Chap. 5 6. llngHJh Herbs . 
may be take out of the Head, and keep it in a Glafs 
Bottle clofe flopped, and in a cool place , for it turns 
into Liquor or Spirit with the leaft heat , and fooncr 
than any other Volatile Salt : but you muji have ano- 
ther Head ready to put on in the place of the former, 
pohofe jun 'chtres being well Luted, continue she r edi- 
fication, fo will you have in the Recipient , the reft of 
tlx Volatile Salt Dijfolvcd in a little of the flegm 
( which is the Spirit) and the Volatile Oil , which you 
may feparate and keep a part ; the ufe/efsHcgm, and 
ftinking part of tlx Oil remaining at bottom of the 
Mat rajs. 
XVII. This Volatile Salt of Beans, is a ftrong 
Sudorifick, and One of the moft Subtil and Volatile 
Salts that is, being of the fame ufe with all other 
Volatile Salts. It is good againft Palfies, Cramps, 
Withered Limbs, Epilepfies, Apoplexies, Gouts, 
Rheumatifms, Colicks, and other difeafes of the 
Head, Brain, Womb, Nerves, and Joints. It kills 
Worms, and is admirably good in Fits of the Mo- 
ther. The Spirit is alfo of the fame Virtue. The 
OH, is ftronger, and therefore in outward applicati- 
ons, it may be mixt with Oil of Bitter Almonds, or 
Oil of Ben , and the Stomach and Navel anointed 
with it, for Fits of the Mother. In Difeafes of the 
Brain, alio of the Womb, you may put it up the 
Noftrils. Dofe of the Salt, a gr. vj. ad xij. of the 
Spirit, from xv drops to xxx. or xl. and of the Oil 
a gut. lj. ad vj. all which are to be given in fome, 
proper Vehicle. 
XVlil. The ftrong Broth of the Beans. It is Nu- 
tritive in the higheft Senfe fo far as a Vegetable can 
be Nutritive •, It alfo ftirs up Lull, and is of good 
ufe where there is an Impotency in the Male Kind, 
who have not the power to ufe the hSt of Generati- 
on, by teafon of a weaknefs in the Inftruments of 
Generation, or defe£t of Seed, as it has refpeft either 
to Quantity or Quality. And by realon the Bean, 
( efpecially the Field Kind) lias the Signature of the 
Gians of the Rents, Pythagoras and his Followers 
judged then to provoke Lull, which afterwards by 
multitudes of Experiments and Obfervations, has I 
been confirm’d to us, even from that time to this 
day. This Broth ftrengthens the Bowels and reftores 
Nature, Hopping all forts of tasks and Fluxes of 
the Belly, inveterate Coughs and other Diftempers 
of the Lungs : It is Nephritick andDiuretick, much 
provoking Urine, and therefore is good againft all 
Obftruftions of the Reins and Bladder. If this 
Broth is made for Nutriment fake, it will be necel- 
fary to boil the Beans till they are Broken, and the 
Flowery part of them mixed and as it were diflol- 
ved in the Liquor, which afterwards may be made 
iavory with a little Salt, Juice of an Orange, and a 
bit of fweet Butter. Beans are indeed Flatulent 
(by which property they are faid to ftir up Lull,) yet 
accounted good Food. Nos Trago Subfcribimus re - 
center innoxias ejfe in Cibo, (V bonum fuccum gignere. 
Ray, Hi ft. Plant, lib. 18 . cap. a. 
79 
II. The other is called in Greek K„V©- & 
aamK®- K0K>tiv(& : in Latin, itaba Coccinus Pbafe- 
sS >c SL ms: . andinfi^, the Scarlet Bean. 
III . The Kinds. The Species of the Kidney Bean 
are very many : whofe chief differences confift moft 
m the Colour of the Beans, which every Child is 
able to diftinguifh at Sight, as the White, the Black 
the Red, the Purple, the various Coloured, the Great' 
the Small, &c. as for other Differences, as they 
would be fuperttuous and needlefs, fothey would be 
almoft endlefs. 
IV. The Scarlet Bean is faid to be of two Kinds : 
<• That which Grows and is Common with us in 
England. i. The Indian Downy or Hairy Bean 
which is called Cow Itch, which fee in the Exoticks ’ 
nb. 3. chap. 73. following. 
CHAP. LVr. 
BEANS Kidney and Scarlet. 
I- TPHIi Names. This Plant is called by Hippo- 
X crates, Theophraftus , and moft of the An- 
cient Writers Normov *. lome from the Seed call it 
ASU, 6- AS Cm: others name it a diminitive 
, m D fcondes calleth it 
orys, Asf/ ? : m Latin, Smi/ax Hortenfis, Siliqua, Pha- 
Jeolus : in Arabick, Lubia: in Eng/ifib, Kidney Bean, 
and Garden Kidney Bean. 
Kidney Aeans 
V. The Defcription. It has a long Root with 
many fibres fpringing from it, which perifhes every 
Tear jrom which rifes up at fir ft but one Stalk, 
which afterwards divides it felf into many Arms or 
Branches, every one of them being fo weak, that they 
cannot J'uftain themfelves, but are upheld by Sticks 
or Poles, or other adjacent things, taking hold with 
its c/afping lendrels thereupon, in like manner as 
does Bryony, Hops, and the Vine, otberwife thev 
would lye fruit lefs upon the Ground, from thefe 
Branches grow forth at f ever al places long foot Stalks 
every one of which hits three broad , round, pointed 
Leaves, of a green Colour, growing together by three's 
as in the Common Trefoil : Towards the Tops of the 
Branches come forth divers flowers in form like to 
Peale Bloffoms, which varie and differ in their 
Colours according to the Soil in which they Grow 
fometimes White, Black, Red, fellow. Purple, Pale 
and Various Coloured, for the moft part oj the fame 
Colour the Beans will be of. After which come 
forth long and {lender, flat, ligbtijh green Cods, moftly 
crooked a little, and fome fir ait, in which ere contain- 
ed the Beans, made a/moji in form of a Kidney, Jrat 
and much about the Magnitude of Horfe Beans. 
VI. The Scarlet Bean is a large Plant, but differs 
not much in its manner of growing from the former 
Kidney 
