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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



Lib. i. 





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There is alfo another kind of Poppy which of 

 times is found wild : the ftalks,Ieaues, flours & h ca / 

 are like , but leflc than thofc of the precedent :ft 

 floures are of an ouerworne blewifh purple colour! 

 after which follow heads {hort and round, which vn! 

 der their couer or crowne haue little holes by which 

 the feed may fall out • contrarie to the heads of the 

 former,which are clofe, and open not of themfclues • 

 there is alfo a double one of this kinde. 



% The Place. 



Tbefc kinds of Poppies are fowne in gardens and 

 do afterward come of the fallings of their feed. ' 



fl" The Time. 



They floure moft commonly in Iune, The feed is 

 perfe&ed in Inly and Auguft. 



^j" The Names. 



m Poppy is called of the Grecians pA**: of the La- 

 tines 5 Papauer : the (hops keep the Latinc name : it i$ 



l^ueland^ancop 



3£agfamen 



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B 



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Pauot&nd Oliette, by the Wallons, 

 The garden Poppy which hath blacke feeds,is fur. 

 named ofDioftoriaes, *&* or wilde ; and is as he faith 

 called Mr, becaufe Opium flowes from it : ofPlinjwA 

 the Latines,Papdaer nigrum y whexof there be many va- 

 riable colours, and of great beauty, although of euill 



fmelJ, whereupon our gentlewomen call it loan Sil- 

 uerpin. 



^ The Temperature. 



All the Poppies are cold , as Galen teftifieth in his 

 booke of the faculties of fimple medicines. 



«f[ The Vertues. 



- This feed,as Galen faith in his booke of the faculties of Nourifhments,is good to feafon bread 

 with,but the white is better than the black. He alfo addetb,that the fame is cold and caufeth deep, 

 and yeeldeth no commendable nouriftiment to the body : it is often vfed in comfits/erued at the 

 * table with other junketting difhes. 



The oile which is pre (Ted out of it is pleafant and delightful J tobeeaten,& is taken with bread 

 or any other waies with meat,without any fence of cooling. 



A greater force is in the knobs or heads 3 whichdo fpecially preuaile tomoue flecpe,and toftajf 

 and reprefle diftillations or rheums,and come ncere in force to opiu<m y but more gentle. op*»> J 

 the condenfed juice of Poppy heads,is ftrongeft of all 5 ^Meconium (which is the juice of the beads 

 and leaues) is weaker. Both of them any waies taken cither inwardly, or outwardly applied to toe 

 head, prouoke fleepe. opium fomewhat too plentifully taken doth alfo bring death,as tlinj truly 



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Itmitigatethallkindof painesibutit leaueth behinde it oftentimes a mifchiefetvoi 

 the difeafe it felfe,and that hard to be cured, as a dead pal fie and fucfo like. 



fe than 



affefted 



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ftored. 

 much tWt 



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M kilfc. «.iv.» auu UU111.UHIL ilgtlk v»j. mviv turn. »"•»>. TJl^v* »•■ • .»»»-- . 



pounded of opium to mitigate the cxtreame painesof the eares,bringeth hardnefleof neai \ & 

 Wherefore all thofe medicines and compounds are to bee fliunned that are to be made oi f ' 

 and are not to be vfed but in extteame ncceflitie ; and that is, when no other mitigater or * J^j 

 of paine doth any thing preuaile, as Galen in his third booke of medicin«s,according to the p 

 affeaed, doth euidently declare. .,. . j^. 



The leaues of Poppie boiled in water with a little fugar and drunke,caAife fleepiorit it o 

 led without fugar ,and the head,feet, and temples bathed therewith, it doith efFe&rhe * a ™^ ajn ft 



The heads of Poppie boiled in water with fugar to a fyrrup caufe fleepe , and are good o ^ 

 rheumes and catarrhes that diftil and fall down from the brain into the lungs,ahd eafe tne . 



The green knops of Poppy ftamped with barly racale and a little barrows grcafe, help a. 



fire,called Ignis ft 





