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 Decoction of Ragwort is very much commended to wash the Mouth or Throat, that have Ulcers and Sores therein; and for swellings, hardnesse, or im∣postumations; for it throughly cleanseth and healeth them: as also the Quinsey and the Kings Evill. It doth help to stay Catarrhes, thin Rheums and Defluxions from the Head, into the Eyes, Nose or Lungs. The Juyce is found by continuall experience, to be singular good, both to heal green wounds, and to cleanse and heal all old and filthy Ulcers, as well in the Privities, as in other parts of the Bo∣dy, and inward Wounds and Ulcers also, and stayeth the malignity of fretting or running Cankers, and hollow Fistulaes, not suffering them to spread further. It is much commended also, to help Aches and pains, either in the fleshy parts, or in the Nerve and Sinews: as also the Sciatica, or pain of the Hips, or Huckle∣bone, to bathe the places with the decoction of the Herb, or to anoint them with an Oyntment made of the Herb, bruised and boyled in old Hogs-Suet, with some Mastick and Olibanum in Powder, added unto it, after it is strained forth, and not before; for otherwise it would be to little or no purpose. It is held also to be a certain remedy to help the Staggers in Horses, and upon that account, some call it Stagger-wort, and indeed it is not without a Signature thereof: the unevennesse of the edges of the Leaves, being like unto those uneven motions which Horses make in that Disease.