Robert Turner, BOTANOΓOTIA: The British Physician or the Nature and Virtues of English Plants (1664)
Date
1664
Author
Robert
Turner
Note: 14/10/2005
Lexicon title
An Alphabetical Table of all the Herbs and Plants contained in this Book, with their several Latine Appellations
Book title
BOTANOΓOTIA [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, Times when they flourish, and are most proper to be gathered; their degrees of Temperature, Applications and Vertues, Physical and Astrological Uses, treated of; each Plant appropriated to the several Diseases they cure, and directions for their Medicinal Uses, throughout the whole Body of Man; being most special helps for sudden Accidents, Acute and Chronick Distempers. By means whereof People may gather their own Physick under every Hedge, or in their own Gardens, which may be most conducing to their Health, so that observing the direction in this Book, they may become their own Physicians: For what Climate soever is subject to any particular Disease, in the same Place there grows a Cure. 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
Publication place
London
Printer
Ralph Wood
Publisher
Nathaniel Brook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- herbal
- Latin
- medicine
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Campions, Wilde Lychnis. THere are divers kindes hereof, both wilde and in Gardens; Lynchnis sylvestris purpurea, called red Batchelors Buttons, and Lychnis alba, white Bacchelors Buttons; they are useless in Physick, yet Culpeppers writer will ascribe them at Saturn, and saith, The decoction stayes inward bleedings, and the herb outwardly applyed doth the like, and that being drunk, it provokes Vrine, expells the Gravel and Stone in the Reins and Kidneys, and two drams of the seed drunk in wine, purgeth chollerick humours, helps venomous bitings, and may be effectual for the Plague, and that the herb is useful in old sores, Vlcers, and the like to cleanse and heal them: All this may be true for any thing either he or I know to the contrary. Indeed most of the kindes hereof, except the two first named, are strangers in England, and are onely planted in Gardens for the beauty of the flowers. (p. 77)
sample: Campions, Wilde Lychnis. THere are divers kindes hereof, both wilde and in Gardens; Lynchnis sylvestris purpurea, called red Batchelors Buttons, and Lychnis alba, white Bacchelors Buttons; they are useless in Physick, yet Culpeppers writer will ascribe them at Saturn, and saith, The decoction stayes inward bleedings, and the herb outwardly applyed doth the like, and that being drunk, it provokes Vrine, expells the Gravel and Stone in the Reins and Kidneys, and two drams of the seed drunk in wine, purgeth chollerick humours, helps venomous bitings, and may be effectual for the Plague, and that the herb is useful in old sores, Vlcers, and the like to cleanse and heal them: All this may be true for any thing either he or I know to the contrary. Indeed most of the kindes hereof, except the two first named, are strangers in England, and are onely planted in Gardens for the beauty of the flowers. (p. 77)
Alston
XVII.I.265-66
Wing
T3328
Other editions
1687: Wing T3329 (Alston XVII.I.267)
