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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Turner, Robert, fl. 1640-1664.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. Wood for Nath. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill,; 1664.
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Subject terms: Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Great Britain.
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Thistles. Carduus.

THough there be many kindes they are all well known.

Names.] The general Latine name of a Thistle is Carduus.

Place and Time.] They grow frequently almost every where, and flower in July and August, the seed ripening soon after.

Nature and Vertues.] Common Thistles are of Tempera∣ture hot, and of a drying quality.

They are held good to provoke Ʋrine, and remedy the stink∣ing smell thereof, and the rank smell of the Arme-pits, and whole body, being boiled in Wine and drunk; and they are said to be good to help a stinking Breath, and to strengthen the Stomach, though I believe it hath been seldom proved: The juyce restores lost hair, the place being bathed therewith, as Pliny reporteth.