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 powder of the Leaves taken in the distilled Water of Horse-taile or Plan∣tane, which are both good for this distemper, is a singular Remedy for the Rupture or Bursting in Children, and so it doth being drunk in Wine. A Decoction of the Leaves in Wine, or the powder thereof being drunk in the said Liquor, is affir∣med to ease the griping paines of the Bowels, and the Cholick passion, as also of the Mother, if it be injected with a Syringe for the purpose. The Oyle that is made of the Apples, by infusing them in Oyle Olive, is effectuall not onely for inward Wounds or hurts whatsoever, being drunk, but for all outward Wounds that are

fresh and green, to sodder the Lips of them and heale them, as also to dry up the moisture of old and inveterate Ʋlcers, which hinder them from healing, and so cause them to heal quickly. The said Oyle is also very profitable for all pricks or hurts in the Sinewes, as also for Cramps and Convulsions, if the places be therewith anoynted, and to heal Ʋlcers in the Secret parts of Man or Woman, or in Womens Breasts. It gives much ease likewise to Women that are in great extremity of Child∣birth, in taking away the pain of the Wombe, and causing easie deliverance, if it be applyed to the place; and being anoynted upon the Bellies of those Women that are barren, by reason of any superfluous humidity, it causeth them to become fruitful; It cureth the Piles and other paines of the Fundament, if it be applyed with Lint, such as the Chirurgions use: It is of great force to take away either burnings by Fire, or scaldings by Water; it taketh away those blemishes or scarres that re∣main of Wounds and Hurts, being healed, and taketh away the paines of the sting∣ings of Bees and W••spes. The Female is thought to come somewhat neer unto the Male both in temperature and vertues, though the Form be somwhat different.