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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It is called by the Planters Sweet-scent∣ed Pepper, because it hath a very sweet smell; and Pepper, because it is much like ordinary white Pepper, both for co∣lour and smoothness; but the Corns are bigger, and more brittle.

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