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 Roots of some of these be sweet in tast, and therefore eaten in Sallets, either raw, or strewed, as both the greater and smaller ordinary sorts of Rampi∣ons are: yet some of them are not so pleasant, but more astringent, by which quality they are found to be effectuall, not only in all Ulcers of the mouth and Throat, to gargle, and wash them, or for the Uvula, or Palate of the mouth, when it is swollen and fallen down, but for all other Sores, whether in the secret parts of Man or Woman, to be used in a decoction with Honey, Wine, and Al∣lome, or in any other part of the Body; for by the faculty of drying, and binding, they are very profitable for old Sores, to restrain the moyst, and sharp humours, which fret the place, and keep them from healing; and for green Wounds and Cuts, to close up the Lips of them speedily. These are all the Vertues that I find as yet, attributed to the Throat-worts, which though not many, yet are pertinent to our present purpose, which is sufficient.