Salmon j- Herbal. 
Lib. I 
time, bront among ibeje Leaves r 'j'es up one or two 
linked round Stalks, five or fix Inches high, bearing 
at the Tops f moral finall blowers, feme what Jwset, 
and like unto the purple Bears Ear, hanging down 
their Beads, conjifting of Jive finall pointed Leaves 
apiece , of a dark, reddtjh , purple Colour, with a 
white Circle or bottom in the middle , and feme fmall 
threads therein: the blowers being paft, there ap- 
pears finall round Heads , fomewhat longer than any 
of the former kinds of Bears fats, ft opting upright 
upon their finall fdol Stalks, in watch is contained 
fmall, round, and blackijh Seed. 
VI. The Places. The native places of thefe 
Plants are on the Alpine Mountains, and other like 
places, as the Pyrenean : thofei-with tile blew Flower 
and Barrage Leaf, grow on the Mountains in Spain, 
and on that fide the Pyreneans next to Spain, from 
whence they have been Tranlplanted to us, and ate 
only nourifiTd up with us in Gardens. 
VII. The Times. They all Flower in April and 
May ; and their Seed is ripe in the end of Jane, or 
beginning of July : and fometimes they will Flower 
again in the end of Summer, or in Autumn , if the 
Seafon proves moift, rainy, and temperate. As for 
the great variety of thele Flowers, Parkmfon is of 
opinion, that they have tifen from the Seed, accor- 
ding the to differing Climes and Soil in which it has 
been Sowed. 
VIII. The Qualities. They are Temperate in re- 
fpeft of heat or cold ; and dry in the firft Degree. 
They are Cephalick, Neurotick and Atthtitick, Vul- 
nerary, Aftringent, and Alterative. 
IX. The specification. It is a mod admirable 
Vulnerary, as well for Internal as External Wounds. 
X. The Preparations. The Shops keep nothing 
of it Prepared, but you may make therefrom, i. An 
expreffed Liquid Juice. 2. An Infpiffate Juice. 3. 
An Effence. 4. A Decoblion in Wine. 5. An Oil. 
6. An Ointment or Balfam. 7. A Spirituous 
TinSure. 
The Virtues. 
XI. The Expreffed Liquid Juice. Taken inward- 
ly one or two lpoonfuls at a time in a Glafs of Tent 
or Red Wine, it Hops inward Bleedings, and heals 
Wounds in the Stomach and Lungs 1 being fnuff’d 
up the Noftrils it purges the Head and Brain of 
Phlegmatick and Serous Humors, and therefore is 
good againft Epilepfies, Apoplexies, Vertigo’s, Me- 
grims and other Head Difeafes. 
XII. The Infpiffate Juice. DiiTolved in Red Wine, 
and ufed as the former, it is prevalent to all the fame 
Intentions, and againft all the fame Difeafes : be- 
fides it ftrengthens the Stomach to a Miracle, 
XIII. The Effence. It has all the Virtues of the 
Expre ffed Liquid and Infpiffate Juices : befides which 
taken every day from 1. to iij. fpoonfuls in any pro- 
per Wine or other fit Vehicle, it prevails as a Vul- 
nerary potion for the Curing of all forts of new 
Wounds and old Ulcers, and is found to be a lingu- 
lar tiling againft the Palfie, dimnefs of Sight, and 
many other Difeafes of the Head , Brain , and 
Nerves. 
XIV. The DecoBion in Wine. It is Vulnerary 
taken Inwardly, opens ObftruEtions of the Lungs, 
and caufes free breathing, gives eafe in Gripings ot 
the Belly, and the Bloody Flux ; for which Difeafe, 
alfo in a Dianhata, and Lienteria, the Liquid, In- 
fpiffate Junes and Effence are all profitable. 
XV. The Oil. It is made with Sailer Oil by boil- 
ing. it cutes External Wounds, as Cameranus in 
his Bonus Medicus faith, tho’ of the Nerves to a 
Miracle; difeuffes Swellings, eafes pain, and is 
found to be profitable in the Gout whether arifing 
from a hot or cold Caufo. 
XVI. The Balfam. It has the Virtues of the Oil-, 
but more excellent -for the Cure of Wounds than it, 
efpecially of the Nerves; is good againft thebitingsof 
the Sea Hare, and of the Toad ; and refolves Oe- 
dema's. 
XVII. The Spirituous Tinflure. It cures Gripings 
of the Belly, the Dyfentery, Convulfions, Fits of 
the Mother, and other Diftempers of the Womb. 
Dofe j, fpoonful Morning and Evening. 
XVIII. Parkmfon fays the Leaves of Cortufa tall 
a little hot, and if one of them be laid whole, with- 
out bruifing, on the Cheeks of any tender Skinn’d 
W oman, it will raife an Orient Red Colour as if 
fome buftis had been laid on, which will pafs away 
without any manner of hurt, or mark where it 
lay. 
CHAP. LX. 
BEETS Common and White. 
Green 
heet 
common 
I. A T ''HE Names. This Plant is called by the 
i Arabians , Decka , and Calab : by the Greci- 
ans , TJtaof, 10 ’S.cvtkov, ab impulfu quod faeile excref- 
cat , becaufe it comes up in few days after the Sow- 
ing, and then grows very faff till it comes to its big- 
nefs. In Latin, Beta , quoniam jiguram liter# B 
dun/ femine turget refer re videtur , becaufe the figure 
of it being in Seed, is fomwhat like to the Greek 
Letter Beni, as Columella obferves. And in Englijh, 
it is called. Beet, 
II. The Kinds. P)iof corides makes a White and a 
Black : So alfo Theophrajh/s Uift. Plant, lib. 7. chap. 
4. who fays, Candida fapore nigra preeflantior : So 
Pliny , lib. 19. chap. 8. Beta a colore duo genera 
Gr#ci faciunt, nigrum Ef Candidius. Parkinfon is 
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