THE CHELSEA ‘‘ PHYSICKE GARDEN ” 
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physician’s witness—for “if you have a little dog and wish to 
keep it small—you may give it daisies stamped with new butter 
unsalted :”’ and we learn that “ daisies do mitigate all kinde of 
paines, but especially of the joints, and goute,” if they are mixed 
in the same way with unsalted butter. 
‘“‘Snapdragon,” says Gerarde, “ according to Discorides, is the 
herbe that, being hanged about one, preserveth a man from being 
bewitched, and that maketh a man gratious in the sight of the 
people.” Faith can remove mountains: and if such nostrums did 
no good, they very often did no harm. 
The character of the herbal literature did not greatly change 
during the next half-century, and more. In 1664 a certain Robert 
Turner, calling himself ‘‘ Botanologia Studiosus,’’ published the 
‘‘ British Physician,’ with a title even more detailed and verbose 
than his namesake’s and predecessor’s; it set forth ‘‘ the nature 
and vertues of English plants, exactly describing such plants as 
grow naturally in the land with their. several names, Greek, Latin, 
and English, natures, places where they flourish and are most 
proper to be gathered ; their degree of temperature, applications 
and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of; each plant 
appropriated to the several diseases they cure and directions for 
their medicinal use, throughout the whole body of man; _ being 
most special helps for sudden accidents, acute and chronick dis- 
temper. By means of which people may gather their own physick 
under every hedge, or in their own gardens, which may be most 
conducing to their health; so that observing the directions in 
this book, they may become their own physicians, for what climate 
soever is subject to any particular disease, in the same place there 
grows a cure.” 
The punctuation of Turner’s long title is so erratic that, on 
reading it, one is, as it were, breathless before reaching the 
end. 
Ten years after this work appeared one William Langham 
brought out a herbal with a pretty name, ‘‘ The Garden of Health,” 
but it was apparently of the same nature as ‘“‘ The British Phy- 
sician,” and proves that though Evelyn’s various works on horti- 
culture—and notably his “‘ Sylva or a Discourse on Forest Trees ” 
—had awakened in some quarters an intelligent interest in horti- 
culture and kindred sciences, the ordinary herbalist of the 
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