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ADAM IN EDEN: OR, NATURES 

 PARADISE.* 



He Hiftory of Plants, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers, with 

 their feveral Names, whether Greek, Latin or Englifh ; 

 the places where they grow ; their Defcreptions and 

 Kinds; their times of flourifhing and decreafing; as also 

 their several Signatures, Anatomical appropriations, and 

 particular Phyfical Vertues; Together with neceffary Observations 

 on the seafons of Planting, and gathering of our English Simples 

 with Directions how to preserve them in their compositions or other- 

 wise. A Work of such a Refined and JJjeful Method that the Arts of 

 Phyfick and Chirurgerie are fo clearly laid open, that Apothecaries, 

 Chirurgions, and all other ingenuous Practitioners, may from our 

 own Fields and Gardens, beft agreeing with our Englifh Bodies, 

 on emergent and fudden occafions, compleatly furnifh themfelves with 

 cheap, eafie, and wholfome Cures for any part of the body that is 

 ill-affeaed. 



For the Herbarists greater benefit, there is annexed a Latin and 

 English Table of the several names of Simples; With another more 

 particular Table of the Difeafes, and their Cures, treated of in this 

 fo neceffary a Work. 



By William Coles, Herbarist. 



Then the Lord took the man and put him into the Garden of 

 Eden, Gen. 2. 25. 



London, printed by J. Streater, for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel 

 in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1657. 



* The original is in red and black ink ; see the illustration on the next page. 

 Permission to make this and the other photographs was given by Professor 

 N. L. Britton, the director of the New York Botanical Garden. 



