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.

Matthiolus saith, that the distilled water from the Roots of Sow-bread, snuffed up into the Nostrils, stayeth their bleeding wonderfully; and that if six Ounces of that water be drunk, wich an Ounce of fine Sugar, it will stay the blood that commeth from the breast, stomach or Liver, in a wonderful manner: or if any Vein be broken in them: It purgeth somewhat violently, and therefore it is fit, as he saith, to mix therewith some Mastick, or Nutmeg, or a scruple of Rubarb: by the use whereof many have been holpen of the hardness and swelling of the spleen, which could not be holpen by other things. It easeth also the pains and torments of the Bowels, which we call the Cholick. And if, saith he, the Root hereof be beaten with a few Peach-stone-Kernels, and bitter Almonds, and after laid in sleep in Aqu••vitae for three dayes, a drop or two of the expressed Cream

thereof dropped into the Ears that are deaf, or have much noyse, helpeth them: the juyce mixed with Honey, or Plantain-water, helpeth all sores in the mouth or throat, being gargled therewith, and the Tooth-ach also. The juyce of it o∣peneth the Hemorrhoides or Piles, and strongly moveth to the Stool, being put up in Wooll, and saith Mesues, it avoideth tough Flegme used in a Clister: It is also used with such Medicines, as discuss swellings, Kernels, and other hard knots, in any part of the body: It helpeth also the Pin and Web in the Eyes, be∣ing infused with Honey, as also avoideth it by the Nostrils, and that by snuffing up the juyce, the head and brain is purged from those humours that offend it, the Ach also, and daily pains of it, and the Meagrim. This Plant belongeth to the womb by Signature, and therefore as Theophrastus affirmeth, the fresh Root put into a Cloth, and applyed for a little time, to the secret parts of a Woman, that is in sore and long Travail in Child-birth, helpeth them to an easie and speedy deli∣very▪ but it is dangerous till then, to be medled with, by Women with Child, be∣cause it will make them miscarry. It is profitable for those that have the yellow Jaundice, to drive it forth by sweating, if after the taking of three drams of the Powder in Mead or Honeyed water, they be carefully ordered to sweat: It help∣eth also to cleanse all the deformities or discolourings of the skin, and the Freckles and spots thereof, as well fresh as dry. The Juyce mingled with Vinegar, help∣eth the falling down of the Fundament, if it be anointed therewith. The Juyce of Sow-bread, and the Juyce of Plantane, of each a like quantity, mixed toge∣ther, and Aloes, Myrth, and Olibanum added thereto, stoppeth the bleeding of the Nose, if it be applyed to the Nostrils, and fore-head. And thus I have done with Plants, that are appropriated to the Nose, for the Polypus, and the stopping of blood.