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.

A Decoction of Rest Harrow, made with Vinegar, and gargled in the mouth easeth the Toothach, especially when it cometh of Rheum. The powder of the roots strewed upon the hard callous brims of Ulcers, or the said powder mixed with any other convenient thing and applyed, doth consume the hardnesse, and cause them to heal the better. The powder taken in Wine for many daies together cures the fleshy Rupture, for it consumeth it by little and little. The decoction thereof is effectual to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and other parts, and to help the Jaundise, as also to cure the blind Hemorrhoides or Piles. The ••ender Sprigs or stalks thereof, before they become prickly, are pickled up to be eaten by themselves, or as sawce with meat, and are commended against a stinking breath; and to take away the swell of Wine in them that have drunk too much, and are good for the gravel and stone boyled in Oxymel to the Con∣sumption of the one half, it is a singular drink for the falling Sicknesse. The

Bark that is the Root having the pith between taken out made into powder and taken in Wine provoketh Urine, breaketh the Stone, and driveth it forth, and so do both the husks and seeds, and that by Signature. Croll. Tract. de Signat.