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_Obstructions_, 16
_Ocimum_, 7

Olera, _what properly, how distinguish'd from Acetaria_, 1, 2

Oluscula, 4

_Onion_, 31;
_What vast Quantities spent in_ Egypt, 32

_Opening_, 16

Orach, 32

_Orange_, 23

Ornithogallon, 48

Oxalis, 42

Oxylapathum, 15

_Oyl, how to choose_, 63;
_Its diffusive Nature_, 69


P.

_Painters_, 50

_Palpitation_, 47

_Palsie_, 30

_Panacea_, 10

Paradisian _Entertainment_, 122

Paralysis, 13

_Parsnip_, 33

Pastinaca Sativa, 11

_Patriarchs_, 93;
_Their Long Lives a Shadow of Eternity_, 96

_Peach said to be Poison in_ Persia, _a Fable_, 87

_Peas_, 33

_Pectorals_, 58

_Pepper_, 33;
_Beaten too small, hurtful to the Stomach_, 34

_Persly_, 35;
_Sacred to the Defunct_, ib.

_Philosophers_, 56

_Phlegm_, 30

_Pickle_, 72;
_What Sallet Plants proper for Pickles_, ib., _vide Appendix_.

_Pig-Nuts_, 28

_Pimpernel_, 9

_Plants, their Vertue_, 59;
_Variety_, 114;
_Nourishment_, 83;
_No living at all without them_, 110;
_Plants infect by looking on_, 57;
_When in prime_, 71;
_how altered by the Soil and Culture_, 84;
_Not degenerated since the Flood_, 105

Platonic _Tables_, 97

_Pleurisie_, 81

_Poiverade_, 7

_Poppy_, 48

Porrum, 20

Postdiluvians, 93

_Potage_, 5

Potagere, 119

_Pot-Herbs_, 19

_Poyson_, 18

_Præcoce Plants not so wholsome artificially rais'd_, 85

_Preparation to the dressing of Sallets_, 10

_Prodigal_, 61

_Pugil_, 70

_Punishment_, 18

_Purslan_, 36

_Putrefaction_, 33

Pythagoras, 97


Q.

_Quality and Vertue of Plants_, 53. _See Plants_.


R.

_Radish_, 37;
_of Gold dedicated at_ Delphi, 37;
Moschius _wrote a whole Volume in praise of them_, ib.;
Hippocrates _condemns them_, ib.

Raphanus Rusticanus _Horse Radish_, 38

Radix Lunaria, 48;
Personata, 49

Ragout, 28

_Rampion_, 39

_Rapum_, 46

_Ray, Mr._, 55

_Refreshing_, 13

_Restaurative_, 5

_Rocket_, 39

_Roccombo_, 18

Roman _Sallet_, 112;
_Lux_, 115

_Rosemary_, 39

_Roots_, 37

_Rhue_, 49


S.


_Saffron_, 68

_Sage_, 39

_Sallets, what, how improved, whence so called_, 3;
_Ingredients_, 4;
_Variety and Store above what the Ancients had_, 112;
_Bills of Fare_, 112;
_Skill in choosing, gathering, composing and dressing_, 48;
_found in the Crops of Foul_, 62;
_what formerly in use, now abdicated_, 49;
_extemporary Sallets_, 87;
_Whether best to begin or conclude with Sallets_, 73

Salade de Preter, 13

_Salt_, 64;
_What best for Sallets_, 64;
_Salts Essential, and of Vegetables_, 65

Sambucus, 16

_Sampier_, 40

_Sanguine_, 36

Sarcophagists, 56

_Sauce_, 39

_Savoys_, 11

_Scallions_, 41

Scorbute, vide _Scurvy_.

_Scurvy-Grass_, 41

_Scurvy_, 9

_Season_, 71

_Seasoning_, 79, vide _Sallet_.

Sedum minus, 45, _vide_ Stone-Crop.

_Sellery_, 41

Seneca, 98

_Shambles_, 77

_Sight_, 50, vide _Eyes_.

Silphium, 50;
_How precious and sacred_, 51

_Simples_, 49

_Sinapi_, 30

_Sisarum_, 42

_Skirrits_, ib.

_Sleep, to procure_, 21

_Smallage_, 41

_Smut in Wheat_, 86

Syrenium Vulgare, 5

_Snails, safe Tasters_, 56

_Sonchus_, 43

_Sordidness_, 87

_Sorrel_, 42

_Sow-thistle_, vide Sonchus.

_Specificks, few yet discovered_, 83

_Spleen_, 10

_Spinach_, 12

_Spirits, cherishing and reviving_, 9

_Spring_, 71

_Stomach_, 16

_Stone_, 9

_Stone-Crop_, 44

_Strowings_, 67

_Students_, 9

_Succory_, 44

_Sugar_, 14

_Summer_, 84

_Sumptuary Laws_, 116

_Swearing_ per Brassicam, 11

_Swine used to find out Truffles and Earth-Nuts_, 28


T.

_Table of Species, Culture, Proportion and dressing of Sallets,
according to the Season_, 70

Tacitus, _Emp. Temperance_, 21

_Tansie_, 44

_Tarragon_, 45

_Taste should be exquisite in the Composer of Sallets_, 60

_Tea_, 17, vide Appendix.

_Temper_, 81

_Temperance_, 21

_Teeth_, 37

Theriacle, _vide Garlick_.

_Thirst, to asswage_, 33

_Thistle_, 45

_Thyme_, 19, vide _Pot-herbs_.

Tiberius Cæs., 42

Tragopogon, 47

_Transmigration_, 56

_Tribute paid to Roots_, 42

Truffles, 28

Tubera, 28

_Tulip eaten that cost_ 100 _l._, 47

Turiones, 9

_Turnip_, 46;
_Made a Fish_, 113


V.

_Vapours to repress_, 21

_Variety necessary and proper_, 92

_Ventricle_, 20, vide _Stomach_.

_Vine_, 47

_Vinegar_, 63; vide Appendix.

_Viper-Grass_, 47

_Vertues of Sallet Plants and Furniture_, 57;
_Consist in the several and different Parts of the same Plant_, 49

Voluptuaria Venena, 28


U.

Urtica, 30


W.

_Welsh, prolifick_, 20

_Wind_, 17

_Wine_, 7; vide _Appendix_.

_Winter Sallets_, 7; vide _Appendix_.

_Wood-Sorrel_, 47

_Worms in Fennel, and Sellery_, 17

_Wormwood_, 49


Y.

_Youth to preserve_, 85


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FOOTNOTES


[Footnote 1: _Lord Viscount_ Brouncker, _Chancellor to the Late Qu.
Consort, now_ Dowager. _The Right Honourable_ Cha. Montague, _Esq;
Chancellor of the_ Exchequer.]

[Footnote 2: _Si quid temporis à civilibus negotiis quibis totum jam
intenderat animum, suffurari potuit, colendis agris, priscos illos
Romanos_ Numam Pompilium, Cincinnatum, Catonem, Fabios, Cicerones,
_aliosque virtute claros viros imitare; qui in magno honore constituti,
vites putare, stercorare agros, & irrigare nequaquam turpe & inhone stum
putarunt_. In Vit. _Plin._ 2.]

[Footnote 3: Ut hujusmodi historiam vix dum incohatum, non ante
absolvendam putem.

Exitio terras quam dabit una dies. _D. Raius_ Praefat. Hist. Plan.]

[Footnote 4: Olera a frigidis distinct. _See_ Spartianus in Pescennio.
Salmas. in Jul. Capitolin.]

[Footnote 5:

Panis erat primis virides mortalibus Herbae;
Quas tellus nullo sollicitante dabat.
Et modo carpebant vivaci cespite gramen;
Nunc epulæ tenera fronde cacumen erant.

Ovid, Fastor. IV.]

[Footnote 6: [Greek: kaloumen gar lachana ta ôros tên hêmeneran
chreian], Theophrast. Plant. 1. VII. cap. 7.]

[Footnote 7: Gen. I. 29.]

[Footnote 8: Plutarch Sympos.]

[Footnote 9: Salmas. in Solin. _against_ Hieron. Mercurialis.]

[Footnote 10: Galen. 2R. Aliment. cap. l. Et Simp. Medic. Averroes, lib.
V. Golloc.]

[Footnote 11: Plin. lib. XIX. c. 4.]

[Footnote 12: Convictus facilis, fine arte mensa. Mart. Ep. 74.]

[Footnote 13: [Greek: Apuron trophui], _which_ Suidas _calls_ [Greek:
lachana], Olera quæ cruda sumuntur ex Aceto. Harduin in loc.]

[Footnote 14: Plin. H. Nat. _lib. xix. cap. 8._]

[Footnote 15: _De_ R.R. _cap. clvii_.]

[Footnote 16: [Greek: 'Ephthos, dosikuos, apalos, aluôs, ourêtikos].
Athen.]

[Footnote 17: Cucumis elixus delicatior, innocentior. Athenæus.]

[Footnote 18: Eubulus.]

[Footnote 19: In Lactuca occultatum à Venere Adonin cecinit
_Callimachus_, quod Allegoricè interpretatus _Athenæus_ illuc referendum
putat, quod in Venerem hebetiores fiant Lactucis vescentes assiduè.]

[Footnote 20: Apud Sueton.]

[Footnote 21: Vopiseus Tacit. _For the rest both of the Kinds and
Vertues_ of Lettuce, _See_ Plin. H. Nat. _l. xix. c. 8. and xx. c. 7_.
Fernel. &c.]

[Footnote 22: De Legib.]

[Footnote 23: _Hor_. Epod. II.]

[Footnote 24: De Simp. Medic. L. vii.]

[Footnote 25: _Lib._ ii. _cap._ 3.]

[Footnote 26: Exoneraturas Ventrem mihi Villica Malvas Attulit, &
varias, quas habet hortus, Opes.

_Mart. Lib. x._

_And our sweet Poet_:

----Nulla est humanior herba,
Nulla magis suavi commoditate bona est,
Omnia tam placidè regerat, blandéquerelaxat,
Emollítque vias, nec sinit esse rudes.

Cowl. _Plan._ L. 4.]

[Footnote 27: Cic _ad Attic_.]

[Footnote 28: Sueton _in Claudi._]

[Footnote 29: Sen. Ep. lxiii.]

[Footnote 30: Plin. N.H. _l. xxi_. c. 23.]

[Footnote 31: Transact. Philos. _Num._ 202.]

[Footnote 32: Apitius, _lib. vii. cap. 13_.]

[Footnote 33: Philos. Transact. _Num._ 69. _Journey to_ Paris.]

[Footnote 34: Pratensibus optima fungis Natura est: aliis male creditur.
_Hor. Sat. l. 7. Sat. 4._]

[Footnote 35: Bacon _Nat. Hist._ 12. Cent. vii. 547, 548, &c.]

[Footnote 36: Gaffend. _Vita Peirs._ l. iv. Raderus _Mart._ l. Epig.
xlvi. In ponticum--_says, within four Days_.]

[Footnote 37: O Sanctas gentes, quibus haec nascuntur in hortis
Numina****---- _Juv. Sat. 15._]

[Footnote 38: Herodotus.]

[Footnote 39: [Greek: hôra to rhadiôs phaines], quia tertio à fatu die
appareat.]

[Footnote 40: De diaeta _lib._ ii. _cap._ 25.]

[Footnote 41: De Aliment. Facult. _lib._ ii.]

[Footnote 42: _Philos. Transact._ Vol. xvii. Num. 205. p. 970.]

[Footnote 43: _Plin._ H. Nat. Lib. xix. cap. 3. & xx. c. 22. See Jo.
Tzetzes Chil. vi. 48. & xvii. 119.]

[Footnote 44: Spanheim, De usu & Praest. Numis. Dissert. 4to. _It was
sometimes also the Reverse_ of Jupiter Hammon.]

[Footnote 45:
[Greek: oud an eidoiês ge moi]
[Greek: Ton plouton auton k- to Bat-ou silphion].
_Aristoph_. in Pluto. Act. iv. Sc. 3.]

[Footnote 46: _Of which some would have it a courser sort_ inamoeni
odoris, _as the same Comedian names it in his_ Equites, _p. 239. and
240_. Edit. Basil. _See likewise this discuss'd, together with its
Properties, most copiously, in_ Jo. Budaeus _a_ Stapul. _Comment. in_
Theophrast. lib. vi. cap. 1. _and_ Bauhin. _Hist. Plant._ lib. xxvii.
cap. 53.]

[Footnote 47: Vide _Cardanum_ de usu Cibi.]

[Footnote 48: _Vol._ xx.]

[Footnote 49: Cowley:

[Greek: Oud oson in malachê te k- asphodelô meg oneiar]
[Greek: Krupsantes gar echousi theoi Bion anthrôpoisi.]
Hesiod.]

[Footnote 50: _Concerning this of Insects, See Mr._ Ray's _Hist. Plant.
li. l. cap. 24_.]

[Footnote 51: _The poyson'd Weeds: I have seen a Man, who was so
poyson'd with it, that the Skin peel'd off his Face, and yet he never
touch'd it, only looked on it as he pass'd by_. _Mr._ Stafford, _Philos.
Transact._ Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 794.]

[Footnote 52: Cowley, _Garden_, Miscel. Stanz. 8.]

[Footnote 53: Sapores minime Consentientes [Greek: kai sumpleko-uas
ouchi symphônous haphas]: Haec despicere ingeniosi est artificis:
_Neither did the Artist mingle his Provisions without extraordinary
Study and Consideration_: [Greek: Alla mixas panta kata symphônian].
Horum singulis seorsum assumptis, tu expedito: Sic ego tanquam Oraculo
jubeo.----Itaque literarum ignarum Coquum, tu cum videris, & qui
Democriti scripta omnia non perlegerit, vel potius, impromptu non
habeat, eum deride ut futilem: Ac ilium Mercede conducito, qui Epicuri
Canonen usu plane didicerit, _&c. as it follows in the_ Gastronomia _of_
Archestratus, Athen. lib. xxiii. _Such another_ Bragadoccio Cook Horace
_describes_
    
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