Joseph Blagrave, Blagrave's Supplement or Enlargement to Mr. Nicholas Culpeper's English Physician (1674)

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Date
1674
Author
Book title
Blagrave's Supplement Or Enlargement To Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English Physitian. Containing a Description of the Form, Names, Place, Time, Cœlestial Government, and Virtues, all such Medicinal Plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-Physitian. And supplying the Additional Virtues of such Plants wherein he is defective. Also the Description, Kinds, Names, Place, Time, Nature, Planetary Regiment, Temperature, and Physical Virtues of all such Trees, Herbs, Rroots, Flowers, Fruits, Excrescencies of Plants, Gums, Ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the World, and brought to be sold in our Druggist and Apothecaries shops, with their Dangers and Corrections
Publication place
London
Publisher
Obadiah Blagrave
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • herbal
  • medicine
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: John the Infants herb.
Names] IT is called in Latine Herba Johannis Infantis, and took the name from one Ihan Infanta, an Indian, the son of a Spaniard.
Descript.] It is a small herb growing in the West-Indies, and used, to cure wounds, staunch their bleeding, and helpeth all hurts, pricks, and wounds in the sinewss or any other part of the body; digesting, cleansing, and healing them by laying some of the green herb bruised, thereunto; or wlse the powder of the dryed herb strewed thereon, which is thought to be most effectual. (p. 97)
Alston
XVII.I.310
Wing
B3121
Other editions
1677: Wing B3122 (Alston XVII.I.311)