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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Coles, William, 1626-1662.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Streater for Nathaniel Brooke ...,; 1657.
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33771.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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The Names.

THe Mouth challengeth the next place, and it is fit, that that part should especially be regarded, without which others could not subsist. And because Medlars are found to be helpful to many distempers thereof. I begin with that. It is called in Greek, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; in La∣tine, Mespilus, and the fruit 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Mespilum. Dioscorides affirmeth, that this Medlar-Tree is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and so doth Galen, and of divers Sicanion. The fruit of the Neapolitan kind, is called Tricoccos, of the three grains or stones that it hath. The Tree is called in English, the Medlar or Openarse-Tree, and the fruit Medlars and Open-arses.