The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes.
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The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes.
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Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.
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London :: Printed by J.C. for William Crook ...,
1672.
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"The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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Of Gourds both great and small.
TO give a particular description of them, would be altogether need∣less, it being better done already by se∣veral others that have written of them, which these do very much resemble.
Place.
They grow naturally wilde in Ameri∣ca: in many Plantations they are also planted, and so they are sometimes here.
As for Cowcumbers, Pumpions, Musk-Melons, &c. I will forbear to treat of them, because there is already, in several Herbals, such a description given, as may very well serve to demonstrate what they are; only these are more delicious in taste, and are not so cold, because the Sun doth better concoct them.
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