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 and Signature.

The Leaves of the smal Moonwort, boiled in Red Wine, and drank is an incompa∣rable Medicine to stay the immoderate Fluxe of Womens ordinary Courses, and the Whites also, and being used in the same manner it stayeth bleeding, vomiting and

other Fluxes: It is held to be more availeable for curing of all wounds, both in∣ward and outward, then Adders tongue, though that be an excellent wound herbe also, for it not onely helpeth to take away all bl••ws and bruises, and to consoli∣date all Fractures and Dislocations, but it is also good for Ruptures, yea and for the Cancers of the Breasts, whereof it hath the Signature, as the learned Crollius affirmeth. It is chiefly used by most with other herbs to make Oyles or Balsoms, to heal fresh or green Wounds, and other the aforesaid purposes, for all which it it excellent good. If any ones Faith will give him leave to believe Traditions, there are enough concerning this Plant to exercise it, for it is said, yea and believed by many, that it will open the Locks, wherewith dwelling houses are made fast, if it be put into the Keyhole, as also that it will loosen the Locks, Fetters and Shoos from those Horses feet, that goe on the places where it groweth, and of this Opi∣nion was Master Culpeper. who though he railed against Superstition in others, yet had enough of it himselfe, as may appear by his Story of the Earl of Essex his Horses, which being drawn up in a Body, many of them lost their Shoos upon White downe in Dev••nshire, neer Tiverton, because Moonwort grows upon Heaths. A pretty Conceit if you please to believe it, but I must tell you Mr. Culpeper was very unable to prove that any Moonwort grew there.