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 Temperature.

The Fig-tree is hot and of thin parts; which the milk that issueth from the Leaves and Branches being broken, and the juyce taken from them by press••ing them when they are young, doth plainly declare; being exceeding hot not only biting and sharp, or forcibly cleansing, but even exulcerating and offending the mouths of the Veins; and therefore it is not safe to be taken inwardly. Yea the branches of the Tree are of such an hot temper, that if they be put to boyle with Beef that is hard, it will thereby become tender and soft: the wild Fig-tree and the Milk thereof is more effectuall then that of the manured. The Figs themselves are hot and moist in the second, or almost in the third degree and nourish well; yet the dryed better then the green.