William Hughes, The American Physician (1672)
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Date
1672
Author
Book title
The American Physitian; Or, A Treatise Of The Roots, Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, &c. Growing in the English Plantations in America. Describing the Place, Time, Names, Kindes, Temperature, Vertues and Uses of them, either for Diet, Physick, &c.
Publication place
London
Printer
J. C.
Publisher
William Crook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Of Bonniviss. THese Pease grow very tall, being supported, almost in every respect, as our Rouncifals are in England, and are commonly planted in Rows, and run up as they do; but as for the Pease themselves, they are very white (as the other before spoken of were red) and somewhat bigger then them, almost of the small Kidney-bean, but only shorter and thinner. Place. They grow in most Plantations in Jamaica, as also in most other adjacent Islands. Time. They flourish all the year, having Blows, Kids, green Peas and Ripe, growing on them at one and the same time. I never heard it called by any other name then Pisum Indicum, or by the Inhabitants there Bonnivisse, or Bonneviss. Vertues. These Pease are, as to their vertue, much like those that are here fore-mentioned, but are somewhat harder of digestion, yet are very good food, and more pleasant then ours are; they are a little windy, which is the reason, that being eaten too freely, they oppress the head: they are used, in all respects, as the others before-mentioned are; and to expel the Winde, they eat them with red Pepper. (pp. 19-20)
sample: Of Bonniviss. THese Pease grow very tall, being supported, almost in every respect, as our Rouncifals are in England, and are commonly planted in Rows, and run up as they do; but as for the Pease themselves, they are very white (as the other before spoken of were red) and somewhat bigger then them, almost of the small Kidney-bean, but only shorter and thinner. Place. They grow in most Plantations in Jamaica, as also in most other adjacent Islands. Time. They flourish all the year, having Blows, Kids, green Peas and Ripe, growing on them at one and the same time. I never heard it called by any other name then Pisum Indicum, or by the Inhabitants there Bonnivisse, or Bonneviss. Vertues. These Pease are, as to their vertue, much like those that are here fore-mentioned, but are somewhat harder of digestion, yet are very good food, and more pleasant then ours are; they are a little windy, which is the reason, that being eaten too freely, they oppress the head: they are used, in all respects, as the others before-mentioned are; and to expel the Winde, they eat them with red Pepper. (pp. 19-20)
Alston
XVII.I.301
Wing
H3332
