6 CULPEPER": ENGLISH PHYsictan, 
an E Ne GLAS Hq Siliicco ‘ites up bith a thick rout alk 
about two feet high, whereon grow thick fat green leaves, not fo large as the Indian, 
round-pointed, and not dented about the edges ; at the tops ftand divers flowers i in. 
green hufks, fcarce above the brims of the hufk, round-pointed alfo, and of a green- 
ifh yellow colour.’ Its feed is not very right, but large, contained i in- great héads, 
The roots perifl every winter, but rife generally of its own fowing. 3 
_ Names. It.is called in Latin petum and nicotiona. - 
“Puace anp Time. Englifh tobacco groweth cosine Winfeomb in Glou- - 
cefterfhire, as delighting i in a fruitful foil ; the other, which we fmoke, eroweth bett dc 
~ in Virginia, and is thence carried to fome parts of Spa and there made up and © 
ariged to us, and named Spanifh tobacco, . gaat oy é3 Fee Jae 
GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. It is a martial plant. Wiss found Gheod exper 
ence to be available to expeétorate tough phlegm from the ftomach, cheft, and lungs; 4 
the juice thereof being made into a fyrup, or the diftilled | water of the herb drunk KS 
} sis ufual, but fafting. : : 
sworms in the ftomach and belly, and cafe th a DE ins i 1 
Kidieys; to eafe pains, ai oa 
WA been crt ne effectui 
teeth white The herb bruifed; and epplicdiial he p! ~ grieved with re Md 
__€vil, helpeth it in nine or ten days effectually, '‘Monardife faith it is a counter-pol- 
: fon for the biting of any venomous creature, the herb alfo being outwardly: ste ! 
: place, The diftilled: ‘water is s often given y E 
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