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.

Common Cinckfoil is held to be effectuall for all the purposes, whereunto Bistort and Tormentill, is applyed; as well for preserving against venomous and in∣fectious Creatures and Diseases, in each respect, as in keeping from putre••action, for binding and restraining Fluxes, either of blood or humours, which are exces∣sive, especially bleeding at the Nose, which it performeth, if the juyce be drunk in Ale, or red Wine, or the Roots or Leaves applyed to the Nose. Some hold, that one Leaf cures a Quotidian, three a Tertian, and four a Quartan, which is a meer whimsey; but the truth is, if you give a scruple of it, (which is twenty grains) at a time, either in White-wine, or White-wine-Vinegar: you shall seldom mis••e the Cure of an Ague in three fits, be it what it will, even to admiration, as Mr. Culpep∣per affirmeth. The juyce hereof drunk about four Ounces at a time, for certain dayes together, cureth the Quinsie, and the yellow Jaundice; and taken for thirty dayes together, cureth the Falling-Sickness. The Roots boyled in milk, and drunk, is a most effectuall Remedy for all Fluxes, either in Man or Woman, whether the whites, reds, or Bloody Flux. The Roots boyled in Vinegar, and the decoction thereof held in the mouth, easeth the pains of the Tooth-ach. The juyce, or de∣coction taken with a little Honey helpeth the hoarsness of the Throat, and is good for the Cough of the Lungs. The distilled water of the Roots and Leaves, is also effectuall to all the purposes aforesaid: and if the hands be often washed therein, and suffered every time to dry of it self, without wiping, it will in short time help the Palsie, or shaking of them.