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A57004	A medicinal dispensatory, containing the whole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals, the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them : methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions, three books of physical materials galenical and chymical : together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop : accommodated with three useful tables / composed by the illustrious Renodæus ... ; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.; Dispensatorium medicum. English	Renou, Jean de.; Tomlinson, Richard, Apothecary.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1037; ESTC R9609	705,547	914

incided whose flower is spicated the other Meadow-Mint which growes in water brinks whose leafs are hispid hoary and subrotund and flowers spicated as the former both are graveolent yet grateful Mint is useful to cibaries Vires which being young is a very grateful fallet herb but more adult it is more ingrateful and hard it is of a hot nature and very stomachical for its quality is to augment the heat of the ventricle it confirms roboration helps coction discusses flatuosity and cures gripings Sisymbrium hath such cognation with the family of Mints that by culture or neglect it may be transmuted into Mint or Mint into Sisymbrium the Shopmen call it Balsamint the vulgarity Rugged Mint it differs much from Sion or Perula as also from Cardamen or Crescion which they call water-mint for the true Sisymbrium which many call wild Serpil is very like Garden mint but more odorate and latifolious which hath excellent medicinal faculties Diosc C. 155. L. 2. CHAP. XXXVI Of Calaminth THere are three sorts of Culaminth Species the first is familiar with mountains the second challenges affinity with Pennyroyal the third with Menthastrum The first delights in squalid tuberous and montanous places and is called Mountain Calaminth which for its elegant effigies and grateful odour is now cicurated in Gardens as also all kind of Mints to which it responds after a manner both in faculties and nomenclature for Calaminth portends fair Minth and this complex name denotes its nobility The second sort of Calaminth hath leafs like Pennyroyal but sometimes greater whether variegated with spots with whitely purpureous flowers amicting its cubital branches it delights in aprike places and is found in many fields when the segetives are demessed it is also called Nepeta in Dioscorides who yet neither approves nor disapproves of the name The third is like Menthastrum with leafs somewhat longer Caul and Branches greater then the former and yet not so efficacious Dodonaeus exhibited the herb Cattaria instead of this Fuchsius exhibits another much dissident and Dioscorides describes not a Line of Cattaria yet it may justly be referred to the family of Calaminths as having cognation therewith though the herb and faculty hath been unknown by the Ancients It puts forth many quadrate hard caulicles at every knot two hoary leafs like horenound spicated flowers like Mint or Menthastrum it is called Cattaria because Catts delight in eating and playing with its leafs Apothecaries call it Nepeta It calefies and attenuates exceedingly Vires it hath a peculiar faculty in auxiliating the conception and foecundating the womb Yet all Calaminth is of a tenuious substance Vires hot and dry in the third degree it abates gripings kills worms cures the Jaundice educes flowers takes out blew skars cures difficulty of breathing and strenuously digests humours the montanous Calaminth is most efficacious CHAP. XXXVII Of Wormwood THough Absynth be an herb of vulgar dignotion yet scarce two agree in recenseating and describing its Species however letting passe the varieties of opinions we assert that there are three sorts of Wormwood Species the common Wormwood the Santonian Wormwood and the Scriphian Wormwood They erre who say that the common Wormwood differs from the Roman and Pontian and that the Santonian is the Roman Wormwood for the common is the Roman Wormwood so called because it was holy to the vulgarity and because it grew plenteously in the Roman fields and in every old hedge The Pontian is so denominated from Pontus and from its stypticity or astriction That which is called San●onian or rather Xantonian Wormwood is so denominated from a tract where it growes bearing the same name hence some call its seed Sanctum when they should call it Sanctonian seed the whole plant is like common Wormwood but lesser and not so white its seeds are not se many and its flowers are small The third sort which is called Scriphian or Marine Wormwood growes copiously on the Mountain Taurus near Cappadocia the herb is slender like small Suthernwood referted with small seeds subamare and graveolent with some calefaction the whole is so like foeminine Southernwood that they can scarce be discerned each from other Galen saith Vires that all Wormwood participates of an aromatical acrimonious and amare quality but some Gardens afford us vulgar Wormwood no whit amare but sweet distinguished from the Pontian onely in sapour All roborate the stomach help coction and kill Worms whether they be assumed or adhibited See Dioscorides about the differences and qualities of Wormwoods as also Gasparus Bauhinus who published a whole Book of Wormwood CHAP. XXXVIII Of Mugwort THe Species of Mugwort are more then two contrary to the opinion of many for besides the common differences of la●●●lious and tenuifolious there is one marine Mugwort which from one lignous root fruticates in many sarments with lowe and serpentine leafs and if we believe Ruellius and Fuchsius Feverfew and Tansey are Species of Mugwort All Mugworts are Sylvestrian the first whereof is latifolious lacinious and marginally dissected with streight round stria●d bicubital cauls and small flowers like Wormwood it growes by way-sides and oftentimes in the middle of Gardens The second is more tenuious with a small white and graveolent flower The third is also tenuifolious which growes about hedges and water-tracts whose flowers and leafs contrited refer the odour of Marjoram the vulgar is used to the confection of the Artemisian Syrope It was called Artemisia by King Mausolus his Wife whereas before it was called Parthenis Many superstitious people call it St. John's herb wherewith he circumcinged his Loyns on holydayes It calefies in the second degree opens attenuates Vires expells flowers secondines and young and auxlliates many affections of the Uterus CHAP. XXXIX Of Melissa or Balm WIth the same complacency that a Cat is carried to Cattaria is a Bee carried to Apiastrum or Melissophyllon which is a melleous leaf There are many differences hereof for besides that Sylvestrian which is improperly called Melissa by Fuchfius which smells like Cymice the vulgar is most celebrous then the Spanish and then the more peregrine as the Moluccian which comes from the Islands of Molucra Our Melissa is well known it assurges with quadrangular surcles broad rugous and subasperous leafs smelling like Quince-Apple with two prominents betwixt each knot which emit small cups with candicant flowers after which a small blackish seed succeeds The Spanish Melissa is in effigies odour and faculties very like the former but its leafs are lesser not so rigid and green The Moluccian Melissa is twofold the one smooth the other spinous both emitting culms and leafs like ours It calefies in the second degree Vires siccates in the first in insessions it educes flowers and in drink or illition it confers against the bitings of Scorpions spiders and dogs it roborates the head increases the memory and recreates the animal faculties CHAP. XL. Of

from the Alpes where it growes abundantly and spontaneously which is called the Alpian Feverfew which responds to the former in odour and form but is lesse alwayes bearing simple flowers congested on umbells It is hot in the third degree dry in the second it opens Vires incides expurges and potently educes flowers seconds and young ones though dead CHAP. LVII Of Hypericum or St. Johns wort HYpericum commonly called Millefore is a surculous Plant of a cubits altitude with myrtle Leafs but that they are thinner softer more flave and perforated with innumerable pores its flowers are luteous consisting of five leafs shining with a golden nitour after which small long Cods erupt gravidated with small seeds which rubbed smell of Rosin It s root is hard sulcated with many fibres and capillaments its flowers and leafs bruifed emit a certain sanguine humour its flowers macerated in oyl give it a sanguineous tincture It moves urine and flowers cures wounds and Sciatica conduces against the affections of the nerves calefies siccates toborates the nerves and is a good ingredient to vulneraries Many say that Ascyrum Androsaemum and Hypericum are one but they are different plants and of divers forms CHAP. LVIII Of Androsaemum or Peters-wort ANdrosaeme is so called because its succe resembles mans blood it is a fructiferous and ramous plant its surcles are many slender and red its leafs broad and mucronated like Ivy but more tenuious and florid which bruised emit red succe like red wine it hath many wings expanded on both fides of its summity about which there are small luteous flowers its seed is contained in small cups like Poppy seed its hair contrited emits a resinous odour It growes spontaneously in many Woods of Northmany and other incultivated places whose leafs women collect and successefully adhibite to pustuls and almost all cutaneous affections for they have experienced that if it benefit not it will not hurt any part whereunto it is admoved It calefies Vires siccates agglutinates stayes blood cures burnings helps against the Sciatica cohibits wounds adimpleats Ulcers with flesh and cures them two dragms of its seed brayed and taken deduces the chollerick excrements of the belly by stools CHAP. LIX Of Gith or Nigella THere is no small difference betwixt Melanteria and Melanthium for Melanteria is a mineral like Mysius but Melanthium or Gith is a Plant which they call Nigella which assurges like a shrub with slender boughs leafs minutely incided like Coriander leafs and candid flowers on the tops of its branches many hairy tufts and stalks being interposed like green hair whereunto quadrangular heads succeed armed with prominent and reflected cornicles distinguished with membranous covers and gravidated with black angulous acrimonious and odorate seed There is another sort of sative Gith which from the colour of its seed is called Orenge-coloured Gith it is in all things like the former but in its seed There are as many sorts of wild Gith which grow amongst segetives very like the satives and another which is called Pseudo-Melanthium and is enumerated amongst the caereals The first sort of Gith the Shopmen call Nigella Romana though it be scarce at Rome but plentiful in Germany It calefies and siccates potently kills Worms moves flowers helps the orthopnoical dissipates flatuosity and benefits such as are affected with diseases in their Uterus CHAP. LX. Of Hyssope HYssop well known to all is a fruticous plant of a foots length with leafs like Thyme but longer and broader caeruleous flowers whose branches are vested like Spike with a long and lignous root And it is of two sorts one montanous which fruticates spontaneously in dry places the other sative which is for culinary uses nourished in Gardens for it is grateful and affects broth with a delectable sapour and sweet odour Both sorts are hot and dry in the third degree but the domestick especially that which bears white flowers is lesse hot and dry Their faculties according to Dioscorides Galen and Mesue are perstrictive yet all confesse that they much help in diuturnal Coughs and distillations and benefit the suspirious and orthopnoical CHAP. LXI Of Cranes-Bill DIoscorides makes but two sorts of Cranes-bill Species Matthiolus three borrowing the third from Pliny Fuchsius six Dodonaeus eight besides other two described by Fuchsius which he doth but just mention The first emits very lanuginous surcles red from the root leafs like Anemone cut with many and long incisures red flowers after whose occase little heads emerge out of the summities of its branches of the longitude of a needle well representing the bill of a Stork or Crane whence later Writers one while call it Cranes bill another while Storks bill and another while Shephards Needle The second hath small and pilous surcles of half a foot 's longitude with leafs like Mallowes but whiter purpureous flowers on its summities and with heads like Cranes bills they mistake that call it Anemone The third hath pedal geniculated hoary hispid and graveolent surcles with leafs like Chervil red flowers and capitls rostrated like Storks The whole plant is red whence it was of old called Rubel now Rubertian sometimes Robertian or herb Robert The fourth hath lacinated red leafs purpureous flowers and heads rostrated as the former The fifth is called Ranunculus because it bears leafs like frogs its flowers are patulous and subcaeruleous its heads like the former it is twofold the one greater whose flowers are caeruleous the other lesser whose flowers are red The sixth expands slender lanuginous branches small and laciniated leafs purpureous flowers to which the Stork bills succeed There is also a tuberous Storks bill so called from its crasse nodose and tuberous root it luxuriates with many round surcles leafs like Anemone much lacinia red red patulous fair flowers on the tops of its caulicles like little Roses Besides these others are by some enumerated as the montanous Storks bill the Ladies Comb the Doves foot and another which for its suaveolence is called sweet Storks bill which growes copiously in many places in Normandy especially in maritimous tracts some call it the herb Camphorata but they erre for Camphorata is of the family of Ground-pines but I find Southernwood called Camphorata by many for it smells like Camphire For defect of Camphorata suaveolent Storks bill may be substituted in the confection of the unguent Martiatum if both be wanting the first sort of Storks bill may be desumed All of them are indued with the same faculty Vires the Moscative is calefactive nerval and discussive the Rupertian detersive and accommodate to Ulcers CHAP. LXII Of Doronicum or Leopards Bane THat which Mesue calls Doronici Actuarius Carnabadium and it is likely that which Paulus calls Memirem and Matthiolus falsly Aconitum Padalianche we call vulgar Roman Doronicum whereof that Matthiolus might give his opinion he experienced his upon a dogg which by that means dyed I besides the authority of grave men can oppose