Botanologia the Brittish physician, or, the nature and vertues of English plants, exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their several names Greek, Latine, or English, natures, places where they grow ... : by means whereof people may gather their own physick under every hedge ... : with two exact tables, the one of the English and Latine names of the plants, the other of the diseases and names of each plant appropriated to the diseases, with their cures / by Robert Turner.

Orange Tree. Aurantia.

I Shall not describe this fragrant Tree, it being Outlan∣dish, yet may be seen in some English Gardens, though it seldom comes to any perfection here.

Names.] They have been called Aurea mala Hesperidum, and by divers Aurantia; by Dodonaeus, Anarantium, and by Lobel, Malum Aureum: The flowers are called Napha; and the Oyntment made thereof Ʋnguentum ex Naphâ.

Nature and Vertues.] Oranges are not wholly of one tem∣perature; the rinde is hot in the first degree, and dry in the second; and the juyce is cold in the second degree and dry in the first, and the sweeter are more hot then the sowre ones. The peel is very good to warm a cold Stomach, to break Winde, and avoid cold Phlegm from thence; and being condited or preser∣ved, they mend a stinking Breath, help digestion, and strength∣en the Heart and Spirits. The juyce and inner substance is good against Corruptions of the Air, the Plague, and other hot Fe∣vers, and is grateful to the Heart and Mouth of the Sto∣mach, and Strengthens the same; it helps also wambling of the G••••mach, heaviness and trembling of the Heart, restraws

Vomiting, and loathing of meat, and quencheth Thirst: the seeds resist poison and are good to kill and expell Worms: the yntment made of the flowers, is good for a Cough, and to expectorate raw Phlegm, the Stomach being anointed with it. The distilled water of the same flowers is good for perfumes, be∣ing very odoriferous; it is good also to drink against contagi∣ous diseases, and helpeth cold infirmities of the Mother.