder or Potion, &c. It cooles the heat of the Liver and Back, and is good for all manner of inflammations, which it is said to do by accident, in drawing hot vapours and humours away, and so discussing them in the same manner, as Linseed-Oyle, Vernix, and such like, doth cure burning, for of its proper nature, it is held to be altogether hot; It helpeth the paines of the Head, and the heat thereof, if it be mixed with yellow Saunders and Red-Rose Water, and the Temples and Forehead bathed therewith; It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the Nosthrils, if it be smelled to, and refresheth the braine; It is used with good successe against S^t. Anthonies fire, and so it is a∣gainst heat and inflammations of the eyes; It is good in Wounds and Ulcers, to abate the heat in them, and is of much use among Women to beautify their face, and is usefull also for Men that are troubled with heat and Pimples in their

Faces; Being applyed to the Reines or Testicles, with the juyce of Nightshade, it correcteth the Lust of the Flesh when it is inordinate, and is good for single Persons to preserve their chastity; It easeth the pains of the Teeth that are hol∣low, being put thereinto, and for this purpose the Oyl is very excellent; Be∣ing put into a peice of fine Linnen or Taf••ecy, and hanged about the Neck, it cures Agues, especially in Children, and that by a specifick Vertue; It is also good to recover the sense of smelling to those that have lost it, and to preserve from infection in times of contagion; When it is set on fire it will not sudden∣ly quench, though it be cast into Water, and therefore it is used with other things to make Wildfire, as they call it; Notwithstanding the Vertues afore∣said, it is not safely given to such as have weak Heads or Stomacks, or to such as abhor the smell thereof, for it causeth the Head-ach, and taketh away Sleep, neither is it to be given in Cholerick diseases; And when neither of these af∣fects do hinder, 'tis not safe to give above five or six grains of it at the most, except it be in the Pestilence, or such like disease.