The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes.

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Author:	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.
Title:	The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes.
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To the Reader.

ON Mr. Hughes's TREATISE OF American PLANTS.

The Table.

A TREATISE OF THE Growing in the ENGLISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA.

White Coral.

Of Sea-Eggs.

Description.

Place.

Ʋse.

Of the Sea-Fan, or Sea-Feather.

Place.

Ʋse.

Of the Sea-Star-Fish, or by some called the Sea-Star.

Place.

Ʋse.

Of Potatoes.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of Yams, or Yammes.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of Calavanc, or Calavances.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of Bonniviss.

Place.

Time.

Vertues.

Of the seven years Pease.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Of Gourds both great and small.

Place.

Of the Water-Melon.

Place.

Time.

Ʋse.

Of the Wheat of America, or Maiz.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Sugar-Cane, or Reed.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Ʋse.

Of the Prickle Pear-Bush.

Place.

Time.

Nam▪

Vertues.

Of the Spanish Pear.

Place.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of the Dildoe-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Goavo-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Orange-Trees.

Of the Lemmon-Tree.

Of the Lime-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Red Pepper-Tree or Bush.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the small Red Peppr-Tree or Bush.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Sweet-scented Pepper.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Maucaw-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of the Momin-Tree, or Toddie-Tree.

Place.

Name.

Of the Pine-Tree.

Of the Cocus, or Coco-nut-tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of the Calabass-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of the Cotton-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues and Ʋse.

Of Cotton-bushes, or Shrubs.

Place.

Time.

Ʋse.

Of the Bonana-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Plantan-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Indian Cabbage-Tree.

Place.

Tim.

Nam.

Ʋse.

Of the American Physick-nut:

Place.

Time.

Name.

Of the Manchinelo-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the American Plum-trees.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of the Tree called Manyoe; of the Root of which the Indian Bread is made, which they call Casava.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Indian Pock-wood.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Mechoacan.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of the Mangrove-Tree.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Ʋse.

Of Semper-Vivens.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Vertues.

Of a Jessamin-Tree or Bush.

Of the Cacao-Tree and Fruit.

Description.

Of the External or Putami∣nous part of the Fruit.

Of the Kernels of this Fruit, or the Cacao's themselves.

Place.

Time.

Name.

Of the Composition and ma∣king up of Chocolate.

Of the simple Cacao-Kernels

Ʋse.

Of the making of Chocolate into Drink.

Another way of making Cho∣colate.

Of the vertues of the Drink called Chocolate.

THE EXPLANATION.

Books printed for, and are to be sold by Wil∣liam Crook at the Green Dragon without Tem∣ple-Bar, 1672.