CHAP. LXXXI. Of Agnus Castus, or White Willow.
THere growes a certain odorate shrub in hot Countreys about the brinks of Rivers, torrent Channels, and rough places, which they call Agnus Castus, or white Willow, with leafs like
A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodæus, chief physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.
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- A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodæus, chief physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.
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- Renou, Jean de.
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- London :: printed by Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel; and are to be sold by Henry Fletcher at the three gilt Cups neer the west-end of Pauls,
- 1657.
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"A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodæus, chief physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57005.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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Hemp, yet not serrated in their ambient, long, acuminated, and cohaering on one pedicle a piece; its boughs are long, lent, not fragile, its flowers are subpurpureous, verticulately circundating the summities of its surcles; its seed is rotund like Cardamome: it is called Agnus Castus, because its leafs and flowers strewed under one, conduces to their Chastity.
It calefies and siccates notably, validly discussing all flatuosity; it auxiliates in venenate bitings, and affections of the Spleen; it moves flowers, cohibits the motion of sperm, and allayes vene∣reous fancies in the night as well as Rue seed, for which cause the Athenian Matrons in their Feasts to Ceres, the better to custo∣dite their Chastity, strewed their beds with its leafs.
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Vires.